>> homework bounds, an american journalist with ebola headed for treatment as the head of the c.d.c. prepares to meet with obama. >> american forces joining forces with isil in iraq and syria. >> three american servicemen swept out to sea. the massive storm that took

they've lives. >> the actions from the past tell me the reason i was fired is because i'm pregnant in a way that's no one traditional and it can't be hidden. >> there is a twist, why the controversial case is sparking outrage in a major american city. >> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> hi, stephanie. >> hi, tony, welcome to the team. >> i'm tony walters. an american cameraman is on the way to nebraska, en route to a hospital for treatment. he contracted the virus covering the story in liberia. >> president obama is set today to get an in-person update on ebola prom the head of the c.d.c., this as doctors say the efficient patient diagnosed in the u.s. has taken a turn for the worst. dallas officials are monitoring his family and a homeless man for symptoms. we are live in dallas this morning. diane, duncan may have come into contact with dozens of people in

dallas. do health officials say they have the situation under control? >> they do think they have the situation under control. they're monitoring about 50 people. nine are considered high risk because they had close contact with duncan. >> this morning, the first ebola patient to be diagnosed in the u.s. is fighting for his life, now in critical condition. >> his situation has taken a turn for the worse. ebola is a very serious disease. we're hope forego his recovery. >> according to his family, duncan is reportedly on a respirator and dialysis machine. his family and dozens of others are closely monitored for the decease. this morning, american freelance journalist is back in the u.s. after testing positive for ebola. >> we can't wait until the

moment until we can hold him and hug him. tit, all we care about is that he get better. >> a specialized team of doctors will treat him at the nebraska medical center. he's the second patient to be treated there. >> their confidence level has been boosted, given the experience that we had previously and very recently, so they're ready to go. >> this morning, members of the kentucky air national guard are bound for west africa to aid in the international effort against wheel. the pentagon may send up to 4,000 troops to west africa to train workers and to help build more than a dozen field hospitals. today, the director of the c.d.c. heads to the white house to update president obama on the ebola epidemic. >> the bottom line here is we know how to stop it. >> senator schumer said more needs to be done to prevent the disease coming to the u.s., saying the airports are becoming the front lines for fighting

ebola. >> i am calling on the c.d.c. in conjunction with border patrol to conduct more comprehensive health screening at united states international airports, including a temperature check for travelers returning from liberia, guinea, sierra leone and nigeria. >> schumer wants hospitals to have access to a database listing the names of everyone who's recently traveled to and prom the region. >> over the weekend, we had a chance to go to some walking-in clinics in dallas to talk to health care providers. they're seeing people come in with questions and doing the best to answer questions about the virus. >> you mentioned thomas eric duncan's family. they're still in quarantine. there's always news about this homeless man being mon fond what is his connection to duncan? >> that man had ridden in the same ambulance that duncan had

been transported in to the hospital. he was taken to a hospital last night. he's been moved to another facility. >> live in dallas, thank you, diane. >> mike viqueira is in washington, d.c. for us, mike, the c.d.c. director is meeting with the president today about ebola, seems particularly timely. what are they expected to discuss? >> the president was in atlanta at the first outbreak of ebola here in the united states, or at least the first reported cases. they're going to go over the plans and experimental drugs in development now, zmapp among them, of course that drug now, they're out of it basically and they are experimental to begin with. there's the question of education, keeping the public informed, try to head off undo panic for lack of a better word, to try to make people understand that the likelihood this is

going to spread to academic proportions is extremely low. >> calling for tighter screenings on passengers entering the country, is ebola start to go become a political issue there in washington? >> i wouldn't call it a political issue. there are of course a number of lawmakers who have spoken out now, wanting outright travel bans from west africa from nigeria and liberia where the outbreak is at its worst. a noted expert who is with the n.i.h. center for allergy and infectious diseases said that would only serve to isolate those countries, cause panic within those societies. we need aid workers and medical professionals coming in and out of those countries. the medical community is against a been a while more politicians are lining up in favor of it. >> let me turn you to isil now,

the fight in iraq and syria. >> 15,000 among the estimated 31 fighters for isil. half of foreign fighters. how many of those are europeans, estimates there into several hundreds, and how many of them are americans. here's what was said on 60 minutes last night. >> how many americans are fighting in syria on the side of the terrorists? >> in the area of a dozen or so. >> do you know who they are? >> yes. >> each and every one of them. >> i think of that dozen or so, i do. >> over the weekend, the fight from the coalition still taken to members of isil and isis throughout syria and iraq. of course that situation north of syria is still a major concern here, the syrian-kurdish town of kobane.

many wonder why the coalition isn't attacking isil harder in that region there. >> he also said the u.s. is better e-game fight isil than it was in taking on al-qaeda. how has u.s. intelligence changed? >> you sort of have to turn this on its head. while he doesn't undercut or down play the poet ends of isil as a fighting force, as a matter of fact web turns it as a me that is taces of isil. he says they can keep the threat more under control than they could in the early days of the war on terror. >> appreciate it, mike viqueira in washington, d.c., thanks. >> we know the name of a marine considered the first u.s. casualty of the prays against

isil. 21-year-old corporal jordan spears went missing wednesday. he and another marine ejected over the persian gulf. the other marine was saved, but they could in the find spears. >> vice president joe biden is apologizing for comment about u.s. partners fighting isil, offering apologies to the crowned prince of the united arab emirates. he said he did not mean to imply the nation was funding and arming al-qaeda. he apologized to turkey for implying it let fighters cross its territory to join isil. this morning we will speak with the former u.k. ministry of defense advice sewer, michael kay about the fight against isil and whether airstrikes are really making a difference. >> two u.s. servicemen of dead, another missing off the coast of japan, swept away by a wave caused by a powerful storm. >> the remnants of that typhoon are now on their way back out to sea, but not before cut ago wide

swath through the japanese mainland. john henry smith has the latest. >> this storm turned out to be milder than anticipated, downgraded from a category four to one before it made landfall. the typhoon was still plenty powerful enough to disrupt life and in the case of the servicemen, powerful enough to kill. >> the typhoon hit japanese shores last night with winds up to 100 miles per hour. those winds calmed significantly to gust 50 miles an hour as the storm hit tokyo and its 13 million people. the storm dumped a foot of rain, causing major transportation disruptions across the capital city. 600 flights were canceled and country's high speed bullet train shut down. >> we have no plan until we know what's happening with the weather. >> sunday, four american

servicemen at the air force base in okinawa were posing for a picture when they were washed into the sea by a large wave. rains for the approaching storm also made for treacherous driving in a grand prix race held in japan. one driver crashed on the slick roadway and was transported to the hospital where he underwent brain surgery and is currently on a vent later. >> today, to be raining so much is very difficult conditions. >> the typhoon suspended search efforts on the mountain where 12 people remain missing following last week's volcanic ethank you killed 51 hikers. >> 21,000 in japan are without power and more than 400,000 evacuated as a precaution. >> should we check in with dave warren? >> lots of fill-ins this

morning. >> the final advisory's been issued, it's moving off to sea. the big problem was flooding. the wind's died down, still gusts over 100 miles an hour, but over a foot of rain in many areas, up and down the coast caused a lot of flooding. here's what the storm looked like on the satellite picture. you can clearly see the center there. as it moves into land and cooler water, these storms typically weaken. it made land fall on the mainland of japan early monday morning, sunday evening our time. a wind gust of over 100 miles an hour, tokyo received over a foot or close to a foot of rain, leading to a lot of flooding. now it's tropical storm, the final advisory's been issued, but it will be absorbed in this large area of low pressure in the north pacific and maybe impacting canada last week. >> in hong kong, government offices, businesses and schools

reopening today after being paralyzed by a week of protests. demonstrators are out in smaller numbers. the government gave them until this morning to reopen the streets and they did. many protestors say their fight for democracy i also not over. >> ordinarily, the sight of civil servants going to work wouldn't cause interest but did today in hong kong because it was a significant moment, evening a turning point in this crisis. the chief executive who still refuse to say resign had said that unless civil servants were able to reach their desks on monday morning, then the police might take unspecified action against the protestors. now, the number which protestors continues to dwindle, but their blockades and barricades remain in force not just here, outside his office, but at the main government complex nearby. you sense that this movement is now beginning to lose momentum. there are divisions within the

ranks. the leadership is in disarray, and now church leaders and also politicians from both sides of the divide are appealing for the students to step back from the brink. they say that they have made their point, but it's not worth dying for. overnight, the financial secretary for hong kong made the astonishing admission that the hong kong government was psychologically unprepared for these protests, raising the possibility that fear, among many ordinary hong kong people, that perhaps the people's liberation army might yet have to be used to try to end the turmoil which began 10 days ago. >> what a difference a weekend makes in the turnout in hong kong. all right, a new group of americans shipping out to west africa now. >> the state that is sending its air national guard to help in the fight against ebola. we will talk to a doctor about how much troops can actually do to stop the rye russ from spreading. >> ebola is not the only virus

causing concern. the enterovirus has claimed a life. >> back at sea, resetting the search for a packed jetliner that vanished off the face of the earth.

>> taking a live look at the admiralty district in hong kong, what a difference a couple of days make, fewer protestors on the streets this morning. it's 7:00 p.m. at night there. talks are set to begin between the chief executive's deputy and some of the protestors today. >> for the first time, a death is linked to the enterovirus, affecting hundreds of children nationwide. >> the boy went to preschool in new jersey. i'm thinking a lot of parents are probably wondering should they send their kids to school today. >> absolutely, getting going this morning to send their kids off to school, which is why school officials were talking to parents late into the night, to assure them they are doing everything to stop the death from spreading, calling the

death shacking. he showed no sign was symptoms the night before he died. let's broaden this out and show you this map from the c.d.c., where you can see every state is dealing with this, with at least 538 confirmed cases nationwide, plus several states are investigating possible paralysis in children link said to the virus. the latest case is out of michigan, involving a seven-month-old baby boy. now the first deaths of children linked to the enterovirus in new jersey and rhode island. a 10-year-old from rhode island suffered enterovirus and a staff infection. for the 4-year-old in new jersey, despite pink eye, he was perfectly healthy the night before he died. >> we are going to do above and beyond cleaning, wiping off desks, cleaning water fountains. >> new jersey school leaders are tracking hundreds of children, including one who shared a

classroom with waller. the preschooler is the youngest in a set of triplets. so far, his sisters have not shown any symptoms. >> erica pitzi, thank you. >> 60 members of the kentucky air national guard have been deployed to west africa to help in the fight against ebola. they will serve in senegal and help assemble a cargo processing hub. they will remain in place as long as they are needed. >> this is what we do, america is a place and people that can be relied upon to help and these guys are dying to do just that, they are here to help our folks and our brothers and sisters in africa. >> officials say the airmen won't have direct contact with anyone who could be carrying the virus. >> back in this country, officials say the patient with ebola in dallas has taken a turn for the worse. an infectious disease specialist joins us. thank you for joining us. his condition is downgraded over

the weekend to critical. what does that say to you? >> when we think of a patient that needs to be in a critical care unit that indicates that they may need to be on a vent later, secondly they are needing to receive medications we call pressers, epinephrine, those kind of medications to support blood pressure. those are the two things i suspect are happening with him at the moment. >> doctor, help me here. there's been a lot said about ebola in the united states over the last few days and i'm wondering if you believe, how much confidence you have in the u.s. system to handle ebola. >> well, i agree with what others are saying, we're not going to have an epidemic here in the united states, however, we probably will have more importations are disease as long as things are spiral out of control in west africa. >> it's a global village. >> exactly. we are going to see more dunces. >> there has been a lot of talk from senator schumer and others

about mother that could be done on the u.s. side. do you think so that screenings for example of passengers that are coming in from west africa, would that make a difference? >> i want to say a travel ban will not work. the reason is people who travel from africa to the united states often connect through other places. you would have to block flights from london, frankfurt, brussels, not just africa. screening is one way to deal with this. it's not a travel ban. again, it's not going to be just screening people from west africa. you're going to have to screen anyone through national port of entry for fever and systems. >> u.s. troops are setting up hospitals, care centers, the numbers seem on the small side. i don't know your thoughts on it, and whether or not enough troops are going over, and the challenge for the liberian government in dealing with the issues that they have right now. is there enough help internationally on its way on

the ground now? >> unfortunately, the response is coming more than six months too late, first of all. >> more than six months too late. >> yeah. that's part of the reason this has grown into such a large epidemic. the united states military are experts in setting up military bases, basically keeping their troops safe. they have water and sanitation engineers, logisticians, they will set up safe havens where health care workers can tend to patients moratively than now. >> there's the continuing problem of getting enough health care workers to work in the hospital, right? >> there is. i was talking to one of the doctors without borders ebola experts. he said it's like trying to send a lot of pilots and flight attendants when you don't have planes. you need the treatment centers first. i volunteered myself and the world health organization is no longer taking volunteers right now, because they've had too

many exposures among the volunteers who have stepped forward. doctors without borders are not taking volunteers outside of their own pool, because they don't have the beds that can be staffed. >> you have tried to volunteer with an organization, they need health care workers and they're turning you away? >> then they want you trained. the c.d.c. finally started offering training, but the c.d.c. wants you to say this is when i'm going and the organization wants you to already have training. to get over there is not as easy as you would think. >> we're going to keep you with us for our next hour. thank you so much. >> there is another tropical storm just off the coast of mexico and could be headed for the american southwest. >> this is the moisture, not really the center of the storm. that is forecast for the weekend. this area of clouds is tropical storm simon downgraded from a

hurricane, 60 miles an hour, continuing to move to the north. look at moisture spreading ahead of that. this is what we are expecting over the next few days here. heavy rain will get lighter, but will spread into arizona and new mexico. it could be heavy enough that it could fuel these thunderstorms that could cause flooding. very heavy rain across phoenix could lead to showers and thunderstorms and flash flooding like in the past and continue to spread to the north thursday. we're watching this closely, certainly we'll have updates here over the next ty days. they are getting ready for more showers and thunderstorms in the area. we've seen the moisture that can lead to flash flooding, so that could be a big issue here. it's not until wednesday and thursday, late tuesday, early wednesday and thursday across the southwest. that is the big concern over the next few days. >> all right, weep keep an eye on that. >> tech giant hewlett packard plan to say break into two companies. the announcement coming just a

short time ago, one company will run its stronger computer and printer business, h.p. has cut tens have thousands of jobs in recent years as part of a major restructuring plan. >> michael phelps said he will enter a treatment program nearly a week after his second drunk driving arrest. he said he would take time away from the sport to work on himself and learn to make better decisionses. when he was stopped, he was training for the olympic team. he was arrested in 2004 for drunk driving. >> it is the start of a new term for the supreme court. >> it's going to be a busy one, discrimination and free speech to same-sex marriage, we're breaking down the high profile cases for the justice. >> a chemistry teacher said she was fired for being pregnant and why the community is outraged. bisi onile-ere has the story live for us from detroit. >> he had to be rescued after

trying to run from miami to bermuda. why he's angry with the coast guard. it's just one of the stories caught in our global net.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. good morning, everyone, another live look at hong kong, the evening hours right now, pro democracy protestors finally beginning to take down some of those barricades, still plenty of them still up after more than a week of demonstrations as some of the protestors beginning two days of meetings with local leaders today. it's a story we will continue to follow here at aljazeera america. >> the jacksonville jaguars mascot facing a fire storm of criticism. who thought this seen was a good idea? >> plus a fender bender on the runway, tense moments in the cockpit at kennedy airport. >> look at this, look at this,

how everyone, including that driver survived this pretty scary crash that took place in italy. >> first a look at our top stories this morning, an american diagnosed with ebola in africa is now back in the u.s., en route to a hospital in nebraska where he will be treated. meanwhile, a patient in dallas, thomas eric duncan is now in critical condition. doctors say he is fighting for his life. >> more airstrikes overnight aimed at isil fighters in iraq and syria. australian and belgian jets went after targets in iraq. james comey said the u.s. knows exactly which americans are fighting for isil, saying the u.s. is equipped to handle the threat to it comes to u.s. shores. >> search crews are looking for a u.s. air man swept out to sea in japan. the storm has been downgraded to a tropical storm and heading out to sea.

>> the supreme court's new term officially kicks off this morning. there are a number of notable cases on the docket, including that of a worker who sued u.p.s. peggy young said the delivery service discriminated against her when she was pregnant. she asked to be put on light duty. ups said it can treat pregnancy as any other injury. >> residents voted in 2000 to create an independent commission to oversee redistricting. state legislaturures say they have that power. they want the supreme court to agree. the justices will weigh in on free speech and the internet. a man was sentenced to four years in jail for angry posts on his facebook page. prosecutors say they were threats. he said they were rap lyrics and he has a right to free expression. >> the biggest cases of the year may be yet to come. the justice have not decided whether to take up same-sex

marriage. there are appeals pending from five states. >> coming up, we will get more on the supreme court's new term with randall pinkston and we'll speak with legal analyst jami floyd. >> pope francis making comments about the future of the catholic church. has he gathered bishops from around the world to tackle contraception, momentum mow sexuality and divers. the pontiff urges participants to lend an ear to the rhythm of our time and smell the odor of modern life. the gathering will last two weeks. smell the odor of modern times. >> a catholic school in detroit at the center of the gay rights debate, a teacher cut from her job after the school found out she was pregnant. she and her partner conceived from no one traditional means

not supported by the church. bisi onile-ere is live in detroit this morning and her firing has sparked an uproar in the community. what's been the impact? >> it is, tony. good morning to you. yes, the policy that led to barbara webb's firing is now under review and the nuns who oversee the high school speaking out, saying that something like this should never happen again. >> barbara webb should be excited about the birth of her first child, but instead is dealing with the disappointment of losing her job. >> it's definitely hurtful, to be, you know, rejected by your family is something painful. >> webb worked as a chemistry teacher at this all girls catholic high school for a decade. in 2012, she married her long time partner, kristin. when she told administrators in august she was pregnant, she was fired. >> i think it was a little bit of shock to me. >> webb signed a morality clause

when she was hired. the contract forbids certain behaviors that go against catholic teachings. webb became pregnant through invitro fertilization, a procedure the catholic church opposes. the 33-year-old says her termination letter didn't explain why she was let go, but... >> the actions from the past tell me that the reason i was fired is because i'm pregnant in a way that's non-traditional and it can't be hidden. >> webb wrote about her ordeal on facebook. she said the response was overwhelming. >> i stand with bas barb webb. >> students and parents protest in favor of barb webb. many believe the pontiff opened the door for change. >> i was born a catholic. i would say that i'm a struggling hopeful catholic, and some of the messages that you hear from the pope and depending

upon which church you go to and which priest you listen to, some of the messages, you are welcome. >> well, it's probably right now a conflictual message. >> while most schools won't comment on firings, the nuns sat down with us for an interview. >> certainly they're hearing the words of pope francis and yet know that one of their teachers is no longer there. i think it's a situation that is challenging or students. >> now sister mary jane herb said the school's policies and practices are under review. >> we have to be fateful to the catholic identity and it's a difficult balancing act to realize that and to yet be fair and just to the people in our employment, so it's going to be an interesting road ahead as we look at things in a different way. >> i definitely think there's the to president obama 10 she will for change and if anything, that's great if that can come out of this. >> webb tells me that she has found a job with another school district, and that she doesn't have any plans to file any

lawsuit against marion high school. she says all that she wants to see is change. >> the nuns that run the school have a long history in detroit for standing for change and justice. could that affect how the webb case is actually handled? >> it most certainly will, yes, the nuns of known to be advocates for justice and i'm told this will likely be taken into account when they decide on what happens next. >> the first case of ebola diagnosed on u.s. soil is raising concerns about the country's ability to deal with a public health crisis. a dallas hospital saw the patient, but sent him home at first despite symptoms and his travel to liberia. courtney reports on procedures the federal government has in place in case an illness like ebola spreads. >> epidemics are a part of american history. two of the deadliest struck in

the 20th century, the spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide. more american soldiers died from the flu those years than killed in combat during world war i. through mid century, the spread of measles among children killed one out of every three or four infected before the development of a vaccine in 1953. today, the appearance of ebola in texas is raising questions about epidemics and containment. >> ebola is a scary disease, because of the officerty of illness it causes. we really hope for the recovery of this individual. at the same time, we are stopping it in its tracks in this country. >> the c.d.c. has protocols in place to present infectious disease epidemics. it's essential to diagnose new cases quickly. it's important to have the needed vaccines and medical supplies. it's important to quarantine the sick with ebola.

the current focus raises a bigger question. how prepared is the u.s. when it comes to fighting epidemics. the c.d.c. raised a red flag earlier this year with the report that warned of a reduced financial resources. these losses, they said make it difficult for local state offices to prepare. the budget has shrunk $1 billion since the 2001 anthrax attacks. state and local health departments have cut 50,000 jobs since the 2008 financial crisis. the enterovirus has sent children across the country to hospitals even as the media has focused on ebola. the c.d.c. confirmed more than 500 cases of the dangerous d68 enterovirus strain in 40 states. >> the man who discovered ebola in the 1970's, dr. peter piyat

said the biggest infectious disease threat to americans today is the flu. according to the c.d.c., each year, various strains sent 200,000 americans to the hospital. over a 30 year period, up to 50,000 people have died because of complications from it. >> the ebola view us is spreading rapidly in west africa. more than 3800 people have been infected, in liberia half have died. joining us now is missionary lincoln burnell in liberia near the capitol monrovia and near the main ebola treatment center. reverend, thanks again for your time. i want to ask you this, how much has the fear of this virus affected how people interact in your community. do people still hug, shake hands in church? >> no. people have just gotten away from shaking hands, from hugging, people don't hardly even visit one another.

it's a very frightening and yet also a very deadly disease, so people finally are catching on to the need to leave and the desire to leave is driving them away from social practices. >> do they also have a desire to leave? are you seeing an exodus out of the country? >> not really, people who are here have little or no choice. they are either leaders for people with a passion for liberia. two thirds of the people have nowhere else to go and are going to remain here in the deadly and dangerous environment of the disease. >> i imagine some of the people there feel all they have was prayer. i want to ask you what church was like yesterday? what is attendance like? >> attendance is very high.

the pastors are all the spiritual leaders and hope for people. normally in a crisis, people come to church seeking god's intervention and healing. basically, people are asking god to people the land, but the leaders must again take the lead. >> have you had any friends for family or members of your church that have come down with ebola? >> oh, definitely. we just lost a very young lady who just got her master's in public health and was working, anita, who was a member of our church. she was serving with the military and contracted the virus by just testing someone for malaria at centers for malaria. she died and was created last week. i have a personal friend who served with the health ministry and he contracted the disease simply by going out and ministering to a family and now his four children are here with their dad gone. >> do you know anyone who

survived the virus? >> oh, yes, a doctor has survived and several others, last couple of days, 11 were released, half a mile away from the compound where they have ebola treatment center for the missionaries, as well as that of the m.s.f. and the government, as well as the international community have sent out dozens of people who have survived. >> i'm seeing the two pictures, the one showing all the health care workers that are flooding into your country and then pictures of children and people literally dying on the streets with no medical attention. can you give me a better sense of what's actually happening? are there pockets of the community that are getting medical attention and pockets that are not? >> oh, definitely. in an environment like this, for example, you have the u.s. troops that have come in and the

roads are impassable at this point in time, with 150-200 inches of rain. there are community that is they say you can't get to. there are other communities that you've got to get to, so there won't be people in the city or the communities are so slum or impoverished it's difficult to get to the people. >> i hear you. thank you so much again for your time, sir. >> some much-needed supplies to fight ebola sitting unused on a dock in sierra leone, including hospital linens, protective suits and those are definitely necessary, and masks. the supplies provided by don nors in the united states arrived in freetown august 9. the government of sierra leone has refused to pay a $6,500 fee to the shipping company. >> in mexico, authorities are now trying to identify 28 bodies discovered in a mass grave.

the grave is not far from where more than 40 mexican students disappeared last month. they had clashed with the police. officials are conducting d.n.a. tests on the bodies. they want to know if this of the bodies the student protestors. the bodies are badly burned so it could take months to identify them. >> the search malaysia airlinemalaysiaairlines flight n action. >> they have made lead to images of the ocean floor. the search area is 1100 miles off the coast of australia in the southern indian ocean. they are concentrating on an area officials refer to as the

seventh arc, the place they think the plane went out of fuel and went down. the search area covers 23,000 square miles. crews will use sonar, video cameras and jet fuel sensors searching for the wreckage. the ship arrived at the search area today and began its mission. another ship will join in later this month, a third is still mapping out part of the search zone and will take part once its mission is completed. each ship has a crew of 25-35 people onboard working around the clock. the bowing 777 disappeared marsh eight. the search area is in deep waters. it's very difficult to get your head around this, but the depths range woman 2000 feet to

four miles. the average depth is two and a half miles down. that's the same width as the island of manhattan. that's the average depth and sometimes double that. >> in a situation where there's no exjen under there. >> the deeper you go, there's no light. it's very difficult to see. >> it's like going into outer space. >> totally. >> appreciate it. >> a fender bender at j.f.k. airport, two commercial airlines bumped while taxiing at the gate. no one was injured. an investigation is underway. >> taking a wrong turn, a couple marking their engagement aboard to hot air balloon, stranded over the pacific ocean, hello, what happens next? it all happened at sunset yesterday in san diego. the balloon was hovering low over the waves.

the wind shifted and pilot quickly drifted off course. a group of surfers came to the rescue, toeing the balloon and the newly engaged couple safely back to shore. >> that was a close call. >> let's look at other stories caught in our global net. there's a controversial college speech people are talking about by a convicted cop. the international business times said he reported an address that was address that was delivered in vermont. he actually got his own degree through the college while he was in prison. it's not a traditional school. they don't have grades or anything like that, it's a relatively small college. the family of the officer and the others had called on the school to not show the speech. they went ahead and showed it. >> highly controversial, understood. >> chalk this one up, as an unfunny joke. come on, the mascot of the

jacksonville jags was on the sidelines sunday when his team played pittsburgh. the sporting news said he held up this terrible towel. that's for all the pittsburgh fans. they wave the towels. >> making light of the deaths of thousands of people. they lost the game. >> deservedly so. >> a man was rescued in an inflatable bubble. he takes issue with the coast guard who rescued him. he tells the miami herald he was doing just fine. basically, this is the way this works. you run like a hamster on the wheel and it moves it through the ocean, but the coast guard says that he set off his personal beacon. as far as they're concerned, that's a distress call. they made him stop this process. he's an extreme athlete. he was planning to run from

miami to bermuda, puerto rico through the bermuda triangle. >> will he get the bubble back? he'll probably get the bubble back and a bill. >> the head of the f.b.i. talking extensively about the threat posed by isil. >> we will break down what he had to say with michael kay, a former advisor to the british ministry of defense. >> the latest iphone had users getting bent out of face and now has folks literally pulling their hair out. we'll tell you what's going on with the new iphone. >> a once threatened species coming back, what's helping walrus bounce back. it is one of this morning's discoveries.

>> it is time now for one of today's discoveries. walruses in norway were once nearly extinct but making a comeback. >> the numbers have been dwindling for the past six decades. i didn't know that. the country outlawed hunting to boost the numbers. >> a sharp rise was found in the population, the latest count, 3800 walruses. that's a hard word to say, i want to say walri. >> the f.b.i. director james comey is speaking out about the isil threat, saying it is less of a threat than al-qaeda, because the u.s. is better equipped to handle terrorism. he said the u.s. knows exactly which u.s. citizens are fighting with isil. he says the government is monitoring those fighters and will know if they attempt to come back into the united

states. >> let's bring in retired air force lieutenant michael kay, a former advisor to the u.s. ministry of defense. let's start with the comment, the assertion that isil does not present the same threat to the u.s. as al-qaeda did in the days leading up to 9/11. your take on that. >> i think i agree with him. if we go back to the generation of isis, it goes back two years with al baghdadi. he came down, exploited the lack of governance in syria and started to grow the isis network in aleppo in the northern part of syria. i went to north lebanon to a city called tripoli to speak with a radical sheik who told me about the process. that is organically, tentacles reaching into iraq. if you look at al-qaeda, that's been growing for decades.

if you look at the various affiliates and off shoots, whether al-qaeda in magrad. >> al-nusra. >> there is a specific mandate of attacking the west. that's their mandate. they have a network, they have all these structures that have been built over time and place. i don't think isis has that yet. >> let's talk about kobane in syria right on the border with turkey. there is a lot of fighting going on there now. i need to understand why that particular town is strategically important. >> there are a number of tactical players that are on the ground at the moment, all with various interests, various priorities and loyalties. we've got the peshmerga, effectively the kurdish fighting force, the yazidi defense force. the iraq army, the syrian regime, hezbollah, and we've got a coalition that is now

attacking them. there are so many different players, which you would think makes it better in order to combat isis, but that does involve more coordination and there are more competing views. kobane is important because it belongs to the kurds. geopolitically, there has to be a conversation, there's been a long standing dispute between the p.p.k., the kurdish people within turkey. there has to be a conversation that reconciles that relationship, because at the moment, the kurdish -- >> that confidence is happening, right? >> the kurds think that turkey is not doing so much about isis. because isis is slamming the kurds in kobane to get their political views across. >> why isn't turkey doing more if the fight that is close to the bored officer they've put tanks on their side of the border. at what point does turkey need to talk about ground forces to help the kurds with dough bain?

>> it goes back to these proxy notions. if you look at assad and the way he has in many eyes backed off isis, he's done so because isis are fighting the free syrian army and al-nusra who are trying to topple him. turkey may be doing the same thing, backing off isis because isis are hitting the kurds that have been a problem to turkey -- >> i can't fully buy that turkey would rather have isil -- >> i'm not saying that. yesterday, turkey traded 180 islamic state hostages for 49 turkish hostages. >> so consider that. >> so effectively, the ideology, the recruitment, which is a holistic approach has taken a big dent, because the recruitment of isis that just been improved by 181 fighters. >> michael kay, thank you for

your insights. >> three american servicemen were swept out to sea by a typhoon in japan. >> let's get another check of weather. dave warren is here. >> that happened near okinawa. it has weakened to a tropical storm and the last at visery issued, transitioning to not being a tropical storm. early monday morning, local time in japan, the biggest impact was the very heavy rain that led to flooding. the storm stayed close to the water here. wind gusts of over 100 miles an hour were reported. tokyo had over a foot of rain. the storm will continue to move to the north pacific. >> the orioles to the next round. a ground ball to third. flaherty, second base, taylor needs time. the orioles sweep the tigers!

>> orioles, baseball! a father and son having fun together. the orioles beat the tigers 2-1 to win the american league division series, heading to its first championship series in 17 years. >> all right, move on. >> next up, the kansas city royals dominating from the first pitch -- who cares about the royals? it's all about the orioles. >> all right, i have no skin in that game. >> apple has people pulling out their hair literally. many iphone six users exam plaining their hair is getting stuck in the phone. it has small gaps between the aluminum and glass that snags hair. apple, no comment yet. >> ahead in our next hour, voters in brazil will head back to the polls as the country's president faces a new challenge to stay in office. who she faces in the runoff contest. >> the voyage to bermuda not

ending well, how the coast guard burst his bubble and unique plan to get to the island. >> we are back with more aljazeera america. good morning, everyone. >> stay with us. >> kentucky, a state that's hurting economically. >> when the mines shut down it affects other businesses too you know, it hurts everything. >> some say it's time for a change. >> mitch has been in there so long. >> while others want to stay the course. >> all the way mitch! you know exactly what these people needs in kentucky. >> communities trying to cope. what does the future hold? >> the economy, the struggling coal industry and healthcare are all impacting their vote. >> "america votes 2014 / fed up in kentucky". all this week. only on al jazeera america.

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hundreds of kids across the u.s., a 4-year-old showing no symptoms dice from the enterovirus. >> one man looking to travel the bermuda triangle in a bubble. the botched thousand mile journey and demand he is now making to the coast guard after they rescued him. >> welcome to al jazeera america. >> president obama is getting briefed on ebola today. as an american cameraman with ebola returns to the u.s. he contracted the virus covering the outbreak in liberia. his plane touched down in maine. he is heading to nebraska for treatment. >> a man diagnosed in dallas is fighting for his life as officials keep a close eye on the people connected to duncan. what can you tell us about eric duncan's condition this morning? >> he remains in critical condition, and his family says that he is on a respirator and

on dialysis. >> officials are concerned about the 10 people who came in contact with duncan. describe who they are. >> those 10 people include three family members who were in the same apartment with him and the rest of health care providers who came in contact with him either in the ambulance transporting him to the hospital or in the emergency room. those people are being monitored daily, getting temperatures taken. none of those 10 people have shown symptoms. >> we're following this other patient, an american cameraman working with nbc when he contracted ebola in liberia. what's happening with him when he hands? >> he is on his way to the nebraska medical center this morning. that facility has a special bio containment unit. the american physician who had been treating ebola patients in

west africa was taken there a couple of months ago. they think he should be getting there within the next few hours. >> diane, thank you. >> lets bring in our infectious disease specialist. doctor, good to see you. has the u.s. done enough to combat this threat, the threat of ebola? >> i think we've been too slow to respond. we already knew that this outbreak, this epidemic now of ebola was brewing several months ago. as of marsh, we were hearing reports from liberia, from sierra leone. it wasn't until two americans came back infected with the virus that we started to pay attention here. >> what would have been a more effective ramp up? what would that have looked like? >> well, we should have really started to build ebola treatment units several months ago. you need to have the facility in which to treat patients before you bring in doctors and nurses. there's different levels of

building that needs to be done. these are health care systems that have been damaged by civil war, really permanent health care systems and you're really starting from scratch and building them. >> back on the home front, this is concerning, the statistic. 50% of nurses said their hospital is not prepared to handle ebola patients. more than 80% said their hospital has not communicated any policy recording admission of patients. how dangerous is the fact that there are not clear protocols in place. >> dangerous on many levels. in liberia for sierra leone, nurses have walked off the job because they didn't feel safe. on the one hand, we need to be prepared, but don't want health care workers walking off the job. that's going to impair a response to ebola and affect routine health care. >> what you are not looking at an outbreak of ebola in the united states, are we? even if that's not the case, it is a little worrying based on

what i'm hearing you say that proper practices and procedures haven't been put into place. >> right. well, we really are not as risk of an ebola pandemic within the united states, however we do need appropriate measures in place, check lists that are used, and not just filled out as in dallas, but act upon the information collected. having the check lists, appropriate equipment, if you have a patient come in, a plan for where to put the patient. they need to have drills that people feel confident in what they're supposed to do. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> let's go to mike viqueira in washington. the c.d.c. director is briefing the president today about ebola. what will they discuss exactly? >> this is part of a larger meeting the president is going to have in the west wing later to do to get an update on the status of ebola and efforts of the medical community and homeland security apparatus to

combat it here in the united states and west africa, as well. part of the mission is to keep down public panic, keep everybody informed, reassure everyone that this is not going to be an outbreak in the united states as you were just discussing, but there are the facilities and techniques medically speaking to handle it here, however many cases there may be. there's this question now, increasing calls for a travel ban from west africa. top medical officials are saying that would incite panic in west africa, serve to isolate those countries and communities, meanwhile, increasing politicians are calling for just such a ban. >> i want to turn you to development in the story about isil. >> the coalition air campaign continues. even as isil steps up it's attacks in iraq and in particular in northern syria, top officials are focused on foreign fighters and the

potential for terror at home. >> with an estimated 15,000 foreign fighters, f.b.i. director james comey in an interview with 60 minutes said he knows how many americans are fighting for isil in syria. >> in the area of a dozen or so. >> do you know who they are? >> yes. >> each and every one of them. >> i think of that dozen or so, i do. >> as for those americans who plan to return to the u.s. >> ultimately, an american citizen unless their passport is revoked is entitled to come back. someone who's fought with isil with an american passport wants to come back, we will track them closely. >> the khorasan group and al-nusra front of bent on destruction. isil continued to shell kobane near turkey, unperturbed by coalition airstrikes in the area. isil has adopted to strikes by finding other ways of hiding,

making it difficult to target and leaving high-ranking republicans in washington to say attacking the terror group from the air won't be enough. >> i think special forces and others are probably going to have to be on the ground, because after missiles hit and they get out of those humvees, they repaint their trucks, we've got to know where they are and are the hits successful. >> others are more animate about u.s. boots on the ground. >> there is no way that i can see how we fix the problem in iraq and syria without american ground troops. american soldiers need to go back to syria and iraq as part of a coalition. >> sunday, australia joined the coalition in its first combat operations against isil. the u.s. introduced new air power sunday, using apache helicopters, which according to one retired marine increases the risk to american soldiers. >> when you start using helicopters, you're lower to the ground, closer to the threat. isis has been shooting down

iraqi helicopters. the threat has gone up in the use of helicopters. >> part of the controversy here in washington on the political front is who is the united states fighting, isil, khorasan, which many never heard of before the air campaign in syria began, or the assad regime or the al-nusra front, which is linked to al-qaeda and said to keep up with isil. comey lurched them all together, calling them a ma that is taces of al-qaeda. >> what are officials doing to track doan the executioner? >> there was a british citizen murdered and depicted in a video released by isil late last week, the pot called that -- he condemned it first of all, said that this individual is working, an aid worker working to improve the lives of syrians and again vowed to bring the perpetrators

to justice. as has been there unfortunate habit, isil threatened another individual after the murder of that aid worker, that british worker. this is an american citizen, a former american military personnel who had done a tour of duty in the region, peter kasig. >> apologize, we lost mike's shot there. >> kurdish fighters are working to push isil back from the town of kobane. the group is firing tank shells and mortars. it caps a violent weekend. >> it's an indication of the desperation of the syrian-kurdish fighters in kobane, that it took a female suicide bomber from the ranks of the syrian kurdish fighters to launch a position on the mountain south of kobane. the shelling and gunfire continues in that town.

it is relentless, but the syrian kurdish fighters managing to hold the line around the towed. isil still not able to penetrate kobane. we understand that the leader of the main syrian kurdish party was in the turkish capital meeting with turkish security firms. we understand out of that meeting, according to turkish media reports, he asked for the turks to facilitate the movement and transport of weapons through turkish territory and into kobane. what we don't believe the syrian kurds don't want is the turkish military to go into kobane, we're unlikely to see the turkish military on syrian soil, soil total kurds consider theirs, because they don't want the turks there, but what they do want, what the syrian kurds do want is help getting weapons through. >> the attacks on border towns

have sent more than 160,000 syrians fleeing into turkey. >> demonstrators remain defiant in hong kong, ignoring government calls to leave the streets. brought testers did let people go back to work. the number of demonstrators have dwindled, but calls for democracy continue. >> the sight of civil servants going to work wouldn't ordinarily generate much interest. in hong kong, it was a significant moment monday morning. a turning point after days of unrest. the leaders warned of unspecified action if government workers weren't able to return to their desks. outside the office complex, the barricades remain, but far fewer protestors today. one student leader admits the movement is losing momentum, but denies the campaign is over. >> i'll say it isn't as strong and we don't know when it will end, but this is a long term challenge. >> the government's ultimatum to

clear the streets has gone unheeded, but the barriers were pushed aside outside the office of the leader to allow a delivery of food to police. last week, several thousand protestors were here. today under a scorching sun, just a determined handful. >> with the amount of people here, we have no bargain powers. we have less than 10 people here. the police, they pretty much can do whatever they want. >> the president of hong kong's legislature, one of the most powerful politicians in the city has appealed for restraint. >> we certainly hope that the government will not take drastic measures tova place by force. >> with government workers able to return to their desks, the crisis has eased for now. many students are weary and

divided over whether to continue their action or call it off. the protestors are angry at china's plans to vet candidates when elections are held in 2017. beijing says the campaign is doomed. aljazeera, hong kong. >> at the height of the protest, more than 100,000 people flooded the streets by some estimates. do not work is on the streets of hong kong now, the editor in chief of the hong kong newspaper, the harbor times joining us via skype. andrew, i have seen up in the last several days and not seen it as emtip as it is. is this because of deadline day, the demonstrators have followed the advice of the chief executive and dispersed? >> i went to the student press conference held in hong kong university. it smelled like defeat. they could have held it in the middle of the protestors still in the square, but they didn't. they went up to the university. they agreed to talk the talk

which really didn't feel like a strong position. i'm here outside the police station where there used to be thousands of protestors camped out. ette police still have a strong security cordon around here, but it is very relaxed and no protestors watching the hong kong police. >> a couple of days ago, there were 80,000 people still on the streets, how did we get here? >> what happened was we had this strange contrast where you had the students and the people that are supporting the protests, not all students, but then you have the student leaders. they are not telling the crowds what to do, they are respond got to crowds. when the leaders look like they have most momentum, people go home. that's happened a couple of times and what brought them back out were things that made them angry, getting attacked by try add members.

>> they have made no concession. >> the government agreed to talk. for some people that's enough. what the student leaders have been able to do is they've shown they can ramp it up again and again. there have been three times when people started going home, then something happened and they came back. it's been compared to what happened to poland and lead up to they're achieving democracy, where they sent people home and would bring them back again. we'll see if that works in hong kong. >> thank you. >> the search is on for two u.s. service members missing off the coast of japan, swept away by a powerful wave from a powerful storm. >> the system is now a tropical storm, but blew through the japanese mainland last night as a typhoon. we have the latest. >> more than 400,000 people were ordered to be evacuated from their homes when the storm came ashore.

21,000 lost power. the typhoon was packing winds over 100 miles per hour. those winds calmed significantly to just 50 miles per hour, by the time it reached toke i don't and its 13 million people. the storm dumped a foot of rain, causing major transportation disruptions, 600 flights canceled and the bullet train shut down. four american serviceman were posing for a picture when a large wave from the storm churned sea washed them away. one died, the other two are missing and feared dead. the typhoon forced search efforts on the mountain where 12 people remain missing following last week's volcanic eruption that killed 51 hikers. back to that he is american service men. the military at last word is withholding their names until their next of kin can be notified. >> john, appreciate it, thank you. >> let's bring in meteorologist

dave warren for more on the system. what more can you tell us? >> the system is moving out into the colder waters. we're starting to see that transition from a tropical system to something in the mid latitudes, up around the northern pacific. this moved along the coast here. you see the center reowedding as it moved over land and colder water. it did weaken quite a bit, but is close enough to the water where it maintained intensity and brought moisture, so the rain was the big problem with this, not really the wind, and sporadic wind damage reports, but flooding reported along this whole track. the area of landfall, that occurred early monday morning local time there in japan. tokyo had close to a foot of rain. moving into the northern pacific, tracking into the colder water, it will weaken into a tropical storm and be absorbed by this large area of low pressure and could impact

north america around canada by next week, about seven days away. watch this turn. >> appreciate it, thank you. >> still ahead, a mass grave uncovered in mexico. the connection it may have to the disappearance of student protestors. >> a surprise protest in ferguson, missouri over the shooting death of michael brown, the unusual location where the flash mob demonstration took place. >> a discovery under the sea as the italian navy makes a golden find. that video and others captured by our citizen journalists.

>> time now for a look at videos captured by our sit journal. residents in eastern ukraine caught in the crossfire between government and pro-russian separatists. this is northwestern donetsk, showing a fire in a residential area hit by shelling. >> there's this volcano in indonesia shooting ash into the air. it began erupting in 2010 after lying door manual for 400 years.

this latest display did not force evacuations. >> italy's navy finding a bounty, gold coins from the wreckage of a steam ship 300 feet below the mediterranean. >> hey, there. >> yeah. that sank back in 1841. >> i think you have a new career calling. >> an estimated 100,000 coins onboard when it sank in 1841. >> a grisly find in mexico. >> but first... >> black-white matters. >> protestors went to the st. louis symphony last night to raise voices over of the death of michael brown in ferguson, just after the show's intermission, about 50 audience members began singing. you heard it there, and unif you recalled banners asking for justice for the slain teen. it ended with demonstrators leaving peacefully. >> another pal gee from joe biden. he apologized to the united arab

emirates. he said he did not mean to imply that the country is funding and arming al-qaeda. biden apologized to turkey for comments about letting foreign fighters cross its borders. >> in mexico, dozens of buried in a mass grave. >> it is not far from where more than 40 mexican students disappeared. many fear these bodies could be the students. >> even the army can't get through. classmates and family members of the 43 missing students took over a major highway here in southwestern guerrero state, blocking traffic for hours. they say the government ignored their pleas for the safe return of the students. rather than engage in a fight, this officer ordered his men back. >> a sign perhaps that the government doesn't want to escalate an already tense situation. minutes later, a burst of action. protestors took over a toll

booth and ran off workers. they in turn started collecting funds for the families of the students. >> these students and family members say they're going to keep taking over highways and keep taking over toll booths until their demand is met, to return these 43 students alive. >> they don't believe the bodies unearthed at a nearby series of graves contain the remains of the students. they feel abandoned by the president, who's largely avoided talking about the case. >> we call on the president to demand that the governor of the state hand over all of these young people alive. >> most of the missing were between 18-22 and in their first or second year as a rural teacher's college. they were last seen being taken by police, who authorities say were working for criminal groups. fearing repression and violence, this mother of one of those missing wouldn't give her name. >> nothing that they told us is true. we don't believe it, really. we know that the governor has

them. >> the governor didn't respond to our request for an interview. so far, he has not confirmed the bodies from this mass grave are the missing students, but a member of national's human rights commission, a government institution told aljazeera he believes the remains would prove to be those of the missing youth. amidst rumors and speculation, federal forensic experts are conducting tests, something that could take days. >> family members will only trust independent experts from abroad. aljazeera, in mexico. >> the bodies are badly burned. it could take months to conduct d.n.a. tests. >> two died in a helicopter crash in a colorado river. a couple of fisherman pulled one victim from the wreckage. an investigation is underway. >> in louisiana, two engineers were hurt when their train slammed into a truck sunday

afternoon. nearly 20 train cars derailed in the crash. the neighborhood had to be evacuated. one car was carrying argon gas. >> hewlett packard will become two companies, one dealing with hardware and services operations. it is part of a major restructuring plan. >> this is openly he has, nebraska. american photo journalist has just landed there for ebola treatment, in fact, that is the plane. he will be the second patient to be treated for ebola at this specific facility. dr. richard sacra was successfully treated there last month. this is the nbc news cameraman. >> freelancing.

>> in liberia and infected with ebola shortly after he began his assignment. they will be rushing him to the hospital for treatment. >> hurricane simon is churning in the pacific and that moisture could end up in the southwest. >> let's go to dave warren. this is the first time i've heard of this hurricane, hurricane simon. >> it intensified rapidly, but will weaken rapidly, but the moisture holds together. simon just off the coast of the baja, california peninsula, look at that moisture pushing north. normally these storms track away from land, but this could turn to the northeast. here comes the moisture. it will weaken as it moves to the north to a depression and finally weaken over land. there's still a lot of moisture in the air. that could fuel a lot of thunderstorms and lead to more

flash flooding. this is what the time line looks like, tuesday to early wednesday. here's the heaviest rain, in arizona and phoenix. more flash flooding could result as the moisture moves inland more. not really heavy rain, but some storms over new mexico and colorado could lead to flash flooding. >> still to come, the supreme court set to get back to work this morning, and begin its new term. randall pinkston is live in washington with a look at what's on the docket for the justice system. >> the new challenge brazil's president faces in trying to hold on to her job. >> a daredevil's quest to run from florida to bermuda in a bubble. we have details of the daring, some might say crazy, nutty, bananas attempt.

>> kentucky, a state that's hurting economically. >> when the mines shut down it affects other businesses too you know, it hurts everything. >> some say it's time for a change. >> mitch has been in there so long. >> while others want to stay the course. >> all the way mitch! you know exactly what these people needs in kentucky. >> communities trying to cope. what does the future hold? >> the economy, the struggling coal industry and healthcare are all impacting their vote. >> "america votes 2014 / fed up in kentucky". all this week. only on al jazeera america. >> you're looking at live pictures from omaha, nebraska,

an american photo journalist arriving as we speak. >> what's really interesting to look at as you see these pictures is one crew member there in the full bio suit. what we'll watch for is whether the photo journalist will walk off the plane. dr. kent brantley when he came walked off the helicopter, or whether he'll be in a stretcher. >> he's been flown to this facility, a specially equipped flying isolation unit. we think that any moment now, he will get off that plane and he will be rushed to the nebraska medical center for ebola treatment. you've been following this. this is the second patient to be treated for this? >> he will be the second person treated at that center. dr. richard sacris was treated and successfully treated. we should mention that the patient in dallas is not doing

well, that he -- >> duncan -- >> yeah, duncan is in critical condition, bringing up standard of care, for which there is no standard of care, because we've never had ebola on these shores. what's interesting to observe about these pictures is that the other guy standing there is not in biological gear. >> interesting, you were mentioning thomas duncan, his condition has taken a turn for the worse. we're told he is fighting for his life, breathing through a vent later now. his family is symptom free, i'm trying to watch these pictures here. he is not deplanes at the moment and duncan's family is to be monitored for the next 21 days. >> i don't believe it's clear but the cameraman got ebola. we though he was in lie bear i can't, that he had been working there for a while as a freelance cameraman. we have been told by experts

we've interviewed that you cannot get ebola unless you have close contact with someone, and presumably all the journalists that are going over there are using gloves, using the protective equipment. that will be a question that will be asked in coming days. >> we just heard from our doctor moments ago that there were a number of doctors who are not being allowed in, and that there is still an issue of getting equipment that is necessary to the health care providers who are on the ground even right now doing work in the infected areas. >> there's the continuing epidemic. >> yeah. >> in west africa, and of course, the u.s. is actually the first country outside of west africa in which an ebola patient was diagnosed. that's the patient eric duncan in dallas. now again, taking a look at this plane, this is the same plane that has transported i believe two other ebola patients.

it's a special plane, it's essentially an isolation unit that they have been using to transport americans that have been infected in africa back to the u.s. for treatment. all of those americans, except for duncan, have since recovered. >> right, right. >> from ebola, so there's something different that's happening here for the patients than is happening in west africa where 300,000 people have died. >> i haven't read as to what kind of shape the photo journalist is in. i just don't know. we do know as we look at the shot here, it looks like it's going to be a very tight transition. you would think that maybe if he's able, he will walk down those steps and then looks like they've got a stretcher right there for him to put him right into that ambulance and take him to the hospital. we'll continue to watch it and get a little more analysis here. >> an assistant professor of

epidemiology at columbia university joins us on the set here. dr., tony just mentioned condition, so we believe this cameraman was diagnosed sometime mid last week. what would you expect his condition to be? >> it's very difficult. the situation with ebola, as you were talking about is that it's really unclear now how best to treat it. the best we can do is try to support the organ system that is failed because of the virus and hope that the body's natural immune system can fight the virus and person make a study recovery. there is no specific treatment aside from the zmapp which we don't know whether it's being deployed clear there are questions about how you best treat it and it looks like zmapp is a bit effective here. i'm reading this morning that there isn't any available right now. what does zmapp too to assess in the recovery? >> to the best of our knowledge, there is none available. it's an antibody from

individuals who have been treated or animals that have been treated and form natural antibodies against it that we can give to individuals to help key their immune systems. the immune system has to know what to fight to fight it. it gets you halfway there from not having any understandion of what to fight to giving ate certain sense of what is the virus, what should be fought until the body's immune system picks up to make its own antibodies. >> i think i just saw a shot of the patient there. i think he is in the open air. we're seeing one guy wearing that biological suit. we're not seeing the other guys around the plane wearing that. what do you make of that? >> i think as the patient comes out, the other guys not in the suits are probably going to back away and the individual wearing the protective equipment is more likely to be doing most of the

hand off work. >> i heard three feet, anything less is considered close contact at this point with an ebola patient. >> as we know, that patient is still on the plane. as soon as he starts coming off the plane by stretcher or walking, all those unprotected individuals will walk away and those protected will be managing helping him transfer from the plane to the van. >> on a scale of one to 10, 10 being you're really concerned, how concerned are you about an outbreak of ebola in the united states. this is the fear question. >> i'm not afraid. >> this is the stretcher. let's take a second here. ok, sorry, continue there. you say a one. >> yeah, it looks like they're -- i would say a one. we've known for quite a while that we were going to get patients infected in west africa coming across our borders. >> better shot here. better shot here. tell but gear that he's in. we see him being loaded on to

the ambulance right now, in the full bubble protective suit there. >> what we're trying to do is minimize the spread of potential infectious fluids from the individual with the disease to anybody else. making sure to cover the patient himself to make sure anybody else who may be standing by is not infected. >> what should be the protocol when they get to the hospital? >> he'll be transferred immediately to an isolation unit, where only individuals who are engaged in his particular care will likely have access to him and whoever comes in to the room will be wearing the same type of protective gear that you've seen here to make sure -- >> do they have to scrub down the ambulance after something like this, after transport ago patient like this? >> absolutely. both the ambulance and that airplane will be made, it's clear that near going to have to completely scrub it down, the same way we scrub down any

isolation unit. this ambulance and plane are similar to an isolation unit in a hospital which has to be scrubbed down for patients. >> in the case of thomas duncan, he's taken a turn for the worse here, his condition is getting worse. give me a sense of what has happened over the course of time. he's in the united states, being treated in the best health care system in the world, and yet his condition has taken a turn for the worst. help me understand what's going on here. >> we've been really lucky that all the patients we've seen in the united states have done pretty well. if you look at the numbers with this particular epidemic, we're talking about a 60% fatality rate. >> that's right. >> we don't have any specific treatments that we know work. even zmapp hasn't been tested vigorously. we think it works but can't tell. something are tsomething to rema majority of the patients are going to do poorly. >> he is at a different hospital. this nebraska hospital has

already successfully treated an ebola patient. emery university hospital has already treated successfully ebola patients. should there be consideration for transferring duncan? >> i would say it's highly unlikely because of the hospitals. any hospital in the united states is going to be equipped to give standard of care with respect to an infection like ebola. in this case, he's doing poorly and the others did well, i don't think it's the hospital. >> how prepared is the united states, we heard earlier a that suggest more needed to be done here in the united states, sooner, to prepare the nation for ebola. what are your thoughts on the level of preparedness in this country and to treat ebola and to handle a potential outbreak

regardless of how small the chance of an outbreak might be? >> i think from my understanding in talking to colleagues in the c.d.c., they are really well prepared for potential outbreaks. you handle an outbreak by tracing contacts, bringing them into quarantine. in the case of mr. duncan, there was a little bit of a dropped ball, but that was the first case. i don't think that will happen again. still to say, my fear of there being any transmission of ebola in the united states is very, very low. we're going to continue to see patients come in from west africa simply because they're american or we're bringing them in because we believe we can give them better care here particularly in the case of health care workers. the likelihood of spreading is minimal. i do think hospitalling have to be wary, because it's only planned right away.

>> really appreciate your insights during this breaking story this morning. there's another virus folks are concerned about, enterovirus and spreading quickly especially in new jersey where it killed a 4-year-old boy. >> this is the first death linked directly to the illness that has affected children nationwide. >> parents are worried in new jersey about sending their kids to school. >> school officials are assuring parents they've done a deep clean of the school all weekend long and are tracking hundreds of students as they try to prevent the spread of the virus that has proven to be deadly. >> late sunday night in new jersey, a panel of health experts and school leaders went before an auditorium full of concerned parents. >> we need to know what we can do. we need to make sure that if we see signs that our children are

ill that we keep them home. >> the meeting coming just days after health officials confirmed a new jersey preschooler died from the d68 strain of the enterovirus. with the community on edge, school leaders are doing what they can to stop the rye russ from spreading. >> we are going to do above and beyond cleaning, wiping off desks, making sure water fountains are cleaned down. >> while this strain has been around since the 1960's, last week, a doctor from the national institutes of health acknowledged concern about how quickly it has moved across the country. >> what's a bit of a surprise is the widespread nature of this, where you have an outbreak that involves the overwhelming majority of the states in the united states. >> this map from the c.d.c. shows virtually every state is dealing with the outbreak with 538 confirmed cases nationwide. several states are investigating possible paralysis in children linked to the virus, the latest case in michigan involves a

seven-month-old baby boy. now, the first and second deaths of children linked to enterovirus in new jersey and rhode island. doctors say a 10-year-old of rhode island suffered a rare combination of enterovirus and a staff infection, saying it's impossible to tell which led to her death. for the 4-year-old of new jersey, he seemed perfectly healthy the night before he died. he was out of school due to ping eye. the next day, the youngest of a set of triplets was gone, leaving a community to grieve and worry about who the virus could strike next. >> one of waller's school mates developed similar symptoms last week. officials are waiting for c.d.c. tests to be completed. health care workers monitoring his two sisters, who are not showing symptoms yet. >> are you ready snog. >> you. >> a new study shows that who you eat with could affect your diet.

researchers and the mayo clinic paired diners with an overweight person and an average weight person. they watched as their subjects ate healthy and unhealthy meals. can you imagine being the video for this piece? >> those who ate alongside the overweight person consumed more bad food regardless of what the overweight person put on their plate. >> at least they blurred their faces out. >> you heard of the boy in the bubble. well, what about the 42-year-old peace activist in a bubble. >> that one had to be rescued off the coast of florida. we are here now with his unusual story. >> oh, boy. >> oh, boy, indeed. we need to lighten this show up. >> now is the time. >> ebola. let me give you instead a brave attempt to prevent world peace by tracing the outline of the bermuda triangle but running around the ocean in a metal

framed bubble. sounds perfectly normal, just the sort of thing any of us would think of doing. it was going terribly well until the bubble burst. well, sort of. >> it was built as the impossible journey that in this moment turns true, adventurer and peace activist being lifted to the safety of a coast guard chopper. >> now i figured out how to control left-right. >> his journey raising money for charity began september 30 when the 42-year-old climbed inside this human powered hamster we'll like bubble. >> he will attempt to practice verse 3500 miles of water and jungle. >> last wednesday within the coast guard intercepted him, concerned he was disoriented, low on food and water. they warned him to stop. he said no. >> do you understand by your refusal to terminate this voyage, you're putting yourself in great danger on the high seas? >> yes. >> he ran out of steam 70 miles

off the florida coast, triggering his emergency beacon. >> because it was so complex, we elected to launch the helicopter and patrol aircraft. >> those aircraft costing tens of thousands of dollars an hour. the lives of the crews worth far more, reopening the debate about whether people who put themselves at risk should have to pay. this california family came under intense criticism when their 1-year-old daughter got sick. the u.s. navy rescued them. despite being warned, he is probably not going to have to repay the government. they he want people to call for help when they need it without worrying about a bill at the end. >> what i love about this story is that he was very grateful to the coast guard for picking him up. we don't think he was, necessarily. what we do know is he wants his bubble back.

it's still out there, floating in the ocean. he's boating this weekend coming off the florida coast. >> do you go into it and try pedal it back? >> give us a call, we'll go out and film it and give it back to you. >> call us. thanks a lot. >> the supreme court set to begin its new term this morning. the big question is will they weigh in on same-sex marriage. >> aljazeera's legal contributor jami floyd breaks down what's on the docket for the justices. that's not on the docket. that's the other thing. >> we need to cue that up again, a rally race with a very scary turn leaving spectators scrambling for cover. >> it's time for our big quote. >> ahead, this is something for the -- >> this is your time. >> ahead of the supreme court's new session, one justice said the following about the supreme court ruling "the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed

to be." the justice and the case, coming up next.

>> who said this: >> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, discussing her disagreement in the citizens united case. we're talking a lot about that because of the voting rights issues that are up front and center. the supreme court is back in session this morning on sunday, six of the justice attended the red mass, kicking off the judicial season. the high court will consider dozens of cases, one big issue is not on the docket yet.

randall pinkston is in washington with more. >> the proverbial elephant in the room for the justice is same-sex marriage. some states permit it, a lot don't. legal experts expect the high court to determine the issue. there are dozens of other issues that the justice will consider. >> the supreme court returns this morning with a full plate to consider. the nine justice will hear some 50 cases, hot button issues, ranging from religious freedom and workplace diminution to u.s. foreign policy. on the docket, a prison inmate in arkansas said his muslim faith requires him to grow a board but correctional officers say it pose as safety threat, a place to hide contraband. a woman alleges she wasn't hired because of wearing a hijab.

the retailer said she never mentioned wearing it for religious leaders. >> a worker for u.p.s. contends she was fired for being pregnant. a separate decision finds the judges in unchartered territory. a an arkansas man poses a rant on facebook threatening to kill his wife, shoot up the school and kill an f.b.i. agent. he said they were just rap lyrics. the court will take up executive branch power, whether the white house can block congress from declaring jerusalem the capitol of israel. >> certainly enough to keep the justices busy. we expect them to take up the issues of abortion and affirmative action. >> let's bring in jami floyd, aljazeera's legal contributor.

good to see you. >> it's a big day for geeks. [ laughter ] >> we'll get to that in a second here. do you think same-sex marriage, is there a case on the docket? >> there are seven cases coming down the pike. they had their big mystery meeting. i talked to stephanie about it last week before today. today's the first official day of business with arguments and a lot of big cases, 50 they've taken. over the summer, hundreds of petitions came in, seven of them on same-sex marriage. almost every analyst is betting within the next days, weeks or months they'll take one of those cases and we'll have it on the docket and decided by june. >> decided! >> by june. >> this case deals with social media -- >> facebook, free speech, that's what it's about. guy gets a divers, very angry

about it, posts threats against his wife, against the law enforcement official investigating the case, saying he's going to shoot up a school. he said it's rap poetry, i'm an aspiring rapper and link to go rap music. the question is whether or not this is free speech and artistic expression. it's a public facebook page, he's not hiding anything or is he really making threats. he spent four power months behind bars and then supervised for three years thereafter. it's a fascinating case, because of the social media context and also the larger context of popular culture in rap music. >> talk me through the case which looks at religious freedom. >> there are two great religious freedom cases. last year we had hobby lobby. this is a muslim man in prison who wants to wear a beard in connection with his faith. that particular prison, officials there say we don't

allow to you grow he a beard more than basically very close to your face, quarter of an inch. he needs a half inch beard or longer conclusion with his faith. prison officials say no. 41 prisons allow you if it is in connection with your faith and the federal prisons allow you to have a beard. the question is can prison officials restrict your faith if they say it's necessary for security. they say you could hide a weapon there, a as i am card there. they want the prisoners to conform to a dress code. it's balancing religious freedom against the safety and security concerns of the prison officials. the other interesting case also about dress is a young woman wanted to wear a head discover at work. >> you blitzed through that. well done. we're out of time! >> we're going to talk about them all as the year rolls along. >> but not now. >> the geek parade proceeds. >> jami, thank you, stephanie,

back to you. >> i want to get this video in. a lot of luck on a race course in italy, a car around the corner, landing where spectators gathered. the car landed within inches of the crowd. it didn't hit anyone and the two drivers inside the car suffered minor injuries in the crash. one fan was treated for shock. >> our top story, an american with ebola is now back on u.s. soil. he landed a short time ago in nebraska. he just arrived at nebraska medical center. tomorrow morning, we'll have the latest on his prognosis. that's it for us here in new york. >> that's it? >> two hours! >> ok. coming up, from our newsroom in doha, word from africa, the troops have pusheddal is that bop out of a major stronghold in

somalia. >> thanks for watching.

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