Now. Crews are checking weak spots. There could be more closures to come. Bryan slayeder is live at a huge hole in i40 in Johns Ton County and bryan, are you saying they can get this thing ready by tomorrow . Thats the plan. When we showed it just about a half hour ago here on fox 50, its a huge hole. Its about 10 feet deep and maybe 10 feet across theyre out there working on it now. You can see the excavator and backhoe trying to get it all prepared. Yesterday they were working all day on it. Again, they hope to have it reopened by friday. This is the westbound side of i 40 coming out of newton grove and a lot of people have had to take a detour to get around all of this. Theres so many other roads that kim smith sent yesterday from fayettville. They havent seen anything like this since floyd. They are waiting if for the waters to reseed to find what to do. Were waiting for the waters to reseed. We dont have a good idea of what the idea is there. A lot of rural areas with long term cl
Again, we are live down in dallas, texas, while Congress Continues its break for the elections, members of the House Homeland Security committee are convening this field hearing today on the u. S. Response to ebola. This is taking place in the dallasfort worth area. Committee now in a little bit of a break. We expect it to resume in just a moment. Jones magazine said this. House legislatures have legislators have approved the 7 million toward the fight to contain ebola. The figure is still below the the department of defense and the budget battle is not over. Back to the hearing, live. Laky. St, dr. David is leads one of the states largest agencies with a staff of 11,500. He oversees programs such as andase presence bioterrorism preparedness, many others. We have brett jerar, of the texas a m Health Science center. Just there a couple days ago. Center is a premiere assembly of colleges devoted to educating Health Professionals and investigators through teaching and research. On. The li
Endeavor. The n. I. H. Is responsible for early concept development, something we did relatively alone, because of the of interest on the Industrial Partners of making interventions. We partnered with someone, who you will hear from shortly, with dr. Robinson, and then we partnered with industry to ultimately, in collaboration with the fda, get the approval products. Next slide. Youve heard a lot about therapeutic interventions. Momentt like to spend a talking to you about a few of them. First, its important to realize experimental. All none of them have proven to be effective. If so when you so when you giving a drug that has a positive effect, we do not know at this point, a, is it a effect, or b, is it causing harm . And thats the reason why we carefully at these the same time we rapidly can make them available to the people who need them. The first one on the list is zmap. To dr. Brantley and nancy. It looks very good in animal model. Still needs to be proven in the human. There is
Response. Stop the epidemic at the source. I cannot imagine there is a partisan issue related to ebola. The president has been two steps behind and asleep at the wheel. It shows us how incompetent the man really is. Its not a democrat response or a republican response. I shook hands with, hugged and kissed, not the doctors, but a couple of the nurses. This is a human response. Good to have you with us tonight, pokes. Thanks for watching. We start with breaking news. President obama has just signed an executive order on ebola. The order authorizes National Guard troops to travel to liberia to set up 17 treatment centers. 565 troops are already in that country. A total of 4,000 troops are expected to travel to africa to fight ebola. Just a few moments ago, in a few moments coming up, the president will meet with congressional leaders at the white house and theyre expected to discuss how quickly new ebola s. W. A. T. Teams can be dispatched to deal with the cases. The executive order come
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