"outfront" tonight, breaking news, the dallas nurse with ebola, a friend telling me she wore a full hazmat suit while treating thomas eric duncan so how did she contact ebola? the cdc still doesn't know. and plus officials say as million as 76 healthcare workers came into contact with duncan. and from my family's farm in maryland to a scottish island, in search of my roots. let's go "outfront," tonight. good evening, i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, breaking news. 76 more health care workers in dallas are being monitored for ebola. the cdc said that is the stunning number of people who may have come into contact with ebola patient thomas eric duncan. we are learning new details about the dallas nurse nina pham

infected with ebola. tonight her friend tells "outfront" that pham was wearing a full hazmat suit when treating duncan. that was significant. she could have just been wearing a simple gown and gloves. no, her friend tells us she was wearing the full hazmat suit and that comes into question how she came down with ebola and the cdc says they could have done more to prevent nina pham from getting sick. >> i thought often about it. i wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the patient -- the first patient was diagnosed. that might have prevented this infection. >> well that might have prevented the infection and it didn't. and nina pham fighting for her life and new pictures of her dog tonight, her dog possibly infected with ebola, his name is bently. she loves that dog. he has been moved to a safe

place with a home-like environment. and we'll have more on that and pets with ebola. but we begin with victor blackwell who was in dallas tonight. and the big question, how is nina pham doing right now? >> reporter: well in one word, better. the update from the hospital here, that her condition has been upgraded from stable to good. now we're getting that good news as we hear from the cdc that the initial response to thomas eric duncan was not nearly robust enough. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> reporter: a huge admission from the director of the cdc. >> in retrospect with 20/20 hindsight, we could have sent a more robust hospital control team. >> reporter: dr. frieden said he regrets not doing more after thomas eric duncan was diagnosed with ebola and more response would have prevented the spread of the disease. and now they are hoping to contain the virus by sending a special response team to dallas. >> people that are leading the

experts in the world in everything from laboratory science to infection control, to hospital administration and we're working hand and glove. >> reporter: and for the first time hearing from nina pham, the nurse who contracted the disease while treating duncan. in a statement released by the hospital, pham said, i'm doing well and i want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers. i'm blessed by the support of family and friends and to be cared for by the best team of doctors and nurses in the world here at texas health presbyterian in dallas. now doctors say the 26-year-old nurse was wearing full protective gear. >> we pray for her and for her family, for the growing faith. >> this man leads the parish in nearby ft. worth and her family has attended mass there for more than a decade. he has been in constant contact

with her mother. >> when i talked to the family and my thinking is that they are doing well. they feel okay. the reason is first that they believe in god, and they trust that that is god's providence. they can talk via skype and phone. so they know for sure that of what happens with one another and i think nina and her mom are doing well. >> reporter: with a sibling in california and another in san antonio, pham lives closer to her home. she graduated from the college of nursing at nearby texas christian university and a member of the sigma cappa sorority. hours after the release of her name. they released a statement saying tcu has no reason to believe this alum has been on campus at this time and to keep her in their thoughts and prarss. cdc is trying to determine when

pham was exposed to the virus. father jim wants to know when she is coming home. >> we pray that they'll let her be healed soon and we can see her again. >> reporter: and erin, the fear of ebola spreading in this area is real. anecdotally father jim said there are members of his congregation who said they are afraid when pham's mother returns to the church they will be exposed and also said there was a party scheduled in the mully purpose room there and that -- the multi purpose room and that family has canceled because they don't want to be expose the to ebola either. >> thank you very much, victor. and i want to bring in a close friend and former colleague of nina pham, jennifer joseph. and thank you for being with us tonight. you've been speaking with your friend and you spoke with her today. what did she say? how is she doing? >> yes, ma'am, thank you for having me. nina is in good spirits. she's doing well. we've been trying to communicate

via face time and texting each other and she just wished me luck for this because preemptively i want to say i've talked to her thoroughly about talking and doing this interview so i had an opportunity to chat with her about this and the last thing i said to her is i can't wait until day 22 and she said, me too. >> she is very passionate about her work and i know you were telling us that nina was thomas eric duncan's primary nurse. you know her so well. did she express any hesitation or any fear? it must have been a shocking and scary thing to be told, you are 26 years old and you are caring for the first person to come into the hospital with ebola in the united states? >> it was very shocking for all of us. but she is extremely passionate about her work. she has a great support system and a great group of team members and nurses and physicians who are supporting her and backing her up through every step of the way. it was a shock to realize this

is the first patient in the country that she'll be taking care of. and she did her absolute best as she always does. and i had full confidence in her she was able to take care of this patient to the best of her abilities. she is very experienced and skilled nurse. she just got her five-year reward for being a nurse at the hospital and having the experience that she does. she also recently passed a grueling strenuous exam about validating her practice in a critical care setting. so she did have the experience to back up her being able to take care of this patient. she wasn't randomly assigned to take care of mr. duncan, she was sought out and chosen to have this specific role. >> and it does say a lot about her and raises so many questions about what could have gone so wrong. and the big question people have is what sort of protective gear was she wearing? i was looking at the cdc and it was just gloves and a grown.

that is one option. the other option is a full hazmat suit. do you know which it might have been? >> during her care she was wearing the hazmat suit. i wasn't there so i can't comment as far as how far -- what else was going on and stuff like that. so all i can say that i do know she was wearing the hazmat suit, that is prefer cdc recommendation. >> when you say she was wearing the full suit, that is the safest possible thing. it wasn't as if she was just wearing a gown and something might have gotten through the gown. >> right. >> that is pretty frightening for people to hear? >> right. you're right, erin. and i know for a fact nina is somebody who never shies away from safety. we have a entire department on infection control in the hospital and briefed almost monthly on infection control and keep up our skills to make sure we are keeping ourself and others safe. so as far as how this happened, we're still looking into the investigation. but i know that nina, being

someone who has trained me and someone who i learned from, she was always very pro-active with hand hygiene and infection control and i have full confidence in her and her abilities. >> the other question i have, jennifer, nina was given the option to treat at another hospital but she wanted to stay at texas health presbyterian and made a conscious choice she wanted to stay there. what was her thinking? >> so all of the nurses and physicians in that hospital and more so in that unit, we are a tight-nit family. when i worked there, i felt such a sense of camaraderie. we get along together. we have holiday parties. nina is in charge of the monthly planning committee for the unit to get together. physicians, p.a.'s, nurses, respiratory therapists and nina is the one who organizes all of that together. so it is such a tight-knit community and people she is

familiar with and knows and people who regard her as a sister and a daughter and a friend. so she enjoying being around those people and they've been nothing but supportive and nothing short of encouraging to her during this time. >> all right, thank you so much, jennifer. >> thank you. and pham's friends have set up a fundraising site for her. the link is go fund me website at cnn.com/"outfront." there is a lot of questions of how she got ebola. and i want to bring in a nurse treating patients there and you may have seen a profile of her on our program about six weeks or so good. dr. marty, thank you for being with us. nina's friend -- >> my pleasure. >> -- she was wearing a hazmat suit. cdc said you can just wear a gown and gloves but she was wearing a full hazmat suit. you spent time wearing these suits in horrific conditions. what is the likelihood she would

have contracting the virus while taking a hazmat suit off? >> while taking it off, there is always a risk. so you have to take it off in a meticulous fashion. from what i just heard from jennifer, nina is quite the heroine and very wonderful and sad to hear she is ill and even the best of us could make a mistake but that might not be why she issin fektded. >> what could be? people want answers here. >> well, i saw a photo in the dallas morning news of someone, apparently a nurse taking care of what apparently was the index case, and i was looking at the image and it seemed to me that there was skin exposed in that individual who was the nurse in that photo. so -- and it also looked like they were wearing some kind of a

positive breathing apparatus that should have blown material away but there was still exposed. and we did not allow any skin exposure in africa. >> so you are saying there could have been other issues with the protocol there in the hospital. and the other question i have for you dr. marty. you have nina pham, a nurse treating thomas eric duncan now in the hospital with ebola but thomas eric duncan's fiancee, she was with him, and three days after he went home and sicker and sicker and then quarantined in a while in the apartment with the bloody sheets and towels and so far she has not contracted the virus. how is it possible nina did and she didn't? >> because there is a lot of factors that go into determining whether an individual is going to manifest disease or not. and time and time again, in outbreak after outbreak, we know of individuals that have had equally very close contact, very

high exposures and one person becomes ill and one never does. so there are host factors involved well beyond issues of the virus itself. >> dr. marty, thank you very much. dr. marty risked her life to go try to save other lives in west africa fighting the ebola crisis there. and at the top of the hour, cdc director tom frieden will be a guest on ac 360. up next, the dallas nurse's bentley has been moved to a new location and being monitored. but what is known about how dogs with ebola could affect humans? plus cdc with up to 800 ebola-related calls a day. and -- >> do you want to see where mommy's room was? you get to see the farm this one time? yeah, okay. that was uh-huh. >> an emotional journey home in search of my roots.

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more on our top story, the ebola scare in america. the ebola patient nina pham is in the hospital. her dog, bentley, will be monitored and quarantined in a home-like environment.

the family has given -- was given a glimpse of her dog last night. they sent her a video to boost her spirits. i was talking to her friend early about it tonight, it is the love of her life. officials say they are doing everything they can to save the dog. >> when i met with her parents, they said that dog is important to her, judge, don't let anything happen to the dog. if that dog has to be the boy in the plastic bubble, we're going to take good care of that dog. >> well in spain officials there chose to put down the dog that belonged to a nurse infected with ebola because the truth is this, officials are don't know for a fact whether dogs can transmit ebola or not. joining me now is a cnn medical analyst with the institute of humanitarian affairs and eleanor dean from texas a&m. doctor green, let me start with you.

dogs may be asymptomatic and not be sick with it. what type of symptoms are they looking for in a dog? >> well there have been no reports of the transmission of ebola virus to dogs in the fact they have not shown any clinical signs. there has never been a report of a dog getting sick with the ebola virus and therefore they have not been implicated in the transmission of the ebola virus to people. >> so let me ask you that, dr. von tellatin. there have been studies of dogs with the virus. and they got the virus but they didn't get sick, right? >> there is a study from the 2001 outbreak in gabon and they tested 436 dogs and they said the tests were more likely to be in the dogs, up to 30% in the ebola cases. they were licking bod illy fluid. >> and so the question is, is

there any sense on whether they could pass the virus on. and there are animals that get ebola that did not get the virus and do spread it. >> we think this epidemic was started by someone eating fruit soup in guinea. and as much as it is for us to tell, although it is hard to know, it does seem like it can he be carried asymptomatically. >> and how long do you quarantine a dog and is it different than in a human? >> well we quarantine a dog and handle it as we would as a human patient effected with ebola. while there are no reports of transmission, we want to treat this dog with an abundance of caution and treat as if it could transfer the disease and therefore we can assure the public and the dog will be safe

and treated humanly. >> and here is my question on the cdc and here is the question. can dogs get sick with ebola. at this time there are no reports of dogs or cats becoming sick with ebola, or being able to spread ebola to other people or animals, there is a limited evidence that dogs become infected with ebola. it gives the impression that it is okay. >> it is a little overly confident. this a virus that affected porcupines to small deers and free bats and it does seem to effect dogs. and the authors of that paper who did the study in gabon said it is impossible to rule out dogs as a mode of transmission and therefore we need more research done and it hasn't been done. it is hard research to do. but i would say it just has the air of confidence reassurance that we've had from the cdc for a long time that i think we are

beginning to see on the mind a little bit. >> certainly we have. and some of the zero risk lz -- risks that turned out not to be zero. thank you for taking your time on an issue people care about. a medic who has been working on a ship off of coast west central africa arrived at kansas hospital with symptoms. and concerns have grown over the months. and the cdc said they were getting 50 calls aday about ebola before the diagnosis in dallas and now they are getting 800 calls aday. that is stunny. karen long is out front. >> reporter: a scene out of a disaster movie. investigators with a hazmat suit board a plane and none had ebola. and 40 firefighters respond to a passenger with flu-like symptoms but that is where the scare ends. >> it has turned out there was

miscommunication that this patient had been to the continent of africa but not near west africa. it was south africa. >> the next day in los angeles, a hoaxster wearing a mass exits a city bus saying don't mess with me, i have ebola. the bus driver is rushed to hospital as police begin a manhunt. >> someone who does this, is trying to cause fear in a population. >> reporter: ebola has not -- repeat -- not spread through the u.s., but fear certainly has. and in nashville, tennessee, a sick passenger was taken off a plane that originated in dallas. the patient had no contact with anyone with ebola or traveled to africa. in richmond, virginia, a patient with a low-grade fever who had traveled to africa is isolated. even though the clinic said they don't believe it is ebola. and in jacksonville, florida, a patient with flu-like symptoms but no fever checked himself

into a emergency room? why did he fear he had ebola? he had casual contact with a west africa traveller. the cdc is getting 800 calls daily about ebola. and each scare can cost taxpayers thousands of and flu season has barely begun. this may be all be ridiculous said richard sandman, but it should seem familiar. remember anthrax? >> for a while people were freaking out about white powder and that was costly. people don't freak out about white powder any more. they are used to that risk and they take it in stride. people will take this one in stride too. but it takes a while. it takes longer if you tell them that they are panicking. >> reporter: what makes this a learning curve worse said sand man, is early on. the cdc said everything was under control and then the nurse in dallas contracted the disease. >> what he didn't say is it is going to be harder than people

imagine. it is going to be harder than we imagined. so now, yeah, now people are angry at the cdc and that anger is sort of morphing into fear. >> reporter: kim long, cnn, los angeles. well tonight the money and power facebook power mark zuckerburg and his fight against ebola. tonight he and his wife announced they are donated $25 million do the cdc foundation to help fight the deadly virus. the cdc foundation is a nonprofit that helps support the cdc. well all of that got us wondering how big is the cdc budget? how much money do they have? so it has been cut 10% in the past four years to $5.8 billion this year and that is a lot of money but maybe it isn't. when you look at it this way. forbes estimates zuckerburg is worth $33 billion. so if he wanted to fund the cdc for a year, it would only cost 8% of his net worth.

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cnn -- taliban and now cnn is learning about what he is doing and why he hasn't spoken to his own parents for so long. we have the exclusive "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: there is a pile of boxes sitting inside of the haley, idaho police department. >> this is love and support for a fellow american. >> reporter: filled with cards and letters of support waiting for sergeant bergdahl to read them. it was part of a holiday campaign last year to bring him home. all of the letters were sent to the white house a few months before he was released after five years in captivity. >> this would take weeks to go through. >> if not years. >> now they sit, forgotten. a symbol of the story of how bergdahl's rescue hasn't come with a triumphant rescue. for a family friend, it is a more bitter symbol. >> there was no question that

beau could have walked away and everyone acts surprised that he walked away. and there was a reason he walked off. some organizations were the first ones to pull their support from beau. they came out with the standard answer, we've done our job and we are not supporting him. and these came from organization that within a week of his release turned their back on him. >> reporter: that is what brought us back to bergdahl's home town of haley. an army fact-finding investigation found out he left his outpost deliberately and of his own free will. several soldiers say he is a deserter and traitor. the signs on his street are gone. for five years this town stood by their soldier held as a prisoner of war and now it is complicated. >> we asked the mayor of haley to talk about bergdahl and the

homecoming that never came. he said we are done, we stood by him getting home and now we need to move on is what he said. and now some just want it to go away. >> when bergdahl was released, officials said a family reunion would take place in days. in fact he refused to see or talk to his parents. but that is starting to change. >> two sources tell us bowe bergdahl is communicating with his patients but they still haven't seen each other, even four months after he was rescued in afghanistan. the bergdahl family doesn't want to talk about a family reunion. his parents have only said they want to give their son the time and space he needs to reuper ate from five years in captivity. >> many who knew him before joining the army, say he probably wasn't a good fit for structured life.

>> tim camry has known the family 20 years. >> he became frustrated because he saw no end to a crisis. >> do you think he left -- voluntarily left his base there in afghanistan? >> absolutely. and i'm not -- there is nothing evil about what he did, no intent of evil, but i believe he had becomes disillusioned as he was used to as a boy and a young man going off on his own for many days at a time. >> camry's son was one of the best friends and part of a home-schooling community in haley. he was raised in a religious environment with a strict code of conduct. >> there was a time when he left home, in that 15 and 16-year-old range, left home for a little while and it was no doubt a type of rebellion. his dad was making him -- sand like my boys, making them

comply, and there was a bone of contention. and bowe did have a tendency to get frustrated or just walk off and throw up his hands. >> reporter: he can't say if that is still a source of strain on his relationship with his family, but he sees a parallel between the young bowe he knew and the one that walked away from his post in afghanistan. >> that is fine here in idaho, but that is not going well in afghanistan. >> so what would drive that kind of frustration that he is breaking code? >> bring bowe home. >> the letters are still waiting for him in his home town and so are his family and friends. >> do you think bowe bergdahl will come back to idaho? >> i believe so. we have a hadn'ting trip waiting for him. long overdue. and we're going to talk about things around the fire. >> reporter: but no one knows for sure when or if he will return to the place he called

home. >> and ed, really a expelling report there. my question is, is there any sense of when he will come home? i know you are saying they don't know. but any sense at all? >> well, you know, his life is, as we mentioned in the piece, is in a little bit of limbo, if you will. he is still in the army. he has responsibilities and duties that he has to complete there. he is assigned to this army unit in san antonio, texas, where we are told by army officials he has administrative duties and the care that he continues to go through, the psychological care that he must continue to go through as well. that is the million dollar question. what exactly his future will hold? the u.s. army has announced late last week that the investigating general in this case has finished his initial report and that report is now going up the chain of command in the army and being reviewed. but we're told it could be some time before a final decision is made, whether or not bowe

bergdahl will face criminal charges, discharged, what exactly will happen to him is still very much up in the air. >> big questions. thank you very much, ed. still so much mystery in that story. well next, breaking news, isis closing in on another air base in iraq, as the president of the united states insists that airstrikes are working. and then this -- >> a toast to cousins. a toast to cousins. >> family, friends and a lot more at 9:00 in the morning. it is a surprising search for my roots. create things that help people. design safer cars. faster computers. smarter grids and smarter phones. think up new ways to produce energy. ♪ be an engineer. solve problems the world needs solved. what are you waiting for? changing the world is part of the job description. [ male announcer ] join the scientists and engineers of exxonmobil in inspiring america's future engineers.

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breaking news tonight, isis on the attack inside of baghdad. the terror group claimed responsibility for three deadly car bombs today in the city. we are there in baghdad tonight. and ben, this is significant as everyone is watching isis advance as it gets closer and closer to baghdad. what do these attacks show you about what isis is really doing in baghdad? >> reporter: erin, this really underscores the danger from within baghdad. on the outskirts of baghdad

until now we've seen small units attacking -- isis units attacking the perimeter. but within baghdad itself is a clear and present danger. we spoke to one security an al is in close contact with isis and the iraqi army who was describing hundreds of isis supporters who operate in this city who are behind many of these car bombings and he was telling us that they are particularly located in two neighborhoods that are both sides -- or the north and south side of the main road running to the airport. and that these isis sleeper cells, the members have been instructed to cut their hair, cut off their beards, don't wear any clothing that would identify them as isis sympathizers, they would just look like ordinary baghdad residents to avoid detection and to be ready when they are called into action. >> ben, west of where you are right now, we know that isis has

surrounded one of iraq's largest air bases and that is a significant development as you've had 400 plus airstrikes and isis is still taking over air bases. so what is the significance if isis gains control of anbar province? is that truly a milestone or not? >> reporter: it is. don't forget, erin, it is the biggest province in iraq. it is right next to baghdad and next to baghdad international airport. and for instance, this base that we're talking about, it is surrounded. it hasn't been taken over yet. ein al assad it. was a huge base while the americans were here. and yet again isis will get its hands on modern american equipment and ammunition. >> thank you very much, ben. appreciate that. in the center of bagtd tonight. and recently i was on the other side of the ocean and the other side of the road.

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welcome back. now cnn special so when i found out about this project i knew generally about my family's history and knew that we were scotch-irish, but i also found out i had russian blood. but the big surprise was finding out details about my family in scotland. so this actually began the weekend i headed to my childhood home where my parents were packing up to move after nearly 50 years. i grew up in a small town in maryland. and when i say small, i mean really small. believe the last census had a population at about 420 people. we used to buy all the rabbit

food here. my parents were very idealistic. when they were young they had this dream of having a far. so funny hearing them talk about it now. their eyes still light up. i want my son to know what it is like to have grown up here. talking to my parents, you know, they thought they would live there forever. >> how are you feeling? >> good. hello, nile. >> the definition of forever changes as you get older. >> do you know where you are? you are not going to remember it like the other ones but at least you can say you have been here. >> when they finally got to this point that they were ready, this was it, the boxes were actually being moved i couldn't really believe it. >> want to go see where mommy's room was? yeah, now, you get to see the farm this one time. yeah, okay. that was uh-huh. it was hard for me to go through the house and see everything

packed up. oh, my is my dad's den, nothing has changed here. he may be moving in two days but this is the way it has looked for our whole life. okay, buddy, ready to go upstairs and see mommy's room when mommy was a little baby? oh, it is all packed up. that room was -- that was my home for so long. makes mommy sad. hm. it's hard to say good-bye. so cnn says we're doing this project on our roots. i find out about it right before your last weekend. >> isn't that amazing? >> it's a good omen or something, right? >> yeah, you reminded me to pack up all the papers i have somewhere. about some of the roots. >> so you looked into it once, right? >> yeah, i have looked into a lot of it but never really in

depth. so i had a lot of questions, there were these pictures, who are they? where did they come from? so we met an expert who looked into my past, at cnn. we are focusing on the stewart line, which is your mother's family, right? new my mother's family, yes. >> so we are going to start with john, he was the first generation in america. and this is a 1920 census for john stewart. this is him right here. this is a passenger's contract ticket. >> this must have come from scotland to canada? >> yes, this tells us where in scotland they are from. >> that is where it says skye. when i first heard isle of skye, i thought this is great, a cool place. >> now, they first came in 1958, the information tells us this is

the repercussions of the irish potato famine. so they are only taking four of their eight children with them. so it is possible you could have more relatives there. >> after i found out there were relatives that didn't get on that ship i wanted to go find out about them. when we had this opportunity to go to skye, my mom wanted to share it. my mom was not able to come so i thought for about 22 seconds and then i realized uncle buzz would want to come, if it is going to be neat. he would be there. we flew out, drove a few hours to get to the town in scotland. ready for this, uncle buzz? >> the beginning. the adventure. >> so it was a beautiful day. it was perfect. it was the way i wanted to arrive. you could see the coast and the

skyline. it just was so glorious. first thing we did was we got in our little red rental car and zipped along on the wrong side of the road. here we go, i'm glad, putting my lives in my hands driving a stick on the wrong side of the road. and that is going to be -- driving in skye was an adventure, the roads were really tiniy, because i'm left-handed, oh, wait, wrong side of the road. sorry, guys. in this castle, actually is an archive where they traced a lot of the geneology, and inside

there was a woman named maggie mcdonald. and she knows everything about everybody. >> this is a rental, everybody who paid rent to the owner, it was three pounds and four shillings. you can see most people were in arrears. >> look, you can see it was the best. of course it was the woman who was paid up. paid up by two widows. >> i'm going to let that slide. do you know anything about where they have resulted in -- >> well, they -- the family as far as being able to find her, stayed in skye, i think you will meet grandchildren. maggie said there were two relatives she knew in skye that we were going to meet. so it turns out that our family has been in the hotel business for about 50 years, this is the

tongadell hotel, the man who owns it, named malcolm can wewe related to him. another, we met him for beers. turns out you're related to us. i was eager to see him. he looked very scottish to me. he was going through all the genealogy, and he had all sorts of papers, most of them were not related to us. then he told us where our land was actually. a toast to cousins. after donald told us where our land was we zipped down the main road, 30 kilometers and i'm told i need to go the speed limit. it was very quiet. and there were clouds and that was an appropriate time to see

the land. look at that view down there, too, on those mountains. >> you know the one that sticks out for me, it is very emotional to be on the actual ground that the ancestors came from. >> when you hear this, you realize they were here. it is pretty incredible. they loved, they had children. all that happened right here. and as the potato famine really took control of things all of a sudden they couldn't afford to pay their rent. and so they were actively told to leave. and it was bigger than just my family and it was bigger than just skye. it was scotland and ireland. buzz and i were saying gosh we really wish we could be sharing this with my mother and buzz' wife, my aunt beth. we also wanted to share with them our great occour great cur this one area, which was ronald

mcdonald. we get to portrie, the biggest town in skye, turned out to be very small. turned out the address showed it as a little art gallery. this is when we found out the most amazing thing. turns out ronald mcdonald is an eminent economist. he has done work for the imf, the world bank, and he is closely related to scottish independence. i did some research, and found out that it was a really common name around here. and then i get to skye, and they say well, and you're the most famous person on skye. you -- everybody is oh, you're related to ronald mcdonald. clearly -- they say you know he is an economist. and all of a sudden i said oh, he is the ronald mcdonald.

ronald really wanted to show us one particular picture, a picture that he had taken of our land. this is with we're all from. >> this is basically where we're all from. where it all started right here. >> so when you took this picture, you obviously knew we were from here? >> yes, i did. >> ronald obviously is one of the most accomplished economists in the world. but i had had originally started in business journalism. so i felt a kinship with him. it is such a joy for us. we went back to town, and uncle buzz and i were talking about the past few days that we had spent together. that was a moment where it all really came together for me. thank you for coming. this was really special to me to do this with you. >> thank you for having me. but suddenly, i just thought of something your grandfather would have loved to have seen your success and to see us both in

scotland. i'm starting to get weepy when i think about it. because he just would have thought this was so wonderful. >> i didn't think i would be able to go, but you know, i'm feeling sad. but my mom is going to love it. oh, my gosh. >> i would never make it in this business. >> i think uncle buzz would do just great in this business. anyway, i showed this piece to my parents this weekend as uncle buzz shared all the stories from skye with my mother, and all i can say is i'm so grateful to have this once in a lifetime opportunity. and we had no idea. there are all the nieces my our extended family. we posted a lot more photos and

the great behind the scenes information on the trip. tonight at 10:00, don lemon sets off an incredible journey to his roots, from louisiana, to the hub of the slave trade. that is our special report tonight. anderson starts now. >> and good evening, thank you for joining us, we begin tonight here live in dallas with breaking news on several fronts in the growing ebola crisis and the cdc's plan for how it will deal with new cases from now on. as i said we are in dallas tonight where a nurse who contracted the disease said in a statement today she is doing well. we'll have the latest on her condition in just a moment. i'll also speak to one of her childhood friends who knows her very well and find out more about her and her life. first, breaking news, sobering new numbers from the world health organization, shocking numbers projecting within the next two months in numberf