cdc spokesman tom skinner joins me now. you're on the phone i believe it is i want to clarify to our audience. what difference is it going to make in this response to have this ebola czar in place, ron klain? >> i think we are awaiting more, more specifics about you know, the role of mr. klain. but i think that i can speak on behalf of cdc and dr. friedan. that we are very supportive of anything that's going to help better our response. and certainly a czar who can help coordinate the response and insure accountability. maybe be a liaison to our elected representatives and to other countries, to help trouble-shoot things that are coming up. is just going to be a value-added for sure. >> we'll be watching that closely as i know your personnel will be. a question to you, you were on the air about two hours ago, mr. skinner. when my colleague asked you about the condition of one of the nurses being treated, you said you didn't know the names of those nurses, those comments are now trending nationally. simple question, should a

tom skinner from cdc, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> earlier, i mentioned that as liberia patient thomas e. duncan is being threatened with prosecution by liberia. he will be prosecuted when he returns to liberia for lying on a health questionnaire. >> we have some very stringent precautionary measures at the airport and i'm told he went through those. we even have a doctor's station. we have temperature taken. devices at the airport and hand washing and everything. >> lie beer liberia officials say he is believed to have contracted the disease while helping a pregnant neighbor who later died from ebola several weeks ago. >>> doctor, good to see you again. >>> the cab driver of the cab that took this woman to the hospital, several hopts from which he was turned away in monrovia, before she died, said -- she was seven months pregnant -- she was having a miscarriage. i guess the question is how plausible is it as a general matter that someone could just have this experience and walk away not realizing the disease of the person that he was so intimately close to. >> i think we're not

let me bring in cdc spokesperson tom skinner who joins us by phone.thank you for your time. >> thank you very for having me. >> it's difficult to pinpoint miss vincent when her symptoms started to show. she's not able to communicate now. >> i'm not sure i understand which person you're talking about. i don't know them by name basis. >> there are only two. the and the first is miss pham. the second is amber vincent subpoena. she contacted the cdc and asked about her low grade temperature whether or not she should get on the plane. she was not told to get off the plane. the woman at emery? >> i don't have an update on her clinical status. you would have to call the hospital where she's staying and they could probably provide you an update on her clinical status. >> is the cdc not in contact regularly to get an update? what is the cdc's role in monitoring the progress of these patients and potentially people they have exposed? >> so we have reached out to all the passengers on the plane that were with her an the flight from cleveland to dallas all were a

i am joined by tom skinner, senior press officer at the centers for disease control in atlanta. thanks very much. me how cdc and dallas are coordinating. there have been a lot of missteps in dallas in particular. what does cdc think about the way the local officials handled it. >> we have a team on the ground pretty much working 24-7 to do everything that we can to stop this in its tracks and that's just what we are doing. we are trying to identify the close contacts of the patient and intrude close to 100 people trying to determine the close contacts. we identified probably a dozen or so that are likely to have to be followed up on a daily basis having their temperature taken and checking in as far as the health of them goes. you raised very difficult issues. first of all the family and what they are going through and the apartment complexes are difficult. did you allude to some i guess red tape that is preventing the transport away from the medical waste and all that was is being addressed and we hope to have it out of there and the state and local health department is working