U.S. Announces Ebola Offensive

The United States has pledged to send 3,000 troops to West Africa, using its military muscle to battle the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola. "In West Africa, Ebola is an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before. It's spiraling out of control," President Barack Obama said at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday (September 16).