Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. President obama is calling in a specialist to deal with ebola, but ron klain is not a medical doctor. Hes a doctor of law, and his specialty is not diseases. The white house says its management, as chief of staff to the Vice President in 2009, he helped run the economic stimulus program. The president named klain today to run the federal Ebola Response. We have a series of reports on ebola tonight, beginning with Major Garrett. At the white house. What we were looking for is not an ebola expert, but rather an implementation expert. Reporter ron klains appointment was so abrupt, he doesnt have White House Security clearance yet and no official start date, but some time next week he will become an important behindthescenes, troubleshooting voice to calm an administration criticized for an uneven response to the ebola crisis. Klain will brief the president daily and coordinate numerous bureauc
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Welcome back. Thats all for us tonight. Tomorrow is the big day the floats, the parades, and the inauguration ball. That will be all right here on cnn as president barack obama is inaugurated for a second time. I cant wait. Good evening, everyone. A big night tonight as washington gets ready for an even bigger day tomorrow, as many as 800,000 people expected. Tomorrow morning, president obama will make the journey from the white house to this end of pennsylvania avenue up here to capitol hill. Then at noon hell rest one hand on a pair of historic bibles and be sworn in. Hell address the world and be welcomed into the history books. For the first time in a long time, the First Time Since the Ronald Reagan second inauguration, it will all be a formality. Thats because it happened on the 21st but law requires the president s and Vice President s be sworn in on the 20th. So today, the 20th, in two quiet ceremonies they were. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Barack Husse
Contact. One of the reasons to have this press conference is to say you need to have more than just a presence in the same airplane. You need to have some type of transference, touching and bodily fluids. Were trying to calm everybody down. Philadelphia, city leaders also ask for calm today over any ebola threat. Mayor Michael Nutter says this is a big collaboration between a number of different agencies. Now, there are meetings and 9mq9q1e talk to about preparations. He says the city is used to handling health scares. We have experienced dealing with other Infectious Disease outbreaks such as sars and h1n1. From running practice exercises and updating Emergency Response plans to providing protective equipment and training to our First Responders, the city is, in fact, taking all the necessary steps to train for any Infectious Disease emergency. The mayor is also reminding people not to target anyone from west africa or their family members just because of where they are from. Now in
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. President obama is calling in a specialist to deal with ebola, but ron klain is not a medical doctor. Hes a doctor of law, and his specialty is not diseases. The white house says its management, as chief of staff to the Vice President in 2009, he helped run the economic stimulus program. The president named klain today to run the federal Ebola Response. We have a series of reports on ebola tonight, beginning with Major Garrett. At the white house. What we were looking for is not an ebola expert, but rather an implementation expert. Reporter ron klains appointment was so abrupt, he doesnt have White House Security clearance yet and no official start date, but some time next week he will become an important behindthescenes, troubleshooting voice to calm an administration criticized for an uneven response to the ebola crisis. Klain will brief the president daily and coordinate numerous bureauc