nicole gaouette is bloomberg foreign correspondent. ron nixon is from the new york times. ron, you have the first question. about the us ebola response. you have committed a tremendous amount of resources. can you give us a status report? >> thank you. usaid has the responsibility for coordinating a response in west africa. if you look across the three leoneies, liberia, sierra , and ginny an. we know this is going to be a long time fight to keep ebola contained. it is going to continue many months into the future. we have taken a very dated approach and we have seen some result for that, 70% of transmission in liberia. it was from family members touching, consoling, kissing the bodies of deceased people who had died of ebola. we have burial teams that have six or seven persons per team. that was a huge message in campaign. we have a hundred 20 ebola treatment unit that's and that has brought down the rate of transmission. we have 15-20 new cases a day. that is making a huge difference in transforming the state of that entire country. we will be focused but we know that wh