Victim is or suspected victim is isolated and then making that phone call is really huge. In the long term before we started, before this virus hit, we were doing these water and sanitation activities with the government. And we were successful in working with over 350 communities on proper sanitation and proper hygiene. And that effort was incredibly successful. In all 350 communities which are some of the hardest hit counties, none of them have been effected by ebola. It really goes to show that if you make that long term investment, if you prepare the communities before it hits they have a huge it has a huge impact and prevents that from happening. I only wish we were able to hit all the communities in liberia before we were able before the virus hit. I wanted to ask if you would expand a little more. I understand it was something you said 70 of the transmissions were due to contact with people who had passed away. How long is a body contagious . My colleague was asking about the ro
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] cspan, aup on hearing on the International Response to the Ebola Outbreak africa. Then alison mcfar lane, the head of the Nuclear Regulatory talks about the challenges facing the agency. And later, a House Foreign Committee examines the influx of unaccompanied minors at the southern u. S. Border. The next on washington journal, senator ron johnson of wisconsin issues before session wind down this and whats ahead with the new congress in january. Nsa a look at the surveillance bill that would end the abill toy to collect americans phone records. Later our spotlight features hirsh, on his recent piece examining president security team. L washington journal is live 7 00 eastern on cspan. And you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Members of the british house of commons returned for question time today, when Prime Minister cameron will answer questions by members in parliament. At 7 00 a. M. Ive eastern on cspan 2. He
1976. In previous outbreaks, ebola has been confined to rural areas in which there was little contact outside the villages of which it appeared. Unfortunately, this outbreak now an epidemic spread from village to an International Center for regional trade, and spread into urban areas in guinea, sierra leone and liberia, that are crowded with limited medical services, and limited Resident Trust much government. The unprecedented west african ebola epidemic has not only killed more than 5,000 people, with more than 14,000 others known to be affected. This situation has skewed the planning for how to deal with the outbreak. In our two previous hearings on the ebola epidemic, an emergency hearing we held on august 7th, and then a followup on september 17th, we heard about the worsening rates of infection and challenges in responding to this forum from Government Agencies such as usaid and cdc and samaritans person. Todays hearing is intended to take testimony from nongovernmental organizat
We do know 47 people were arrested, some of them for threatening. That was what was said last night. In terms of the description of why this happened, but certainly no shots fired. Thats huge. Captain ron johnson notes a change in dynamic saying this may be a turning point, but this turning point did not come easily. Police did have to respond forcefully several times. Most notably after a small group of whats being called agitators lost control. You need to get back. Youre risking peoples lives. Like so many nights before, tuesday in ferguson quickly overcome by chaos. Disperse immediately. The agitators, the criminals embedded themselves and hid behind media and began throwing bottles. They threw urine on officers, and thats what caused officers to take action and begin to make arrests. Reporter today began with high hopes that this night would be different. Protect and cover every peace officer that you would protect and cover every protestr. Reporter clergy and Community Leaders pr
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Regional Competition Authority Advocacy and Sensitization Meeting on Competition and Consumer Protection Law in Liberia