in liberia. the unidentity doctor worked for the same north carolina-based mission group as writebol and worked in the same hospital as the other american who was infected and survived. dr. kent brantly. brantly has been living in seclusion with his family. an exclusive interview with nbc matt lauer. brantly is talking about his near death experience with the virus, according to the world health organization, has killed more than half the people infected during the outbreak. >> my experience with ebola, you know, i was looking at it than a different lens because i had taken care of so many patients and watched their progression. i don't think they ever said, kent, i think you're about to die. but i felt like i was about to die. >> start this morning with nbc gabe goout year residence. what do we know about the third american aid worker who has been diagnosed with ebola? >> hi. good morning. we know the latest american missionary to be diagnosed with ebola is in an isolation unit in lee beer ya. w

assistance to liberia. this week's announcement that france will step up its support beginning and pledges of help from countries such as china, canada and cuba. but we need a mammoth and sustainable global effort if we are to be discouraged. current predictions are that it could last for many months, even years, it could, in fact, lives of millions of people. we must not let that happen. so today we call on all countries to join this global coalition against ebola. without hesitation, without doubt, and with a determination that we will end this terrible outbreak. without an immediate and concerted global push, ebola will kill many thousands more, affecting communities for a generation. now is the time to unite in action. i call on all nations to join this clarion call without delay before this crisis becomes a catastrophe. i thank you. >> i think the representative of united kingdom for his statement and give the floor to be representative of luxembourg. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i should

or so in sierra leone, 250,000 in liberia. and there are long-term civil conflicts that took up much of the 1990s while the rest of africa was going through democratic transition, and then in a moment certainly in sierra leone and liberia it was substantially delayed until 2002 and 2003 respectively. guinea of course goes through more recent political upheavals with the death of longtime authoritarian in 2008, and so it has continued politically to struggle with some periodic upheavals in the last few years. we're talking about sort of unsettled political context with the massive rebuilding efforts. and so you've got this odd juxtaposition of rising expectations, at the same time the state capacity is still incredibly limited. 2008 article notes, for example, that war-torn country's experience as they call it development in reverse. and they estimate at the national level the loss of economic growth induced by civil war amounts to a to point to year of the conflict. -- 2.2%. they estimate it takes 14 years under the table -- t

and then in the affected regions of liberia. can you provide a context for what it is about the situation in liberia specifically that has made this crisis gets so bad so quickly? >> thank you for having me. it is an honor to be here and i applaud the efforts of everybody in this audience to put together an academic and governmental response as quickly as possible. as a cultural anthropologist i would like to start off with a story. and this is coming from a friend of liberia that was released in late july, 2014. during the visit to a family of orphans, three little boys come a health care worker was chased away by the orphans on goal. but before she was chased up a was just a victim of the uncle explained to the health care worker but their mother had contracted ebola from there and who had died. another showed signs of ebola, the family called a widely advertised hotline at the ministry of health for several days. if no one came to take her to the treatment units. they called and called. finally after a few days of burial they

that saturday the plane finally arrived in liberia... inside, kent was sealed in an isolation pod. >> they gave me a little walkie-talkie radio that i could talk to them on. and they hooked me up to monitors that they were watching outside of the pod that could give me i.v. fluid. >> reporter: 13 hours later the plane touched down in atlanta, the first time a known ebola patient had arrived in the u.s. he was headed to emory university and to a hospital that has one of the most sophisticated infectious disease control facilities in the country. kent brantly was making history, although he was too sick to know it. when that ambulance pulled up at emory and you were escorted off that ambulance, did you hear the helicopter? >> no. >> reporter: you didn't know that there was a news helicopter hovering over, taking pictures of the first american with ebola to come back to this country? >> i was focused on putting one foot in front of another. >> reporter: waiting to treat him, a team of more than 100 at emory university hospital. they'd been

assistance to liberia. france has stepped up to new ge guinea and china and cuba but we need a sustainable method if we're about to beat this scourge. it could impact the lives of millions of people we must not let that happen. so today, we call on all countries to join this global coalition against ebola. without hesitation. without doubt and with the determination that we will end this terrible outbreak. without an immediate and concerted global push, ebola will kill many house to more, affecting communities for a generation. now is the time for united action. i call on all nations to join this clarion call without delay before this crisis becomes a catastrophe. i thank you. >> i thank the representative the united kingdom for his statement. and i now give the floor to the representative of luxembourg. >> translator: i just thank the united states for having taken the initiative to organize this public debate on a subject which is of concern to all of us. i thank the secretary-general, dr. david navarro t

too, concerns about the peace keepers that are there in liberia. already the philippines says it is going to pull their peace keepers out. also there are some concerns here in new york because every year at the end of september, world leaders from around the world, including the u.s. president obama, world leaders from where every come here to new york for the u.n. general assembly, there are concerns now about the delegations coming from west africa. those presidents will be accompanied by large delegations, and i think that will have to put some sort of screening in place, the u.s. which is the host country for the u.n. here in new york when those people land at airports to make sure there is no spread of the disease among world leaders. >> james bayes, thanks so much. coming up britain tries to sway supporters of scottish independence with the promise of more powers. >>> and a date with destiny. gamers get the chance to try out the world's most expensively made video game. ♪ >> an astonishing america tonight investigative report >> why are you

is doing in liberia. they are taking the role of the foundational or principal donor partner to the sierra leone government in a way we are doing in liberia. in guinea, there is not a single lead donor there, but it is a smaller outbreak. the french are increasing their involvement. it looks like other european partners will be going in a larger way into guinea as well. the third pillar of the strategy that i mentioned focusing on building the coherent international response to complement the u.s. interagency response is focused on that very question, because we know that the u.s. government cannot and should not have to carry this entire response on its own. with u.k. setting up in a very substantial way, that is a huge piece of that. as tom mentioned, many other international partners are stepping up. we are doing very regular calls. in the past half a day i have been on ones with u.k. and other international partners. that is an important part of the effort. >> international outreach is a big part of t

is doing in liberia. of thee taking the role foundational or principal donor partner to the sierra leone government in a way we are doing in liberia. guinea, there is not a single lead donor there, but it is a smaller outbreak. the french are increasing their involvement. it looks like other european partners will be going in a larger way into guinea as well. the third pillar of the strategy that i mentioned focusing on building the coherent international response to the u.s. interagency response is focused on that very question, because we know that the u.s. government cannot and should not have to carry this entire response on its own. in a verysetting up substantial way, that is a huge piece of that. as tom mentioned, many other international partners are stepping up. we are doing very regular calls. in the past half a day i have been on ones with u.k. and other international partners. that is an important part of the effort. isinternational outreach a big part of this ever. is a part that president ob

visiting liberia, what was the airline they flew over on. and it's a good bet that it could be american airlines, because dallas is a hub and atlanta is a hub. but it could be any one of a number of other carriers as well. probably have you been in contact with people who are on the plane or planes with them. have you been in contact with people who he might have been in contact with as eric was talking about prior to and upon his arrival at the hospital? will the patient be staying here in dallas, or will they be taken to a high containment facility in nebraska or frederick, maryland, and then what about the prundence of maintaining regular flights between those countries and america. there are precautions in place to minimize the risk. but i think this will open up thisline of questioning as well. british airways stopped flights for a month. they may still be stopped, from west africa to the united kingdom. so there may be some airlines that are considering similar moratoriums on flights, though i haven't heard anything at this point. >> j

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hole low, i am ray swarez, the united states now plans to send 3,000 soldiers to liberia to help that country fight it's spreading ebola outbreak. the world bank estimates that the disease threatens some of the poorest countries on earth, with economic contraction. a disaster as they are still getting back on their field after years of war. some are being bent to fast track a response to the disease. the signs are good so far, but we are still far from ready to scale up drug treatment. are we at the point where a public health strike force a nato for disease, should be equipped and waiting for crisis just like this one? with people constantly on the move, is the ebola crisis after czars and h1n1 a cig isal that the old disease tool kit just isn't enough to meet threats. >> ebola is now an epidemic, it is spiring out of control, it is getting worths, it is spreading faster and exponentially. >> the three west african countries hit hardest, liberia, guinea, and sierra leone are struggling to contain the virus. president obama plans to send 3,000 u.s. troops to the region, to build more

for example, liberia. johnson was certainly one of the most popular presidents in africa until this epidemic and now you have seen a determinist of negativity flowing towards the current administration and we face a similar circumstance. but the current episode, if you look at it, the book will divide is much like we have in the u.s., a two-party system. where the current epicenter occurs is the opposition party stronghold in this includes those that are all being used as political fodder in office in sierra leone even though they have greatly improved the conditions in the past 10 years. and i think everyone on this panel is familiar that we have spent much of the last 10 years focusing on bioterrorism since i'm 11 and another term which we use, bioerror. this is the worst case scenario that we have thousands of individuals with the ebola virus. taken by technicians that are baseline phlebotomists and a lot of infections occur because of this and there are no good trappings for that. in addition, all of t

but liberia is a special case. we have a close historical relationship. liberia has sought a closer relationship with the u.s. military. >> china has help on the way. more offers are coming in from around the world. this is the biggest international intervention so far. it came with a request from president for even more help to tackle the crisis. california. >> for more on the military component of president obama from response to the ebola outbreak, we are lucky still to be joined by retired general carter ham, who served also as the commander of the united states africa command. busy man, general. can i ask you, how do you go about preparing for something like this? you do not think about the military being sent in to tackle a health crisis? >> i think the u.s. military is well-suited for a mission like that. they bring scale, a logistics capacity, and engineering capacity to deal with large-scale operations such as this. the young men and women predominately who will be doing this, they are well trained, they will seend this mission through to a high

, liberia. they will be associated with ebola treatment unit sos we can have rapid diagnostics. >> the department is providing a 25-bed hospital that will be staffed with medical department personnel. the department of defense will not be involved in direct patient care as a part of this operation. we are going to process 17 treatment facility ins liberia. activity is underway and that should start to show results on the ground in the next few weeks. again, the didn't will not be engaged in direct patient care. but we will provide a training based on the infection control training that msf has established in bell yum and cdc has replicated at a fema facility there. up to $1 billion to commit to this effort. they're going to invest 60 million tlarsz in strepgtenning the laboratory capacity both in the affected countries and also in the neighboring countries. the department of defense has been involved for many years in the department of developmental counter measures, back scenes as well as diagn

and in liberia one physician for 100,000 people. that's an indication, at least a few years ago, a snapshot of the scarcity of medical professionals at the highest level of doctors and such. i have been working and we included in the immigration bill, which passed the united states senate, a provision which provided in one respect if you are medically trained in africa and promised to serve in africa for a certain period of time before going anywhere else that we would honor that, respect that and not allow people to be recruited into the united states when they still have an obligation to their country. secondly, that doctors in the united states would be able to serve in these crisis situations overseas without jeopardizing their immigration status. that passed the senate. that was in the immigration bill. it was never called for consideration in the house of representatives. speak to not just the terrible infrastructure when it comes to hospitals, but the medical professionals and health workers available in these countries that

and liberia of course has not many health workers to start with. less than 200 doctors, for example, well under 200 doctors and quite a few have died. >> the epidemic has really had a major effect on the health-care system, with many hospitals abandoned. but it's the secondary affect we're also beginning to see. the economy grinding down, the health-care system halted. the fear in society, and so on and so forth. so the secondary affects of all of this are very, very serious as well. >> brown: what about the legal of-- level of distrust among people there, a fear that this is a western plot, or that it doesn't really exist. how much is that a concern? how much is that an impediment to getting things done? >> it is an impediment. i think we're all aware of the tragic deaths of colleagues in guinea just a few days ago. people who were kidnapped and ended up being killed. it is a tremendous obstacle. it's gotten better in many places. but it remains a problem, particularly in some of the rural areas, in the three border areas. and then it's sort of--

it's difficult to get in and out of liberia. we got in with the help of the united nations as a group of physicians, but there seemed to be a calm and resolve, you know, that something dramatic needs to happen, but there's also a sense i think quite correct that the staff, the stuff, the space to do the work and the systems are not yet there. >> the cdc has just put out a model, a simulation, that says if we continue on our current trajectory, i think it's by the middle of 2015 we could have maybe 1.5 million people affected. do you think that's true? >> not even by the middle of next year. by the middle of january of 2015. the caseload in liberia doubles every 15 to 20 days. the kade load in sierra leone doubles every 30 to 40 days. we're truly watching exponential growth which is why we need to have an exponential ak seg ration in our coordinated efforts to combat ebola, particularly in liberia and sierra leone and guinea. we see that that pace of ebola case growth doesn't have to be. i mean, uganda has had five ebola outbreak

this individual left liberia on the 19th of september, arrived in the u.s. on the 20th of september, had no symptoms when departing liberia, or entering this country. but four or five days later around the 24th of september, began to develop symptoms, on the 26th of september, initially sought care and sunday the 28th, of september, was admitted to a hospital in texas. and placed on isolation we received in our lab bra story today specimens from the individual. tested them and they tested positive for ebola. the state of texas also operate as laboratory that found the same results the testing for ebola is highly accurate. it is a p.c.r. test of blood, so what does this mean? the next steps are basically, threefold. first, to care for the patient. and we will be hearing from the hospital shortly, to provide the most effective care possible, as safely as possible to keep to an absolutely minimum the likelihood, the possibility that anyone would become infected and second, to maximize the chances that the patient might recover. second, we identified all people

it's difficult to get in and out of liberia. we got in with the help of the united nations as a group of physicians, but there seemed to be a calm and resolve, you know, that something dramatic needs to happen, but there's also a sense i think quite correct that the staff, the stuff, the space to do the work and the systems are not yet there. >> the cdc has just put out a model, a simulation, that says if we continue on our current trajectory, i think it's by the middle of 2015 we could have maybe 1.5 million people affected. do you think that's true? >> not even by the middle of next year. by the middle of january of 2015. the caseload in liberia doubles every 15 to 20 days. the case load in sierra leone doubles every 30 to 40 days. we're truly watching exponential growth which is why we need to have an exponential acceleration in our coordinated efforts to combat ebola, particularly in liberia and sierra leone and guinea. to build a little bit on what paul was saying, if we look at the historical and the contemporary examples,

liberia is the hardest hit, more than 1200 have died there. the death toll rising in neighbouring guinea, over 500 there, and severe in sierra leone. senegal has not recorded deaths, but three patients have been monitored. more on this with gerald tan. >> reporter: there's no escaping the ebola warnings across africa. people travelling in sierra leone are subject to medical checks. over the border in guinea security and san itary barriers are set up around calls, with a precedent issues an urgent call. >> this is a war. there won't be a civil war in guinea, i can guarantee you that. there is a war against ebola, everyone must participate in the battle. liberia has been hardest hit, it accounts for half of all cases and fatalities. >> the ebola virus caused the disruption of the normal functioning of our state. the disease was identified in the remote villages, and has reached urban centers, including the capital of nairobi. it's spreading like a wildfire, devouring everything in its path. >> reporter: the who warns that liberia may face new ib

tom frieden, who just returned from liberia. >> we have the world's first epidemic of ebola, and it's spiraling out of control. the situation is bad and it looks like it's going to get worse quickly. >> reporter: so far this outbreak has caused more than 1500 deaths. 10% of them health care workers. more than 3,000 have been infected and the world health organization estimates that number may top out at as many as 20,000. in liberia 90 doctors care for over 4 million people, and the already fragile medical system is fractured. today this ebola patient in a red shirt escaped a quarantine center, carrying a stick as he walked through a market in search of food. the fear is so great president obama today sent a message directly to the people of west africa. >> along with partners around the world the united states is working with your government to help stop this disease. >> reporter: while u.s. health officials continue to say ebola is not a threat to this country's sophisticated health system, this rapidly spreading disease requires a global response now. today the first three of 20 he

guinea, liberia, sierra leone, and nigeria t. close to 2500 people have died. want hardest-hit country is liberia, 2400 cases there, and 1300 people have died. and this map shows where the largest concentration of confirmed cases are. the who warned today that if not enough is done, the number of cases could double every three weeks. >> the ebola has hit liberia the hardest. and people there are trying to go about their gins, but the spread of the virus is making is dangerous. >> reporter: in liberia, the capital of monrovia, are the preferred way to travel for a lot of people. but in the grip of a widespread illness, many are choosing to stay indoors, and others are forced to go out to work because of the risk. >> it's very bad because of the ebola. we're not moving like before. >> liberiaians have been advised to stay at home to avoid infection, and the schools are closed. prior to the ebola outbreak, liberia's government spent just over $100 perry per year on healthcare, and it's not adequate. despite the aid and the resources that have come in. >> [ unintel

that's just in liberia and sierra leone. i'm joined by our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen who is in liberia, in the capital monrovia. dr. daniel lucy, back from sierra leone, adjunct professor from georgetown university medical center. elizabeth, you're in monrovia where efforts have been made very recently over the last few days from the united states to fight ebola. what are you seeing on the ground in this battle? >> reporter: john, what i'm seeing on the ground is not much has changed in the past week since the president said he would be sending these troops and sending this money. there's a lot of hope that things will change soon. the liberians i've talked to are so excited, so grateful for what the player cans are doing, they want to see results. mostly what they want to see, more beds. this -- liberia alone needs 1500 more beds. these treatment center should have been built a long time ago. they're saying let's build the isolation centers so we can get people with ebola off the commune streets and into

they are in liberia. doctors and nurses who selfle selflessly and tierlly -- tirelessly cared and worked for not only patients in the ebola isolation units, working with nancy and nancy working with them, but also in caring for nancy and also for dr. brantley when he was there. we're a team. we're a family. we're colleagues, and it's the way that the body of christ works together and loves each other and reaches out to the world and so that was on display on an hourly basis and continues even today in liberia and other places. and i would also like to highlight or mention there continues to be a need for concern on the part of people for west africa. there continues to be a need for action to help in this crisis. it's still growing. it's still threatening, and there needs to be people who will be able to care for those who are dying. there will be those who need to express concern and provide for containing the spread of this disease, and it is a global threat, and this is what -- response -- this respons

this is coming from a friends of liberia dispatch released in late july 2014. during the visit to a family of ebola orphans, three little boys come a health care worker tracking cases is just way by the orphans uncle. before she was chased away, the uncle explained to the health care worker their mother had contract of ebola from aunt who had died. their mother then showed signs of the bola, the family called the widely advertised ebola hotline at the ministry for health for several days, but no one took her to retrieve a unit. they called and called. she died in the called and called and then finally after two days of peril they can to take her away. soon after the father became symptomatic. the family called the hotline for days but no one came. the father died in a few days later. all team came and took away the body. the uncle noted the early signs of the bola much of the children and such of the health care worker, your minister for health cures more for the dead and the living. this isn't true, right? it happens to be a fact that in the early days of the

. >>> there has been chilling words from liberia's defence minister. he says ebola is devouring everything in its path in his country, liberia is struggling to contain the violence which has claimed 2,296 lives. 1,200 have died in liberia. the death toll is rising in guinea. the situation is such as severe in sierra leone where a doctor contracted the virus. senegal has not recorded deaths, but three patients are being upon tored. in nigeria, eight have died. >> reporter: there's no escaping the ebola warnings across west africa. people travelling through freetown international airport in sierra leone are subject to medical checks. over the border in guinea, where the outbreaks were struck, security barriers are being set up around schools, with the president issuing an urgent call. >> this is a war. there won't be a civil war in guinea, that i can guarantee you. today it is a war against ebola. everyone must participate in this battle. >> it's liberia that has been hardest hit. it, alone, accounts for more than half of all cases and fatalities. >> the

tom frieden, who just returned from liberia. >> we have the world's first epidemic of ebola, and it's spiraling out of control. the situation is bad and it looks like it's going to get worse quickly. >> reporter: 10 far this outbreak has killed 1500 people. more than 3,000 have been infected and the world health organization estimates that number may top out at as many as 20,000. in liberia 90 doctors care for over 4 million people, and the already fragile medical center is in trouble. this man carried through a market in search of food. health workers had to chase him down and force him back into an ambulance to return him to the hospital. the fear is so great, president obama today sent a message directly to the people of west africa. >> along with our partners around the world, the united states is working with your government to help stop this disease. >> reporter: u.s. health officials continue to say ebola is not a threat to this country's sophisticated health system, this rapidly spreading disease requires a global response now. today the first three of 20 healthy american volu

in liberia and other countries as well. and the nature that i am now beginning to understand of how if we don't get it controlled soon, it is going to spiral out of control and it will have a devastating effects that mr. charles is talking about. the whole economy will start grinding to a halt. doctor brantley, i am sure that i can speak for many around the world when i say thank you. thank you for being such an example for all of us on how to serve others. we regularly thank our soldiers were marching into harms way. let me say that this is no different. many runs the risk of helping those standing in the path of this terrible disease. so i want to include you and others like you in this. you definitely do us proud. very proud. and i just, i have so many questions, but i know that we are running out of time. but i guess, doctor, what i would probably ask you first is, with all the no and you have been there with your family and you know what the situation is like, what is the most important thing that we can do now and wha

troops arrived in liberia. they will focus on health workers training and set up treatment facilities to keep the virus from spreading more than it has. $6 million worth of medical supplies donated by humanitarian groups and gloves, masks and antibiotics and pain medication has been given as well. 6 million people were ordered to stay indoors while a house-to-house search for victims. that ended in the discovery of dozens of new patients and 100 bodies. in liberia, the ebola outbreak has crippled that country's health care system. medical care is so hard that people are dying from diarrhea and high blood pressure. >> you cannot overstate the crisis that is in public health. >>> the fight to stop ebola is under funded. the world health organization estimates a need for $1 billion to fight it in west africa. only $388 million has been donated or pledged. the president obama hopes to donate another $500 million this year. if that goes through, there will be a shortage of money. shortage of aid workers and research

but in liberia, which is the hardest hit, with more than 1,200 deaths so far. the situation is just as severe in sierra leone where another doctor has contracted the virus. senegal hasn't recorded any deaths but three patients are being monitored. >> reporter: there is simply no escaping the ebola warnings across west africa. people traveling through freetown international airport in sierra leone are subject to medical checks. over the border in guinea where the outbreak first struck, security barriers are being set up around schools. >> translator: this is a war. there won't be a civil war in guinea. that i can guarantee you. but there is a war against ebola. everyone must participate in this battle. >> reporter: but it's liberia that has been hardest hit. it alone accounts for more than half of all cases and fatalities. >> the ebola virus has caused a disruption of the normal functioning of our state. the disease has now reached urban centers including the capitol. it is now spreading like wildfire, devouring everything in its path. >> reporter: the w.h.o. is

. >> reporter: liberia is the worst hit by the outbreak. and with nowhere to go, more and more potential patients have no choice but to go home, carrying the deadly virus with them. >>> the death toll from floods in pakistan and india is nearing 400 as armies in both countries struggle to help victims. the military is bringing much-needed drinking water and emergency supplies to the stranded. and more than a thousand people have been rescued. in neighboring pakistan at least 12 people died after a roof collapsed on a mosque. some 700 villages in the province are flooded. this is the update from pakistan. >> reporter: the situation in the southern part of the peninsula is now precarious. desperate attempts have been made to save the road links which will help the rescue teams. the military using helicopters and boats right now. but as we can see the situation is worsening in the south as the water moves through the area. while the water is receding in those parts of the country, the water is now posing a serious threat to other places, parti

commanders on the ground in liberia, personnel, equipment, and supplies. we're working with senegal to set up an air bridge to get workers and medical supplies into west africa faster, and setting up a field hospital, which will be staff bid personnel from the u.s. health services, and a training facility where we're getting ready to train thousands of health workers from around the world. sending supplies and information kits to hundreds of thousands of families to protect themselves, together with our partners, we'll quickly build new treatment units across liberia, guinea and sierra leone, where thousands will be able to receive care. meanwhile, in just the past week, more countries and organizations have stepped up their efforts, and so have the united nations. the secretary general has a new u.n.nition for ebola response last week, will bring all of the u.n.'s resources to bear in fighting the epidemic, and we thank you for your leadership. so this is all progress, and it is encouraging. but i want us to be clear, we're not moving fast enough. we're n

it jumped and it jumped from ginny into liberia and sierra leone, and into the capitol. >> and just from isolated areas to places are people are more transient. >> right. and the population movement was very important, because this in part of west africa, you have a lot of migration across border, entry fa filial and the like. is and so you add in exceptionally weak infrastructure very poor government patterns, a lot of disinstruction, an epidemic driven underground, and the fact that it leapt from one country to three, and then into coastal populated areas. that has created this perfect storm. earlier in the april timeframe, there was a thought that the west had passed. and there was a relaxation, but, in fact, it had been driven underground, and when it came back with a fury, i think almost everybody was caught off guard, this was a great wakeup call for public health officials. the other thing, the world health organization, the staff and budget have been gutted. it was utterly incapable of responding and leaning on this. msf has been the great hero in this story. it has 2,000 people

last month they declared a state of national emergency in liberia. they put the army and police on the streets in curfew at night. and that's why they were briefed by the minister of defense. >> we are meeting at a time when liberia is facing the serious threat to national existence. the deadly ebola virus has caused a terrible state. it is now spreading like wildfire [ inaudible ] everything in its path. the already weak infrastructure of the country has been overwhelmed. >> it makes you wonder what more the u.n. security council could do. >> i don't think there's much the security council as a body can do, because most of their effort is dealing with threats to international piece and security. but clearly humanitarian workers are deeply involved in trying to stop the spread of this epidemic. there are concerning factors regarding security. we know, for example, the peace keepers there, there are 15,000 military personnel in liberia, already the philippines said it is pulling out its peace keepers because of the risk. and at the end of september fo

in liberia and other countries as well. and the nature that i am now beginning to understand of how if we don't get it controlled soon, it is going to spiral out of control and it will have a devastating effects that mr. charles is talking about. the whole economy will start grinding to a halt. doctor brantley, i am sure that i can speak for many around the world when i say thank you. thank you for being such an example for all of us on how to serve others. we regularly thank our soldiers were marching into harms way. let me say that this is no different. many runs the risk of helping those standing in the path of this terrible disease. so i want to include you and others like you in this. you definitely do us proud. very proud. and i just, i have so many questions, but i know that we are running out of time. but i guess, doctor, what i would probably ask you first is, with all the no and you have been there with your family and you know what the situation is like, what is the most important thing that we can do now and wha

steve mentioned that president obama had pledged to liberia 17 100-bed hospitals. i want to come back to whether or not that's the best strategy, what proportion of the overall strategy those hospitals need to play, it's up in the air. i'll come back to it. we've been pushing at save the children very hard to have an intermediate layer of care developed closer to the community with a little bit less strict isolation procedures so we know that what we're proposing in terms of facilities will be leaky and will be part of the problem of transmission. but we hope that they will be a bigger part of the solution of getting people out of their homes, off the streets and in places where transmission can be restricted to an absolute minimum. but president sirleaf so right on -- is so right on. she stole my thunder, i'm sorry to say. this won't work unless the communities are convinced to take ownership of this situation and of the problem. and for all the reasons that the president mentioned, this is proving to be extremely difficult to do. but there are many people who are

in july liberia suspended all football to control the spread of ebola. in early august, sierra leone's players were refused entry to play for their match. choosing to forfeit the game and with it any chance of making the finals. this team refused to let their under 20 team to travel to nigeria. and fans at the match against congo underwent screening. matches have now been banned and those countries have struggled to find neutral venues. some players have even complained of being treated like par ryias. i spoke to the football secretary general, and asked if it wouldn't be more responsible and fair to suspend the competition in the situation eased. >> well, it's simply not possible from our perspective. the african cup is starting next january, and this concerns one or two countries out of all of the countries that will participate. so to an exceptional situation we have to find exceptional measures, and this is what we have implemented. >> reporter: you must be working on a plan b, like you say. are there alternative arrangements for the cup in 2016, or

i think, yes, liberia's civil war ended ten years ago. but think about the situation in the united states ten years after our own civil war. there was still a lot of tension. and in liberia there's still a lot of tension. and there's a sense of distrust. distrust of government, distrust of foreigners. so yes, people will be resistant to health. but i think because of the devastation of this outbreak, even those people who have been resistant to help are starting to see the need for some assistance, and i think that's why it's important we don't just march in with the military and take over, but we partner with the ngos, like doctors without borders and samaritan's purse and the administrative health of liberia so that it's a partnership and we're using people like the survivors from ebola. there are being more and more survivors every day in places where they can get good, supportive care. and those survivors are the ones who can go out in what you refer to as a culturely appropriate way, educate and support their communities and distribu

>> we know that the person left liberia on september 19th. it sounds like he arrived on september 20th. a long flight through there. but was not sick, at least according to our sources, was not sick during travel. at some point later, a few days later this person became sick and was concerned that he or she had ebola and why they had that concern if they had contact, we're not sure about that but concerned enough that they went to the hospital and we know the person is in isolation in a dallas hospital somewhere. blood was drawn. that blood was sent over to the centers for disease control in atlanta and now there's been confirmation that, in fact, they detected ebola in the blood. this is the first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states. but you ask good questions, wolf. how many days was the person possibly sick before they went to the hospital, who else may the person have come into contact with? i want to make clear something that we've talked about quite a bit, ebola is not contagious. it doesn't spread easily. it only spreads w

flanagan in the country giving their skills courageously on behalf of the people of liberia. and the emperor are here on the status deferred departure that expires september 30th that i would hope he would do so because to send people back would be inappropriate to. but i will last dr. dr. fauci day you have this sense how fast this could be deployed? have you reached a point to that you say it is said huge risk but it has to be done? >> excellent question. the standard way to implement a vaccine goes through a series of steps is it safe for does it or doesn't have the hypersensitivity reactions and then to find out the right dose of the right to give you a response. then you go to larger numbers of people that is called phase to. then depending on the disease they you don't want to deploy a vaccine but it doesn't '01 that is more terrible or one that makes it worse. you have to consider that the with the emergent situation with the desire to get people protected, there are ways to get the answers. not as definitively but to employ a the people who'd be that backseat as part