Washington journal continues. Host this morning here at the washington journal we are going over to the National Institute of health in the Washington Area to talk to the institute and director about what this National Institute of health does. Research facilities and as well as news that has been made about ebola and what they are doing over there to fight that and bio terror and lab security. Joining us is dr. Francis collins, the director of the nih. I want to begin with breaking news yesterday. Cnn tweeted this out saying if there are no additional interventions, the ebola death toll could rise. This according to the cdc. Dr. Collins, what is the role of nih in fighting ebola . Guest good morning. Yes, nih is deeply engaged in thest to try to turn back a frightening outbreak of ebola in west africa and yesterday, tom freeden did make this projection that if nothing happens, we could look at more than a million cases of ebola over the next few months. A frightening number. But we wa
Happily both of them are covered with the care they got at Emory University hospital grade of course there are now thousands of people in west africa who are infected. Theres no practical way to move them out at the space where they currently are so the big effort now has to be to provide care for them they are in the country and that would apply also to Health Care Providers many of whom sadly have also been infected and hundreds of them have died as a result of ebola. But the big push has to be to get things on the ground in liberia and sierra leone to make it possible to treat those who become infected and reduce the number of new infections. Host waldorf maryland job is watching as their independent caller. Good morning. Caller good morning. What are they using to treat the people that came back and they ran out and also the troops they are sending are they going to get the vaccine before they go . So the vaccine is not ready yet to be delivered to anybody. Right now its just a pha
For votes in this Battle Ground state tonight the manhunt is over. Eric frein accused of ambushing two peninsula state troopers, and killing one has been court. Courtney kealy has been following the developing story with details. A nearly 7week long mann hunt for one of fbis wanted fugitives has come to an end with eric frein in custody. Reporter the 31yearold suspect was armed but surrendered peace fle, when u. S. Marshals found him outside a hanger. The site of his arrest is 35 miles from the scene of the september 12th ambush at the Blooming Grove barracks, where he allegedly killed state trooper and injured another. He faced charges of weapons of mass destruction. Police found an ak47 ammunition and Food Supplies believed to belong to selftrained survivalists. The attack was described on the barracks. Police say eric frein had been planning attack look this. Local towns were on lockdown and involved 1,000 Law Enforcement officials. Eric frein had been spotted four times. And police
Hands of police who is now paralyzed in the hospital still. His father was on cnn earlier today, and hes said that his son is not only in pain but that hes also shackled to a hospital bed. Again, hes paralyzed and shackled to a hospital bed. President trump, he made no mention of jacob blake as he accepted the Republican Partys nomination in front of a packed crowd outside the white house last night. Instead, he continued to hammer away at his message that really has been his message since the 2016 campaign of law and order painting a dark picture of America Today including in the city where jacob blake was shot. We must never allow mob rule. We can never allow mob rule. The Republican Party condemns the rioting, looting, arson and violence we have seen in democratrun cities all, like kenosha, minneapolis, portland, chicago and new york. So were going to get back to the president s remarks in a moment but lets start with the march on washington. Many speakers, including members of the
A group of seniors combat ing loneliness through speed dating. When you see how eager people are to converse with each other you hope to want to meet up again sometime thats what were after it was really easy to engage in conversation thats not what i expected. For you it was wonderful. Well germany has renewed its call for turkey to release dennis you chel one year ago the german turkish journalist was detained without charge and has been held in a turkish jail ever since the case is just one of many that have further soured relations between the two countries turkish leaders have accused huge shell of terrorist propaganda while his supporters say that it is part of the turkish governments postcoup crackdown on free speech on wednesday germanys foreign minister once again called for a fair and speedy trial and the chancellor is likely to bring up the topic in a meeting with turkeys Prime Minister in berlin on thursday our coverage begins with this report. This maximum security prison