both of them were just on a conference call with reporters, and, again, sylvia burwell was taking the lead. listen to what she said. >> well, we've done a lot. we know that there are opportunities to do more and better and we're doing that. wherever possible, we're learning from our experiences and redoubling on our efforts to continue to improve processes and procedures. >> rear doubling our efforts. obviously, there will be people around the country wondering why the administration did not take necessarily that more hands-on role much sooner. josh ernest will be briefing reporters right behind me in the next ten minutes or so. you can bet he going to get a lot of tough questions like that. >> will he get the tough questions because the president is now on defense again because some of his previous statements about ebola just are not adding up now. >> you know, you're right, gretchen. just a few weeks ago the president was down in atlanta, cdc headquarters. he said at that time it was highly unlikely we would see ebola here in the united states at all. obviously, now we have at least

obama has been kept up-to-date on the situation in dallas by health and human services secretary sylvia burwell. meanwhile, dallas officials are going to pains to reassure the public that the danger has been contained. mayor mike allings say the nurse's apartment complex has been sealed. neighbors alerted in a four-block radius, and hazmat teams have decontaminated the public spaces, including a hospital parking lot. >> we decontaminated the car that the patient drove in, and secured it so nobody could come in contact with the car. we decontaminated handrailings, everything in the parking lot so everybody can feel comfortable. >> senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is covering this troubling development, and she joins us now on the phone. elizabeth, absolutely not what anyone was expecting. was the hospital overly confident initially that they could completely contain this? they thought as long as they're wearing protection, things will be okay. >> they're talking about a breach in protocol, but they haven't known exactly when that breach occurred. did it occur when she was in the room

sylvia burwell is the secretary of health and human services. understandable screw up at a time like this. the federal government has been reviewing everything that new york has done so far since this first patient was suspected. the director of the cdc spoke via telephone and said in addition to the response team heading to new york city tonight, this rapid response team from the cdc, he said actually the cdc already had a team on the ground in new york city for several days specifically to review all of the plans and procedures related to ebola at this particular hospital. the cdc already had a special team here to review plans and procedures at bellevue even before this latest ebola case arose and the doctor was sent to bellevue for isolation and treatment. we were also told that president obama has been fully briefed by his homeland security advisor. we are joined now by senior white house correspondent, chris jansing. thanks for joining us. >> hi, rachel. >> what do we know about the scope and the reaction from the white house. >> what they

. >> reporter: we couldn't hear his call with hhs secretary sylvia burwell. the president told burwell the priority needs to be this. the protocols and controls need to move as expeditiously as possible. the president wants to make sure any lessons learned in today has be shared with other facilities. there hasn't been a surgeon general for more than a year. the president's nominee came up short when confirmation time came. bill: what do you think at home on your mobile device. are you confident we can stop the spread here in if it stops the confidence will go high. but i'll bet there was a big surprise sunday morning when you saw that alert. martha: she sea apparently had all the protective gear on. the question is who is i is one of the biggest questions. sylvia burwell is that person head of hhs because we don't have a surgeon general. many people feel she should be more prominent. bill: sound off online. there is a major boost in the fight against isis. turkey will allow u.s. and coalition troops to use its military base for operations against the terrori

sylvia burwell is the secretary of health and human services.tandable screw up at a time like this. the federal government has been reviewing everything that new york has done so far since this first patient was suspected. the director of the cdc spoke via telephone and said in addition to the response team heading to new york city tonight, this rapid response team from the cdc, he said actually the cdc already had a team on the ground in new york city for several days specifically to review all of the plans and procedures related to ebola at this particular hospital. the cdc already had a special team here to review plans and procedures at bellevue even before this latest ebola case arose and the doctor was sent to bellevue for isolation and treatment. we were also told that president obama has been fully briefed by his homeland security advisor. we are joined now by senior white house correspondent, chris jansing. thanks for joining us. >> hi, rachel. >> what do we know about the scope and the reaction from the white house. >> what they like t

the president and the health officials, sylvia burwell and others, ask you what -- >> no pressure?none at all. they're just asking what is your opinion about this? that's the reason why we give the opinion. we express the -- we respect the opposing opinion, but what was just articulated by senator cruise, the fact is it would be very, very difficult if you lost control of easily tracking people. you got to look at the numbers. to look at how many people are really trying to fwet into the country. you know, 36,000 people in two months went to airports to get out of the those three countries. 77 were blocked because of a health issue. when they investigated them, none of them had ebola. a lot of them had malaria. there's not a lot of people trying to get into the country. >> nina pham, she's under the care at n.i.h. how is she doing? >> she's doing fine. her condition is fair. she is stable. she's resting comfortably. ebola really knocks you out. i had a very long conversation with her. she's a lovely young lady. i think when the world gets to see her, we hope she will be out and wil

these images on the left shot minutes ago showing president obama speaking with hhs secretary sylvia burwellating the president on the newest ebola diagnosis in dallas. >>> cdc's tom frieden spoke out this morning. >> at some point there was a breach in protocol and that breach in protocol resulted if this infection. >> top officials now dealing with what appears to be the first case of ebola contracted here in the u.s. i'm shannon bream here in washington. >>> despite wearing full protective gear, we're being told a news who had

what about sylvia burwell?e even if this physician only put a few people at big risk, you know, waiting for symptoms prior to that, he was exposed to many people, there are all kinds of need for contacting tracing. this is a public health mess right now. we need people to get out there in front of this beyond just the mayor of new york city, and the governor. on the federal level we have a problem here, we don't have a spokesperson. >> well, then, go back to "new york times" and thier pointing out in other words to in terms of the stories from spinning out of control, and they talked about you know controlling messes and there is nobody better, what is important here is framing from a political perspective. if anyone can get reporting under control, it's ron claim. is this a health issue? we have some of the best doctors and greatest professionals. world renowned doctors boy think that would be a better choice. seems like they made a political choice here. & key thing won't it have been great if he had said yo

what about sylvia burwell?ly put a few people at big risk you know, waiting for symptoms prior to that he was exposed to many people, there are all kinds of need for contacting tracing. this is a public health mess right now. we need people to get out there in front of this beyond just the mayor of new york city and the governor. on the federal level we have a problem here, we don't have a spokesperson. >> well, then go back to "new york times" and thier pointing out in other words to in terms of the stories from spinning out of control, and they talked about you know controlling messes and there is nobody better what is important here is framing from a political perspective. if anyone can get reporting under control, it's ron claim. is this a health issue? we have some of the best doctors and greatest professionals. world renowned doctors boy think that would be a better choice. seems like they made a political choice here. >> for sure, i mean thei & key thing won't it have been great if he had said you know i

maybe he can help coordinate services but we already have sylvia burwell, head of hhs, not up front the way previous hhs secretaries have been. so i am concerned about too much politics, and i agree completely with david's statement about mixed messages here, that we need a unified front to decrease fear. that's how fear works. if we have leaders that we can look to who say, look, this is the way it's going to be and this is what we're going to do, and to david's point about contact tracing. you know, back in the plague times, eric, in the 14th century, there was a rule that if you took care of a patient with plague, they put you on holiday for a fortnight, 40 days and 40 nights where you couldn't see anybody. well, we're busy flying our people around on planes after they take care of ebola patients, and also to david's point, there isn't a uniformity of equipment. a lot of these nurses, and they are, you know, we have the greatest health care system in the world here, and our nurses are not at fault here. they don't know how many pairs of gloves to wear. >> you're right, the nurses are

. >> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell. and joining me now is dr. thompson from the state of arkansas. he and i worked together on a lot of public health issues. dr. thompson, thanks for joining my. it's good to see you again. >> good to be with you. >> let's start out by finding out exactly what kinds of guidelines and information has the cdc provided to people like you, chief health officer at the state level? >> the cdc has provided to health departments local and state across the nation several different tools that have re valuable. one is guidance on what to do if there is a potential person with ebola symptoms or exposure, and providing us information to get out to our provider, hospitals and clinics across the states, to find out, have you traveled overseas and in particular west africa. >> do you feel like the information you have provided and to the local community, is it adequate? has it within provided in a timely fashion? were you prepared for what happened in dallas? >> i think with ebola, we had an early warning by the information comi

lou: health and human services secretary sylvia burwell tried to assure americans by pointing to the obviously ineffective screening process put into place in the ebola stricken nations, a process that failed when eric duncan simply lied before boarding flight from liberia. duncan's family is under a court ordered quarantine in dallas including armed guards outside their door after they refused to obey health officials who directed them to stay in isolation. we'll be taking you live to dallas for a full report with the latest developments and taking up the very real fierce of our citizens, fears that our government officials seem unwilling to even discuss. we take it up with two leads immunologists here in just moments. >>> also either week of barbaric acts by islamic state terrorists. moments ago fox news confirmed another british hostage has been beheaded by the islamic terrorist group, two days after the terrorists beheaded nine kurdish fighters, three women also beheaded. we've just received word that the islamic state terrorists are holding a u.s. army veteran hostage and have t

largely the secretary of hhs, sylvia burwell very capable individual. there was nobody. that's why some of us said, look, who is in charge? put somebody in charge could have made her the czar. the american people need to look to someone who has the knowledge expertise background can assure them we are taking the measures necessary. and frankly i don't think mr. klain fits the bill as a partisan democrat. certainly not in any effort to address this issue in a bipartisan fashion. >> back in march, the world health organization roared a a rash of case of ebola the worst ever seen in africa. >> we have done something maybe he wouldn't have come here to the united states. >> i think one thing that is very clear we have been reassured quite honestly falsely. we were ahead of the cdc that ebola wouldn't come to the united states of america. now there is allegation that this come called the dc saying i have got a temperature can i fly on a an airplane? they say go ahead. that's what happens when you have a lack of leadership and discipline and that isn't just this issue. it's th

here is sylvia burwell. >> the next step with regard to preparedness is having a system that can handle any case that we had. and we've had one case, and there may be other cases and we have to recognize that as a nation. lou: and a bloodbath on wall street today. more extreme volatility, the third consecutive triple digit move for the dow jones industrials, dropping nearly 350 points on the day. a paper loss of nearly half a trillion dollars. >>> we begin with the secret service prostitution scandal and implications that the white house interfered in the investigation of that scandal and the role of the white house. the white house today stood by earlier review of the prostitution scandal, and its report. deputy press secretary eric schultz said today quote -- joining me now congressman ron desantis, member of the house judiciary committee and serves on the oversight and foreign affairs committees. allegations, congressman, that the white house was involved in the scandal, that it interfered with the ig investigation. your reaction? >> i think it's obviously serious. i mean this is an

going to take you to a current conference under way with health and human services secretary sylvia burwellis evidenced by the people here with me today at the podium. we are doing a number of things to address this epidemic at its source in west africa first and foremost. we are also enhancing our domestic preparedness and ability to respond to isolated cases here in the united states, and, as importantly, we are rallying the international community to contribute to this response and that would seem most recently when the president spoke at the united nations last week and we had an unprecedented vote in the u.n. security council to contribute and to show galvanizing forces of the international community to contribute to this response. the strategy the united states is executing has four key goals. to control the epidemic at its source in west africa, to mitigate the second order impact of this epidemic, to spon and to ated build a robust global health security infrastructure so we are prepared over the long run to confront epidemics such as the one we're facing today. i think it's very im

sylvia burwell answering questions about the 's ebola or spots. she also talks about the implementation of the health care law and the updated website. moderate this session. >> good morning. welcome to the latest in our series of joint kaiser health news, health policy newsmaker breakfasts. my name is alan weil. i'm editor in chief of "health affairs," a leading journal at the intersection of health care and policy. running the show today will be julie rovner, distinguished fellow at kaiser health news. you all know her from her 16 years as health policy correspondent for national public radio. the star of our show today, the reason you here is sylvia burwell, who is the nation's 22nd secretary of the department of health and human services. as you know, she came to hhs after serving as director of the office of management and budget with previous stints at quite a few places but mostly so as president of the walmart foundation and present of the global development program and coo of the bill and melinda gates foundation. we are pleased to cospon

obama has been kept up-to-date on the situation in dallas by health and human services secretary sylvia burwellallas officials are going to pains to reassure the public that the danger has been contained. mayor mike allings say the nurse's apartment complex has been sealed. neighbors alerted in a four-block radius, and hazmat teams have

moments ago, sylvia burwell says that the cdc has been sending out diviguidelines. >> cdc sent out our first guidance to state and local officials on july 28th and has been followed with six additional sets of guidance and the latest issued yesterday. >> the nurses on the ground say they aren't getting that information. a national nurses united survey found 80% of nurses say their hospital has not communicated on any policy on ebola patient admission and 87% say they have not provided the ebola education with the ability to ask questions and one-third of the nurses say their hospital has insufficient supplies of eye protection and fluid-resistant gowns. the cdc says they will be able to stop ebola in the united states. that is good news. but the bottom line is, doctors, nurses and all health care professionals need to be on the same page. nurses need the proper gear and the resources. there has been a protocol like what dr. nancy had outlined this morning, dr. nancy snyderman who is been quarantined for 21 days. i want to bring in debra berger the co president of national nurses united

they were sending cdc teams, sylvia burwell from the federal homeland security office have been fully coordinated. they've reviewed everything that we've been doing. we've been doing it with their advice. and we are, after having spoken with everyone doing everything that we need to be doing. i know it's a frightening situation, i know you watch it on the news and it was about dallas that was frightening. that it's here in new york. it's more frightening. new yorker is a dense place. a lot of people on top of each other. but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. we've reacted very, very quickly and identified about four of the people who we believe -- we believe there are four people who he came in contact with during the relevant period, and we are already in contact with all four people. so we feel good about how we're handling the situation. we're hoping for recovery from the doctor. but from the public health point of view i feel confident that we're doing everything we should be doing and we have this situation under control. i want to applaud the mayor

. >> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell says that guidance has been sent to state and officials for ebola. joining me now is dr. joe thompson, surgeon general for the state of arkansas. dr. thompson served for the chief health officer when i was governor, he and i worked together on a lot of public issues. dr. thompson, good to see you again. let's start out by finding out exactly what guidelines and information has the cdc provided to people like you, chief health officer at the state level? >> well the cdc has provided to local and state health centers across the nation, one is guidance on what to do if there is a potential suspected individual with ebola exposure or symptoms. and then following through, providing us with information to get out to our providers, both hospitals and physicians, clinics across the state, to actually stimulate the question, have you traveled major soversk in particular to west africa. >> do you think that the information you're providing to hospitals and clinics and other medical professionals, was it adequate? were you prepared for what

hhs sylvia burwell and also dr. tom frieden of the centers for disease control. admitted that this latest health care worker in texas to come down with the virus flew the day before she was admitted to the hospital and flew with a temperature of 99.5 degrees before she boarded the flight. the national institutes of health says that constitutes a fever, although it is below the threshold for obama -- for ebola fever of 100.4 degrees. so that shouldn't raise any more doubts in their minds. shep, but it is. as we're seeing from widespread panic across the country. >> oh, my god. doug, i appreciate it, but i think we both know there's no widespread panic across the country and we both know -- i think we know that and we also know if there is widespread panic it's not based in fact and it's not based in reason and i think more than anything, those are just words people on tv sometimes use. but this is serious in that two health care workers have in texas. it's serious in west africa where it is spreading and it is an epidemic where they don't bury people in the same w

also, you have the woman in charge of that whole division, sylvia burwell. then you have the cdc director tom frieden. i think a lot of people sitting at home today are wondering why would you not have one of those people take charge when we're already paying them to do just that? >> well, and they're asking that question for two very good reasons. the first is throwing another bureaucrat who is unaccountable to the american people and only accountable to president obama. we know president obama treats accountability in his administration. the other thing we're not mentioning is all the communication staff that every secretary has to communicate what this new czar is supposed to be doing. they have an entire staff paid with taxpayer dollars. while the white house is trying to play this game of showing they're doing something to help mitigate the disaster and the crisis, what they're really doing is putting someone in place in order to make the democrats look better when they're handling this crisis. it's interesting now that we're learning josh ernest also s

these images on the left shot minutes ago showing president obama speaking with hhs secretary sylvia burwell updating the president on the newest ebola diagnosis in dallas. >>> cdc's tom frieden spoke out this morning. >> at some point there was a breach in protocol and that breach in protocol resulted if this infection. >> top officials now dealing with what appears to be the first case of ebola contracted here in the u.s. i'm shannon bream here in washington. >>> despite wearing full protective gear, we're being told a news who had extensive contact with a patient, thomas duncan, at a dallas hospital has come up positive in a preliminary test for the virus. the cdc said this morning it is possible other health care workers were exposed as well. >>> police officers are going door to door talking to the nurses, neighbors, trying to quell any possible panic and confusion about the deadly virus and there is plenty now. let's go to new york for the very latest. >> well, the cdc says that that nurse had contact with thomas eric duncan multiple times, was wearing a gown, shield and gloves and yet

the star of her show today, the reason you hear is sylvia burwell who is the nation's 22nd secretaryu know she can get hhs after serving as director of the office of management and budget with previous stint at quite a few places but mostly so as president of the wal-mart foundation and present of the global development program and coo of the bill and melinda gates foundation. we are pleased to cosponsor this event and i were now headed over to julie to get the program going. >> good morning. thanks ago for being here. thank you, madam secretary, for being here. i'm going to ask moderators open question and i'll open it up to the audience. we do have tv cameras here so please wait for a microphone to get to before you speak and please identify yourself and your news outlet when you ask a question. madam secretary, i think pretty much anybody in this room still as ptsd from lester's open enrollment period what could you say to reassure us that we will be having a groundhog day when november 15 rolls around? >> well, in terms of that i will also remind everyone that a year ago on this

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell spoke at a family foundation event on thursday. she talked about health care policy including the administration's ebola response in the next open enrollment period for the affordable care act. this is just over an hour. >> good morning welcome to the latest in our series of kaiser health news health policy newspaper breakfast. we are the leading journal at the intersection of health care and policy regarding his show today will be julie rovner at kaiser health news. you all know her from her 16 years of health policy. the star of our show today in the reason you are here is sylvia matthews burwell who is the nation's 20 secretary of the department of health and human services. as you know she came to hhs after serving as the director of the office of management and budget with previous dense at quite a few places but most recently as president of the palmer foundation and the global development program in c. uh-oh of the bill and linda gates foundation. we are pleased to co-sponsor this event a

. >>> after a briefing from health and human secretary sylvia burwell, president obama directed federal authorities to take immediate action steps to make sure hospitals are ready to handle ebola patients. the new ebola case comes amid heightened concern around the nation with three high profile false alarms in just the past 24 hours. overnight at dallas, the nashville plane was temporarily quarantined due to a sick passenger. at lax emergency vehicles and hazmat teams surrounded a team after a passenger showed ebola-like symptoms on a flight from jfk. and near boston, dozen of patients and hospital workers were quarantined for four hours after a man who recently travelled to liberia was admitted with symptoms similar to ebola. another false alarm. we are live outside texas health presbyterian hospital. good morning. how is the nurse doing? >> reporter: at last update she was in stable condition. she has not been able to identify or pinpoint where the specific breach in safety protocol occurred. officials are looking closely at a couple of things including how workers were moving their

caller: that would be sylvia burwell, thae secretary of the health and human services. she was on a conference call with reporters yesterday and said little, other than they were coordinating with homeland security on ensuring that the nation was kept safe from the spread of ebola. ed overtty much hand to the cdc director on how they were trying to control the spread of the disease. there have been comments by lawmakers and other saying let's create a position, have somebody overseeing all of this, and there has been discussion of that. so far we have not appointed anyone to that position. that could change. bonita,eveland, ohio, hello. caller: good morning. i think we need to close our borders frick we cannot just ban people from west africa because could have gone to another country and taken a plane to the united states. we already had an incident in ohio. all of us are wary here, in the not going to put them down and i do not think really think -- i we need to close our borders. we cannot let nobody over here, just like this man came over here, the first place he we

with me is secretary of health and human services sylvia burwell. also with me is dr.n th anthony fauci, and rob shaw, and finally jcgeneral david rodrigu, commander of u.s. forces africa command. as the president has said, we are not facing just a health cris crisis, we're facing a national security priority and it's one he's instructed his team is as important as any threat we're facing. since the outbreak began, the president has direct that had we scale up our response both here at home and in the countries affected thi west africa. and that's exactly what we've done. most recently by deploying united states military members to liberia and to the region to support civilian efforts on the ground. today we're using a whole of government approach and response to control this epidemic at its source. and that's evidenced by the people who are here with me take at the podium. we're doing a number of things to address this epidemic apits source this west africa first and foremost, and we're also enhance our domestic preparedness and ability to respond to isolated cases he

then all of a sudden, sylvia burwell, popped up on the "today" show. there was a convention call to be led by dr. frieden. secretary burwell took the lead instead. seems that they're now trying to eclipse dr. frieden even as they say full confidence. based on statements, they bringing in all kind of other officials to show a leadership role. in the end, that could be problematic, as well, if you don't have one top official who's really taking the responsibilities. >> all right. ed hen trie white house. thank you --. while the cdc reviews protocols for treating ebola patients, there was no set system in place when thomas eric duncan arrived in the emergency room in dallas. according to a nurses union statement, duncan of left if an open area for hours, and health care workers treated him without proper protective gear. members of national nurses united held a convention call with reporters today demanding an action be taken to protect the health care worker that are fighting on the front line of ebola. >> this is outrageous that this is our responsible.

with me this afternoon is the secretary of health an human services sylvia burwell.is dr. anthony fauci from the national institutes of health. administrator raj shah from the u.s. agency for international development. and finally, general david rodriguez, who is the commander of the u.s. forces africa command. as the president has said, we are not facing just a health crisis, we are facing a national security priority and it's one that he has instructed his team, is as important as any threat we're facing. since this outbreak began in march, the president has directed that we scale up our response both here at home, and in the countries affected in west africa and that is exactly what we've done. most recently by deploying united states military members to liberia and to the region to support civilian efforts on the ground. today, we are using a whole of government approach and response to control this epidemic at its source. and that is evidenced by the people who are here with me today at the podium. we're doing a number of things to address this epidemic. at its

the president and the health officials, sylvia burwell and others -- >> no pressure. >> none at all.e respect the opposing opinion but what was just articulated by senator cruz, the fact is it would be very difficult if you lost control of easily tracking people. you to to look at the numbers. look at how many people are trying to get into the country. 36,000 people in two months. went to airports to get out of these three countries. 77 were block because of a health issue. when they investigated them, none of them had ebola. a lot of them had malaria. there's not a lot of people trying to get into the country. that's the thing that needs to be understood. >> i guess what is worried about by a number of people, one can do a lot of damage if unchecked. >> right. >> the question being how much good does it do? they're checked as they leave and when they enter the u.s. for fever. >> right. >> depending -- >> fever, symptoms, whether or not they came into known or suspected contact with an ebola patient. it's not just fever. they get questioned. >> i suppose they could lie about being ne

sylvia burwell is the secretary for health and human services which oversees the cdc. madame secretary, good morning. >> good morning, matt. >> second health care worker at texas presbyterian hospital in dallas has now tested positive for ebola. do you have complete confidence in that facility, that that facility can treat these two patients now and give them the best chance of survival while maintaining protocols that will prevent this virus from spre spreading even further? >> first, i want to express our thoughts and prayers with both patients and all the health care workers treating those patients, both at the hospital, as well as the state, local and federal officials supporting them. with regard to the protocols that are in place right now, as the cdc director announced yesterday, we have added additional staff from the cdc, two of the nurses from the emory facility that treated dr. brantly are there on site to do peer-to-peer training. overseeing the way that the equipment is put on and taken off. >> with all due respect, madame secretary, you're not answering m

sylvia burwell, the secretary of health and human resources. i want to bring in our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. for our viewers, update us on what we've just learned. it's pretty dramatic stuff. >> it is. we know that a second patient has been diagnosed with ebola, another health care worker, at the same hospital. the person who had extensive contact as it was described with mr. duncan. you remember he was the first patient to be diagnosed with ebola. so this is a nurse, sounds like, that was infected and it sounds like is ill. doing okay but pretty ill. and remember she was just diagnosed over the last several hours. so it sounds like she has progressed a bit over the last several hours. i think what is most salient here is that she is going to be transferred, it sounds like, to the emory university hospital in atlanta. this is something that has come up back and forth. you remember dr. frieden has said hospitals anywhere in the country should be able to take care of these patients. this patient, second patient now diagnosed

. >>> after a briefing from health and human secretary sylvia burwell, president obama directed federale ebola patients. the new ebola case comes amid heightened concern around the nation with three high profile false alarms in just the past 24 hours. overnight

we speak with secretary of health and human service sylvia matthews burwell. >>> plus, backlash froms on the vatican's more welcoming approach to gase. we hear from cardinal timothy dolan. >>> and why flight attendants want to bring back a ban on electronic devices during takeoff. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm susan mcginnis. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com m susan mcginnis. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com d i'm frank mall >>> linda macdonald is captioning for you in real time. >>> good morning, it is wednesday, october 15. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it is nearly 4:30. and it's raining. a little bit anyway. how are you? >> lingering showers. i'm not quite sure if we can pull it up on our doppler radar at this particular time -- yeah, we can. what we have is this pop-up hit and miss scattered showers and that's the case through the morning commute and all this will end. it will be a mostly cloudy and breezy day today with highs in the 60s and 70s. we'll still ha

we already know he talked with hhs secretary sylvia burwell yesterday as well as getting an update from lisa monaco, his point person. a couple things, and he'll want to know the latest on them. one is, what happened? that investigation is under way and cdc officials say they've been scrambling to interview everybody who had a part in this patient care. and they still don't know exactly why this second ebola infection happened. so, obviously, that's critical for them to find out so they can stop it from happening again. the second thing he ordered were more cdc officials there. a doubling down, getting to the area, making sure hospitals know what's going on. one of the things they're looking at very clearly is having sort of regional centers. there are four hospitals now who can handle this kind of situation. and the question is, is it really logical to have more hospitals, to have a great number of hospitals, who are prepared to deal with this rather than isolate a patient and get them to a unit that specifically deals with this. another question they're looking at, should there be a s

they were immediately attending cdc teams, sylvia burwell from the federal homeland security office haveeviewed everything that we've been doing. we've 2st doing it with their advice. and we are after having spoken to everyone we are doing everything we need to be doing. i know it's a frightening situation. i know when you watch it on the news and it was about::zfñ dall was frightening. that it's here in new york, it's more frightening. new york is a dense place. a lot of people on top of each other. but the more facts you know, the less frightening the situation is. we've already acted very, very quickly and identified about four of the people who we believe -- we believe there are four people who he came in contact with during the relevanx period. and we are already in contact with all four people. so we feel good about the way we are handling the situation. obviously we wish the best for the doctor and quick recovery for the doctor. but for the public health point of view, i feel we are doing everything we should beçrúsdoin. and we have the situation under control. and i want to appl

let's do a better job today, beginning beginning with sylvia burwell.sking the question and brian ask ainsley has been asking, she, miss burwell, is the woman who is in control of the situation. she needs to step up today and tell america what's going on, tell us that there is no reason to be afraid and that we're going to conquer this. we need to all get together. but we need the information, the truth, transparency, and we need it now and today. we don't want panic or talking heads. we want the truth and transparency. that will solve our problem and help solve it around the world. >> you've hit the nail on the head when you said she's in charge because the president called her immediately after he found out, talked to her on the phone and then he went golfing. >> i'm sure she can help. she only has to try. >> peter johnson, jr., america's lawyer, thank you very much. >> good to see you. >> she's in charge of health and human services. she would be in charge. >>> coming up next, suzanne somers is here live next. but coming up -- come on in. martha mcca

where is sylvia burwell? the head of hhs. nobody is stepping up taking responsibility.y say don't worry, don't worry. when you say don't worry and things go wrong, people worry. martha: maybe cities have to impose their own quarantines. thanks. bill: doctors are trying to fast track the experimental ebola vaccines. 200,000 doses could be ready for use in west africa by the middle of next year. two leading in the vaccine candidates are in human clinical trials and another five vaccines are being developed. but nothing kills the virus entirely. martha: a billionaire stepping up with big bucks. paul allen, the microsoft co-owner and the owner of the seattle seahawks. he's giving $100 million to fight this. this is on top of the other $40 million he already pledged. he says ebola is not somebody else's problem, it's ours. bill: some brand-new video just in to fox on the terror attack in ottawa. canadian police releasing surveillance videoed of the gunman getting out of a car holding a shotgun moments before he stormed into the parliament building. canada's foreign minister