treated, amber vinson, another health care worker who was diagnosed with yoeb webola was there as well. i'm don lemon. our breaking news coverage of nina pham, continues now with hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> i'm errol barnett. we are the team for the next four hours here. coming up this hour, battling ebola and surrounded by hazmat suits, infected american nurse nina pham appears upbeat despite her condition. we're going to take you live to the location outside of her new hospital in seconds here. >> she has just arrived there. u.s. officials admit major mistakes in the handling of the crisis. president obama says he might name an ebola czar. >> and a fast-moving situation in hong kong. police launch new raids to try

to get rid of protesters there. we'll get you live to the scene later. >> we begin with the nurses infected with ebola after taking care of a patient in dallas, texas. anyone nina pham will be treated at the national institutes for health. >> that's one of four specially equipped biocontainment hospitals in the u.s. her doctor recorded video of pham just before she left dallas.

>> difficult to hear, there because it appears the doctor is talking through his protective suit. you're looking now at the second nurse infected with ebola. she's at emery hospital here in atlanta. amber vinson's family says she in stable condition and they stress she followed all necessary protocols while treating thomas eric duncan back in dallas. that's some of the latest information for you. we want to connect now with our brian todd. he is standing by for us outside the hospital in bethesda, maryland, where nina pham apparently is being treated right now and joins us at this latest hour. nina pham just arrived there. it appeared she was able to walk off of the plane. she's well enough in the video we just saw, she appears to be in good spirits. what do we know about her condition? and i guess more importantly, what kind of treatment will she

receive where you are that wasn't possible in texas? >> her condition had actually improved quite a lot in the last few days. as for what is going to be happening here, she's going to be in isolation. some very highly specialized treatment. a special clinical stud ditz unit here in the national institutes of health outside washington. it is a high containment unit. one official here says it goes beyond isolation. actually, as far as the actual treatment is concerned, that's classified information, we're told. officials here will not reveal the specific drug protocols she may be getting or the specified treatment, the specific treatment she's going to be getting because of patient privacy laws here in the united states. so that special treatment, the actual hands-on treatment that she's going to be getting is not being revealed to us.

sanjay gupta, our medical correspondent said earlier there's no specific treatment for ebola. there are a few different things they can do to make her comfortable and to get her fever down, but there's no specific, as he said, magic potion for ebola. so what is actually going to be given to her and the actual protocol that will be given to her is going to be kept under wraps for a little while. but what we can tell you is is a little bit about the unit that she's in. it's called -- it's a high containment unit, and it's got all sorts of isolation protections built in. everybody that comes in and out, the doctors anticipate the nurses are going to be wearing hazmat suits. you saw nina pham as she was walking both to the airplane, to the plane and the ambulance, she was wearing a hazmat suit. everybody around her is going to be wearing protective gear. they're gong to be wearing polyurethane suits with protections built in. shoe coverings, gowns and

gloves. things like that. and everybody involved will be protected. the air circulation in her room is something. this is going to be powered air fuhr fiing respirators in her room. essentially that means that no outside air is going to get in and the air inside her room is not going to get out. it speaks to the isolation in this particular unit. errol? >> one major reason this is a global scare is there is no vaccine for ebola, there is no protection against it, but where you are and in some places around the world, like at oxford in the uk, for example, there are efforts to conduct ebola vaccine trials and on humans. this is taking place at the national institutes of health where you are. tell us how that might affect nin a's treatment if at all? >> it probably won't affect her treatment at all right now, errol, because they're going to be giving her just some other types of treatment that they

know they can give an existing ebola patient. we have to note she's the first patient to be treated here who actually was diagnosed with ebola. there was another patient who came in late september who was exposed to ebola, but it turned out that he tested negative. he did not have the ebola virus. nina pha is the fist r actual ebola patient to be treated here. as for the vaccine, these vaccines are being tested here at the nih and at the walter reed army institute of research near here on humans. these are the first at the times inclu inside the united states on humans. so that will take several months to play out to see whether the tests are -- the vaccines are effective and safe. so that probably will not affect nina pham's treatment. >> yeah, this is really pushing science to its limits, pushing doctors to its limits, unlike something we've seen before. we appreciate your staying up late for us just past midnight in maryland joining us live. thank you. >> and she's just arrived there just moments ago. now she's getting used to her

new environs who will be much different than what she had. >> exactly. >> u.s. president obama says he's not opposed to a travel ban for those countries hardest hit by ebola, but he says he thinks that would be less effective than the screening measures currently being used at u.s. airports. oomr. obama says he's considering appointing what he called an ebola czar, simply a single person to head up a u.s. response to this crisis. >> it may make sense for us to have one person so that after this initial surge of activity, we can have a more regular process just to make sure we're crossing all the t's and dotting all the i's going forward. okay? if i appoint somebody, i'll let you know. >> yes, he will. there's growing political fallout in washington over how

this crisis is being handled in the u.s. >> the white house is getting hammered by both political parties. >> reporter: one day after president obama urged top officials to get aggressive in the fight against ebola -- i. >> my understanding is that she reported no symptoms to us. >> there were more mixed messages to the administration, this time over whether the u.s. should impose a travel ban on flights in and out of west africa. while the white house press secretary dismissed the idea -- >> it would provide a direct incentive for individuals seeking to travel to the united states to go underground and to seek to evade this screening and to not be candid about their travel history in order to enter the country. >> the cdc direct forleft the door open during a congressional hearing. >> sh going to maintain the position of the administration that there will be no travel restrictions? >> we will consider any options to better protect americans. >> with just weeks before the

midterm elections, members were in open revolt, hammering the administration's response. >> it would be an understatement to say the response to the first u.s.-based patient with ebola has been mismanaged, causing risks to scores of additional people. >> i'm greatly concerned that the administration did not act fast enough responding in texas. >> and the white house didn't even seem to mind. >> he has a reputation for being willing to speak true to power whether it's his party or not. >> this administration couldn't run the irs right and it's apparently not running the cdc right. you ask yourself, what's it going to take to have is a

president who really focuses on t interests of the american people. >> a lot of people jumping on this one, asking lots of questions at the time of an election. that was jim acosta reporting for us. >> the world health organization says they are ramping up support for 15 african magss as they try to stem the spread of ebola on that continent. >> they include those sharing borders with those sharing borders already infected by the virus. >> those teams on the ground will know how to react to an infected individual. >> they'll make sure there's enough protection equipment and training so health care workers can avoid getting infected themselves. a rapid response team will be ready to investigate, take samples, confirm ebola cases and trace contacts. >> really every part of the world is doing what it can to contain it, but we've not seen something like this before, so

who and where can you complain? and there is some good news as well. the world health organization may soon declare two african nations completely ebola free. they say the end of senegal's outbreak, for example, could take place, will be announced senegal and nigeria, i guess, could be announced on monday. >> and countries need to have 42 days without new cases to be considered cleared. that's why it sounds good for sennal and nigeria. while nigeria and senegal may have been successful in containing ebola, they are still close to liberia, sierra leone and guinea which have been hit the hardest by ebola. >> and we can report that help is on the way to that part of the world. a british medical ship is sailing right now to west africa to help battle the ebola outbreak. >> the royal navy says the rfa argus is equipped with 100 hospital beds and state-of-the-art emergency

facilities. ands suk see from these photos, the ship does not have the international red cross symbol. it's not designated as a hospital ship by the geneva convention, so it is outfitted with self-defense guns as well. >> we're going to try to speak to the commanding officer of that vessel later here on cnn as well. much more to come on ebola this hour, though. why asia may be better prepared for the virus because of lessons from the past. >> also ahead, u.s. aviation authorities consider a no-fly list for health workers being monitored for ebola. the arguments for and against that. >> still, we'll get you live to hong kong where police are trying to take back the streets from protesters. >> also, u.s. air strikes intensify near kobani in syria. are we seeing a change in strategy? so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7 it's just i'm a little reluctant to try new things. what's wrong with trying new things? feel that in your muscles? yeah... i do... try a new way to bank, where no branches equals great rates.

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and it looks like the medics are taking somebody away. so somebody was injured in that scuffle. they want the streets to be returned to traffic. police and protesters are racing in front of us. this is a very fluid situation, as you can imagine. >> well, that was a while back. so let's bring in anna now live. it is now several hours after that operation began anna, so how are things looking? >> well, natalie, we are now down at the major protest outside of hong kong headquarters. so it's a very peaceful saying as it has been now for many days. obviously there are hundreds of tents and people gather here throughout the night.

those earlier scenes where we are on the other side of hong kong, obviously the police deciding they had enough. they are moving out those protesters, very heavy handed response. you're talking about 500, 600 police with only about 100 protesters on this side. by the time we left, there are only a few dozen remaining. and really, the situation is that the hong kong chief executive is ordering his police force to get the protesters off the street. it's now time to go home and the streets to the people of hong kong. >> what have the protesters been saying about that? and where in all of this is the possibility, anna, of any sitdown meetings between these two. >> we know, c.y. leung has said

he's prepared to re-enter into talks with protesters. that's something they discussed several weeks ago. he made that offering several weeks ago. however, the protesters decided to cause more demonstrations. and that's when the government shut down the possibility of those talks. so the chief executive now saying he's prepared to agree to dialogues. however, we know that beijing, the chinese central government is not going to budge on its decision. that is, it will be hand picking the candidates for the election in 2017 here in hong kong. that's when the city is due to get universal suffrage. that is what the protesters are so upset about, the fact that beijing is interfering. that is what is upsetting them so greatly. as far as the people here are concerned, they say they will continue to protest, they are not going anywhere until their demands are met, which obviously leads to a major standoff. they are expecting over the coming days for police to move in here and try to clean out

these areas. now, whether that leads to ugly standoffs, we just don't know. obviously we're seeing that heavy-handed approach from the police. we've used some tear gas and pepper spray. but op vously what we heard from police this morning, they want to do this in stages using minimal force as not to cause those ugly scenes that we've witnessed over the past few weeks. natal natalie. >> we'll wait to see what happens next. thank you, anna, in hong kong. for months now, turkish kurds and isis militants have been locked in a bloody battle for control of the syrian border town of kobani. now finally, the tide may be turning there. >> u.s. air strikes on isis near the city have intensified the last few days. that's helping the city's defenders push back. >> explosions and gunfire.

followed by sirens. these are the sounds of kobani fighting desperately to repel isis' advance. u.s. and coalition aircraft have unleashed a storm of air power, striking isis targets a total of 122 times since the start of the campaign, more than any other location in syria or iraq. and the assault appears to be working. isis fighters now retreating from certain parts of the city. >> isil advances appears to have slowed and we know we have inflicted damages. >> defending kobani, however, u.s. officials have said is not essential to defeating isis. raising hard questions as to where and how the campaign is making strategic process. >> what are the strategic targets in iraq and syria? and why isn't the u.s.-led coalition striking them more?

particularly as you're focusing so much air power now on what's been repeatedly described as not essential to victory. >> it matters to us for twoen reasons, one, because it matters to them. and they want it. >> it's not just about, you know, why kobani. it's why not more elsewhere, particularly if it's iraq first and there are strategic targets. why all the air power there? because it gets to -- are you running out of targets? >> your question gets at what we would consider, what we would call strategic patience. that's what needs to happen here. but i assure you kobani is not the end here. there will be more strikes in more place against more tarts. >> elsewhere in syria and iraq, however, defense officials say isis is changing how it fights, travels and communicates, making it harder to strike them from the air. >> they're dispersing more, hiding more inside the population. they're making it harder for us to find them. they're also changing their

communications. >> and isis may now be opening another front in the war inside baghdad. the militants are taking responsibility for attacking occurring almost daily in the capital. car bombs and ideas explosions, a shadow campaign to destabilize the most crucial piece of territory of the war. the leader of the syrian kurdish group charged with defending kobani from isis met with u.s. officials over the week. the u.s. state department says u.s. syrian envoy daniel rubenstein met in paris on sunday. >> it's the first time officials from both sides met face to face, but it's unclear if the talks opened doors for the u.s. to provide training and equipment, something the group had been pleading for in that fight against isis. >> russian president vladimir putin and european leaders meet friday for talks in italy and the ukraine crisis will likely top that agenda. mr. putin arrived fashionably

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>> welcome back. >> we appreciate ewe staying with us here on cnn. our top stories right now. >> a nurse who contracted ebola while caring for a patient in dallas, that's her, is now in a hospital in maryland. her doctor recorded this video of her thursday before she left texas. the hospital there says they

just don't have enough qualified people on hand to care for her. so she is in maryland. >> nearly 9,000 people have been diagnose diagnosed with ebola in west africa. >> standoffs between police and pro democracy activists in hong kong. police moved in to clear out three areas just before dawn. the area targeted by police had been occupied by activists for nearly three weeks. >> increased u.s. air strikes on isis targets are helping turn the tide in the syrian border town of kobani. kurdish fighters are locked in a battle on the streets. sources say these air strikes are actually helping to push

isis back from some parts of the city. >> concerns about the spread of ebola continue to grow. >> but experts argue a travel ban won't solve the problem as aviation correspondent renee marsh reports. >> six of the crew members who shared a flight with amber vinson are now home and self-monitoring for symptoms for 21 days out of what the airline calls an abundance of caution, frontier is replacing seat covers, and environmental filters on the plane. it's also contacting passengers. on capitol hill today, cdc director was on the hot seat about the response to ebola cases in the u.s. >> was it a breakdown in the protocol? so we know whether or not the

protocol works? >> the investigation is ongoing. we've identified some possible causes. >> cnn has learned the cdc is now considering expanding what's called a do not board list, the list could soon also include people being monitored for exposure to ebola. people do and from are getting louder. >> we should not be allowing these folks in, period. >> cdc's determination is that the travel ban in and of itself does not address the challenges that we have here. >> although they're saying a

travel ban will not work, it will probably not be the last time we hear questions about it. >> as the u.s. and europe plays catch-up, asia already dealt with an epidemic. remember sars? as bad as it was then, it could offer some lessons for dealing with ebola now. joining us to talk about this is a lecturer on communicable disease at the university of sydney. thanks very much for joining us on cnn today. let's address that question right away. this debate about if current screening measures are enough. and if perhaps travel bans need to be enforced to the hardest hit countries. >> the first was that this tends to be these academic outbreaks

tend to be more than a health care issue. sars was contained quickly because of travel bans, which is why people often talk about these now. canada, vietnam and singapore, they did stop onward transmission of the virus at that time. however, sars was far more transmittable than ebola virus is. these tral bans are put on to countries that are relatively well off. even despite that, it causes significant economic hardship to those countries. if we put in place travel bans, we would be significantly impede the movement in and out of health care personnel of people taking aid and medical supplies.

countries that are already suffering from this virus. so it would be out of proportion with the current epidemic and would cause more problems than it would actually solve. >> okay, so we'll put you in the column of experts who say a travel ban in this instance probably a bad idea. let's talk about what's taking place in the country you are now in, australia. you had an ebola scare there last week, up in canirns. an aide worker was isolated. turns out she did not have ebola. but what in safeguards that already exist in australia do you think other countries could learn from? >> we've got a number of safeguards in place. the first is aimed at healthcare workers who have gone overseas to help. we've identified in australia, and this is also true for the rest of the asia, the most likely introduced cases are going to be people that have gone over to help in these country and are now traveling back.

we've asked all health care workers when they've returned to australia, fill out a health questionnaire and check that they're well upon entry into the country and from that there onwards, they self-isolate for 21 days and take their temperature twice a day and report to their local public health unit if they have any spike in temperature. this is exactly how the nurse that was isolated in cairns last week was picked up. she did everything perfectly correctly. she went to her local isolation hospital. they ran the test and they were able to give her the all-clear at that stage. so these kinds of procedures are measured, they are responsive, and they will actually pick up cases at the earlier opportunity. >> the w.h.o. does expect there to be many thousands more cases before the year is out. thousands more people could die. how much time do you think it will take before we turn a coroner this virus? as we broadcast here around the

world, what can you say to our viewers that would calm them down? >> the world health organization produced a road map for how to contain the virus. that was back in august. and it's estimated it would take six months at that current level. the problem now is until we actually manage to isolate over 07% of the people who have the virus either within a hospital or at home in circumstances where they can't pass the virus on, we won't get containment. and we'll continue to see the exponential increase in cases like we're currently seeing. so really, we need boots on the ground within west africa and many more health care facilities set up in order to isolate people. so the key thing i would say is a lot of the attention at the moment is on trying to protect our countries from imported cases. and the only real way to be 100 sure is by contributing health care workers and military

personnel to west africa to contain theout outbreak at its source. >> the good news is the u.s. is sending more boots on the ground, as you say. the help is headed to those who need it. thanks so much. we appreciate your insight. this afternoon here on cnn. >> and still to come here, we will turn to a different story in another part of the world. we'll go lye to a town on china's border that smuggles goods into north korea. q.

>> author john grisham, you've probably read a book or two. he says he regrets recent remarks about child pornography. >> he said not all men who look at those images should be sent to prison. he went on to say that sentences for such crimes in his opinion are too harsh. this is, of course, causing controversy. i want you to hear what he said. here's a portion of that interview. >> it happened to a lawyer friend of mine, a good buddy from law school. they haven't hurt anyone. they deserve some type of punishment, whatever. but ten years in prison?

we've got prisons now filled with guys my age, 60-year-old white men in prison who would never harm anyone, who would never touch a child. they were surfing around one night, probably had too much to drink or whatever and pushed a button and went too far. they're put in the same prison like they're a bunch of perverts or something. thousands of them. we've gone nuts with this incarcerati incarceration. >> so john grisham there, that was a portion of the interview. despite his apology that he did make over his comments, advocates for child abuse victims have criticized what he had to say. >> grisham made the comments on attacks of the u.s. prison system and their high prison rates. but i think the point was lost when he defended what is the

indefensible. >> we'll see if he has anything more to say on that. but right now, north korean state media have released pictures of what they say is another public appearance by the country's notably missing leader kim jong un. >> they say he's seen here smiling once again, observing housi housing units at a university in pyongya pyongya pyongyang. no one can confirm when any of these pictures were actually taken. china has always been a sort of lifeline for north korea. next we want to look at the reality of smuggling along the chinese-north korean border. near the border is our david mckenzie. i know you're there because you're able to meet one man who knows how to smuggle goods across the border. and it's not as if he's kind of buy himse by himself. he says this is quite a sophisticated network.

>> that's right. it is sophisticated. i wanted to give you a sense of where i am. this is dyangdong in northeast china. tourists in this area, fishermen have been out today. they're nervous of the camera, though. but errol, here is near to the border, behind me is north korea. the gleaming apartment buildings on the chinese side. very different on north korea. a lot of disused factories. but still, we've been seeing tracks all morning going in. and help iing trade with north korea. we talked to one man who's an illegal smuggler who gets goods and shows up just how desperate even regime soldiers are. a. >> this is the north korea you're not supposed to see. an elderlya scavenging in

the fields for food. a man saving what little he can. it's just across the barbed wire border fence with china. if anyone is caught trying to escape, they'll be shot. a far cry of the propaganda image of north korea, total devotion to supreme leader kim jong un. but what is the reality? to find out, we set up with meeting with a chinese smuggler in a hotel on the border. this place, he say, is crawling with north korean spies. in china, people don't lack food or clothes on their back. but not over there. n even the north korean soldiers have nothing. to trade with, he goes through great risks.

they come here with their boats and they go across the border to north korea, which is just over there, and they do their illegal trade. more than anything else, says chen, the soldiers are desperate for food, bread and rice. they have no money to trade, so they give back scrap metals, old pots, even ginseng. if the soldiers aren't happy, they show it. the north koreans open fire when a deal goes sour, he says. every year smugglers like me are fired upon. chen says he must work in the shadows, but often trade in border cities is out in the open. whole neighborhoods are used by senior north korean officials to move merchandise. critics say it helps prop up the regime. all chen knows, he can never do business with the desperate civilians across the river. the soldiers won't allow it. i hope that north korea will reform and open up like china,

he says, so we can buy and sell things and come and go as we please. >> well, certainly this bridge is a key trade point to north korea, errol. but they're building a new bridge as well. it's hundreds of millions of doll dollars. so it shows while china tries to put pressure on some level of sanctions on the regime that's developing nuclear weapons right behind me, they still are a lifeline for those in charge. >> how challenging or difficult has it been to tell this kind of story where you are? >> well, certainly there are north koreans here in china and they certainly will not talk to us.

they're too afraid of being sent back to north korea. china has had a policy of any refugees escape here to china of being sent back and .often they face harsh discipline indeed. >> but this strip behind the border, there are a whole lot of restaurants and places where people can have musical reviews. we went into some of those. and they're all staffed by north koreans. these are the sons and daughters of often mid looefl party loyalists. they're allowed to come here for three years on special permission and they're closely watched by the spies here. this area, this strange mix of china and north korea, but just behind the camera, there's certainly the hermit kingdom and very little gets out. but trade certainly does. >> such an intriguing place and

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>> welcome back. continuing coverage in the u.s. and around the world. u.s. lawmakers express top health officials. president obama weighs his option. meantime, the second of two nurses at the forefront of the battle in tt u.s. has arrived recently in maryland for treatmen treatment. we're covering several angles on this developing story at this hour. and air strikes continue to pummel isis targets in the city of kobani. what's next for the coalition beyond this syrian city?