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
That congress agreed to do this and now we didnt leave any residual forces in iraq and its become a mess and now theyre going to say we can go back and do the war because well, it was under the other agreement. But that went away when they pulled everybody out so why wont they do at least a vote on syria and say, yes or no, you should go in or you shouldnt go in . I mean, because we get these residual forces from the other countrieses which is great and i do believe they do need to be we do need to protect our country and stop this big massacres but i find it disingenuous that they talk out of both sides of their mouth and they wont let congress say what their real thoughts are. Host okay. We have to leave it there. This conversation will continue on the washington journal but today were going to switch gears. Were going to go to the National Institute of health coming here. Talking to director Francis Collins and later joined by Patricia Grady of the National Institute for Nursing Res
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Control the deadly virus. Also on the program, aaron is looking at funding behind Islamic State. Absolutely. I. S. Have managed to finance an army of some 30,000 soldiers. Were going to take a look at how private donations, extortion money, Bank Robberies and millions in oil funds everyday have made these people the wealthiest Insurgent Group of all time. Its midday here in london, 7 00 a. M. Washington, 7 00 p. M. Hong kong where prodemocracy demonstrators warn theyll occupy government buildings unless hong kongs leader resigns. Demonstrations have spread to new parts of the city as the territory celebrates chinas national day. Some protestors were heard booing as the Chinese National anthem was played. They want beijing to allow full democracy in hong kong by withdrawing plans to fetch candidates for the next leadership election. They continue to protest the main sites in the district, bay and mong kok. Its a Public Holiday to mark 65 years since Chinas Communist Party came to pass.
That is not a very pretty chart. And the bayer case, several came out of hibernation today. Today we found another one. Shes going to make her case on why she is so confident stocks will go lower. But she is bullish on one sector. All of that is straight ahead. Tyler continues on vacation. Simon is my partner again, hi. As you say, theres a lot for the markets to react to. We have an upwards revision of gdp. A drop in initial claims this morning. We have the bases covered with International Correspondent. Reporting also on the new opportunities, lets kick off with you. Heres whats going on with the marketplace. This last pullback was just 4 from the s p. Investors fought at the dow bounced right off of its longterm trend line. You see over the last two years, every single time the dow has touched that green line, the longterm trend, the stocks have gone up afterwards. And this last time, august 7th, no exception, but some stocks have done marketly better than others. The dow is up 4 .