i know it's an early one but we're glad to have you here with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. the big story everyone is talking about, ebola now here in the u.s. >> fears are ramping up it seems. federal officials, health officials i should say, ten of the 50 who came into contact with the dallas ebola patient are at high risk of contracting the virus. thomas eric duncan is still in isolation in serious condition. >> his partner and three of her family members are among those at high risk. they've been quarantined in their apartment for the past week but since been moved to another location and you see here the hazmat crews gave the apartment a good cleaning and the process, we understand, could take days. meanwhile, the white house is trying to tame the fears that an outbreak could happen here at

home. >> i want to emphasize that the united states is prepared to deal with this crisis. both at home and in the region. every ebola outbreak over the past 40 years has been stopped. we know how to do this and we will do it again. >> now, duncan's if fight against ebola isn't his only worry. the dallas county district attorney's office is now, quote, looking into whether he knowingly and intentionally exposed the public to a deadly virus. basically that means duncan could possibly face criminal charges. >> we know duncan traveled from liberia to the u.s. last month and has been accused of lying on a pre-flight questionnaire about whether he had contact with any ebola patients while abroad. >> cnn's nick valencia has been on the ground in dallas and reports that there's fear taking hold at that apartment complex where duncan first got sick. >> reporter: at texas

presbyterian hospital ebola patient thomas eric duncan remains in serious condition days after becoming the first person to be diagnosed with the illness on american soil dallas county health officials are monitoring at least 50 others for ebola symptoms. at the apartment complex where duncan stayed, fear has taken hold. resident mohammad husain originally from somalia, worries about the outcome. >> somebody, yeah. if it happened. >> reporter: at the apartment complex where duncan was staying it is an active scene. you see a hazmat crew has shown up here and about to enter. hours after arriving people in hazmat suits emerge placing a tarp across the balcony of the apartment. the neighbor watches on with wonder, but mostly concern. >> translator: yes, everyone is alert. they're nervous and scared. they don't know what else could happen. if it's contagious or if there will be an epidemic.

>> reporter: community leaders have had their hands full. local cheer volunteer chris reid has been temperring neighborhood alarmists and educating others to take the situation seriously. >> the greatest need for this man is medical care and his immediate family is medical care. that should be where the attention is. let's take care of that family. let's take care of that person. and not try to push them aside for any political reasons or anything else. let's try to make sure that that's where the focus is. because if we show we care for them. >> reporter: dallas county health officials say things are under control and with thomas duncan quarantined everyone should ease their fears about the potential for an outbreak. >> nick joining us live. they said we should ease our fears but, nick, is fear dissipating now that they're seeing these people there and the apartment is getting cleaned? >> well, during the first phase of the cleaning process yesterday at the apartment, there was certainly a lot of

people looking on with concern, some curious. city officials mentioned yesterday in a press conference that there is fear outside of the community with at least one report of someone who lived in that apartment complex being turned away from their job because of fears they may have contracted something. there's reports at the local high school of students from africa from that apartment complex being called ebola, being bullied by other students. there certainly is fear not only in that community where we were yesterday, but also surrounding that community. city officials say this is concentrated to one part of dallas and the northeastern corner of dallas and trying to educate the public telling them what they're doing, monitoring the 50 people, taking their temperature. they're trying to educate the public to temper those concerns. >> all right. good to know. nick, take good care out there. thank you, sir. >> thanks. another american in effected with ebola in liberia is expected to return to the u.s. on monday. the state department says free lance camera man will be treated at the hospital in omaha,

nebraska. it's still unclear how he can contracted the virus but his father says his son remembers getting fluid sprayed in his face while he was cleaning a chair inside a clinic where he was filming. >> in maryland, hospital officials say a patient admitted to the hospital after exhibiting flu-like symptoms has tested positive for malaria, not ebola. meanwhile, another patient is being tested for ebola at howard university hospital in d.c. apparently they recently traveled to nigeria. officials say the patient is in isolation and is in stable condition right now. now to that brutal killing of a british aid worker and taxi driver by isis. >> the terror group has released this video showing the apparent beheading of alan henning. he was kidnapped in syria the day after christmas. he's the fourth western captive

killed by isis since august. >> in a statement president obama condemned henning's killing and said the u.s., quote, standing together with a broad coalition of allies and partners will continue taking decisive action to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. >> british prime minister david cameron tweeted he met with his security chiefs this morning and minutes ago he said britain and its allies will go after henning's killers. >> the murder of alan henning is absolutely appalling. it's senseless. it is completely unforgivable. as a country, we must do with our allies, is everything we can to defeat this organization in the region, but also to defeat it at home and we must do everything we can to hunt down and find the people who are responsible for this. >> well, isis is now threatening to kill another hostage, american aide worker and iraq war veteran peter kassig. kassig's family it tells cnn the

26-year-old medic went to syria to do humanitarian work and care for wounded refugees and he disappeared last year. cnn's arwa damon joins us from the turkish border. you met kassig in 2012. tell us more about this man? >> well, peter kassig, sadly like those who were so horrifically beheaded before him, journalists or aide workers, decided to work and put his life on the line in syria because he had a profound belief he had a responsibility to try to make a difference and given his medical background, he believed that was the field that he needed to be assisting in. we met him in lebanon in the summer of 2012. back then he was volunteering at a hospital in the lebanese city of tripoli helping to treat wounded syrians. take a listen to what he told us back then. >> we each get one life and that's it. we get one shot at this. we don't get any do-overs.

for me it was put up or shut up. the way i saw it, i didn't have a choice. this is what i was put here to do. i guess i'm just a hopeless romantic and idealist and i believe in hopeless causes. >> reporter: and it was those sent mentes, those emotions that drove peter to do even more. he was always trying to take on even more, back a bigger difference and so a few months after we met him, he established his own non-profit, special emergency response and assistance, based here and it was focused on training volunteers in those makeshift field clinics inside syria trying to get them additional medical assistance and it was during one of those trips into syria while on his way to deir ezzor where he was kidnapped october 1st, 2013. during his captivity it seems he did at some point convert to

islam. the family says it understands from previously released hostages, that peter gained great strength from his faith. >> all right. arwa damon reporting. we read his family hasn't said much during his captivity but they're speaking about their son. arwa damon on the turkish side of the turkish/syrian border. thank you so much. have you heard? hackers have attacked jp morgan accounts and they got their hands on tons of personal information. we'll tell you what is reported to be stolen. >> plus, good news, for the economy and anyone looking for a job. details on the falling unemployment rate. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing.

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let's get some quick reads. >> in dallas the family of four people that came into contact with a liberian made diagnosed with ebola have been move from their apartment and in a home secluded from neighbors. crews are cleaning the apartment where thomas eric duncan stayed. three top north korean officials paid a visit to south korea today. according to south korean officials pyongyang says it is willing to hold a second round of high-level meetings this fall. the first round of talks were held in february. north korean leader kim jong-un has been out of sight for three weeks suffering from, quote, discomfort. in business news, jp morgan says, yeah, it's been hacked. cyber criminals have gathered information on more than 80 million account holders including names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses. however, apparently the hackers didn't get any account information and so far the bank

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six years. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans has more. >> reporter: christy and victor, a strong jobs report. let me show you what it looks like here. you can see 248,000 jobs created. that brings us back to this trend that had been going on for six months before august of more than 200,000 jobs created. a really important point of this report as well, the jobless rate, hit a six-year low. the lowest in six years. 5.9%. we haven't seen a rate like that since all the way back to july 2008. it was broadbased job gains, by the way, professional and business services, in retail, health care. when you look at the unemployment rate you can see that those broadbased gains are now accumulating and lowering that jobless rate. how does it look when you take a look at the trend. this is what's important here. the trend is, 226,000 jobs on average each month this year. you want to see job creation continue like this so you can continue to absorb people into the labor market and grow the

economy. you still have an underemployment rate that's too high. you still have beiwages not grog briskly, not at all actually. you have people who have been out of work six months or longer, all of those trends continue. but for the recently unemployed and people who have a job right now, the job market is getting better. >> all right. we'll take the good news. christine romans, thank you. so here's a question i think a lot of you are asking. should flights from countries where people have ebola be banned? some u.s. lawmakers, they think they should. would such a ban help contain ebola, though? we're going to ask our experts to weigh in on that. i have the worst cold with this runny nose.

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>> 19 minutes past the hour right now. we're grateful for your company. a growing number of lawmakers now want to tighten restrictions on people traveling from ebola, including possibly a ban on flights to and from countries that are stricken with the disease. thomas eric duncan, the first patient diagnosed with ebola on u.s. soil, flew from liberia to brug se brussels and then to virginia to dallas. while the cdc said he was not contagious while traveling the liberian officials said he answered no when asked if he had been exposed to ebola. cnn aviation analyst mary scarf yo joining us now. >> good morning. >> good morning. jordan tapper, he's the director of the cdc's division of health protection and centers for

global health. listen to what the head of the cdc told cnn. >> the fact is that people travel, people move and if we restrict travel it will make it harder to control ebola there and ultimately increase the risk in other parts of the world including here. >> all right. mary, should there be a flight ban on planes going to and from countries that are experiencing this ebola outbreak? >> yes. because it's just a matter of common sense. now, i'm not saying you ban all people traveling to and from the united states. i'm saying that you need to get the aircraft, you need to get the flights and the people serving the airlines out of those areas. why? it's just common sense because an aircraft and aircraft flight is like moving a small city back and forth between the ebola stricken areas and the united states. you have to take care of the crews, the fuelers, the caterers, the people who clean the planes, pilots and flight attendants have to have eight hours behind a door somewhere to sleep before they fly.

you're increasing the number of threat factors that can introduce it to the united states. british airways has banned flights from the ebola stricken areas as have three african carriers including kenya airways. >> dr. tapper, you were just in liberia. you've been back i think you said 23 days. what's the situation on the ground there like? >> well, the situation in liberia as in sierra leone and guinea is challenging. we have a number of patients that are in need of beds and we have a number of facilities providing care but we need more of them. the whole point is we need to provide places for people to get care so they can improve their chances for survival but it gets people with the virus out of their communities and decreases the risk of transmission to others. >> is it a possibility to really restrict those areas and keep it from spreading? because, you know, from the outside from where we are it doesn't look to be so? >> i think you're talking about airline travel. that is your question?

or just -- >> in liberia. >> i think it's impossible to control people's moment. when you have a long incubation period people need to self-monitor if they know they've had low-risk exposure but there really is no way to limit people's travel throughout that region of west africa or anywhere else in the world when you're talking about something on a national scale. >> scale like that. well, mary, liberian airport officials say duncan told them no when asked if he had been exposed to ebola. how can you prevent passengers, though, from traveling who have been exposed, you know, without a flight ban in place? >> well, that's exactly right. that's what i'm saying. if you take the -- if you remove the u.s. carriers, if you take the airplanes away from the area, will people still travel to other parts where they will go. go to other airports, et cetera, yes. people desperate to get health care from the united states, for example, are going to do anything they can to get here. then you don't have the added

risk of the aircraft, the pilots, the flight attendants, the crew. what you have is you have known travelers and why? because we now since after 9/11/2001, we have a better control of who's coming into the country and who they are. then we have to track the passengers as opposed to if we continue to allow flights coming and going from ebola countries we have to track everyone who has touched the plane and for each flight that can be hundreds of people we don't know who they are. >> like we said, he said he had not been exposed to anybody with ebola, essentially he lied. >> exactly. >> how do we keep track of people and know that they're being forthcoming with everything? dr. tapper, i wanted to ask you, the u.n.'s ebola chief says that there's this risk, that this could mutate and become airborne. how likely is that to happen and i'm assuming that would really be a game changer, obviously? >> we have no evidence to date that suggests that there's any

evidence that there's airborne transmission of this current virus. in fact, we have looks at and others have looked at the virus that's currently circulating in west africa and there's been little evolutionary change of the virus over many years. we have no evidence of that. i would also address the comment about the risk of the individual who's now in texas. that individual was screened at the airport. there was no evidence of a fever. and so even -- even in the scenario which didn't happen, had the person become febrile on the plane he would be low risk transmission to others. >> until the symptoms show up there's not a huge risk? >> if the person is without fever, which this person was, and we've had our staff in dallas as well as texas authorities, talk to the individual and there is absolutely no evidence that he developed febrile symptoms until several days after arrival. there was no risk to anyone on the airplane on that flight.

in addition, the risk, even if someone were to become febrile on an airplane and it turned out to be ebola those early hours of infection are still very, very low risk. we would, of course, have, you know, good, you know, contact with all the individuals on the airplane and screen for them for correct contact with the individual and do all those things, but really, the risk is direct patient contact with someone who's not only had fever but fever and the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea and the kind of things that increase the likelihood of transmission. >> good to know. dr. jordan tapper we appreciate your expertise. mary scarf yo, good to see you as well. >> thanks. >> victor? >> thank you, christi. a fire at a memorial dedicated to 9/11 victims. clouds of smoke rising. look at this. the crews there are rushing to the scene. ahead, some of the items that may have been damaged. plus, the week's long manhunt for suspected cop killer leads to a hunting ban in

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the terror group released a video showing the brutal killing of the 47-year-old taxi driver. it's threatening to kill another hostage, american aide worker peter kassig. >> number two, the cdc says ten people who had contact with ebola patient thomas eric duncan are at higher risk of contracting the deadly virus. health officials are monitoring the 40 others he came in contact with. duncan's girlfriend, her son and two nephews who had been quarantined in an apartment, have now been moved to a larger residence. hazmat crews, they started cleaning their apartment yesterday. number three, the search for a suspected cop killer has led to a hunting ban in seven pennsylvania townships. the state's game commission issued the indefinite ban after police found two pipe bombs in the area where matthew eric frein is suspected to be hiding. that was three weeks ago. >> number four, officials are assessing the damage that fire may have caused to the 9/11 memorial in shanksville,

pennsylvania. that's where united airlines flight 93 crashed. among the artifacts in four damaged buildings, the american air -- american flag that flew over the u.s. capital on the day of the terrorist attack, fire officials are investigating. >> and number five, look at what was happening at the texas fair in waco. this is on thursday. people scrambling to get into shelter. strong wind and hail. 90 miles north. ft. worth didn't fair better. storms hit that city as well causing significant damage we're told. cnn meteorologist jennifer grey is here. where did those storms end up? >> yeah. >> are they still powerful? >> they've basically pushed off the east coast. this came through dallas on thursday. we had 293 wind reports on thursday and friday across much of the south and that extended even into the great lakes area. these showers have now weakened considerably bringing rain to the northeast for today and even some snow. this is a very powerful system

with a lot of cold air behind it. that's going to be the big story as we go through the next couple of days. already getting snow around portions of wisconsin, even northern michigan. so chilly temperatures behind this front. that cold air is going to settle in for much of the weekend. temperatures dipping very chilly as far south as say georgia and tennessee. we even have freeze warnings in if effect this morning. bismarck, sioux falls, you're included in that with temperatures 25 degrees in minot. 40 in minneapolis, 43 in chicago at this hour. your high temperature in chicago today only getting up to 47 degrees. you will be at 57 by tomorrow, 61 by monday. so temperatures will quickly rebound. this isn't going to last long at all. look at lows tonight, atlanta 44 degrees tonight. so these temperatures, guys, are dipping very far south and it's finally feeling like fall across much of the country. >> 44 is like winter. >> yes. >> more than -- more than fall.

>> chilly for us in atlanta. >> yes. >> we'll take it. thank you so much, jen. >> all right. >> thank you, jen, christi. more on the brutal beheading of a british father, husband and aide worker in syria by isis. british prime minister david cameron said the u.k. and its allies will do everything it can to defeat the terror group. isis is threatening to kill american hostage peter kassig. a cnn military analyst, rick francona joins us now. colonel, good to have you back. what is isis hoping to gain with these beheadings? they now have the u.s. and the u.k. and we know the trajectory of what's happening there. the fourth killed in just two months. what's their goal with the videos? >> they're continuing to extract a price from the west for conducting these operations. there's no other reason to be doing it. it's not going to increase resolve anymore. the british have made their decision. they're going to participate. the americans are already involved. this is just extracting

retribution where they can. i think the air strikes are having an effect and they're trying to strike back in any way they can. >> let's talk about kobani this town near the turkish/syrian border. by many accounts isis has now taken that city or inside the city. there have been air strikes in kobani's vicinity but they don't appear to be holding off isis. if they take this city as they've taken raqqah and mosul and many other cities, what would be the strategic value? how would this be a game changer? >> this gives them more control of the turkish border. they control quite a bit of it, but there's parts out to the west of kobani that they don't control. and this is just their effort to control all of that territory. they're about the territory up there. they don't really care too much about the kurds because as the kurds were escaping into turkey, there was no effort made to stop them. they want that territory. they believe it to be part of their state. they're going to try to consolidate that entire border. i don't see them going into turkey. i don't think they're threatening turkey right now.

that would be a big mistake because the turkish army is much more fit for -- formidable than anything they faced in iraq or syria. >> turkey has held off in large part engage isis, we know, for some period because there were those 49 hostages. those have now been freed. turkey is going to get involved, sending some of them troops to start this fight or continue the fight joining the coalition. do we know how committed turkey is to this fight now and if they will be more successful than the iraqi army has been? >> well, i can tell you they will be more successful than the iraqi army. that's a given. the question is, victor, what are they going to commit to do? we haven't seen them do anything yet. they've joineds the coalition and they have the authority to conduct ground and air operations in both syria and iraq. but we haven't seen them move yet. they've got great capabilities. their air bases are very strategically positioned just north of the syrian border. they've got a good air force. it's just we're waiting for the

political decision from ankara on what turks are going to do. they have the sixth largest army in the world and the large nest nato outside the united states. they're a force to be reckoned with if they'll commit. we haven't seen yet what they intend to do. >> from the turkish side of the border, let's go back to the syrian side of the border. we've seen this continued fighting between those loyal to bashar al assad and the rebels. there's been shelling there, bombing, these deadly attacks in homs, dozens of children the focus there. how will this continue to play a major role here and is this coalition actually playing into the hands of assad? >> well, you have to think that bashar al assad is looking at this and the thinking this is playing into his hands. you have the coalition bombing one of his probably the strongest of his enemies. isis is by far the most formidable force in syria after the regime. so now you've got the westerners

and arab countries bombing his primary adversary. he can focus his forces on the free syrian army which is what he's doing in the central corridor between damascus and aleppo. right now this is a positive for the regime, which kind of backfires on u.s. policy because we'd like to see bashar go. so it's -- it's really kind of a confusing situation in syria. iraq much more easy to understand. >> that was at least the rallying cry a year ago, that assad must go. colonel rick francona, thanks so much for your insight. >> fears more violence could erupt any minute in hong kong as pro-democracy protesters refuse to back down. our will rippley is there on the scene and we're taking you there next. means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing.g,

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41 minutes past the hour. hong kong is on edge this morning after another night of violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police and anti-occupy opponents. listen to crowds that are were facing off with police a short while ago. in the seven days of protest, 148 people have been injured. more than a dozen reason still in the hospital. and now students have called off talks with government officials. our will rippley is joining us live from hong kong where it's just about 7:00 in the evening there. will, what's it like?

>> hey, christi. i'm going to start talking here although i have to apologize the telephone gives me a signal to speak to you disconnected. the reason that keeps happening here i want to show you how many people are gathered behind me. cells service, data service very spotty because we have many thousands of people who are lining the streets of the central business district of hong kong here for this protest which is now more than a week on and despite warnings from the hong kong police to dis percent from this area immediately, despite those continuous warnings, the crowds just keep growing here. they keep growing and, in fact, as you saw, a lot of tension last night. it was a quiet evening. fewer people than there are now when all of a sudden there was a shout in the crowd. people saw on that pedestrian bridge just across the way there, a row, a line of police officers, dozens of them moving along ta bridge towards that

barricade that they forced their way through to deliver supplies to officers, but christi, the lingering fear here and why the crowd was so concerned when they saw police in this area which is the heart of the hong kong protest center, there are other smaller flashpoints around the city, but this has been the home base for these protesters, you see their tests down there where they're delivering supplies, distributing supplies and what not, they feel it's only a matter of time before a much larger police effort will be under way and officers will move into this area and try to break things up and they're very concerned that police may use some of the tactics they considered unnecessary violence one week ago when police used tear gas and pepper spray on some of the unarmed protesters. christi, i'm going to send it back to you. i still don't have an earpiece signal but we will be talking more in the next hour. >> all right. will rippley, thank you so much. he's right, one of the other things we have to talk about is the fact that this morning, top north korean delegates are saying they're open to a second

round of talks with south korea and will will help us talk about that as well. we want to get it back to you right now. >> pao after that surprise visit, a few things on the table. >> yeah. >> we'll talk about that. another question, who will be cnn's hero of the year? you, you will get to decide. and our colleague anderson cooper will show you how.

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six minutes before the hour now. a call this morning for a deeper and independent investigation into how the secret service operates. of course this is happening after the widely publicized security breaches at the white house. in a letter to homeland security secretary jeh johnson, chairman darrell issa a republican an ranking democrat, elijah cummings wrote the frequency and gravity of recent security breaches highlights significant flaws within the secret

service's culture which the independent investigation must examine in depth. elijah cummings joins us now. good to see you again, congressman. >> good to see you, victor. >> what's to be gained by this independent probe? i've got the letter here. it says you believe the panel must conduct a broad assessment of the agency. what pispecifically are you looking for? >> we definitely have a problem with -- we have a number of problems with regard to culture, victor. these security breaches, complacency, morale, these are all symptoms of a culture that has major problems. you know, one of the things that i'm hoping is that we can try to figure out why it is that secret service agents feel more comfortable going to members of congress to talk about their problems than going to their

superiors. i told the form er head of the secret service, miss pierson, this week that unless she could establish that trust, and it has to be a trust, between herself and her agents, there was absolutely no way that we could get back on the right track. so hopefully, by having an outside view, people from the outside looking in, we can then have a very robust and clear examination of exactly what has gone on here and try to correct it. because we cannot afford to have the reputation of the secret service damaged. >> yeah. you know, i think it's obvious that, of course, that the white house and congress lost kf it ens in former director pierson and she resigned. do you expect there will be more resignations or firings throughout this process? >> i think that's quite

possible. the gentleman who's now taking over, mr. clancy, is a person i understand is a no-nonsense person and so it may -- some may come then, now, and -- because i think a lot of people may feel maybe it's time for them to go because believe me, this culture situation didn't just start with miss pierson and it's not going to stop with her leaving. there are probably people in the higherups of the secret service that probably need to take an exit. but that's one of the things, victor, that i think this examination, this external examination, will do. it will examine leadership, for example. it will look at whether there is a problem between the uniformed secret service agents an those who are in plain clothes. there are all kinds of issues, and i want to make sure that they try to figure out whether or not we have an agency which is dis trusting of itself and

fighting within itself. if that's what's going on, we're going to have to have somebody to come in there eventually to head up this agency who will clean it out and get the right people in there. >> quickly, i want to get to another angle of this conversation. i read this piece in "the new york times" this week in which you had a conversation with an older black woman in a grocery store who shared the sentiment that i've heard that there are a lot of people who share that -- let me let you talk about this conversation. what did this woman come up to you and say? >> yeah. basically what she said, this is not an unusual conversation, by the way, i would say 80% of african-american people who ask me about the secret service, make a comment that they believe that the secret service has let its guard down because this is an african-american president. i don't believe that. but it is out there and people

feel as it if as soon as he became president we had a situation where they were not as strict in doing all the things they used to do. the reason why i say i don't believe that, i think that these problems have been happening long before this president came in to office. it's just that i think now, with this culture that i talked about a moment ago, you have whistleblowers who are coming out and telling about what is going on or what has been going on. so i think that as time goes on, we're going to see evidence of the fact that this is not new and unfortunately, it has not been exposed in the past, but i guarantee you if this is done right, a lot of those problems will be exposed and people will see this came before president obama became president. it's just been highlighted more now. >> all right. congressman elijah kumings from my home district in maryland,

maryland seventh, thank you so much, sir. >> good seeing you, victor. >> likewise. nothing like a little glimpse of home first thing in the morning. >> a little bit. >> that was sweet. good morning, i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> 7:00 on the east coast. >> federal officials you know everybody is talking about, ten of the 50 or so who came into contact with the dallas ebola patient, are at high risk of contracting that disease. this morning, thomas eric duncan is still in isolation in serious condition. >> his partner and three of her family members are among those at high risk. they had been quarantined in their apartment for the past week. they've since been moved to another location and hazmat crews, they're giving the apartment a good cleaning. we understand the process here could take days. >> here's the thing. duncan's fight against ebola isn't his only worry. the dallas county district attorney's office is now, quote, looking into whether he knowingly and intentionally exposed the public to a deadly

virus. unquote. what that means is, duncan could possibly face criminal charges. >> of course we know that duncan traveled from liberia to the u.s. last month and has already been accused of lying on a pre-flight questionnaire about whether he had contact with any ebola patients while he was abroad. >> this morning, we're following the story from all angles. cnn's erin mcpike at the white house, on the ground in dallas, nick valencia. >> let's get to nick first. he is joining us from dallas. nick, give us an idea of what you're learning about thomas duncan as he came into this country? >> yeah. good morning, victor. we're being told by the clutch of the family that thomas duncan traveled here to marry his girlfriend. we know they had a child together some years ago, now 19 years old and in college, somewhere in that period they had a falling out. they had recently reconciled and in august she took a trip to liberia and he says, according to the church, he was planning on coming here to dallas to marry his girlfriend.

victor? >> and the apartment, we understand that's being cleaned. the people who lived there, they've been moved. thanks to some faith-based organization. are the people in this community, are they any calmer this morning? >> well, we know that there is some concern, certainly curiosity. when we were out there yesterday during the first phase of the cleaning of the apartment there was a lot of people from the neighborhood, certain will i a lot of people from that complex looking on. no one there had seen anything like it before. it was strange scenario for those that were watching. but yes, there are some that are concerned. there's those that are concerned outside of the community. city officials yesterday at a press conference mentioned at least one report of somebody who lived in that apartment complex being turned away from their job because of concerns they may have contracted something. again, though, dallas county health officials stressing there is only one person here, thomas duncan, who has shown ebola symptoms and while they're mop touring at least 50 others, ten who had direct contact and are at higher risk, there is no one else that has shown ebola like

symptoms. thomas duncan is still in the hospital today in isolation in serious condition. we've yet to receive an update from pes ba tare yan hospital in texas but we expect to receive that later today, victor. >> nick, yesterday we heard from the secretary of health and human services, secretary burwell also from lieutenant governor there in texas, that this is a county issue. the county is taking the lead. are dallas officials taking responsibility for the obvious missteps thus far? >> certainly. and if you look at the "dallas morning news" that's front page news here that they acknowledge the missteps but they're saying in the process, there has been a lot of things done right. this shouldn't create any fear or panic that this could lead to an outbreak or epidemic. there were concerns and questions among the community yesterday, i spoke to one person yesterday that was his biggest concern, they don't know. health officials have acknowledged they could have done better early on. they are saying that this is a very strong health infrastructure here and that they have all the tools and

resources to help improve the condition of duncan. victor some. >> nick valencia there in dallas, thank you, nick. thanks. you know i know a lot of you are waking up this morning and you're concerned about a possible of ebola outbreak with all of this news. in d.c., we know hospital officials are waiting on test results to see if a patient who recently traveled to nigeria contracted the virus. despite concerns white house officials say the chances of an outbreak in the u.s. are extremely low. how so? cnn's erin mcpeek takes a look. >> reporter: with alarm growing over a potential ebola outbreak in the u.s., president obama sent out top officials to reassure the country. >> the united states is prepared to deal with this crisis, both at home and in the region. >> our health care infrastructure in the united states is well equipped to stop ebola in its tracks. >> reporter: the white house trying to show it has the situation under control after heated criticism that local health officials in dallas first

sent ebola patient thomas eric duncan, visiting from liberia, back home before his family brought him back. that gap between care causing concern the disease could spread. >> there were things that did not go the way they should have in dallas, but there are a lot of things that went right. >> reporter: dr. fauci says the cdc is tracing any contacts duncan had, essential to preventing an outbreak. as of now the obama administration is not considering increased screening for passengers coming into the u.s. or banning travelers from hard-hit nations in west africa, relying on screening by those countries. >> the most effective way to go about controlling this is to prevent those individuals from getting on a plane in the first place. >> reporter: even as they sought to calm americans' concerns officials acknowledge they need to do more. >> we're having the press conference because we need to get information out because there is a lot of fear. >> we cannot overcommunicate about this issue.

>> let's bring in erin mcpike from the white house this morning. good morning, erin. >> good morning, christi. well what we know the president has been doing himself is he's been making the case that the u.s. is the country leading the efforts to contain and control ebola in west africa. yesterday he spoke with general david rodriguez who is the commander of u.s. africa command to get a sense of what the u.s. is doing on the ground in west africa and rodriguez made the case that they are speeding up their efforts. christi? >> all right. erin mcpike, we appreciate it. thank you. now to the brutal beheading of british aide worker alan henning in syria. he's the fourth western captive to be killed by isis since august. now the terror group is now threatening to kill american aide worker and iraq war veteran peter kassig. president obama and british prime minister david cameron are vowing to go after isis and destroy it.

arwa damon joining us now from the turkish/syrian border. arwa, we've said this morning you met kassig in 2012. he calls himself an idealist. expound upon that for us? >> and he really was, victor. he, like alan henning, like the three others, four others, who were beheaded beforehand, whether aide workers or journalists, went to syria because he had a profound belief, the sense of responsibility he took upon himself to make some sort of a difference. we met him in the summer of 2012 and he was volunteering at a hospital in northern lebanon in tripoli helping to treat wounded syrians. a few months earlier because of his medical background thrown a bunch of supplies into a backpack and headed off to lebanon to help in which ever which he could. take a listen to what he told us back then. >> we each get one life and that's it. we get one shot at this. we don't get any do-overs.

for me it was time to put up or shut up. the way i saw it, i didn't have a choice. this is what i was put here to do. i guess i'm just a hopeless romantic and idealist and i believe in hopeless causes. >> reporter: and it was that very belief that shortly after we met him, prompted peter kassig to start up his own non-profit, special emergency response and assistance. the main objective was to help train volunteer at the makeshift clinics inside syria constantly being bombarded by the assad regime. he was delivering a variety of medical assistance both to alep ba and deir ezzor and it was in 2013 on a trip to deir ezzor that kassig was kidnapped. we see at some point during his captivity he converted to islam, changing his name. the family says they understand from hostages who were previously released that peter

was taking great strength from his faith but incredibly trying time for that family and for the family, of course, of alan henning and so many others at this stage. >> kassig said he could not do his work from sitting on a sofa here in the u.s. he went back and did what he thought he should have been doing at that time. thank you so much, arwa damon, for joining us this morning. back here at home, jobs market, seems to be getting better. >> some good news there. a milestone, employers add thousands of jobs. we'll break it down for you. >> plus, we're ready to answer your questions about ebola. go ahead, tweet us, #ebolaq&a. when folks think about what they get from alaska,

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with the liberian man diagnosed with ebola has been moved out of their apartment. now they are in a home secluded from neighbors, we're told. in the meantime you see crew, they're cleaning the apartment where thomas eric duncan has stayed. >> three top north korean officials have paid a surprise visit to south korea today. according to south korean officials pyongyang says it is willing to hold a second round of high-level meetings this fall. north koreap leader kim jong-un has been out of sight three weeks suffering from what's being called discomfort. business, good news from the jobs market. u.s. employment rate fell below 6% last month for the first time in six years. employers added 248,000 jobs. job growth was particularly strong in professional and business services. and to sports, lebron james is trying to sell his florida home for $17 million. an infinity pool. >> wow. >> you see, he went back to cleveland to play for the cavaliers. of course the massive house

overlooks the bay and comes fully equipped with a movie theater, wine cellar, large docks, enough for two yachts. because, you know, what are you going to do with the second one? >> you're going to pull it up next to that infinity pool, victor. take a look at your weekend forecast. if you haven't peeked your head out just yet. several parts of the country, you will be facing cooler temperatures. freeze warnings for the northern plains this morning and the highs today are anywhere between 10 to 25 degrees below normal. enjoy it. it's fall. >> yep. it started in earnest. >> talk about the top story. ebola and all the concerns around it. joining me now, dr. yasmin, professor of public health at the university of texas, and staff writer for "the dallas morning news." you've worked in kenya and botswanna, investigated epidemics before.

ebola is scaring a lot of people. this was discussed at the white house yesterday. are people justified in being concerned about it spreading and an outbreak here in the u.s., or are the fears overblown? >> well, of course, public health officials are telling us that the system here is geared up and ready to deal with this so that even though we've seen one case here, they're telling us that the spread is very unlikely. however, as we had that press conference yesterday, federal officials are now saying mistakes and missteps were made here in dallas. many of our "dallas morning news" readers are concerned about this. the key question they are asking us, is what happened that thursday night when this patient first went to the hospital and was sent home and even though that travel history was taken, it sounds like that was not relayed to the rest of the medical team. >> we keep hearing about how, you know, bodily fluids spread ebola, but i think that may be a little too vague and please remember the hour and i know it's an indelicate topic, but which bodily fluids?

can a micro spec of blood be enough or do you need a pint of it? help us understand? >> sure. so as we've heard ebola is transmitted through direct contact with infected bodily fluids, those include everything from blood, saliva, urine, feces and vomit. we know of those fluids it's blood and feces that have the highest concentration of the virus. so we often talk about those being the most infectious fluids as well as contact with bodily organs which is happening a lot in west africa where there are burial teams burying the decreased. those particular bodily fluids that are the most infectious. when you come into contact with them, you have to have cuts or breaks in the skin or the fluids would have to come in contact with your own mucus membrane, things like the eyeballs, insides of the cheeks and gums. >> there was a lot of talk about the sheets on the bed in this apartment in dallas and how they were there for days. over the course of that time, was it less likely that the

disease, this virus, could be transmitted because it sat so long, or is the likelihood still as possible or probable four days later? >> so we know that virus can survive outside of the body. it doesn't do as well, though, as when it's inside the human body. it can survive on surfaces we think for maybe a few hours up to a few days, but the thing is, that really depends on the kind of heat it's exposed to, any kind of radiation, the humidity. we know it's disinfected quite easily with common bleach. all of those factors play into how the virus would survive on surfaces. >> so viewers have been sending us their questions via cnn i-report and tweeting us. if you have a question at home use the #ebola q&a. let's listen to an i-report and get an answer for one of our viewers. >> hi. i'm from texas. what i would like to know is can ebola survive on surfaces such as door handles and glass windows?

>> how about it, doctor? >> so again, it would be the same thing. you would have to have those kind of infected bodily fluids there in the first place. if it was saliva, we think that's not as infectious as if there was blood or diarrhea on the handle. you would have to have cuts or breaks in the skin for the virus to travel through into your body. theoretically yes, the virus can survive on surfaces. that's why good hand hygiene is important. as i mentioned earlier common bleach can disinfect the virus. >> there in dallas, some of the missteps we've seen over the past few days, is this something you would have expected knowing the community there? >> i mean, the missteps are not expected and it's really put some of our readers into a heightened alert about whether health care systems here are actually geared up and ready to deal with this. we were told the u.s. hospitals are prepared. now, of course, this one hospital doesn't seem that it was prepared. however, i have been visiting local emergency rooms in the past few days, many of those

reassure me that those missteps would not have happened in their emergency rooms in their hospitals. they tell me that over the past month, in fact, they've taken measures to make sure those critical screening questions, do you have flu-like symptoms, have you had fever, traveled to west africa, have been popping up automatically in their health care system so every patient is asked those crucial questions. >> this begs the question, if this is what happened in a county as large with as many resources as dallas county, what would happen in a smaller county with fewer resources? we'll try to get an answer to that as we continue the conversation throughout the morning. doctor, thank you so much. >> thank you. and everyone at home, don't forget to send in those questions. we'll get more answers throughout the morning, #ebola q&a. >> thank you. >> thank you guys pro-democracy protesters are refusing to back down in hong kong. will ripley is on the scene. we'll take you there live next. take a look.

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good morning to you. 23 minutes past the hour. in hong kong is really on edge this morning after another night of violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police as well as anti-occupy opponents. listen to crowds who were facing off with police just a little while ago. >> scary, suspeisn't it?

here's what we know. 148 people have been injured, more than a dozen are still in the hospital and now students have called off talks with government officials. our will rippley is joining us live from hong kong now. will, what does it look like there at this hour? i know it's about 7:30. >> yeah. so we're less than an hour away, christi, from looks like one of the biggest rallies that we've seen in recent days. i want to show you the sea of people that are filling the main boulevard that leads into the central hong kong business district. on any given day this is full of cars but for the past week, it has been full of people, student protesters who are demanding democracy in hong kong, saying china's decision to essentially handpick candidates for these people to vote for just isn't good enough. but we're getting now indications within the last hour of an ultimatum from the chief executive of this city who has refused the protesters' demands to step down. he says on monday the entrances and exits to government

buildings, including the government building right behind us here, need to be clear because on friday the protesters actually blocked the entrance, they put up blockades. city employees, 3,000 of them, had to stay home. he says no matter what, city employees will have to be able to go to work on monday. if protesters do not clear out those areas we could see more police activity like what we saw last night. the video, christi, really doesn't do justice of the fact that there were thousands of people on these streets, just like this right now, and as soon as the officers appeared on that pedestrian bridge behind me, the entire crowd started screaming almost in unison, "police police." everybody raced to the area. it could be give us a preview of what to expect if the hong kong police department which has 35,000 available officers decides to act. you see the students, this is a really telling sign. they're handing out helmets with the words "no violence." these protesters say they will stay here until their demands are not. the city saying they're not going to have their demands met.

we'll watch closely what happens over the next 24 to 48 hours. >> will rippley, thank you so much for bringing us the latest there. victor? isis is threatening to kill another american hostage in syria. it's released the video showing the beheading of a british taxi driver who went to syria to help war refugees. the u.s. and britain are condemning the killing and vowing more action. turn the trips you have to take,

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country when we learned of this latest beheading. he was in afghanistan having come from cypress visiting the bases where the british jets have been launching their air strikes against isis targets in iraq. now, of course, it has been a week since the decision was made by the british parliament to join the coalition campaign there in iraq and it is that decision which the isis that was cited in this isis video the reason the 47-year-old father of two, alan henning, was killed. so that will obviously be weighing very heavily on mr. cameron's mind and also voted overwhelmingly to join the coalition air strikes. mr. cameron has said this is the struggle of a generation, the threat from isis, and said we need to be patient, that we are in this probably not just for weeks and months but for years and what's particularly

difficult about being so resolute in that path that the parliamentarians have chosen is that isis does still hold other hostages. and let's just have a listen to what mr. cameron had to say. >> we will use all the assets we have, as we have up until now, to try to find these hostages, help these hostages, to help their families and do everything we can to defeat this organization which is utterly ruthless, senseless and barbaric in the way it treats people. and this will be the work that we continue. >> reporter: so yes, isis is actually threatening to behead a fifth victim, the american man you mentioned. these beheadings, these threats to aide workers, journalists, it's been widely condemnedp. also by leaders here in the u.k., it must be said, they described these acts as ba barbarics and offensive and the perpetrators have no regard for islam. >> all right.

kelly morgan in london for us this morning, thank you. victor? >> let's bring in will, managing director of international corporate protection. will, isis has released another beheading video. we talked a bit about it earlier in the show. alan henning. went as part of an aid convoy. how can the aid organizations protect people when sent to the war zones? >> it's difficult. there are the legitimate and very well-known and established, long-established humanitarian aid and relief companies which will have the experience of working in conflict zones and they've provide training, briefing to their volunteers before they deploy into these high-risk environments. and they'll also have security, which will be a mix of both potentially local security to make sure they can carry out their work safely. the problem we've got here, a lot of smaller groups, a lot of less, if you like, established groups like the group that alan

henning was attached to, who were going down there with all the best intentions in the world, but they just do not have that fabric of protection around them. >> there are some countries that are open to ransom, to negotiation. the u.s., u.k., they are not two of them. if a country is open to negotiating to a ransom, how would they go about that? >> well, to be honest, you have to have an established or certainly a viable contact on the other side. a lot of very professional and organized groups will have a known negotiator on their part. now this will be someone who will act as an intermediary and negotiate, obviously, with the government representative that will be trying to come to some sort of agreement in terms of affecting the release of the hostages. a lot of these cases, stemming from my experience, although they may come through with some completely ridiculous political request or demand, fundamentally underneath it there will be some

kind of financial aspect. one of the problems you have, is, obviously, hostages being traded over to other groups but that can be an advantage because once they get traded to another group then you can effect a more amenable negotiation process. but i think in these beheading videos we're seeing here, inevitable by the pleas by the family for their release, which is usually a last-ditch attempt, they have no intentions of negotiating on these specific host ams. >> it's a horrible loss for these families, for the respective countries, but let's talk about it from the perspective of isis. there has to be some diminishing value, now that there is the fourth westerner who's been beheaded in these videos and it has not dissuaded the u.s. or u.k. or this growing coalition. >> you make a very, very good point there, and when one also puts that in a die nam ices against john canly who's been

releasing video blogs, any type of message isis has been trying to communicate to validate their mission or crusade or whatever they want to call it, is simply being undermined. any kind of credibility they're trying to establish, whether to a wider community or to recruits is being undermined by the fact the they are not prepared to concede on any kind of level with these beheading videos which are being released. to be honest, it's counterproductive to them on so many levels. it can't work to their favor. >> it is not will in london for us, thank you. we've got cell phone video showing an intruder on the white house lawn. you see it there. the secret service is on the job. a lot of people are saying, are they doing their job, though? as discussion about what's gone wrong with the agency tasked with protecting the president. her long day of outdoor adventure starts with knee pain. and a choice. take 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief.

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with the resignation this week of secret service director julia pierson following a series of embarrassing lapses in white house security, there's widespread suspicion now that somethings that gone very wrong with the agency charged with protecting the president. let's talk about it with evie, a former secret service agent, and jeffrey robynson, co-author of "standing next to history." thank you for being here. how do you think the secret service has gone from being so highly regarded to now being the agency that essentially left the front door to the white house unlocked? >> so i think that's a good question. if you look at it, secret service has had an excellent

track record, they are an elite, prestigious agency, and what happens is when you're on that level, you tend to do things a certain way and you tend to stick to that same routine. but you have to be progressive, you have to be adaptable to change. sometimes you look at it and say, this has worked before and we're going to continue to keep doing it this way because it's always worked out for us. i think at some point that doesn't work out anymore. and that's why you have these issues arising. >> okay. speaking of issues, jeffrey, you wrote an op-ed for cnn.com and you traced the downfall of the secret service to a move by george w. bush, what was that move and why do you think it is what hampered the agency? >> i mean, i'm not blaming president bush. this is all hindsight of course, 20/20 vision. what happened was they took the secret service out of its traditional home at treasury where it was treated very differently, where there was serious oversight and put it into this morass that is the department of homeland security. i do want to say something, that the men and women who protect

the president, not only on the protective division and protect the vice president as well, but the entire secret service, are the best and the brightest in law enforcement. they are really wonderful. the sacrifices they make and evy can talk to that are incredible. but we know what failure looks like. failure looks like dulles 63 and march in washington of 1981 when president reagan was shot. now the presidential protective division after the reagan attempt changed everything and they really set a gold standard of how you protect the president and the vice president. they put into plan all sorts of things that required great intensity, enormous close proximity to the president, and attention to the minutest details. once president bush moved treasury into homeland security, all of that started to slip. it's now 33 years later and the corporate memories has completely forgotten the gold standard. it's time to go back to that. >> so evy, let me ask you, there seems to be a fracture within

the agency or some mistrust or some voices of secret service agents that don't feel like they're being heard by the high er ups. how do you shrink that gap. >> i heard what jeffrey said earlier and i agree the shift did complicate that, but the bigger problem here is what you just asked me. if the problem is within, if your rank and file, the people that work for you are not happy and you have whistleblowers, you have people leaking information to the press, then how can you fix everything on the outside when the inside is imploding from within. they need to have trust, they need to look to their leaders, they need to feel the ability to communicate. what happens sometimes when you have a paramilitary structure, and especially one that's had such a great track record, they're less inclined to listen to the -- their subordinates. no, we know what we're doing, we've been doing this before, listen to us. you have this distrust, this break, when people are speaking to you and voicing their

opinions you haves to listen, otherwise what happens? whistleblowers, people going to the press and that doesn't look good. i think that's the bigger problem here. >> jeffrey? >> i absolutely agree. that problem stems from the fact it's in the wrong agency. homeland security is a total mess and they've screwed up the secret service. look at what happened within a year of that transfer when george bush landed a fixed wing aircraft on the ""uss abraham lincoln"" the aircraft carrier. the reagan ppd would never in a million years have allowed that. several of those agents have said to me, if we had been confronted with that problem and the president and the staff and the staff insisted on those kind of optics we would have resigned. we would not have taken responsibility for the president. a few years later, four or five years later, the shoe incident in iraq where the president -- where some iraqi journalist threw shoes at the president. the secret service was nowhere near him. there is no proximity. you can see it on the video. there's one agent sitting in

front facing the president the wrong way, of course, and after the second shoe, an agent moves close to the president. the ppd under the reagan years would never have permitted that. they would have been right there and dragged him off and protected him. no proximity, no attention to dea tail. they left the front door open. you can't do that mae moanymore >> evy, who do you think could be tasked with leading this organization at this point? >> i think they need to look outside of the secret service. i think promoting from within right now is not the answer and from what i'm hearing from the representatives, that's not what they're looking for. i listened to representative cummings earlier. he spoke very well, very eloquently. he gets it. so i think you want someone if you're going to put someone from the outside, they can be a former agent, but someone who's been in the private sector, who understands the outside, has external experience, or somebody with a military experience or law enforcement experience. you can't put somebody in there who doesn't have that because again, the rank and file will

not respect that. in going off of what jeffrey said earlier, i 100% agree. what happens is, sometimes instead of doing security, you're trying to compromise and work with staff and other entities to apiece other entities and in doing that, sometimes you can go too far and not being assertive enough to say no, i don't agree with this, you're not going to do this. we don't agree with this. we're going to say nos to this one. absolutely not. sometimes you try to work so hard with others, try to compromise and have certain incidents like this happen. >> all right. evy and jeffrey, we really appreciate getting your insight today. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> sure. no internet access, no cellular coverage, not a problem, at least for the tens of thousands of people in hong kong. the protesters we've seen this morning, they've taken to social media and they're going -- using something really innovative. they're connecting to each other over a messaging app that works without an internet connection, without the mobile phone coverage. we'll explain. she's still the one for you.

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15 minutes past the hour. welcome. you know, we are watching tensions that are really high in hong kong right now. massive crowds of pro democracy protesters are taking to the streets for a rally that is supposed to start any moment.

frightening to be there, wouldn't it. let me tell you what happened today. 20 people have been arrested in some of these clashes. in the last seven days of protests there have been 148 injured, more than a dozen in the hospital and now students have called off talks with government officials. >> you know, a lot of the people there, a lot of the students there, are getting around the censorship laws using a relatively new app called firechat. it's called off the grid messaging app. it lets them communicate without having to connect to the internet. brett larsen joins us now. let's learn more about this firechat. i think people here in the u.s. are hearing about it for the first time so. popular with protesters because of necessity. >> absolutely. firechat has become a sleeper hit. it came out a while ago. it takes advantage of new

technology, not necessarily new, new abilities in our smart phone. it's called mesh networking. the way it works is instead of actually communicating to a cell phone tower or to the internet to get information, it communicates with other phones. so suddenly your phone's blue tooth connection and its wi-fi connection can speak to other telephones. it's an ingenious o'. what it allows the people to do, in areas where the internet is no longer working is communicate with one another and of course the more of them there are, the further along that network begins to spread. what's great about this is it's so far it's been downloaded over 200,000 times. the app. in apples hong kong ios store. that's in just the past couple days. they are able to get around the fact that the government has come in and said fine, if everybody is going to use their smart phones we're going to shut down the cellular network. they are still able to communicate. >> there are reports there are some trying to spy on these

protesters using some phishing applications. do we have any idea who is responsible for that? >> i have seen several reports of that. not entirely sure who is behind that but yes, just like we often get those you know, the prince from nigeria who wants to give us a million dollar we are kind enough to give him our social security number he will give us that money. it's the same type of e-mail that they are being sent. it looks like it's something that's coming from the government that is sending you know, here, give us this information and we want to be part of this protest or we want you to be part of this protest. respond with where you're going to be and where you're going to go. if it's the government doing it, it's kind of smart on their part because they are getting this information that they otherwise wouldn't have. but it is definitely a phishing scam. >> that nigerian prince, he is so polite. so nice. >> he just wants your bank account number. >> just hold these several

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good morning to you. in boston look at this. a dreary start to the day. one of those days you just want to stay in bed. we've been talking about that storm system that pushed through portions of texas, well, this is the same system. it has weakened considerably,

not causing quite the damage on the east coast but it is causing a lot of rain. and making for just a dreary saturday. this front has very chilly temperatures behind it, though. it is bringing a powerful punch so cold air descending across the northern plains and the great lakes. we are waking up with temperatures mighty chilly. look at this. even some snow along interstate 90 just to the west of chicago. we are picking up a little bit of rain in chicago this morning as well. we have frost and freeze warnings in effect, that does include bismarck, sioux falls, omaha, kansas city feeling the chill. look at these temperatures, 34 degrees in fargo, 41 in chicago. 37 in cedar rapids, temperatures at 42 in springfield. we'll make to the 47 degrees today in chicago. temperatures rebound quickly. we'll be back up to 61 degrees by monday. the temperatures will be warming up. detroit's high temperature, 50 degrees today. then back up to 62 by monday.

temperatures tonight are going to cool off across much of the country, atlanta, 44 degrees. tonight, 45 in d.c., new york city, 46 in chicago, 38. seasons are changing. it's getting chilly. >> i feel like we're dressed for the fall jamboree but it's winter. i mean i saw 20s on that map. >> cover your plants, people. >> thanks, jennifer. >> thank you. >> keep it here. we've got a busy morning of news. >> the next hour of your "new day" starts right now. it is so good to see you. we're grateful for your company. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 out west. the big story, ebola now in america. >> people really shaken up about this. federal health officials telling us that ten of the 50 who came into contact with the dallas ebola parent are at high risk of

contracting that virus and this morning thomas eric duncan is in isolation and serious condition at a hospital there. >> his partner and three of her family members are among those at high risk. they have been quarantined for the past week but they are now in another location as hazmat crews are giving the apartment a good cleaning. >> the dallas county district attorney's office is also, quote, looking into whether he knowingly and intentionally exposed the public to a deadly virus. that basically comes down to the fact that duncan could possibly face criminal charges. >> here's why. duncan traveled from liberia to the u.s. and has been accused of lying on a pre-flight questionnaire whether he had contact with ebola patients while abroad. duncan's nephew says those claims simply are not true. >> i heard it from his mouth his self. even though he was struggling in pain he told me he wasn't in the

area. that's what i believe. the lies that is spreading. this man is fighting for his life and there's no reason to be slandering his name over something that he didn't do. >> let's bring in nick. >> nick, the work is being done to clean up the apartment. the people who live there, they have been moved to a more controlled environment, a larger house. any indication that the fears there are easing? >> reporter: there certainly is curiosity, yesterday during the first phase of that apartment cleanup. a lot of residents in that apartment complex and that neighborhood looking on, never seen anything like it before. i spoke to a handful of residents who were concerned, some really uneducated about ebola and that seems to be one of the principle concerns of the county officials here. trying to educate the public and saying listen, there's only one person here, thomas duncan, showing signs of ebola. we're taking a look at 50 others, ten having direct contact and being at high risk.

they are trying to educate the public to temper the fears and concerns. >> okay, so nick, let me ask you. what have you learned about why duncan left liberia and came to dallas? what is the story there? >> reporter: so we're now hearing from the family's church that thomas duncan intended to arrive in dallas, texas to marry his girlfriend. several years ago they had started a relationship and had a son a wu 19-year-old now in college. they had a falling out, reconciled. she had taken a trip to liberia in august and he was planning coming here to marry her. now he sits in isolation and as far as we understand from the hospital he still is in serious condition. we're waiting for an update later today about his now condition. >> we'll stand by for that. nick valencia, thank you. in maryland hospital

officials say a patient who was admitted to that hospital after exhibiting flu-like symptoms yesterday has tested positive for malaria, not ebola but malaria. there is another patient being tested for ebola at howard university hospital in d.c. who recently traveled to nigeria. officials say the patient is in isolation, in stable condition now. >> we know you have a lot of questions about with ebola. two doctors will join us live to answer questions shared with us on facebook and twitter. the other big story we're following this morning, the brutal killing of the british aide worker and taxi driver by isis. >> the terror group is now threatening to kill 26-year-old peter kassig, he has been held hostage by them for a year. >> and isis has released a video showing the apparent beheading of the britton alan henning. he was killed despite pleas from

his family and muslim leaders in the uk. david cameron says this is enough. he sent out a tweet saying he met with his security chief this is morning, cameron says britain and its allies will go after henning's killers. >> we will use all the assets we have as we have been up to now, to try and find these hostages, to try to help these hostages, to help their families and do everything we can to defeat this organization which is ruthless, senseless and barbaric in the way it treats people. and this will be the work that we continue. >> president obama condemned the killing saying the u.s. quote is standing together with a broad coalition of allies and partners and will ultimately destroy isil. >> peter kassig, an american aide worker now also being threatened, as you can imagine this is trying time for his family. cnn's alexander field is in

indianapolis, kassig's hometown. what struck many of us is how kassig's family first offered their thoughts to alan henning's family. they thought of henning's family first. >> reporter: difficult, victor, to imagine what peter kassig's family is going through. they have shown such tremendous grace during a time that is more trying than most of us really care to imagine. i want to share with you a statement that they put out. i'll read it to you in its entirety. they say, the kassig family extends our concern for the family of allen henning. we have read about his work and his generous character, with great respect and admiration. we ask everyone around the world to pray for the henning family, for our son and for the release of all innocent people being held hostage in the middle east, and around the globe. again, peter kassig has been held for a year now. this is a young man from

indianapolis, a native of indiana, in captivity, for a year. his family desperately waiting for his release. we've learned a lot about this young man, someone who has been called to service. we know he is a veteran with the army, an army ranger deployed to iraq, was honorably discharged on medical leave, returned to his home state of indiana for schooling, was in college for a period, then decided he wanted to do a different type of work and that's when he decided to go for emt training, he ultimately decided to return overseas, he was aiding syrian refugees bringing to them the medical help and humanitarian aid he was able to offer, something he felt deeply about, a call he was passionate about. he had been to iraq and wanted to return to offer help. in any way he was able to. >> cnn's alexandra field in indianapolis. thank you so much. arwa damon joins us from the

turkish-syrian border. we've been talking that you met peter in 2012. tell us about this man. >> reporter: he is an incredible individual, victor, he is one of those people where he inspired everyone to jump up and take action because of what he himself had decided to do. we first met him in the summer of 2012. he had only been in lebanon a few months but we met him at a hospital in tripoli in the northern part of the country where he was volunteering his time to help out wounded syrians and take a listen to what this young man told us back then. >> we each get one life and that's it. you get one shot at this. we don't get do overs, and for me it was kind of put up or shut up. the way i saw it i didn't have a choice, you know. like this is what i was put here to do. i guess i'm just hopeless romantic and idealist and i

believe in hopeless causes. >> reporter: it was that very belief that also drove peter kassig to do even more. he kept saying that he felt like he could contribute even more to help ease the suffering of the syrian population. so a few months after we met him he started up his own nonprofit, special emergency response and assistance, focusing on helping out in the refugee camps in turkey and syria, but also running much needed missions into syria where he was helping to train up along with his team volunteers at the make-shift medical clinic, delivering much needed medical supplies. it was during one of those missions where peter kassig was kidnapped october 1, 2013. according to that statement by his family, peter converted to islam at some point during his captivity, now calling

himself -- the family not elaborating but saying that they understand from hostages that have been released that peter or as he is now being called, in that statement, took great comfort in his faith, victor. >> arwa damon joining us. thank you so much. >> thank you. well, back here at home, the new jobs report, it sounds good. >> yes. >> at its lowest in six years. what effect did it have on wall street? >> and are people feeling it on main street we're going to talk about that. plus, 4-run lead for the best pitcher. that should be enough. tossed in a little playoff magic and he's got an october classic.

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there is a lot going on. >> in dallas, the family of four people who came into contact with the liberian mag diagnosed with ebola moved out of their apartment now in a home secluded from neighbors. crews are cleaning the amount. you see it here where thomas eric duncan stayed. the 9/11 memorial in shanksville, pennsylvania is due to open as they assess fire damage. it commemorates the attack on flight 93. among the artifact as flag that flew on the day of the attacks. some memorabilia may have been lost in the fire. >> wall street is celebrating september's jobs report. stocks rose more than 1% after u.s. unemployment rate fell below 6%, for the first time in

six years. employers added 248,000 jobs last month. >> in sports, the st. louis cardinals, they stole the show. beating the l.a. dodgers on their home turf. that always hurts more, doesn't it. the final score said 10-9, now the cardinals lead the national league division series one game to none. >> here is a weekend forecast. several parts of the country are facing cooler temperatures, and i got to say i'm enjoying being in one of them. though there are freeze warnings for the northern plains this morning. so that's not great. >> but you're not there. >> i'm not there. so i'm all right. the highs today -- >> we feel for the rest of you, though. >> 10 to 25 degrees below normal. i'll take it while it lasts. >> all righty. this morning, the white house, it's trying to defuse fears of ebola. 10 of the 50 people who came in contact with thomas duncan are at high risk of contracting that

virus, then you go to washington in a separate case, that's where hospital officials are waiting for test results to determine whether a patient who recently traveled to nigeria contracted ebola. >> let's bring in erin mcpike live from the white house. >> reporter: victor and christi, good morning. the white house trotted out five officials for a briefing inside the white house to tamp down the fears. and sylvia burwell, who is the secretary of health and human services even said we cannot overcommunicate this. and that is because in recent days we've seen more and more articles that are having growing fears because you might not know if you are at risk of contracting the disease because during the incubation period some people don't show signs of the symptoms. the director of the national institute for infectious diseases addressed that yesterday. listen to his comments. >> although ebola is an

extremely serious viral disease with a high fatality rate, it is not easily transmitted. specifically, the ebola virus is not easily spread like a cold or influenza. you must come into direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person, or through exposure to objects that have been contaminated with infected bodily fluids. >> the doctor made the point that countries in west africa have not been able to handle the outbreak because essentially the health care systems in west africa are grossly inadequate. he made the point that the u.s. has some of the most advanced health care systems in the world. and so u.s. officials should be able to handle it but we should stress should because of what happened in dallas. >> good point. so what kind of ebola response work are u.s. troops doing? >> reporter: we did hear from the pentagon yesterday that the u.s. has already committed about

3,000 troops and just yesterday they announced that additional 600 troops are headed over to the region in the coming weeks and months. u.s. troops will not be treating individuals who are affected with ebola in that region, but we do have some idea of what they will be doing and that is they will be training medical volunteers who are over there in the region, they are also going to be providing many of those volunteers with personal protective quip somt that they don't also get ebola. the big thing that they are going to do is building treatment and care centers so they can more effectively handle the disease. they are also going to be implementing enhanced airport screenings, and to deal with the bodies who have died from ebola, they are going to implement safe burial procedures. >> that's been a problem. erin, thank you so much. also if you want to know how you can actually help in the fight against ebola, do something, visit cnn.com/impact. >> thank you for doing so.

whenever a story is posted on a website, you all have a lot of questions. >> understandably. our experts will answer them and tell us just how likely the virus could become airborne. that's next.

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i know that a lot of you and we, too, have so many questions about ebola right now. we've been looking at what you're asking on twitter and facebook, specifically under the #ebolaqanda, we want to put some of those to experts. >> we have two here with us. thank you, gentlemen, for being with us. i want to get to lisa, her question for twitter first. why is ebola not considered airborne when a sneeze with saliva drops can be put in the air? let's go to dr. adulja. >> we draw a distinction something transmitted through a sneeze and suspended in the air. diseases like the common cold and a sneeze from ebola through

big droplets. they don't get suspended in the air so that's what we mean. for those you need special precautions lying negative pressure rooms where air only flows in. ebola can only travel about three feet and falls to the ground. >> john o'neal tweets under the name red hand new york. he wants to know if ebola is not spread through the air as he was saying, why are doctors dressed like astronauts when they encounter patients? >> it is a great question because it's very impressive how much we gown up for. there's a lot of abundance of precaution we take when we have come in contact with ebola patients or with any other infectious patient. a lot of times we have full body gowns that protect prom greting

secretions on our clothes, we have the three feet rule as we mentioned to ensure that secretions don't get in our mouths and sometimes there is a face shield or entire hood. also to ensure that we don't get splattering on our face near our eyes. and things like that. so it can be impressive. sometimes as a physician we are not too happy about how much we have to wear because we don't want to scare people, we don't want to feel imposing to the patient. we want to comfort them. sometimes it's hard when we're geared up like that. >> you know what scared a lot of spem what they heard from the u.n. chief that it would be a, quote, nightmare scenario if ebola were to mutate into some airborne strain. how likely is that mutation? >> that mutation is very unlikely. all viruses mutate but we have never seen a virus spread through blood and body fluids become airborne. think of hiv. that's spread through blood and

body. yet has no airborne characteristics. it's not just a switch. a lot of trade-offs to acquire new properties and there is no evidence that this strain would go airborne or has the capacity to do so. >> okay. you know, even if the experimental drug zmapp were a cure-all and we know it is not, the company that makes it apparently has run out of supplies. why does it take so long to produce this? >> well, what they are doing right now specifically with the zmapp, that's a lot of specific antibodies against this virus. at least in certain small trials, both with monkeys as well as a few patients with humans it has shown to suggest there is some benefit. in order to make those antibodies they have to go through rigorous changes in cloning, in order to produce the amount of antibodies and they

don't know what the correct dose is for these antibodies so they are probably getting a lot more than they need because they don't know yet. further trial they go forward are going to be to assure that it works, that it's safe and to try to figure out what the right dose is. but may be right now they are using too much and it's very difficult for us to produce these kinds of antibodies. >> we know that writebol and brantly and -- nance -- and richard had a transfusion. now that we have thomas duncan in dallas, how is he likely being treated right now? >> it's unclear how she being treated now. there's a few options with some of these experimental drugs. the mainstay of treatment is good supportive care. fever control, anti-nausea

medications, maybe oxygen, and he'll be probably briefed on all of the different options available, they are all very scarce but i'm sure he will be offered some of these experimental therapy she able to consent because they are still experimental. it will be interesting to see which of the few we have that he receives. >> eric wrote to us saying give at any health care structure in the us whaus is a realistic worse case is a scenario for ebola outbreak? >> you have to understand that the control is directly related to how much resources that you're able to apply to that outbreak. so it's one of the reasons why there is a bit of a dichotomy. we say how confident we are but then we talk about what's going on in west africa and we're very concerned. we are able to put -- dedicate a lot of people, a lot of money, to dedicate a lot of resources to controlling this outbreak, where they can't do that so much in most of those parts of west

africa. what is a realistic expectation, i don't expect to see a substantial outbreak of individuals from this person in dallas, although some of thinks close contacts, the people who are living in the apartment with him, may come down with those symptoms and that's one of the reasons why they are being monitored so closely. if we were to see another person with ebola it's only going to be one of the very close contacts or someone new that enters our country from an infected region or it's going to be one of the health care workers that are working closely, but they are using very meticulous infection control strategies that i have a feeling that the health care workers are going to be okay. >> good to know. thank you both for being with us. >> thank you, gentlemen. police encounter a lot of roo blocks during a high-speed chase. traffic, maybe a suspect jumping from a car. probably not a chain saw.

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all right. saturday morning is upon us. welcome back. we're so glad to have your company. >> five things you need to know. up first, president obama and british prime minister david cameron are condemning the beheading of british aid worker oolen henning. the group released a killing of this taxi driver. >> it's now threatening to kill another hostage, american aide

worker peter kassig. >> number two, there may be a thawing in relations between north and south korea. three top north korean officials paid a surprise visit to south korea earlier today. according to the south, officials from the north said they are open to a second round of talks this fall. this of course coming as kim jong-un is still out of sight after three weeks at this points. >> three, look at this dash cam video. the thieves here hurled chain saws at police during the chase. this happened just outside of atlanta. a separate surveillance video reportedly shows two men stealing 19 chain saws and weed trimmer for good measure, from a hardware store. when police chased them the suspects started throwing them out the window. police are still looking for those suspects. >> gosh, they got away. four, marriot agreed to pay a fine to the fcc for blocking

guests' personal wi-fi during an event. at the same time marriot was charging others as much as $1,000 per device to access the hotel's wireless network. it says it was acting to protect guests from, quote, rogue wireless hot spots. >> five, ebola patient thomas eric duncan, he could face criminal charges, that's according to the dallas county attorney general's office, or actual think district attorney's office. they say they are looking into whether he knowingly and intentionally exposed the public to a deadly virus. duncan who remains in serious condition, has been accused of lying on a pre-flight questionnaire about whether he had contact with ebola patients before he left liberia. pentagon officials say the u.s. military will be sending about 4,000 troops to ebola countries in west africa. key among priorities to help contain the virus and, of course, don't get sick themselves.

>> right, barbara star. >> reporter: 3,000 troops tapped to head to west africa, cnn learned the u.s. military is increasing its fight against the deadly disease. hundreds more troops are being added to plans to help the infected countries contain and control ebola. >> it's america, our doctors, our scientists, our know how that leads the fight to contain and combat the ebola epidemic in west africa. >> reporter: approximately 200 u.s. troops are already in liberia. secretary of defense chuck hagel signed orders for another 700 from the 101st airborne division to head to africa in coming days to staff a command headquarters. 700 more army engineers will be going to help build and advise on mobile hospitals. >> we're standing up a field hospital and treatment units,

we'll be training thousands of health workers. >> reporter: even before most have left the u.s., military officials tell cnn the pentagon is considering drastic measures to assure they don't come back to u.s. shores with the disease. >> we are working with experts right now on this. >> reporter: that could include enforced isolation for 21 days, the ibo la incubation period for troops who may have come in contact with the disease. all troops will be monitored daily for symptoms. all service members will face increased monitoring for the 21 days before they are allowed to return to the u.s. >> this was a complex emergency beyond a public health crisis that has significant humanitarian, economic, political and security dimensions. >> reporter: how concerned is the pentagon about keeping the troops healthy? well, they are going to take with them food, water, fuel, everything they need for six months.

christi, victor. >> thank you. we learned that security is tight this morning at harvard after hundreds of students received an e-mailed death threat. boston globe reports the e-mail was received yesterday. >> according to the globe, it reads i will come tomorrow in harvard university and shoot all of you, each one of you, all harvard students i will kill you individually. i'll be back tomorrow at 11:00 in your blank university and will kill you, you sons of blank, even mark zuckerberg of facebook i will kill. i'm going to kill everyo one of y you. >> the globe says the author claims to abwoman named stephanie. we'll let you know what comes of that. >> also new twists and turns in the search for missing uva student including a link to another virginia student's murder. >> now police are turning to an unlikely group to help search

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police in virginia are asking hunters for their help to find missing uva student hannah graham. she disappeared september 13th and was bare hunting season kicking off today, they want them to keep an eye out for clues to graham's disappearance. the prime suspect in the case, jesse matthew who you see here, this week the bombshell was that

officers now say dna has linked matthew to the 2009 abduction and murder of another young woman, morgan harrington. what kind of forensic link could police be looking at? let's bring in dr. sarah wecht. let's talk about this dna link. what do you think it could be? >> with regard to the case of miss harrington back in 2009, as i understand it, her body was not found for about three months. it was in an advanced state of decomposition and perhaps skeletonized. so i do not understand what biological materials might have been available to allow them to obtain dna evidence tying in to mr. matthew. there may have been some garment of his or some object that had been left behind upon which he

had left some biological material. and they got dna from that. with regard to miss graham, now this case currently, we do not know what the story is because she hasn't been found. so there can be no dna from her or her clothing. we do know already that he, mr. matthew, was with her that evening. i've seen video, you folks have portrayed it, arm around her, 1:00 in the morning, so the fact that he was there and there might have been transference of dna at that occasion, that doesn't tell us anything. now then you've got the rape case of 2005. in that case they should have obtained some seminal fluid or other fluid and as i understand they identified mr. matthew. i do not know why charges haven't been brought against him until now. and then i have heard that there were cases of 2002 and 2003 at

two other universities in which he had been charged with rape or sexual assault and those charges were dropped when those two young ladies in separate cases chose not to pursue the matter. so the question is, why hasn't his dna been fed into the commonwealth of virginia's dna data base and the national data base. that's the way you try to pick up these serial rape ipss, serial killers and i'm puz itted why there is no dna apparently in that data base of mr. matthew in light of all of these episodes. >> it's a good question. and when you talk about dna, some people think if there is dna, it's a slam dunk if there is a link in that regard. really, let's talk about the credibility of dna evidence. is there any part of that the is unreliable? >> no. cellular dna is the only absolute forensic science. it has been so stated. cellular dn, a. not even

maternal dna though that has a very high exclusionary rate too. but if you've got properly performed tests by competent people and it's cellular dna you can say it is that individual as contrasted with anybody else that has ever existed on this planet not only today but in the past other than an identical twin. so, the other thing about dna some don't understand is that it's easily transferrable. if you and i were to shake hand there is would have been a transfer of dna from your palm to mine and mine to yours. and the other thing is, the dna cannot be dated. you can't say this is from yesterday or this is from last year or from five years ago. you can correlate with it known events in that fashion come up with a relationship but you cannot from the testing say how old dna was. so, there's a lot to be learned in this case. i don't know what dna they have that they say they have linked

graham to harrington and harrington back then to 2005 rape case. we've got to have more detailed explanation from them in order to comprehend what kind of material they have performed testing on for these results. >> well, dr. cyril wecht, thank you for the great explainer. we appreciate you being here. >> this is a crucial time in hong kong because there are fear this is morning that more violence could erupt at any minute. pro democracy protesters refuse to back down. we're headed there live for the latest, stay with us. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice.

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hong kong massive crowds are hitting the streets facing off both with police and with anti-occupy opponents. look what it was like a bit ago. >> already today at least 20 people have been arrested in clashes with police. in the seven days of protest, 148 people have been injured. more than a dozen still are in the hospital. and now, students have called off talks with government officials. our will ripley joins us. hong kong's leader urged, talking about north korea in a moment -- the leader in hong kong urged calm but also said protesters must clear out by monday. what if they don't leave?

>> reporter: well, that's really the million dollar question. we are one week into this and we are now seeing perhaps the largest crowd in the heart of hong kong that we've seen since this movement began despite repeated warnings by the hong kong government, despite some action by police to encourage protesters to leave these areas and of course the controversial actions on sunday where tear gas was used in some of the protesters, all of that only caused more hong kongers to rally in this area, fighting for true democracy in this city. so it leaves the government with a dilemma. do they mobilize the 35,000 police officers and try to disperse by force or play the waiting game and see how long this drags out. if they do that they risk continued financial trouble for the city, emergency services interrupted and growing hardship for a number of people here who are divided and who feel that this has lasted far too long and essentially put the city in chaos and gridlock.

also you have beijing t beijing government that of course is very influential here. this is a chinese city. they have to be concerned that this pro democracy movement will spread to other chinese cities. it's a real dilemma but the protesters saying they are going to stand firm. >> will, i hope you can hear me. we need to ask you about north korean delegates who say they are open to a second round of talks with south korea. what do you know about those developments? >> reporter: well, obviously north korea is a very important topic because china is a key ally and we had diplomats from the north make a rare trip to the south where they said that they would be willing to open up talks, dialogue essentially, with the south korean government. the key topics the two need to discuss, denuclearization and unification, bringing the two countries together. the sense i got when i traveled to north korea is that it appears that government wants to open up a line of communication. you remember they let us speak

with the three american there is trying to send a message to the u.s. government. it appears the north is trying to send a message to the south at a time they are facing increased isolation and this country, china, and the financial support and the trade that comes from china is one of the things that is helping the north korean economy barely limp along. times are not good for the country. it's a troubling time considering there are concerns about the health of their leader kim jong-un. >> seems to be secretive as of late. will, thank you so much. all righty. i'm a little jealous. just a little. >> are you? >> at the west coast. all of you out there, you get the best view of the blood moon. in october. right before halloween. day begins with arthritis pain and two pills. afternoon arrives and feeling good, but her knee pain returns... that's two more pills.

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if you live in the western half of the u.s., are you the lucky one today. >> that's because you'll have the best view of next week's blood moon. it's when a lunar eclipse gives the moon this burnt reddish orange color. >> much like victor's tie today. >> thank you for that. full eclipse will start wednesday at 6:25 eastern, and last about an hour. this will happen when the earth is closest to the moon's orbit so not only will the moon look like it's bleeding, it will also be huge. almost as big as the super moon. remember the super moon. >> remember that one. meanwhile, it's pretty cold out there. and it's going to get worse

tonight. >> just a little chilly. i don't see cold. i like it. >> 41 isn't cold? >> it's colder than fall temperature. let's hand it over to a professional. meteorologist jennifer gray. >> if you didn't think this morning was cold you probably will be cold tomorrow. it's going to be cooler. folks in chicago feeling the chill. in fact, snow flurries this morning in chicago and the national weather service in chicago just tweeted out a few moments ago that is the third earliest snowfall on record in chicago this morning. so, bundle up if you are in chicago. here's the radar. a couple flurries out there. nothing major. we are seeing some rain, though, to the west of green bay heading through detroit, this is all part of that same system that caused all of those storms across texas, pushed through louisiana, arkansas and on into mississippi. there is a closer look at chicago. you can see on the western side some of the suburbs getting some flurries this morning. it's cold out there. there are frost and freeze

watches or warnings rather, in place across the northern plains and it's going to be even cooler as we go through tonight. 30 degrees in sioux falls, 25 in minot. 38 in chicago, 43 in st. louis. temperatures will be warming up quickly over the next couple days so this chilly weather isn't going to last too long. 47 today in chicago, 56 tomorrow. overnight lows tonight, dipping very chilly. 44 in atlanta tonight, 49 in memphis, 58 as far south as new orleans. and i also want to mention we have quite the opposite going on on the west coast. we have very, very hot temperatures. fire threat remains high for southern california for today. and tomorrow. do be on the lookout for that. be careful, temperatures in l.a. will reach 91 degrees. >> i was there yesterday and it was hot. jennifer gray, thank you so much. >> thanks, jen. so that's it for us.

we'll see you at 10:00 eastern. 7:00 on the west coast. cnn newsroom. >> stay here, "smerconish" is coming up. stay close. welcome to the program. thank you for joining me. by now you heard ebola is here, news about ebola consuming the country. but is there a risk of overreaction? i'll ask my expert guests in a moment. and the secret service, huge misfires and a new director. also this. is race or gender playing a role in how well our president is protected? and the man who got fired for writing a column with this title. drunk female guests are the gravest athlete fraternities. he is here to defend himself a. college whose name i refuse to utter. let's get started.