♪ it is always so good to wake up to you. thanks for being with us, i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 6:00 on the east coast. we have to start this morning with the dallas health care worker in isolation on a cruise ship that's steaming back to galveston, texas right now. >> she may have handled lab spes sa mens from thomas duncan, the man who died from ebola. belize refused to allow her to

get a flight back to the u.s., despite a statement from secretary of state john kerry. the state department says it's disappointed. as soon as today, we could see new guidelines from the cdc on protective gear. for health care workers, dealing with ebola patients. this, of course, coming under fire after two nurses, who treated duncan, contracted ebola. >> and we have new pictures from inside the cdc's private gulfstream jet that one of those nurses, nina pham, took from dallas to the national institutes of health there in maryland. during thursday's three-hour flight, pham blew in the back of the plane in a specialized containment tent. doctors say she's doing well, sitting up, and eating. texas is now asking every health care worker who had contact with thomas duncan to use any form of public transportation for 21 days. governor rick perry admits mistakes were made.

here's cnn's nick valencia. >> reporter: with texas under criticism, its governor speaks out, rick perry admitting mistakes concerning the state's handling of ebola patients and announce nug measures. >> we must admit, along the way, we've seen ample opportunity for improvement, considering this was the first time that ebola has been diagnosed on american shores. it's perhaps understandable that mistakes were made. but it's also unacceptable. >> reporter: perry's press conference was clouded by critics who say he's been slow to react. and that the state of texas was not ready to battle the ebola threat. all of this as cnn confirms the top epidemiologist for dallas county is now under ebola watch. dr. wendy chung who had direct contact with thomas duncan is one of 76 health care workers currently being monitored tour signs of infection.

clay jenkins said dallas is doing all they can to stop from coming in contact with those who may have been exposed. >> these are hero hometown heroes who are going to honor them. >> reporter: dr. garcia, the dallas county commissioner, said it's a good first step. >> i'm very glad that we finally came, that these -- to the conclusion, that these streamline, new guidelines have to be followed by everyone. this is the only way we're going to give people the -- feel better about the situation. >> reporter: but despite the new steps to prevent ebola from spreading, local leader, bracing for the possibility of more cases. already two dallas nurses who have treated duncan have been hospitalized, after being diagnosed with the virus. both have been transferred out of state to be cared for in special facilities. meanwhile, during a friday rally outside of texas presbyterian --

dozens of nurses marched to show support for a hospital thrust into the spotlight that it never asked more. >> our nick valencia joins us outside of texas presbyterian. now, nick, any person who entered duncan's hospital room cannot travel by plane or go to restaurants or stores until the possibility of infection has passed? expound upon that if you will? >> yeah, that's right, victor. all of these health care workers have actually signed a legal binding document to keep them away from the general public. while they might not all be a threat to the general public, this is as much about public perception here in the state of texas. this is what officials are doing to try to keep everyone calm, victor. >> second nurse, we understand her uncle said she didn't start feeling sick until after she returned to dallas from cleveland? >> well, we know she got on that

plane and she was registering a 99.5 fever. it doesn't fall in line with ebola symptoms. it's about 104. she called the cdc and she was was not told to get on that plane. the cdc director has come out, dr. tom frieden has come out, and says no one has a risk, i should say, a very low risk to other passengers on the plane. still going back to that point, it's really about public perception. that's been a may have battle here, not just across texas but the country. >> nick valencia, thank you so much. ever a allot of pressure, president obama has tapped white house insider ron klain to be the country's so-called ebola czar. >> klain has a pretty good resume following a stint with as the chief of standpoint of vice

president joe biden as pointed out he has no medical experience. >> jim acosta will clue us into what's going on here. jim? >> christi and victor, the white house isn't calling him a czar, but instead, he's an ebola response coordinator. and unlike a czar, klain will not be his own boss. >> reporter: hammered for days the white house is now confident a remedy is in place. >> we've got all hands on deck making sure the government is keeping people safe. >> reporter: the latest on deck, ron klain, a former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore, klain was made famous during the 2000 election recount and the film that had followed. >> mr. vice president, our battle is not yet done. >> reporter: but klain has no medical experience. >> what does ron klain know about ebola? >> what we're looking for is not

an ebola expert but rather an implementation expert. >> reporter: republicans were quick to pounce. >> i'm not sure what pointing someone that has no experience in health care or public health administration is going to do to help stem the tide of ebola in west africa and protect the public health of americans here at home. >> reporter: aides say klain is no all powerful czar, according to susan rise and counterterrorism advisers lisa monaco who answer to the president. earlier this week, the white house insisted monaco could handle the task of being the ebola points person. >> she's a highly capable individual who could fulfill her responsibilities. >> reporter: one day later, the president changed course. >> it may be appropriate for me to appoint an additional person. >> reporter: and more shifts could come. pressure is building on the administration to reconsider a travel ban on flights from west africa. >> i believe it is the right policy to ban air travel from countries that have been hit hardest by the ebola outbreak.

>> reporter: endangered democratic senator kay hagan broke from the president in calling for travel restrictions, with the president indicating he's listening -- >> i don't have a philosophical objection necessarily to a travel ban. >> reporter: -- the white house is no longer knocking it down. >> it's an option that will continue to be on the table. >> the administration announced that speeding up ebola drugs and potentially a vaccine, as for ron klain, the white house would not say when he would be on the job only that it's as early as next week. and to be in the role for five to six weeks. perhaps they can beat this virus by then. >> jim, thank you so much. we need to tell you, for the first time, we're hearing from one of the dallas doctors who treated all three ebola patients including thomas eric did uncan. duncan. duncan was the first person diagnosed with ebola in the u.s. he lost his battle earlier this

month. recently, duncan's family has accused the hospital of not treating him fairly because of his race. our affiliate wfaa had a chance to ask dr. weinstein about those accusations. >> i find that remarkably insulting. that's -- i don't know how better to describe that. the team here worked their tails off to try and save his life. >> do you think you tried everything you could? >> yes. >> do you think he could not be saved? >> yes, he was too sick. >> what was your reaction -- did you know he was dying?

and that it was imminent? >> it is very, very quick. he was critically ill and unstable. and over a period of minutes, he lost his pulse and was dead. >> you could tell it was a bit emotional for the dock terror. our wfaa exclusive which was pointed out dr. weinstein addressed accusations that teams were not given protective gear. he says he was given everything they asked for. a lot of people wondering maybe they had that gear but did they use it properly. >> we'll get answers about protection and treatment from our experts today. a new report has been released on the ferguson shooting of michael brown. and it gives, in part, the police officer's version of what happened the day brown was killed. also, there's a hurricane barreling into bermuda. and a second one hovering close

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man who shot a teen over loud muse nick florida has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. michael dunn was convicted of first degree murder for killing jordan davis. that was in 2012. the prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in this case which was really racially challenged. in business news, starting on monday, you're going to be able to use iphone 6 like cash or credit card, so to speak. that's when apple pay rolls out. about 500 banks are going to support the tech giant's smartphone based system. to use it at participating stores just put your finger on the fingerprint scanner and pull the phone up for the register. the new york jets have acquired percy harvin from the seattle seahawks for a additional draft pick. the trade comes after alleged discord between the scenes between harvin and the seahawks. you know how that goes. let's talk about weather here. hurricane gonzalo -- gonzalo? >> gonzalo. >> gonzalo, thank you.

has now been downgraded to a category 2 tornado not before heavy winds and high surf. but let's talk about what's happening in the pacific. there you got hurricane ana. >> i think it's gonzalo, i said that with such gusto -- >> it's gonzalo. >> just checking. >> a simple electric fan, it is blasting more than just fresh air inside florida's gubernatorial election. >> a debate turned into political theater when one of the contenders refused to take the stage until his opponent's fan was removed from the stage. >> it's bizarre. cnn's suzanne malveaux has more for us. >> the two candidates invited to take part in this debate right now are not stepping up on the stage. ladies and gentlemen, we have an extremely peculiar situation right now.

we had governor charlie crist, we have been told that governor scott will not be participating in this debate. >> reporter: suddenly, the rules of the debate became the biggest issue of the night. >> governor crist has asked to have a fan, a small fan, placed underneath his podium. the rules of the debate that i were shown by the scott campaign say that there should be no fan. somehow there is a fan there. and for that reason, ladies and gentlemen, i am being told that governor scott will not join us for this debate. >> reporter: and so fangate was born. crist seized the moment. >> are we really going to debate about a fan or are we going to talk about the future and the

environment and the future of the state? >> reporter: it was one of the strangest minutes in debates. >> my understanding governor scott will be coming out. frank, have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, i haven't. >> ladies and gentlemen, that has to be the most unique beginning to any debate. >> reporter: charlie crist's portable electric fan has reportedly been blowing at his feet since he ran for education commissioner in 2000. florida republicans created a creative ccist down low, double-teamed. captured by our own candy crowley. it even has its own twitter account. newspaper headlines couldn't resis resist. he wrote about it. there was so much social media buzz about the fan moment that the moderator addressed asking

him why insist on bringing the fan in the first place. he said, why not, is there anything wrong with being more comfortable? he's taking it more seriously, e-mailing voters to urge his reactions ridiculous. >> i remember, it is a person that carries the fan everywhere. >> all the time. >> and that's -- he turns to them and says, can you turn the fan up a skosh? that's the first time i heard the word "skosh" by the way. a texas hospital, getting back to the top story, says it's deeply sorry for mistakes made in handling ebola. but are other hospitals any equipped to deal with the american virus. an american doctor who took care of ebola patients in the hard-hit west african nation is going to join us next.

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symptoms and there may be false alarms and concerns. and so we're going to spend a lot of time working with our public health workers to make sure that they feel safe and adequately protected. >> so the question is, are hospitals, are health care workers, ready for this potentially growing problem of ebola? and if not, how far do they have to go? >> i think that everyone has a lot of work to do, in order to make sure that we're protecting the people on the front lines. and really protecting everyone in this country. and that includes both the focus on the equipment and as well as the process that goes along with protectinging them. >> let's talk more about the protection because this week we heard from a nurse at texas presbyterian hospital in dallas. who said that the nurses there do not have the proper equipment. you worked in guinea. compare what is being described inside that hospital, their protection equipment, and what you had, working in guinea? was it the same?

>> no, i mean, it was very different. and i would offer there's really no consensus among the major organizations that are fighting the current outbreak with respect to the equipment. so what i was wearing -- >> explain that. >> well, i think to be honest, all the recommendations will protect the health care provider if they wear them the correct way and more importantly that they take them off the correct way. so processes is one of the most important aspects of this approach. >> we're seeing pictures of you right now in guinea, as you work there to try to stop the spread of ebola. this week, president obama -- actually, yesterday, president obama appointed ron klain or named him as his so-called ebola czar. no medical experience, do you think that makes a difference? >> well i think there's two aspects about this virus. one is the protection, using equipment and infection control mechanisms to protect health care workers. the other aspect is really controlling the fear that goes

along with ebola. and fear can be an incredibly paralyzing force and we have to overcome that fear. i think having someone that can reassure the public and help communicate information is a key piece to controlling fear. >> in addition to relaying information, there has to be a response. we heard from director frieden, we heard from the president calling for an ebola s.w.a.t. team of sorts from the cdc to be ready to deploy anywhere in the u.s. to help local hospitals respond. if this grows and theoretically, we've heard that it possibly will grow, are there enough medical experts with the cdc to have the resources to go to these locations? these huge teams, do we have enough? >> well, we certainly -- there's a growing number of people with experience with ebola. i mean, that's one of our major limitations right now is that we have very little data about the

care of patients with ebola because we've never seen it in this country before. and we also have very few number us of people who actually have clinical experience with the virus, but that number is growing, unfortunately. i think that's a good start but i think we can do more. >> we have a piece on cnn written by a physician and journalist. he says why the cdc chief must go. he says he's a good man but lacks the management skills to properly run what essentially i guess he's considering a crisis. what do you think about that? >> well, first, i think it's been a humanitarian crisis for a long time, especially in west africa. . secondly, i think there's a time for finger pointing that we can deal with later. right now, we have to get to work and focus on a solution to the current problem. >> dr. william fisher, thank you for being with us and sharing your photographs of your experience in guinea. christi. all right, the nigerian

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this rare news. tariq is with us on the phone. the spokesman for the world health organization. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. i wanted to ask you, first all, before we get to senegal, there have certainly been a lot of reports this week about the w.h.o. blaming an incompetent staff and lack of information in the u.n., for not being able to better handle this outbreak and this crisis. it said, quote, nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall. what specifically do you think was missed? and by whom? >> well, christi, we are definitely monitoring our response and time will come where we'll be able to analyze it. and see exactly what could have been done better. and what would have been done more. right now, really, we are trying to focus on how to make the

response as efficient as possible. how to achieve those very ambitious goals that have said to have 70% of those people in those affected countries in treatment centers and 70% of burials of people who died from ebola being buried in a safe way by end of november. so, definitely, we have been all taken by surprise by how this outbreak has stretched geographically beyond the initial area. how it reached the capital, and how we found ourselves behind the disease. definitely, this is something that will be looked into from all of the organizations who have been enrolled. this is something that we are trying to document as we go. but, again, we should focus right now in the best interests of victims who help guinea, liberia and sierra leone.

>> let me ask you this because i know the w.h.o. is predicting as many as 10,000 new case per week in guinea and sierra leone alone by the end of the year. what specifically do you think is being done that might be able to thwart that proliferation? >> we hope, christi, it it will not get there. this is the projection if the response stays as the same way it is now. but we hope we will be able to bend the curve by the end of the year. how we do that, we are right now building more than 40 centers in those three countries. we are training health workers. i've been in liberia two weeks ago when we opened a training center for health workers. so they get trained and equipped before they are sent into these newly built health ebola treatment centers so they know how to help patients while staying safe. so there are a lot of people on the ground right now, working around the clock to provide what is needed so we get to this

point of 70% of infected people being treated appropriately. and having enough of teams to do safe burials. have epidemiological surveillance teams to check on contacts. it's very ambitious, but we just need really to bend the curve. it will take time to get to zero, that's for sure. but at least, we need to stop this escalating numbers that you're seeing. >> sure. again, let's get back to senegal here as you declared them virus-free. and they share a border with guinea. we know that they closed their borders. do you think closing borders is part of the answer here? specifically maybe if you close borders and you don't necessarily, i guess, people -- sick people out. but then you flood that country with help. is that part of what you think had might alleviate -- >> we are against closing boards. we are against suspending flighting and doing travel ban.

this is not the way forward. because borders can never really be completely closed. and it will just put additional burden in those countries that would make problem in getting in supplies and getting in personnel. that would have a horrible psychological impact on those populations. what is need and what should commence is that there are exit screenings at the airports and land border crossings from those three countries, to neighboring countries, or the airport, whatever the destination is, so people who are visibly sick do not board a plane or are checked at the borders, and they do not really carry the virus away. because we know this is what happened when a liberian man travelled to nigeria and started a transmission chain there. exit screening, yes, but closing borders not something we recommend. >> we appreciate you taking time for us today. thank you so much. car bombs have exploded in baghdad. right now, no one is claiming

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another major story we're following this morning. the battle to defeat isis in syria and iraq and possibly a shift, as we discuss kobani there, near the border there with turkey and syria. isis may be playing right into the coalition's handed. u.s. central command said legions of fighters have poured in that besieged city of kobani. we saw action there this morning. a top general says that's giving coalition planes direct targets to strike. that's about this with major general james "spider" marks. >> morning. >> good morning. we're hearing about air strikes, there was no one on the ground to direct the strikes. could this now about a game changer? >> well, if the syrian kurds are

providing this direct level of support for targeting, that means there's either equipment with the syrian kurds or there is equipment and personnel with the syrian kurds and i would suggest it's the latter. so there probably are some special forces individuals on the ground with the kurds in a looser arrangement, that allows them to mark some targets. what you have to understand, of course, that allows those special forces to come across the border from turkey, conduct some operations and possibly get back to turkey to seek some refuge. but it's certainly a step up when you can mark targets that precisely and then have the results. >> a week ago, we heard from the pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kirby that we should be, quote, stilling ourselves for reality, suggesting that kobani will fall in other parts of syria and other parts of iraq. this week, we're hearing and seeing that there is a concerted effort to protect kobani, to go after targets there. why the shift? >> well, the deal with kobani is

that, victor, tactically, kobani is essentially insignificant. it's another town along the stretch of border between syria and turkey that isis already controls. so they are -- isis, are consolidating in kobani. the strategic importance of kobani is the act of taking it. this has a tremendous communications and recruitment value to isis. this is a perception that has great strategic importance. so, it's from that optic, that kobani becomes important. fact that isis may in fact be struggling a little bit, in kobani, because of the resistance by both pkk or others, is really lend to get coalition's ability to see coalesce targets. we can now go after isis targets that in formations as they try to take kobani.

it has become a magnet, therefore a target for the strikes. >> a lot of pictures there of kobani with the smoke plumes we saw with the bombings and reports about isis, we saw action there today. how credible do you see the roars coming up from this london-based group that the isis fighters have acquired their own air power, three warplanes and former iraqi military officers are now training with them to fly these warplanes? >> well, i would suggest that we not hype this report, and i know we're not, we're simply reporting the facts as they exist. >> yeah. >> three airplanes don't equal air power. the fact that iraqi -- former iraqi officers may in fact be training fighters to take over these aircraft and achieve some level of competence to get these things off the ground is probably true. we should expect is that. the key issue is to watch this, not to spend a lot of time concerned about it.

but to stay persistent, watch it, make sure it doesn't advance into a certain direction where it could become a greater threat. i think that can be done not easily -- but it can be done simply through routine activities. so i would not overhype it. i'd put it on the shelf and say it's a curiosity. our intelligence community is watching it. we'll keep you posted as we go along. but it is something that we should watch, certainly. >> all right, general james "spider" marks, thank you for your insight. >> thank you, victor. using horses, think about this, to bring children back to their childhood. and towards a brighter future as they grow. meet one of this year top ten cnn heroes next.

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two dallas nurses who got ebola after treating thomas eric duncan, the liberian man who died earlier this month. >> we have new pictures from inside the cdc jet that pham took. pham flew in the back of the plane in a specialized containment tank. frontier airlines, on the other hand, says it's contacted up to 800 passengers who may have flown on a commercial jet with the other nurse amber vinson before her ebola diagnosis. >> now a dallas health worker who may have handled lab specimens is still in quarantine in her cab on a cruise ship. a self-imposed quarantine. the ship also could not get permission in time to dock in mexico. some believe it was a bow to public pressure.

otherwise, the white house has tapped democratic insider ron klain to be the country's called ebola czar. klain really has an impressive resume including as a stint as the former chief of staff to vice president joe biden. but as his critics are quick to point out, he has no medical experience. here's cnn's erin mcpike. >> reporter: after weeks of mistakes dealing with ebola -- >> frankly, i'd like to know who's in charge. >> reporter: -- president obama caved to critics nominating an ebola czar. ron klain to coordinate the approach. >> we've got an all hands on deck response to make sure of the government is keeping people safe. >> reporter: but klain is best known pour political messages and has no experience in health.

klain appointment critics came first. >> it's not sole a medical response. what we were looking for is not on ebola expert. but rather an implementation expert. and that's exactly what ron klain is. he is somebody that has extensive experience in the federal government. he's somebody that has extensive management experience when it comes to the private sector. >> reporter: the white house is as fending off growing calls from both sides of the aisle to ban travel from affected countries in west africa. >> air travel is in fact how this disease crosses borders. and it certainly has gotten to texas in the first place. and based on recent and ongoing developments, i believe it is the right policy to ban air travel from countries that have been hit had hardest by the ebola outbreak. >> reporter: erin mcpike, cnn, the white house. all right, erin, thank you. and we'll get more on nina pham.

athena jones is outside the national institutes of health in maryland where she's being treated. good to see you, what do we know this morning about her condition, not just physically, but emotionally as well? >> reporter: good morning, christi. well, nina pham arrived here at nih just over 30 hours ago. so she hasn't been here long. she's being cared for at a special care unit with has experience dealing with the sickest patients. we haven't got an update on her condition, but we're told we would be updated on any change. what we know, she's in fair condition. she's stable, she's resting comfortably. she say she's sitting up, eating, able in good spirits able to interact with hospital staff and caregivers. we know her mother and sister are in the area to be near her to offer support. we talk about a team of highly specialized, highly trained, doctors, nurses, technicians and other experts.

the nurses are working in 12 of had hour shifts, about four or five nurses on each shift. anytime a nurse, anyone has to go into the room where nina pham is being kept in isolation, they have to go in pairs, and that's being done out of abundance of caution. we want to make sure the nurses follow a buddy system. they want to make sure there's no breach in protocol. nothing wrong with the hazmat suits that they're wearing just to make sure the nurses are not exposed. doctors were asked about nina pham's prognosis, but they did say people can recover from this disease. let's play a little bit about what dr. anthony fauchi said that. >> when you say recover, well do everything we can to make that

happen. >> we do know nina pham received a blood transsuggestion from dr. kent brantly. he's been donating his blood to several other patients. it's believed that his plasma does contain ebola antibodies that could be of help. doctors say other experimental treatments are on the table. that's the latest update. christi. >> that was my question, experimental treatments are on the table, but they haven't necessarily utilized them yet? >> not that they've been able to report yesterday. what they told us, they're going to be in discussions with nina pham to talk about how much they can share with the press and the public without violating the patient confidentiality. we do know about that blood transfusion. of course, doctors have stated it's unclear which of these trucks are working. even if patients have been given experimental drugs, it's not totally clear that is what caused them to recover. this is a clinical study, research hospital, they're going to be doing a lot of research on

her, hopefully, to help learn how to treat other ebola patients. to learn more about the virus, what works, how it develops. >> athena jones, we appreciate the information. thank you. the second dallas nurse with ebola is being treated at atlanta's emory university hospital. amber vinson has been in the hospital since tuesday but not before she had flown to ohio and back to texas, possibly exposing other passengers to the deadly virus on those flights. national correspondent susan candiotti has more for us this morning. >> reporter: new details emerging about nurse amber vinson who began feeling ill during a trip to ohio one week ago. she wasn't showing any visible signs of illness at a bridal shop last saturday at a fitting for her bridesmaids. >> she was have ago a great day, yeah. she was with her friends, they were very calm, cool, collected. >> reporter: then things changed. officials say something wasn't quite right the next day.

>> she rested for a long time on some days. she said she felt funny, those types of things but nothing specific. and the judgment that we came up to is that we can't rule out that she wasn't ill, okay, for the time that she was here in ohio. >> reporter: of the 16 people under quarantine in two ohio counties, only one, her stepdad with whom she was staying is under a close watch at home. the other 15 had less contact. including someone from the plane she flew on, her bridesmaids, those with them. and two people who work at the bridal shop she visited. all are allowed to monitor themselves, staying at home, at the health department's direction. >> we are talking to them. we have seen them every day since we verified who they were. they are not having any symptoms either. >> reporter: the cdc admits the

first advice it gave nurse vinson was wrong. she should not have been cleared to get on a flight back to dallas, even with a low grade fever. >> i wish that we had a different policy at the time that we're following. now we are following it more stringent. >> and susan joins us live from akron, ohio. susan, first, how is amber vinson doing? and have any of the people she had contact with shown any symptoms of ebola? >> a good question. you know, we haven't had any recent updates about amber vinson's condition there at emory hospital in atlanta. but the last we heard was on thursday had from one of her uncles who said that she was doing all right. in terms of other cases in the state of ohio. health department officials, from the state and county assure us, that they have no ebola cases here. and perhaps as importantly, no one else is showing any symptoms at all. and they're very happy about

that victor. >> so, of course, the most controversial element of this case was were flight from dallas to cleveland and then back. we know that texas has made some changes. has had ohio instituted any change? >> well, they sure have. one example of that is how they define when you have contact with someone who has ebola. so, for example, they've cast a wider net, you could say, in terms of that. if you perhaps were in a room with someone, as we have the case here, maybe three feet away. it goes beyond that -- it doesn't mean you're necessarily in any danger. but they would want to talk to you to find out how close were you? how did you interact? how was the other person, the victim, the patient, reacting so they could reach out and gather more information in order to try to prevent the spread of the disease. >> all right, susan candiotti live for us this morning in akron, thank you. well, the man accused of

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a rare bit of good news in the ongoing ebola crisis. the world health organization has declared the ebola outbreak over in sin that gallo senegal. let's talk about the situation with gavin mcgregor skinner, he's an infectious deese control expert. let's start first with senegal, declaring the outbreak, the crisis over in senegal. senegal closed its border with laboring guinea. there's some in this country saying the u.s. should close the border, what do you think? >> no victor, we should not close the border in the u.s.

it's contiguous in senegal. they made a good decision there. they also increased their surveillance. at the community level, they used text messages and actually rewarding people for responsible behavior. >> of course, closing the border here would mean banning flights from those three inflicted countries. and i you would say, i assume, that banning flights are a bad idea? >> it is because so many people require transport to west africa to fight ebola but also back. what are my friends and colleagues in west africa going to do when they're actively fighting ebola. they get fatigued, this is mentally intensive and they need to come back to the taos see their families. we all want to go back to west africa. i've had had contact with many ebola patients. i've never put myself in quarantine. i never put my team in quarantine but i do control the movement of my team for 21 days.

>> let's talk about contact. because we've heard from kentucky senator rand paul, he said this, i'm going to quote him that if someone has has ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them. we do know there are health researchers including lisa bruceo that say they believe ebola could spread through the air. here's a quote. we believe there's scientific and ep deem logic evidence that the ebola virus has the ability to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles via near infectious patients. is that possible? >> victor, that's an important question. we need someone to manage the event, both in the response and also the research. we need to create transparency and collaboration for research so we have many experts, my colleagues and friends, around it working actively with ebola every day. as they get those results, they need a plat tomorrow so other

scientific experts can look at it. we haven't even incentivized the research. the research we're seeing at the moment is that there has not been sufficient mutations for it to become air row sole in the long distance. in the training i do. we teach the six feet rule. if you're not wearing the p.p., take the six-feet control. >> carnival cruise lines we know that they have this worker who was possibly exposed to the specimen from thomas eric duncan on a self-quarantine on the ship. they also receive to let any passenger who has a ticket to board one of their ships. but if they've been to guinea, liberia, sierra leone, the last 21 days, they will not be allowed on board. do you expect we'll see more of these de facto bans from independent companies? >> not if i get your help, victor. i need the help of every journalist in this country.

we are seeing so much irrational behavior when it comes to ebola. let's stick with the facts. and the facts have to be reiterated all the time. direct contact with all those body fluids that we reported about. then you have to put your hands or whatever part of the body fluids in your eye, your nose, your mouth. it doesn't get absorbed through your skin. patient, people cannot spread the ebola unless showing the symptoms of fever, volting or diarrhea. if we can get that message out every hour of the day, i need every journalist to help me with this, we can decrease the fear and alleviate all the worries and concerns that the u.s. public has. >> gavin mcgrener skinner with pennsylvania state university. thank you so much. >> you're welcome, victor. we're going to continue that conversation, also talking about what's been going on for weeks now. isis, they've been trying to capture a syrian town right on turkey's door steps. here's pictures of what's going on. we've been seeing plumes of

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demonstrators. more than 30 people were arrested during violent clashes with police. scores of injuries have been reported. now, the situation, we're told, remains calm but demonstrations are expected tonight. government officials confirmed to cnn that they will meet with student protest leaders on tuesday. number two, 16 people fell to their death at a concert in south korea. look at this. a ventilation grate apparently that they were standing on sent fans plunging four stories to the ground. at least 11 or people injured. three of them seriously. official handling measures for the concert has been found dead in an apparent suicide. number three now, nine people were killed in baghdad after a car bomb exploded outside of a theater last night. according to officials, 27 people were injured. police say the bomb went off as people were leaving the concert. it's suspected that isis is

behind this attack. the terror group has claimed responsibility for a series of other bombings in recent days. number four, the nigerian government said it's reached a cease-fire agreement with boko haram. the deal came thursday night includes up discussed successions by the group. the deal includes the release of more than 200 kidnapped school girls. the girls would be released in phases, but they did not get a timetable. >> number five, a comment will come, too close to mars tomorrow afternoon. the comet called siding spring. how close, victor? glad you asked. 87,000 miles. that's close when you're talking about infinite space. the scientists say the comet's trail of dust and gas could damage satellites orbiting mars.

>> the top american commander in the middle east says isis' efforts to capture the syrian city of kobani may be back firing now. >> my goal is to defeat and ultimately destroy isil. and if he continues to present us with major targets as he has done in the kobani area, then clearly, we'll service those targets and we've done so very effectively here. >> let's bring in christopher harmon, he's a senior naval analyst for the institute of the study of war. thank you for being with us, sir. he was talked about there, the modified movements even traveling as civilians rather than large groups. would that not hinder the ability to target them. >> good morning, pleasure to be with you. yes, as long as isis continues to mix in with the population, it's going to be increasingly difficult for american warplanes to strike them. initially and kobani, what isis has done is set up checkpoints.

when they're out there exposed on the deserts and hills and the plains, it's relatively easy to get them. once they're embedded it's relatively impossible for an aircraft to take that kind of action. >> i am going to quote here, i think you have to take away their ability to sustain themselves, finance themselves. how do you do that? what's the first thing you look to destroy in the regime? >> the first thing if you're looking at the long war from the strategic perspective, you have to remove the supportive population for the islamic state. i don't think the islamic state method of governance is sustainable. people are going to rebel the top-down very fascist religious organization if you want. i don't think there's that many people that want to live under that theocracy. the short term, we make sure the political process in iraq is working and we apply significant

pressure or at least a solution in syria. the problem in syria, there is no political solution that anybody can point to right now. we've got a completely decentral government. and until there's a political solution in syria, there's going to be no way to defeat the islamic state in syria. >> i just want to make note that the pictures we're looking at here are live pictures of kobani. you can see a plume of smoke to the left on your screen. it has been relatively quiet. maybe some sort of fighting or attacks are alive once again there in the city. but i want to get back to you, christopher. because, i'm wondering, you talk about the governments, you know, in syria and iraq and they're unstable. what about the leadership of isis itself. do they have a central command, is baghdadi still in charge?

>> yes, that's a great question and they do have a central command, still in charge, how disciplined their civilian workers are, that's one of the reasons they've been so successful. they've got a specific chain of command and they follow that. there's no sense of that pushback internal to isis. pretty much everybody in isis knew that was the deal when they got involved. this was a theocracy. it's highly arcical. what i'm talking about is creating a commit between isis and the population that it governs. isis is already doing that, they're making enough mistakes in their methods of governance. but i think the civilian population is going to rebel. what we need to make sure once that split between isis and the civilian paul las vegas occurs, we got to make sure the central government in baghdad is ready to pick up the pieces in governing a holistic and

respectful manner. >> bob baer a couple weeks ago said it's hard to get inside because isis is so hostile. the kurds are giving intel. how might that help? >> that's one of the problems. one of the problems that the military has if they're striking a bridge or oil refinery, that's an easy target. if they're trying to strike foot infa infantry, they need live intel on the ground. what the kurds are able to give us is that live intel for the proper communication and proper technology. >> christopher harmon, i appreciate your perspective today. thank you. >> thank you. >> if you're looking for the latest information on ebola, you probably want to rethink going to ebola.com. we'll explain white website's owner might be more interested in making money than preventing an outbreak. also, we're going to take you to hawaii -- well, not really. but we're going to show you how a storm is taking aim at the

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if you're trying to go to ebola.com, you know, just trying to get some information about the virus, well there is some info there, yes. but the owner of that domain name is putting it up for sale. >> according to "the washington post" john schultz wants $150,000 for ebola.com. he bought it six years ago for a little more than $13,000. and people would say, that's smart. this isn't the first time that this guy has done this. the schultz owns bird flu.com and h1n1.com. and terror.com and fukushima.com. got a wide range of interests. >> cnn technology expert brett larson is there with us now. >> good morning. >> good morning. this guy, we know, profiting on a deadly disease, but gobbling up domain names that's nothing new. people squat on these names all

the time, right? >> absolutely. this was huge during the first rush in the early 2000s. there were many anecdotal names that later became a popular company or purchasing a domain similar to another name, if you say, this is if you owned amazons.com, maybe amazon would want that in case somebody created a typo. this is a new twist on domain squatting, where this guy is actively reading headlines and finding news stories so they could find specific words. ebola.com, for example, he bought back in 2007, 2008 for about $13,000. so he stands to make a pretty significant amount of money if this virus continues to be a tragedy. >> well, if anybody is willing to pay what he's asking for. is there any way -- because this could be, you know, a global

crisis is there any way to wrestle that domain name away from somebody without having to pay that kind of money? >> there is some possibility of doing that, usually that involves where things are trademarked. if you, for example, happen to get your hands on cocacola.com. you can't squat on that because that's a trademark and ebola is a name of a virus and no one actually owns that name. there's probably a loophole that people could thread a needle with, and say this is a protected name and something that doesn't belong in the public domain and we need to take control of that. or somebody could usurp him and create ebola.com. big week for apple. ipad air. what's the big deal with this, and what's new here?

>> you know, it's interesting for tablet makers, apple being one, samsung, google what have you. the market has been saturated with tablets. unlike smartphones, we don't replace our tablets every two years. apple came to the table with ipad air. it's thinner, it's the touch i.d. and you can unlock it by tapping your finger on it. i think it will sell well, i think they were hoping, you know, to inject a little enthusiasm back in the tablet space. we'll see how that goes. preorders haven't started yesterday. we haven't had problems when people hear the new iphones come out new macs and apple pay will be starting on monday. so you can start to use this as your pay thing. >> what is your take on that? 220,000 stores. mc mcdonald's, whole foods, places you can use this. how confident are you in the

security of it? >> i'm pretty confident. the retailers they picked were smart choices. they didn't go with random out of the way places. mcdonalds, dwayne reed and walgreens. places where people may or may not think they want to use a contacts payment system or they want to use their phone system to pay. but it's going to be right there in front of them and they're going to see the convenience of it. that's what consumers need to say. google wallet and pay pal. in this instance, i think it's really smart, because it's going to be everywhere. and people are going to see other people doing it. it really boils down to, i'd like to use my sister as an example, sorry, tiffany. it needs to be convenient for her. when she's checking out at target or walgreens or whole foods, she needs to say, oh,

that's it. i want to do that again. that's what the consumer experience needs to be like. i think apple is able to pull it off. >> thank you, brett. >> tiffany, giving a shoutout on saturday morning. >> thank you. so we're talking about a couple hurricanes. one is gonzalo, land into bermuda. lights are out in a lot of places there. grateful it's not worse. we'll have the latest on that.

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day it's -- >> in bermuda, hurricane gonzalo has knocked power four out of five homes there. meantime, in hawaii, hurricane ana is just another reason to hang out on the waves there for stop surfers. but the governor has declared a state of emergency, so a really serious situation. >> yes, it is. let's go to meteorologist chad myers. how serious, chad? >> well, you know, ana is going to affect hawaii. three storms are going to affect hawaii and that hasn't happened since 1994. let's go back to bermuda for a second. the owner of that sailboat not a happy camper. that's a mast and a stay. it depends on how much he wanted

his boat anyway. the happiest days when you get it, the happiest days when it goes away. not a lot of damage. i've looked at this picture for a long time today from portbermudawebcam.com. we know that things didn't get too bad overnight when you see the palms ripped away and palm tree ripped in half, that's when you have problems. ana had the potential last week of going right through the big island. something like that. that is not going to happen. it's going to stay well south of the big island and then turn to the north. there will be plenty of south-facing shores here with big, big swells. so you think about oahu. most of the time you hear north shore, which means most of the time that's where the waves come in along the north shore of

hawaii. that's not the same story for this storm here. here's what ana looks like. there's the big island right through there. it's a complete miss. good news there. 85 miles per hour other than some upslope winds. when they blow up the hill or up the volcano. you can get a lot of rain and flash flooding. other than that, there's no real threat. now, surfers are happy. if you're a surfer, you better be a good surfer because the waves are pretty big and they are on the wrong side than what you are used to. >> thank you, chad. after weeks of criticism, the white house has finally named an ebola czar. >> yeah. his name is ron klain. he's no stranger to washington. stay with us. at the top of the hour, we'll tell you why some critics say klain is not the right man for this job. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that

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>> i do recognize myself in it. i know sometimes i like like that at people. when you go to a gallery or museum, you wonder, who is this person? why did they choose to paint that? so it would be quite fantastic if it happened to this painting. >> you can watch the full show at cnn.com/onestowatch. stay with us. we have a very busy morning of news ahead. >> the next hour of "new day" starts right now. we're so glad you're here. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. >> there's a new person in charge of ebola. >> his name is ron klain.

some republicans are not happy that he doesn't have public health experience. >> a dallas lab worker, who may have had indirect contact with thomas eric duncan is still in voluntary isolation on a cruise ship. the carnival ship "magic" could not get permission to dock in belize or mexico. >> i think it's more of a holy cow, we're on a boat with an ebola scare. i don't think it's, i need to get off of here. i'm sick. >> they never said "ebola." they said the hospital several times where this person worked but never said the word ebola. not sure why. maybe they didn't want to cause panic but clearly everybody knew what they were talking about. >> look at these pictures of nina pham. she's on a private jet that took her from dallas to maryland. he's one of the two nurses who

contracted ebola after treating duncan. amber vinson is being treated in atlanta. >> obviously we are covering the ebola story from all angles here. cnn's erin mcpike is joining us and so is athena jones from maryland. >> let's talk about the ebola czar with erin mcpike. good morning. >> good morning. you'll remember after the president took office in 2009, it was ron klain who was the point person responsible for overseeing the distribution of the funding and that is the point that the white house is making, that ron klain has a lot of experience in government. well, listen here to white house press secretary josh earnest press that case yesterday. >> i think what you can assume mr. klain's role will be will be an important high level implementation role and ultimately it will be his responsibility to make sure that

all of the government agencies who are responsible for aspects of this response, that their efforts are carefully integrated. he will also be playing a role in making sure the decisions get made. >> earnest also made the point that klain has a lot of good relationships on capitol hill but, of course, that was no consolation to republicans. we got a number of statements very quickly after they confirmed this pick that republicans were upset that he didn't have this background in public health. and i want to read one of those statements to you. it comes from the house of foreign affairs committee and he said, "i have to ask why the president didn't pick an individual with a noteworthy infectious disease or public health background." that's why some people are saying it's purely political. >> erin, it seems -- and tell me if there's anything more to support this statement -- that

the white house is absolute about not implementing a travel ban. what are you hearing? >> victor, for the most part, that is correct. we have heard from the white house senior adviser tom pheiffer and dr. frieden that people would travel into the united states anyway. we have also heard from secretary of state john kerry and he is essentially shifting the blame to other countries for having even weaker responses. >> erin mcpike in washington for us, thank you very much. >> let's talk about nina pham. athena jones is live in maryland where she is being treated. what is her condition,

emotionally as well? >> reporter: good morning. she's been here for just over 30 hours. doctors told us we would get updates when her condition changes. the latest we know on her, she's in fair condition, she's stable, she's resting comfortably. she's able to sit up and eat and interact with her caregivers. we know her mother and sister are in the area to offer their support. this is someone that is constantly being cheered up. she's being cared for by a team of highly trained nurses and doctors and other experts and these nurses are working in two 12-hour shifts. anytime anyone has to go into the room where nina pham is being kept in isolation, they have to go in pairs. this is the buddy system and it's being done out of abundance of caution to make sure there's no broach in protocols. of course, the nurses are wearing these hazmat suits and want to make sure that each is

looking out for the other to make sure the nurses themselves are not exposed to this virus. doctors would not make any predictions on how nina pham will fair but asked if this illness is something you can recover from. here's what dr. anthony fauci said. let's play that. >> when you say recoverable, in the sense of recovery? absolutely. we fully intend to have this patient walk out of this hospital and we'll do everything we possibly can to make that happen. >> and, of course, this hospital has a lot of experience treating the sickest people that come to this hospital, the sickest patients. and i should mention that one of the patients who has recovered from ebola, we're talking about dr. kent brantly who was stricken with the illness while in africa and recovered, nina has received his blood donation. that's one of the experimental treatments that we know that

miss pham has gotten and doctors are open to others. we'll be getting updates when there's a change in her condition. also, doctors have talked with her just about how much information they can share with the press and public without violating her patient privacy and confidentiality. >> athena jones, thank you so much. now to a story we've been keeping a really close eye on. "the new york times" this morning is reporting new details about the death of michael brown by a ferguson, missouri, police officer. >> it's giving officer darren wilson's side of the story in more detail and providing forensic tests on his car. nick valencia is joining us and we're joined on the phone by danny self val lose. nick, what do you know about the details of this report? >> reporter: good morning, christi.

we should mention that cnn cannot independently confirm these details. but as you mentioned, it seems to back up the story of officer wilson that michael brown, who was shot and killed by wilson, reached into the car and that there was a struggle that ensued. the newspaper goes on to cite forensic evidence saying that blood of michael brown was found on the gun, uniform, and police cruiser. "the new york times" reports that the gun went off at least two times in that car with one shot hitting michael brown in the arm and the other bullet missing. i was there in ferguson last month as well as other reporters and it was a very tense situation and it still is. much was made about what happened outside the car with mike brown supporters saying that his hands were up when the officer shot him. mike brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head. now today, this morning, this new york times report makes a lot about what happened inside that car. now, we haven't heard yet the reaction from ferguson but

there's no telling what kind of reaction it will ensue to the conversation. again, i should mention, a very tense situation already in ferguson. now, this new report this morning, "the new york times" detailing what happened inside that car. again, cnn cannot independently confirm those details. christi? >> let's go now to danny cevallos who is on the phone with us. i want to separate the forensic results from the narrative. let's start with the forensics. the fbi testing, according to this report from "the new york times," that the gun was fired twice inside the cruiser, once shooting michael brown in the arm and the other shot missing. is there any way, if those tests prove to be -- if the report proves to be accurate from "the new york times," that you see this going to -- and with charges against this officer?

>> well, two narratives sort of emerge. if it's proven, if it's demonstrated that there really was a positive gunshot residue test and the gun was shot in the car and there was blood in the car, now, those two narratives are either that officer brown decided very early on to shoot michael brown for no reason and pull him into the car. i think that may be a little more difficult for people to believe. on the other hand, it does go towards supporting officer darren wilson's version of the story. so i think now we're moving farther and farther away from potential charges against darren wilson if this report is accurate because not obama does it demonstrate the possibility of a scuffle in the car or exacerbate the seriousness of it, but it also backs up officer wilson's story and refutes dorian johnson's story. from the beginning, i think dorian johnson's story from the

beginning, very different from officer wilson, over time has been chipped away by the actual forensics, the physical evidence, the circumstantial evidence. the more we see that circumstantial evidence refute or align with a particular witnesses' version of the story, including officer wilson's, the farther we're getting away from officer wilson being indicted. >> nick, let's talk about that. the details in this are very different, obviously, from what witnesses say that they saw happen on that day. have you heard of any witnesses coming out saying that they saw a struggle in the car? or are all of these witnesses people who perhaps, if there was such a struggle, missed that part of it and just saw the aftermath? >> well, we heard a lot of conversations while we were there. some people saying that they saw that struggle. other people saying that that never happened, that darren

wilson was the aggressor. principally saying that darren wilson was the aggressor, that he threw the door into them, came inches away with his car. there's no videotape -- there's a videotape of the shooting but this is what happened afterwards. the shooting of mike brown's body afterwards lying in the street. there's no video of what happened. so this really is has been played and nuanced to the conversation and the facts will come out and he did nothing wrong during this incident. and while we hear that side of the story, again, this other narrative, the other side of the story from mike brown supporters saying that there's a culture of indifference there, there's injustice, that those in the community there in ferguson, especially from the african-american community, feel that they are racially profiled and targeted and that mike brown

is a microcosm of an issue in ferguson. just different sides of the story. this "new york times'" report seems to back up darren wilson's side of the story. the report goes on to say that they don't believe darren wilson has done anything or violated any civil rights. again, the sourcing on this, cnn cannot confirm this report. victor, christi? >> well, we'll see what the reaction is today. nick valencia, thank you. >> thank you, also, to danny cevallos joining us on the phone. ebola's arrival in the united states has fast-tracked the race for a cure. >> we're going to talk to an epidemiologist about finding a real vaccine for this.

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landfall in hilo, according to the models. they are not always right. and we're happy because the storm is well down to the south. here's hawaii for you right now. since 1959, hawaii has had 12 storms, only 12 within 60 miles of making landfall. and if you talk to anybody in hawaii or at least kuaui, only three storms making landfall in the past 55 years. the storms go south and north or by the time they get to hawaii, they just fizzle out. guys? >> good for them. >> chad myers, thank you so much. >> thanks, chad. we're going to get back to this morning's top story. joining us is a doctor with the infectious disease society of america. i want to start with the fda's clearance of trials for a new

drug. chimerix, i believe it is. >> it's clearly a high demand for these drugs and used on an experimental basis. we clearly need to have these counter measures and these anti-virals available. as this continues, we may get more imported cases and we have areas in africa that may be able to use these drugs and the quicker we have these drugs, the better. we still need to do the prevention to stop these outbreaks but it's great to have these jobs. >> how much is it available? >> it's a very scarce resource and it's trickling in. it's really a matter of what is available and what the patient consents to. the patients and hospitals have to agree to give it on an experimental basis. we don't have good data in

humans although we have great animal data. >> i know there are geopolitical differences between senegal and the u.s. but what, if anything, can the united states learn from that country? >> we can learn that a very fast prompt response that isolated the contacts and kept the patients safe and from infecting others can work. and we've known that. 24 times this has worked. you need a minimal amount of health infrastructure to do it. if senegal can do it, the united states can do it. >> so where do you think that the u.s. dropped the ball? >> we're seeing a ripple effect from an error that happened when the diagnosis was missed when mr. duncan went to the hospital. he was sent home and got sicker. then he comes back in, gets admitted to the icu, heroic

measures to save his life, getting continuous dialysis which are all things that have blood and body fluid exposure risks, much higher than we've ever seen with another ebola patient. it's a ripple effect that we've seen. travel history was not part of the treatment decision making on the visit to the emergency room department. >> and the protocols, the fact that people say there didn't seem to be enough or any at the end of the day, especially for that hospital. doctor, appreciate your insight. thank you, sir. pressure is on to find a vaccine to stop the spread of ebola. we'll talk to a researcher and hear his thoughts. leave it to washington to turn the ebola crisis into a case of political mudslinging. the political fallout, ahead. when a pro at any 2014 pga tour event sinks a hole-in-one,

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. 24 minutes past the hour and the race is on to find a vaccine for the deadly ebola virus. supplies of zmapp ran out and joining me is a professor from the university of texas at galveston. he's done extensive research on ebola and the containment. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> how soon do you think it will be before we likely see an ebola

vaccine? >> i think it's going to be sometime next year. we've made a lot of progress over the last five to ten years that can protect laboratory animals, including nonprimates. there are four or five vaccines that can do that and at least three of those currently have been moved forward by the government. two of those are currently in phase one clen cinical trial an third will be in trials next year. >> i want to ask you a question about the drugmaker chimerix. how much faith do you have in their anti-viral? >> i'm not really familiar with their product. it's my understanding that it has not been tested in lab animals yet like the two other products, the zmapp and as your

previous guest said we don't really know for sure whether zmapp resulted in the survival of the patients it's been given to. the other drug is from tecmura used on dr. brantly. the only two drugs to completely protect nonhuman primates in a laboratory. so i would consider those the two lead candidates. >> if those are the lead candidates, why is it taking so long to get more supplies of the drug made? >> i think it's just a situation where, you know, you have to go through a process to license a drug or vaccine against ebola. it falls under what we call the fda animal rule. it's sort of complex and there really weren't supplies available. zmapp ran out. it was a situation where when the outbreak started and took off, there were not enough of either one of those drugs.

>> all right. so professor, is there anything that you see that would be most promising that you would put your full faith in at this point? >> i think it's going to take some time. i still think there's no substitute for just basic, good outbreak response and control and quarantine of patients in t the affected area. i think we've made tremendous progress and hopefully in the near future we'll have those. and we've seen with the patients that came to the united states the good medical care, also, may very well have played a role in the better outcome that has appeared to have occurred in the patients that have come here. >> so do you feel more confident in the system now that a czar has been made? >> you know, that's a political question and i prefer to defer that to the politicians. >> got you.

understandable. professor, we appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. so we'll talk more about that. the white house pushing back against critics and finally naming ron claim as that ebola czar. why the wait? we'll talk about the political fallout over the ebola crisis in a moment. i have the worst cold with this runny nose.

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the cdc on protective gear dealing with ebola patients. >> this comes after two nurses contracted the virus themselves. >> we have new pictures inside the private gulfstream jet during thursday's three-hour flight. she flew in the back of the plane in a specialized containment tent. recent polls show president obama's approval rating has hit an all-time low. it's now just 40% of americans think he's doing a good job according to this washington post poll and 39% have a favorable view of the democratic party. let's talk about it. robert zimmerman and crystal wright are with us. other issues have contributed to the decline of his approval rating, including his handling of this conflict with isis. but i want to start with you,

robert. how big of a problem is this ebola response and what someone called bundling response from the government, how big of a problem is that for the president? >> well, first of all, let's put this in proper perspective. while no one can excuse the mistakes by the cdc, it's important to understand the protocols that work. our brave professionals are working overseas with ebola patients and not contracting or being exposed to the virus and we know the protocols that work in the united states. there were two mistakes made, two people were exposed but by and large, the checking at the airports work effectively. you don't vote for the cdc director, the ni hch director, vote for the president. he's taking a hit. what is keeping democrats popular in this election, the republicans favorability is at

33% and unfavorables are at 32% and that's because they are focusing on just protesting president obama and "the wall street journal" pointed out, their failure to have an agenda for the future of the country. maybe president obama is not going to be enough. >> i hear that but people don't vote for the party as a whole. they vote for one candidate or another. if you look at the matchups, crystal, the race for the democrats to keep the senate, the democrats are having difficulty. >> they are he would fully lagging behind and i don't know what polls robert is reading but i would say the ebola crisis is not helping the situation. with each passing day, the republicans are going to gain control of the senate because the american people want a party in congress that can blunt the president's policy mistakes. but going back to ebola, i mean, what looks -- the house had a hearing, victor, this week and

there was six different heads of agencies testifying, including cdc director tom frieden and what was apparently clear is that all those government heads, nobody has control of the situation and what does the president do? he's the commander in chief. he hire an ebola czar with no disease experience, ron klain, he has no medical background. i think the president needs to command. he needs to tell tom frieden to get a handle on the situation. there's no national standard of control for the hospitals and i think the american people are seeing each passing day that this president is just not doing his job. i mean, the fact that -- robert, i didn't interrupt you. >> let's stick with facts. >> i'm going to go with facts so stop interrupting for a second. the president finally cancels fundraising plans this week but the day after thomas duncan

died, he flew off to california to yuck it up with gweneth paltrow. it's really frightening that we went in a two-week period to patient zero to now three patients and counting. >> if you're so focused on having a medical professional in charge, that person is called the surgeon general and maybe you could -- >> it's called tom frieden. >> maybe you could reach out to the republican senate that in fact refuses to confirm the surgeon general because the nra opposes his gun policy, as if that has any relevance at all. >> robert -- >> crystal, he didn't interrupt you. >> let's understand that ron klain is the best person that you could have in that position as an ebola sdplar because he's had the experience of working in every branch of government and complex governor mental agencies. as far as polling goes, i recommend you to a new poll app

and i recommend dramamine to help you deal with your spinning. >> before we get into that, let me ask you about this. crystal, you criticize the president saying that he's out of control and republicans have done things to not reassure the public. you have rand paul saying that you can catch ebola at a cocktail party and then you have nathan deals saying he's been reassured by his commissioner of health in georgia that water will kill it. >> look, all of those remarks by republicans i would say are stupid and negligent. let's go back to something that robert pointed out. he talked about the credential of ron klain, the ebola czar with no medical experience that even democrats and republicans alike are saying, why appoint this guy? and let's go back to ron klain was responsible for recommending to the white house that they back the solyndra loan. you know, the failed solyndra

energy company? tom frieden, at the centers for disease control, robert, i don't know if you know what that means. that means that they are supposed to control and contain infectious disease. he either needs to be held accountable by the president or terminated. >> last statement and then we've got to go. >> to combat the ebola crisis, we have to work with the national institute of health, the centers for disease control, department of transportation, so many different levels of government. that's where ron klain is experienced, both formally chairing the judiciary committee chief of staff, being chief of staff to two former presidents, that's what makes ron klain here so critical and qualitified her. you need to bang heads together and get results. he's the perfect person for this position. that's where we should focus on getting the job done. >> the job is not getting done.

>> anger management therapy would be helpful, too. >> i'm not angry. >> we've got to wrap it there. thank you for both making it interesting. >> thank you. speaking of interesting, presidents go to dinner all the time, right? >> what about when they are asked to pay and can't. >> your credit card is denied. >> president obama had an embarrassing moment when that happened last month in new york. we'll talk about it. ♪

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well, controlling ebola has been a global struggle. managing the virus seems nearly impossible. we know that is spreads through bodily fluids, such as blood. but some argue that the virus has a potential to spread through the air. thank you so much, professor, for joining us. i want to read for our viewers what you wrote for the university of minnesota here. "we believe there is scientific and evidence that ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted both near and at a distance from infected patients." what is it about those studies that makes you so certain. >> good morning, christi. we looked at a number of different studies, both animal studies and viability studies

and information from outbreak ep deem logic investigations and all of those studies suggested to us that, first of all, it was possible for the organism to remain viable in the air for a short period of time, up to an hour and a half. it was possible -- from what we know about aerosols, it's possible that vomiting and diarrhea and other emissions from the body can create aerosols and it does appear that there are receptors in the respiratory system that are targeted by the ebola virus. and all of those -- all of that added together suggested to us that there was the possibility for inhalation and then infection from ebola virus particles. >> okay. so do you believe that this is

something that's been capable -- ebola has been capable of, i suppose, spreading through the air for a long time or is this a more recent mutation? >> i don't think this is a mutation. we talked about ebola being opportunistic. and what actually concerned us was the number of infections that were occurring among health care workers and deaths in africa. and that was actually the thing that prompted us to start looking more carefully at the literature. so it wasn't actually concern about health care workers here in the united states as concerned about health care workers in western africa who were experiencing what appeared to be fairly high levels of infection and death. and then -- so that's when we started to explore, is this -- is there a form of exposure that's happening that hasn't been considered? >> and real quickly, you say

your solution is that health care workers should be wearingress spir wearing respirators, not face masks. >> if you look at the folks working at the university of nebraska and the biocontainment units, you'll notice that they are wearing respirators. that is actually the kind of respirator we recommended for protection because it offers a couple of extra benefits. it can offer some cooling and when you're wearing a lot of other personal protective equipment, that can be a good -- an additional -- that can offer some additional ability to work for longer periods of time. and it also covers your head completely if you wear a hood or a helmet. so, yes, we think you should be wearing a respirator. a surgical mask does not offer protection for the person

wearing the mask. >> professor, appreciate you being here. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. thank you for inviting me. >> sure. the cdc and world health organization disagree with this. they say it cannot be transmitted via any airborne canal and i think it speaks to the mystery that ebola still is for a lot of us. >> so many questions. as we heard earlier in the show, a lot of questions about why we're not hearing one voice. and investing in science and the research. christi, thank you so much. let's talk about this. in today's "start small, think big," an app. >> i pronounce you husband and wife. >> and the photo and video aspect of capturing the day, there's a lot of weight on that. i'm justin, the ceo and

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his life and fired inside his car. this contradicts what some witnesses have said. we'll take a closer look at this report and bring you the very latest at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> don't go anywhere. "smerconish" starts right now. hello and welcome to the program. a flood of breaking developments in this terrifying ebola story. i want you to stay with me because i'm going to spend the entire hour really honing in on the most important and troubling questions and i'm going to try to get some real information that you haven't heard anywhere else. so let's get to it. so here's what i want to drill down on today. the key questions about ebola. and i think they are as follows. number one, is the new ebola czar ron klain the right guy