Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The New Ebola Plan, Eisenhower Memorial Fight, and a Really Big Squid
President Obama plans to announce a new response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa today. We discuss whether the plan goes far enough. And we talk with an emergency medical worker who’s in Liberia fighting the outbreak.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenPresident Obama plans to announce a new large-scale response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa today. We discuss the details and talk to a healthcare worker fighting the epidemic in Liberia. We also hear about the knock-down, drag-out fight that continues in the nation’s capital over Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower memorial plans for the National Mall. Plus, we take a trip down the country’s most endangered river, the San Joaquin, from the Sierra Nevadas to the San Francisco Bay. And we learn about a 770-pound colossal squid that scientists just dissected in New Zealand.
Banner Image: Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General for Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration (World Health Organization) during the press conference on the Ebola virus. 16 September 2014. Credit: UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
