Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, see. Thank you especially secretary hagel for joining us. Lets start off with one bit of this. There is some ebola order today, tell us what the significance is. What i signed this morning was a memorandum to the chairman of joint chiefs of staff in response to the memorandum of recommendation i received from the chairman and the chiefs yesterday to go forward with a policy of essentially 21 day incubation for our men and women who would be returning from west africa. That policy was put in place by the chief of staff of the army a couple of days ago for general williams, and 10 of his associates who are now back at their base in italy. And what i said in response this morning was, give me within 15 days the operational specifics of how that would work. And then i believe we should review the policy within 45 days. The fact is the military will have more americans in liberia than any other department. Thats number one. Number two, our people, our younge
Up. Theres my sister. You have the whole family. Were excited to have you. Its a big news day indeed. The cdc may tell us more about a nurse in texas that caught ebola while treating Thomas Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with the deadly virus in the u. S. He died last week after flying here from liberia. Both texas and cdc Officials Say the nurse wore full protective gear while treating him. So far the infection is blamed to a breach of protocol. Here is the latest from texas. We can tell you that the nurse is stable as we speak. Officials are not releasing her name. The only thing that we really know about her is that she was a nurse here at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in dallas and she had been taking care of Thomas Duncan. Of course, the Liberian National got sick and died last week from the deadly virus. C. D. C. Also says that this Health Care Worker had been wearing full protective gear while treating patient zero so its not clear how she could have become infected, a
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