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
Northern virginia . I should also note in 2007 when he ran for office he opposed dulles rail. One of the first things he did when he was elected with say, write a letter and say lets stop the project. Lets do a different way something is senator kaine and congressman wolf said would have derailed the project altogether. I would note at the ribboncutting we were both that he was hanging out with a labor union guy who is trying to put the project Labor Agreement back on there so that was one of the Game Changers working together in a bipartisan way with congressman wolf in their governor to get that forward is why we were able to get the project going and i supported and will continue to work with all the eye. Robert a question for delegate comstock. Delegate comstock the latest estimates suggest that u. S. Companies are losing a staggering 250 million every year in intellectual property theft due to cyberespionage figure apart from the white houses council of advisory on science and Tec
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
Problem. How do you respond to that sentence . Ill start with mr. Horowitz. I can only speak from experience and what ive heard from other igs, which is we have faced road blocks in several of our reviews, untimely access. Where we have gotten it, it has taken a fair amount of time. I think the other igs have had their experiences. I know from conversations with fellow igs, while they havent had lawyers come forward and say we cant legally give it to you, theyve had issues with getting materials in a timely manner. That is a very significant issue for us. So when it says, almost uniformly successful, how would you characterize what youre able to access and get right now, particularly from the fbi . It has been an extraordinarily difficult issue for us for now several years to get prompt, timely access to materials. Mr. Elkins . I think theres a disconnect. And i think that statement that you just read capsulizes the disconnect. On the one hand, i think what we have seen here is that we
If youre going to preach the stuff, you need to live it. Host our last caller in this segment. Up next, Susan Crabtree joins us. She is the White House Correspondent for the Washington Examiner. Isisll talk about recruiting western fighters. We will be right back. Here are just a few of the comments we have received from our viewers. The historical educational informative and highly educational. They are invaluable to a Young Society today. I highly encourage you guys to show more. I am watching nancy pelosi. I accuse cspan of being a liberal. This is a classic example of what i am talking about. We dont need her giving a weekly briefing. Dietn sees that we get a of nancy pelosi. Most of the time she never tells the truth. Give us a break. I enjoy your programming. The examination of little bighorn and all of it is very good programming. Whatntinue to let us know you think about the programs you are watching a. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Cam