shut down the terminal after a man walked in complaining of a headache and body ache. another ebola scare disrupting travel at lax a. traveler with flu-like symptoms triggering a massive response from the l.a. fire department. this turned out to be a massive alarm. elizabeth cohen, what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, allison. here in democracy, a hospital concerned about one of its own and lots of questions this morning about how this nurse became infected with ebola when she was wearing full protective gear. this morning, hazmat crews continue to decon tam fate the dallas apartment of the first person who contracted ebola in the u.s. a female contracted the disease after officials say she had extensive contact with the now deceased ebola patient thomas

duncan. the cdc says the nurse was wearing protective gear, groffs, gown, pack, the infection could have resulted when she took her contaminated gear off. >> the care of ebola can be done safely, but it's hard to do it safely. >> reporter: the cdc says two procedures performed on duncan's last of life, intbation to help him breathe and kidney dialysis are unusual and put health care workers at risk of bodily fluids. >> i have not heard of any ebola patient undergoing intbation or kidney dialysis and nurses are not properly trained. >> we hear they have not been following proper protocol when we have been is asking the hospitals around the country to provide us with training. >> reporter: this is another ebola patient isolated in a boston hospital complaining of

headaches. a spokesman says the chances he has ebola are extremely low him meanwhile, more ebola scares over the week. a passenger became ill on the flight from new york to los angeles. ebola was quickly ruled out. now, the two procedures we mentioned, intbation and kidney dialysis, doctors i have been talking to say, look, there is extremely little chance that would have helped duncan, given he was dying of eboll larks but there is a relatively high chance it could have contaminated someone. >> let's talk more with chris. >> all right. we keep hearing ebola and right after we hear scare him we are afraid of things and the unknown and what it could mean and what is versus what if. so let's get some perspective. let's bring in a board certified physician from pittsburgh

medical center and miscarry scalvo, former inspector director of transportation. doctor, let's begin with you and the latest headline, did you hear about the flight from dallas to nashville, the passenger felt ill. they were going to quarantine him. they didn't foe what to do with the flight. now they believe it was just air sickness. do you know anything about this and what do you believe it speaks to? >> these incidents speak to this heightened panic amongst the general public where any disease is attributed to be the ebola, if someone sfeezs, collapse, vomits, it's always going to raise the fears of eboll louisiana i really think it's getting a little bit out of hand. it's understandable people are scared. ebola does not pose a threat to the general public. we have people that will fall under cardiac arrest. we want to put this into some perspective. >> help me out a sec.

i will play a role. i am a scared person, you demystify it, unscare me. the nurse, they weren't supposed to get i. they were in gowns and mask, then she gets ebola. why shouldn't i be scared? >> you shouldn't be scared because ebola although it's deadly, it's scary, it's not very contagious. you only get it through the exposure of blood and body fluids of someone who has symptoms. it's not transmitted casually like the flu and common cold. those have that contact intimately with the patient. why this nurse got sit a puzzle. it's actually disheartening she got i. you have to remember infection control must be meticulous, not just putting it on, taking it off. this nurse's aide in spain

likely touched her face. they have to have this guidance available to workers and possibly using a buddy system where someone watches the individual take off the gear with a checklist. this is not a forgiving virus. it's not very contagious. you can't do it any favors by having any lapses in the way you adhere to infectious control. >> one more go around on this i hear the word puzzle, i am scared. they don't know how she got it and how to keep other health care workers from getting it. i'm not just afraid for myself, i'm afraid for the people working and you tell me it's about close contact and i see the guys in the space suit taking her garbage away, if i'm her neighbor, why are they takinger garbage away if there is no real risk? >> this virus not very hardy, hover, we do, do decon tam nation to clean up whatever

residual virus may be left. when i say puzzle, it's clear the virus hasn't changed. we know how we stopped 24 hour outbreaks prior to this. it's the same general low tech principals. health care workers always tend to be disproportion natalie acted. we emphasize hospitals have to start preparing, have protocols. the ones at risk will be those taking care of ebola patients and their contacts. you won't get it on the subway, it doesn't spread that way. >> i feel better. we don't want to spread the fear. the information helps. colonel zarnic in affect on the ground says people have not be worried about the rick. you go on the panic mode at the drop of a dime. you got the flu coming up. you got these screenings now, you need to coordinate.

are you not good at card fateing when it comes to air travel, in general. what are your concerns about how you will deal with planes full of people every time a panic comes up? fwaps you have to quarantine them. do we even know what to do? >> and precisely t. problem isitative designated only five airports. so i think the words of the government are not matching the, as. that's what's causing the panic. the government said we won't stop travel from liberia. 150 people a day compared with the rest of the 2ple traveling. people don't know. there are five airports where people are tested where they land. they transfer onto the rest of the united states, where those airports are not prepared and ready. so this scene is going to repeat itself again and again because people don't have confidence when they step on the plane, they don't have confidence in the government, that they have kept people off the planes. this will only increase. the problem is once you have these things, you have to respond. l.a. called the fire department.

they didn't know what to do. once they were flying to nashville, all of the airports will have to have some kind of program if place. and that's the problem with not having a travel ban because we have 547 airports. the cdc didn't have that many people. >> one quick question, suspect hams on an airplane. they're testing, making sewer what is it? maybe it's just the flu. does that plane stay sore it now gone back on its routes and now what do we do? >> well, that's a great question because it's been treated in two different ways. for example the one in los angeles, they were taken there. the plane was taken to a remote area of the airport. in other cases, the passengers were off the plane. it was cleaned by the regular cleaning crew. they have to very quickly. that's way aviation works, very quickly get the plane on its way. by that way, it's moved on to its own stop. we haven't had a uniform policy.

that's pa part of the distrust of travelers. we have to be able to trust our government and that means uniformity and treatment. >> cold and flu season is coming. we know what that means. that's why we have to deal with, again, what is versus what if. thank you very much. i know you will forgive me for making you the representative for all things air travel. doctor, thank you very much tore debunking the fears. it's very important to do. >> a great way to start the show. chris. let's get a look at your headlines at 9 minutes past the hour. new concern that home grown terrorists will try to carry out attacks against the fbi and media outlets in the u.s. isis leaders are using social pedia to carry out such plots. law enforcement officials say they are beefing up security. they do not know of any specific threats. we talk more about this potential attack coming up in a

live report. breaking overnight. crowds in st. louis, more than a thousand gathering to protest the michael brown shooting as well as the police shooting of vonnderrit myers. this is all in response to the shooting death of brown. 17 people were arrested sunday fight. demonstrations will culminate in a series of actions today. they are expected to get under way in two hours time. overnight, overseas heating up, scuffles breaking out as anti-protest groups took on pro demonstrators who have and you the streets over the past several weeks. there are reports angry taxi and truck drivers opposed to the protest demanded an end to the demonstrations which they say have seriously hurt their livelihoos. a heckleer using a bullhorn

interrupting hillary clinton during a speech sunday night. she was the key note speaker at the conference held in san diego, california. she recovered nicely. take a listen. >> million of people -- you are all. you know, there are some people who miss important developmental stages. >> thinking on her feet. obviously, you saw the heckleer removed by security. we all anticipate there will be somebody that stands up. >> they should. >> they have to. >> if they don't, yeah. >> at first you saw her sort of -- >> she's had some things happen to her on stage. >> yes, she has. >> remember the whole show. >> yes, it happens. >> i'm not going to throw my shoe at you. i might hit you with it.

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isis making startling advances in iraq and syria. general martin dempsey, who is leading efforts to fight the terror group, says fighters came within 15 miles of baghdad's airport. the u.s. insists the iraqi capital is not in danger of falling to isis. even though they stand on the verge of controlling an entire province, this as turkey says it will let the u.s. fight isis. so let's get to our team on the front line.

pentagon correspondent barbara starr, ben we'dman in baghdad and all on the turkey-syria border him ben, i want to start with you. we are hearing conflicting reports as to whether or not isis could take baghdad. they are less tan 15 miles away. are you there on the ground. what's the assessment? >> reporter: isis couldn't take baghdad under the current circumstances. it's a huge city. most of the population is shia, which is very hostile to isis, in addition to the iraqi army, there are tens of thousands of shia volunteers who have been armed and trained with militias as well. so it's a huge task and isis, despite its traumatic danes elsewhere has never been able to take a large population center where the local population does

not welcome it if some form or another. >> barbara, that the same assessment at the pentagon? >> well, that's what they certainly hope. they hope isis doesn't have zeens on taking baghdad. really, it is the airport right now. backed international airport i think it's the u.s. military's focus. they can not lose that airport. what if isis were to make a lightening strike on the west side of the city to try to get control of the airport or shut it down. for the 1,000 or more u.s. military and dip lo patic personnel in iraq. >> that airport is the only way out if this all goes sideways. >> that is really right now what the u.s. is, seems to be very determined to protect. >> you are right. that's what general martin dempsey spoke about yesterday about the isis encroachment on the airport. let's listen. >> you will not wait until they were climbing over the wall. they were within 20 or 25

kilometers. >> of backed airport. >> sure. had they overrun the iraqi unit, it was a straight shot to the airport. so we're not going to allow that to happen. we need that airport. >> when he said, "we're not going to allow that to happen," what's the plan? >> reporter: well, i think ben will tell you there are significant defenses on the west front of the approaches to baghdad. there are u.s. apache helicopters, which have been used to push isis back. there are also regular drone flights overhead keeping an eye on isis. right now it is becoming tougher by the day, isis fighters are changing their strategy, they're blending into local population. they move in small groups. when are you a fighter bomber aircraft at 30,000 feet looking for a target to strike, they are getting tougher and tough tore see day-by-day, so this is going to be exactly what the pentagon promised. airstrikes alone won't work. it will be a very long call.

>> speaking of isis changing its strategy. you talk about how impossible to predict what isis will do next. tactically, they keep people guessing? >> they are more advanced tan perhaps what you can see by simply reading what they have done in the past 24 hours, certainly. we seen them with moderate rebels in syria. they pull back, melted. months later they were focusing in iraq. we are seeing a definite decisive move to take kobani behind them him once they have this town, they have 100 kilometers of the border. that's extremely important in the ability to use this porous area. again to confuse the iraqi army, divide, fracture, corrupt already sounding to be light

footed as isis can be. theyiccively have bad footballs. in some ways, yes, an extraordinary complex task working out what isis wants to do next. >> so, nick, how is turkey's commitment today to helping? >> reporter: well, turkey has been involved in the syrian war for three years. people talk about are they going to assist the syrian pod racing? they have been doing that for years, assisting them to have meetings, they've allowed over a million refugees on to their territory. this isn't a few fight for them. what they want to do, it seems from statements, not be led by a washington plan. washington, let's be honest has been all over the place for the last three years what level o'assistance it wants to provide if any at all. to see a direction which satisfies them. they have to live with the established circumstances of what comes out of this civil war

for decades to come. they've had a long-term problem with the kurd. they are enemies so they're not going to pile and assist necessarily this fight. they want to see syrians they are comfortable with take the superior hand in this battle. at the end of the day they're clear in anchor they want to see assad out of power before they commit more sources for assisting on the border next to me. >> back to backed. what's the feeling on the ground there about isis zboeth close? >> reporter: people here are fairly confident there won't be a frontal assault on the capital they're real worried. the series of car bombings that seems to be going on and on, every day there is at least one bombing. the other night saturday fight,

there are two bombings that left more than 40 people dead t. worry is what is going on inside baghdad, because there are pockets of soviet union fis among whom there are sympathizers, if not active members of isis as well him but looking beyond that, many people are concerned with the situation in anbar province, which abuts the capital. they say they burned the equipment and am physician they couldn't take with them. other reports say yet again isis was able to get their hands on this pressure american supplied hard worried and ammunition. it's a very mixed picture. people are worried as i said about bombs in baghdad. they are looking to the west and

increasi increasingly about the fall, at this point it's 80% under isis and the remaining under iraqi army control is tenuous at best. >> thank you all so much for being there on the front lines and giving us all the information this morning. great to see you. >> all right. oscar pistorius is going to find his fate and soon. how much will he get for culpable homicide? we will go live to the courtroom. thrown into quarantine after the cameraman tested positive for ebola. another has been reportedly spotted driving around new jersey. water going on?

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. >> welcome back. will is a new tropical storm threatening the care bone this morning. gofzalo could become a tropical storm just after faye injured bermuda. >> reporter: you are exactly right. the expectation is to become a hurricane either tonight or tomorrow. it's not very quiet in the atlantic. this is our seventh named tropical storm gofzalo. you can see the center of circulation, but what we got right now are hurricane watches posted. expect conditions in puerto rico and the virgin islands, already feeling rain in guadalupe, antig antigua, barbuda. then we will watch it move north and then move northeastward and head out to sea. again, hurricane conditions expected within the next 24

hours. whether you are watching off puerto rico or the u.s. or virgin islands. so be mindful of that. hey, locally what we got, active weather to bought. showers, forms, the potential today for quite a severe weather outbreak a. pod rat rick for some. kind of the setup just perfect here. area of pressure moving eastward t. showers and storms will fire up. also pretty big hubs. as we head for tomorrow, potentially, slaen atlanta. from indy, st. louis, little rock, memphis to jackson to houston, that's the potential for isolated tornadoes, strong winds and hail as well. tomorrow it brings up u.s., delta and hubs in charlotte. >> thank you so much for keeping an eye on. we will, too. other news this morning, for that we go to one michaela ferrara. >> a dallas nurse has become the

first person to contact the ebola virus in the united states. officials are scrambling to figure out how this happened. shelves a part of the team that treated thomas eric duncan the liberia national who died of ebola last week. overnight, a suicide car bomber targets a convoy into afghanistan's capital, killing one person. at least three others were injured. the taliban claimed alleged responsibility for the attack. reuters reports two other bombings other hours later, injured a total of 22 other people. scary moments aboard two usairways flights. two planes that landed saturday night. officials say one of the aircraft developed problems in the cabin. the other plane they say was forced to land because of hydraulic problems. fortunately, no one was hurt in either incident. i wanted to share this with

you. seeing him give an nypd cap to a little boy with downs syndrome. you can tell the little one is really quite thrilled. look at him salute. the officers get a well deserved salute there. the tourist from brazil says seeing an officer like that is a rare sight from his home nation. he wanted to send it on into us. a great moment. >> that's so nice. >> new york's finest. >> thanks, for that, mick. >> no problem. next, good fuse, nfl talk the jets season is over. they are now one in five losing to peyton manning. it shocked me out of my ravioli yesterday. have you dallas cowboy's, americas team with a when over the seattle seahawks. let's bring in andy schols.

>> these democracy cowboys, i guess they are for real, they're a second team in the past two years that go into seattle and get a win. they were trailing this game by three late in the fourth quarter. on 3rd and 20, tony romo, an amazing pass, somehow stays inbounds. take a look at the guy. he barely gets his toes down that. loads to a demarco murray touchdown run him they're now a league that's 5 and 1 on this season t. eagles are looking to keep pace with the cowboys. they host the giants on sunday night football. this one was all philly him they shut them out 27-0. if the loss wasn't bad enough for the g move man, victor cruz goes down. he has a torn patelar tendon in

the knee. likely he will miss the rest of the season. giants and cardinals, colton long, hits this one deep to right. it's a walk off home run. st. louis wins 5-4. that's 11 home runs in six playoff games for the cardinals. not bad for a team that had the least amount of home runs in the national league this season. game three tuesday in san francisco. guys tonight game three between the royals and orioles. the question is, will kansas city ever lose a game? they are 6 and 0 incredible. >> my-subd from there. he was subjecting us all to the game. >> he's been waiting what? >> 29 years, they are making the most of it right now. >> are you supporting him with his love? >> not much. i let him watch i. i'm sitting there being enthusiastic. i have things to do.

>> heaven you support him after 29 years of waiting? >> i didn't actually know it was that long. i will indulge him more. thank you. >>. >> bye, andy. >> so this report ejust back from liberia violates her quarantine here in the u.s. you probably know her dr. nancy snyderman, she was spotted in a car outside her favorite restaurant. now funl health officials are taking swift action. what is the risk? we'll give you the facts.

the first transmission of ebola in the united states sparked few concern about how to keep the deadly virus from spreading in the u.s. the comes as the nbc news team is now under mandatory quarantine in new jersey. their chief medical correspondent dr. nancy snyderman reportedly broke the terms of the voluntary quarantine. she was spotted out in the community in her car. so how much risk is there for the public? we want to discuss wit legal analysts, an infectious disease

specialist in chief at sloan kettering and a contributor to the "daily beast." i will start with you, doctor, i think first of all, people were struggling to understand why it was a voluntary quarantine, should this not have been mandatory from the job? >> it depends on the perception of rick by the persons making the determination t. rules are not iron clad. >> that's kind of sad, isn't it? >> it could be. quarantine is a miserable cabin fever existence, someone must be sympathetic to that. on the other hand, as we have learned, ebola can spread. >> what do you make of the fact that now there is a mandatory 21 days, we have reached out to them. nbc is not commenting. what do you make of this? >> it's hard to know if it's a heavy handed political action on new jersey side which is phone for heavy handed political

action or whether or not there is a bigger breach tan we realized. i think as long as people are taking tear temperature. i'm not getting too worked up over it. >> you are not too upset? i feel mel might be. sound off. give me what you have been building up to. >> for the, listen. this is what's upsetting to me. you have somebody who is holding herself out as an expert on a global television platform, reporting about the crisis of ebola. one of her cameramen that she was working with day in, day out, overseas contracts ebola. he is still in critical condition being treated in nebraska. she comes back. she claims to the public that they took extreme precautions, they go under a manned -- you know this quote voluntary quarantine. then she has the you a disty and the arrogance and the irresponsibility as a public figure reporting on this, mikaela, to be driving around in a mercedes reportedly.

>> are you more concerned about the quarantine or are you concerned about the actual threat? >> there is a little bit of that. i'm not as concerned about the threat except for the fact that she was working side-by-side with somebody who now has it and we just had. yes, mikaela, we just had a nurse who followed all of the protocol come down with this. its got a 21-day incubation period. while she may be low risk. she is not clear yet. i find it to be stunning that the medical expert to be doing this. >> yeah, i think that she's not showing perhaps the best judgment, all rotto, we don't know though. i don't think we have the whole story from the nbc side. on the other hand, i think there is a huge difference between a nurse caring for a person dying of ebola and the risk of transmission versus dr. sneiderman's time with mr.

mukbo. >> there is not hard fact science here. doctors aren't always the best patients. >> we are awful. awful patients. >> she might say, look, i am monitoring my own fever, my temperature. i'm above this. >> doctors in huberis run together a lot. present company absolutely included. i think that is an issue doctors and all health care workers feel somewhat immune from rick and that's a dangerous business. >> it is a dangerous thing. we don't foe that has played into other situations with other health care workers. the fact is, they're repeatedly put into harm's way. let me ask a sort of a logistics question, in terms of a voluntary or mandatory quarantine, who decides that? is that the cdc? is that new jersey health? how does that work? >> i'm not entirely sure. i'm hesitant to comment on it.

>> isn't that a problem, if you don't know, that is a question i think now we are getting to one of the bicker problems here is that there are a lot of question marks with all of this. >> i should know, i don't know. >> it's upsetting a lot-of-people in emergency rooms where people say we don't foe who to ask for the latest protocol, et cetera. >> the truth is it's in flux him we saw this with sars and anthrax there are no real experts for this disease in north america and that we are using best judgment. it changes day-to-day. that's difficult. but it's the right thing to do. >> go ahead. mel. >> you were pointing to something that's really important. the next has jurisdiction over cases when it's spreading across state lines and people are coming in, for example to furyk, new jersey, via airplanes that i quarantined an airplane under

federal jurisdiction. from a state by state level the difference between voluntary and involuntary is if you break an involuntary, a mandatory isolation or quarantine order, you have broken the law. >> right. >> so in most states, it's a misdemeanor, but the problem is, as you said, nobody kind of knows where to look for the protocol. >> two quick final questions, mel, do you think dr. sneiderman, we haven't got a competent from them. could inthe facing some sort of penalty, legal penalty? >> no, not right now. it was a voluntary quarantine. if she breaks a mandatory order, she has committed a crime. >> doctor, do you think the quarantines have to be mandatory, not voluntary? doong they have to be in force or that is too heavy handed? . >> i think we have to take the extreme approach and back off and get more liberal. right now i think it's from a policy perspective, pandtory.

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. >> isis hopes someone will hit the fbi and the american news media. cnn has learned the terror group is calling for attacks on social media and extremist forums. there is growing concern that home grown terrorists will pick up the call to arms and carry out the plots. cnn justice correspondent pamela braun brown has more on this. what are we learning about this? >> reporter: they announced this bulletin to law enforcement agencies across the country. federal, state, local law enforcement agencies telling them to be extra vigilant in the wake of these increased calls by members of isis online onthese extremist forums calling for attacks on government officials in the u.s.

we are talking fbi investigators, police, members of the military, in fact, one of the threats was against members of the media. so in light of that and what we have seen in the u.k. with the plot recently disrupted there the plot in australia. the fact that there were two police officers stabbed by an alleged terror suspect. u.s. officials here in the u.s. are taking the extra step to send out this bull ten out of an abundance of caution or concern there has been an uptick in these calls by isis to attack government officials. but i do want to make it clear that this is not based on any information at this point that there is active plotling here in the u.s. chris. >> pamela, the flip on this is that this the a lot of hype from isis. right? they don't have the capabilities to launch attacks leak this, so they're calling on others. isn't that a part of the perspective on this? >> reporter: right. that's the biggest concern.

it's not that members of the isis have taken to the u.s. to launch an attack. it's the fact that there could be someone living in the u.s. right now who is radicalized who have seen these calls online on these extremist forums on twitter and may want to launch an attack against these targets isis is calling for. that's the big concern. that is something law enforcement really has a tough time being able to track these lone wolves being in their basement, inspired by these radical calls. chris. >> thank you so much. >> also happening right now the sentencing phase of track star oscar pistorius' trial in africa. last month, he was found guilty of culpable homicide of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. at this moment the same judge that rendered the verdict must decide if pistorius will go to prison and for how long. robin, tell us water happening

at this hour. >> reporter: hi there. well, all of us back in that hot overcrowded courtroom, they have gotten close to he and reeva steenkamp's family. three witnesses so far this morning all pleading in mitigation and agra- vation of this sentence. we heard very importantly from oscar pistorius' own psychologist. she described for the court oscar pistorius found himself utterly worthless, devastated, guilt ridden after shooting dead his girlfriend that, he had unabated remorse. why does that matter? it will or might impact on how the judge sentences him. a very interesting witness before i came on air. someone from correction am services here in south africa, suggesting that they've done an investigation of pills torious' home, suggesting he should have

community service two days a week and three years a correctional supervision, essentially house arrest t. prosecution says that was shockingly inappropriate. >> robin, how long is this process expected to take? >> reporter: yeah, you know, we have been asking ourselves that from march, haven't we? i think we are at the end here, it's a sense there is another day or two of the sentencing hearing. the judge might think about it. hopefully, by friday, she comes down with some sort of sentence, that will cause the defense or the state to appeal. it's a life sentence, like three years of house arrest and three days of community service t. state i think will definitely appeal and then, of course, you are looking at this being drawn out even longer. it really depends on how the judge decides how to punish oscar pistorius him then we'll have a real understanding of where to go from there. >> absolutely. it will be phosphating to hear

what this judge decides, thank you. >> a lot of the part of the process is different. we'll keep monitoring it. if there is any developments, we'll take you to it. >> there is a lot of nice, so let's get to it. >> a dallas nurse is the first patient to have contracted ebola in the united states. >> a breach in protocol resulted in this infection. >> we will see more health care workers come down with ebola. >> terrorists are miles from airports . >> a guy came out of the subway greats over there and threw a subway bomb. >> the attack raising questions about the city's ability for an extensive subway system. >> it's scary, it's federal reserve racking. >> good morning, everyone, welcome back to "new day." great to be with you. we now have the first confirmed case of ebola in the united

states. health officials frantic to see how a dallas nurse got infected even though she was wearing protective gore treating a dying patient. >> a man had been to liberia complained of a headache and body aches. it turns out doctors do not think he is infected and ebola jitters, hitting los angeles when a passenger into lax became sick. that so far is being blamed on air sickness, our cover annual of the ebola crisis kicks off with senior medical correspondent live from dallas. it is very difficult to rule things out and deem with the panic. everybody is on edge. we have to let calmer minds prevail. >> that's right. here is the hospital. they are worried about one of their own. a lot of questions, how did she contract the virus when she was

wearing full protective gear? this morning hazmat crews continue to decon tam nate the dallas apartment of the first person to contract ebola in the u.s. a female nurse tested positive for the disease saturday fight after officials say she had extensive contact with the now deceased ebola patient thomas duncan. >> there was a breach in protocol. >> reporter: the cdc says the nurse was wearing protective gear, gloves, gown, mask, the infection could have resulted when she took her contaminated gear off from the care of ebola can be done safely. it's hard to do it safely. >> the cdc says two procedures performed on duncan at the end of his life, intubation and kidney dialysis are highly unusual. >> i am not familiar with any prior patient with ebola who has underbegan to dialysis. >> reporter: health care workers across the u.s. say nurses

haven't been adequately trained. >> we are hearing they have not been provided the proper protocol. we have been asking for the proper training. >> reporter: this patient was being isolated in a boston hospital, complaining of aches and headaches. the medical center treating the man is awaiting his results a. spokesman says the chances he has ebola are extremely low. more ebola scares over the week. son sunday, a fe pail passenger became ill on a united airlines flight from new york to los angeles. ebola was quickly ruled out. the cdc says they are reviewing whether it was appropriate to give duncan dialysis and intubation. doctors i talked to said there was a tiny chance it would have helped him, a high chance those procedures could get health care workers sec. >> we have the immediate concern

of the welfare of that nurse and figuring out how to treat people going forward. let's try to get more answers, joining us now. chief medical correspondent and director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. gentleman, thanks, so much for being here. you heard elizabeth's report. is there any latest thinking on how this nurse should have contracted ebola? >> well, the thing that people are starting to wonder is does this represent a change in how the virus is spread? and i don't think there is any evidence of that. so you hear that there was some sort of quote/unquote a breach if protocol n. spain, we learn, for example, after the fact the nurse had likely touched her face with a glove they may be contaminated. so what exactly the breach in protocol is here? they don't know, at some point,

infected bodily fluid touched her skin. whether it was touching a part of her body with a glove, we don't foe and there is a chance we may never foe exactly. so you have to recreate your movements over that time period. but that's what they're thinking. >> okay. dr. fauci the cdc director tom frieden suggested the presbyterian that treated mr. duncan did two high rick procedures that pay have exposed workers to the virus. listen to what he said. >> the two areas we will be looking particularly closely is the performance of kidney dialysis and respiratory intubation. both of those procedures may spread contaminated materials and are considered high risk procedures. they were undertaken on the index patient as a desperate measure to try to save his life. >> intubation and dialysis.

dr. fauci, what do you think about that theory? >> well, i think that's an important thing to consider, if you have someone who is very, very far advanced and sometimes we are in situations where a patient is not salvable but you want to put out all the stops, if you want to do that at that extreme late stage in an illness, we often make the choice, why don't we go ahead and do it. now you enter into the factor. there is what the cdc is trying to find out. they are down there to investigate this intensively. if those kind of procedures heightened greatly the risk of a health care worker getting a deadly disease that, has to at least be put on the table to consider that you might want to take a look at the things you don't want to do when someone is so far advanced that it's unlikely you will save them him there are obviously ethical considerations in there and i'm sure there will be getting

ethical consultation on that. >> doctor, they were trying to pull out all the stops they say to save his life. >> exactly. >> go ahead. >> it's a way that things often progress if hospitals. you know, we heard subsequently mr. duncan had what is known as a do not resuscitate order, which means do not apply electricity to the heart, things like. that i don't know how this fit into all that. yeah, the patient came in, you know, with an illness. they wanted to do everything they could to try to save him. >> let me play you the plea from the national nurse's association who say that nurses and health care heck woworkers are not get adequate protection. >> we are seeing care givers who are not adequately trained are being blameed.n we are hearing that they have not followed proper protocol when we have been asking our hospitals throughout the country to provide us with training that allows to /* us to ask the

questions with putting on the optimal level of personal protection equipment. >> sanjay, why aren't they getting the training they say they need? >> there is concerning, obviously. let me give you a little context. since 1976, there will be ebola outbreaks in africa. doctors without borders have been taking care of patients there, doctors, furss, up until this year, really, there had never been an infected transmission to these doctors. we know they were able to implement the protocols and i don't know maybe can i ask dr. fauci the same question. within i went to medical school, we learned infectious disease protocols. we hear about ebola. it's not respiratory. it's droplets protocol. what are we missing? that's a fairly straight forward thing, whether it's ebola or something else, what do you

think is happening? >> well, i think what is happening is that what the nurse pointed out, i had a back and forth with her last night on the air and it is an important point. you really need to get trained very, very well t. reason why doctors without borders have an extraordinarily positive track record is they get really good at it. the protocol, if you follow, it's been proven through doctors without borders that it works. the issue of breach of protocol. we got to be really careful that that word "brooch" doesn't imply that the nurses did something wrong. that i are amazingly courageous to do what they are doing t. british open in protocol is fine. they were not trained properly to immr. emt the protocol. >> right. >> we got to totally get away from that. >> it does sounds like they're blaming the victim. that's what the nurses are reacting to.

sanjay, i know you have another question. >> are we at the point. we are talking about moving patients to these centers around the country. is the a situation now where more specialists need to go to these other hospitals? do we need doctors without borders going to hospitals in the united states where ebola patients are arriving? >> dr. fauci. >> yes, sanjay, i think that is something to be put under serious consideration. you have to remember, we still feed to train people about what to do when someone goes to the emergency door, because people are not going to voluntarily pick out one of four or five hospitals to go to so the idea of ultimately getting them to a place that really knows how to take care of patients should be seriously considered. whether or not the logistics of moving -- >> why isn't this being done? it's here, why isn't the training happening today? >> well, let me finish and i'll explain. it is not easy to transport a patient so what i'm saying is

that every single hospital should be able to have the training to foe what to do when someone walks in the door wamt you ultimately do to take care of them over a week or two weeks should be serious consideration. the cdc is evaluating the intensity with what they are training. drft dr. frieden made it very clear they will intensify the training in several important ways as opposed to assuming that hospitals are going to be aggressive if training their staff. the cdc is going to be much more aggressive in proactively putting forth the principles of how they should be trained, specifically in what sang jay and others said putting on and taking off the pae assuming if they read something on a website they do it right.

>> that makes a lot of sense. thanks, for all the information. really helpful. >> breaking overnight they put the community on edge again. protests against the shooting deaths of unarmed teen michael brown and armed vonnderrit myers range from confrontations. early sunday morning, police in riot gear moved in at one point arresting 17 people staging a sit-in at a gas station. sarah, what's the latest? >> reporter: we are on the campus of st. louis university where will is a sit-in here. on this night, there were about a thousand to 1,500 people who marched lou the city of st. louis and they made it here to this particular area and decided they were going to stay overnight. most of the crowds have gone home. but it was a peaceful march and

there was a concerted effort by the protesters and by the protest leaders to make sure it stayed peaceful. yes, there were police out in riot gear. they did not come into contact. they came here and decided to stay here. this is all, though, because of an issue that people wanted to put forward to the american public. they say they are tired of police brutality. they are chanting things like black lives matter. they are here also because of what happened on august 9th to michael brown. there are witnesses saying michael brown had his hands up and that the police officer darren wilson shot him while he had his hands up. >> that has caused quite consternation here. it caused people to say something has to change. >> that is exactly what they're hoping to do. they're hoping to see a change in the relationship between the black community and the police

department. when it comes to the other young pan killed the 18-year-old, same as michael brown, vonnderrit myers. they say he had a gun and fired at them. there is this huge gulp of mistrust between the black community and the police department. that is what they say needs to be worked on and that's the story from here right now. we are expecting more protests into monday. there is another scheduled event in the morning. chris. >> sarah, the problem is obvious. the solution not so much. thank you for staying on it for us. >> isis, militants are said to control 80% of iraq's anbar province. general martin dempsey says apache hocks were needed to beat

back fighters from the baghdad airport. if syria, the town of kobani fear the border with turkey consumed calls to isis. so far, though, turkish troops have managed to stay them off. a fight, a second child has now died. this is little one pad lynn reed, 21 months old, died at children's hospital in detroit last week they confirmed a four-year-old boy died from the virus. it has sickened 700 people in 46 states. two new hampshire toddlers are hospitaled after the bounce house made them go airborne. it was swept away by wind. the two-year-old we are told is in critical condition. police say the bounce house was inflated to dry out following a rain storm not opened for use.

certainly our thoughts and prayers go to those families. breaking news, jean tirole won the nobel for economics. the professor at toulous in france. yeah, check this out work, it. the 14-year-old seizing the moment live in las vegas. going full out diva. working it, earning it. he has moves, to, talking a little of a pout, a throwback. pure gold. this apparently went down. one of the local stations was covering a brand-new shopping center in vegas. making eye contact. working it. it's fantastic. >> fabulous. >> there is a lot of that that goes on. >> can you make that happen? roll the cameras when that happens him a lot of pouting. >> he had a good head of hair and an interesting do.

>> i like it. >> but known e i don't know if i feel about it. >> think about it. you have two more hours. >> thank you very much. the concern of ebola extending to our pet. the nurse has a dog. so can pets spread the disease? we will get those answers. republicans piling on the criticism of the president's response to isis. a new tactic to sway mid-terms to be sure. what are they planning to do about the problem with isis? we have a political panel weighing in ahead. i'll tell you what i don't like.

as a nurse in dallas battles the ebola virus, authorities have discovered she has a dog. now on this one, they plan on keeping the dog alive. remember this comes a week after a dog with the ebola in spaven pictured there excaliber was put down. the question is, what's the right move? who reacted, under reacted? what's the real risk? joining us is david sanders. he has a quality fedora on, moving on from that, what is the bottom line real deal about pets

and this virus? >> so we know dogs can be infected but they don't seem to have the same symptoms that humans have. >> can they give it to the owner or someone else? >> okay. we don't foe that answer. so it wouldn't be transmitted the same way because they don't have the same symptoms. we know that most of the viruses that we know don't harm their natural hosts, but they can hop from those natural hosts to other org films there so have fruit bats given ebought la to humans? >> there are two possibilities, with sun there was a direct transmission. the other is there was an intermediary of a non-human prime eight and the virus entered in the humans in the bush meat trade.

>> you won't get much feedback on what you do to a fruit bat with ebola. a dog, we'll have serious sensitivity. what do we know what we can do with a dog with a virus? >> we know relatively little. we don't understand the course of the viral population. >> have you cured a dog with ebola? >> we haven't cured any organism. >> we allow. we have treatments and abilities to get huh pan beings through it. >> right. >> have we ever gotten a dog or an animal through it? >> the dog doesn't have moretality. >> it's not about the dogs dying or healing the dog. it's about deciding whether or not this dog is too great a risk to humans? >> that's correct. >> for it to continue to exist. >> that's correct. >> so what do you do? >> my opinion is observation, testing and quarantineing. >> if it has it. >> right.

>> now what? >> so that's a good question. that's a decision that health authorities need to make at the beginning. >> that i shouldn't say, well, we will keep it alive, hope for the best. that i have to make some sort of a decision. they would arc you it needs to be quarantined. >> why? if you can't rid it of the virus, what good does garn teening do? >> that's a good question. the type of virus of the ebola is an rna virus him rna viruses don't intend to persist. they are not likely to carry it the rest of their lives. >> it's not like a herpes situation. >> exactly right. >> herpes is a great example. it's a dfa virus. >> it occasionally manifests, can be passed on. ebola is not like that. >> right. >> saving the dog.

>> i can't make that judgment? they decided that the rick was there and they were concerned about it. again, it depends upon what sort of resources you want to put if upon toreing and quarantineing. >> any idea how long it lives in the dog or the host pet? >> we don't know those sorts of things. dogs haven't been extensively studied. >> is anybody here? >> not right now. one of the things we had to think about ebola, we don't know a lot in humans. we know more in humans tan we do if dogs. but the number of cases that we've had is really not that large in the scheme of things. >> we have all the big shots. dr. fauci from nih, frieden from cdc saying we know how you get ebola. we know how it is transmitted.

we know what the rick s. so calm down. you are saying we don't know? >> all of what you said is true. that itself what they're saying. we do know enough to know at this point that it's transz transmitted by bodily fluids him we have to come in close contact with the patient. that's what we do know now. again we have to think about these in a quantitative sense. how many cases are we talking about compared to how many cases of influenza? how many people die from that? >> it's important to be prepared? panicing? >> not to be inhumane. i mean that as a double entendre. when people find out they are at risk, for whatever reason, they will be very upset about it. so they're watching what happens with this dog. they want to foe. what do you do around pets? last word out. what do we do?

>> observation. again, if there is a case where a pet has been exposed to ebola. you need to pay attention. >> they will test this dog. it becomes this analysis how long does the virus stay in the animal? >> that's right and the nature of the quarantine. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. it's a grey area. we feed as much information as we can get. >> i agree. >> isis ebola. president obama has his hands full. how will these crises affect the mid-term elections? our political panel will tell us and ground zero of ebola and american troops are already there to help. hear why they say this is the most important fight of their lives. shopping online is as easy as it gets.

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treated thomaser rick duncan before he died last week. they are raising questions of when it was taped. the new posting, consistently talks about the beheading of david hanes, he makes for the reference to the beheading of another aide worker posted october 3rd. he does not mention things that happened last month meaning the recording was made more than a month ago. the remains of thousands of soldiers killed in the korean war are being moved. the u.s. suspended efforts to recover war remains to launch a long range rocket in 2012. some 18,000 u.s. service members are listed as missing from the korean conflict that lasted from 1950 to fine 53. over 150,000 people have been told to evacuate after a

downgraded typhoon vongfong slammed into japan. train service is disrupted. the storm system is dangerous. right now, it is headed towards tokyo. >> lifeguards had to rescue cliff jumpers. they got pulled into a cove there. the tree had to be hoisted by life garksdz putting them in jeopardy as well. one of those swimmers is said to be if shock. lifeguards say they jumped illegally, but they won't be cited because they aren't caught in the act. one almost drowned. really frightening moments there. putting rescuers at rick there. >> i think we have evidence they were pulled in. >> they didn't walk into this.

>> on to bigger wars. have you the obvious one, isis. then have you this one against ebola. it may not be u.s. spec right now. certainly what is going on overseas is big. at the center of both fights, robb with three weeks until mid-terms, republicans are all over him about the performance in both of these wars. the criminal, will it stick, will it matter? here with us to break it down. editor-in-chief of the daily beast and cnn political commentator. good to have you both here. let start with ebola. sham we? have you john mccain says we feed a czar, he says, to deal with the. do you think that's a good step? do you believe that there is any real point of criticism here, market hoover, we seem to have everybody running around? >> look, there are not a lot of places where a conservative is going to make the argument that

you should have a stronger role for the federal government t. role is to secure the citizenry, the pandemic outbreak or the possibility of panic becks for strong leadership. a clear line of authority and for persons to know, nurses to know what to do doctors, to know how to act. individual citizens to know how to handle this and it is handled. there is a clear argument for a buck stops here person. somebody who is going to be in charge, a clear line of authority that could become quite disastrous. the president has an opportunity to be the face of leadership in that. you remember the last election. chris christie and president obama were the face of handling sandy. anything that moves a crisis before the election the president can be the face of leadership. i think he has an opportunity here he may not be rising to.

>> so the person who would normally be in cardinal is the surgeon general. oh, we don't have a surgeon general right now even rotto president obama nominated someone a year ago it's been held up by the senate since march. republicans in the senate asking for a czar, it's a bizarre change, are actually blocking the appointment of the person that would be running the point. the administration is taking a. when you try to apply domestic picks, you look silly. >> it seems to be a little bit of a faked ploy. what happened in texas? they don't rotto what happened if texas. they know it's very dangerous to treat people with ebola. you have one case to be concerned. where is the panic? >> that's what they are doing by front running this issue, saying he is not doing it right?

>> i don't think people are playing president obama for two cases. all john pittsburgh cane is saying is you need a clear line nobody is brahaming the president for ebola in dallas. you feed somebody in charge. who is if charge? we know the surgeon general is a policy prescription, not the prescriptive on the ground position. the hhsing is or somebody else. everybody needs to know who is in charge. >> fair enough. you are starting to see candidates lay the ebola card. you saw scott brown mentioned it up in new hampshire. it's let's be honest an attempt to create a drum beat. things are going to hell in a hand basket. putting republicans in cardinal. >> that would make a lot of sense, republicans control

congress. >> let's see a sound byte in which he talked about the president's leadership style and said he is too insulated by his advisers. listen to this. >> i always think it's a good idea to bring few life into the white house. the problem is the white house is as you mentioned is eegslation him you isolate the president from a broad range of views and i understand this has developed over the years, more concentration of power in the staff of the white house. as a result the president doesn't get exposed to a broad range of views he needs in order to make the decision. >> john, is the president disconnected? >> this is a perennial problem. you do want different voices in there. that's why there are usually shakeups every two, two.5 years in the white house. panetta has enormous credibility. i think you want to bring in

period who whether shake up the status quo. >> how do you get people on the way out. it's a lame duck session. they won't be able get those nice jobs. >> you should be motivated by service. >> the criticism is that his insular team, his inner circle hasn't changed. that's who he is getting advice from. i find it very rich criticism because this was the chief criticism he had of president bush. sure enough, it is a problem of the office, not of the individual and it sort of goes to show that no president is isolated from that. >> let's talk about these gubernatorial race, wendy davis is running for governor. she put out an ad that has become very controversial. let's show you what he is saying

about her opponents. >> a tree fell on greg abbott. he sued, got millions. since then, he spent his career working against other victims. a woman's leg was amputated, shelves not disabled. she had an artificial limb. >> you are winceing. >> wendy davis is a desperate candidate. she is nine points behind by all of the polls, so she's, this is a sort of beg, feels like a low blow. >> he is disabled. he's in a wheelchair. >> i think texans foe. that it's a low blow. she's trying to point out a supposed hypocrisy. my husbanded always said hip progress chr hypocrisy is the unspoken sin if

politics. >> i can't believe you said that. >> i can't believe why anyone who won't admit it in the spoils of war. >> is this motivation for public service? >> this is definitely a cheap shot if a republican ran this ad, democrats would be all enflamed about this. the only layer is trying to future out hypocrisy. this is an ugly, definitely defeating way to get at it. they ma have had a different record if their personal life. that's worth honeing in on. in that wheelchair, it causes more problems than it solves. we got a lot of great races three weeks out. real tight this year. >> so what will happen? >> it's the last gridlock. nobody thinks the ed coral page is centered right by any means.

they said if you look at history, more will get done because the senate is a moderating force and it won't create this log jam in the congress i think we will see things done by congress. can you laugh all you want. >> i am i like the optimism. >> that's an impressive spin designed to appeal to independents. i appreciate it. giving control to both sides of congress. >> they are motivated by public service. >> boy, i'll tell you. that's an oasis. i'll tell you that right now. >> one thing, you do have to remember, though, negative ads are done for a reason. they work, better than anything else in a campaign. that's an unfortunate reality. they happen every time. they keep hang because they're effective. >> margaret, john, thank you.

>> and the other war, you have politics, fighting ebola in the middle of the hot zone. american military personnel aren't figuring out what to do with isis. they are taking this fight personally. coming up, you want to hear them. they are impressive guys. >> city police are smoke bombing a suspect. how safe is the terror target? new developments ahead.

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surgeon and admiral iverson. he is with the u.s. public health service. gentleman, thank you very much more joining us today. we know you are somewhere that you believe is the utmost importance. colonel zarnic. what is the current state of play down there, how much progress has been made. what have you learned in terms of unanticipated obstacles. take us through it. >> we have built a tremendous momentum right now since we were on the ground. a little over 30 days. we started with a small group. what we started to put into play was the building of these 17 ebola treatment units t. building of the life support systems if you will. coast guard folks will be coming after us, dropping the mission here.

so as you start out, there is a lot of unknowns. now after 30 days, we feel we have the momentum feed to pursue this mission. >> it's good to hear. admiral, there is word they may strike as early as today. what does that mean in terms of how you can train up people to deal with this and the chance that you may have to have your men get involved in duty that you did not anticipate? >> well, the point we want to focus on, as the colonel mentioned, we are building our capacity here. one of our focus is to provide a facility to take care of healthcare workers. so when they are taking care of their liberian nationals, they feel comfortable they will be treated if, in fact, they happen to get infected. so the same for international health care workers. really the focus of our specific hospital is to create that

environment so that people feel safe and secure and we will have a chance to take care of them, high level care is there the concern is obvious. we want to make sure our fighting men and women are safe. nobody understands completely how this virus gets from one place to the other regardless of the science and that's the big concern, right, how do you keep the u.s. troops out of harm's way? is there any anticipation for what you have to do if a mission changes and you need to get closer to those who are infected? >> so, chris, i will tell you that the focus of our secretary of defense and our chairman and our u.s. government, quite frankly is clear that right now we will not be doing direct treatment, but we will be training not only liberian national health care workers and others to work, but the international community that comes in. we are seeing that nation build.

if such a change comes down, we will take our orders from the top and we'll respond, but right now, i don't see that happening. >> tell us what you see on the ground and why you know you need to be there. >> chris, i'm passionate about the battle and it's a fight. because this enemy knows who borders. it does not discriminate based on gender, ethnic background, based on religion and it movers at the speed of transportation. you can not sit on the side lines and watch the develop. there is no nation that is immune. so i would ask people to think about action. this is about loving your fellow man and love is a verb. >> that means you act.

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it was a breach in protocol. that breach in protocol resulted in this infection. >> fighting the for her life. new detail as on the dallas nurse battling ebola, the first person to contract the disease inside america. how did she get it, and are there other health care workers at risk? we have the very latest. isis closing in on iraq's capital. now miles from the airport, is the city at risk of falling to the terror group? millions still inside the embassy. the anchors of cnn are going way back to where it began for their families. this morning, my own personal journey to find my root, people

met, and discoveries i made that changed me forever. >> your "new day" continues right now. good morning. welcome to "new day." it is monday, october 18, 8:00 in the east. allison cammerota by my side. great to see you. >> can't wait to see michaela. >> you know it will be great. the news about ebola took a disturbing turn. a dallas nurse is first to become infected by the deadly virus in the united states. health officials are scrambling to figure out how this this happened. >> a harvard medical center evacuated and shut down hours sunday after a man who had been to liberia walked in feeling sick. delays in travel disruptions at

los angeles airport after a passenger with flu-like symptomss cause sod much distress the if fire department had to be called in. our coverage of the ebola crisis begins in dallas with senior correspondent elizabeth cohen. what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning allison. this hospital worried about one of their own, a nurse that contract add ebola taking care of thomas eric duncan. how did she become infected wearing full protective gear? this morning hazmat crews continue to decontaminate the apartment of the first person to have ebola in the u.s. a nurse tested positive for ebola after she had contact with duncan. the cdc says the nurse was wearing protective gear, gowns,

gloves, mask. the result could have happened when she took the gear off. >> the care of ebola can be done safely, but it's hard to do it safely. >> cdc says two procedures performed on duncan at the end of his life to help his breathe and kidney dialysis were unusual putting health care workers at high risk of exposure to his bodily fluids. >> i'm not sure of any patient who's undergone dialysis or intu bags. >> we're hearing they have not followed proper protocol when we have been asking hospitals throughout the country to provide us with training. >> this as another possible ebola patient who recently traveled to liberia is isolated in a boston hospital complaining of aches and headaches. the medical center treating the man is a waiting his results. the spokesman says the chances he has ebola are extremely low.

meanwhile, more scares over the weekend. on sunday, a female passenger who recently travelled to africa became ill on a united airlines flight from new york to los angeles. ebola was quickly ruled out. >> the cdc says they're reviewing whether it was appropriate to give duncan dialysis and intubate him. i'm told by doctors there was a tiny chance those procedures would have helped duncan at the end of his life but a high chance of making workers sick. alisyn, chris? >> so many important questions. >> i understand the urgency of the nurses and the treatment they're getting. they are the first responders on the front lines. let's get more perspective now. let's bring in dr. coop at that and pete sessions, republican from texas. his district includes the hospital treating the nurse with ebola and the gentleman that died last week.

you are not a guest doctor. way in and help us. congressman to set the context of what's going on what are we trying to do? we're trying to balance what we need to do and people need to do to keep public safe with the panic rising in the east with something that can kill you. the nurse got it. we have to figure out how. the community is told don't worry about it. they see people in moon suits taking her garbage. they're getting 911 calls like this. can you play the phone call? >> so, congressman, when do we get calls like that from government? when it is time to panic.

that's when you get them. you get told evacuate. there's a bad person in your area. that message is going to scare people. you know that. what is your message to them? >> well our message back to them is first of all that they're doing the right thing by listening to the media. i believe in listening to officials who talk about what we're dealing with. the bottom line is this goes back to a number of instances where people were told don't worry, everything is okay. protocol is followed. now several days later we learn even following protocol as best we know is not working. last friday chairman mccall from the homeland security committee of the house had a hearing in dallas and talked about to some 13,000 visas that sit in people's hands in africa who could come visit the united states. we're once again asking the administration to re-establish a

viewpoint about stopping these flights to the united states to give dallas, texas and other communities a chance to catch up and work through this difficult problem. dallas, texas is reeling from this problem. our schools, hospitals, businesses, our churches. we need a little reprieve. >> what do you think about that? on the plus minus side, the negative is you don't want to see phobia. you're not dealing with a lot of people. what do you think about restrictions? >> there's no question there's been growing movement about that. i think two of the big concerns, and i'm curious what congressman sessions thinks about this. it's difficult to get humanitarian aid in. airplanes of people come in. they can't leave. you're going to have people not bringing in aid possibly. the larger thing, if people can't leave the country by air and people are sick, what are they going to do? they're going to leave by land and go to other countries by

land. they're going to be harder to trace, contact trace which we know is the tried and true way of stemming an outbreak. they're also not going to get care. you could potentially treat symptoms in places like dallas. treating the root cause becomes harder. that's a what you hear from disease experts. how would you address concerns? >> you said we should move sick people to the united states of america and a lou them to have air travel. that is silly on the surface. we should isolate people who are sick or who might be sick and then is escape rate th-- then separate them out. we have 4,000 members of military who are there. that needs to be handled where it is in africa to give them confidence that they're going to deal effectively with this. to say we would move sick people out of the area to the united states simply infects many more

people. >> i think his point is -- obviously you weigh in and tell me if i'm wrong -- it's not saying you're going to move them to the u.s. they're looking to get out of the area where people are are sick. if you restrict them, they're going to find another way to get out. then you spread the disease in places that can't handle it. do you understand that preoccupation? >> no, i don't. i think what they should do is take people, keep them there, work with them as best as possible. to simply -- you spread it around as you move them. there are so many people who are innocent in this environment and will not come down with the disease. it's causing fear and spreading panic. if this were measles, i can't imagine we would do the same thing the doctor is suggesting to move people out to other areas. >> let me clarify. >> we need to come up with a circumstance where they can be effectively handled and screened

and put into place they can have a chance also for their own life. >> congressman, just to be clear, that is not what i'm suggesting. i hope anybody is not suggesting sick patients start getting on commercial flights and travel ago around. that obviously is silly not at all what i said. the notion is of mr. duncan, someone who may have been exposed had a known exposure, not yet sick. looks around them and sees people dying in hospital parking lots in liberia and says i don't have a chance if i stay in this country. i've been exposed. i'm not yet sick. if i get sick is, this is not going to work for me here. if it were you or anybody, that person may consider, look, i need to get out of the country. if you ban airline flights, they'll start leaving by land. they may be more difficult to contact and treat. that's the scenario. >> let's be clear back. the united states government should have a plane for united

states citizens not 13,000 people with visas to want to come visit. my job -- i'm a member of congress from dallas, texas and the united states of america. my job is to speak for and help protect americans. through this process, we have offering humanitarian aid. the congress is aware of that. the administration has done that. we need to still protect american citizens. if american citizens need to come back, then we should find a way to get them back or to house them in an area where they could be safe. >> go ahead doc. button this up. so those people can't come to the united states. they go to another country like africa or istanbul. are you going to prevent anyone who's been to other countries around the world not to come to the united states? you're not going to allow those people to come in anywhere?

with incubation period of 21 days, those people could be around the world. >> i do realize that. i believe people should isolate these areas. it has grown the way it has because of people traveling. that is what we're trying to deal with. doctor, i think the world of you. i think you're smart and with it. what i'm trying to suggest to to you is that you would not aid and a bet this terrible disease simply allowing people to come to the united states. i will tell you, i think you're smart, i think you're on with it. i am worried about people moving. it goes to isolating people not allowing them to travel. >> you good to leave it there doc? >> look, i appreciate those comments congressman. this is obviously a challenging situation. i just think the idea -- we don't want to be short sided. i don't know you don't want to be either. >> nor am i. >> with people around the world

with ebola virus in their systems, the idea of not doing anything to reduce the impact in west africa itself, to treat the actual root cause of this disease i think could be potentially very problematic. i don't know for sure. i think some is a bit subjective. we're dealing with some of this for the first time. anything that might decrease the impact in west africa could affect the whole world in ways we haven't yet imagined. >> i think it can too but not through travel. >> congress man sessions, thank you for joining us and having a reasonable discussion. we'll check back with you. much closer to home in dallas, you've got to figure out what's going on at the hospital and make sure protocols are in place so moving forward they can protect the first responders and nurses. doctor, thank you for always helping me. . look at this enormous explosion in kobani this

morning. this appears to come from a coalition air strike. despite air strikes, isis continues to advance in syria and iraq. they may control kobani and iraq's province. the joint chief chairman says isis came within 15 miles of baghdad's airport. u.s. insists the capital is not in danger of falling. turkey says it will let the u.s. use the military bases to fight isis. let's get to barbara starr live at the pentagon. great to see you again. what does the pentagon say about isis being so close to baghdad and airport? >> good morning alisyn. the pentagon says the airport is not about to fall to isis. that could be difficult for isis. there's plenty of worry about the airport on the western side of baghdad. today, another iraqi military base has fall ten to isis.

isis now has a huge area of land west of the city. do they want to take the capital? many people say no. this is a shia dominated capital, not sympathetic to isis. they're not going to take on such a challenge. they may not have to. they're continuing to bureau into the province to seize and control territory. no real reason to have to take the capital. they can stage bombing attacks, suicide attacks in and out of baghdad. the big concern goes back to the airport with more than 1,000 u.s. military and diplomatic person personnel in baghdad. there's no way out for them if this went sideways but the airport. the chairman of the joint chief says the u.s. will not let the airport fall. >> thanks so much for the update this morning. let's get over to michaela for more headlines. >> good morning.

it's 8:15. let's give you headlines mow. frustration boiling over in st. louis as part of the weekend of resistance to protest the shooting death of unarmed brown and meyers. police arrested 17 people staging a sit-in at a gas station. the mostly peaceful demonstration comes with a series of actions today. we'll keep an eye on that. supporters of same sex marriage celebrating a legal victory. a federal judge striking down alaska's ban on gay marriage, the country's first passed by voters in 1998. officials will begin accepting marriage applications from same sex couples first thing today. the state does plan to appeal that judge's ruling. new details about a hayride that took a frightening turn in maine. 17-year-old chasity was killed when a hay wagon pulled by a jeep lost control slamming into a tree sunday.

a 16-year-old and 54-year-old who was the driver are recovering in the hospital. 22 other people were injured but expected to be okay. after that, you'll need a story to warm your heart. an iraq war veteran's mustang restored by a group of strangers. foster had been slowly paying to have that car fixed up. he bought it in 2005 following his i first tour of duty in iraq. a texas couple heard his story and said we want to do something. they got friends together and all pitched in to have that beauty restored to mint condition. you know a way to a man's heart, through his car. look at. that how beautiful. a group of people he didn't even know. >> that's great. >> such a nice story. the kindness of strangers. impressive. >> i know you even love it. >> for the people that deserve it most. i'm such a car guy. to me the car is the least of

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. how about more than a billion people who don't -- >> wait a second. wait a second. >> okay. wait a second. >> you are painting a whole religion. >> let's get down to who has the right answer here. a billion people you say. all these billion people don't hold -- don't hold these beliefs. >> they don't. >> that's not true ben. >> that was just part of the

heated exchange between bill mar and ben affleck about radical islam with muslims. that sparked more than a million hits on youtube. our next guest and i got into our own exchange when i asked about bill mar's thoughts on muslim countries and treatment of women. here is just one moment. >> did you hear what you just said? you said in muslim countries. i told you in indonesia women are 100% equal to men. in turkey, they have had more female representatives and heads of state than the united states. stop saying things like -- >> women are still being stoned to death. >> that's a problem for pakistan. let's criticize pakistan. >> well he is back now to continue our conversation. he is a professor at the university of california river side and author of "life and times of jesus of n."

>> we're about to have a cool headed conversation about this hot topic. i want to start by saying i totally take your point that generalizations of this topic are to be avoided. you're about about that. why beyond the generalizations made do you think this topic has struck such a cord in this country? >> look, when talking about religion, we're talking about something people are deeply passionate about. it's not just things they believe or rituals they practice. it's who they are as human beings. some feel their sense of identity is under fire. this is my life. i'm used to passionate and an ri responses. i'm sorry for you to have waded into this and sorry for extreme

negativity that's come your way. the fact of the matter is this is a very important topic. religion is on the rise around the world, on the rise in the united states. majority of americans want more religion in public life. if we can't figure out a calm way of talking about this, we're all in big trouble. >> i really appreciate you saying that. there was a lot after our exchange online. it was almost as if people sort of resorted to personal attacks. they weren't elevating the the discussion i can assure you. it was almost as if they didn't want questions being asked. even asking the question felt wrong to people. it's as though they're trying to stifle the discussion. that's the opposite of what should be happening. >> yes. well the thing about belief systems and by the way, this is true whether you're in religion or atheist.

people grip on to belief systems for dear life. anything that seems to attack those belief systems or question them become a real attack on the very sense of self of the person. those reactions are very, very passionate. but the danger for this is that there are real serious issues about religion and extremism around the world not just islam. buddhism, judaism and this goes back to the beginning of religion itself. the real issue here is how do people of faith and people without faith come together, put a side differences and figure out how to actually do something about these grave human rights violations taking place across the world in the the name of religion? >> absolutely. do you think there's something particular about islam that makes it a more heated topic than the other religions of

buddhism and christianity that you talked about. for instance, let me read for you what was written about on this very topic on cnn.com. he says i know the arguments against speaking of islam as violent and reaction their. it has a following of 1.6 billion people. places such as indonesia and india have hundreds of millions of muslims that don't fit these caricatures. islam has a problem today. the places that have a trouble accommodating themselves to the modern world are disproportionately muslim what do you think? >> he is absolutely right. the key thing is the word today. what he talks about is over the last 1400 years of islamic history -- it's been over the last 50 to 60 years we've seen the rise of this radical extremist strain that a has really taken over like a virus large part of the muslim world, particularly within the middle east.

he's absolutely right. right now we're seeing that a particular region of the world, the middle east which is dealing with profound political replijorepli religious, economic accountability has grabbed this saudi inspired version of islam as an answer to all of society's ills. now the really important thing he says there is that this is an small group. it can't be used to make generalizations about lived experience of 1.6 billion people. the danger -- this is something i preach against. too many muslims, because they see this radicalism, extremism so foreign, unlike anything they themselves practice, they are too willing to say this isn't islam. let's change the subject, stop talking about this. this has nothing to do with us. that's not true. fact of the matter is isis is islamic for the simple fact they

call themselves islamic. but at the same time, people that isis kill are muslim. people fighting against isis are muslim. the islamic identity of isis is important in dealing with isis but it doesn't tell us that much about islam itself as a global religion. >> i know you said that it's best to avoid generalizations but he does get into numbers. i want to get your reaction to this. he writes in 2013, the top ten groups that perpetratored terrorists attacks, seven were muslim. the pew research system rates people. of 21 countries that have laws against a postsay have muslim majorities. help us understand. we want to avoid genteralizing

why those sound like a connection. >> what we're talking about is undeveloped countries primarily, countries where there are profound social, political, religious and economic instability. all that created a situation of great repression. now, again, that's not unique to islam. if you have 19 out of 21 muslim countries that have for instance shar i can't on the books, of 19 countries, very few actually implement sharia itself. for most countries it's symbolic. 15 countries for instance have stoning as punishment for adultery the in their books. only three countries have there been stonings. even in those three, iran, somalia and pakistan, in iran, there's a moratorium on it. nevertheless because there's lip service to these kind of is seventh century punishments

within the penal code, you have regional groups, far remove ed from the government itself, that enact these kinds of laws. the real issue isn't a matter of beliefs. it's a matter of actions. what we have to do is actually condemn actions. figure out where in the world these horrific human rights abuses are taking place and actually do something about it. what's fascinating here where we're lost in the debate is people at the forefront of trying to do something about these grave human rights abuses are muslims themselves. really the great fallacy here is that liberals aren't speaking out against a crimes in the name of islam. muslims are not -- that's just simply not true. it's femininists and activists and progressives particularly within the muslim community and outside the community at the forefront of pushing back against these kinds of human rights aabuses. the problem is their voices aren't amp fied.

they themselves are not empowered. they are the majority but their voices are not the loudest. what we need to do as a media group is empower voices so that they become the loudest voices, not the voices of extremism. >> great suggestions. focus on actions, focus on individual countries. don't use a broad brush stroke to paint all muslim countries. great talking to you. i'm glad that we've had this very cool headed discussion. it's always great to get your perspective. >> let's keep hit going. listen, as a scholar of religions, i am thrilled that we are having this conversation. this is the conversation that usually i have with my students. this is an important conversation. religion is not going away people. we have to talk about it. >> good message. >> let's talk in a calm, calm way. >> great to see you. thanks so must have. >> thanks alisyn. >> chris? >> tone matters.

why do we have the mar and affleck thing? because how heated it got. that's what it was. nobody know what is either side was saying. tone matters. until you can have conversations like this all the time, you're going to have people holding firm positions that don't make sense on both sides. thank you for that alisyn. nicely done. another question for you this morning, how long will oscar pistorius spend in prison? he could spend no time in prison. it's not likely, but we're still to find out. the blade runner will soon learn his fate for killing girlfriend reeva steenkamp. we have a live report coming up. stay with us and take a trip with michaela. she's going to learn about her history. she travelled to jamaica. you'll never believe what she found out about her ancestors. it's part of the cnn root series. i can't wait. come back with us. h frog protec? yeah, we help with fraud protection.

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oscar pistorius' sentencing hearing has adjourned for the day. it got underway this morning. the decision rests with the same judge who rendered the verdict. last month she said he was guilty of cup pabl homicide. that's united states equivalent of united states manslaughter. robin has been all over this trial from the beginning. she's back there moderating for us. it ended, no big surprise there. where do we stand in the process? >> reporter: well, supposedly

one step closer to knowing his fate. no clear idea of where this is going. we know of course oscar pistorius will be punished for his actions for killing his girlfriend. one of the options for the judge, she's got a lot to choose from. a prison official coming into court today saying he recommends oscar pistorius has three years of house arrest and community service. on hearing that, the state said that is shockingly inappropriate. that of course illegally gives them indication they will appeal. where is this all going to go? will it be enough for reeva steenka steenkamp's family? all these arguments in mitigation. the sentence will take up the mantle and start arguing his sentence. there's a lot more argument based on character, not really based on fact or law. >> although it does seem given a duration it's like a second trial. we'll keep watching it tomorrow.

thanks for being on it for us. talk about a trip of a lifetime. a long time in the making. come with me as a travel to jamaica. i learn about and fall in love with the place of my ancestors. you're driving along,

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. i'm wide a wake now. going to turn now to a series, a special week long series that's been a year in the making for me. more so like 40 years in the making. roots, our journeys home is a special project. 13 anchors and hosts set out to discover where they're from and who they are. i recently got to go to jamaica to see a place my ancestors came from, st. james parish. >> my adoption journey began when i was young. i was 3-month-olds old when i was adopted by doug and ansly, mom and dad. you took one look at my family and knew there was something here that was a little different. i was the only black kid or part black kid or brown kid anywhere.

in canada, i had to go through the government if i wanted to search for my birth family. they connected with my birth mother's family. she was a wonderful woman that i didn't get to meet. i missed her by about a year. she lost a very brave battle with cancer. if i had found her when i started looking, she would have been in the throws of that period in her life. it would have been very difficult for her. but the fact is, all of what you see in front of you, the color of my skin, curl of my hair comes from my birth father's side. i don't know anything about him. a door has been shut to me that way. i'm not going to force it open. beyond the fact of what it said on this piece of paper that my birth father's family was from jamaica.

that's all i know. i'm starting the search again about my heritage. this time it all start ways dna test. >> you gave us a sample. we have found a second cousin, two third cousins, and is multiple fourth cousins of yours. is that sinking in? i can tell you now that is on your father's side. it does go back to jamaica. >> okay. >> we've got the name of the town, pictures of your an ses s tors. >> because the todoors to my bih father closed to me, i chose to visit the place instead of contacting cousins. my dna results pointing to

montego bay. >> i could not be happier. most importantly the people. >> i felt there was no way you could come to jamaica and not get one of scarves. >> can did you worry about me being in new york in the winter and freezing. i wanted to soak up as much as i could to truly learn what it means to be jamaican. it seemed no matter where we were on the island, for every moment there's a song. ♪ ♪ >> our first stop montego bay fisherman village. >> i guess we're ready to go fishing. knowing i'm part jamaican, i

wanted to experience how some people here in the bay make their living. meet deven gray, my tour guide for the morning, also chairman for the mo bay fisherman society. okay. wish me luck. if you're way out there, you can't see land? >> no you can't see land way out there. most of us know our way back in. >> look at the size of those claws. >> that's a king crab. >> that's a good looking crab mon. captain overboard. for these men, it's more than just a fishing collective, it's a family. come here. what do you got in there?

look at that. not a good cash last night. that's okay. every day is a new day, right? bye. this first leg of my journey already such a warm welcome. >> beautiful day too. of course beautiful jamaica lady returning home. >> now to really get a sense of life here, i wanted to spend time with a jamaican family in their home. >> hello. hi. you must be linda. are linda and peter who we met through a friend graciously welcomed me and quickly put me to work. i can shimy and shake and saute. that smells to good. salt fish. okay. the whole thing? >> put the whole thing in there and mix it up. >> great job chef. >> i'm exhausted.

what a beautiful, beautiful blessing. i learn sod mump about family, food, culture here at the dinner table. peter and linda and their family were quick to make me feel at home. >> is jamaica what you expected it to be? >> it's been even more. i didn't know just how friendly jamaicans were. i can't stop smiling since i've been here. literally every person we talk to says welcome home. >> we're a typical jamaican family. we work hard. we're very industrious. the joke we tend to have many jobs? that's very true. we're a small nation, but we are great people. we're big people.

>> in my new home away from home, there's rarely a moment of silence. reggae is in jamaican's bones. the anthem that made this country famous is on constant replay. this is the village where we'll meet them and learn how they molded the country into a country of one love. hello. are you going to take me across the river? >> definitely. >> all right. let's go. hold on to a brother. >> hold on to a brother. >> welcome. >> thank you. >> jamaica's motto is out of many one people. jamaica was never really meant to be a country in the state it is now. japanese, indians, chinese, germans, all over europe, they all come together and make this

place. >> the music, a reminder of their roots. today the big base drum represents our history. with the pulse of jamaica now in my soul, i'm headed to the heart of my journey. >> today we're on the way to cambridge. we believe that some of my ancestors come from this area of cambridge. this little church on the hill, my ancestor's place of worship. for some, their final resting place. there's the potential ancestors of mine are buried here. it's startling and amazing and wonderful. are you from cambridge? he lives across the street from the church. you remember walking up these stairs? >> i was a choir boy.

>> you were a choir boy at this church? do you feel a sense of pride coming back here? >> yeah. >> oh my goodness. look at the view. we walked afterno eed around th stair at the very spot my ancestors used to pray every sunday. >> man, if these walls could talk. after mr. griffith left, i took a moment in the church by myself. >> i remember saying i would love to find some context for that other side of me that i don't know anything about. this feels as if this is it. this is great. i look at faces a little longer. i try to imagine if they see something in me that is familiar. to think that maybe somebody that was connected to me stood in this very church. that's really powerful.

kind of magical really. well it has been four wonderful and warm days. it feels i'm not done yet. i experienced first hand what people feel it is to be jamaican. there's a great sense of pride in people here. there's a great sense of joy in the people here. they love music. they love to dance. i can't tell you how many times people spontaneously broke out in song. it was the most generous gift somebody could give me. every person that heard my story and understood i was a child looking for connection, every single person said welcome home. it was amazing and unforgettable. it was like -- it was like

coming home. >> thank you cnn for giving me that gift. >> wow. it's really -- >> let it be said my parents have been holding my hand through this thing, so magical and supportive. they understood the importance of finding ones roots is a nagging question for adopted kids. i feel grateful to cnn they let me do it on the company dime. >> when you were there, were you tempted to try to find your biological father's family? >> every once in a while. i didn't want to do it this way. i wanted to do it quietly when i'm at peace with my parent's arms wrapped around me. i don't want to do it this way. i start aid seared a search and was closed. i started with my birth sister.

i feel i hit the lottery once. if the door was closed, it might not be for me to throw my shoulder into hit and force it open. >> it was powerful to watch you go through this process of discovery. >> i brought you stuff. >> what? >> i did. here's the deal. you, my man. >> hurray. >> so jamaica is always with you, there's a key chain to put your keys on. my girl, i brought this for you. you couldn't be jamaican. i wanted you to feel like a jamaican. i love it. >> i need it in the studio. >> for baby cecilia, i got a onesie for her. this is on the way. she's going to need to grow a little bit. i brought little things. you've got to wait and see what i brought jb. you'll see that tomorrow. >> they make a lot of other stuff in jamaica. >> i consumed a rum version.

so many stories to tell. this will air all week on cnn. anderson learns about his father's history. that's at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow we look at chris's roots from italy. you can see behind the scenes from my journey and others. see the photography from behind the scenes when we weren't necessarily on camera. it's all so compelling. can't wait to see yours. >> always good to learn more about yourself. mick is a very special person. you have to remember, we are all how we get here. you know what i mean? her parents are amazing people. not just because they adopted kids. that's the least of it. they're so special. everything that's gone into you has made you one of the best people. >> the fact they walk add with me through it is important. this is a collective. and you guys too, thank you. thanks for letting me share.

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