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law will provide a welcome release to those like rihanna who want justice. tackling the ebola outbreak. federal officials seek to calm nerves and fears as more questions are raised about a man infected in texas. and i.s.i.l. beheads another british hostage, how they are reportedly setting their sites on an american man they claim will be next. days after revelations of a breach at jpmorgan, nine other banks may have been attacked.
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good morning to you, welcome to al jazeera america thank you so much for being with us, i'm morgan radford live in new york city. this morning the ebola crisis has the white house on high alert. more troops are heading to west africa to fight the virus. president obama ordered 3,000 troops to the region, in dallas, the number of people possibly exposed to ebola by thomas duncan has been lowered to 50. authorities are decontaminating the apartment where high and his family was staying. yesterday they were moved. diane eastabrook was with us in dallas you were there when the family was moved. do we know where they are gone or if they are quarantined? >> we know that they have been moved to a private home some place in dallas, and someone from the faith community volunteered to let the family stay in the home. they are quarantined but the
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house is m a slewed area -- secluded area, so they were able to go outside, something they weren't able to do in the house they were in. >> what prompted police to contact people would directly or indirectly had been in contact with duncan. >> when they came up with the 100 people, they were the people that got na number from interviews with the patient, and interviews with health care officials. they interviewed people and eliminated 50. they are focussed an 50, they monitored the people and focussed on 10 who are high risk. they include the family in the apartment with duncan, and health care workers in contact with him when they were taking him to the hospital. >> you mentioned health care workers. texas officials are backtracking, accepting possibility for missteps in
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duncan's treatment initially. what were the missteps? >> well, apparently what they had earlier said was in the record keeping, they keep electronic record, the nurse entered information that said he had travelled to the u.s. from liberia. they said the information was not translated to the doctor, that he didn't see the information in the electronic records. now they are saying that everyone should have been able to see the information. do we have new updates on duncan's condition? >> the only thing we are hearing, and it's the same information from the past couple of days, he remains in serious condition. he's not out of the woods yet. >> diane eastabrook in dal resist. thank you. other members of duncan's family lives a few blocks away. they have been asked to stay in their home, they are doing so.
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they have not gone garden teened. heidi zhou-castro talked to them. >> reporter: nothing distinguishings the door, but for the plastic bag with soiled diapers. the family is too afraid to go to the dumpster. >> this morning we are fine. >> the stepson and son-in-law of thomas duncan live her with four children, ages 2 to 11. no one is showing symptoms, but ask me to stay outside. they are hungry, they have been expecting a food delivery. you hungry? >> this little girl is noddingy, she is hungry. when was the last time you ate, sweetheart? >> in my opinion. >> the kids spent time in duncan's house whilst he was contagious. their mother called the ambulance to taining him to the hospital on sunday. she and others waited in the
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e.r. for an hour, holding a blanket covering the back and feet. >> he's not in the system. i have to call. they ask what is happening. >> the family is among the ebola contacts that health officials are monitoring. unlike jalal's mother, who shared the same house, this family is not under a quarantine order. >> reporter: you have not been ordered to saw it in the house, but you have been toiled to. >> we are told to, just for safety. join. do we have to write something? >> the family is confused. they don't know when they'll get food or if someone will dispose of the trash. >> there's no airconditioner, and the trash is stinky, i put
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it in a bag and cover it with the plastic. >> for now the family watches, worries and waits. a health worker takes their textures twice dale -- texture twice daily but offers little instruction. >> reporter: let me under you, no one has come. they are scared there may be a danger to the public safety. officials at a washington d.c. hospital are waiting for test results to determine if there is a second case of ebola in the united states. a patient has been quarantined at howard university hospital, and officials say the person travelled to nigeria. the patient who has ebola-like symptoms is in stable condition. >> tomorrow an american freelance journalist diagnose with ebola will be demroen to the united states.
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this is the facebook page for the journalist on assignment in c.b.c. he will be taken to the medical center that treated dr rick sacra last month. the death toll is 3400, all in west africa. more than 2,000 is in liberia. as jonathan betz reports, the military is sending more unit to help with the crisis. >> >> reporter: with ebola reaching american shores and no sign of the outbreak slowing in africa... >> we are doing everything we can to ensure it's addressed. >> reporter: u.s. soldiers are headed to the hot zone. >> every ebola outbreak over 40 years has been stopped. we know how to do this. we will do it again. reporter: right now there's 200 american troops in west africa.
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it will swell to 3200. deployed from bases offer the country, including 2,000 from fort campbell - another thousands from texas, 160 from colorado, and dozens from north carolina and other posts. >> they will not all arrive in one chunk. they'll come overtime. they'll arrive to areas under siege. thousands died. hospital overwhelmed and a shortage of doctors. >> the world is not doing enough yet. we are challenged to outrun the disease. even getting there is challenging. liberia's crumbling airport is struggling to handle the cargo flights. >> aid groups are struggling. >> we have gloves and scrubs, tablecloths and sterile identities for the surgeries.
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>> the house has been sending supplies. arriving u.s. soldiers will build more, but will not street personalities. >> we will not be in the treatment business. there's no inspection that u.s. troops will e getti -- be getti close to those treated for ebola. the u.s. has conducted nine air strikes against i.s.i.l. targets in syria and iraq in the last 24 hours. some on the outskirts of kobani, a syrian down where fighters are closing in. the group intensified its assault with shelling, gun fire and explosions. a few thousand fighters are trying to besiege the border town. there's concern that it will fall to i.s.i.l. leading to a genocide of its resident. to the north the kurds are demanding that they'll do more.
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dozens came to the border. government forces used tear gas to disappears the protesters of the canada planned to join the fight. where the prime minister said fighter jets will take part in air streaks in iraq. party will take part. harper said he'll consider air strikes. i.s.i.l. said it beheaded another hostage. a group releasing a video, showing that the executioner killed alan henning. he'll be the fourth western hostage beheaded by i.s.i.l., as paul brennan explains, henning's death is a saage act. >> we'll do everything we can to opportunity down and find people
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responsible. >> alan henning had no ties to syria, just a desire to help those in need. >> the married father of two travelled there last december. he had aid for syria tattooed on his arm. after the convoy crossed the border, he was seized. his wife made a plea for his release, echoing the calls that had gone before. anyone in doubt about the organization can see how truly repulse live it is, and barbaric it is. >> the british prime minister will be briefed by intelligence chiefs and foreign office diplomats, trying to get a handle on how close they are to identifying the killers of mr enning and the hostages, and how close they are to combatting and launching air strikes.
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the story touched the lives of many people. more than 100 sent a letter to i.s.i.l. the killing of another british hospital david haines prompted britain to take a bigger role in the international coalition against the group. there's no troops on the ground. the u.k. has been carrying out air attacks. the video showing his death, a man says his blood is on the hands of the british parliament. another hostage, an american man is threatened. their hearts go out to the british aid worker who we believe is in that video. and to the remaining hostages and their families. had is again another very clear camp of the brutality of this group, and why the president has
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articulated and moving out in a comprehensive way to degrade and destroy i.s.i.l. >> alan henning drove an ambulance packed with food and water. seems in the eyes of yi human tare -- i.s.i.l., humanitarian workers are fair game. tensions are high in hong kong were pro-democracy protesters are clashing. police arrested 19 people during a night of brawling. you are looking at live pictures. 12 people and six officers were injured. the protests have gone on for a week. there are accusations that criminal gangs are inciting attacks on the protesters. adrian brown is on the phone. we are seeing pictures of chaos and unrest, and people payablinging the streets. what exactly is going on right now. >> well, the center of cow loan
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where i am is -- kowloon is paralysed. the crowds are growing, we this violence, today it's been more verbal confrontation, finger jabbing and arguments between the groups that want more democracy in hong kong, the right to choose the next leader and groups that say no, we should keep things the way they are. as to where this goes, it's hard to say. certainly things have been calmer today. things tend to get tense in the evening, and that's when you get the violence. on the other side of ongoing kong. things are calmer. there's going to be a candle lit vigil by three protest groups, a show of unity demonstrating that the protest groups can be united. they are in disarray where i am.
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>> i mentioned violence transitioning from physical to verbal. what do the police say about police gangs at the heart of inciting violence. >> some of the students made the phenomenal accusation that police are colluding with members of the triad, the criminal gangs that run so much of the prostitution. the police have denied that, pointing out 18 people. ate of them were triat members. rment adrian brown in hong kong. thank you for being with us. a powerful typhoon is heading for japan. we turn to meteorologist dave warren. >> this is an incredible storm that intensified. it became a super typhoon, equivalent to a category 4 storm. turning to the north-east, the track will take it off the
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coast. it will remain over water. the storm maintaining intensity, pulling in moisture. it falls on the east coast of japan, enhancing that is the mountains, squeezing moisture out. tremendous rain expected. this will be the track of the stomp, moving just a bit. it will stay over water, tokyo, l late sunday to early monday. it's going over cooler water. mainta maintaining intense storm with wind over 100 miles an hour. the biggest impacts is the rain. it will see major land slides, wind gusts of 100 miles an hour. watching this closely. >> thank you dave. america's largest bank breached. hackers compromise the account of tens of millions of jpmorgan
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customers. good jobs begging to be filled. job numbers are improving. employers say it doesn't tell the story. rushing to the rescue, a baby elephant na got quite the helping -- that got quite the helping trunk from mum and dad. stay tuned.
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it appears jpmorgan chase was not the only financial institution hacked. the "new york times" reports nine others were infill strated by the same group. it's believed the hackers operated from russia and even connected to the government. in fact, one senior official telling the times it could be in retaliation for sanctions connected to ukraine.
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jpmorgan, just the latest. last year a huge cyber attack. credit information for o more than 50 million at rib, and ebay came under attack. hagers got data of 140 customers. faith may have been restored in the economic recovering. u.s. employers added 238,000 jobs. unemployment fell from 6.8" to 5.9. president obama says we are on face pace for the strongest job growth since the 1990s. >> progress we have been making is hard. it goes in fits and starts. it's not always smooth or as fast as we want. but it is real, steady and happening. the president was speaking at a factory in indiana.
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as tom ackerman reports, some are struggling to find qualified workers. >> reporter: in detroit where the jobless rate is 10%, good jobs go begging. ask the staff at a community college, a low-key school where graduates who earn a 2-year degree are in demand. >> employers are clamoring for students with the right level of education. for every student in my machining, welding programmes, there's two or three jobs waiting. >> reporter: tony has a full-time job, but is taking classes in robotics to get a better one. >> they are trying to take advantage. facilities. >> i know it will be worth it in the end. >> the worker shortage is not just apparent in technology fields. according to a survey of hiring managers, 30% say they are
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having trouble filling financial positions and 20% find it difficult to find manufacturing personality. at the small plant, the owner linked with a community college to match workers with skills that the business rears to stay competitive in a fast-evolving market. >> acquiring the personnel needed to run the equipment, to assist with our vertical integration, that is where the community college came into play as far as one fantastic strategic partner for us. half the company managers in the same survey said the companies were not offering more pay or bonuses. better compensation won't be enough to solve the mismatch between job seekers and employers, according to the president. >> it's in part winter games and in part interest. and in part willingness to understand that not all the
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answers are known when you go into that industry, and you have to be alt adapt. >> as the u.s. economy expands, so does the challenge. nine in 10 personnel managers expect labour shortages to get worse. >> some of those challenges are extending to the houseing sector where tight lending is affecting the former federal reserve chairman. on wednesday ben bern angry said he was -- ben bern angie says he was rejected trying to refinance his home. he has refinanced 200twice, in 4 and 2009. the oldest woman in the world may be living in peru. how old she is and her secret to living a long life. make sure you stay tuned.
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millions of muslims are gathering near mecca, saudi arabia, for the annual hajj pilgrimage. the faithful flocked for prayer, and muslims are required to perform hajj once in their lift. 2 million muslims from around the world are taking part. >> good morning, welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm morgan radford live in new york, thank
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you for joining us. ahead. one of the oldest women in the world. first let's get a look at the forecast with meteorologist dave warren. >> take advantage of the warm weather. not lasting. a big storm providing severe whether to the southern plains and the south-east brought a frond through, and this is pushing along the mid atlantic coast, clearing out. behind it colder air. there's snow in parts of minnesota, and to the west, freezing temperatures expected. over 285 wind damage reports in this area as the front moves through. the colder air is pushing to the north. north and south dakota seeing frieze watches and advise -- freeze watches and advisories. here is the area of snow, these are the low temperatures down to near freezing. cool air felt all the way to the east coast. back to you. thank you so much. the world's oldest woman is
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believed to be from peru. at 116, it makes her older than a japanese woman in the guinness book of world records. >> at 116 filomena says each step is a victory. whilst she tires fast, she walks every importanting to take in this view at 4,000 meters in the peruvian and yes. her government says she's the oldest woman alisten -- alive. >> translation: i don't know how old i am. i know i have worked all my life, and don't remember my age. >> filomena lives in a village in one of the poorest regions. she survived the death of four of her eight i'm children. she says her mother can't hear that well, but is still healthy.
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>> this is pretty much all she can do. she wakes up, walks a bit. sits down again, has breakfast and hangs out. she's like a bibe new. >> the -- baby now. >> the peruvian government discovered phyllo-mina as part of a campaign to help elderly in poor conditions. >> we found she was born in 1827. this is not an exception. last year we found 19 more poor people over 90 hiving in rural areas. >> reporter: experts say it's not surprising - the quality of food and lifestyle promotes longevity. longevity and food is related. here, people consume healthy food, free of pesticides and transgenic substances.
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>> reporter: filomena agrees but is ready. >> i ask god to take me. i have lived and surd enough. it's time to leave the earth. >> a desire, she says, not even a world record can change. >> now, check out the priceless moment at a zoo in switzerland. we need a helping hand or a helping drunk. look at the baby elephant struggling to get up. there she goes. her family rushed to her rescue. the baby elephant was born in june. ever since, adventures have been documented. coming up in the next hour, families torn apart by i.s.i.l., a man's desperate search for a son and his wife who ran off to join a terror group. race and poverty, charles joins us for the weekend conversation to talk about a revealing
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. fighting a microscopic enemy. the scramble to retain ebola with the fire storm surrounding a man in texas. there was supposed to be ceasefire in ukraine. this is the scene a few short hours ago outside the airport in donetsk. plus, jpmorgan chase not the only bank bitten by a cyber bug. nine other financial institutions hit by hackers.
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we talk to a cyber security expert about how you can protect your money. liquid rocks. stunning images of bubbling multen lava inside a volcano. good morning, welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm morgan radford in new york. thank you for joining us. u.s. officials taking action to address the ebola virus in west africa. the military is sending 1,000 additional stroopt to fight the virus. president obama authorised 3,000 of them. health officials in dallas addressed the fall out from ebola patient. diane eastabrook is in dallas. several points to get to. first, why has the number of those who had direct or indirect contact with duncan been lowered now? >> well, they came up with the numbers, that 100 figurely
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talking to the patient and health care workers. they interviewed everyone and eliminated 50 people. they are focussed on the 50, talking and monitoring them, and are focused on 10 people that are high risk. they are the family members in the department, and the health care workers who came into contact with them in the ambulance and emergency room. you mentioned the apartment. tell us about the clean-up. dallas authorities took effort to ensure the virus didn't spread. beginning with cleaning out the apartment where duncan was staying. tell us what happened. >> a private hazmat crew came in. the family members bagged up belongings like towels, linen, putting them in a bag. the crew came in, dissen effecting the apartment, taking the personal its, including
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mattresses, putting them in containers. they put them on a truck and it's waiting for a permit so it can go and dispose of those. we don't know what they'll do with them, but they'll take them away and disintegrate them and dispose of them. they were here for about nine hours, it was a disturbing site for many that lived in the complex. >> helicopter hovered overhead as members of a contamination team moved its from an apartment where dunk yn was staying. >> -- duncan was staying. men are immigrants speaking little english and say they have been told little about duncan or his illness. >> nobody from the state has been here to talk to you about what is happening. >> no one is talking to us about the matter. >> one woman said the lack of
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information prompted her to seek medical care. >> i got scared. i went and had to check. they said i'm clear. >> reporter: the press cordoned off the complex, residents go about their business and kids return to school. some residents are worried that the ebola virus may not be cobb tained to a single apartment where duncan is staying. 23-year-old worries that duncan may have had contact with neighbours that mingle outside the apartment. >> there's kids running around, falling on the streets. it's not a normal neighbourhood where people drive the car down. people are on the street, playing and things like that. >> reporter: now, the city council woman who covers the area said at a press conference that representatives from the county, including legal aid had been out to the apartment
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complex to talk to people. none of the people we spoke to said they had contact with anyone from the country. >> diane eastabrook from dallas. thank you for being with us. >> the ebola crisis had the white house on high alert. they are trying to stem the fear of an outbreak at home. ross joins us. what are people saying. >> a lot of people are concerned. the whose held a press conference confident that it could contain the virus. >> reporter: white house officials expressed confidence that ebola was unlikely in the united states. >> every ebola outbreak in the past 40 years has been stopped. we know how to do this. we will do it again. >> reporter: the arrival in dallas of a virus killing more than 3,000 raised the level of
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concern. >> we need information out because there is a lot of fear. it's the unknown, it's the cataclysmic nature of it. namely it's accrued, it kills in a high percentage and it kills quickly. that in and of itself almost intuitively makes people frightened. u.s. officials say an outbreak is unlikely because of the health care infrastructure to stop the virus in its tracks. >> we are working aggressively and energetically to develop and test a vaccine to prevent ebola and there are putititics to tre it. >> white house officials dismissed calls for a travel ban to prevent people from the hardest hit areas in the outbreak zone, in coming to the u.s. instead their focus on identifying high risk individuals before they leave. >> president obama scheduled a meeting on monday with the national security advisors to
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discuss the outbreak, and their response. >> we'll watch that closely. thank you so much. oicials at a washington d.c. hospital are awaiting test results to determine if there is a second case of ebola. a patient has been quoornt eened at howard university hospital. the person had travelled to nigeria. the bern with ebola- -- person with ebola-like symptoms had been in nigeria. a 33 journalist on assignment will be flown to ohio, nebraska, which is the same hospital that treated dr rick sacra. >> stopping ebola before it enters the u.s. what airports are doing to present a pandemic. we talk to a specialist disease
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doctor. health official are trying to decide whether another child died from entero 68. he had been suffering from the illness. officials don't know if it led to his death. four others with the virus died. there are 500 cases in 42 states, most children. some developed polio-like paralysis. >> this morning another horrific video from i.s.i.l., it appears to show the beheading of a british hostage. i.s.i.l. says it killed this 47-year-old aid worker in retaliation to the u.s.-led campaign against them. alan henning was kidnapped in liberia, now i.s.i.l. is threatening to take the life of an american. i.s.i.l. is closing in on the syrian town of kobani. into bethlehem joins us -- bernard smith joins us from the turkey-syria border.
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can you bring us up to speed on the fighting that is happening now? >> good morning. another day of gun fire, mortar fire and rocket fire coming in and out from kobani. just behind me, so we have heard a lot of activity. i have to say the syrian kurdish fighters in kobani are more optimistic about the chances than they were yesterday. on friday they were saying they were besieged, they were protecting a small area and felt vulnerable. overnight there were a couple of u.s. air strikes and as a consequence of those kitting a couple of i.s.i.l. positions, and today the kurds are more optimistic. they have come out and subpoena to the press.
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the u.s. air strikes keeping at bay i.s.i.l.'s entrance. >> you mentioned an increase in optimism. help would be the fourth -- help would be the fourth hostage to be be headed by i.s.i.l. how are the world leaders reacting to this? >> this news only coming overnight from europe, it's been condemned here in the middle east, and the reaction from the u.k. - david cameron had this to say. >> the murder of alan henning is abhorrent, senseless, unforgiveable. anyone in any doubt about this organization can see how truly repulsive it is, and barbaric it is as an organization.
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>> reporter: now, appeals for mercy from alan henning's family in the weeks preceding the announcement of his apparent murder seem to have fallen on deaf ears. i.s.i.l. not paying attention for the appeals for clemency that have been made. >> reporter: bernard smith live in turkey. coming up, a man's hardship at the hands of i.s.i.l. al jazeera talks to a man whose wife was lured to syria to join the ruthless organization, and she took her son with her. so apparently this is what a ceasefire looks like in ukraine. despite declaring a truce nearly a month ago, clashes continue. here pro-russian separatists and government forces are battling for control of a major airport in donetsk. the fighting intensified there this week. >> speaking of intensity, it was a night of clashes with rival demonstrator in hong kong, where
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pro-democracy student accused police of failing to protect them from pro-beijing factions. adrian brown has more. >> this was a backlash against the protest movement. the scuffles were between groups that support and depose the demonstrations that have shut down parts of this city. it happened in mongkok, one of the most densely populate areas on earth. normally teaming with tourists on a fradd night. there were similar scenes in two other shopping districts. those who support the protest movement accuse the police of ignoring the attacks. blaming government sympathizers. many on the streets were local business owners, and residents, angry after a week of disruption. >> if they stay one, two, three day, people... because you are asking
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something. okay. then you can do it. we give many ves. >> the violence caused by some of the people. and we ask it to stop. the hong kong chief executive appealed for calm. >> i will not consider the use of police force to clear the area. this cannot continue for a long time. >> and mrs. struggling to keep the rival protest groups apart represented their cause for all demonstrators to kill the street. that is simply not happening. >> the worry now is that the violence we have seen tonight will continue, especially as the leaders of the three main protest groups have pulled out of talks with the government, which was supposed to lessen
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tensions. adrian brown joins us live in hong kong this morning. adrian, you mentioned accusations that the government was colluding with the triad gang. what more do you know about that? and how is the government responding? >> well, certainly dark forces were at play last night. many of the protesters say that triad gangs, members of the criminal gangs that really operate in this particular area of hong kong, were colluding with government supporters. they don't have evidence to show that, but the government has resolutely denied that, saying that they arrested 18 people last night, eight of them members of the triads. pro-democracy demonstrators were saying that... [ technical difficulties ]
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a fire broke out at the 9/11 memorial in shanksville penns pennsylvania, where three buildings were damaged. it marks the spot where united airlines flight 93 crashed during september 11th terrorist attacks. investigators don't know what caused it. the memorial was not affected and is expected to reopen today.
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good morning, welcome back to morgan radford. i'm morgan radford, thank you for joining us. the arrival of the ebola patient in the united states is raising new and serious questions about the airport screens process. robert ray shows us that officials are taking precautions. >> in west africa, airports are screening patients to ebola. some operators do not know how to operate the equipment and take an ibuprofen to slip by. shaun has been on the front lines in west africa. >> the reality is we can't stop - there's no way to stop ebola making it to this country. >> libyan officials said the first ebola patient to be diagnosed in the u.s. lied on a
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questionnaire at the airport about exposure to ebola. >> i think we'll see a lot of folks making it out of west africa with the potential of being sick. i would remind folks, especially in hospital situations, to be extremely vigilant. >> reporter: as of wednesday, customs agents is handing out-patients for anyone landing from west africa at this busy airport and other spots. when we asked homeland security and ates whether we -- agents whether we could see the pamphlets, they declined to talk about it or show us. >> they are showed to look for people that appear to be with fever, whether by touching or the individual says they feel
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feverish. >> the airport officials say they are looking into new procedures, but do not want to isolate or cut off the countries. >> it nation he nervous to travel anywhere. >> a microbiologists landed, dressed in full ebola protection gear, because of sugarcoating of the issue. >> yate is on alert -- united states is on alert. i look at this experience in texas as a wake-up call. >> officials at the c.d.c. and department of homeland security are not saying whether they'll use hand-held temperature equipment. they said the agency will not hesitate to take additional
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measures if necessary. >> an infectious disease special ist joins us in our studio. for people potentially exposed to thomas duncan, is there anything they can do, besides wait and see. >> there are pcr tests, rapid tests, where we can get a result in a couple of hours. they are not 100% perfect. to be completely sure that one is not infected, we have to wait 21 days, which is the maximum amount of time to develop the sentence. >> talking about being sure - we saw people go into his department without hazmat suits. are officials being careful or are they not necessary? >> depends on what they were doing in the apartment. if you have someone delivering groceries, dropping something off, and not having contact with anyone or anything, you don't need to do the hazmat suit protection gear.
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if you are picking up soiled equipment or its from the apartment. then that requires more protection. >> if you don't need the hazmat suit, what are the basic precautions for someone that has been potentially exposed to ebola. >> for example, if someone comes to my clinic and they may have ebola, the key things i would need to do is cover as much of my sign and mucosal membranes - eye, mouth, vagina, an us. >> any opening on the body. >> any opening needs to be covered. you want to be head to toe. when you see them wearing the shields, goggles and mask, it's not so much about inhaling, but you are trying to cover everything. that's the key thing. then, isolate them. i told co-worker, put the patient in a room, close the door, contact the health department and they'll take it from there. >> as a doctor when someone comes to your clinic, how do you
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differentiate headaches, sore muscles or weakness or short of breath. how do you different between the basic flu and ebola? >> it is difficult. the symptoms are similar. ebola fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and the symptoms you describe, sounds like the flu. you need the travel history from the patients. one of things we should have been doing already, and that is done in other parts of the world is when someone comes into a health facility you ask do you have a fever or a cough. if they fast-track them, you put them in a separate waiting room. in africa, the clinics do that. we should do it more routinely here. >> will we see more cases popping up, especially now we see a probable case in the medical center at howard. >> we don't know about that. it's a suspected case.
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we'll see a lot more patients assessed for ebola. we have to test many more people than have ebola. we'll see suspected cases and more cases. this is spiralling out of control, and is inevitable some of that will land here. >> it has a lot of people scared. what needs to happen medically. do more people need to be screened at the airport. >> people have to be screened upon departure in west africa and arrival here. it is being reinforced and made stronger here. some called for stopping nights in and out of west africa, and some airlines stop the flights, creating problems. part of the reason this has become an epidemic is the world is slow to control the spread of ebola in west africa. by stopping flights, u.n. workers, aid workers are having
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trouble getting in. me, i don't want to go if i don't think i can get back home. >> there's a reason why a lot of people are not self-reporting. thank you for joining us this morning. exxonmobile says the ebola is affecting energy production in west africa. the company says they stopped oil and gas activities including offshore drilling near liberia, and warns that most requires offdrilling. they said they stopped employees travelling to country affected by the disease. stay tuned. jpmorgan may not have been the only financial institution mack -- hacked. we talk about how to protect your purse after the break. and an amazing medical procedure giving hope to millions of would-be parents that wouldn't concede. >> i saw him in my dream.
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he stretches out his happened. i try to take his hand, but i'm paralyzed. >> a father's out break. a day in the life of a man who was lured to syria to join i.s.i.l. stay tuned. that wouldn't concede.
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you're looking live in hong kong. we'll have a live report from the heart of the pro-democracy protest in a minute. good morning to you. welcome back to "al jazeera america". i'm morgan radford, and these are the top stories. u.s. officials a1,000 additional troops are heading to west africa, adding to 3,000 approved last month. in is happening as the world health organisation says the disease killed more than 3400 people. world leaders are condemning the latest i.s.i.l. beheading. a new video apparently shows the group murdering british aid worker alan henning. the next target is an american hostage. the huge hacking at jpmorgan is not the only security breach
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at a financial institution. nine others were infiltrated by the same group. the "new york times" reports that it's believed that the hackers are operating from russia, and have a connection to the government there. one senior official telling "the times" that it could be in retaliation for sanctions connected to ukraine. jpmorgan's security breach is the latest. last year target suffered a cyber attack, and hackers hit home depot, putting credit information of 50 million customers at risk. online retailer ebay had an attack. hackers getting personal data of 145 million customers. here with us is scott, who specialises in cyber security. thank you for joining us. we are learning there could be nine other banks hacked. if that's true, how troubling is this? >> this is huge.
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jpmorgan represents the largest banking institution. it sends you a message that everyone is vulnerable. >> how did they do it? >> they are smart. they looked for the vulnerabilities. they don't always come through the back door. they find the biggest weakness. they found a web serval portal, access for web development allows you to get on with a user name and password. >> employee access is key. >> normally if you have to access servers, you need authentication, where you need a third code. it's create for extra security. this allows them to get around the loophole. once you get in, they could get the different levels. now they had information, such as personal information. they didn't hack the lent.
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at this point in time, it doesn't mean that things of that nature won't be revealed in the future. hopefully not. what will they do with the information. it represents half of america, when you look at the accounts hainged, financially fishing scams, where they do targetted emails, and want someone to look like it's from chase, a banking thing, and want you to click on there and enter the information, your password or other compromised information. that is concerning. >> what is concerning is it happened months ago? why are we only learn about it now? >> a lot of times they cannot focus in and find what happened. they have to dig in deeper. the cyber hackers are good. they cough their trails well. >> i want to -- cover their trails well. >> we are talking about jpmorgan delaying this. they announce a breach, let's
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pull it up, she said: so the reality of it is that we know they are not working well. is it enough? >> no, it's not enough, obviously. they, themselves said that they'd spend $250 million this year alone, 1,000 employees just to monitor and take care of these things. what needs to be done is early detection needs to happen. when the threats happen, they have to take care of. slowly the information un peels like an onion. >> how can we catch them when they operate in underground rings? >> what is happening is they share information. they stake weaknesses here -- take weaknesses here, selling
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vulnerabilities there, working toot and use it to attack. they have organizations that are islands. >> it's the sharing that is deceptive. >> yes. >> thank you so much for joining us. some of the challenges extend to the houseing sector where tight lending is affecting the former federal reserve chairman. ben bern angie told congress that he was rejected recently trying to refinance his home. he has refinanced twice, in 2004 and again in 2009. well, we want to return to the streets of hong kong, where the situation is still very tense. this is a live look right now. there has been clashes between supporters of china and pro-democracy protesters, who accuse police of failing to protect them. andrew, you are joining us live by phone.
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what is happening right now? >> okay, i'm on the other side of the clashes. the heart of the protest area where it kicked off outside the government building. there's a massive rally. people are upset about the fact that groups have come out of the wood work and attacked them. you heard last night about that. >> andrew is there a sign that some of the tension could subside. earlier we heard it was worse at night, transitioning from physical to verbal fighting. is there hope that it will subside again. >> the fighting last night was worse. throughout the day squirmishes continued. they don't have the intensity as it did last night. it seemed like they were on guard. they sent a force over there to sit in.
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numbers were down. tonight they have gone back. it seemed to be stopping the forces. i have friends in the police force - the triad, they like to strike at night. we'll have to keep app eye on that. >> thank you for joining us. canada's parliament expected to vote on monday to join the fight against islamic state of iraq and levant. prime minister stephen harper said fighter jets would take part at the request of the yate. stephen harper said he would consider air strikes if invited by the bashar al-assad government. >> oil i.s.i.l. is recruiting thousands of men to fi, and also are recruiting women.
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nick schifrin takes us on a journey to find his wife and son. >> reporter: every time this man looks through the photos, every time he comes to work to flip through the pages, he feels the family he had may never return. >> i remember the beautiful days, when i lived. it's impossible to forget the days, the day my child was born. >> reporter: six years ago he mar ideaism he was a muslim, he married a christian from kurdistan. she liked to travel, drink and have fun. they were happy, and had a son. the.loved his father and walked to him from the sidewalk, looked at him from the pool. after their son was born, his wife caping changed, suspending hours on live. she put on a head scarf. she arrived for a divorce, because she wanted to marry a fighter in the islamic state of
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iraq and levant. >> translation: she completely isolated herself. her brain was stoned, her soul blinded, her eye closed. because the boy was three a judge awarded her custody. they disregard. he scoured for them online, creating a fake passport and posed as a woman looking for a radical husband. >> reporter: his detective work brought him to this building, an i.s.i.l. safe house. v vet lappa and her -- svet lappa and her son arrived here. by the time he arrived. his wife and son left. >> she fled to the epicentre of i.s.i.l.'s brutality. i.s.i.l. calls this it headquarters. on the streets women most be
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covered or risk public whipping. dozens of foreign women pilgrimage here. one woman speaks to her family in french in an internet cafe. >> translation: i don't want to come back. what you're saying is bullshit. if i want to come back i will. >> he knows his son is not happy. do you feel you know what he's going through now? >> i saw him in my diagrams, he stretches out his -- dreams, he stretches out his hand, i tried to take his hand, i was paralyzed. >> propaganda videos from i.s.i.l. feature former families with kids. >> i think i'm in a dream world. i wake up here. >> i.s.i.l. recruited thousands of families. ripped thousands of families apart. this man has not opened the door in three months. this was his son's room.
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his favourite shirt. the hats he wore when they sailed together. the rocking horse that he ate breakfast on. >> reporter: you keep the room as it is because you expect him to come back. >> translation: i want the world to help me. i want my child. give me back my child. his place is here, where he was born. >> reporter: he searches every night on his boat. it's named destined, after his son. he will keep hunting not only for his own child as well as those of other families kidnapped into the islamic state group. a border patrol group under fire for an apparent assault on a 15-year-old migrant captured in this video released by the santa crust county. the teen is hunched over talking on a cell phone.
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he tries to hide the phone. soon after. the ate came in, look what happens. he takes the phone and punches the team snack dab in the stomach. >> i'm offended that someone under the colour of law, wearing the uniform would engage in that activity. i think the majority of men and women would do the right thing. >> the apparent assault took place eight months ago. the ate was charged last week. >> in ferguson missouri, protesters blocked the road, about the there were no fers. demonstrators want justice in the death of unarmed black teen, shot and killed by officer david wilson. the mayor, city manager and police chief arrived the county to take charge of monitoring. the ferguson police say they do not have the manpower or resources. each year, over a million high
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schoolers play organised football. officials find ways to limit the impact of concussion. that debate took a turn for the worst after three players died on the field. >> reporter: high school football is full of cast plays and big hits. going down hard and getting up slow are just part of the game. but during the past week players and parents across the country have been reminded how dangerous the game can be. since last friday three players died, all collapsed wearing their uniforms, on the field. >> this was just a tragedy, a damned tragedy. >> reporter: more than a million american boys play high school football and in an average year 11 die from football-related injuries, less than a third are
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injuries directly connected to the game, such as head or spinal injuries. the majority called indirect fatalities such as heated exhaustion, heart problems or stroke. friday, friend and team-mates honoured 17-year-old d eshes mario harris who died after a tackle. his father said his son suffered a brain haemorrhage caused by the hit. thursday a vigil was held for tom cutinella, his team-mates gathering on the field where the varsity linebacker collapsed and died after a collision. school officials will investigate to see if more could be done to keep the players faith. they'll examine helmet and others. the distribute superintendent says tom cutinella's death was a random mishap. >> i think it was a result of a typical football play. it was a freak accident.
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>> freak accident or otherwise, what is clear is that part of the game we call typical football is tragedy. sense 2009 all 50 states have implemented safeguards to make high school football safer. it may be october, but it's knowing in parts of the midwest and meteorologist dave warren is here with that. >> object snow happening in the northern plains. you have to go north to see scenes like this. temperatures are warm enough where it's accumulating lightly op grassy surfaces. it will be changing. by that time the snow is gone. we are seeing the snow coming in as a large storm system brought the weather to the east. bringing in the cold air. there's the change in colour. picking up a mix of snow. light snow around minnesota. here it is, light mix from the north to the south.
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that's the cooler air coming in. this will be cooling out. as the snow clears and wind dies down, it's barely above the freezing mark. freeze watches and advisories in effect. temperatures dropping to 32 degrees by tomorrow morning. there is the freeze warning and the watch, along with a frost advisory. it could happen if the temperatures does not get down to the freezing mark, but the frost is accumulating on the surfaces. here is the cooler air. 40 in minnesota. the warmer temperatures across the east moving out once the rain moves out. temperatures will drop. it will be a cooler weekend as the skies clear up. temperatures bit easier, chilly. >> indeed. thank you so much. >> a medical miracle for the first time. a woman gave birth after receiving a wound transplant. she was born without a uterus.
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she wanted to have a child. doctors were able to give her a transplant and insert a single embryo. with constant monitoring the baby was born on friday. >> when the baby came out by caesarian section, the screen almost immediately was shown, and it was a good sign that the baby was fine. in the same time it was an unreal sensation. we couldn't believe it. we had reached this moment. >> that donated womb was from the woman's 61-year-old friend who had gone through menopause. >> from poverty to discrimination, a mem wire from charles blow, joining me to talk about his book that has the book
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check this out an inside look at a volcano as it's erupting. a drone manufacturer flew the device over the barabunga volcano in iceland the the heat melted the face of the camera, the sd card was unharmed, and he uploaded the video. my next guest wrote a provocative memoir winning praise across the book world. some of the themes and issues touched op, poverty divorce and
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sexual identity. and charles jones me now to discuss his new memoir. thank you for joining us. >> i'm happy to be here. >> you are candid about experiences that millions deal with. you talked about sexual abuse at the hands of an older cousin, growing up poor and divorced. what is the message or the readers? >> it's a hard question. it's been said the bird doesn't sing because it has answers, it sings balls it has a song. the memoirs is not necessarily that you have a story, but i believe that, you know, on the social logical point, the book covers sociological group, and covers the topics you spoke to. i think the end which you come
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away with is the story of the universal story of human resilience, the fact that your past is not defining who you are. it informs who you are. and you should be able to - because you are human, nothing can be foreign to you. you should be able to see yourself in the human struggle of this kid, the protagonist, who is me in the story. you should find yourself in that struggle to overcome and to just jimp learn to be and -- simply learn to be and love yourself. >> that struggle and a passage that was arresting for me was a moment when your abuser gets on the phone, because he's at your mum's house, and you hear his voice and you go crazy, fly out the house, you have a gun and you go "i'm going to end your life today", and you chose not to. did you see your abuser later in
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life? >> i have never. i think different - go crazy is a better way to say it. different survivors need different things. some people need a moment where they sit across a table and say "i need you to acknowledge the harls you have done to me -- harms you have done to me and allow me to heel. i don't give my abuser that much power. i did not need to sit across a table. i needed to release it from my own being. love and ate are so big. i had to stop hating him to love me. i had to release the pain of it all, and say this is the experience of a 7-year-old boy. it doesn't make it right or excuse it. it says that i have grown out of it, and i am now me, and i can
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love me, and i do not have to see him. >> it's interesting, because you express the binary between love and hate, and expressed how the experience affected the way you saw the binary between sexual experiences of gay. you said "the worlds domino me as homosexual... ", why do you say that. >> well, at first i think children - because you are - depending on how child sexual abuse occurs, you are a presexual being. you are catapulted from your naivety in something you were not prepared to deal with. you, the brain, can on its open bring together these ideas of abuse and identity and
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attraction. and only with maturity can you start to unbraid those things and say whatever i was going to be attracted to, it would be predesposed or predetermined. and operate the two ideas. it comes with maturity. but that said, the idea of that - the label bisexual was interestingly - it didn't work for me. i wanted something particular. i said you know what all labels are umbrella terms to some degree. >> what is something, in coming to this realisation, you shared powerful images. les see the poet of you and sydney pottia, your book was described as similar to the back of james baldwin, and i love
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that. >> first of all, james is a father figure to me. >> how does that feel? >> first of all, i'll flattered by it. i keep saying to myself no way. don't get that in your head. i don't believe it. i wish i could write like james baldwin. there's only one james baldwin. you reported telling the times baldwin is to me, everything, clear and brave. it seems to me that you are well on your way. >> charles blow, author and columnist for the "new york times". a wicked storm ripped through texas, dave warren is here tracking the weather. >> we had video like this through the dallas area. this is a line of storms coming through. this is what it looked like before the storms came in, you can see the sky getting darker, clouds coming in, storms coming through. these are a number of reports
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around the area as they get the storm rolling through. it lead to a lot of wind damage. it's moved through dallas, is pushing off the east coast. rain, cooler temperatures coming behind it. the number of reports coming in had a lot of reports that came in, over 285 wind damaged reports like this. this is a strong storm that came in, you get a trampoline rolling down the street and wind going 50-60 miles per hour, over 70 men's wind gusts. it was one of 285 reports around dallas. nothing today, the wind bringing in cooler air. spreading east behind the front. temperatures dropping a bit. if you see rain, getting colder. by the end of the weekend, could see lows. >> thank you so much. >> if you are going to dream of the inner rock star, you may as
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well dream big. >> those are kids and adult lining up to strum on the world's biggest guitar, on display at a science center in jersey city. it's called guitars, incidents that rock the world. guitars, 40 feet long, 50 feet hide. weighing more than 20 pounds. >> tomorrow morning, more on the ebola outbreak. we'll follow the developments as federal officials work to calm nerves and fear in north america. that's tomorrow. that's it for this edition of al jazeera. i'm morgan radford, live in new york city. thank you so much. have a great day. we'll leave you with live pictures of hong kong. remember, stay with al jazeera for the latest from the protest there from our colleagues in
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>> hello there, welcome to the news hour from our headquarters in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes. protest on the syrian border as isil inch ever closer. the u.k. condemns' isil o's isil's beheading of a british aid wor worker. and