. >> patrick tucker, thank you for keeping us up to date on everything going on with the technology going on to fight this disease will stop -- this disease. is on the hunt in

i am joined by patrick tucker, the author of "the naked future."e are just learning more about this specific case in texas. this patient flow through brussels. let's start with airport screening. what can be done at airports that -- technologically to keep someone with ebola from passing through those gates? >> there is not a great deal at this time. some airports like in south africa and nigeria and asia are experimenting with thermal scanners. they scanned for elevated human temperature. they were in place across the united states as well following the 2009 sars outbreak which was favor base. the problem with that is while it provides a certain amount of public copper, it is not going to be an effective stop. you can carry ebola for as long as 21 days before you begin to present symptoms. when you start to present symptoms is when you run the risk of passing it to others. the scanners are not going to catch ebola that is in people who have not yet presented. it is cosmetic and that's the only effective means we have right now aside from taking a

patrick tucker joins us again. obviously, technology holds promise to track ebola outbreaks.t predict an out right before it happens? cannot stop it before it starts? beforehave to have one the spread can be modeled or predicted. that is the problem. we were talking about health map which is a very rapid indicator of the spread of ebola because as soon as it starts showing up, people write about and create content and put it online but it is a lagging indicator. you have to have it in place before you can talk about where it will go next. right now, technology is providing researchers some great help in tracking where it is moving in close to real-time time but predicting where it might suddenly emerge all of a sudden, this is something that is tricky. the cdc as well as researchers around the world have had problems primarily because you can model how quickly the disease might spread among a particular group of people but you cannot model with a high degree of credibility how all of those people are going to react all of a sudden to policy or different restrictions on their

i am joined by patrick tucker in washington, d.c., whapts in your move and patrick, we are learning more about this specific case in texas. that this person, this patient flew through brussels. i want to start with airport screening. what can be done at airports to try to keep someone with ebola from passing through those gates? >> at this point in time, not a great deal at all. some airports, even south africa and nigeria and asia are experimenting with thermal scanners, great big scanners that scan for elevated human temperature. they were in place across the united states as well following the 2009 sars outbreak. the problem in the case of ebola while it does provide public comfort it won't be an effective stop because you can carry ebola for as long as 21 at as before you present symptoms. when you present symptoms that is when you run the risk of passing it to others. the scanners will not catch ebola in people that haven't yet presented. really it is cosmetic and only that. that is the only effective means we have aside from taking a blood simple. in nigeria if you show up and if t

i spoke with patrick tucker and started by asking whether anything can be done at airports to keep someone with ebola from et on a plane? >> at this point in time, not a great deal at all. some airports like in south africa and nigeria and asia are experimenting with thermal scanners. they scanned for elevated human temperature. they were in place across the united states as well following the 2009 sars outbreak which was fever-based. the problem with that is while t provides a certain amount of -- ic -- it is not going public comfort, but it is not going to be an effective stop. you can carry ebola for as long as 21 days before you begin to present symptoms. when you start to present symptoms is when you run the risk of passing it to others. the scanners are not going to catch ebola that is in people who have not yet presented. it is cosmetic and that's the only effective means we have right now aside from taking a blood sample. in nigeria, if you present with levated fever and if they have suspicion that you might be an ebola carrier, they pull you aside and do a blood test on you and th

. >> author of "the naked future" patrick tucker. coming up, alibaba's founder.ing moves into hollywood. what does it mean? we will discuss. ♪ >> welcome back, i'm emily chang. mark zuckerberg is making efforts to connect with the chinese population, two prominent asian billionaires are setting their sights on hollywood. alibaba group chairman jack ma is meeting with hollywood exec -- studio executives from disney, paramount, and others in coming days. we spoke with gordon chang, author of "the coming collapse of china" about the meetings. we asked, what could they get out of a possible deal with hollywood studios. >> in the near-term, ali baba has a set top box and they have a j.v. relationship with lions gate allowing home to stream content to their customers in china. but this is more than the near term, i think. by going to more studios, they can get more content and offer it in a variety of different services with ali baba. over the long term, i wouldn't be surprised if ali baba decided to invest directly in u.s. companies like we've seen from softbank. alib

tech editor patrick tucker brought all of this to our attention in his new piece up on defense one. patrick, thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so, tell us why the fda wouldn't allow texas health presbyterian to use this machine? >> well, so texas health's presbyterian and other hospitals around the country have this device. it's called a film array from a company called biofire. you can use it in clinical settings to scan for very particular illnesses that have already been their use fda-approved. like listeria and certain types of influenza. if you want to screen for ebola, then you need a special kit. it's just a little pouch that comes in the mail, but have you to be a research use-only setting. so you have to only be using it for research, if you want to screen for ebola. of course, what they actually want to screen for is, you know, regular people coming in off the street, like duncan. so, that's the weird glitch right there, is that the fda says, if you want to screen for ebola with this machine, it can only be for research, not for screening actual peopl

. >> patrick tucker, thank you for keeping us up to date on everything going on with the technology goingto fight this disease will stop -- this disease. jack ma is on the hunt in hollywood -- could he play a role in getting access to the chinese market? that is next on "bloomberg west." ♪ >> you are watching bloomberg west. alibaba's jack mize here in california today, meeting with silicon valley and tech elite. he is leaving a team of alibaba executives through hollywood this week, hoping to strike deals that would host its online content offering. he is set to meet with studios, like lions gate, disney, viacom, and time warner. what could a partnership with alibaba mean for l.a. studios hoping to expand in the second-largest film market in the world? christopher spicer joins us now via skype, he specializes at the school of theater and television. how big a business could entertainment being for alibaba? what would this mean? >> it could be huge for them for a number of reasons. primarily, they have a huge online platform, obviously. and they are looking to grow our that platform -- gr

patrick tucker joins us. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> what is this machine? >> it's called a film ray, from a company called biofire. it's about toaster size. you take a sample, you stick it in there after about an hour it's going to tell you what you have got. it depends on what kit you arm it with. right now the f.d.a. has approved the use of this machine for detecting certain types of illnesses like listeria, types of influenza. if you want to use it to detect ebola, you have to get a special kit for ebola. like a little software pac. the thing is though this dallas hospital, though they had the machine, they weren't authorized to use it to screen for ebola because it wasn't a research-use only machine. according to the f.d.a. guidelines. >> did they have the software? i understand there are two considerations here. whether they had the software to make it so they could test for ebola is the first thing. seconds thing whether the machine was capable. and then, of course, the other is a designation. could it have done it? >> if they had the software, they d

. ♪ >>> joining us now technology editor for defense one patrick tucker, he reports that the dallas hospitalchine that could have quickly determined whether he had ebola. but the hospital did not use it. patrick, why? hi. >> how are you? so it works like this. the machine is called a film array produced by a company called biofire defense. it's sitting in hospitals all across the country. it's very similar to what's been in use in the military in west africa to screen for ebola. now in order to use to it screen for ebola particularly you have to have what's called a kit. you have to have the biodefense kit. you stick that in the machine, stick in the sample from the person that you think may have ebola and then you get a one to one match. the hospital in dallas, because of fda guidelines, can't have access to this ebola kit at present not unless they fill out a bunch of paper work says they will only use their machine for research purpose that prohibits them from using to diagnose people who may have ebola. so, if they had this kit which you can get very easily they had the machine on hand a

tucker. mike is the commander of first army. first army is actually the executive agent for executing the army tollal force policy. and we have mr. paul patrick down here to the right. on the far end, he's the assistant secretary for defense for readiness mobilization. retired major general and brings a lot of expertise at the civilian senior leadership level for us. and then, finally, on the far left, my far left, is jud lyons, whom you all know is the acting director of the army national guard. lots of experience with him, as well. so just a couple of opening remarks from me and then i'll let each of them give their pitch. i don't know how many of you were at breakfast this morning, some of you were, i imagine some of you were not. that is essentially my message to you, though, is what i said at the total force policy wraek e breakfast. first, let's look around the world. there's a wide variety of hot spots that are out there. you don't have to have access to intelligence to figure out who it is, where it is. all you have to do is read the newspaper and watch the evening news. we've got soldiers serving in active ground combat in afghanista