ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)
STORY: U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday (October 29) emphasized his support for traveling Ebola medics at a White House event with doctors and nurses who are volunteering in West Africa.
"We need to call them what they are, which is American heroes. They deserve our gratitude and they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect," Obama said after being introduced by Dr. Kent Brantly who was treated for Ebola in Atlanta after contracting virus in West Africa.
Obama had said the day before that Ebola policies adopted by states in the U.S. should not discourage Americans willing to fight West Africa's outbreak.
Some states have imposed their own safeguards, including mandatory quarantines for doctors and nurses returning from the three countries at the center of the epidemic, saying federal policies do not adequately protect the public.
"When I hear people talking about American leadership and then (they) are promo
