Welcome to the NewsHour. In Central Africa, officials and health workers are still struggling to get control of a spreading and deadly Ebola outbreak.

There are now more than 900 suspected cases and over 220 suspected deaths.

Authorities fear the real numbers may be significantly higher.

And today, a Kenyan court temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to open a quarantine

facility there to treat Americans exposed to or infected with the virus.

William Brangham has more.

That's right, Jeff.

Kenyan officials had initially approved this plan for a Nibola facility requested by the Trump

administration, but local backlash spurred a

legal challenge to halt that project. Under today's ruling, that facility must remain closed

until the court hears the case next week. For more on all of this, we are joined again by Dr. Craig

Spencer. He's an associate professor of public health and emergency medicine at Brown University.

He worked in West Africa during the 2014 outbreak and survived Ebola himself.

Craig Spencer, so good to have you back on the program.

About this Kenyan quarantine facility, you wrote that this was an abdication of American responsibility to possibly send Americans there.

How so?

Well, over the last year, we've seen an abdication of U.S. leadership on the global stage, and I think we're seeing the ramifications of that

in terms of the response in Eastern Congo right now. But this detail, not only that it's a quarantine

facility, but that the U.S. also planned on treating American citizens who are infected with Ebola

in this facility that they're creating in Kenya right now is an application

because I'm worried that there's no way that in the span of a few weeks or even a few months,

they're going to be able to stand up the quality of care that is necessary to really

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