Washington journal continues. Host this morning here at the washington journal we are going over to the National Institute of health in the Washington Area to talk to the institute and director about what this National Institute of health does. Research facilities and as well as news that has been made about ebola and what they are doing over there to fight that and bio terror and lab security. Joining us is dr. Francis collins, the director of the nih. I want to begin with breaking news yesterday. Cnn tweeted this out saying if there are no additional interventions, the ebola death toll could rise. This according to the cdc. Dr. Collins, what is the role of nih in fighting ebola . Guest good morning. Yes, nih is deeply engaged in thest to try to turn back a frightening outbreak of ebola in west africa and yesterday, tom freeden did make this projection that if nothing happens, we could look at more than a million cases of ebola over the next few months. A frightening number. But we wa
Happily both of them are covered with the care they got at Emory University hospital grade of course there are now thousands of people in west africa who are infected. Theres no practical way to move them out at the space where they currently are so the big effort now has to be to provide care for them they are in the country and that would apply also to Health Care Providers many of whom sadly have also been infected and hundreds of them have died as a result of ebola. But the big push has to be to get things on the ground in liberia and sierra leone to make it possible to treat those who become infected and reduce the number of new infections. Host waldorf maryland job is watching as their independent caller. Good morning. Caller good morning. What are they using to treat the people that came back and they ran out and also the troops they are sending are they going to get the vaccine before they go . So the vaccine is not ready yet to be delivered to anybody. Right now its just a pha
That congress agreed to do this and now we didnt leave any residual forces in iraq and its become a mess and now theyre going to say we can go back and do the war because well, it was under the other agreement. But that went away when they pulled everybody out so why wont they do at least a vote on syria and say, yes or no, you should go in or you shouldnt go in . I mean, because we get these residual forces from the other countrieses which is great and i do believe they do need to be we do need to protect our country and stop this big massacres but i find it disingenuous that they talk out of both sides of their mouth and they wont let congress say what their real thoughts are. Host okay. We have to leave it there. This conversation will continue on the washington journal but today were going to switch gears. Were going to go to the National Institute of health coming here. Talking to director Francis Collins and later joined by Patricia Grady of the National Institute for Nursing Res
Of the day and real hi come back, tomorrow. A a lot of ups and downs in our weather but we will track it all with you. Check out our current temperature, lauren is right it is so nice not to need the winter coat this morning. Maybe a light rain jacket the because at some point today you will probably get rained on. 60 degrees. 14 miles an hour wind. You cane flag blowing in the gusty breeze. Sunrise is official at 6 42 this morning. We will start off with cloud cover looking at satellite and radar picture and some areas of rain. The the morning rain is not going to be real heavy but were watching this area of thunderstorms and you can see in Northern Arkansas severe thunderstorm watches and warnings are in effect. That will make it way here by later in the day. Heavy downpours possible later on but for now, it is just widely scattered showers and most of them are north of philadelphia at the moment but have that umbrella with you today because at the some point as we said we will get r
All right. So guess what, there is more wind, but not as bad today it is saturday it will be really windy, just letting you know. Now for today, were going with a six because of the rain out the there right now and thunderstorms in the the forecast for later on. So bus stop buddy is ready, phillies hat, they are back in town, they will play their on deck game tonight with the pie rates. We will have that forecast coming up but you can imagine there is rain in it, that is why buddy has umbrella and rain coat on today. 60 degrees with the 4 miles an hour wind, sunrise at 6 42. Heres a look the at that rain moving through. Up in castle county delaware across the river from philadelphia into gloucester and camden and then salem counties in new jersey, but look at what is coming, even worse weather thunderstorms heavy downpours later on. We will time that out for you coming up in our seven day forecast, so today will be a high of about 68 degrees, and breezy, and then rainy, and then someti