on"america tonight" - deadly virus diagnosed in america. time lines and patients. also ahead - . >> we won't let someone get close to the president or his family, ever. one of the obama daughters

was home. deep in the amazon is the real treasures. [ inaudible ] audio difficulties ] welcome to "america tonight". the ebola crisis has reached texas. here is what we know [ audio difficulties ] next day arriving in the united states showing no symptoms. four days later health officials

say the patient showed signs of illness. the patient was admitted to texas health presbyterian hospital and placed in isolation. the patient is not american, but came to the u.s. anyone the patient may have come in contact with is being tracked. the director has concerns about the virus and its spread. >> the bottom line here, there's no doubt that we will control this case of ebola so that it does not spread widely in the country. it is certainly possible that some contact with this individual, or other individual, known. there is no doubt in mind that

we will stop it here. >> infectious disease doctor joins us. you have helped us so many times understand ebola and the spread. it appears the worst case scenario is happening now, with the discovery in dallas. [ inaudible ] hospitals have been getting prepared with these patients. with patient that may have ebola, and identified as having ebola. we out to be able to take care of them. >> the timeline in the case of this patient, clearly they had travelled by aircraft to the united states. we don't know what the timeline is between the admittance to the hospital. there are a lot of other people that could be exposed here. >> actually, you get exposed when you become sick. during that so-called incubation

period before, the patient throws that risk to others. it's important that patient as soon as they are ill come to a hospital and let the workers know so the hospital can take the appropriate precautions. >> presumably you may not realise what you have got is that serious. all kinds of people may be exposed in the family, at the community at large. it has to be followed up on here, right. >> absolutely. that's why the hospital is working closely with the public health authorities, who find out who the contacts are, and put under surveillance, and give them good advice. >> and what other advice do you have for us.

do you expect to see more cases like this, more travel? >> i think as this epidemic goes on. we should not be surprised that here and there we'll have someone who is from west africa, having been exposed, knowingly or not, and develop illness the united states. and the illness, the ebola could be malaria. other illnesses that are common in west africa. we are ready to make the diagnosis. >> we appreciate your insight. infectious disease expert. also we'll ask you to stand by. there's another issue of interest to american parents that we'd like to talk to you about in a few minutes. that. close watch on the ebola story.

secret service under fire days after iraq war veterans scaled the fence and made his way to tackled. >> it's clear that our secure plan was not properly executed. i take fuel responsibility -- full responsibility and will again. >> reporter: head of the secret service over a security breach allowing a knife-wielding house. >> the house is supposed to be one of america's most secure buildings, and one of the world's most secure facilities. how on earth did it happen? they wanted answers. >> tremendous restraint is not what we are looking for. overwhelming. >> reporter: cell phone video

shows omar gonzalez with a knife in his pocket sprint to the white house, and all the way in to the east room, used for press conferences and award stopped. >> the intruder got to the house. that is unacceptable. commonsense tells us that there were a series of security failures, not an instance. >> reporter: once instead he pushed past the guard at the white house door, where an alarm box near the entrance was apparently on mute. gonzalez ran past the staircase leading to the first family's living quarters, all the way to the press room before being taken down by an agent. >> have you heard of these guys. this is - it's not costly. that can be installed.

it's a simple device. >> reporter: secret service is reviewing the incident, and director pearson says the agency necessary. >> don't let somebody get close to the president. don't let them get in the white house ever. if they have to take action that back. >> i hate to imagine what could have happened had he been knife. >> president obama appointed pearson, a secret service veteran in march 2013. she is the first female director in the 148 year history. >> the president articulated his concern about the incident that occurred 10 days ago, at the same time the president retains service. >> pearson told the committee people jumped the white house fence, this latest incident is another black mark for the

agency charged being in charge of the president. in 2000, a gunman fired at the white house. it took days to reveal the building was hit. >> i'm asking where a housekeeper who doesn't spend 14 weeks in training. who doesn't have 18 weeks of training thereafter found glass, and your agents did not. officers found 800 round of ammunition, a machete. he is due in court on wednesday. security has been increased. a second security barrier has been erected around the white house. former secret service deputy assistant director john tomly son joins us here. i'm struck by the back and forth going on in the hearing and the implication that the budget was limited, but congress felt she had a big budget.

this? >> i can't speak to the budget. 2013... >> sequestration. >> with the sequestration, impacted a range of government agencies, the secret service among them. in that same hearing one of the congress men laid out the end of the training, for the employees - uniform and agent division. it had a significant impact on high-end training. you know, it - just to the casual observer, you would see that there was significant cutback. >> do you think the director delivered that message well, made the case well for the limitation, what is happening with the service right now? >> she was doing her best with what the administration and the congress approved for the secret service, just as they have done

with every federal agency, secret service among them. >> the notion of people make mistakes, that didn't seem to be a particularly convincing defense for the congressman. >> no, i agree. secret service has zero tolerance, zero tolerance for events that take place against any of the protectees, the president's first family among them. >> has there been an expansion of the mandate, maybe the service is active more than it used to be, more protectees. maybe there's more demands with the same limitations on budget? >> that's a fair question. i would suggest to you that a lot of what is done with personnel is done now with technology. while clearly [ inaudible ] men and women that raise the right hand and carry the badge,

there are other ways to win to to speak, to prevail. at the same time the amount of travel that recent presidents and protectees have done really impound the ability of the up. >> and in locations. >> no question. >> appreciate you are inside the former secret service deputy assistant director john tomly son, thanks. ahead after the break. protesters flood the streets. the standoff between beijing and hong kongers, and why it may be impossible for the leaders to stand down. ahead, young patients and a frightening paralysis. while a virus that started out as an ordinary cold has started raising the alert.

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[ ♪ music ] neither stormy weather nor strong warnings turned back tens of thousands protesting in hong kong in the so-called umbrella revolution.

the umbrellas taken up to protect them from tear gas. occupy central is in the business district for a sixth day as activists demand beijing protect their democratic rights. no side shows signs of backing down. udio difficulties ] beijing has blocked news coverage and images. an australia security force has spies on apple devices which it believes is targetting protesters in hong kong. craig liaison has been talking to demonstrators in hong kong. >> transportation has been closed and come to a halt, and embassies issued travel warnings as tens of thousands of people occupied hong kong's urban area, like the financial hub in the center of hong kong island.

this is dubbed the umbrella matter not because of the storm, but the use of umbrellas by protesters to protect themselves from pepper spray police. as you see, the protesters are here to stay. >> i need to make the people know what happened in hong kong right now. because this is my home, yes. i love my home. >> reporter: the group of protesters who had the most to lose from the demonstration are, of course, the students who started the protest about seven days ago - the students union. when you started the protest, it was a small peaceful protest, what happened? >> it was a class boycott.

when things turned on friday, students tried to enter the square, but the police tried to stop them. it made a lot of people angry, because most of the people think that this civic square and the police is a common area. >> can you tell me, what does your sign say? >> we fight small and universe am. >> reporter: you fight the universal suffrage in peace. what is at stake is hong kong's future. for 150 years it was ruled as a colony by the british. under the joint declaration in 1984 it was promised back to china in 1997, but with a bill of right for the basic law. under the basic law certain rites were enshrined, such as the rites to protest. the maintenance of the english common law system, and universal suffrage. since the election, one person,

one vote in the 2017 election. china is ruled by an ideao log, xi jinping, and he wants to bring hong kong to heel, bringing him in confrontation with hundreds of thousands of hong kong citizens. >> i'm from hong kong. this is important to me. >> reporter: why is that? >> it shows me that people care here. it's amazing how everyone has manner. >> and now is a different age, different era. you look at the young people. they have been educated about political rights, but our government is very cooersive. they are listening to the people. how can a government like this govern prays, it's an international city. we have a ripe civil society, open media. how can a government without sufficient mandate continue to govern this way. >> reporter: the violence used

by police against protesters sunday night has not been witnessed in hong kong since the communists challenged british rule. protesters are determined to have the voice heard, so that places the president of china, xi jinping, between a rock and a hard place. he fears that the challenge to his authority could turn a ripple into a wave of dissent to mainland china, and that is the kind of tragedy witnessed at tina men square in 1989. the discussion between ukraine and russia - there's an uneasy truce. when ukrainian government forces took back control of parts of eastern ukraine from pro-russian separatists, they found evidence of a rein of terrorist. separatists arbitrarily detained hundreds of civilians, subjecting them to torture, degrading treatment and some

were used as hostages, and there was evidence of summary execution the. sheila macvicar went to slovyansk to investigate. >> reporter: on the morning expressed eastern ukraine, this man is haunted by tough mem rees. he's a 34-year-old theatre director on his way back to slovyansk, where he was hold hostage for two months. slovyansk? >> well, i'm a bit scared. >> reporter: slovyansk is under the control of the ukranian government. five months ago when pablo travelled there, it was the military strong held of the pro-russian separatist, donetsk people's republic. nightmare. >> reporter: why did you want to go? charge. >> primary reason is i'm from that area and mum is living in

that region, and i was interested in - because there was a - they claimed it was a people's movement, and i wanted to check if people are really into it. i don't believe russian propaganda. >> reporter: propaganda like a rousing anthem for the separatist cause, vilifying the kiev government and supporters like pablo. >> the reason for capturing us was that i was at maydan. and we were, basically, yes. but, i mean... >> reporter: he returned to the streets where he was taken captive. >> we came to slovyansk. we went down down. normal. >> yes, quite peaceful. >> reporter: deceptively

peaceful until pablo and his friend got into a heated argument. then they were accosted. they come from behind, yelling at you. >> yes, we heard some yelling. we turned around and there were two guys, one from here, one from here with a gun. and just kind of pointing at us, and get down on your knees. and we are like okay, we are getting down. >> reporter: they were taken to slovyansk's secret police building, in the control of pro-russian separatists. the building was booby trapped and damaged by the separatists when they left. it's a building that gives off a bad feeling. >> it is, it looks like a place where you can torture people. >> reporter: conflicting loyalties erupt on the streets

still. >> reporter: pablo and his inside. >> i was hit in the nose. nose. >> yes, it shocked me. in dennis's ipad yes found picture and videos from maydan. they got angry about that and were hitting us. "did you scream glory to ukraine?" "no", and they hit us. at the same time there was a knife to my ear. the other was spilling petrol on body. >> reporter: kiev's union rights attorney represents pablo and a dozen other former prisoners. some that are believed to have been held by the donetsk

people's republic. some were executed. >> translation: they used stalin era law like the death penalty. imitating stalin. they used torture. this regime tries to make it impossible to think differently. even speaking ukranian could get you in trouble. >> translation: i went for a walk with my life. some woman overheard us speaking, running to the separatists, denouncing us. that's how they terrorize you. >> reporter: victor was arrested for challenging a separatists's account of a bombing. >> they stuck machine-guns to my back and took me to the russian guest appo, i was laying on a concrete floor getting re-educated. >> reporter: it was a cell where pablo was, forced in distress positions, beaten and given little to eat. >> they tortured and killed people.

i was there when 14 corpses were dug out next to a children's hospital. i saw it with my own eyes. how can it happen that people who dream and have plans of a family were shot. it was fashionism coming from the soviet union. past. after two days of pleading. his daughter got him released. meanwhile pablo's friend mounted a public campaign to set him and dennis free. pablo said it got the rebel's attention, and they were moved after the bruises were healed. this is the gaol you were held basement. >> yes, after two weeks, we were mochb from the basement -- moved from the basement to the police station. they told us we were going to the hotel. compared to the basement, it is a hotel.

we called it hotel california. >> reporter: do you remember... >> of course i remember. i can tell you about everything. so we used to walk from this side and you go one and then you go two and then you go three, and for that it's about 300, 300 kilometre. >> you would walk in the cell 6-8km a day. >> yes, and i counted how many kilometres with the matches, so i would go 1km, 2km. >> reporter: what does it bring back being here? >> it's not like this, it's the monastery, i think. we used to, like, in the next cell - this would be new testament and i was laying on

this side, reading till the end of the light. >> reporter: you put the cross on the wall. >> yes, and it's love, love, love, love. they left it. the separatists left in a hurry on 4 july when the ukranian army encircled slovyansk. in the end trying to enlist pablo in their cause. >> because we like you we want you to come with us, we'll take the machine-gunning, the kalashnikovs and come with us. "no." >> reporter: basically you freed yourself, you walked out. >> basically we walked out, yes. >> reporter: unlike slovyansk, the area is under rebel control. pablo's mother fled and is staying with her kids in kiev. >> translation: it's not the government there, it's a foreign power. i don't want it. >> reporter: pablo is using the

rhetoric of the separatists as material for a new play. a lot of your family is russian. >> yes. >> you looked at what the guys have to say. >> there's one huge nationality and there should be a big slavic world for everybody, saving the earth from eagle, from the demon america and european union and stuff like that. our answer to that is simple - russian world and russia. >> reporter: like many in kiev pablo looks to the west for inspiration, a kbds formed when he is-- connection formed when he was an exchange student in north carolina. i remember thinking we are not worse than americans.

and i thought why can't we leave the way people in america leave. i'm not - i'm not idea liesing the united states. there are troubles there. we can try our own way, you know, of creating our own democracy, ukranian democracy, and that's basically what this story is about now. we are faced with that challenge, we have to take it. after the break, what seems like a simple cold and why it's raising concerns for young patients suffering a mysterious paralysis. later in the programme, in the heart of the amazon, a community at risk. why the world that lies beneath them could be a threat to their way of life. >> on techknow. we're heading to cutting edge cal tech campus >> here's a look at just a few

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now a snapshot of stories making headlines. olympic swimming champion michael fels arrested for drunk-driving, driving more than 80 miles per hour in a 45 zone in maryland. he was charged with excessive speed and crossing double lanes. it's the second time he's been arrested for drunk-driving. vatican says it's investigating robert finn, a u.s. bishop convicted of

protecting protecting paedophile priests. he was convicted for not reporting a priest had taken girls. a shooting at a high school in north carolina left a student hospitalized. the suspect shot the victim in the leg outside charlotte. the suspect has been arrested and investigators say the students were involved in another fight last week. and in louisville kentucky, police are searching for a student that shot or at fern creek. officials are trying to figure out, it is unclear if the suspect is a student at the cool. the victim's injuries were not life threatening. a health warning as doctors raise the alert between a common respiratory virus and paralysis, after 10 colorado children were hospitalized suffering weak muscles and paralyzed limbs.

there's signs that the illness may have appeared in other parts of the country as well. >> reporter: it started with a nasty cough and wheezing. for 10 kids in colorado, what first seemed like a bad cold escalated quickly into something serious. weak limbs and, for some, paralyzed muscles. >> they may have trouble lifting their arm to get their fork to their mouth. that's a muscle weakness. >> reporter: doctors across the country are on high alert for patients with the symptoms. alabama, missouri, massachusetts cases. >> at boston hospital the four children meeting the c.d.c. criteria for the respiratory illness in the two weeks preceding the onset. >> reporter: raising fears the possibility of a connection of

entero virus d68. three weeks ago 11 states reported cases of the virus. today nearly 500 in 41 states and the district of columbia have been confirmed. the paralysis may or may not be related. four of the paralyzed kids virus. >> it's a bit of a mystery now. clues. >> the c.d.c. is investigating, asking doctors to report any suspected case, nationwide. >> at this point we have no specific direct link im, that's the area under investigate. >> doctors found a mystery illness in a group of children in california, one was sophia jarvis. echoing the cases her illness started with trouble building. within a few days her mother said her arm was paralyzed.

>> sophia went to the treasure box to grab a toy, and i saw her left hand mid graft stop working >> reporter: stamford university professor was tracking cases, finding 20 in california. good. >> that is now a worry in colorado too. >> these issues, no matter what the cause, typically come on quickly, and the recovery to the illness is slow. >> infectious disease expert dr william shav ner reviolence us from vanderbilt university. thank you for joining us. it's not clear if there's a link between entero virus and the paralysis. why are doctors concerned? >> we are concerned because of paralitic disease.

that's a concern - concern for the patients and their families. if there is a causal relationship, we want to know it. if it's not the entero virus, what is if. one thing or several things in coincidence. we need to be good disease detectives. >> the thing that we think about, polio, this illness that almost inevitably results in paralysis, there are other kined of paralysis that occurs, how does it happen, what happens. it goes into the muscle? >> not no the muscle, but the spinal cord and infects the cells in the spinal cord that controls the movement. if there's inflammation around the cells or they are destroyed by the virus, the signal to move doesn't come and so the muscle lies there flaccid.

>> so theoretically the entero virus could go from what we thing of being an intestinal gut spine. >> if the virus lives in the cut or in the throat. it can make its way to the spinal cord, seek out the cells. it kind of has a homing in capacity, and potentially destroy them. >> so how concerned should we as parents be now. at the moment parents should be interesting, not overly concerned. stay away from children coughing and sneezing. if your child is ill, keep them home, so they don't spread the illness. people are working on this hell bent for leather. there's an intense

laboratory testing going on. >> professor, thank you. a different concern about health and dally life in detroit, where those that won't or cannot pay water bills are warned by a federal bankruptcy judge that their water is likely to be shut off. activists are fighting tech home owners that can't pay. the fight to keep the water running. there's more to it. >> reporter: when valerie saw the truck outside one morning, she knew what was coming. the water bill for her detroit due. >> i look outside, and there was a big red truck, and so i - i - they said they were about to shut off the water. i grabbed my camera and phone and headed out here. once i hit the porch i took pictures of the situation and filming it.

i told them "no, you are not shutting off my water", i put my foot here and took pictures, click, click, click. >> with her foot on the valve and her camera clicking, blakeley sent the shut off crew packing. and i told them stop, they were not going to turn my water off today. he put his arms up, gathered his stuff and packed it into the truck. her neighbours were not so lucky. they proceeded to, in a systematic orderly fashion, shut off every other occupied home. i followed them down the street as they shut off, pleading with them "you are shutting off my 86-year-old neighbour's water, and she won't be able to flush her toilet." it. >> reporter: greg spokesman. >> we felt we'd be derelict if we were not aggressive reducing

the amounts we have, it's a drag on the system, increasing bills for those that are paying. that is not fair either. >> we want to make sure the message is clear. water is a human right. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: the aggressive cut off sparked outrage and protests. in this beleaguered and bankrupt city where half the residents are behind on their water bills. >> reporter: was it a mistake to time? >> i don't think it's a mistake. if you are trying to collect delinquencies. i would have no reason to believe why it would be a mistake. i don't know at what pace or rate people would have us go. >> reporter: since so many of her neighbours were shut off, valerie became an activist. >> that number. >> this number here. >> reporter: she wrangled donations and offered water and food to those that needed it. what is the effect, what can't

people do without water? cook. it's debilitating in the home. we found that people needed baby wipes to keep themselves clean. people are using food stamps to buy water so they are affecting their food every month. >> reporter: a few blocks away eddy stopped watering. he and his 85-year-old mother dishes. >> the way we do dishes is like we are done eating for the day. we reheat the dish water and watch our dishes, we rinse them water. >> they owe more than 260, but

the shut off notice convinced them to pay. are you concerned now about getting your water cut off? >> always. utilities. >> the water department admits some responsibility for the problem, because for too long officials conceded they were too lax in enforcing shut offs. after the break - in the rich jungles of the amazon, liquid gold underneath. how that threatens a way of life that could save it.

deep in the amazonian jungle there's a rich world of diverse plant and animal life. the riches beneath threat the future of a small community,

it's a tough choice for the ecuadorian government. david mercer explains from inside the national park. >> reporter: looking up at the tree tops, sebastien searches for familiar faces. for the past year he has been following a group of spider monkeys. each day he and his team track one of them, and he notes what they are doing every few minutes. "we do what they do", he tells me. "when they rest we rest. when they move, we move." >> translation: we are observers, our jobses is to record behaviour. beyond that we never interfere with the animals, particularly environment. >> reporter: one by one the monkeys come down from the trees and disappear into a cave to

scoop up the mineral rich mud to eat. after decades of watching the monkeys trust the researchers. >> translation: this could only happen in an untouched world here. we couldn't have a study like this anywhere else. >> reporter: the national parks is unique, regarded as the most biodiverse place in the world, a refuge to 20 types of endangered animals. a hectare of its forest is home to insect is many trees and shrubs as in the whole of the united states and canada combined. the incredible richness is at risk. ecuador's government said it wouldn't trill for oil in an untouched section, and demanded 3.6 billion from developed countries, but received 13 million. the president then announced oil extraction would go ahead.

this couple know all about oil. once these tribesmen lived off the forest and river alone. but little by little they have seen their traditional way of life whittled away. now they carve blow guns and spears to sell to tourists as civic next-doors. they blame the -- souvenirs. they blame the changes on the arrival of oil decades ago. >> translation: the oil companies talk about helping us. it's a lie. they only help people that work for them. for us there's more sickness. >> they are not the only ones worried about the drilling. a few hours upriver lies the poor up to of cocoa, the hub of the the oil industry. for more than four decades people lived side by side with oil, and while the industry drives the local economy, it has its price.

this is the cocoa river, a broken pipeline spilt nearly 12,000 barrels of oil last year, 1.5 million litres to the water, leaving the population of coka, a town of 65,000 people, without drinking water. the water floated down river through the western amazon, all the way to peru. a year later the water is not safe to drink. local journalist tells me how all these rocks were stained black. he says the spill was another reminder that the government must think beyond oil and boost other industries as an alternative. >> translation: without a doubt oil is our only source of wealth, which is why the president depends on it. we ask the government how do we get ahead. what happens when we run out of oil. >> the oil industry continues to

lure people from ecuador to cocoa. everyone we spoke to complained decades of production failed. >> we have lived here for 30 years. every time the scale of oil exploitation gets bigger. communities. >> there are a lot of people who are unemployed here, where single mothers with families, we can't work. there are no factories here offering jobs. >> ecuador oil company refused to speak to al jazeera, but politicians from the ruling party insists that oil exploitation is the only option, and this time the local communities will feel the benefit. >> if the rest of the world doesn't care to support us, are we supposed to sit on a goldmine and die. it's a challenge for the

government to show that a small producing company can extract oil. exploiting oil will allow future behind. ecuador hopes to extract quarter of a million barrels a day by 2019. >> it's the value of oil that led the government to agree that extraction can take place. some scientists argue what is above the ground could be worth far more. >> after working to save rain forests for the past 20 years, two american biologists think they have the answer. phyllis and her husband say plants themselves could hold the key. a third of pharmaceutical drugs come from nature, and here, a fraction. trees and plants have been identified, let alone medicinal values. the biologists bioprospecting could offer jobs. >> these are the things we look

at, the potential of this amazing diversity to be a pharmacy for future human health needs, and in particular, the young leaves stand out to us as bean where we should look for future medicines, and nowhere in the world is this pharmacy got ecuador. >> one of the teams is determined to secure funding for bioprospecting. and diseases specifically affecting her country men. >> looking out over what was jungle a few decades ago, it was worried that oil means more roads and people, and one day there'll be no animals left in the forof the. they say the only way to ensure moons. >> we were born here. our grandparents were born here. we want the government to be

legally ours. >> the tribe has a sacred bond with the forest and everything that lives in it. with new development coming, and generating assistance, that connection between humans and nature could be broken forever. ahead in your final thoughts - an unbelievable commute for children in nepal just to go to school. we show you what it takes next.

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kids about the lengths some will go to to get their education. outside kathmandu students risk their lives to get to school every day. al jazeera's correspondent brings us this story from nepal. >> reporter: this 11-year-old wishes there was an easier way to get to school from her village. her school is on the other side of the river. the nearest bridge is an hour's walk away. she has to rely on a rope bridge to cross the river. >> translation: no matter how difficult it is, how late we get there, we have to go. once we are educated. we can help others. >> reporter: more than 50 children use the crossing every day. once the basket moves, gravity moves it. then older children push and pull the basket. balancing precariously

on the rope. it's safer when the basket is here. half the time the basket is on the other side and children have to use a hook to go across the river. many fall into the water. a neighbour often is given the ask of bringing the basket back. >> the rope was tangled. i was in the water. i was scared. i'm lucky to be alive and scared to go to school. >> reporter: that was two years ago. many lost their finger and several injured. the local government says it does not have enough money. >> the demand for bridges, 10 million rupees. how we can complete. >> reporter: in the nearby village, a bridge was installed last year, only after the old one snapped.

13-year-old managed to survive. >> translation: i dream of people screaming, asking for help. at times i dream of people crying. now i'm afraid to cross rivers. we have to cross to go to school. recently. >> reporter: the government allo indicated $15 million to build suspension bridges. people wonder if theirs replaced. and that is our world. we'll have more "america tonight" tomorrow. >> the sun isn't up yet, but david godeski is. godeski has been homeless in washington d.c. for nearly 7 years. last night, like most, he slept

outside. with affordable housing getting increasingly scarce here, there's been a spike in the number of homeless. churches, food pantries, the city, are all scrambling to meet the demand. at the public library's main branch, homeless individuals rush in when the doors open, some are even dropped off by a shuttle bus from the homeless shelters. once inside, they log onto computers to job hunt or check email. they meet friends or just read, protected from the elements. >> for many years we would sort of open our doors and say "okay, we've done our job", because we're providing them a warm place to go if they've got no place else to be. >> now, social worker jean badalamenti will help provide information on homeless services and will "sensitize" staff. while government, residents and local businesses argue over the role of the libraries, david godeski is just glad they're here. >> having a place like this

where things are controlled, it's a godsend. >> so godeski will be back every day he can. the first ebola diagnosis in the u.s., and the man sick has been walking around for a week. the most intense day of bombing and attacks in syria. welcome to "consider this." those stories and much more straight ahead. an individual has been diagnosed with ebola in the united states. >> the man traveled to liberia was considered healthy when he