and on skype from monrovia liberia, spokesperson and chief of crisis communications, to the united nationshildren's fund for unicef. thank you for joining us. so many on the agencies are saying things like it is moving faster than they can keep up with, stephen this isn't the first time that ebola has hit around the world, what is making this different and why this increased magnitude of cases. >> we are now at almost 5,000 half of that fatalities. you had a population that was naive to ebola, they had not seen it, you had exceptionally weak public health system, so you didn't have surveillance and detection. the first case was last september, it was not confirmed until march 22nd, so you had delayed. a lot of people were running away from health facilities that were themselves extremely weak, and you had bad political leadership coming in on top of that. it jumped and it jumped from ginny into liberia and sierra leone, and into the capitol. >> and just from isolated areas to places are people are more transient. >> right. and the population movement was very important, because this in par

opening of new facilities, but the outlook is still bleak as cnn's elizabeth cohen discovered from monrovia, liberia. >> reporter: inside this ambulance, three ebola patients including a teenager. all of them denied entry to one of monrovia's overcrowded ebola treatment centers. the ambulance weaves through traffic, trying desperately to get care where it's been promised, the city's newest ebola hospital, open just hours before. the island clinic. but when we arrive with the ambulance, we find the hospital not ready. the patients in the ambulance we followed are strong enough to walk in. but there are ambulances already here carrying patients who are too weak to enter the hospital on their own. two patients stay curled up in a ball. these men can't move either. we're told he's not wearing clothes below the waist because of the intense diarrhea caused by ebola. "try to come down and walk a little," a worker tells the man. "i'm too tired," he says. then summoning up his energy, he tries. for now he's left where he falls. this little boy tries to walk in, too, but then he collapses as well. "get up and

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the unnamed missionary doctor was treating patients in monrovia, liberia, but was not working with ebola patients. he isolated himself immediately after developing symptoms and now is in the ebola isolation unit there. this is the fourth american to be diagnosed with the deadly disease. two were treated at a hospital in atlanta and have fully recovered. the other died in nigeria. >>> police have arrested a man who broke into the indonesian consulate in san francisco overnight. the man broke a window, ran into the building, but didn't take anything. the consulate tells us surveillance video shows the man getting into the building itself. police believe he may have been on drugs and was concerned he was being chased. well, hours ago, officers identified him as a 26-year-old man from south carolina. he was booked into jail for vandalism and trespassing. >>> new at 11:00, a firefighter suffered a sprained ankle while battling a fire in san francisco's tenderloin neighborhood, just this morning. the fire started after 6:30 this morning at vandal's pizza on ellis street. they were able to cont

>> i'm very honored and excited about being able to go work in monrovia, liberia for six weeks starting in early november. i will be going over with doctors without borders through the new york office, and then through the brussels office. to work in an ebola treatment center. they don't have nearly enough beds, so patients are being turned away. and when someone is ill, they are also contagious. we need to have more beds in the ebola treatment centers. i was very happy to hear president obama stating that it is high priority and there will be more than 1000, perhaps even hopefullyprovided very soon in the coming weeks. >> dr. lucy, how can the reach out to you? how can you be a resource for all of these efforts based on your experience and current participation? i don't play a central role particularly. i try to talk with colleagues in public health and medicine at the u.s. centers for disease control, the u.s. national institutes for health, the u.s. drug administration. have your own laundry list of what you would like to see done in the next three months? >> yes, absolutely. many of

witnesses told reuters that he had left an ebola clinic in monrovia, liberia.e wanders through a market carrying a food and using sticks and stones he used against doctors who treated him. local doctor tries to convince him to stop. a large crowd surrounds the sick man. the doctor tries to hold back the crowd while health care workers in protective clothing chase the man down the street. the angry crowd shouts at the workers saying, the clinics aren't doing enough. it's not clear why the man left the facility. the u.n. says restrictions on people's movements and quarantine zones to stop the spread of the disease has led to panics and also food shortages. liberia's president said the health care system in her country is under stress but conditions are slowly improving. here in the market health care workers continue to try to convince the man to go back to the hospital. after that doesn't work they can be seen dragging him to a truck and pushing him into the back as he struggles to get away. as the ebola epidemic shows no sign of slowing down, both patients and

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elizabeth cohen, cnn, monrovia, liberia. >> burying the dead in liberia heart wrenching and very challengingvery distressing, indeed. >>> a doctor in a rural liberia says he's seeing promising results by treating ebola patients with a drug designed for hiv patients. >> yeah, essentially dealing with whatever you got. he gave it to 15 patients out of desperation. all but two survived but the head of the u.s. institutes of health has a warning about this approach. >> the medication that the doctor was referring to is one that really has not been shown to work. 'empirically trying it. i can understand why when you're in a desperate situations you try that. what we need to do is determine and i had actually hopefully will be in communication with him to be able to test it in an organized way to see, in fact, if there is some benefit but medications like that are not going to turn around this e epidem epidemic. what's going to turn it around is a marked acceleration of infection control response. that's the important thing. >> yeah, let's hope for that. across west africa the ebola virus has kill

2013, the brantlys, now the parents of ruby, 5, and stephen, 3, began a two year mission in monrovia, liberiarun by the evangelical christian aid group "samaritan's purse." they say life there was good at first. >> we had so much fun. we lived real near the ocean. >> reporter: the brantly family developed new friends to go along with their new life. among them, nancy writebol, an american missionary aid worker. >> nancy was like a grandmother to our children. nancy writebol had worked with a lot of missionary doctors. but even among heroes, kent brantly stood out. >> kent is a wonderful. he's brilliant. he is a bril yapt -- brilliant young doctor, and passionate. >> reporter: then, in march, everything changed. the brantly family was at a picnic with friends. >> and somebody sat down beside me and said, "hey, did you hear? did you hear the news about ebola in guinea? they had an ebola outbreak right next to the liberian border. >> reporter: an ebola outbreak. perhaps the most frightening phrase in modern medicine. a deadly virus spread by bodily fluids. at least 3500 cases have been reported

17 health care facilities with up to 100 beds each that will set up a joint command center in monrovia, liberia train up to 100 health care workers a week. officials say it will take several weeks for the u.s. forces to get on the ground. so far the u.s. has already spent $175 million combatting ebola and the president plans to ask congress for another $88 million. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. we'll have more on the president's visit on msnbc. that wraps up this hour. top military officials testify about the isis threat on capitol hill, plus new fall out for the nfl over the abuse scandals. machines will be sprayed to be made. and making something stronger... will mean making it lighter. one day, factories will work with the cloud. one day... is today. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. to fill your viagra prescription online? go to viagra.com to find out about viagra home delivery. mil

he got sick about a week ago while treating pregnant women in monrovia, liberia. he left the clinic's isolation unit by ambulance last night. he boarded the plane on his own and was said to be in good spirits. sarah dolloff is joining us life. much like emory university where the first two americans were successfully treated, nebraska is uniquely trained to handle this illness but there's no longer of that experimental drug zmapp, so how does that change things going forward? >> well, it's obviously going to change the course of treatment, peter, but hopefully not the outcome. seven patients were treated with zmapp. five of them survived. that includes those two missionaries who were treated earlier this summer in atlanta. well, the company says now that they are out and it is going to take months to come up with a new supply so doctors are looking at new options, including potentially a blood serum from a patient who survived ebola. as for now they are evaluating dr. sacra's condition and keeping him hydrated, maintaining his blood pressure. he walked onto the pl

. >> but you wouldn't think that would be a suspicion on his part if he's in monrovia, liberia, and has symptoms of ebola and doesn't think he has ebola? >> he didn't have symptoms when he boarded the plane. that's clear now. >> the person he had contact with did. you're not following my logic. he's in contact with somebody. he got ebola from. that's all i'm going back to. how did he get it without knowing he was getting it? if you can only get it from someone with obvious symptoms. >> have you ever gotten a cold in the office when someone else was around and they sneezed once and might have had a fever, but it doesn't seem like it was that serious? i think this isn't that kind of situation. but people can have symptoms without you knowing it. and that's the worry. the reason we can be assured here that this isn't going to be a major outbreak, we have a cdc that can do very good contact traces. we have a very good health system that takes universal precautions on all patients, with the gloves. and you're not regularly in contact with people's bodily fluids the way it's much more common

and the impact o airlines and doing sort of a quick check on google in terms of flights from monrovia, liberia to los angeles. a lot of carriers connect through africa to parts of west africa. so grasso, what do you think the impact will be as we enter the quarter if markets are on edge, nervous. what does this do? >> we just heard from paul hickey. we're entering into an extremely volatile seasonal time period. midterm elections coming up. that's only going to exacerbate it. if you see consumer confidence, anything, anything to get people a little bit scared, a little bit schequeamish, people will s first, revisit the markets later. >> stay tuned. everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call today to request a free decision guide. with these types of plans, you'll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. plus,

some of our best scientists will deploy with those units to liberia, one in monrovia, and one in bongliberia. they will be associated with ebola treatment unit sos we can have rapid diagnostics. >> the department is providing a 25-bed hospital that will be staffed with medical department personnel. the department of defense will not be involved in direct patient care as a part of this operation. we are going to process 17 treatment facility ins liberia. activity is underway and that should start to show results on the ground in the next few weeks. again, the didn't will not be engaged in direct patient care. but we will provide a training based on the infection control training that msf has established in bell yum and cdc has replicated at a fema facility there. up to $1 billion to commit to this effort. they're going to invest 60 million tlarsz in strepgtenning the laboratory capacity both in the affected countries and also in the neighboring countries. the department of defense has been involved for many years in the department of developmental counter measures, back scenes as well

for example, i went to a church in liberia not far from monrovia. the priest said i'm getting people to wash their hands. coming in and coming out of church in the chlorine wash. another interesting thing, back in august, he told parishioners we will not take communion from a common cup. he says it is not safe. he got push back. he said this is tradition and he said we will not do it anymore. people are more accepting. they understand why they need to do it. he is the first to say that liberians have been in denial. he prays for them to get out of dou denial. >> amazing leadership. that is needed in the region. thank you so much. we look forward to your reports. >>> 53 minutes past the hour. mortgages are getting cheaper for some people. you will never guess who when we get an early start on your money next. lots of them, right? but when you try to get one by using your travel rewards card miles... those seats mysteriously vanish. why? all the flights you want are blacked out.

army africa, and the command headquarters is being established in monrovia, liberia, in addition to a regional intermediate staging base in dakar, senegal, which will provide support to ensure the flow of personnel and equipment and material supplies for this very, very large area of west africa. in addition, the united states will send this week two more diagnostic laboratories. some of our best scientists and microbiologists from the naval medical research center will deploy with those units to liberia. one in monrovia, and one in another city, and they will be associated with ebola treatment units, so we can have rapid diagnostics. department is providing a 25-bed hospital that will be staffed by international health workers and public health service medical personnel. the department of defense will not be involved in direct patient care as part of this patient care as part of this operation. to construct 17 100 bed ebola tradition -- ebola treatment units in liberia. and the planning and preparation contracting for that. that should start to show results on the ground in the next

he has been working at the same hospital in monrovia, liberia where ebola patients have been brought,rician. so sim-usa, the medical mission for whom he works, figures the best guess and it's only a guess at this point for how he got infected is a patient came in infected with ebola, but was not showing any symptoms at all and that's how he was infected with the virus. his wife yesterday gave a press conference in boston in which she said that his health condition seems to be pretty good. but he was not afraid to be with the lord if that's what his calling was. but instead, at the moment he is here at the nebraska medical center for top line treatment. >> he is indeed. all right. john roberts with the guy with ebola out there in omaha. thank you. >>> all right. coming up, as we remember comedic legend joan rivers, the clinic where she stopped breathing during routine surgery, a procedure here in new york city, under investigation. what we know coming up next with peter johnson, jr. >>> and the first lady's healthy lunches are proving too much to swallow. we have the story you won't se

liberia in the majority and guinea. also the capitals conakry freetown in monrovia. in a 25 outbreaks of ebola in the past in africa it's always always been in always been in rural areas never in big cities and certainly not capital cities but it's different now. that is why i am emphasizing the federal. urban and rural but it's not just ebola that you have known for 25 plus years since it was discovered in 1968 in sudan. it's something different. it's different in terms of our way of controlling outbreaks in the past which were very effective. isolation of people who are ill and quarantine of people who have been exposed always effective in stopping the outbreak in humans and back into the reservoir where it lives with gorillas and chimps and african envelopes. -- african antelopes. this time the methods are not effective and in my opinion they are not going to be effective in monrovia and freetown and perhaps other cities. yesterday's numbers from w.h.o. 348 health care workers in west africa have become infected with ebola virus in more than half have died. i want

-africa command will stand up a joint force command in monrovia, liberia, to provide command and control of u.s. military activities and help coordinate international relief efforts. current estimates are that 3,000 military personnel will establish an intermediate staging base for supplies and equipment, set up a training site to prepare 500 health care workers per week to provide medical care to patients and stand up a -- set up a field defense department hospital to take care of, for any of our health care workers who become ill. also contributeing to our reaction to this international epidemic are the international agency for economic development, the national institute of health has developed an investigational ebola vaccine. c.d.c. is also working with the customs and border patrol to identify travelers showing any signs of infectious disease. i support these efforts to contain the ebola epidemic and know that we'll monitor this humanitarian crisis in the weeks ahead. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 12:30 p.m

the defense department will create a joint command center in monrovia, liberia to coordinate the international effort. the u.s. will provide protective equipment, including full body suits, gloves and masks to protect workers. families will also get help. u.s.a. i.d. will lift thousands of home health kids to liberia. >> we fail to respond and allow it to spiral out of control, it could mutate in a way that could end up being dangerous for people back here in the u.s. right now, the risk of an ebola outbreak in the u.s. is very low, but that risk would only increase if there were not a robust response on the part of the united states. >> the robust response will cost money. the obama administration is asking congress for $88 million to fight the disease in again knee, sierra leone and liberia. the department of defense is seeking $500 million for the definite's overseas contingency fund. >> the u.s. government has already spent an unprecedented amount of money for an epidemic and outbreak like this, more than $100 million, response teams, there have been at least 100 people from the c.d.c. on

well, around monrovia in liberia, there are young men who have taken responsibility for burying ebolaictims who have died. and that's a thankless job. however, they do it to save their country from further disaster. >> this is the morning list of monrovia's dead. >> this must be difficult work? >> very difficult work. very difficult. >> the liberian red cross dead body management team, getting ready to retrieve bodies. bodies that could still be carrying the ebola virus. >> they're quite aware it takes only one mistake to be contaminated. >> they're retrieving ten body. first, suiting up from foot to head, a supervisor making sure every inch of skin is covered. this worker, strapping on a chlorine sprayer to disinfect victims before they're handled. but even the best safety equipment can't protect their hearts from what they see on the job. >> reporter: before checking today's victims, a prayer for god's guidance. then winding through monrovi a's poor slum, they trooef the first victim. she was 62. her family and neighbors distraught as the dbmt removes her from her home. her family i

they will be set up in monrovia and liberia and the plan to to train up to 500 health care workers a ground within weeks. they spent quite a bit of money combatting the crisis. the president is asking for 88 million more dollars to do this. the white house and the community had criticism levelled at it from aid organizations in the area saying the response is too middle, too late. officials say that the white house had been monitoring this crisis since the outbreak began in march. they have sent workers into west africa and taking this seriously. that's the largest response in history. >> really appreciate you following the story for us. for more now, i am join joined by the doctor. it's good to have you here. >> thanks for having me here. >> the numbers are staggering. 2500 deaths so far. the new response is very robust. you worked in a number of places where you have seen responses fail and recede. this will stem the spread and how long do you think it will be before we see the effect of these troops being deployed? >> this is the right thing to be doing. we haven't seen the epidem

elizabeth cohen is live in monrovia, liberia. what's the situation like on the ground?s, within i first arrived here, a diplomat said this is a nightmare. after spending a few days here, i can see why she thinks that. an international health crisis unprecedented. ebola, ground zero, liberia. this city a hot spot as a sunday service comes to an end, parishioners watching up with chlorine, the threat of the virus ever present. >> they're afraid. >> reporter: this young parishioner lost 13 of his relatives to eboll larks including his paints t. pastor tells this congregation, for the shaking hands no, hugging. >> i don't want to die from ebola rot nfl in the capital also, prayer before the dead body management team winds its way to the city slums to retrieve cadavers, even these suits can't protect their hearts from what they see on the job, like a baby hungry for his dead mother's milk. >> reporter: one of nearly 1,500 people suspected of dying from eboll loo. the number of cases here up 52% in three weeks. one major reason, many hospitals have closed down, afraid their s

. >> listen to a response that we heard from a resident of monrovia, the capital of liberia, to the u.snding troops. >> what we need now is drugs, vaccines. >> there are no vaccines ready for widespread use, there will not be for some time. is the best step what the u.s. is doing, dealing with the logistics of the getting a massive medical response up and running, and if that is the case, why do people in the thick of it - why don't they under that. why do they have a misunderstanding of what is going on? >> well, the u.s. military can play an important logistical role to get people, resources, vehicles and food into the area. no one does it better than the u.s. military. it's not the guns, but the logistics. >> talking about the money, the world health organisation said it would take 600 million to contain the ebola threat. the money is coming in. maybe it's late in the game, but it's coming in from the u.s., e.u., the gates foundation, the u.s. military. how quickly can that money and this logistical effort - how quickly can it make a difference? >> it will take a while to get the tro

, provide security, because there's a decreasing amount of security, particularly in monrovia, the capital of liberiad this terrible outbreak could quickly become a pandemic if it's not contained. containment is the issue and of course treatment, there's no cure, but there are some promising interventions that have already had very positive results with certain patients. so we need to do everything humanly possible to help the suffering and the families, best practices, including what you do with remains, with a dead person, if you touch that person, which is very customary in african culture, you can pick up the disease. all of that has to be quadrupled in our efforts. and again, the united states and the professionals at the cdc, nih, usaid, the ngos there are unbelievable, particularly the faith-based, we are leading by doing. and i give high marks to those people who put their lives on the line, and our military will add that added security, plus beds. there are no beds in liberia left for sick people. >> congressman, let's look at the extent of the response already. we're sending 3,000 military

liberia. several medical centers in monrovia have suspended general services, treating only ebola and criticalases. >> [inaudible] we are not really open -- >> nearly 100 liberian health workers have died after treating patients with ebola. the united states and britain have announced they will send military personnel to liberia to set up yield hospitals. another opinion poll on scottish independence shows that the results of the referendum is incredibly tight with just nine days to go now. the latest shows that the yes and no counts are just one-point apart. we have just been hearing in the last few minutes that the british prime minister and the leader of the opposition labor party will be going out to scotland to campaign tomorrow wednesday, instead of holding the normal sessions in parliament. that is in a last-minute bid to try and keep the u.k. together and boost the anti-independence campaign. former british prime minister gordon brown has already been out on the trail for them. let's get more. >> it is a gloomy outlook for pro-unionist campaigners. the second poll confirming momentum i

staff at a hospital in liberia's capitol monrovia are protesting against proper equipment to deal with la out break and 240 workers contracted with disease in four western countries and at least half of them died and we report. >> reporter: a protest against conditions outside this medical center in monrovia, health workers at the front line in response to ebola and risk lives on a daily basis to treat patients and don't have the right equipment, not paid enough and no insurance if they get sick. >> before we can return to work we need work and better salary and need proper equipment used to work with and we need insurance benefits. we need this and we have our lives at risk. >> reporter: ebola out break put pressure on already poor health systems killing more than 120 health workers. among them leading doctors. in guinea where the first cases of the outbreak were detected in march there are around 10 dollars per 100,000 people and that is 1100 doctors and here two doctors here and 120 care for 6 million and liberia it's worth and one doctor per 100,000. fewer than 50 doctors in total

and the command headquarters is being established in monrovia. liberia in addition to a regional intermediary cached intermediate staging base and senegal that will provide a lot of the logistical support to ensure the flow of personnel and equipment and material supplies for this very, very large area of west africa. in addition, the united states will send this week to more diagnostic laboratories. some of our best scientists and microbiologist from the naval medical research center will deploy with those units to liberia. one in monrovia and they'll be associated with ebola treatment units. so we can have rapid diagnostics. the department is providing a 25 bed hospital that will be, will be staffed by international health workers and public health service, medical personnel. the department of defense will not be involved in direct patient care as part of this operation. we are going to construct 17100 ebola treatment units in liberia. and the planning and preparation, contracting for that activity is underway, and that should start to show results on

i'm joined by our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen who is in liberia, in the capital monrovia. dr. daniel lucy, back from sierra leone, adjunct professor from georgetown university medical center. elizabeth, you're in monrovia where efforts have been made very recently over the last few days from the united states to fight ebola. what are you seeing on the ground in this battle? >> reporter: john, what i'm seeing on the ground is not much has changed in the past week since the president said he would be sending these troops and sending this money. there's a lot of hope that things will change soon. the liberians i've talked to are so excited, so grateful for what the player cans are doing, they want to see results. mostly what they want to see, more beds. this -- liberia alone needs 1500 more beds. these treatment center should have been built a long time ago. they're saying let's build the isolation centers so we can get people with ebola off the commune streets and into the communities and get them to stop infecting people they love. >> dr. lucy, u.s. troops on the way, more

. >> reporter: in liberia, the capital of monrovia, are the preferred way to travel for a lot of peoplet in the grip of a widespread illness, many are choosing to stay indoors, and others are forced to go out to work because of the risk. >> it's very bad because of the ebola. we're not moving like before. >> liberiaians have been advised to stay at home to avoid infection, and the schools are closed. prior to the ebola outbreak, liberia's government spent just over $100 perry per year on healthcare, and it's not adequate. despite the aid and the resources that have come in. >> [ unintelligible ] >> reporter: the last thing that liberia needs is an economy in recession. the country has a population of 4 million, fewer than $50 doctors and the healthcare is overwhelmed. >> the trend lines in this crisis are grave, and without immediate international action, we are facing the potential for a public health crisis that could claim lives on a scale far greater than current estimates, and set the countries of west africa back a generation. >> the country of liberia criticizes government offici

traveling of ebola from this confluence of the three countries down, particularly towards monrovia and throughout liberia, but most of the infrastructure of liberia is not that good, right? it is terribly degraded. and so a situation where services are very difficult to deliver care, difficult to deliver reconstruction is very difficult. let me end there, but just the idea of trying to reconstitute the policies from the ground up in only a decade is enormous, the challenges are enormous. and so them to be, for these very fragile political economies to be confronted with such a devastating crisis, that they were, clearly the evidence is clear ill-equipped to handle, is just, you know, something that raises questions about, the word blame and the idea people blaming the state, blaming the international community. we should not have expected, i think, these states to be able to respond, given that the legacy that we have inherited. the international community response which is something that we're talking about is another thing entirely. and i think a lot of the blame if you will, if we can use that word co

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liberia now. there is enough equipment on board to build a 25-bed hospital in monrovia. this is the first of 13 u.s. air shipments bringing medical supplies to the liberian capital. this as the u.n. is building a new plan to coordinate the battle against ebola. meanwhile, survivor dr. kent brantly said he would like to return to west africa to continue his work with ebola victims. he told lawmakers on wednesday they have to move quickly. >> this is a global problem and the u.s. must take the lead immediately. the longer we wait, the greater the cost of the battle both in dollars and lives. we must act immediately and decisively to bring healing and stability to the people of west africa. the african continent and the united states and the world. >> right now, three vaccines and ten medications are in development, but officials say it is not enough for everyone. discussions are underway to determine who gets them. there is some encouraging news from nebraska where dr. rick sacra is expected to make a full recovery. he contracted ebola volunteering in liberia. >>> we will

liberia. >> reporter: this is the morning list of monrovia's dead. difficult work. >> very difficult work, very difficult work. >> reporter: the liberia red cross dead body management team, getting ready to retrieve dead bodies that could still be carrying the ebola virus. >> they are quite aware that it takes only one mistake to be contaminated. >> reporter: first, they're retrieving bodies, suiting up from foot to head, a supervisor making sure that every inch of skin is covered. this worker is strapping on a disinfected suit to help the infected. but even they can't foresee what happens on the job. >> i took the key, i went inside, saw them on the mother's skin, i started helping. >> reporter: before collecting today's victims, a prayer for god's guidance, then winding through monrovia's poorest slum, they took the nearest victim, she was lisa, 63. her family and neighbors distraught as they remove her from her home. connie's family is lucky. they know somebody at the ministry of health, so she will be buried. we followed them on a 45-minute drive

. >>> there is enough equipment on board the plane heading to liberia to fund 25-bed hospital in monrovia. this as the united nations announces plans to establish an on the ground mission in west africa to coordinate the battle against ebola. dr. kent brantly says he would like to return to west africa to continue his work against ebola. he told lawmakers on wednesday they have to move quickly. >> this is a global problem and the u.s. must take the lead immediately. the longer we wait, the greater the cost of the battle both in dollars and lives. we must act decisively to bring healing and stability to the people of west africa and the african continent and the world. >> three vaccines and ten medications are in development, but officials say it is not nearly enough for everyone when it is available. discussions are under way to determine who gets them. encourage news from nebraska. dr. rick sacra is expected to make a full recovery after contracting ebola in liberia. >>> another nfl player accused of domestic violence. four players pushed aside by the teams for off the field violence for

liberia. further down here is where monrovia is which is the most impacted, most devastating part of the epidemic right now. the outbreak started right at the confluence of the rural area of the three countries. and then unfortunately it's spread through multiple rural areas. almost every district except for one. for example in sierra leon and i am skeptical of one not having any cases as well as most places in life. the majority in guinea and all three capitals of conakry, freetown and monrovia. in the 25 outbreaks of ebola in the past in africa it's always been an rural areas never in big cities and certainly not capital cities. this is different now. that is why i emphasize its urban ebola and its urban and rural but it's not the same ebola we have seen for 25 plus years seeing in sudan. do something different. its urban ebola. it's different in our way of controlling outbreaks in the past which were very effective. contact tracing and isolates the people who are ill and cortina people who have been exposed. he went back into the animal area where it lives in bats and chimps and african antelo

announcingnt will be that they'll set up a second command, even monrovia, the of liberia where we have cases.of that will be the command center for the country. command utting the center and resources in the hot zone. as far as mutation -- and the undergone some drift over time. there are five different versions of ebola if you will identified.en but the issue with the virus, its's a single strand of rna. that means is it e's -- when replicates, it breaks apart. it's a sloppy replicator, if you will. it replicates, one virus grows into two to three viruses, of the structure of the virus, it's prone to mistakes. you get a lot of reassortment, the changes along the way. the other thing is people get sick with ebola, they have a call viral load. the facts combined the fact that individual has billions of viral particles in their blood and every time the virus even in the individual, you're going get a lot of changes in a virus ecause it's such a sloppy replicator as the virus goes. that leads to excessive mutations. we've known that about ebola. what we've never had before is an outbreak

in the north, and then freetown and liberia further is where monrovia is, most is the most impacted, devastating part of the epidemic right now. the outbreak started right at the confluence of the three countries. it spread through multiple rural almost every district, cases,one not having any as well as most places in liberia. capitals.ree outbreaks of ebola in the past in africa it's always areas, never been in big cities and certainly not capital cities. now.his is different that's why i emphasize that is it's urban and rural, but it's not the same for 25 yearsnown since it was discovered. different, it's different in terms of our way of therolling the outbreaks in past, whicher very effective. isolation of people who were ill and quarantine of people who exposed, and it went back into the animal reservoir where in bats, gorillas and chimps. this time the control methods are not effective, and in my own benion they're not going to effective in monrovia, freetown and perhaps other cities much numbers, 348 health care workers in west africa have become infected with the virus have d

liberia. >> look at the front page. it talks about welcome to hell. they followed a team from doctors without borders in monrovia and they describe a chaotic situation. they are turning patients away from their clinic, which is overflowing. it is treating the ebola epidemic like a following monsoon or a volcano. this complacency is unacceptable. >> harrowing reports. let's move it to here in france. papers are focusing on -- this is an on running story. it is on the socialist mp. >> he is at the heart of the latest political scandal. they call him the man whose shocking and our aging france. he has been in the spotlight for a couple of days. it takes a closer look at his rise and fall. he resigned after nine days on the job because of problems with his taxes. it prompted that he had not paid taxes in three years. he was kicked out of the socialist party and had to leave the government. >> things are likely to get worse. >> a weekly comes out today. looking at it, not only was he not paying taxes for three years, he was not paying his rent. >> how did he get away with it? he has a great excuse for all the neglige

liberia. he is now in an isolation unit in a monrovia hospital.and the world health organization tay declared ebola now to be a global threat, more than 3,500 people have been infected. more than 1,900 have died in west africa. scientists working for our next guest have begun testing a new vacine this week. and these are the first pictures of volunteers beingaccinated. joining us tonight, the man at the head of this research and this trial, the director of the national institute of aller and infectious diseases, dr. anthony fauci. doctor, congratulations on getting this work under way. and obviously we all hope that it is successful. your thoughts about where you are right now? >> the paramount thing first is safety because you're going to be giving it to people who are normal, healthy people to protect them against ebola. so the first thing you do is what we're doing right now that you correctly said. we're doing what's called a phase one trial in normal, healthy volunteers here in bethesda, maryland. a total of 20 people will be in that trial. i