mr. smallwood says that mr. duncan stayed behind for nine years, what suddenly made him come to texas? i mean, was there any discussion of leaving liberia because of the ebola epidemic? >> we didn't get into why he left liberia. i don't think it was because of the ebola epidemic. what he told us is that his half-brother recently got a visa to come to the u.s. to be with his family. apparently he has some relatives in dallas. that's why he was going there. and he got the visa and he decided to come. i don't think it was necessarily related to the ebola outbreak. he had been trying to get a visa for a while. once he got it, he left pretty much as soon as he could to come here. his brother also tells us that he did not have any symptoms when he arrived here in the u.s. >> all right, andrew, thank you. maybe we ought to explore who is getting visas, that might be an effective way to try to monitor. this thank you, andrew. new possible case of ebola in the u.s. right down the street from where i am. a washington, d.c. hospital has a patient in isolation after seeing signs of the deadly viru

mr. smallwood joining us from phoenix. thanks very much for joining us.ave you been in direct touch with your half brother and if you have, what are you hearing? how is he doing? >> well, as far as we're concerned, family, after the news of him betting ebola and then taking to the hospital, we have called the hospital and they will not allow us to talk to him at the hospital. >> what can you tell us about his condition some what have you heard about that? >> well, as far as i'm concerned, they say he has ebola. but we have not been able to talk to him. only the kids and his wife, his woman. >> he came to dallas to see his girlfriend, not legally married, but you and he, what, you have the same mother is that right? >> eric is my brother. we have the same mother. he was born in 1972 in liberia. >> you came to the united states how many years ago from liberia? >> i came here 2005, some nine years in the united states. >> this is his first visit, your brother's, to the united states, right? >> his first visit to the united states, yes. >> and there's some su

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mr. duncan's half brother, willfred spa smallwood.t are you being told now about your brother's death. >> thank you so much. [ inaudible ] >> we're having trouble hearing you and understanding what you're saying. stand by for a moment. we'll continue this conversation and try to fix that audio as you and all of our viewers know liberia certainly has been very, very hard hit with the ebola epidemic in west africa. more than 2,000 people have died in that country alone. here's a special report now from the scene. >> reporter: blood spattered and limp, too weak to hold up his head. a nurse struggles under the weight of a desperately ill patient. the nurse agreeing to wear a camera of the bleak reality witnessed daily here at this government run stretreatment ce. today the nurse managed to get the patient to drink water. it's a small victory. for the last few months, they have worn pro ttective suits in unbearable heat to tend to patients in their camp. >> life is rough and then you die. what else can we do? if we don't do it, who will do

mr. duncan's half brother, wilford smallwood. he has a 21-year-old son who was in that apartment with mr. duncan when he got ill from ebola. he's clearly very, very concerned about his son and the other people in that apartment. listen to what he told me. [ indiscernible ] >> "that worries me now," he says. how worried should they be about his 21-year-old son who is in that apartment? >> well, wolf, when you say how worried should they be? they clearly are at a risk because of the contact with mr. duncan when mr. duncan was actively very ill in that apartment. so there is a risk. you can't quantitate it and give a percentage, but the person will have to be monitored for symptoms over a period of at least 21 days, which is the outer limit of the incubation period. so you don't want people to get overly worried. but there is a concern he may have been infected that's the reason you can monitor people. either under a quarantine situation, or if you monitor them when they're on their own and they report back to you with a temperature

mr. mayor. we're hearing from will fred smallwood the half brother of thomas eric duncan, that when he left liberiahe was unaware that he had ebola, which i think we can all safely say sounds pretty logical considering he had his temperature taken as he was boarding the plane or before he boarded the plane in liberia. i have one question for you, i don't know if you can answer this, mayor but it's been troubling me since i've been getting these facts all morning long and that is, at the time he boarded that plane and had his temperature taken, would anyone have asked him or would he not have known to say, i've been in contact with a woman, a woman who died of ebola, a woman i carried physically hand to hand, would they have asked those questions? is a hospital supposed to ask that question, not just where are you from, where have you been, but have you been in contact? i mean it feels like there are a lot of spaces along this map where there was a massive breakdown where mr. duncan could have said, i have physically been in contact with a woman, whether he knew she died or not, but terribly sick in