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executive does not resign. >> the director of the secret service has resigned. it comes amid several controversial security breaches. we're joined live from the white house. give us an idea of how this recognition today came about. >> it's interesting if you listen to what the white house has been saying over the course of 24 hours after the former director of the secret had really been raked over the courscoles of bipartisans over i wants of breaches here at the white house and the president while he was on the road. first they had full confidence. the president has full confidence in the job julia pierson was doing. they said on television to continue as director of the

secret service. then later in the afternoon here's what they had to say. >> director pierson offered her resignation because she believed it was in the best interest of the agency to which she has dedicated her career. the secretary agreed with that assessment. the president did as well. over the last several days we've seen recent and accumulating reports raising questions about the performance of the agency. and the president concluded that new leadership of that agency and required. >> recent and accumulating reports. that has to do both bo the september 19th intrusion here at the white house when omar gonzalez leaped over the fence and making it into the white house. an incident that happened three days earlier when the president was traveling to atlanta when a man with a rap sheet had been arrested on assault charges who was a contractor, and who was carrying a gun was allowed on an

elevator with president obama while he was on his way to the meeting with the center of disease control. it was agreed that she should go and this afternoon she was gone. >> the startling revelation is that the white house itself had not been informed of that security breach until the day before the news report came out from the "washington post." did not even hear from the secret service. >> there was no denying the fact that the white house was shocked by that. you could just tell the way it was phrased today. they only learned of that security breach some 15 days ago. 14 days ago moments before it was going to be to be reported in the "washington post" yesterday. but you have to consider and take into context the fact that julia pierson was brought into the director job 18 months ago

after a series of scandals. there was a prostitution scandal in cartagena. there was a scandal in the netherlands and a shooting, where the white house had been penetrated very close to the residents by bullets fired by a mentally disturbed person down on constitution boulevard several yards away. it was once thought to be beyond approach. >> an independent investigation will be done going back from the private sector to the public sector. this september 19th incident solving the man who jumped the fence. omar gonzalez was in court today.

>> mike viqueira reporting live from the white house. >> a new demand and a threat from the democracy protesters in hong kong. they want the territory's top lawmakers to resign by tomorrow or they'll move into government buildings. we'll go to hong kong 6:00 in the morning on thursday. for two days now protesters have

been mostly peaceful. fears are the increased threats from these protesters could lead to more action from the police. >> meanwhile, in mainland china people marked national day, but the celebrations were overshadowed by the ongoing unrest in hong kong. we're in hong kong with more on the day's events. >> this two-day national holiday really focusing attention on the sometimes troubled relationship between hong kong and mainland china posing the question of just how loyal does hong kong feel towards beijing. several thousand using the opportunity to come along to occupations such as this one, and it's nighttime here. the numbers are dwindled but they're expected to pick up again as thousands of people continue this demonstration. as we come into thursday we're approaching a deadline set by the organizers of this campaign.

somewhat out of frustration that there has not been a positive response by the hong kong authorities. they now say that unless the hong kong leader resigns, they will start occupying government offices. that now takes the level of law breaking to a very different stage. it's a far more serious offense to be forcing your way through government office here awaiting to be removed than sitting in a public space as they're doing at the moment. it will also pose as the prospect to return to the kind of violent clashes that we saw a few days ago with riot police or security guards. this chain forcing away supporters. many thousands of people have taken to the streets precisely because they saw the kind of violent clashes that were taking place with riot police and the use of tear gas and so on. there is a feeler that the

organizers that it could backfire against them. >> china's president has promised to safeguard hong kon hong kong's interests. >> the heart of imperial beijing. on the day of partic pride need peoplthese people know what is allowed and what isn't. the only show of solidarity was for the communist party, whose rule began here 65 years ago. >> i hope stability and peace will remain in our country. the more stable the better. we don't want to see china divided. >> as a chinese citizen i'm proud of the developments we have achieved in the past 65 years. china is a great country.

>> but this anniversary is being overshadowed by events in hong kong, creating the biggest challenge for the president since he assumed power almost two years ago. during a speech on tuesday night he made no direct reference to the protests but pledged that china would protect hong kong's interests. >> the central government will unswervingly implement the guidelines of one country, two systems and basic law and safeguard the long term prosperity. >> reporter: ultimately it is president xi jinping where he gives what they want or make the decision to force the unrest. >> china says that the protests are unlyle and creating instability, but many chinese will be unaware of what's happening there.

october 1s is the most important date in china's political calendar, and security was especially tight near tiananmen square. a place that is a reminder of another student-led protest that threatened the party. adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. >> doctors in texas say the man infected with ebola was initially sent home by the hospital. the liberian national was cleared and given antibiotics by the especially room staff. days later he was admitted and diagnosed with ebola. heidi zhou castro, what explanation did they give today for why this man was allowed to optionally leave the hospital? >> they didn't give an explanation, but they say they're investigating. this man arrived on thursday and stayed into friday morning.

now hospital administrators are looking at whether he exposed people on both of those days. >> today we learn that some school age children have been identified as having had contact with patients and now are being monitored for any signs of the disease. >> health officials say that the owe bowl la patient now in serious condition isolated within this hospital may have exposed five children in one home over the weekend and as many as 13 other people on monday those kids returned to school. the superintendent of dallas school say those kids are no longer in class. those keeping an eye on the children say so far they've shown no symptoms. >> we're also going to be staffing those school with

additional health officials. just to allay fears officials will be on hand. >> meanwhile officials at the they're monitoring the health of three pair metics. they have so far passed health tests but will remain in their homes for 21 days. >> do you feel confident that they're okay? >> yes, based on confidence of research we've done through the cdc, every indication is that they have a low risk of exposure. >> there is less confidence in how the hospital handled the

case the hospital said that staff was not aware i. >> the full import of that information wasn't factored in to the clinical decision making. >> that's now under investigation. >> why didn't they admit this man when they first went to the emergency room for help. if they had admitted him, they wouldn't have put him in the ambulance and put your employees at risk. do you feel concerns how that played out. >> a ten-member team from the center of disease control has now arrived in texas to help as the director put it to stop ebola in its tracks in this

country. >> there is one patient there. that's telling. >> heidi zhou castro reporting live from dallas. >> later i asked about the people who came in contact with this dallas patient and whether casual contact can spread the virus. >> this is something that we ask all of the contacts and it depends on the specific conditions. it's very hard to make generalizations. >> it has to go through an open cut or some other opening in the

skin. not something that flies through the air. not something that is easily transmitted by casual contact. >> you mentioned it's very difficult. obviously we saw the fact that he went to the hospital, sent home with antibiotics because they assumed he had nothing more than the common cold. is that what leads to the issue of this outbreak. neaps west africa, that it's able to spread so quickly because it's so hard to detect, determine that it's ebola versus some other virus? >> actually, it's not hard to diagnose ebola as long as you think about it. in africa the situation is very different. the situation in healthcare facilities in africa is worlds away from what we experience here in the united states. so the problem in west africa with really, really very tragic situation with so many healthcare workers getting infected is that they don't have the tools in order to protect

their healthcare workers. they don't have basic tools like gloves, the ability to wash hands. they have a lot of contact unprotected with patients and they haven't thought about ebola and they're not isolating the patient or protecting themselves from getting infected. in the united states we have obviously many more tools. as long as a person thinks about ebola as a diagnosis, it's actually not hard to detect it. here in the united states there are a number of laboratories called in our laboratory response network that have the capability to test for and diagnose ebola. also here at the cdc and that's what happened in this circumstance. the test for ebola, once it was collected, took really about 24 hours for us to have a result that we could act upon.

>> that was dr. beth bell from the cdc. now the deployment of u.s. international aid has not caught up with the spread of ebola. sierra leone's minister talks about why he thinks the disease is grow something quickly. >> finally we started getting the tests, the difficulty was isolating people. then tracing all the initial contacts that they had had. testing. and then once tested positive, the next question is then medication. there is no medication, so it's a sense of despair for anybody who catches ebola. therefore there is fear and panic. >> let's take a look at the spread of ebola by the number. 3,000 troops are deployed to support doctors in west africa. there are indian 6500 reported cases and more than 3,000 people

have died. out of the four hardest-nations, liberia has the most deaths. so most of the support is being sent there but aid organizations fear the global response has simply been too slow. michael dunne has been found of first-degree murder in a retrial of the shooting of jordan davis. a mistrial was declared in the first trial when the jury deadlocked. he shot into a car and killed 17-year-old davis over an argument over loud music outside of a convenient store. taking an active role with the u.s. coalition.

isil is bringing fighting in kobane closer to turkey's door. >> turkey's military is just a few hundred meters from isil fighters. in some places all that separate them are barbed wire. but so far the turks have just watched as the islamic state in iraq and the levant advance across syria. as refugee continue to arrive turkey has been accused by its nato allies of ignoring the foreign fighters crossing the other way. but speaking to the opening session of turkey's parliament it's president said that he was committed to tackling terrorism. >> no terrorist group, whether in turkey or elsewhere, will get no sympathy from us. turkey will not be used as a

temporary transition. >> turkey is still worried about the risk of retaliation from isis sleeper cells in turkey. it's also worried about arming the kurds while fighting in syria. then there is the risk of taking part in the campaign to pull back acitizen in syria may inadvertently help president bashar al-assad. erdogan told his audience that turkey will join the fight in isil. >> we cannot be indesaysive about the situation in the gulf and how can we remain uninterested. we will not sit idle.

>> on thursday turkey's parliament will likely join the forces in turkey and iraq and the u.s. will be able to use its bases in turkey. >> 2375 people were killed in syria last month. 294 civilians were killed, an average of ten children killed every day. 172 wome172 victims were women while 118 died under torture.

>> the dow dropped 200 points today we'll explain what that had to do with it. and first law of its kind. asking famil a judge to take away guns.

>> there could be new life for revel. the casino that was sold for pennies on the dollar. the casino hotel closed its doors last month after two years in business. brookfield holdings won the auction for $110 million promising to reopen at some point. revel is one of four atlantic city casinos to go out of business this year. >> the stock market tanked with

the stocks dropping. anticipating anticipated the drop off with the news of a passenger arrived in the u.s. with ebola. >> yous kind of interest. we've had these declines across the mark. we've had much negative news across the market and the stock market remaining resilient. well, not today. investors are trying to figure out what is the knock on this. will travelers travel less?

we have a couple of companies with ebola vaccines in the pipeline. while stock was down we saw hikes for those stocks. there are two size on the same bit of news coming out. >> investigators are always leary, but we'll see what happens in the next coupling days. having said that, were there any companies that had good news on this down day in the markets? >> here is a company you heard with good news for a while. general motors that we talk about with all those recalls, it was up 1%. that same general motors that has been meyered in all that bad news had sales in september. they were up 19%. ceo mary barra outlining a plan to turn around the embattled auto make. they want to cut costs and introduce some new vehicles. obviously she has her work cut out for her.

she has been getting tough on the g.m. culture and trying to get them to move beyond the recalls. >> what else do you have for us? >> we have the makers of this app called fire chat that a lot of people, the protesters are using in hong kong. it's a great way to communicate when there are no internet around. >> one of the founders of the occupied central movement. hear why he thinks young people are so motivated and why the west is not providing enough support.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm michael yves. tens of thousands of protesters remain out on the streets in hong kong. they threaten to move their protests into government buildings. [music] >> every national day along with the chinese flag along with the hong kong is part of the ceremony, but this is not like every other nationalist day. for days protesters have made the streets of hong kong their temporary home. seeking the resignation and demanding the election reform processing reversed. looking to scale back control over candidates. student leader joshua and fellow protesters were prevented.

it wasn't just the protesters there. those who support the chinese central role in hong kong were out to celebrate the holiday. >> this is what they call pressing. >> those looking for democracy flooded the streets on wednesday. big numbers since national day is a holiday. the founders for the central occupied movement before even the student groups became involved said that it has grown beyond his imagination, but it has now taken on a life of its own. >> everyone is organizing. >> we walk through the main below test area.

>> i just hope our leaders in beijing will be able to see how determined hong kong people are, and how civilized in the way of showing their determination. but i think some still feel we could see good things happening in hong kong. as you mentioned, the hong kong people, they're organizing themselves, learning how to practice democracy. standing firm he went on to say that they're standing against beijing. >> let's take a closer look at the protesters goal. they have a clear set of demands. by 2017 they want reforms allowing all hong kong citizens the right to vote. but within that they want each vote to have equal weight and no

restrictions who could run. we talk to son of the founder of the central moment. he flew home to join the demonstrations over the weekend. >> i think there has always been a sense of uncertainty about the future, lack of opportunities, and the way that society has been developing and processing here in hong kong ever since the turnover. i think when the moment came, when it became clear that the chinese government was going to control the future and limit the liberty and freedom of this city, they were willing to go as far as actually dispersing a sense of force peaceful protest i think it bring all the angst and uncertainty a that people felt. >> you mentioned security and police among the protesters.

what do you know about the severity of the police. >> i was actually there right at the moment on to the sidewalks. and just one area separated by the main corridor from the leaders barricaded within the square. you could hear them shouting open the road so they could get to the students. the police were holding their ground. and at that point the pepper spray aim and then the tear gas came out. the crowd, and including myself. we were genuinely shock. when the tear gas came out

people just ran. to the testament of the discipline and organization on the ground and commitment of the people, they were was really no fear. people ran away from the tear gas and then five, ten minutes later they were doused by water, wet towels, and they were right back to the barricades without the police to advance themselv themselves. >> some of the leaders of the protest said on wednesday that if the chief executive does not step down, and their demands are not met they're prepared to expand these protests, including taking over several important government buildings. if that is, indeed, the case do you not think that beijing will respond even harder police crackdown odowns on these protesters? >> hole congress enjoyed media freedom, and you really have the eyes of the world on hong kong.

they are now playing a role in the form of reaction the police can take. but they understand that this is something that the world is watching. if you look at the streets and who are there, the children, kids of the wealthiest and political, most powerful families here in hong kong are here on the streets, many of them. one of the protesters asked me do you think the government would dare to take action against essentially their own family? >> you still have a great deal of confidence that these protest also affect change despite beijing's history of not treating demonstrators very kindly, to say the least. >> yes, there really is an en pass. it doesn't mean that there isn't

a political negotiation and negotiation can be reopen. we are not talking about abandoning a political system. the people of hong kong actually on the street want to participate in the political system. i think there is a sense of caution and optimism, nobody here, including myself, could have the delusion that it's going to get resolved overnight, or that it's going to resolve easily. that's why you're hearing the call and the threat of escalation as we move into thursday. >> in today's power politics, 33 days until the midterm elections and this has become one of the nasty days in campaign advertising in cycle. dais shuster is here with all the dramatics. >> this has been a brutal set of ads and they're driving voters to a very specific set of issues. let's go to louisiana where mary

landrieu is trying to hold on to her seats man. many are accusing her of being worse off. >> our schools are failing our children. our jails are full of young black men who should be home being fathers. meanwhile mary landreu lives in a $2 million home on capitol hill. >> in colorado, planned parenthood is now attack cory gardner over a big issue in that state for women voters, birth control. >> politician cory gardner could ban abortion including in cases of rape. >> meanwhile an environmental group in colorado is attacking

gardner's connection to the koch brothers. >> the truth billionaire polluter koch brothers are spending millions to put gardner in the senate so he can push their agenda and line their pockets. >> gardner is in a tight race with mark udall. conservative groups are trying to play up the position of udall on women attacks. can we take that chance. >> that audio was meant to sound like an airplane and invoke memories of 9/11. staying in colorado there is controversy over a gardner ad that mentioned udall's family. >> 1 years in politics and he has two cousins who are senators, too. mark udall's dad even ran more president. my dad, well, he sells tractors.

>> it's true that udall's dad ran for president in 1976. >> i'm disappointed congressman gardner. i have no intention of running ads or criticizing or insulting his family. i see this as an insult directed at my family. this race is between congressman gardner and me, not between our families or fathers. >> the ads are showing up in house and gubernatorial races. more on that in a second. more on the battle of the u.s. senate. in kentucky, allison grimes is trying to take out mitch mcconnell, and grimes has been hammer mcconnell's attendance records. >> where was he? he did not show up to vote on troop funding, the v.a. days when he found time for lobbyist fund racing and was on two tv shows. >> a kentucky reporter asked

grimes how many days she missed as secretary of state. here is the exchange. >> how much would you say that you missed last year. >> i would tack my record against mitch mcconnell. >> i saw your ads. >> we're not here to talk. >> we're excited to be here today to launch our military. >> let's tal talk about your attention. >> thank you. >> she would not answer the question about attendance. if you're going to attack somebody else about attentio attendance, you better be prepared to answer the question yourself. bob atorino is way behind governor andrew cuomo, so he's now hitting cuomo for being under federal criminal investigation. his ad plays off the lyndon johnson 1964 daisy ad, one of the most famous attack ads in u.s. history. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six,

five, four, three, two, one. >> these are the stakes. do we reelect a governor who may end up in jail? >> strategists say in order for an attack ad to work it usually has to be believable, and they say you probably can't find most people who believe that a cuomo indictment would be as frightening to voters as a nuclear explosion. still this is one way of getting attention. >> are they getting hollywood writers to write some of these ads? >> or the actors. >> thank you so much, michael. >> let's get to other news around america tonight. maria ines ferre is back with that. >> reporter: michael, the cdc reports lace this afternoon four people who died had very russ 2, 68, an unusual illness making children sick all over the country. a rhode island girl died from a rare combination of the virus

and staph infection. it is still not known how the child got sick. >> there was a death of a 10-year-old child from cumberland, a tragic death. and that child died from overwhelming culture that showed the presence of virus d 68. and it's not clear what role the anti-virus had, but clearly the death was a sepsis death. this is an overwhelming and tragic infection. >> the respiratory illness has hit 500 kids in 40 states. no deaths have been attributed solely to the virus. oklahoma hopes to avoid more botched executions. it wants to increase the lethal injection dose by five times. one inmate died 40 minutes after

receiving the lethal drugs. they want to limit the number of media at executions from 12 to 5. and a judge in denver ruled only a closed circuit camera in the courtroom will be used to broadcast proceedings. media asked for one tv camera and one still photographer. holmes is accused of open firing in a movie theater in 2012 killing 4 several people. a mahmood came to the attention of the fbi because of comments he wrote online. a minnesota mother faces charges for giving her child medical marijuana. angela brown pleaded not guilty to child endangerment charges. she admits to giving her son

medical marijuana to treat pain from a brain injuries. she could face up to two years in jail if she's found guilty. >> that's a tough one. you see a mother's love trying to take care of her son but it's illegal to do that. >> there is a law in the books, but that goes into effect in 2015. >> ines. thank you so much. coming up, the first of its kind. gun laws in california that allows people to be stripped of their guns.

america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now >> in a move sure to anger one rights moves, the first ever law that allows the law to remove guns from a potentially dangerous relative. under a restraining order an immediate family member can ask a judge to take away guns if they think there is a risk. the order could last 21 days and

be extended up to a year. this is when eliott rogers went on a shooting spree back in may. despite concerns from his family that he was violent, the police were not able to confiscate roger's weapons prior to the killing spree. you were celebrating the passage of this bill with parents of those ey isla vista shooting victims. >> i just returned from being with the family members of the victims. some thought they would never be able to go back to isla vista without being in total angle gish and fel--total anguish and felt that this move that comes from a senseless act that they

may be able to avoid spousal deaths and suicide from this amendment. >> what do you say to this amendment? >> of course there are some people who don't believe that people who are mentally disturbed should be separate separated from their firearms, and i'm not sure that we're going to agree on that one. however, i think reasonable gun owners can agree that the process that we have in place for domestic violence, and for stalking and restraining orders has not been something that has been abused by law enforcement or victims. in both cases those are things that temporarily deprive people from a little bit of freedom of movement. this is the same idea but temporarily deprives someone of a firearm if a judge is

presented with clear and convincing evidence that someone is a danger to themselves or others. and it has a high evidentiary standard. i intended this to be a narrow common sense gun legislation. and at least locally in my community of santa barbara and the county, gun owners have been positive about this legislation, that we would come up with something tailored, narrowed and having to do is specific situation of massive killings. >> you mentioned high standards. what proof will family members have to show a judge if they want to get this petition executed. >> there are three evidentiary standards that the courts have. the first is th is the preponderance of the evidence. clear and convincing evidence

falls in between. we don't want it to be a he said-she said thing. but it should be easier to obtain in a criminal proceeding. so the evidentiary standard was appropriate under these circumstances. things like a combination of specific threats with social media, with other witnesses, shows are the kinds of things that judge was consider. again, we live in a democracy dependent upon judicial discretion, and judges have to make the right call. i wouldn't say that they are too anxious to grant domestic violence and stalking retraining orders, we feel they'll have the same discretion with gun violence retraining orders. if we get this wrong. >> i have 20 seconds to go. i want to make one clarification. if this bill had been in place prior to the shootings in he's

la vista in may when police visited eliott rogers at his home. because the family had concern for him. would they have had the ability under this bill to remove guns from his possession? >> there would have been two junctures. one was after that when the parents realized that he had posted on social media specific threats, and one was far before that, when previous set of roommates to the ones who were murdered had moved out because they feared for themselves. because the definition of who is allowed would include anyone who lives in a household for six months, those mom mates, instead of moving out, could have prevented this from happening. >> a lot of critics of this law, but also a lot of people cheering that it's now implemented in california. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> messages of support from all over the world for the

protesters in hong kong, and some of those messages being broadcast right in the middle of the crowds. >> coming up on real money, i'm looking at the tech firms racing to develop a vaccine of ebola. plus how hong kong protesters are using their smart phones to stay connected without being blocked by the thigh jesus governmenby the chinese government. all that on "real money."

>> news and images of hong kong's protests have been spreading all around the world. but in mainland china authorities are trying to keep citizens in the dark. >> chinese authorities are censoring coverage of the protest on tv, internet and in newspapers. they're concerned that the demonstrations could spread to the main atlanta. so many people there are unaware of what's happening. >> this is what chinese viewers saw during the coverage of the protest. the screen went to black.

>> this is taking place in hong, people may turn out in support or replicate what they're seeing in their sister city down south. >> they're censoring the internet to. these image include images of the demonstrations and if you go on weibo's news feeds, the only result is a link to an article saying they could hurt the local street vendor's business. they found the number of censored posts on weibo spiked. the the country's news service called on the protests to stop and saying they harm the economy. the control seems to be

effective. activist >> where there is sensitive information like this, there is no shutting it down completely. >> some media on the mainland is showing signs of support. this is a series of photographs captioned "big umbrella." and this site pokes fun of the president showing a picture of him with a black umbrella. in contract to the mainland the media in hong kong are covering the events and showing aerial images shot from a drone. >> the internet they enjoy is something that they're working so hard to protect. >> china blocked instagram on sunday. youtube, twitter and facebook

were already banned before. some internet users in china use proxies to get access to their sites but a lot of people don't know how to get around those filters. >> censorship has been a problem for some time. thank you. solidarity messages from around the world. one website allows people to leave messages of support for crowds of protesters to see. >> reporter: some hong kong artists created a website where anyone can leave a message. these are some of them. the notes are curated and projected on this wall in hong kong. you see the projector right here. people have been leaving messages like this one. the whole world is learning true democracy from you. and lena writes, sending my love, you're changing the world, bravo. and you're making history, the world stands proud besides you. some university students from around the globe are posting support on a solidarity facebook

page. these are from cooper union right in new york city, and students in berlin, germany, and also in the netherlands, as well as this group of students from new zealand and these students in australia. if you want to send a message for the protesters in hong kong, football me on twitter, and you'll find all the information you need right there. >> it's a really cool way to see how technology is connecting people from around the world. >> well, now to sports. in 1985 ronald reagan was president. a gallon of gas cost $1. and it was the last time that the kansas city royals won a championship but also the last time they appeared in a major league playoffs at all. is the royals end their playoffs drought and did it in dramatic fashion. they did it in a comeback win. they trail by four and go into the eighth inning. they trail by one in the 12th and come all the way back to win it, and they move on eliminating

the oakland a's in the playoffs and they face the los angeles angels. george brett was on the '85 team. good to see hi guys moves on. thank you for watching. "real money" is coming up next. >> the race is on to develop an ebola vaccine. we'll look at companies trying to prevent the epidemic in america. plus, strong sales at general motors despite a botched recall now linked to 23 deaths. i'm asking who is buying these cars and why. i'm jen rogers in for ali velshi, and this is real money. [music]