Obama holds Saturday night meeting on Ebola

President Obama held a rare Saturday night meeting with top advisers at the White House, convening national security staffers and public health officials to discuss the threat of Ebola. The White House provided only a brief summary of the 75-minute meeting, saying White House advisers updated him on the "contact tracing" process used to identify and monitor people who may have come into contact with the Dallas health care workers who contracted Ebola. Ron Klain, the newly announced White House Ebola "czar," was spotted entering the White House at about 5:30 p.m., but did not attend the meeting because he hasn't officially started, White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said. He is still completing paperwork and hopes to start in the next week, she said. Klain -- whose official title will be "Ebola response coordinator" -- did meet separately Saturday with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough "to start to get up to speed," Palmieri said. Those attending the Saturday night meeting included Vice President Joe Biden, the secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden. The meeting, which wasn't announced in advance, followed an afternoon of golf for the president at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. It's at least the third such meeting in four days with top administration officials devoted entirely to Ebola. Obama departs Sunday for two days of political events, campaigning for Democratic candidates for governor in Maryland and Illinois Sunday. He will headline a Democratic National Committee event in Chicago Monday before returning to Washington.