there and now the plan in afghanistan is the same one that we ve put in place in iraq. will it lead to the same kind of trouble there and that s one crisis ahead. that s the difference though because in afghanistan we are talking about a residual force. that s right. we ve got to work out a status of forces agreement with the afghanis which we couldn t with the iraqis and that s one of the differences but you re right. this isn t a switch you can turn off and on. senator king, thank you very much for joining us about this. we look forward to continuing the discussion with you because we don t know what this move is going to mean except that for sure americans are back on the ground in iraq. thank you, senator. thank you, chris. kate, over to you. thanks so much and on that note, an important note for all of you, i ll be sitting down with president obama later today to ask him about the situation in iraq, among many other important issues. you ll hear some of that conversa
so they went back and cdc folks are trying to figure out how this happened. i m told by a source that one of the things that they think know happened is there s supposed to be a 48-hour waiting period. you re supposed to kill this stuff and then wait 48 hours to make sure you really killed this. they didn t wait the 48 hours. kate? which you can only assume there will absolutely be a major review on why something as simple as wait 48 hours that wasn t followed this time around. absolutely. most importantly how are the staffers, the employees? 75 of them potentially exposed. are they starting treatment already? yes, they are, being offered antibiotics. many are taking the antibiotics. now i m told, and this is really important, that none of them are showing signs of anthrax exposure. that s really important. none of them are sick at this point and the cdc says when you look at how they wrecks posed at the anthrax the chance that anything bad is going to happen to them, the chanc
hours before sending it on to the other labs. well, it turns out they didn t wait that 48 hours so we know that that s one thing that seems to have gone wrong. kate? elizabeth, you mentioned earlier that those who were potentially exposed. they have already started to receive treatment, but are you getting any indication that there is still a threat because anthrax exposure, we all know, can be fatal? right, absolutely. it can be very, very dangerous. we all remember that from when this was such a big story years ago. the cdc says there s a very low risk based on how these people were exposed and how much time has passed, that there is a very low risk, but that risk is still there and that s why they have offered people the anthrax vaccine. that s why they have offered these scientists 60 days of cipro, the anti-bibiotic so man years ago. they thought they were handling dead anthrax, turned out they were handling live anthrax.
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eye on the perimeter of baghdad where isis is less than 40 miles from baghdad. that means they don t trust iraqi intelligence at this point. they want to get their own intelligence. also gathering this intelligence about where isis is in northern iraq in case, in case president obama wants the targeting of information to conduct ire stains, even keeping an eye on the syrian border, but i think the big unanswered question remains. these will be small teams of american troops out in the field at iraqi headquarters and around the country. how will they be kept safe. if they come under attack, if they become vulnerable what s the plan for u.s. troops to be protected at this point. it looks like bringing in troops from outside of iraq as quickly as possible. kate, chris? again, barbara, the words of mission creep start to sound familiar in this situation. thank you, barbara, for keeping us ahead on the reporting throughout this situation. let s discuss now with someone who opposed the ira