, whether it's zmap or some other, to the people of west africa to get this epidemic stopped?>> this is a very iortant question. but you may be a little bit disappointed with my answer. the reason i say that is th right now a vaccine or drugs are not going to stop this terrible outbreak it's going to be a major, major intensification of the medical approach towards identifying, isolating, contact tracing, getting good personal protective equipment for the people who are taking care of these individuals, getting information about the help that is available for people instead of having them running away from the hospital. vaccines are important but they're not going to be ready in time to do what we need to do tomorrow and the next day and the next day. so although we're working intensively ondeveloping vaccines and intensively on developing drugs, what west africa needsow is a major amplification of the effort of infection control, isolation, ctact tracing and giving peoe theare that they need, which is fundamentally good medical care, intravens fluid to replenish them from whe

centers for disease control would use the money to produce more of the drug zmap and test it. americans who contracted ebola were treated with the drug. the extra money would go to developing and manufacturing two potential ebola vaccines. doctors say a third american who was infected with ebola is sick but stable. his doctors are exploring possible treatments, some of which haven't been tested on humans. they are considering using serum from the two americans who recovered from ebola. nancy writebol and dr. kent brantly. ebola has infected 4,000 people, more than half have died. >> next at 11:00 -- >> my heart is breaking for the parents that have to go through this. >> a somber memorial for steven sotloff a. his final message in a letter to his family. >> prayers answered for a domestic violence shelter. the new hope coming to dozens of local families. >> and the once in a lifetime stop that delayed president obama's trip home. to prove a point about internet speeds, we slowed down an up escalator. this is crazy i don't get it, this one is working ladies, shouldn't up be as

workers were treated and capable out okay, we don't know whether or not that worked on them, that zmap is no longer existing. there is nothing to give him. he needs to be put in isolation and waiting to see what happens. back to you. >> robert, we know that some of the organizations saying there needs to be more western help to tackle this outbreak about, and what do you think is forthcoming from the united states in particular? >> you know, that's the thing, as the doctor said earlier behind me in the cdc, they are calling on anyone with experiences like in places like western africa to volunteer. anyone that has been there and treated other diseases to make their way there, work with the wto and the cdc and national institutes of health in the united states, the bodies on the ground, the boots on the ground are the biggest issue and they are trying to get this up to scale, and right now not even close and no end in sight as the world is watching what happens in west africa and trying to get a grasp on this. >> thank you for the live report. >> now more on the developing story, a vide

>> was the drug zmap, was it the supportive care, was it liberian and u.s. medical people?was it those doctors and nurses that helped to save you? or was it your faith? and my answer touz? that quest is all of the above. >> meanwhile, u.n. officials are warning of a potential food shortage in west african countries hit by ebola. in liberia, an ebola patient cause add panic when he escaped quarantine to search for food in a market and was finally taken back into custody. >>> in this country, millions of u.s. households continue to lack adequate access to food. according to a new report from the u.s. department of agriculture. the report said about 17.5 million households, or one in seven, experience food insecurity in 2013. those numbers were roughly the same as last year, anti-hunger groups such as bread for the world said the number of food insecure families is unacceptable, and urged elected officials to assist them. >>> the u.s. justice department is launching a broad civil rights investigation into police practices in ferguson, missouri. and other surrounding areas. th

it will keep the zmap and vaccine candidates moving quickly through clinical trial us but it's just a first step. i hate to say this but ebola will not be conquered in at the ten weeks of the continuing resolution. when we come back to negotiate the fiscal year 2015 appropriations bill the fight to contain ebola must continue be an urgent priority. the subcommittee passed a senate labor hhs bill that includes a new $40 million global health security initiative. you must carefully consider the size and goals of this initiative in light of the ebola outbreak, while maintaining our commitment to cdr staff in the field. as this crisis illustrates, we must stop chases diseases after the fact. and start building public health systems around the globe, capable of detecting and stopping diseases before they cross borders. last year, with the help of senator mr.an, we were able to start a new global initiative called the national public health institute to do just that. this program needs to be expanded, in light of this epidemic. with these big challenges ahead of us, today's hearing is absol

it will keep the zmap and vaccine candidates moving quickly through clinical trial us but it's just a first step. i hate to say this but ebola will not be conquered in at the ten weeks of the continuing resolution. when we come back to negotiate the fiscal year 2015 appropriations bill the fight to contain ebola must continue be an urgent priority. the subcommittee passed a senate labor hhs bill that includes a new $40 million global health security initiative. you must carefully consider the size and goals of this initiative in light of the ebola outbreak, while maintaining our commitment to cdr staff in the field. as this crisis illustrates, we must stop chases diseases after the fact. and start building public health systems around the globe, capable of detecting and stopping diseases before they cross borders. last year, with the help of senator mr.an, we were able to start a new global initiative called the national public health institute to do just that. this program needs to be expanded, in light of this epidemic. with these big challenges ahead of us, today's hearing is absol

but so far six people have received one candidate experimental therapy, zmap. of them have died. this momentum prove that it's effective, and it doesn't prove that it's safe. we don't know what harms it may do long term or even short term, and the guiding rell to new medicine is, in the first place, to no harm. research is designed to answer questions about possible harms and possible effectiveness. but what has been done here is not research, but rather, it is scary, experimental treatment. it was done because ebola is a deadly, scary disease. but if we were to keep approaching it in this uncontrolled way, we may never know if these therapies are safe and effective, or at least not know until a great deal of harm may occur. the world, especially that part of the world now suffering most from ebola, desperately needs to know if there can be an effective treatment as well as an effective prevention in the form of a vaccine. we owe it to all possible victims, current and potential, to get this right. there have been examples in the past of untested and underteste

you've got this experimental drug zmap, which has been used. it was used on the british aid worker who was treated successfully. it was used on two american aid workers, successfully treated in atlanta. the hospital the president will visit as part of his tour. that was successful. but there's no scientific proof that it actually makes any difference. and only a small number of doses were produced. it takes a long time to ramp up enough doses to actually have an impact in terms of the scale of this, nearly 5,000 cases. >> yeah, and it doesn't look like it's ended. thanks very much indeed for that. if you want to find out more about ebola and the science that hugh's been touching on and why it's so dangerous, why it's such a challenge to contain, we've got it all for you on the website, bbc.com/ebola. do take a look if you've got a moment. >>> and do stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come on "gmt," we ask what impact the new aggressive strategy is having against islamic state, as its first american air strikes are launched. you two

in some of the people that have been treated here with the zmap.se, that particular medication is actually antibodies against the germ. so it makes sense that the people who survived this carry some immunity, but we don't know if it'll be lifelong. >> time will tell for sure. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, cycling back to the big news of the afternoon, attorney general eric holder's resignation. the official announcement less than an hour away and we'll go live to the white house for the politics behind that decision next. hi! can i help you? i'm looking for a phone plan. it has to be a great one, and i don't compromise. ok, how about 10 gigs of data to share, unlimited talk and text, and you can choose from 2 to 10 lines. wow, sounds like a great deal. so i'm getting exactly what i want, then? appears so. now, um, i'm not too sure what to do with my arms right now 'cause this is when i usually start throwing things. oh, that's terrifying at&t's best-ever pricing. 2-10 lines, 10 gigs of truly shareable data, unlimited talk and text, starting at

we actually want to do more than just zmap. there are others we have under consideration.nd others will need more funding, there's no doubt about that. >> thank you very much to the panel and mr. chairman for having this hearing. i'm proud to represent a state that's producing truly incredible research in the biomedical field, including several ongoing studies and efforts aimed at curiing ebola. the geneva foundation, which is working on a treatment drug. they are looking at culturally appropriate ways to prevent further transmissions and the university of cats lab looking at vaccines and drug developments. we're doing a lot out there. the reality is that we all have to do more. and i think it's important to mention that one of the reasons i fought so hard to roll back sequestration in the bipartisan budget act was to provide certainty for organizations like nih, which have had to deal with some steep and harmful budget cuts. i u believe it's going to be very critical that we continue to focus on rolling back this trend of disinvestment in research and development so we ca

we are joined by a professor at the scripps research institute, she helped to develop zmap ceram whichtients. give us a progress report. how much of this serum are you turning out and where is it being deployed? >> the credit for develop it goes to the united states army and public health agency of canada. my job is to direct the consortium for which this is proof of concept and to look at the molecular structure of how this works. you heard that it has run out and that is because it was early days, still doing research when the virus broke out so more is being developed now and being used for two purposes. one, we need to do the human trial to understand what the dose should be, how long it lasts, what the treatment window is and more needs to be used in a trial in africa in which we do a double blind placebo controlled effort to understand. stuart: i see what you are saying, but that is going to take a lot of time. what you are telling us, reading between the lines, we have not been able to ramp up production of this serum. >> it takes time. there are lots of ways to make antibodies,

seven people have received zmap as part of a compassionate use effort, including those first individuals we heard about who were airlifted to emory hospital in georgia. we really don't know with just seven individuals treated whether this works and individuals are not. those were the only seven doses that existed trade -- existed. for technical reasons, that's not trivial. these antibodies are developed in a tobacco leaf program. that is how the factory is put together. turndoesn't necessarily into something were you turn the crank and you have lots of it. there are two or three other therapeutics that are also potentially promising, but none of them have been in human trials. we have a big push as well. as far as nih, we did not receive additional dollars. that goes through to december 11. clearly whatever happens after hope for additional dollars. this will cost a lot of money. >> we are talking about ebola and other topics here with the national institutes of health and its director joining us for that conversation this morning. funding for 2013 is 2014 enactedion, was 30.2 billion an

>> i don't think, honestly, senator casey, we can say that, because apart from zmap and one other perhaps, they have not really been in humans we have experience where things look good in the animal and then they get into the human it doesn't work or is too toxic. i can say there are a number of candidates that look favorable enough in an animal model we're enthusiastic about moving them into face one and beyond that. so there are number of candidates that have a favorable profile in an animal model but i think it would be unsize are wise to -- unwise to say this one looks better than this one, because it's too premature to do that. >> i hope there's nothing that congress has not done that would be an impediment for you to be able to answer that question down the road and to be able to make the progress you want to make on these developments, because we have an obligation, i believe, to fund nih and fund these -- this research in a manner that leads to this, the result we hope. so i think that's a bipartisan obligation. i say it for the record. thank you, doctor. >> thank you. we apprecia

we actually want to do more than just zmap. there are others we have under consideration. we and others will need more funding, there's no doubt about that. >> thank you very much to the panel and mr. chairman for having this hearing. i'm proud to represent a state that's producing truly incredible research in the biomedical field, including several ongoing studies and efforts aimed at curing ebola. we've got world vision supporting the ministries of health. the geneva foundation, which is working on a treatment drug. washington state university's school for global animal help. they are looking at culturally appropriate ways to prevent further transmissions and the university of washington cats lab which is looking at some vaccines and drug development. we're doing a lot out there. the reality is that we all have to do more. and i think it's important to mention that one of the reasons i fought so hard to roll back sequestration in the bipartisan budget act was to provide certainty for organizations like nih and cdc which have had to deal with, as we all know,le some steep