Here, bureaucracy and human error had alarming consequences. The hospital that let an infected man go home is blaming software that failed to alert doctors even though he told an er nurse he had been in liberia. Red tape stopped them from getting the permits to clean the apartment where he had been staying and a family of Young Children has been quarantined for days. I am joined by tom skinner, Senior Press Officer at the centers for Disease Control in atlanta. Thanks very much. Me how cdc and dallas are coordinating. There have been a lot of missteps in dallas in particular. What does cdc think about the way the local officials handled it. We have a team on the ground pretty much working 247 to do everything that we can to stop this in its tracks and thats just what we are doing. We are trying to identify the close contacts of the patient and intrude close to 100 people trying to determine the close contacts. We identified probably a dozen or so that are likely to have to be followed
counties. in montgomery county, this is particularly important this year because it s also the last for school system superintendent jerry weese. more from waller johnson high school in bethesda. reporter: more than 140,000 students heading back to montgomery county system schools this year, they re looking forward to having some newly renovated buildings and allegsoo brand-new elementary schools. but what plenty of folks are thinking about in this county is they ll have a new superintendent in a year as well. a new start for students in montgomery county, and after years of renovations, it s happening in a completely redone building for kids at walter johnson high school. they ve got one of the best schools in the county right now, so we re very happy about that. reporter: but new building or no, some are happy to be here, period. high school. oh, yeah, high school. reporter: all this excitement comes as the man who pushed for these and other changes in montgomer