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greg: thanks, joe. that s the smartest thing you have said in eight years. [applause] [applause] greg: all right, the u.s. intel report released friday directly accuse russian president vladimir putin of ordering a campaign to influence the election. i wish they told us this thursday we could have skipped listening to this. first we cannot say they did not change in the vote tallies or anything of that sort. we have no way of gauging the impact that certainly the intelligence community can t gauge the impact it had on choices the electorate made. greg: what is with this guy over here? it s like he just saw one of my nudes on snapchat. [laughter] this is serious. and it s on tv. friday president-elect trump met with experts to discuss the findings. what does russia really to? for one, they had to john podesta s e-mail. how did they do it? first they found one of his passwords. what was one of his passwords? password. [laughter] this may be the greatest achievement in espionag ....
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 ....
ebola cases in guinea, liberia and sierra leone could go up to 10,000 a week. they say by december there could be 10,000 cases a week. there were just under 9,000 cases total in west africa. so that is an ominous warning, they say the mortality rate is now 70%, up from 50% when it started. outside of west africa, the u.n. worker treated in germany now died. the problem here, in the united states, good news from the university of kansas where a medic who worked off the ship off the coast of africa has been in quarantine. he has been tested to see if he has ebola. there is more breaking news from the head of the cdc who we re going to talk to shortly putting together a response team to be able to handle any new confirmed cases at any hospital in the country. he said a team like that could have prevented the nurse from contracting the disease. i spoke to one source who will bring us the latest. first, we have more from our cnn correspondent, elizabeth cohen. she was upgr ....
As a first in medical history, researchers have identified a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease. This means that the disease could be inherited more often than previously thought. ....