Members of a high-level U.S. delegation speak to reporters at a press conference Oct. 1 about their fact-finding tour of Liberia to see firsthand the impact of the Ebola epidemic. The delegation includes Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict Michael D. Lumpkin and Director of the Center for Global Health, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Kenyon. The press conference was held at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. USAID is the lead U.S. Government organization for Operation United Assistance. U.S. Africa Command is supporting the effort by providing command and control, logistics, training and engineering assets to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations.