And good morning. You the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for Disease Control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. You last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. Are you corrective actions being taken. The review identified a fundamental flaw the agency had no written plan to ensure the safety of workers and proper handling of live biological you agents. The department of agriculture agriculturetment of the disinfectant they used was expired. This is troubling, and completely unacceptable. The center for Disease Control is supposed to be the Gold Standard of the u. S. Public health system, and it has been tarnished. We rely on cdc to protect us, but the recent anthrax event and incidents have raised serious questions about the cdc ability to
I have a question also relating to financing. I want to know what you consider the role and impact of the new Bricks Development bank will be Going Forward as it starts in south africa and other countries can then apply to be part of this new development. Thank you. Ill let them talk about the brics bank because, ive heard about it, they set it up a few months ago and what it is, im not sure. Measurability, now we talk a lot about revolution in africa that we dont know. The problem has been a lot of things have happened in mdgs, but we dont have the instruments to measure them. We have 80 of kids in school. With 90 of this or that, but how do we measure them . Sometimes were rely on numbers given by multinational and multilateral, but sometimes by ngos who have an interest in keeping numbers as they are. Thats what they get their funding from. We have to be aware that. The finance minister has had a meeting. When the president first talked about the cap, it was at a meeting with the mi
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Good evening. Scotts on assignment. Im jim axle axelrod. There is sharp new criticism tonight of the dallas hospital that has become the focus of the ebola story in this country, and it comes from a nurse who works there. Brianna aguirre says the hospital was not prepared to deal with the disease. The hospital is where first u. S. Diagnosed ebola patient died and where two nurses who treated him caught the disease. One is now being cared for in atlanta. The other was sent to suburban washington. We have team of correspondents covering the ebola story. First anna westerner in dallas. Anna . Reporter jim, we spoke late this afternoon with that nurse aguirre. She did not work on Thomas Eric Duncans case, but she did help treat her coworker, nurse nina pham, when she became sick with ebola. I saw a chaotic scene. It wasnt organized. It wasnt safe. No one really was in charge. Every time id ask, who is in charge, and i went around and around a
Captioning sponsored by cbs÷n this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Good evening. Scotts on assignment. Im jim axle axelrod. There is sharp new criticism tonight of the dal that has become the focus of the ebola story in this country and it comes from a nurse who works there. Brianna aguirre says the hospital was not prepared to deal with the disease. The hospital is where first u. S. Diagnosed ebola patient died and where two nurses who treated him caught the disease. One is now being cared for in atlanta. The other was sent to suburban washington. We have team of correspondents covering the ebola story. First anna westerner in dallas. Anna . Reporter jim, we spoke late this afternoon with that nurse aguirre. She did not work on Thomas Eric Duncans case, but she did help treat her coworker, nurse nina pham, when she became sick with ebola. I saw a chaotic scene. It wasnt organized. It wasnt safe. No one really was in charge. Every time id ask who is in charge, and i went ar
Breaking item number one tonight, late word that nurse amber vinson may have already been showing symptoms when she boarded that flight from dallas to go home to ohio on friday. If it is true, why did she, a nurse, think it was okay to fly. And on monday, on the way home, when she phoned into the cdc. Breaking item number two, a short time ago in dallas, being cheered on by colleagues at the hospital where she and nurse vinson became infected from the now both she and nurse vinson worked under conditions that were not sufficient to protect them. And they were working with inadequate cdc guidelines. In a moment you will hear from a nurse at texas Presbyterian Hospital who paints an incredibly troubling situation with the treatment. The lack of treatment and transparency from the hospital. She is taking a great risk in speaking out. She could lose her job. Listen to some of what she has to say. I feel like if youre in there with an ebola patient and your life is on the line and your fami