haves or sneezes and much more transmitted through blood. i hope that answers at least some of your questions. that's going to wrap things up for "s.d., m.d." time now for christi paul and doug blackwell. good morning. so glad to have you with us. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor black well. we begin with the fight against isis. a 21-year-old marine is believed to be the first american casualty. >> corporal general spears evacuated out of an osprey. the pentagon says that he's lost at sea. >> coalition strikes killed at least 30 isis members yesterday. kurdish forces are fighting back

in the key town of kobani. >> let's bring in cnn's phil black. you were showing us pictures and we can hear them behind of you off of the fighting that is going on. all i could think about is what is the fating to to be for the kurds who have stayed back to fight. we know it's not good. how many kurds have stayed ba being to try to fight isis off and are they making any progress? >> reporter: christi, we're told thousands. there's a mix of men and women who have stayed back to stay and fight and defend their homeland and they are doing -- they are really digging in and we're seeing this being played out behind us just across the border right now. we've got to pan in close, zoom

in close and pan across so you can see the eastern-southeastern corner of kobani here. this is where we have been witnessing today i think the greatest bombardment by isis forces against the kurdish fighters still in the city. the kurdish fighters in the city tell us there are a number of isis tanks maneuvering on the eastern side of the city of that mountain that you can see there and they are just continuously firing into those positions. what we are hearing a lot now, in the near distance as well, is small arms fire which suggests fighting at much closer quarters. this is what they have been warning about and really expecting for some days now. this is isis on the final approach, really, at the gates, fighting from street to street. this is urban warfare. that is what these fighters in that region have been expecting. a big blast across the hill there. we're going to zoom in so you can see that. this is what is unfolding before us. it is -- it is a desperate

battle, really. we are seeing a very concerted effort by isis to strike and pound this city at a very desperate effort by the kurdish fighters still in the city, both men and women, to repel them. >> phil black, as we see live here, isis' effort to take this key city of kobani near the turkish/syrian border. >> remember how pivotal it is. if they take this city, they've detained 60 miles of territory in syria. i cannot help but think about the women and men. we know what isis does to people they deem their enemy. >> the question is, how will turkey get involved here? the prime minister says that the turkish fighters will support the kurdish fighters but if not now, when? here's a look at the area controlled by isis. we'll continue to follow what is

happening there. we also want to talk about the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the u.s. because apparently he's getting worse. >> thomas duncan is now in critical condition. he had been in serious condition earlier. >> in newark, the cdc temporarily quarantined a united airlines flight from brussels because a man was vomiting. it does not appear at this point to be ebola. and remember the american doctor who survived the disease? he's back in a massachusetts hospital this morning. his name is rick sacra. he has a cough and fever. tests are due back tomorrow to determine what is going on here. >> we're covering the ebola scare both here in the u.s. and liberia where thomas eric duncan got on a plane on september 19th. >> cnn's nick valencia is in dallas where duncan is in the

hospital. what is the situation like there in monday rove yeah? >>. >> reporter: well, it is only getting worse, victor. we spoke with the family members. we understand now both of her parents have now been confirmed with ebola and they are in the governor mental treatment facility. we also understand that her best friend, who was one of those taking care of her, she has now passed away. i think that really gives you a sense of how this disease is decimating communities. we spoke about thomas eric duncan and his bringing of the ebola to the u.s. but here in liberia, he's just one of dozens, hundreds even, of people within just that small community who rushed to this pregnant teenager's aid, believing that she was just suffering complications from her pregnancy and are now paying a really horrifying price, victor.

>> so can you help us understand how they are trying to contain this there and what the biggest challenge is in doing so? >> well, the family has been quarantined. the aunt who is one of the family members we were speaking to, she has now been brought in to look after the younger williams' siblings because with both her parents in the hospital and the other aunt who was looking after him passed away. that's the biggest problem, how do you get these people the care and help they need when so many people are afraid and so many people are ill and dying. so they've put in place a quarantine. but they have no way of knowing how many people came in contact with her when she was unwell and how many people came to the wake because it wasn't believed that she was suffering from ebola and how many since then have scattered and come into contact with other people? and that's what is so horrifying about this disease, is that it almost asks that you put aside your basic humanity. how do you see a teenage girl

fall to the ground and not rush to help her but when you do, the consequences are horrifying, not just for you but everyone that you come in contact with. >> let's take an element of what we just learned and take it to nick valencia who is in dallas. we remember the nephew of thomas eric duncan said he did not know he was in contact with this girl and she had the symptoms or what tested positive for ebola. of course, he's been accused of lying on the form. his family said that he did nothing -- >> he didn't lie. >> yeah. nothing malicious here. >> reporter: yeah. certainly conflicting information we're getting, one story from the family and another story from the liberian airport authority. on that form, there's a variety of questions. one of the questions s. have you ever come in contact with

somebody who has ebola? we know that duncan helped a pregnant woman in liberia and that's perhaps house he contracted the illness. the latest information that we have today here in dallas from texas presbyterian hospital is that he has been downgraded from serious but stable condition to critical condition. we know that he is in intensive care and he's been isolated from the rest of the hospital patients. if we can provide any context here, dr. nancy writebol, the american aid worker working in liberia, she battled the condition for three weeks and her condition worsened before getting better. the family, i'm sure, is hoping that is the case here anyway. a lot of people are very concerned and curious what the outcome will be for thomas duncan. christi? >> do about the other people who were around him? are they monitoring them on a

daily basis? >> reporter: they are asking these people to take their temperature and really started from the inside outride there at the complex. the family of four in the apartment complex, including his long-time girlfriend were isolated there. they were quarantined there and moved to another facility. they are really the ones that were exposed the most and had that direct contact. they are at highest risk to getting ebola. there's been concern all across the country. dr. frieden spoke about that yesterday at a media briefing. take a listen. well, i thought we had that sound bite. but to reiterate that point, frieden spoke and said, duncan is the only person on american soil that has symptoms, that has signs of ebola and while the public is earn canned and definitely being cautious, we've spoken to a lot of people here in dallas who are very

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. all right. we just brought you phil black live for us at the border of turkey and syria and he was just in a group of people where tear gas was thrown as we see isis really making its way toward kobani in a way that it doesn't seem like the kurds can hold them off much longer. >> it was reported for cnn international. we want to show you a clip of what happened right after what we reported here. >> the turkish forces are responding with tear gas

canisters. the wind is largely keeping it away from us but not entirely. we're just going to have to move this way to stay out of the way here. this way. this way. and so all of this is just -- it's really just a backdrop to the conflict going on across the border behind us. we're just falling back a little bit here because of the tear gas. quite often when they get across, particularly if there's a big crowd standing by reacting, they react with great encouragement and make a dash to that more secure zone, as we

just saw. and the local security forces get a bit nervous and drive them back, using tear gas as they have used around us just now which is still very much in the air or even water cannons as well. but the key thing s. this, thiss where you can see the battle of kobani going on in the distance. this is where we are witnessed, through the course of this morning, a very heavy shelling and bombardment into the southeastern pocket of the city. now, we've been watching the shells fall. there is constant smoke, constant explosions coming from that direction. people still in the city, officials and fighters tell us, this is where we believe they are coming from isis tanks maneuvering around that eastern-southeastern approach and they are still able to -- >> we're going to continue to monitor this behind the scenes. that's phil black there. remember, if kobani is taken,

that's 50 miles in syria that isis has now secured. >> to explain exactly in the 15 seconds what is happening there, these smoke bombs, these tear gas bombs and sometimes water cannons, as phil mentioned, is used by the turkish forces to keep the kurds out of that area. a lot of people are trying to help the fellow kurds to fight against the isis militants. that's what is happening there. we understand that those tear gas bombs were even -- or even after this report, a few more were sent into that area to try to push people back. when you saw the applauding and heard the cheering that's because some of these were picked up and thrown back in the opposite direction. live pictures here. you see that now instead of just the tear gas bombs and water cannons, you're seeing some of the -- in fact, the fighters there, we assume these are the turkish fighters trying to keep the occurredish fighters out of

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want to get you up to phil black who is on the syria/turkey border. phil, what's going on there now?

>> reporter: yeah, christi, violence across the border in kobani and here where we are standing as well. there's the sting, the bite of tear gas in the air and i'll explain why. surrounding me here, hundreds, easily, of the local kurdish population here in turkey. some of them, no doubt, refugees that have crossed from syria as well. you can see they are very vocal and they are cheering as the battle has waged behind us between turkish fighters and isis. what happens as they get excited and run towards the border area. under those circumstances, the turkish military and security forces patrol this border. it is significantly fortified and there's a real effort to people away from it. the security forces respond with tear gas and just in the last few moments we saw a lot of

that, a lot of tear gas canisters landing around us. it has, to a certain degree, dispersed but it's hard to breathe and still stinging the eyes as well. it's just a small backdrop to that key battle taking place over here and that's where we're seeing isis tanks, we are told, and artillery continually pound kobani. you can see the smoke rising in the pockets on the eastern out skirts of the city. inside, kurdish fighters are resisting them. what we are hearing a lot is small arms fire. we strongly suggest that this fight is now a lot more intimate than it was before. it's not just pounding the city with artillery from a distance. it's kurdish fighters versus isis fighters fighting in close quarters. christi and victor, back to you. >> thank you, phil.

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shelling and small arms fire we're hearing at the turkish/syrian border. candy crowley, host of "state of the union with candy crowley" is joining us. isis is still on the march. >> and that's a key question today. we're going to talk to a couple senators on the foreign relations committee to ask them if they see any progress. now, it's only been two weeks since the attacks started in syria but it's been since early august in iraq and the question really is, we always know air strikes couldn't win a war but are they making any progress? i think that's where we're center our attention this morning. >> because when you think about it, we're seeing these pictures from turkey and so that city, kobani, that's why it's such a point of contention because it's so close to turkey and this area here between kobani and turkey. it's a key supply route for

isis. if they take kobani, which it being looks like they are going to do. >> yeah. >> we're wondering what this is going to mean for everything across the board. right, candy? >> exactly. one of the things you want to do is cut off the supply line going into iraq and the question is, how long can you wait? the kurds are among the fiercest of fighters, as you know. u.s. politicians all give them high marks. but at the moment, that's the one group that we know can fight on the ground. as you see, they are in this fierce battle. >> candy crowley, thank you so much. be sure to stay tuned for "state of the union with candy crowley" at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. >> we'll keep you posted throughout the day on what is happening. thank you for making us part of your morning. "inside politics" with john king starts right now.

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