the director of the institute's allergy and infectious disease center. and arthur kaplan, the director of the public health department in atlanta. doctor, let me start with you, i heard so many people say when the news was revealed that these two people had been cured. in just three weeks, here's you've had this medical break through. what are your thoughts today? >> i don't think you can call this a medical break through because i don't think we could definitively say at all that it was the medication that they got that made them better. because remember, about 50% of people survive ebola anyway, even under conditions that are not as good as the excellent medical conditions at emery, so although we're very, very pleased that they're doing well, and that they're going to be discharged, i think it is really beyond the scientific evidence to say that we have a medical break through here, i just wouldn't categorize it as that. i would say that we have a couple of people who have gotten excellent medical care, the therapy, the specific therapy, that may have had a role in it but we don't know definitivity. >> we're just getting more details about nancy writeboll, out of the hospital, she was released on august 19. earlier much of the reporting was that both would be released today. now we're learning that nancy writeboll was in fact released tuesday august 19 and dr. brantly will be cleared today and this is the news conference we're waiting to hear him for the very first time. but dr. kaplan, let me bring you in on this, just the timeline here, saturday august 2, that's when nancy writeboll, older by some years, 59 years old was admitted into the hospital. they were kept on a similar unit, but on opposite ends of this isolated area, as we await more information to dr. fouch chi's point, we do and should pause before we give credit to this unknown serum. >> well the drug certainly was tested and i think appropriately so. but we just don't know did they survive because they had pretty good support tiff medical care, not that we know any way to treat it but if you get fluids and are kind of brought through some of the rough parts of the disease, some people do make it. we can't really say they made it due to, if you will the success of this experimental drug. at the same time, we're going to be watching them. >> we're watching right now, i'm sorry to interrupt you, dr. bruce riber, who treated both of these patients. going to the emery staff, there were critics who said these two americans should not be allowed back into the country, emery felt confident it had the facility, the know how and the staff to properly care for both of them. so dr. fouchi, we're prepared to hear the start here, but let me get your thoughts on this emery staff. >> well, emery is a very, very fine medical institution and hospital. it's one of the best in the country. so certainly, they got extraordinarily good medical care there, and i am certain that that had a lot to do with the fact that they're doing well. so i mean everybody knows emery has a national reputation as being an extraordinarily competent and excellent medical scene ter. >> and mr. kaplan, let me bring you back in, your thoughts on the larger conversation as we again await to hear more investigation about the care, their recovery and the larger world concern about the serum if it is available. >> sadly, i don't think we're going to see much in the way of experimental drug. i did hear the ethics of worry about buying these people back. emery is very good at that, the notion that somehow these people were going to infect others just by being here, that never made any sense. this is a disease that you get from fluid, bodily fluid contact, not sneezing, not breathing on someone, so i think those arguments didn't make sense and i think we're going to get into the issue of worries about discharging them and i think we have got to be calm about that too. >> absolutely. and doctor, to the point where you do still see the images out of liberia and there's an entire neighborhood that's been quarantined, there's an issue about people not having access to food. there was a stirring image of a little girl who was believed to have been exposed to ebola and she was sitting in the middle of a street, no one in her community would even assist here for fear of being exposed. you know, there is still, while we will applaud emery and we're certainly happy for these two americans, we have now 1,300 deaths approximately connected to this latest outbreak. >> it's a very difficult situation in the west african countries, and that's the reason why the global communities need to continue to help by helping with the infrastructure so they can give proper care, proper isolation and importantly, the way to turn this epidemic off is good infection control including content tracing so that people who carry this infection will not go out into the community. so everyone is aware that the situation in several of those countries is really dire with more infrastructure and we need to help get that better. >> there were also concerns that the world health organization concerned that the entire staff had been tired and overworked and maybe didn't follow procedures to the letter as well. because they are working so hard, tirelessly in an effort to help. but what is the survival rate for those exposed to ebola? >> well not exposed, those who are affected, from about 40% to 50% to up to 90%. the current case fatality rate is between 50% and 60%. there's about 1,300 deaths in 2,300, 2400 cases, so that's a bit more than 50%. somewhere between 50% and 60%. >> regarding the larger conversations of ethics in medicine, people travel more than ever before, the access to travel, tickets to europe are cheaper than ever in the past. what do you have after an outbreak of this nature. and what will we see in the future? >> we still don't want to panic people, it's still a tough disease to transmit. we may get people in liberia today, tomorrow in down. kansas city, we do want to watch travel restriction, quarantine, we also want to keep an eye on who might have symptoms. but beyond ebola, other infectious diseases. >> we need to improve the world's infrastructure, the response here was slow. we got to set up a system that can get to outbreaks faster, it's that simple. >> again, we are watching live pictures, we're told that dr. brantly is walking down the hall, he'll be introduced by dr. bruce rigger, the head of the unit that treated both of these americans at emery university. it was interesting to watch on august 2 as dr. kent brantly was able to walk into the facility. that was remarkable news that we heard about his condition before arriving into the united states. but here you see the doctors and more of the emery staff walking into this news conference, and there he is, in the blue button down shirt. smiling there. dr. kent brantly. the image that we had seen of him on his arrival, he was in heavy protective gear, almostlialmost li like a space suit for lack of a better description. he walked into that hospital and now he is by all looks and appearances, smiling and happy. as you can imagine, let's, i believe listen in here. >> i am pleased to introduce this morning, dr. bruce ribner of emery's infectious disease unit at the emery university hospital. also pleased to introduce dr. kent brantly, a doctor who was serving with samaritan's purse in liberia. our show is as follows, dr. ribner will make a brief statement, dr. brantly will make a statement, we will take no questions. after that, dr. ribner will take questions. we have a moderated call in lightning as well. dr. ribner. >> good morning, thank you for coming here today, i'm dr. bruce ribner, head of infectious diseases here at emery hospital. i lead the team of doctors, researchers, laboratory technology gists, chaplins and many others who have cared for dr. brantly and mrs. writeboll, two patients that were treated at emery university hospital for ebola virus disease. today i'm pleased to announce that dr. brandtly is being discharge from the hospital. after a rig course course of treatment, dr. brantly has recovered from the ebola virus infection, that he can return to his family, his community and to his life without public health concerns. the second patient, mrs. writeboll but discharged this past tuesday august 19. the medical staff here at emery is confident that the discharge from the hospital of both of these patients poses no public health threat. the hospital is respecting mrs. writeboll's which weres for prooifz si at that time. so we will not be making any further comments about her clinical course. we are tremendously pleased with dr. brantly and mrs. writeboll's recovery in our hospital. all of us who have worked with them have been impressed by their courage and determination. their hope and faith have been an inspiration to all of us. in addition both the patient and their families have strengthening us as well as the patients. limited knowledge of the ebola virus, especially in our country, has created understandable anxiety and fear for some persons. we understand that there are a lot of questions. and concerns regarding ebola virus and the infection that it causes. however we cannot let our fears dictate our actions. we must all care. as grateful as we are today, our work is far from over. we are very mindful of those who are afraid of this threat. it was the right decision to bring these patients back to emery for treatment. what we learned in caring for them will help advance the world's understanding of how to treat ebola virus infections and help hopefully to improve survival in parts of the world where patients with this infection are treated. at emery, the team of professionals here today, has trained for years to treat and contain the most dangerous infectious diseases in the world. we are grateful for the successful outcome in this case. but we are never going to be taking success for granted. three other critically important partners who have helped us throughout this episode deserve recognition today. our neighbors, the centers for disease control, the food and drug administration and the state epidemiologists of georgia and north carolina. i will be taking your questions, but before doing so, dr. brantly has requested to make a brief statement. and dr. brantly will not be taking any questions following his statements so i ask that you respect his wishes and save your questions for me and for the other members of our health care team. thank you. >> i am thrilled to be reunited with my family. as a medical missionary, i never imagined myself to be in this position. when my family moved to liberia last october to begin a two-year term with samaritan's purse, ebola was not on the rairtd. we moved to liberia because god called on us to serve to liberia. we began preparing for the worst. we did not receive our first ebola patient until june but when she arrived, we were ready. during the course of june and july, the number of ebola patients increased steadily, and our amazing crew took care of each patient with great care and compassion. we also took every precaution to protect ourselves from this dreaded disease, by following msf and who guidelines for safety. after taking amber and our children to the airport to return to the states on july 20, i poured myself into my work even more than before. transferring our patients to our new bigger isolation unit. training and orienting new staff and working with our human resources officer to fill our staffing needs, three days later, on wednesday july 23, i woke up feeling under the weather. and then my life took an unexpected turn, as i was diagnosed with ebola. as i lay in my bed getting sicker and weaker each day, i prayed that god would help me be faithful even in my illness. i prayed that in my life or in any death, that he would be gloried, i did not know then but have learned since, that there were thousands, maybe even millions of people throughout the world praying for me throughout that peek, and even still today. i have heard story after story about how ebola has impacted people around the world. both among my friends and family and people around the world. i cannot thank you enough for your support. but what i can tell you is that i serve a faithful god -- the use of an experimental drug, the expertise of the health care team of emery university, god saved my life. a direct answer to thousands and thousands and prayers. i am incredibly thankful to all of those who were involved in any care, from the first day of my illness, all the way up to today, the day of my rereese from lease in emery. but i would be remiss if i did not say thank you to a few. i want to thank samaritan's purse, who has taken care of me and my family. thank you to samaritan's purse, you cared for me, edand ministed to me during the most difficult experience of my life and did so with the love and care of jesus christ. thank you to the emery university isolation staff. you treated me with the utmost respect and tenderness and compassion. for the last two weeks, so many of you have ministered to me not only physically, but also spiritu spiritually, which has been an important part of my recovery. i will not forget you. and all that you have done for me. and thank you to my family, my friends, my church family, and all who lifted me up in prayer, asking for my healing and recovery. please, do not stop praying for the people of liberia and west africa and for a quick end to this ebola epidemic. my dear friend nancy writeboll upon her release from to the hospital wanted me to thank everyone on her behave. all she could say was to god be the glory. nancy and david are now spending some much needed time together. thank you for your support throughout this whole or deal. my family and i will now be going away for a period of time to recover and decompress physically and emotional. after i have recovered a little bit more and recovered some of my strength, we will look forward to sharing for of our story. but now we need to spend some time together after more than a month apart. we appreciate the opportunity to spend some time in private. thank you for granting us that. again, before we slich out, i want to express my deep and sincere gratitude to samaritan's purse, sim, emery and all of the people involved in my treatment and care. above all, i am forever thankful to god for sparing my life. and i'm glad for any attention my sickness has attracted to the plight of west africa in the midst of this epidemic, please, continue to pray for liberia and the people of west africa and encourage those in positions of leadership and influence. to do everything possible to bring this ebola outbreak to an end. thank you. >> you see the staff hugging dr. brantly, you're saying to see this man hug, have physical contact, compared to the vision we saw half oil when he arrived on august 2 is amazing. it's amazing to see him out of that moon suit to see him standing and have people hug him and have intimate contact. he is not a danger, he has no virus left in his body that's detect m. he's cured. so those of you who might be thinking why are we litting him back out. the people who know ebola very well, are not afraid to touch him. >> fear cannot dictate our actions and for his part, dr. brantly saying in a sense that he is happy that this imness that he suffered with bringing exposure and brings a conversation to what's happening in west africa. request can the leadership and those in influence do? >> he's an extraordinary individual who has seen what he has done and has heard his statement just now. what he's calling for is the kind of support that the world can give the global community to end this terrible epidemic in west africa which he has paid a dear price in terms of his health. he's calling on people to be fair, be open minded without prejudice. to help the people that are struggling there to control the epidemic, and he said it very clearly and very elegantly. doctor brantly saying that today is a miraculous day, he said when she left emery hospital, nancy writeboll said to god be the glory. dr. bruce ribner will answer a few questions, and we're curious to see what he says about the treatment, this experimental drug that they were given. he was expected to answer a few yeses. so let's listen in quickly. >> at this time dr. ribner will take questions from the news media. we have a moderated call in line, so after the questions here, we're going to answer the call in questions, all right? >> can you talk about how you determined it's safe to release dr. brantly and ms. writeboll. >> how did we determine it was safe to release both paints. >> without revealing privileged confidential patient information, the decision to discharge any patient with ebola virus disease is basically done on a case-by-case basis, the cdc will actually be having a press release they're going to be putting out i understand simultaneously with this. but the standard world health organization and cdc guidelines that they're going to use in the third world, is absense of virus in the blood. and the patient symptom matically improved for a period of two to three days. >> can you explain what life is like after ebola? >> what is life like after ebola? well i won't get into the psychic aspects. in terms of the medical aspects, we do not anticipate -- there may be some recovery time, because this is a fairly devastating disease, but we would anticipate that in general most patients, if they have not had any substantial organ damage will make a complete recovery. >> dr. ribner, could you explain from your perspective when you realized that they were getting healthy and might be released? >> the turning point? >> how you felt. >> how i felt, well that's not releasing patient information. as i told this audience three weeks ago now, we were very hopeful with the level of support we can deliver at our facility, that we would have a substantially better outcome than our colleagues practicing with lesser developed health care systems. once it became clear to us that both our parabtients were going recover, it was a pretty gratifying feeling amongst all of us. >> how would you explain the successful treatment that was used here and its ability to help those now in west africa? >> the question is how will our success in treating our patient go s go forward? >> the major thing that we will help them with is they suffer a substantially lack of infrastructure and we did learn a number of things in terms of caring for these patients, in terms of electrolite replacement, which frankly our colleagues in aftrica don't hav the capability to detect. we are in the process of developing several guide lines which will be disseminated to the practitioners in africa, saying even if you can't measure this, this is something we found and there are things you can do, even if you can't measure it to try and improve the outcomes in your patients. >> are you personally surprised at how quick you could release these two patients? and are they now immune from getting the disease in the future? >> question number one, are we surprised at the rapid recovery they made? i think the honest answer is we didn't know. there has been very limited experience with treating patients with ebola virus disease in developed countries, so we frankly didn't know what to expect. we were very gratified as i said kbvr, but conversely we always suspected that we had a good chance of helping these patients survive. in temperatures of immunity, all indications, ebola virus is a new infection on this continue innocent, and our -- there is strong help deem logic evidence that once a person has survived an ebola virus infection, they are immune to that strain, recognizing that there are five different strains of ebola virus, but all of the evidence from africa is that once an individual has recovered, they are immune to that strain. >> two questions, first is how much of a roll do you personally agree this experimental drug played in the ultimate recovery of these patients. and has anyone figured out what was the point of exposure for these patients when and how they were exposed to the virus? >> so question number one is what role did any of the -- okay, how i feel. firstly, i can't comment on any treatment they received from emery, but i know from reading the media, that these two individuals did receive an experimental preparation in liberia before coming to us and experimental means exactly that. they are the very individuals to ever receiver this agent and frankly we do not know whether it helped them, whether it made no difference, or even if it theoretically delayed their recovery. >> the second question was do you have any information about the point of expoesz your? >> the question is, help deem logically where do we think the patient became exposed, i think the honest answer is we do not know. dr. brantly and ms. writeboll have told you that they're not aware of any exposures. >> this is again dr. ribner at emery university where dr. kent brantly and nancy writeboll were treated in the last few weeks. nancy writeboll were released on tuesday and you all watched as dr. kent brantly walked out of the hospital calling this a miraculous day. i wanted to get to the point that you made of this serum, and the hopes -- they cannot say one way or the other if this experimental drug had any impact, if it delayed the recoverry, the jury, the verdict, whatever you want to call it is very much out on that. >> it's impossible to determine what effect this experimental drug had on the course, what it made no difference, made them better or theoretically could have delayed their recovery. the one thing that we're all happy about is that the excellent medical care that they received at emery certainly had a lot to do with their recovery. >> and this staff is assisting and developing guidelines that will be distributed to medical professionals in west africa. specifically in the treatment of the thousands of others who are right now under care and are hoping for some kind of care, they have had the ability to monitor the patients with the very, very monitoring, laboratory monitoring and other types of monitoring as the patients recover. that knowledge will be very important for people who don't have the advantage of that high-tech type of monitoring to give them the benefit of the experiment, albie it only with two patients. but nen the less that information could be help testimony to the people in africa who are now taking care of very ill patients with ebola. >> thank you so much. we greatly appreciate your insight and your expertise. and up next, comments from attorney general eric holder after his visit to ferguson, 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>> that's correct, i mean officials here have been very tight lipped about whether or not they have any possibility leads as to the identity of this individual who appeared in the video who they according to local media reports had an establish accent. there are also anecdotal -- and held captive with james foley that in fact some of those that were holding those foreign hostages did include british nationals or at least those believed to be british nationals according to this hostage. there have been no clear indications as to who may have been involved in that video, but more importantly, you could certainly expect in the coming days or weeks that the intelligence communities both in the west and u.s. will aggressively try to identify who this individual might have been and really they have in the course of the last several months identified about 500 to 700 foreign nationals who have joined the fight inside syria and they're certainly going to be looking on that list. >> and regarding air strikes by the united states, we know that in the video, members of isis have said that the killing of james foley. >> this was having very significant because for the first time in nearly the 3 1/2-year civil war taking place inside sira, it actually put boots on the ground inside that conflict. this could have happened before, we certainly don't know about it. but the fact that the united states acknowledged that it is willing to send in troops and has sent in troops is a point of departure for the obama administration, more importantly can be seen as annen important development. they also want more u.s. military involvement inside syria, similar to what the u.s. has claimed to have done for securing the release of james foley that unfortunately was unsuccessful. now to a developing story back here at home, same-sex couples planning to get married, a virginia court has has had their 34r5plans delayed. the commonwealth blocking a ruling last month by a federal appeals court legalizing those marriages, the move is an attempt to avoid putting couples in a legal limbo should the court ultimately uphold virginia's ban on same-sex marriages, the question is will the supreme court take on this highly divisive issue. richard, people like to read the tea leaves and have all types of predictions here, but what is some of the insight you're getting from this regardless of the decision from the high court. >> there really are no tea leaves regarding this decision, this decision is whether -- how they were going to decide this about six months ago, seven months ago when they ruled the same way in utah. they just don't want marijuaria to go forward while this whole appeals process is going on. it already has left about 3,000 or more couples in limbo where they have been married during the legal periods. >> today's discussion is a temporary delay to the inevitable conclusion to virginians who love each other should have the opportunity to mary regardless of their sexual orientation, creating a environment that is open and welcoming to all where world class innovatoinnovators -- thi your point, an attempt to avoid this legal limbo for these couples, these families who want to move forward with their lives in this way. >> right, evening the plaintiffs in this case, many of them didn't mind the delay, some of them didn't intend on getting married immediately, because they knew the case was being appealed. they want to get married to each other when they know that marriage is legal in virginia and perhaps at that same time legal nationwide. so this whole process moving toward the court is proceeding, there's now appeals from utah, oklahoma and virginia already pending at the court, they could make a decision to take one or more of those cases as early as late september. >> richard, thank you so much more your time, we greatly appreciate it. coming up, more than 13,000 fans cheered on little league pitcher mone davis last night and the crowd could be even bigger tonight. >> to be doing so well at such a young age. >> girl power. >> what she said. up next, preview of tonight's game and the frenzy surrounding this 13-year-old superstar. one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate hold the whip, two espressos. make one a double. she's full and focused. 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'til labor day you doto reward yourself.t get a queen size serta mattress and box spring set for just $397. not to labor the point, but this sale ends soon. ♪ mattress discounters another huge crowd is expected tonight at the little league world series where mo'ne davis' team will again take the field as buzz surrounding her incredible story hits a fever pitch. davis and her teammates from the philadelphia taney dragons fell to the squad from nevada 8-1 last night. but davis with her 70-mile-an-hour fastball still struck out six batters. it drew a crowd of 34,000 fans. that's 10,000 more than attended the phillies game yesterday. but phillies aren't having a good season. many in the crowd were curious about the pitching phenom who has just become the first little leaguer to ever grace the cover of "sports illustrated." marisa payne, writer for "the washington post" sports blog with the early lead. thanks for joining us. espn just saying right now pretty much record numbers of people watch mo'ne and her team yesterday. so transitions from people wanting to see her in person to those who flip an the set to espn and watch her play. >> she's a tremendous young lady, i think. the poise that she shows, both on and off the field has been captivating to, you know, sports journalists like myself as well as the general audience, both children, you know, and adults. >> absolutely. to see those little girls we showed earlier with their little signs and they are saying girl power. reminds me of when girls got caught up in soccer after team usa just captured our hearts. but it will be interesting tonight because mo' ne and her team face off against the jackie robinson west squad from the south side of chicago. these 24 rocare two rocky story where everyone is rooting for them and now they meet on the field. >> they've both gotten their fair share of celebrity tweets with the cubs and white sox both tweeting at the jackie robinson west crew and, obviously, mo'ne has gotten a whole bunch of celebrities tweeting her. she mentioned that as well when asked what's different. celebrities tweeting her. so, yeah, it should be a really good matchup. >> it should be -- you talk about some of the celebrities tweeting. kevin durant says this youngster striking everyone out and she's a girl. i love it. from the -- an anaheim outfielder mike trout said mo'ne davis is straight dominating, fun to watch. major league baseball has had its hits and knocks on the head. a young girl stealing the stage. the south side team looking to make history by becoming the first all-black team to win the title. we've talked a lot about the change of major league baseball, the face of the players, the inclusion that once was there that people feel doesn't exist when you look at the urban community especially. this, you know, some of this energy and some of this goodwill, perhaps, could trickle down to major league baseball at some point. >> yeah. we all hope sort of -- you know, things become more diverse and everyone becomes more inclusive, including not just race but gender as well. and that's sort of what's really remarkable about mo'ne. she's proving her gend are doesn't matter. she's pitching just as well as the boys. >> absolutely she is. and we can't let go without talking about this nevada team, though. whoever goes on to face them, these kids, they are tremendous as well. >> yeah, they are actually the odds-on favorite. being from vegas helps them with that, but if you are betting, i guess they are the ones who bet on. they are favored to win the whole thing. >> it is good to watch. i've never really gotten into the little league world series. i got caught up in it over the weekend and, like everyone else, i have the fever. it's great to see those kids out there. we'll see what happens. i wish they didn't score and everyone could walk away a winner. but that's the sappy part of me right now. so we'll see what happens. they all have worked so hard. thank you, marisa. we greatly appreciate it. >> you're welcome. that does it for this edition of "news nation." i'm tamron hall. up next, chris matthews will host "andrea mitchell reports." perfect timing. we're offering our best-ever pricing on mobile plans for business. run the numbers on that. well, unlimited talk and text, and ten gigs of data for the five of you would be... one-seventy-five a month. good calculating kyle. good job kyle. you just made partner. our best-ever pricing on mobile share value plans for business. now with a $100 bill credit for every business line you add. caman: thanks, captain obvious. wouldn't stay here tonight. captain obvious: i'd get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels.com. and you might want to get that pipe fixed. 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