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a major order of wind turbines. it puts a huge smile on my face. cause i'm like, 'this is what we do.' the fact that iowa is leading the way in wind energy, i'm so proud, like, it's just amazing. that's it for me. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >> next, breaking news. we now know the identity of the u.s. general shot and killed in afghanistan today. the highest ranking officer killed in action since vietnam. plus potential new cases f s of ebola around the world. a survivor is here to tell us what it was like for him.
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a troop buildup along the ukrainian border. our reporter on the scene just blocks away from a massive firefight. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone, i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, cnn learning the identity of a u.s. general shot dead in afghanistan today. the most senior american officer killed in action since the vietnam war. we go to jim sciutto in just a moment. breaking tonight, the ebola scare in the united states and west africa. dr. sanjay gupta outside the atlanta area hospital where a second american with ebola is now being treated. david mckenzie is is at the epicenter of the breakout tonight. the only reporter in sierra leone. first, though, it's being called an insider attack. u.s. army major general harold
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greene shot and killed in afghanistan today. the gunman believed to be an afghan soldier opened fire at a training facility in kabul injuring the general. the taliban has not claimed responsibility but did praise the shooter. the shooter was killed by security forces on the scene. greene's family has been notified. the pentagon says he was a 34-year army veteran, a leader in the training command in afghanistan. a man dedicating his life to training afghans to take over their own security was murdered by one of them. let's begin with jim sciutto. how did this happen? >> this is a high level visit to what's been described as afghanistan's west point in effect. it's the training center for senior afghan military officers, which is a big priority for u.s. and coalition forces there. arguably one of the most secure places in afghanistan. but what this general did not know and others injured was that lurking among the afghan soldiers there was one who was going to take his own gun, a
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russian-made light machine gun and turn it on his american partners there. they've taken a lot of measures to reduce these so-called green on blue attacks when afghan soldiers attack coalition soldiers and they've had a lot of success. those attacks way down since 2012, but obviously the threat not eliminated. >> not eliminated and army major general harold greene. we now know the name. we waited throughout the day to get confirmation of that. he was killed today. they needed to notify his family. what can you tell us about this man, a man who has spent more than 30 years with the u.s. military. >> that's right. he was deputy commander of what's called the combined security transition command. so this is deeply involved in transitioning security control in afghanistan from coalition forces, american forces are withdrawing to afghan forces which we've been -- which u.s. forces have been dedicated a lot of man-hours, a lot of money trained to take over this role.
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he was essential in this process. as you said, 34-year veteran. prior to this he was involved in reforming how the pentagon buys all of its military equipment. and just before we came to air, erin, a statement was released by the army chief of staff. here's what he had to say. our thoughts and prayers are with his family and the families of the soldiers injured today. eight american soldiers injured as well. it is their service and sacrifice that define us. he goes on to say they will be committed to their mission which when you've traveled with soldiers there even when they lose someone and tough when it's a senior commander, they are committed to the mission and they focus on the next step. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much. joining me on the phone is pentagon spokesman rear admiral john kirby. thank you for taking the time to be with us.
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these attacks, they've dropped in frequency, but they're still happening. how could this have happened? >> well, that's what the investigation is going to look at real hard, erin. i don't have all the specific details and circumstances today. it is still a dangerous place, afghanistan, still a combat zone. we work very hard to try to mitigate the threat, the insider threat, specifically and we've done a lot over the last couple of years to do that. you don't hear about as many of these happening as a couple years ago, but difficult to say you can eliminate it altogether. there's a lot of security precautions taken, security force personnel present on this trip, they did respond eventually killing the assail t assailant. >> but these are afghans who are vetted, trusted, trained by americans, providing security. they've killed dozens of coalition troops. i know it may sound like an unfair question because i know the answer, but i think it's fair to ask it. you can't guarantee this won't
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happen again, can you? >> there are few guarantees in war, erin, no, we cannot guarantee that it will never happen again. but what we can guarantee our afghan partners, troops and certainly americans is that we're going to do everything we can to try to get at this threat as much as possible. we're going to do everything we can to mitigate and minimize it and to prevent something like this from happening again. there's an investigation going on. we need to let that play out. we just don't know all the facts right now. >> thank you very much, admiral kirby. again the spokesperson for the pentagon. now to break this down, our national security analyst fran townshend, she was the security adviser to george w. bush. admiral kirby had to answer the question honestly, they can't guarantee this won't happen again. yes, the numbers are down. but appalling to so many americans that in a war this
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country is committed to leaving, the president is drawing down troops, you have people still dying. the first general killed in combat since vietnam today in afghanistan. >> it's extraordinary. it's tragic for the troops he leads, the command he led, and his family, right? so it really is a particularly painful event. i will tell you i think we've got to be careful to not too quickly jump to conclusions. this is somebody wearing an afghan army uniform. was this, as you suggested, a vetted, trained -- >> someone that took a uniform and put it on? >> exactly right. because we know the taliban. they're growing in strength, they're being more aggressive. they've praised this attack, they've not yet taken claim for it. we don't know if this is a representative of the taliban who put on an afghan uniform. we have to wait for the facts. >> when i was in afghanistan with a sergeant with a family at
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home, every day going out to train afghan forces about. he talked about how he trusted them and believed in the cause he was doing. and so many of them are trying to come and fight for their country and do the right thing, but when these sorts of things happen, it makes you question as an american, why this country is still continuing with this mission as troops are coming out. fewer and fewer people to defend. >> what you wouldn't have seen when you visited with that sergeant -- like you i was in afghanistan in the spring of 2013 with the general, got briefed on the study they did. >> the study on afghan troops killing american. >> killing american trainers. it's extraordinary the steps and personnel and resources they devote to protecting the trainers. so you have watchers who are there. when that sergeant's out training, there are people committed to watching him and watching his back while he does the training. and that's how they reduced the numbers dramatically, these sorts of incidents. >> is the pulldown of troops
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going to mean that there are more of these? >> what it means is, look, we know that the taliban is looking for opportunities to launch more attacks. this is one of the vectors we know they're very focused on. so that is certainly a risk. it's what makes getting the security agreement in place so we don't do it precipitously so important. >> fran townsend, thank you very much. still out front, the second american infected with ebola now on american soil. many others being tested. dr. sanjay gupta is where the doctor is being treated. could the experimental drug, is it a cure? a special report on exactly what this is. breaking news out of ukraine, a russian troop buildup surging along the border. nak payton walsh is there with a fire fight going on just behind him. >> another junshot i've just heard. you can hear that in the distance. from 2000 to 2011, on average 17 manufacturers a day shut down in america.
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the second american aid worker diagnosed with ebola now being treated in the united states. a specially equipped plane carrying nancy wrightbol just arrived outside of atlanta. she was whisked to emory university hospital to be treated for the lethal virus. tonight there are fears that the virus may have spread beyond
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africa. saudi arabia is now testing a man who fell ill after traveling to sierra lee own. we have more from sierra leone coming up in the center of the hot zone. the only television reporter in the world inside sierra leone. first, dr. sanjay gupta is live out front of emory university. what have you learned about nancy writebol's condition? >> we heard that she is stable, stable enough to make that trip, that medical evacuation trip from africa to atlanta. we also got a better idea today of just how sick she was a few days ago. i want you to listen to what bruce johnson, the head of s sim usa had to say about her husband. >> a week ago we were thinking about a possible funeral arrangement arrangements. yet we kept our faith. now we have a real reason to be
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hopeful. >> one of the thins worth pointing out, he talks about being hopeful. she did receive two doses of this experimental serum that we talked about a bit. it's a type of medication that had been not used before in a human being ever before dr. kent brantly and then nancy writebol. they sound like they had pretty amazing recovery as a result. we'll have to see how they do over the next several days. as of now she's in a hospital getting assessed how much of an impact this disease has had on her heart, lungs, kidney and liver. then hopes to meet with her family as well. >> it is incredible. we have a special report on this. i know serum isn't necessarily the right word but this potentially miraculous treatment they received. but what precautions is the hospital taking to ensure the safety? these people were in a plane, then transited to an ambulance. you thing about the rik about t
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were taken. >> there's no question, you see the suits people wear who are in closest contact with patients who are sick with ebola. you don't want to get any of the body fluid on any part of your skin because that can potentially cause an infection. i'm outside of the hospital. that's where the isolation unit is. i've been here all day. it's sort of business as isusua. for the vast majority of the hospital personnel and the people in this community there's just no risk. you don't feel that at all. the doctors and nurses that go in do have to wear those suits. they have a buddy system to make sure each other is covered adequately. when they walk in there they go in in pairs for that very reason. they take their temperature twice a day as well to see if there's any signs of a viral exposure, but i can tell you dr. ribner, the lead doctor, he says
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he'll go home every night, he'll sleep in his own bed because his concern of being sick is so low, he doesn't worry about going back to his own home. >> thank you very much, sanjay gupta. i want to bring in a man who was infected with ebola and survived before they even knew what it was. that's what's incredible. he was performing an autopsy at the hospital. we'll show you now this is what's in now the democratic republic of the congo, in the '70s, it was zaire. he nicked himself with a scal l scalpel. weeks later he was gravely ill. at first it felt like the flu. for almost two weeks no symptoms, then you felt like you had the flu but much worse. when did you realize what you had was not the flu? and what was it about the symptoms specifically that made you know it was different? >> you know, the fever was certainly a big part of it. fever in flu normally doesn't drag on that long. and it carried on -- my wife
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made very good temperature charts. this went on for well over a week into two weeks, and that would not be typical for flu. in addition, the rash that i developed, that would not be typical for flu. so we were realizing this is not a classical flu. there's something more to it than that. >> where was the rash. we heard dr. brantly who now is recovering. they described a rash on his torso. what kind of a rash was it for people trying to understand? so many people are confused and afraid about the symptoms. >> i don't know if i can tell you in detail because as i told you last night i was pretty much in a stupor. but there was a rash on much of the body. >> a rash on much of the body. what was the virus doing to your body when you had this rash and this fever that had put you to such an extent and such a high fever that you were in a stupor? >> the virus is working throughout the entire body. it's attacking cells all
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throughout. whether a liver, kidneys, you name it. it's not just the visible like the skin. it's acting in many parts of the body to destroy. that's what it's all about. >> that's what causes the -- i guess at first it could be that you're throwing up, you're vomiting, you have diarrhea, but then just bleeding. >> correct. and patients can go into liver failure and renal failure and a major organ failure because of it as well. >> what were doctors doing? you did not even know you had ebola. >> that's correct, yeah. my physician there, my colleague -- we were the only two doctors at the station at the time. was using ivs. they were giving me aspirin. nowadays that seems very strange because we don't normally use aspirin in people that were
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bleeding. but that's what we had available at the time. but those are the big ones as well as a lot of what i would call spiritual care, prayer for me and this sort of thing. overall, it was a very difficult time and very little that we could do to cure it. we didn't know what we were dealing with. it was clearly supportive care. >> it must have been, honestly, dr. cairns a miracle that you didn't infect your wife, children or anyone else. a man that came in and died and a scalpel that you used to treat him, that's how you got this disease and almost died. they were caring for you not knowing not to get anywhere near any bodily fluids, yet they didn't get it. >> that's right. using that word "miracle" is exactly the word i would use, too. i can't account for it other than the power of god. >> wow, that's an incredible thing to say, and from a doctor. thank you so much, dr. cairns. >> thank you.
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there's still so many questions about the drug that could save two americans from ebola, and obviously the hope would be that it would help save the lives of so many who are in grave danger of losing their lives in africa. it's called zmapp, an experimental medication not approved by the fda. doctors say when it was given to dr. kent brantly his condition improved dramatically. when we say dramatically, it is nottage exaggeration. it was an improvement in one hour. stephanie elam is out front with the money and power of the cocktail. >> it's profound. everything we work fo. >> reporter: erica is part of the team of 25 labs in seven countries that create the serum taken by both american ebola patients. and so far the cocktail seems to be working. until now, the drug wasn't known to the public. it wasn't even supposed to be tested on humans until 2015.
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>> did you have any reservations before the outbreak happened about trying it on people? >> i thought it would work. i would take it myself. but i know what it is. >> reporter: she says the antibodies work by binding to the virus or the infected cell. >> this is a model we made of the structure of the protein that's in the surface of the virus, green and white. yellow is the antibody. so this is the molecule, the virus uses to attach to a human cell and drive itself in. the antibody will attach itself to it and do one of a couple things. one of the ones in the zmapp cocktail alerts the system to the presence of the infection, the other two do exactly this. they bind to the base of this molecule and prevent it from working. >> reporter: one reason it takes so long to make doses is the need to re-create the antibodies, something the scientists are able to do rather cheaply with tobacco plants. >> they're taking hundreds of plants a t a time, dipping them in this genetic solution.
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the plants take up the virus, they start this process of viral infection, and in the process, get jammed full of monoclonal antibody. as the plant starts turning yellow because it's going to die from the viral infection, once you see that the plant has gotten to that point, the guys in kentucky harvest the leaf material. >> reporter: after separating the antibodies through a multistep process, the three desired antibodies are then combined to make the drug that the americans received. it's called zmapp. >> it looks very promising and certainly encouraging and a reason to go forward with these kinds of studies. >> reporter: now, erin, you talk about how quickly dr. brantly improved. when you talk to dr. saphire, she said it brought tears to her eyes when she saw him walk from the ambulance into the hospital. these are the first two humans
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to take this drug. without having a control patient, there's still a lot more research to be done before they're sure exactly how well it works because right now we don't know if they're improving on their own or if it was all because of the experimental drug. >> it's amazing. the big question would be with hundreds dying in africa why it wasn't given to them and it took two americans to have this even tested. still "out front" an israeli delegation is arriving in cairo to discuss a cease-fire tonight. a massive troop buildup on the ukrainian border. i was talking to our nick paton walsh who is there on the ground. and this happened. >> particularly close to where i'm standing in the city center -- another barrage of automatic gunfire there. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality
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russia nearly doubling the number of troops along the ukraine border. an official says there are now 20,000 troops there. the news rattled investors around the world. all three indices fell sharply. right before this show began i spoke to nick paton walsh who is in donetsk ukraine. just as we started to speak a gunfight erupted just a couple of blocks away. >> we've just heard some gun shots. there have been explosions far away. a jet in the skies. we know the ukrainian army is moving much closer towards the city center. two people killed in their advance just over there behind me earlier on today. as you said the russian military now doubling its size along the border. not enough to really intervene and hold territory, but as one nato official said to me the mobility of these units is the fact that they're special force, anti-aircraft artillery, everything you need to seriously intervene here. if the kremlin does decide it
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isn't interested in sanctions, it needs to prove its point here, militants seriously on their back foot here. another gunshot you can hear in the distance. potentially there's the room for the kremlin's decide to send forces across the border here, erin. >> can you tell at all -- that's just the sort of -- the noises, the gunshots that you're hearing? i know you're near the mh-17 crash site as well. this is a lot going on for the early hours of the morning. >> that actually is the most sustained gunfire we've heard quite this close to the city center where we are here. it is making life for the inspectors difficult, too. we understand from an official close to the investigation that, in fact, they are trying to get to the crash site, increasingly impeded by the violence and that, in fact, the ukrainian and rebel front lines are now adjacent to parts of the crash site now as well.
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almost caught in no man's land, this vital debris the inspectors still have to comb through. their work seriously impeded by the violence swirling around that area and particularly close to where i'm standing in the city center. another barrage of automatic gunfire there. >> as you said, this is the most that you've heard, nick, in quite some time in terms of fighting, right? >> well, certainly this close to the city center, yes. we heard explosions earlier on but hearing this sustained kind of gunfire which must be just a few streets away i think shows you how nefbous perhaps separatist militants are at this stage. they have reason to be. the ukrainian military was just a few hours ago over the hill behind me moving towards the city center. and that small arms fired is the 340es we've heard sustained in the city center thus far. >> that was our nick paton walsh. i want you to know that that
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fighting was a couple streets away. it was sudden because he didn't have a bulletproof vest on. the breaking news from israel, the delegation has now arrived in cairo for peace talks with the palestinians. this is according to two senior egyptian government officials. this is a major development because israel had refused to go to cairo. so they're not going to participate in the talks. before that hamas said it wasn't willing to negotiate. now these negotiations are going to begin tomorrow. so far the humanitarian cease-fire that went into effect this morning has held. gaza residents were out on the streets today and israel withdrew its ground forces from gaza basically because they were done what they needed to do, let's just be realistic about this. they wanted to droi hamas' underground tunnel network and they say they've finished that work. do people ning the cease-fire will last the three days that it's supposed to? what did you see today? >> yeah, i think there is a totally different feel and a totally different vibe in gaza
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city today. primarily because the fact that everybody had agreed to the cease-fire. the other cease-fires, one side would agree but not the other. this time everybody had signed on. it had that feel that, okay, at least it will start. it not only started, it lasted all day and continued to this point, even after it got dark. there was a new kind of night life discovered here in gaza city. and it didn't include outgoing rockets and incoming artillery. instead the stores stayed open late, and the traffic and the people. people believe this is for real. but, as you point out, the question is will it continue? and no one can really give you an honest answer on that. they hope it does, but they don't know for sure. >> so in 72 hours, what happens then? >> well, you know, that's a really good question. there is a lot of difficult hurdles that have to be overcome here. many people here in gaza
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believe, look, we have sacrificed so much. well over 1800 people, then on top of that 10,000 homes, so much money, the infrastructure blasted, whole areas and neighborhoods almost wiped off the face of the earth. so there has to be something they gain. they believe they'll get the lifting of the embargo and a number of significant victories, but israel isn't going to want to grant anything to make it look like hamas has won something. so right there you're seeing a potential chasm between the two sides. if in 72 hours they don't come up to an agreement, in theory, they would extend it, but if there's frustration, if it looks like it's going nowhere, you can have real problems especially if the militant groups here if they decide it's better to continue the violence instead of continuing to talk. >> there's several thousand more rockets left to fire. thank you martin savidge. joining me now is jen psaki.
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you had harsh words for israel this week. you were appalled by the, quote, unquote, disgraceful shelling of a u.n. school in gaza. the next day president obama signed into law a bill that promised aid to israel for its iron dome missile defense system. it does seem that the united states is saying one thing but doing the other when it comes to israel. >> i disagree with that. israel is one of our most important strategic partners, security partners. we're proud of the work we've done to support them, whether it's iron dome or other funding and assistance we've provided. that will continue. at the are same time israel has a responsibility to hold themselves to the high standard they've put out, just as the united states does. so we got to the point where i think there had been seven attacks, civilians had died, hundreds of civilians had died, and we felt it was important to note that more could have been done. >> do you feel that israel -- there was a report that prime
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minister netanyahu did not deny where he said to the united states, reported by the associated press, don't ever question me again when it comes to hamas. do you think that israel listened to you when you were saying stop it with the civilian deaths? >> it's hard for me to analyze that. what i will say is obviously right now both sides are abiding by a cease-fire. there's only two things that have changed over the course of the last ten days or so. one is that there's been growing support in the international community for a cease-fire, increasing pressure for both sides to abide by that. and, two, israel finished the work that they were doing on the tunnels. so those are the factors that have changed. whether or not our public comments or statements have an impact, you know, that's not for me to determine. >> so to your point, israel finished what it was doing, which was destroying those tunnels. that's what motivated them to actually go ahead with this cease-fire. >> oh, certainly a factor, yeah. >> but does it frustrate you that that might be the reason and not because the united
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states, which funds their military and is their biggest supporter, asked them to show some moderation? >> well, i think, erin, one, we understand first and foremost when you have terrorists coming through tunnels and threatening your people that you need to take steps to defend yourself. we've supported israel, you know, at every point in the process in that regard, but there's also been the work the secretary has done, the work the u.n. has done has helped built support in the international community and really a call for a cease-fire where at this point now. so it's been a building process over the course of the last several days. i don't think any one factor was the determining factor. >> so we've seen some video. this actually was video that came in from an indian network, mdtv, they have exclusive footage. they say they were in gaza and they took this footage of the tarp and it was covering rockets which they then saw hamas fire and right next to a civilian area next to a hotel.
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the israeli defense forces put out a hamas combat manual that they say they found. one section discusses the civilians when those buildings are destroyed. do you thing hamas is purposely putting civilians in the line of fire? >> there's clear indication that they have been. no one should be confused here. israel is a partner and important strategic ally of the united states. hamas is a terrorist organization that's been shooting rockets into israel, sending terrorists in to attack the israeli people. they've used civilians as targets through the course of even this recent conflict. that's contributed to the casualties on the ground. >> you mentioned hamas is a terrorist organization. the united states designates it as such. former president jimmy carter obviously presided over the camp david peace treaty between israel and egypt, wrote today, hamas cannot be wished away nor
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will it cooperate in its own demise. only be recognizing its legitimacy as a political actor can the u.s. provide the right incentives for hamas to lay down its weapons. those are incredible words. should the united states consider taking hamas off the terrorist list, recognize it as a legitimate political actor? >> i can assure you that's not something we're thinking about or focused on right now and i don't anticipate it. the next step in this process is negotiations in cairo. those are going to be starting soon. some of the issues that have been raised by both sides, whether economic opportunity and the opening of the rafah crossing and other crossings for the people of gaza or the security for israel will be discussed there and some of these issues are the only way to address this over the long-term. >> jen psaki, thank you so much. breaking news just coming in out of new york city, another ebola scare. this just in, a flight coming in from abu dhabi to new york
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tonight. we're going to give you the very latest on that. our reporters trying to get you the exact details. a live report on the other side of this break. but that flight just landing with an ebola scare here in new york. plus sierra leone. and new reports that the nigerian girls have been spotted.
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breaking news. ebola fears mounting a flight from abu dhabi to new york's jfk airport. we are just finding this out. was held by the cdc, the centers for disease control, because of concerns about ebola. our miguel marquez is live outside mount sinai hospital in new york where another patient is being held in isolation awaiting test results on whether he may have contracted the virus. what have you learned about the scare on that flight at jfk? >> that's a good indicator of just how concerned this entire city and the country is. cdc does maintain quarantine stations at ports of entry and the country, jfk is one of those. this is an infant on that flight that started ko coughing up blood on that flight. they determined that the child was likely dehydrated.
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cleared the flight. this flight also coming from abu dhabi, not a country that would have a concern about ebola, but it's not clear where they were coming from to abu dhabi and then into new york. so a lot of concern everywhere around the world about this disease and at this point the jfk situation is completely clear. erin? >> and i know that there are several people being tested around the country, various hospitals. the patient in the hospital behind where you are, mount sinai here in new york, what are they currently saying about the test results? >> we're still waiting for those test results, although the hospital did say today that this individual was in stable condition and in good spirits overnight, which, if one were to have ebola, there's only one direction that disease goes and that's in a pretty bad direction. so i think the hospital's saying it is unlikely they have it. there's further indication that he doesn't seem to have it, but they're going to hold him in isolation here at the hospital for as long as it takes, until cdc comes back with the results,
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then they do point out that they may test it several times just to be completely 110% sure. erin? >> just days ago this was a virus that seemed very much contained to west africa and people thought of it as something very far away. that's suddenly and dramatically changed. how did it happen? >> well, the outbreak started in march of this late madge was the first reported case. transmission by the blood of animals into the human chain. at that time it was only in southeastern guinea, a very forested area of southeastern guinea. there were 49 cases at the time reported, 29 deaths, that's a 55% fatality rate. then the spread began. from guinea to liberia to nigeria to sierra leone. today we have 160 3 cases reported. most of them in west africa. that's a 55% death rate. now the world is on alert. here in the u.s., there have
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been a half dozen cases or so says the cdc tested in government facilities. all of those negative. we got word today of a 46-year-old woman in ohio was tested because she had been in west africa. she had some symptoms. she is negative. we're waiting for the test results here in new york. there was one case in canada back in march that was tested, that was negative and right now there is one case in saudi arabia. that person is in isolation and again, we're waiting test results for that one case. so what started in west africa is now spread to the world and the entire world has woken up and is an alert, erin. >> that's true, miguel. it's a situation that starts here and jumps to here and the question is will it stay there or suddenly become something much, much bigger. here is the bottom line. sierra leone is the hot center, the country hardest hit by the outbreak. 646 cases reported, more an any other country. troops are deployed to quarantine patients. david mckenzie is there, the
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only television reporter there. david, i know you had a chance to travel into the center to see a country completely and utterly shut down in fear as you reported last night. you visited a hospital today. what did you see there? >> reporter: well, erin, what we saw was something extraordinary. these doctors on the front lines of the battle against ebola in the very epicenter of this outbreak. taking incredible care to combat an unprecedented outbreak. ebola can lead to death with undrop of infected flutds. >> that's why we take every precaution. >> reporter: already dozens of doctors and nurses have died in this outbreak. still, dr. stephon kruger says he has to come. >> this is what we need is really big lack of resources and at the moment, they do nothing.
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i mean, that's a good enough reason. >> reporter: they losing the battle. ebola hit four countries. this out break is out of control. in the last two weeks, they doubled the capacity for confirmed ebola patients and doing all they can to help those who are sick but absolutely at capacity here. what the effort is now, will it stop the disease? >> no, it's difficult. we don't know where we're staying and it's frustrating for us because we don't have a capacity to go everywhere. >> reporter: here they do what they can. in the high risk zone, this woman calls out for help. she has ebola, so does her son. ebola is so deadly it's killing our citizens, it's killing our country she says. her husband and son died of the
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disease. 70% of confirmed cases here will die, too. so she's confident. >> reporter: to talk to her we must stand a few feet away, the protocols protect us, the cruelty is they isolate her. still, she believes her 12-year-old daughter will make it and so will she. we are feeling much better she says, we're strong and we're going to fight. what happens when you actually beat this disease? >> that's a real highlight of everything that we do here. everybody comes to watch the patient come out of isolation. it really, i think motivates the staff to continue doing what they do here. >> reporter: erin, you saw we weren't in any special protective gear, that was because we were in the low-risk zone of the hospital. i've been inside the high-risk zone before in previous
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outbreaks, but because the situation is so tense right now in terms of getting to patients, they just were not willing to take us there and also, they wouldn't even be willing to let us try out the outfit because they don't have supplies. it's a very bad situation here, and it could get worse. >> they didn't even have an outfit for you. how did it get this bad? >> it got this bad because some say governments didn't do enough in the early days. guinea, next door, had an outbreak, it seems under control some months ago but then because of the porous boarders, people spread across and then spread the disease. there is a lot of criticism that i've heard of the world health organization and others were not doing enough but now they say they will but it appears it could be too late. erin. >> david mckenzie, thank you very much. stay safe there as you heard him report. not even enough suits for him to wear one. out front next, the breaking news from nigeria, the girls
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breaking news tonight, according to the wall street journal, the missing nigerh gee school girls may have been spotted by american surveillance flights. u.s. and nigerian officials say the images show what appear to
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be large groups of girls held together in remote locations. this is incredible. 276 girls were taken under the cover of darkness. people had thought they had been sold, some forced to kill themselves in suicide bomb attacks. this could be miraculous. this could be miraculous. anderson starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening from jer louus. military operations went on up until the 8:00 a.m. deadline this morning. this was the west bank, also this morning, a stray rocket, one of about 20 according to authorities that hamas fired before the seize fire took effect. tonight, we'll look at the fate of ordinary gaza civilians, many of whom simply do not have homes to return to. they are gone with