Scrap its entire football season. You are joined in marriage as wife and wife. You may kiss your bride. More same sex couples getting the chance to say i do from coasttocoast. What the Supreme Court didnt do that sparked a wave of marriages nationwide. President obama is implementing increased screenings at airports, but flights to and from west africa will not be blocked. Mike is live in washington. Procedures are stepped up to try to keep the virus out of the country. President obama huddled with officials at the white house, working on a strategy. Ebola is a very serious disease and the ability of people who are infected to carry that across borders is something that we have to take extremely seriously. That includes beefing up screenings at airports both in the u. S. And west africa, where the virus has now claimed more than 3400 lives. While short on details, the president said new procedures would diminish chance for an outbreak. It is important for americans to know the facts, a
On the gulf coast, memories and reminders of the storms wrath. The conflict in syria and iraq has prompted the United Kingdom to ratchet up its Terror Threat level. The move was directly connected to the rise of the Islamic State group, the i. S. Controls much of the territory between aleppo and mosul. The british mere british citizens fighting with the Islamic State group are a threat. This is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home that we can hope to ignore. The ambition to create an extremely caliphate in the heart of iraq and syria is a threat to our own securery here in the uk. The root cause is quite clear. It is a poisonous ideology of islamist extremism that is condemned by all faiths and all faith leaders. Cameron said as has 500 britains are fighting for the Islamic State group, including one british citizen who executed james foley. 72 soldiers from the philippines were guarding a check point near the israeli border. On thursday syrian fighters stormed the ar
Too many blind spots and weak links in places in africa and elsewhere. We have large amounts of travel and animal human interface and large members of people. All three of the cdc components and all of the components are so important. The cdcrelated components are domestic and stopping ebola and preventing the next ebola through the global work. I know its a few weeks ago and they are four individuals from cdc in guinea. France is taking the lead on Ebola Response in this country because the United States needs to take a more leadershipactive role or does it have the capacity to do so . Excuse me. For the cdc specific response, we provide a comprehensive Public Health approach in each country. As of today, we have approximately 175 staff on the ground. We have the most staff in sierra leone. We also have more than 20 staff or roughly 20 in guinea. We get the french speaking staff and we have 12 as of today dealing with that cluster and trying to stop it at the source. What are about en
They are almost complete and they are very optimistic that they start next phase of the trial with both of those vaccines in west africa. This slide indicated that there was a third company, but they were not expected to engage in phase one trials until the fall of 2015 which is a substantial ways away from where we are today. There other potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline. We are supporting some of those. They are behind this timeline and we are right now focused on trying to figure out if these vaccines are and effective and if they are, get them into use to control the epidemic in west africa. Part of the emergency funding request will be 157 million for barta to continue to accelerate the development and manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics for the outbreak. My understanding from talking to the folks at new link genetics is these Clinical Trials that have been ongoing at walter reed and the national sn institute of allergy and Infectious Disease, there is good rappo
Samaritans purse is working is theres no protocol to move blood from liberia to laboratory where these tests need to be checked and results found out. I will just say im not trying to be a fear monger, but there are things we need to look at critically and should not be afraid u to ask questions. If my written testimony, theres one paper from the new england journal of medicine that reports that 95 of the cases of ebola incubate in 21 days. The inference is 5 not until 42 days. We need to know what the 5 means. While the Media Coverage is already decreasing and people feel that ebola has peaked, we do not think it has. I totally agree with dr. Frieden, i think we need to vigorously and in a sustained manner fight this disease in he said he would be right back. Thank you. Good morning, silas. Good morning, silas. Good morning, jeanne. Good morning, mother. How are you feeling . Ill tell you as it is im awake. Nick would brother pick a more convenient hour for his homecomings. Up for wha