tom frieden joins us now from atlanta. what's really important to understand is we know how to control it, and there is this window of opportunity that's closing but it's not too late. we have to act now. urgency couldn't be higher. speed is of the essence. >> brown: you use the language, the window of opportunity is closing, the challenge is so great, you said today the epidemic is so overwhelming that it now requires an overwhelming response. what specifically did you see on your trip and in talking with officials around the world that is so alarming now? >> well, i'll tell you an example. doctors without borders is doing phenomenal work. they're working an extraordinarily difficult situation and trying to do whatever they can to help patients and stop the outbreak, but they're overwhelmed by the number of patients, so they're opening new hospital beds as fast as they can but only safety, to have a terrific track record of safety of people working in the ema treatment units. but in order to do that, they can't open them

tom frieden. >> good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining us. as you have been hearing from us, ebola is a serious disease. it's only spread by direct contact with someone who is sick with the virus, and it's only spread through body fluids. the incubation period is eight to ten days after exposure, can be as short as 2 days or as long as 21 days. it's a severe disease with a high case fatality rate even with the best of care. but there are core tried and true public health interventions that stop it. today we are providing the information that an individual traveling from liberia has been diagnosed with ebola in the united states. this individual left liberia on the 19th of september, arrived in the u.s. on the 20th of september, had no symptoms when departing liberia or entering this country, but four or five days later, around the 24th of september, began to develop symptoms. on the 26th of september initially sought care and sunday, the 28th of september, was admitted to a hospital in texas and placed on isolation. we received in our laborat

tom frieden, who just returned from liberia. >> we have the world's first epidemic of ebola, and it's spiraling out of control. the situation is bad and it looks like it's going to get worse quickly. >> reporter: so far this outbreak has caused more than 1500 deaths. 10% of them health care workers. more than 3,000 have been infected and the world health organization estimates that number may top out at as many as 20,000. in liberia 90 doctors care for over 4 million people, and the already fragile medical system is fractured. today this ebola patient in a red shirt escaped a quarantine center, carrying a stick as he walked through a market in search of food. the fear is so great president obama today sent a message directly to the people of west africa. >> along with partners around the world the united states is working with your government to help stop this disease. >> reporter: while u.s. health officials continue to say ebola is not a threat to this country's sophisticated health system, this rapidly spreading disease requires a global response now. today the first three of 20 he

tom frieden sought to reassure americans that a case of ebola discovered here in the u.s. is not cause for alarm. >> the bottom line here is that i have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country. >> reporter: frieden said the patient, who is not being identified, left liberia in west africa on september 19th, arriving in the u.s. on the 20th. the patient had no symptoms when he left liberia or when landing stateside, but four or five days later he started feeling sick. he sought care last friday, but then went home. then two days ago he was admitted to texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas. since the man was not symptomatic on the airline, he would not have been contagious at that time, frieden said. the cdc does not believe anyone who was on the flight with him was exposed. >> it is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual, a family member or other individual, could develop ebola in the coming weeks, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here. >>

tom frieden played a critical role. it involved a consortium of 27 other countries, and a number of other organizations. it was driven with an awareness of the antimicrobial resistance, fire security threats, and emerging infectious threats, that like we are seeing today with ebola. it has resulted in the aspiration to create a network of emergency operations centers around the world, but it is being done on a paltry budget, a paltry budget. $45 million a year. there is no funding mechanism that is robust, reliable, durable, sustainable, in the u.s. security budget beyond our borders. and there is no institution that is the sole repository of expertise and responsibility for leading on this. we are very fragmented. to the extent that this crisis stimulates a rethink on that hill and a rethink within the administration, the global health security agenda provides a very good model or set of pilots which could be expanded, built upon, quite aggressively. the summit for this is september 26 here in washington. so that momen

tom frieden, director of the u.s. center for disease control. joseph, cofounder of the well known organization -- and the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological programs. we are sorry not to have keiji -- kejii fukada. his boss said she needed him in new york today. feel free to make your comments from there or come to the podium. >> thanks for the opportunity to speak. it is great to see this level of interest on the hill. this is a remarkable challenge. i think it will take -- it is taking the whole of government and it will take a whole of society response for us to fully support the liberians -- the liberian, sierra leone, and guinean governments. this is a crucial piece to our ultimate success. i will talk for just a few minutes about the over arching u.s. strategy that the president laid out last tuesday and usaid's specific pieces of that, then turn it over to my colleagues to go into more depth on their respective pieces. as the president laid out on tuesday, we have a four-pillar strategy that the u.s. gove

tom frieden, updated congress on the ebola outbreak in west africa.ccording to a new report from the cdc, there could be 1.4 million ebola cases in liberia and sierra leone by the end of january if the outbreak cannot be effectively controlled. this is 90 minutes. >>> we are going to begin. as please come in, please grab your lunches. i'm the senior foreign policy adviser for senator kunz. i would just like to welcome everybody today. we have a remarkable panel. and we're very excited to have so many people interested, of course, in this critical, critical issue. i would like to thank anita for her effort to pull together this event. thank you so much. i would also like to recognize the upmc center for health security for hosting this event. thank you for that. and i would like to turn it over to tom inglesby, our moderator today, who will introduce our distinguished panel. thank you. >> thank you, hailey, so much. and thank you to senator kunz, senator frank and to the senate foreign relations subcommittee on african affairs tor cohosting this event

tom frieden is the director of u.s.centers for disease control joseph fair adviser to the ministry of health and sierra leone and the foundation and co-founder of the well-known organization -- and andy weber who is the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear chemical and biological programs. we are sorry not to have kg on the agenda. we thought we had kg on the agenda and the agenda until director chan said she needed him in new york today. with that i'm going to turn to jeremy and feel free to make your comments from their were come to the podium, whatever you would like. >> thank you very much and thanks for the opportunity to speak. it's great to see this level of interest here on the hill. this is a remarkable challenge and i think it will take, it is taking the whole of government and it will take the whole of society responds for us to fully support the liberian sierra leone and governments in tackling this crisis. i think the level of public interest we are seeing is a crucial piece to our ultimate success. i

press conference and that can only mean one thing because i had been told earlier that director tom friedena press conference if the results consider positive. and now at 5:30, they're expected to announce that we have the first case here in the united states of ebola that did not arrive on a medevac plane. as best we can tell, this patient, a man who came from liber liberia, was asymptomatic on the plane on the way over, which is good news because if a patient is not showing symptoms and there is not some intimate contact with bodily fluids, like lie ho liely hood of transmission is very low. but upon arrival, he for tt got sick and went to the hospital with a very high fever and perhaps vomiting and was put into a strict isolation unit there. they don't have the type of isolation unit that they do at emory hospital or nebraska or nih. so the centers for disease control will in the next few hours be sending a go team of three to four people to dallas to assist with the infection control there and with the treatment of this patient. so this is big breaking news because this has long been su

. >> as you know, there is obviously great urgency, the centers for disease control, tom frieden, thedirector, returned from west africa. he says that this pandemic is now out of control and he thinks that there is a very narrow window, indeterminate, but a very narrow window in which the world can stop ebola. your thoughts? >> i completely agree with dr. frieden. i was with him today for several hours. i totally agree with his assessment. what he's referring to about the window is that it's the increase inases that you just reported right before you started talking to me. and that is, what we're seeing is the slope of that curve is frighteningly steep in an upward way. it isn't going up like this. it's going up like that. we call that an expontial increase. that means that every day that goes by, it gets further and further out of your grasp. >> the urgency of this matter, when you talk about that hockey stick slope for the spread of this disease, this deadly disease, what is the time frame you believe that you have to bring a vaccine, to bring this cocktail, zmap, whether it's zmap

tom frieden issued this threat only a day after he returned from west africa.ys global leaders need to do more to control the outbreak that has killed so far more than 1500 people. >> we know how to stop ebola. the challenge is to scale it up to the massive levels needed to stop this outbreak. >> meanwhile, a third american working in liberia has now been diagnosed with e bith ebola. they don't know how he became infected. the other two americans who contracted the disease were flown back to the u.s. and have now recovered. >>> the first human safety trial for an experimental ebola vaccine begins this week. they gave the green light for researchers at the international institu institutes of health to give the vaccine to three healthy volunteers. if it's safe, it will be given to a small group to see it if has a strong response. >>> president obama is headed joer seas for a summit. the president left base andrews this morning. the leaders of the battlic nations that border russia. on thursday the president leads with western leaders in wales to consider a milita

tom frieden who is just back from a visit to the region warned tuesday that this outbreak is gainingentum and becoming harder to stop every day. human tests of an experimental ebola vaccine begin in maryland. a group of three healthy volunteers are the first to get this vaccine. >>> apple says the hacking that resulted in celebrity nude photos being leaked online was not due to a breech of its icloud storage system. the company says it appears that individual accounts were targeted. in the meantime, home depot is investigating a possible large-scale data breech following reports by security firm of stolen credit and debit card information being posted for sale online. >>> beginning today, all of the 7,700 cvs stores nationwide, they will be tone co-free. this move fulfills a pledge that the company made back in february that includes changing its corporate name to cvs health. customers that are looking to pie cigarettes will now find only products designed to help them quit smoking. cvs is the second largest drug store chain in the u.s. behind only walgreens. >>> all right. let's tal

tom frieden, head of centers for disease control says even though a person infected is not showing symptomsit's highly unlikely they could pass that contamination to someone else. dr. frieden sent a team of experts to the dallas hospital, dallas heart presbyterian hospital in the heart of dallas. he believes teams will quickly put a lid on the infection to prevent widespread throughout the community, but he said that this may not be the only patient that they see. let's listen. >> the bottom line here is that i have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country. it is possible someone who had contact with this individual, a family member or other individual, could develop ebola in the coming weeks. but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here. >> reporter: dr. frieden pointed to a couple of people in the past with a hemorrhagic fever, ebola is a hemorrhagic fever, it was a handful of cases. in terms of the people who might have come in contact with or might have flown with, the centers for disease scroll

tom frieden appeared on cnn's "new day" and told michaela pereira the ebola crisis is worse than he thoughtn >> we've seen outbreaks of ebola before. this is the first epidemic spreading widely throughout country and many countries and it's spiraling out of control. it's bad now, much worse than the numbers show. it's going to get even worse in the very near future and our window of opportunity to turn it around is closing, but it's not yet closed. the crucial thing we need to do is to act fast. action today is worth much more than action in a couple of week or a month or two. >> explain why the window is closing. >> what we're seeing is a spiraling of cases, really a hugely fast increase in cases that's harder and harder to manage. the more we can get in there and tamp that down, the fewer cases we'll have in the weeks and months to come. right now, the epidemic is completely out of control. >> you spoke -- you said the world cannot isolate liberia and west africa. it would not help and make it harder to stop the epidemic. what do you mean by your comments? >> whether we like it or not, we

tom frieden briefed president obama this morning on the threat before telling reporters the medical communitythe world over need to do more to combat the disease and soon. >> that window is closing. we need action now to scale up the response. >> the commander in chief even put out a video message speaking directly to the people of west after an ca an suring them they're not alone in the fight. right now, there is no known cure. but doctors are hoping human trials set to begin this week for an experimental vaccine can provide a little hope. turning now to the money lead. if you have an iphone, the cloud is the digital depostory where all those instagrams of your dinner played and snaps of your kids go unless you turn it off. all your photos. inevitably wind up there in the i cloud. apple says security vublths in its online storage system are not to blame for the massive leak of stolen celebrity photos to hit the internet over weekend. cybercriminals dumped a ksh of pictures including indicate upton and others. some tech web sites suspected that vulnerabilities in apple's servers allowed them

tom frieden played a critical role from the director of cdc. white house, laura hold gate and others, the president himself, it involved a consortium of 27 other countries and a number -- and margaret channing, a number of organizations. it was driven with an awareness around the antimicrobial existence, and around the emerging infectious threats like we're seeing here today with ebola. it's resulted in the aspiration to create a network of emergency operations centers around the world. but it's being dope on a paltry -- done on a paltry budget, borrowed budget of 40, $45 million a year. there is no funding mechanism that is robust, reliable, durable, sustainable for global health security in the u.s. budget beyond our borders. and there is no institution that is the sole repository of expertise and isn't for lead -- and responsibility for leading on this. we're very fragmented, and to the extent that this crisis establishes a rethink within the administration, the global health security agenda provides a very, very good model or set of pilots

tom frieden. i would like to nex >> dr. good man. thank you, dr. friedman. the cdc.orrect one statement that might have been misinterpreted by dr. friedman when he commented on the air we breathe. ebola is not transmitted by the air. it is not an airborne infection. texas health dallas is a large community hospital with a robust infection control system that works in close cooperation with the dallas county health department the centers for disease control in the system and in the community. we have had a plan in place for some time now in the event of a patient presecretary with possible ebola. ironically enough in the week before this patient presented, we had a meeting of all the stakeholders that might be involved in the care of such a patient. and because of that, we were well-prepared to deal with this crisis. thank you. >> thank you, dr. good man. our final speaker is the dallas county health and human services director, zachary thomas. director tom son. >> good afternoon our hearts go to the family as well as. i want to thank the department of state as well a

tom frieden and doctor, at the world health organization updated congress on the spread of people inest africa. a new cdc report says 1.4 million people in liberia and sierra leone could become infected by the end of january. watch that live at noon eastern here on c-span2. >> you are just a few of the comments we have received from our viewers. >> i recently discovered c-span3 that he didn't even know i had, and i love it. can't describe in a few words. right up my alley. thanks. >> c-span tries to be nonbiased. they tried to be useful for democrats, republicans and independent life but really there's no democracy. the voices are limited. i wish you could expand the voices to more third party people because the democrats and republicans are basically the same. and also if you could limit the amount of discussions you have with republicans and democrats elected officials and use more independent voices for discussions, thank you. >> please, whatever you do, do not take c-span3 off. it's a very educational shell. i listen to mostly everyday. -- educational show. i find out more and mo

i think what tom frieden said was right. do contact tracing for everyone he's contacted, then make sure that they don't have it. and it's quite easily contained in the united states. we know that, chris, because in nigeria they've been able to contain it, and their health system is better than liberia and sierra leone, but nowhere near the united states. so -- >> i'm just trying to follow the logic here. everybody's being told, don't worry unless they have the infectious symptoms, you can see them, that you don't have to worry about catching them. yet this guy picked up the disease apparently from somebody who did not have the infectious symptoms. >> again, don't hypothesize. we just don't know. we have no idea what he did or didn't do and how he got it. i'm sure that's going to be vital information to try to understand the transmission, but the idea that there's going to be a widespread outbreak here, i think is just, again, it's a bit of fear mongering. we have a single case. this is not a -- >> yeah, yeah, but i'm just go

tom frieden is back from the tour of the affected west africa nations.e joins us from the cdc headquarters in atlanta. doctor, good morning. just how grave is the situation? >> it is the world's first epidemic and spiraling out of control. it's bad now. it's going to get worse in the very near future. there is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down but that window is closing. we really have to act now. >> so what do we need to do now? >> now, we need positive support countries with resources, with technical experts and with cooperation. too many places are sealing off these countries. if we do that paradoxically it's going to reduce safety. whether we like it or not we're all connected. it's all within our interests to help tamp this down and control it. >> doctor you were there in the trenches meeting with the patients, the victims. what was it like? what did you learn? >> it's really horrific i spoke with a young woman, 22-year-old, fourth year student of english. her sister-in-law came in died from ebola. she held a 10-year-old niece in her han

they are first, jeremy konyndyk, who is the director of the usaid office of assistance and tom frieden, the director of u.s. centers of disease control and joseph fair, who is adviser to sierra leone and the foundation they are they are. and andrew weber. we are very sorry not to have an extra guest. we thought we had him until 24 hours ago when his boss said she needed him in new york today. and so it back among going to turn to jeremy. feel free to make your comments from there or come to the podium, whatever you feel like. >> thank you very much. and thank you for the opportunity to speak. it is great to see this level of interest here on the hill and this is a remarkable challenge and i think that it will take -- it will take the whole of society and government to fully supported the liberian government and the sierra leone government and the level of engagement is just a crucial piece to our ultimate success. i will talk for just a few minutes about the overarching u.s. strategy that was laid out last tuesday. and there are specific pieces of that and i will turn it over to my col

tom frieden, thanks. >>> 32 teens escaped from a national center last night, crawling under the fence, the boys 14 to 19 years old, have each committed at least ten felonies. three of the escapees are still on the run this morning. >>> trying to figure out how a windshield on american airlines jet cracked five minutes after leaving los angeles yesterday, pilots saw the cracked glass. there were 190 people on the jet. the jet turned around and landed safely. no one was hurt. >>> baseball and rare good news for the last-place philadelphia phillies no-hit thanks to the effort of four different pitchers as mark strawsman shows us us the phils won but it took an effort. >> the phillies have recorded their 12th no-hitter in franchise history. it's the first-ever combined no-hitter by the phillies. >> the phillies pitchers were unhittable monday. all four of them. >> got him. >> this no-hitter by committee started with the team's ace, cole hamels. >> back-to-back strikeouts for hamels. >> he had already thrown 106 pitches on a hot day. relievers jake diekman, kenny giles and jonathan papelbo

tom frieden and the world health organization dr.keiji fukuda on the list developer with the ebola outbreak in west africa. this event on capitol hill is hosted by the university of pittsburgh medical center. you are watching live coverage here on c-span2. >> we are very excited to have so many people interested of course in this critical, critical issue. i would like to thank anita far effort to pull together this event. thank you so much. i would also like to recognize the upn see center for health security for hosting this event. that you for that. i would like to turn it over to thomas inglesby, our moderator today to introduce our distinguished panel. thank you. well, thank you, so much and thank you, senator coons, senator flake and the senate foreign relations subcommittee on african affairs for cohosting this event with us today. welcome to our distinguished guests whom a letter just in a moment, and welcome and thank you all for joining us today for this very important discussion. we are very glad to see spenders will so oth

tom frieden, thank you very much. >>> all right.nd willie's here now with some scary moments for passengers on a flight to florida. >> another one of these reclining seat situations. unbelievable. an unruly passenger in a fight over a reclining seat caused big problems again monday night. the delta flight took off from new york's laguardia and was headed for west palm beach. passengers say a woman tried to recline her seat, but the woman behind her became irate, started screaming and swearing. demanding that the plane land. the pilot diverted the plane to jacksonville where it landed safely. police removed the passenger and the flight continued on to west palm beach. >>> a huge search is underway this morning after a mass breakout from a youth detention center in nashville, tennessee. a spokesman said about 30 teens escaped overnight by squeezing through a weak spot in a fence. a dozen inmates have been captured. officials don't know yet if the escape was planned or spontaneous. >>> good news out of the middle east this morning. all

he's been highly involved at the cdc with tom frieden who just came back there the region -- from the region and was visibly shaken, i think, if you saw him on the press conference yesterday, you could see that. and, but marty has been one of the masterminds of the response, and he's going to be talking about, you know, what we can do now to bring this under control. kevin donovan, we're extremely fortunate to have here at georgetown. he's the director of the center for clinical bioethics, and he's been here since september of 2012. he came to us from a magnificent career and work in clinical ethics, and he's been really at the forefront in this particular epidemic trying to think through the ethical dilemmas of the compassionate use of untested drugs. and, of course, now we have vaccine trials, and we were with tony fauci yesterday at nih, and he told us that the very first safety trials for an ebola vaccine were -- began on yesterday. and so kevin will help guide us through that ethical thicket. steve morrison is the senior vice president and director of the global health policy cen

tom frieden, and dr.of the world health organization update congress on the sped of ebola in west africa. a new cdc report says 1.4 million people in liberia and sierra leone could become infected by the end january. watch that live at noon eastern here on c-span2. >>> c-span2 providing live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and key public policy events. every weekend, booktv, now for 15 years the only television network devoted to non-fiction books and authors. c-span2, created by the cable tv industry and brought to you as a public service by the local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >>> on monday cq roll call and nyu law school security publication host ad discussion about national security. focusing on the issues important to voters in this year's midterm elections. the militant group isis, the russian ukraine conflict, and the immigration were among the issues discussed. this is an hour 1/2. >> thank you, ryan. my pleasure to be h

tom frieden who's director of the center and other health officials. this is because a patient is being treated at a dallas hospital as tested positive for ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the united states according to federal health officials. the director will be joined by some of those officials from texas, and we will have that briefing live when it starts, expected at 5:30 eastern here on c-span2. in the meantime, we will take you to today's white house briefing. the briefing mainly focused on testimony today on capitol hill by the direct canner of the secret service. >> nice to see you all. apologize for the late start. we were delayed a little bit by that spray. before we get to your questions, let me do a little piece of news here at the top. in an e-mail that some of you may have seen and that was sent to the white house e-mail list earlier this afternoon, senior adviser dan pfeiffer announced that the president will deliver remarks thursday at northwestern university's kellogg school of management. the speech will make

tom frieden just back from west africa with the latest on the ebola outbreak and virus and the clinical vaccine. thank you, sir. >> a desperate plea from three americans detained in north korea asking for the u.s., begging for the u.s. to help them. an exclusive tv interview with cnn. could this new call for help lead to direct negotiations between the u.s. and north korea? >>> also, the president's foreign policy under attack from the right and the left as the commander in chief heads to europe to address global issues. he may be all alone. details ahead on "inside politics." (vo) get ready! fancy feast broths. they're irresistabowl... completely unbelievabowl... totally delectabowl. real silky smooth or creamy broths. everything she's been waiting for. carefully crafted with real seafood, real veggies, and never any by-products or fillers. wow! being a cat just got more enjoyabowl. fancy feast broths. wow served daily. take your time. no rcome on.y. with the chase mobile app you can get a lot done in a little amount of time from transferring funds wait a minute. you've got to be kiddi

frieden and everybody here at the center for disease control for welcoming me here today. tom and his team just gave me an update on the ebola outbreak in west africa. our efforts to help mobilize the international community to fight it, and the steps we're taking to keep people here at home safe. tom and his team are doing outstanding work between the specialists on the ground in west africa and here at headquarters. they've got hundreds of professionals who are working tirelessly on this issue. this is the largest international response in the history of the cdc. after this, i'll be meeting with some of these men and women, including some who recently returned from the front lines of the outbreak, and they represent public service at its very best. so i just want them to know how much the american people appreciate them. many of them are serbing far away from home, away from their families. they're doing heroic work, and serving in some unbelievably challenging conditions. working through exhaustion, day and night, and many have volunteered to go back. so we're very, very pr