The New York Times has a front page story on president obamas quote seething reaction as what he see as a bungled response. Boiled over when the president learned on wednesday along with the rest of us, that a second nurse had been infected and traveled on a plane. According to the paper, this is what led obama to canceling his meeting. He discovered medical officials providing information that later turned out to be wrong and guidance to local health teams that was not adequate. The president according to the times said its not tight. According to their report this morning. This led to the appointment friday of democratic operative ron klain as the administrations Ebola Response coordinator. Many are calling him the ebola czar. They are questioning why the president appointed a political operative and not someone with medical credentials. The white house said the crisis required an implementation expert. Meanwhile, there are growing calls for a travel ban from west africa where the cr
Burst out and they move on to other parts of your body to go cause more havoc. And if that virus is one of about 30 different known viruses that call something called viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome, then what that virus wants to do more than anything once its gotten into your body and replicated itself sufficiently that its ready to get to work hurting your body, what that virus most wants to do, if its one of the viruses that causes viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome, what it wants to do is get into your veins, into your blood system, the whole Vascular Network in your body that moves blood around. The kind of virus that causes hemorrhagic fever syndrome. It replicates in the cells, bursts out of the cells, then what it does next is what it exists on earth to do. It generates little tiny proteins, little tiny protein that attaches itself to the inside of your blood vessels. And once that protein is in there, it basically starts destroying them. Imagine that when youre healthy your blo
Story of levittown. We go back to florida as rick scott hits the fan. We have been told that Governor Scott will not be participating in this debate. The incumbent governor of florida is a noshow thanks to a fan under his podium. Frank will join me tonight as we examine exactly what happened. Is there anything wrong with being comfortable. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Just moments ago, president obama pushed back on mounting calls to impose a travel ban from the west african countries where the outbreak began. I dont have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban, if that is the thing that is going to keep the American People safe. If we institute a travel ban instead of the protocols that weve put in place now, history shows that there is a likelihood of increase d avoidance. People do not readily disclose their information. They may engage in something they called broken traffic. Essentially breaking up their trip so that they can
The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy celebrated its third graduating class on Saturday, May 25, 2024, as part of Cornell University graduation ceremonies.
George Ayers taught Mainers about the wonders of the celestial world for decades at UMaine and in his monthly column 'What's Up.' He died at home in Gorham on May 10 at age 96.