on "america tonight," a special report, "flashpoint ferguson." >> we all thought to thank the an america tonight special focus. cheers of support as nurse and ebola patient heads to a super hospital in maryland. meanwhile the demand for answers. >> throughout the testimony and questions today, i have heard you say, multiple times i don't know the details of this. i don't know the details of that. >> as the nation demands to know, how can ebola spread so fast here, and do you know how to stop it? with other questions do we with have the resources to isolate the

sickest patients are front line workers getting the right information to stay safe, and at the heart of the stone, are they getting a handle on ebola before more of it spreads. and america tonight special focus on this modern plague, and the threat to all of us in this hour. >> as america tonight puts special focus on the questions about the ebola outbreak, it is both fear and fact driving new action to contain the spread of the virus, and to save more people from it. the president brought in his top ebola advisors for a second late evening session, the white house releasing a new fact sheet about how ebola should be handled. colleagues of the first

dallas nurse who became infected while treating another patient, gathered to show support, as she was transferred from that hospital to the bio containment unit. and authorities in ohio and texas are tracking down more people who might have been in contact with the second infected nurse, who is now being treated at emery hospital in atlanta. america ton has delivered in depth reporting on the facts about ebola from the very first signs this hour, our special focus begins with america tonight's sheila mcvicker. >> one of my main concerns is that we don't know what we don't know. throughout testimony and questioning toot, i have heard you say multiple times i don't knee the details of this, i don't know the details of that, and i think what the american people are wanting is some assurance that somebody does. >> the cdc thomas freeden

faced tough questions in washington today. about the response to the virus in the u.s. three hours of congressional grilling and there are still no clear answers. about how amber vincent and nina fam contracted the virus. raising serious questions about whether they were given adequate training and personal protection equipment called p.p.e. do the c.d.c. guidance on the use of p.p.e. mirror current international standards that by the way are being adhered to, those international standards in west africa. >> the international standards are something that evolve and change, there's no single right answer, and this is something we are looking at very closely, our

current guidance are consistent with recommendations from the world health organization. >> they may have been consistent with those of the world health organization, but it's been the inconsistent advice that has the agency and the hospital where the nurses contracted the virus facing strong criticism. >> this is going to be hard to see, but this is your picture, in western africa, and as you can see there is head to toe covering in goggles and i believe if i understand the circumstances you were with just about to been dosed with a near toxicking dose of chlorine, is that not correct. >> yes. >> and that's why you can't have skin exposed. >> those on the front line, nurses are especially outraged. >> you know, there was no special precautions other than what we with know in the medical industry to be basic contract precautions. there was no special gear. there was just a little chaotic scene, our infectious disease

department was with contacted to ask what is the protocol. and their answer was we don't know. we will have to call you back. >> her frustration was echoed by members of congress. >> i don't feel like we have a good answer, of why nurse one, and nurse two, contracted ebola. how come the nurses in dallas weren't protected and how are we with going to make sure that everybody can be. >> vincent was transferred to emery hospital last night, and fam will be treated at the national institute of health, specials bio containment facilities believed to be better equipped staff better trains to treat patients with highly infectious diseases. executives which treats eric duncan, and where vincent and fam work apologized for the mistakes they made, underscoring the need for specialist care. >> unfortunately, despite

our best intentions and a highly skilled medical team, we made mistakes. we did not correctly diagnose the symptoms of those of ebola, and we are sorry. we provided information that was inaccurate and -- >> as the two fight the congress, they were battling over whether to institute a travel ban. that map shows if you hold it up here. if you aring looing at those particular countries in africa, they can go to any country in europe, they can go to turkey, egypt, saudi arabia, china, india, they can go to other countries in africa. and then from those other countries coming to the united states. so i suppose we can set up a whole bureaucratic apparatus to be sure that somebody didn't really

travel from nigeria, or cameroon, or senegal, guinea, or sierra leyon to make sure they didn't really get here from any of those countries. >> medical experts say that many of these are actions based on fear. >> so reducing traffic travel bans all that sort of in my view naive thinking about the situation, that's 19th century thinking in my view, all the modeling and all the predictive tools that are the best in the world now say this is only going to delay it and may even make it worse in the long run. >> but fear is spreading especially after amber vincent board add plane from ohio despite having a temperature of 99.5. something she says the c.d.c. told her was okay to do. >> and none of us can understand how a nurse who treated an ebola

infected patient, and who had herself had develop add fever ever was permitted to fly across the country. no wonder the public's confident is shaken. >> as a result her mother's home is being sealed off for inspection. and schools have temporarily closed their doors after fears that students at the schools were also on vincent's flight. again, today, health experts and members of congress urge people not to panic. >> we need to find out why this hospital is unprepared and if others are too, and make sure that the cdc is filling these readiness gaps. we with should be concerns about ebola in the u.s., but we should not panic. the u.s. healthcare system can prevent isolated cases from becoming broader outbreaks. >> america tonight, back with us, you know, sheila, so much of this

still seems to be confusion, misinformation, and a lot of people just looking for answers. >> well, confusion, and confusion caused in part by the authorities. we knew that nurse number two had gotten on a plane with a fever of 99.2, and the cdc said fine, go ahead, was now know she may have had a fever as early as friday, so that's a whole new plane load of people they are trying to contact, a bridal shop where she had been shopping has closed it's doors. there are people who are staying home from school, schools that are closed because and this is where the uncertainty comes in, because people might have been on the same plane. not the seam flight, but the seam plane at another stage in it's journey around the united states on monday. and that there's a fear. there's a housekeeper on the east coast, who has been told by her

employers not to come back to work, because her brother is a chef where somebody who was with supposed to be in quarantine went to pick up a mean. so there's a lot of uncertainty. a lot of this has to do with the feeling that is scary thing. people feel they don't know what is going on. >> clearer and consistent messaging. >> consistent messaging. >> and it seems like the president actually is trying with a second meeting this evening to get attention on that. >> well with, the white house has been tweeter all day, okay, here is what you need to know, this is what we know about ebola. this is how it is contagious. the white house is also again, said okay, these are the things that we are going to do, we are telling the cdc, a hospital get as case, you send a swat team in there within 24 hours to be in charge of the infectious of managing the intech, disease process.

but they are also saying we need to deal with with this at it's root, and the root is in west africa, and we mutt solve it. and of course that's one with reason why the president has called up additional reservist today. >> thank you so much. >> appreciate your being with us, just to clarify here, at your bio containment unit, you treated dr. secra successfully, and now the photo journalist is still there as well with. how is he doing. >> that's correct. being treated here at nebraska medicine and doing quite well with. >> is it a matter of the conditions is it the equipment, that you have in this kind of a unit? is it the personnel, what is the difference between these units and other

hospitals facilities. >> the difference between these and others is the training and the exercising and the drills. there's no magical equipment. that we with have that isn't available to any other institution in the united states. so really if you bring somebody to nebraska medicine, you will have people that have been doing this every day, been drilling it, exercising it, planning for it. >> how many total beds are we talking about? what is really available if there is a big expansion so depending on how you define this, there's potentially 20 total beds that are available, but again, if this outbreak increases where you have additional cases here in the united states, that can't be managed at these facilities you would need to understand how to manage those in other facilities. but with with back up support. we with should never expect that a facility that has never managed a case can think through all the issues that come with with managing a person and then

protecting the healthcare worker and protecting the community. >> and when we see the kind of mistakes that have been acknowledged already, mistakes that were with made at the dallas hospital, mistakes the information that was given from the cdc to the nurse about flying when we see those, what should we be left with. >> i think what we learn, is that guidance alone are not sufficient. so they are necessary, but we do need additional training here. if we expect any hospital in the united states to recognize when a patient walks in the door, ask the right questions and then if we think they have ebola, that they are being managed in an appropriate way. what it teaches is we need to make sure there's training exercises and drills across the united states, if we want to say that answer hospital request a private room with a private bathroom can take care of a patient. >> from the university of

nebraska medical center, and the college of public health, procedure your being with us. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> president obama now casualties nothinged the shortcomings in the government's response to the outbreak, after the diagnosis of a second texas nurse with ebola, the president ordered the c.d.c. to send a rapid response team, now that team is made up of some of the world's leading experts. some of them have helped to control outbreaks in africa. this will in -- infection control, hospital epidemiology, protective equipment, and workplace safety. >> joined now by dr.s jerry and nancy jabbings a truly will understand the need for controlled they were part of the military medical team, that contained the chronicled in the best

selling book the hot zone as well. you have continued to do a great deal of work, and we appreciate your being backing with with us. let's talk about this motion of a rapid response team, is this what we should have done. >> well, in my opinion, i think that should have been done the situation waywith mr. duncan, where we had one with confirmed case, it would seem to me that having experts who were familiar with bio containment, and with the infection control, should have been on the scene that's easy enough for me to say, but i think since we didn't have a number of patients we should have been able to do that. >> nancy, you are also a veterinarian, also the person who was responsible for really directly handling the bodies of the monkeys who

were infected by the ebola virus, when you locken at what is happening here, and the shortcomings as the president has acknowledged have been made, do you have a sense of the risks that health officials don't seem to understand in the human public health community. >> well, i think you always have anybody that works with this virus has a reel appreciation for the risk are, and it is difficult to appreciate it initially because the virus -- the information that is being given out is correct, it is not air, it is not highly contagious, but it is deathly infectious, it is extremely easy to establish an infection, and training training training is very important. how to dawn material, how to take off did he recall, how to handle it, how to decontaminate your gloves all of that, is something if you don't train routinely you lose. and so it's an issue calling training

decrement, if you aren't doing it all the time your training degrades. >> when we went with we established what we with believe to been a field bio safety level four, and talking about the swating and the swat teams that we're discussing, that was one of the things that was a very very important part of our response, even though it was an emergency response, we had no idea that ebola was on the horizon at all. we assembled teams of experts similar to the ones you are talking about, the world's experts really on ebola, and that was one of the reasons that we had a very successful outcome. >> it is said you have to have so much care, even with somebody on street focus on trying to do the

safest thing possible, you did have a moment where you might have been infected a hole in your glove as i recall? >> that was a different situation. i was in the b.l. 4 laboratory containment, and there we wear the space suits. and i was doing a necropsy, gloves break down, i looked down, and i was doing an autopsy, and i had -- my exterior latex glove has given way, near the ring of the suit. and i had gotten blood down inside of that glove. >> and even in the most careful of situations somebody who knows well, that these things can happen, we appreciate both of you being with us.

the issue of travel restrictions dominated today's panel on ebola, a number of lawmakers made the case, and dozens of others are now in favor of a flight ban to help curb the spread. health officials remain opposed to it saying it would prompt travelers to find other ways to get into the united states. however the island of jamaica has just joined caribbean neighbor, and columbia in barring entry to visitors from the hot zone. in the meantime, four airports are conducting advanced screenings. a test to speed up detection is with us again tonight. dr. gary, so much appreciate your being back with us, you have talked to us so often to

help us understand the situation. this conversation, about whether there should be travel bans or not, where do you fall on this? is there effective way to do this? with with countries more countries now saying that they will. >> well, if we are going to do something like that, we need to put into place some provisions to get healthcare workers in and out of the effects countries. if we totally just shut things down and turn the travel there, it will make things much worse as others have said, let's figging jury out a way to get people in and out, if that requires military bringing people in and out, let's do this in a smart way, not just do a travel ban that keeps everybody from going in or out. >> but really, could it be effective? can you say all right, if you want to come in or out, it will be by military transport, what you are talking about is a tremendous amount of expense, and people do have the opportunity to

get out other ways. and get into the u.s. through intermediate points. >> that's correct. they could go through europe and other places if they want to get in, they will get in. >> we with will ask you the stick around, we have more conversation to cover, more ground about ebola, and we with want to know about the possibility of what can be done to stop the spread, stand by. >> when we return, our america tonight focus on ebola, at the epicenter of this modern plague, the dire warnings of a still spiraling disaster in west africa. a leader the fight against ebola in liberia speakings to america tonight. also ahead. >> despite the seriousness of the outbreak. >> good news and reason to be helpful. >> many infected with ebola have survived. >> and why so far, the donations have been slow to come.

>> the u.n. coordinating body saying not nearly enough has been done to halt the advance of this disease. >> it is a tragic scene that liberia has come to sea as an ordinary every day occurrence. in the capital city, they carry away yet another victim, now months into this modern plague, carries out methodically, sterilization, first of the body, then of each other. as workers leave the infected space and move on to yet another corpse the official death toll stands at over 4500. although the who has long acknowledged that's a low ball number. >> some cities see spikes some underreport. a new england journal of medicine report estimated

at the current rate, by november 2nd, that's just seven days from now the number of confirmed cases in three countries at the hot zone, will exceed 20,000. because even though caution and care are much higher nine months into the epidemic, life must go on, even even in the most afflicted areas. so cross border traffic helps to keep moving and spreading, despite every effort to stop it, the world health organization projects the infection rate can hit 10,000 new case as week, by december 1st. a new effort to coordinate the fight, set targets to isolate 70% of cases and safely bury 70% of the dead within the next 60 days. >> and yet even with that modest goal, the head of the new team warned the u.n. security council

that he is in his words deeply worried. >> we are fighting to prevent unavoidable deaths. we are fighting for people that are alive and healthy today, but will become infected and die if we with don't put in place the necessary emergency responses. >> the fear is echoed at the epicenter of the outbreak, liberia, whose representative pleaded for urgent action. the government is racing against time, to establish new isolation and treatment centers, community centers, we the single most critical need, because if you can't take in people who report the disease to you, you can do nothing. you can't do contract tracing you can't do anything. >> the needs are urgent, and great. the health ministry estimated that six months from now it will need some 80,000 body baggings, half a million disposal protective suits

over 2 million protective gloves and another half million goggles. >> we are now distributing kits to effected homes in west effected mounts. basically indicates to people what to do should anyone in your home get six until the healthcare people get there. this was significantly impact the rate a which the transmission is occurring. he maintains his country is now doing a better job, particularly in tracking down the infected and those who have had contact with them. over the last few weeks we have been able to trace 7,000 people who are under active surveillance, we are saying 89% of them every day what this does is give community an increased sense of

ownership that the necessary to give people the left of comfort that they need. >> comfort, hard to come by in liberia, the country ravaged by war was with just starting to enjoy an improving economy, and new opportunities but that was before the outbreak my spirit is at a low, morale is low. but also we know that in a confidence that all of our people and many of our people will not contract this, but at the same time, all of our people have their livelihoods literally put on hold. >> the pleas for international attention and assistant could not be more urgent with every voice warning that time is fast running out we thank our docking tor for staying with us as we consider this problem, you know you have been, of course, in west

africa, you have understood this problem, and as you look at this, forgive me for being cynical, is there really a way to stop this? is it really destined to get worse before it gets better. >> well, unfortunately it will get worse before it gets better, but there are ways to stop it, we need to be smart about it, we need people on the ground that can identify patients and their contacts and then get the contacts into isolation. it can be done, we need to apply some technologies rapid tests that request identify ebola infected person on the spot, would be a great advance. and you know we need to apply g.p.s. technology, cell phones but it will take a lot of people getting thering with a lot of smart techniques. >> made in this process, we have seen that we with

have set up labbens already. the facilities we need aren't that complicated. it doesn't dare that long to set off series of tents. it's really about doing it in a smart way, getting people there that know what to do. and getting their patients and their contacts the treatment they need, and the isolation that will stop the outbreak. >> and quick thought here, do you think that we with are going to see this mirrored in the united states? >> we won't with see it like it's in west africa. there are going to be some isolated cases we have seen some limited transmission chains but the u.s. will get this under control, you won't see thousands. >> too lain university,

school of medicine, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> next up alive symptomatic update from dallas, the nurses infected while trying to save an ebola patient have been moved to more ever intensive treatment, we will find out why. she will also tell us what has happened to victim eric duncan's family. why actors are drying to draw more attention to the ebola fight, and why contributions have so far been hard to come by. know, just walking. that is quieting some things down, but we have a large contingency out of the city to protest as well. that's where the last part of tension really lies. >> yeah. i think people, as i found there, are really looking for

greater answers and more long-term. as we saw in that report about

>> i wanted to be in on the big >> many of these involved

as we continue with our special coverage of the ebola outbreak. president obama has issued an executive order to combat the crisis in west africa, the pentagon expects as many as 3,000 troops could be sent to liberia. the first healthcare worker to contract ebola is now on her way to the national institute of health health for treatment. joining us now is al jazeera melissa chan who is at texas health, where she works and contractenned the virus and there was wide a sent off for her, melissa. >> yes, absolutely. the hospital asked people that saw the send off to honk their hobbs in support, and she herself, and her attitude has been extremely positive. she released a statement thanking the doctors and the hospital, and really bearing no ill will at the hospital, if you consider that she

contracted ebola here while working on the job. now the hospital did provide an explanation for why they moved here, she is in good condition, after all her condition has not deteriorated and they say it is due to a shortage of staffing. >> there is also the question of staffing there at the hospital. they have been offered an opportunity to stay at the hospital, why. >> well with, it's an offer, just to allay people's concerns who treated thomas duncan that first patient here in dallas, they could decide to self-quarantine at one of the wings of the hospital, in fact that's what connects that situation to nina. at least partly. they have a shortage of staff, because we don't know the exact number, the hospital has not provided the number of volunteers that decided to self-quarantine, but enough to not be able to provide her with the care that she needed that's

why she is headed to maryland. >> there is the question about the family, they are in dallas, we with haven't heard anything from them, is there any indication how they are doing? have they shone any symptoms? >> from what we understand, they are in good condition, and sunday is when they are officially done with their quarantine at their resident or at a resident. it is all very good news, rather surprising if you consider the fact that the nurses contracted the virus, but none of the family did. >> thank you so much. when disaster strikes you can count on americans to been charitable, donations have been slow to come in, billionaires like mark zuckerberg, or bill gates have kicked in big bucks but outside the very langer gifts the american red cross says it has received only $100,000 in ebola

donations. about $85 million contributed experts say it is a confusing topic, and the public doesn't really know if it should be consider addis assistant professorrer or a health problem. and whether it should be handled by government response. now the celebrities are stepping up to help raise awareness and money. with crush oak now campaign. many infected with ebola have survived. >> not only in the united states in europe. >> but also in guinea. >> sierra leyon. >> crushable activist helped to launch that campaign, and he joins us now i think most of our audience would be

familiar with hunger games and may not think of you as an activist, but you have a real tie to sierra leyon. >> yes, i do. and it goes backen to the civil war, traveled to the country in 2001, really to bear witness who was happening there because i was fascinated by the politics happening there. i met a gentlemen that lived there, he invited me back to see with my own eyes the story and i have been involved ever since. >> so in that role, you have been in the community, and you saw for yourself the first signs of the illness spreading. >> that's correct. in may, there was a doctor that was lost within the community, we are most closely associated with. the nurse infected district that was with effected. this community is on the boarder with guinea, just separated by a river.

and so when we heard this doctor has succumbed to the disease, we immediately called two groups. we with called the leaders of this, and also called representatives of the world health organization to get abassessment as to how we could support an intervention, and do it effectively. both sides came up with the same answer, we need chlorine, and we need medical gloves. so at that time, early june we pushed over 120-liters of chlorine, couple hundred blockings of medical gloves. >> very very simple things. just bleach and gloves. >> essentially. bleach can be a reasonably suitable substitution, but these were chlorine tablets that are dissolved. but subsequent to that, we set up 100 wash stations. i say all that, despite the doctor being

legislators they haven't lost anyone since, and they are really at the heart of this, and it cost up about $5,000. it wasn't just the moneys that flowed in, it was that we with had access to the community, and used the strengths despite their vulnerabilities to help them really help themselves. we were with under the medical guidance of paul farmer, i would be foolish to sit here and presume to be a medical expert, but he is one with. i saw his work with president clinton a couple of years ago. his philosophy is we don't want poor healthcare for poor pellet. a world class facility. a pediatric center, and i saw then if you can do it here it can be done in sierra leone. after it's trouble, and so if we had had that

type of intervention then, we wouldn't be having this conversation now, because they would have the infrastructure, have the medical delivery systems to be able to save this off. >> we hope they look to the guidance, of those of you who have become active in this. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> when we with return, survivors though not saved. the fight against isil, josh rushing just back from the region joins us with an indepth look at the people caught in the middle.

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more than two months of a u.s. led campaign has failed to stop or slow the advance, the group continues to see large swaths of territory there with with terrible consequences for the local 90s. al jazeera explores the war in iraq and it's impact on those caught in the middle. people across the country fled, some of them to neighbors syria. this is the bridge are refugee are flooding through every day into the country. >> how long have you been coming how many days? >> the u.s. began bombing isil in part to rescue stranded on a mountain top, but as refugees continue to leave the

area, thigh said, the help was not enough there were so many allegations that went introduce months and president obama called the situation impending act of genocide unfortunately, it seems that the entire incident was used as just a soundbite in a public

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leaving, they have the threat of the state behind them, what they don't know, is their hardest times may be yet to come. because of what lies ahead is a crisis where tens of thousands of people, are without access to regular food, water, shelter, or sanitary needs. the united nations estimates one until have been displaced since they started captures more territory. around 6,000 are staying in the refugee camp.

conditions here are nothing short of brutal. temperatures between 110, and 120-degreings. the wind with is did and blowing so it is hard to keep your eyes open, and there is nothing to shield these people from that, they have their tents but it is even hotter inside the tent during the day. the water they have to drink is hot, and the food is not enough is what they tell us. >> everybody wants, they want to go outside of iraq. >> our people are being kid p thatted, girls raped. children being killed,ing men being killed. people want to get out from here. they want to go to germany. somebodien needs to help us. we all want to get out of here.

in the rich escape, he has lost track of two of his daughters. age 13 and 16. he doesn't know if they are alive.

the only place in the world they are found in large numbers is northern iraq. where they built in communities built around their religious shrines but they say they have no future here, because they feel they are targets of again side. >> back with us now, this

is just a few weeks ago, that yaw saw these folks and they are still eager hoping for help. >> some of them have access to the internet through relatives that live nearby, so i get occasional facebook messages. >> from them. >> surprising number of the young men in those camp speak english, because they were used by the u.s. military as translators. they trusted them more than they did shiite. so a lot of those guys are working on visas

trying to come to the u.s., because they were translators nothing is happening with those, they all know, they are aware of the fact that the u.s. got involved in northern iraq because of what happened to them. >> and they are expecting the u.s. to come back and help them. >> you go through the camps, he is a farmer, farrellly rural guy, but he would say every time i would talk to him, what is obama doing, what is the congress doing to save us, we with can't live here any more, and they know the military got involved because of them, i was left with the horrible choice of what do you give them, no hope, or false hope, so all i would say is i will take your story back and i will tell it. >> do you think that they still believe help is on the way. >> i imagine that hope must be diminishinged but the fear is as rough as it was then, 120 degrees blazing hot, what they are really scared of is when the winter toms, then it gets really cold, and they don't know how

to live in those tents. 37 people living in two tents. >> cloth tents in those conditions. thank you very much, you can see all of josh's report, iraq divided the fight against isil this saturday at 7:00 eastern here on al jazeera. ahead in our final segment of this hour, more questions than answers and why the fear factor of ebola spreads faster than the virus.

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for much of this hour, many nights over the last few weeks we have kept sharp focus on ebola, and the growing questions. and the sudden spread of ebola cases in this country, because as we know, both fact and fear are at the heart of this crisis and what happens next. >> inform there's one thing we know is true, it is that fear of the disease can spread, even faster than the virus itself. fear that breeds more misinformation, just a few weeks ago we with shoot our heads when a

traditional healer urged west africans to drink their own bath water. maybe salty walter would protect you from it, or swallowing spices? as ludicrous as they sound, those fake internet solutions point to a legitimate reality, we want to know how to protect ourselves and in the absence of rock solid information, we might be inclined to try anything. >> like the passenger at washington dulles airport one of the key entry points for travelers, who sat waiting for a flight, in a home made hazmat suit. or the ohio schools that closed for disinfecting because someone on staff was on an aircraft that had previously been boarded by a woman who only later turns out to be infected. or a california college what quartered off an entire building because a released tiff of a student who has never been near the hot zone was sent to the hospital

with flu symptoms. who is to say what a otherreaction is, when there's so much even the ex-perths don't seem to know about ebola the nation's top health officials keep trying to reassure. >> my understanding ising that she reported no symptoms to us. but admit they don't know how the virus jumped from a patient to two nurses inside a dallas hospital. or 100.4, or maybe another point on another day. and they offer conflicting information to health workers about how to protect themselves, how can they be expected to know what the safe thing is, when the bubble suited team transported an infected patient, is assisted by someone who doesn't have any protective gear on it is an on going litany of mixed messages that makes it hard to believe we really know even what we don't know.

about the killner our midst. we with will continue to focus here on fact. that's it for us here, on the program this weekend, an america tonight investigation, nuclear whistle blowers workers at the most contaminated plant in america, some find themselves finding devastating illness and government red tape, america tonight investigates whether the workers will get help, in time. please remember if you would like to comment on any stories you can logging on to our website, aljazeera.com/america tonight. good night, we will have more of america tonight this weekend. >> consider this: the news of

the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the growing controversy. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america ebola anxiety is spreading as congress demands action from the c.d.c. deep and dangerous divisions among iraqi groups helping us fight i.s.i.l. and a look at crucial battle ground races that could determine who controls the senate. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". those stories and more ahead. >> there is a lot of fear of