I cant comment no travel revision and a new patient can come in tonight and go to any hospital. Have you had conversations with the white house about a travel ban. Weve discussed many aspects how about a travel ban . We would certainly consider anything that would reduce risk to americans. Weve been following cdc director tom frieden and others testifying on capitol hill. In the first congressional hearing on ebola since two workers were diagnosed with the disease. Lawmakers returned to washington during a congressional recess and they took on federal response starting with what kinds of training and protection are being given to u. S. Health care workers. This is your picture in western africa and as you can see, there is head to toe covering and goggles. What kind of stockpile of this personal protective equipment do you have available to the Health Care Workers who are on the front line should. The most contentious exchanges came over the issue of air travel as lawmakers repeated th
I want to talk a little bit more about the travel restrictions. Dr. Frieden, how many commercial flights are currently going into the affected countries . I dont have the exact numbers. Does anyone on the panel know how many commercial flights are going into these areas . Mr. Wagner, you dont know . From the United States or from anywhere. From the United States into those areas. There are no direct flights, no commercial flights. Into the area . Into any into west africa . There are flights into west africa. How many . That i dont have offhand. Anybody on the panel know how many . How many coming back into the United States . There are no commercial flights coming directly into the United States from those three areas. And what about europe . Theres hundreds of flights coming from europe. Okay. So people traveling from west africa to europe to here . Thats generally how they would get here. And 94 screening. How many flights are required daily, every other day or weekly to get the sup
Two fatalities, one is the shooter, who died of a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Two patients remain at providence hospital. Two patients are currently at harborview medical center. They were transferred there from providence hospital. All of those that are in the hospital are under the age of 18. We do have some road closures, 108th street in front of Marysville Pilchuck high school is closed, to west of 51st. The mph entrance remains closed, as well. Next, im going to introduce the School Superintendent dr. Berg. Hello, im dr. Becky berg, the superintendent of the Marysville School district. First and foremost, we want to extend our thoughts and prayers to every family affected with this tragedy. And truly, when one of our children is hurting we are all hurting. It happens to all of us as a community. We are indeed heart sick. Students safety is our top priority. Were working closely with Law Enforcement. I would like to talk about some information with the coming week. Right now we wi
Missiles next door. All of this as europe gets a fresh security scare even as the hunt is stepped up for fugitive terror suspects. We begin with cnn Senior Pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Tell us, barbara, any progress were seeing in the talks between french and russian leaders . Good afternoon, brianna. Well, at the end of the meeting the two sides agreed to share intelligence about isis and other terrorist organizations, but will russia really join the coalition . It doesnt look like its going to happen any time soon. French president Francois Hollandes meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin pressed for joint action against isis. Translator because we have common victims, we must act. Reporter but earlier in the day putin giving no signal that russia is in the mood for conciliation. In the wake of the shootdown of its fighter jet by turkey. Translator until now weve heard neither clear apologies from the highest political level of turkey nor promise to punish the guilty.