good morning. i'm christi paul. i'm victor blackwell. all eyes are on a carnival cruise ship in galveston. >> it's been caught up in this ebola scare. dallas lab technician who may have had an indirect contact with thomas eric duncan, the liberian man who died of ebola quarantined herself in a cabin on that ship. >> duncan's fiance, her son and two young men were in the dallas apartment where duncan became

ill. they'll reach the end of 21 days of quarantine tomorrow. if we don't see new patients this weekend, we'll see the remainder of the 48 that we're tasked with following come off the list. we'll see louise and the three young men be able to come off the list. and we'll be statistically unlikely -- or lessik see more cases. >> an ohio tsa officer who patted down amber vinson, meanwhile, one of two dallas nurses now sick with ebola, is watching for any symptoms now. ohio health officials have increased the number of people being monitored at this point after having direct contact with vinson from 16 to 29. we know 87 passengers on her flights to and from cleveland are also self monitoring. >> and the family of the first man diagnosed with ebola in the

u.s., thomas eric duncan, his family, grieving this weekend. they attended a memorial in north carolina yesterday. let's check in with nick valen krichlt a. >> he's in dallas. >> reporter: health officials saying that lab supervisor, her lab samples came back asymptomatic for the ebola virus. she did not have direct contact. it's not believed she had direct contact with thomas eric duncan, but she may have come in contact with one of his lab specimens. out of an abundance of caution, she self isolated herself on that carnival cruise ship. incubation period is 21 days. this all turned into a political football, state department wanting to evacuate this lab

supervisor by air from belize where she was located earlier this week. the belize government closed its borders to anyone who came near the ebola virus. that's why the cruise ship now docking, 20 minutes ago is our understanding, at the port of galveston. it's not clear where she will go next or what will happen next. that incubation period, 2 days, has passed. victor, christi? >> i understand it was a pretty dramatic scene getting these blood samples to the lab to be tested. >> the u.s. coast guard sent a helicopter, hoisted down a basket. there was a doctor on board that carnival cruise ship who took blood samples from this lab supervisor. and the u.s. coast guard was able to retrieve those blood samples by hoisting down a basket and those test results coming back to cnn this morning, galveston health officials saying she's asymptomatic, guys. >> nick, let me ask you

something. i know that texas health presbyterian hospital really doing something unique. they took out full-page ads in two texas newspapers, apologizing to the community. what did it say? >> reporter: there's been no shortage of criticism, as you guys are well aware, for texas presbyterian hospital. some say the response has been really abysmal, negative spotlight cast on this mainstay, this hospital in this community for 50 years. i want to read part of this letter sent out by the texas health resources, who owns texas presbyterian hospital. many of the theories and allegations being presented in the media do not align with facts stated in the medical record and the accounts of caregivers who were present on the scene. we have remained committed to complying with cdc guidelines from the start and our staff did

comply implemented them diligently. victor and christi? >> yeah. >> i really was looking forward -- >> all right. nick, thank you so much. we'll get to that sound in just a moment. nick vall valencia in dallas fo. i want to make sure we read a bit of a statement from the galveston county health district. we have not received the formal results of the test. galveston county health authority has made the assessment there's no evidence of a public health threat to cruise passengers or galveston county. this is based on the fact that the person was confirmed to have remained asymptomatic and

reassurance provided by the department of state health services lab testing. so, we just want to be clear that the blood test results have not been returned. so, no positive or negative result as it relates to ebola. they believe based on the information available thus far, because she's asymptomatic that there's no threat to the public health. just want to be crystal clear on th that. >> we need to start talking about this other major break this morning in the search for missing uva student hannah graham. police have called off the search after discovering human remains, eight miles from where she was last seen. >> the body still needs to be identified but investigators say they have notified graham's parents. jean casarez has more for us this morning. jean, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chri christi and victor. it was five weeks ago this weekend that university of virginia sophomore hannah graham went missing from the downtown charlottesville mall. and it was after that the largest search in virginia's

history began. that search has now gone from a missing person's investigation to a death investigation. police are saying that it was during a routine search on saturday that a team of volunteers along with law enforcement began searching an abandoned property in the county outside of charlottesville. >> countless of hours. thousands of hours have been spent by literally hundreds of law enforcement, civilian volunteers in an effort to find hannah. we think perhaps today proved their worth. a search team from the chesterfield county sheriff's department was searching an abandoned property along old lynchburg road in southern albemarle county when they discovered what appears to be human remains. >> shortly after that, the charlottesville police called the parents of hannah graham. at this point, the remains have not been identified. that will be the job of a medical examiner, who will perform an autopsy to try to

determine the cause and manner of death. the cause of death may be difficult because of the length of time that has passed. the university of virginia sophomore was last seen on surveillance video in the early morning hours of september 13th, walking throughout parts of downtown charlottesville. she had gone to dinner with friends that night but then appeared to be lost. video also shows a man police believe to be 32-year-old jesse matthew. matthew appears to be walking behind graham and then, shortly before she vanishes, appears to have his arm around her. it took 40 hours before hannah was reported missing. but once that happened, an all points bulletin went out to find her. every single day in the last five weeks, volunteers, professional search and rescue personnel, along with law enforcement tried to find the college student but nothing. no sign of graham. matthew walked into the local police department with his family a week after she disappeared, asked for a lawyer, got one.

but then left without talking. he was found days later on a beach in galveston, texas. now back in virginia, he is currently charged with the abduction of hannah graham with the intent to defile and sits in the county jail without bond. no word on how long it will take to identify the remains. but if they are those of hannah graham, jesse matthew could be facing a murder charge. chri christi, victor? >> all right. jean, thank you so much. the man suspected of killing a state trooper, some people believe that they've seen him. we'll tell you where these people believe they saw the man and what officials are doing right now to actually find him. plus, with so much information -- maybe we should say misinformation and fear about ebola, how will americans and the government react when flu season kicks in? that's going to happen soon. and people all over start developing fevers, aches and stomach pain. it is bound to happen. we'll talk more about it in a moment. ♪

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welcome back to "new day." so fwlad to have you with us. listen to what is happening in our week here. break in the case possibly. investigators on the hunt for that suspected police killer, believe he may have been spotted near his former high school in eastern pennsylvania. the woman spotted a man whose face was covered in mud and carrying a rifle. the sighting was only a few miles from where police had been heavily searching for survivalist eric frein. annual pumpkin fest. look at this, basically turning into mayhem in new hampshire. police in riot gear had to use

tear gas to partiers who had been tearing down street signs. dozens were arrested and multiple ambulances were sent to the scene. banned from the wta for a year and fined $25,000. why? he referred to venus and serena williams as the williams brothers during a tv appearance. he said in a statement he didn't mean to insult the sisters and was sorry that the joke was taken out of context. >> have you even bothered to step outside this morning? freeze warnings and advisories in chunks of the country. that's moving into new england tonight. folks in the southeast, it's going to be a dry, pleasant day for you. go ahead and enjoy the weather while you've got it. >> christi, thanks. let's get back to this morning's top story.

carnival cruise ship connected to an ebola scare has arrived in galveston, texas. the dallas lab worker who quarantined herself is asymptomatic. they don't believe that there is any threat to public health. daniel samon joins us. doctor, thank you for coming in this morning. those who had contact with thomas eric duncan before he was admitted, their 21 days of the incubation period, as it's called, ends to today. if they get to tomorrow without any symptoms, are they 100% really in the clear now? >> the cdc and world health organization tell us that, you know, after that point that, for the most part, you're in the clear. so, generally speaking, yes. >> okay. you know, there have been some questions about funding, if there were more money for the cdc, if there were even a

surgeon general, that we would be in a different situation. do you see that this could be improved by cdc funding if you had the surgeon general voice? do you think we would be in a different position? >> you know, there's been cut and funding for the cdc and for nih. if you want to have organizations that are prepared to fight this type of battle, you're going to have to up the funding. that's critical. it's critical that we have those organizations in place and are well funded year after year. and if they're not, they're not going to be prepared. >> so, let's talk about the response from the cdc, also from the state agencies. even the hospital. as we kind of grade what's happened over the last couple of weeks, how do you grade their response thus far? >> well, that's a difficult question to answer. i think that they can always be doing better. and they're looking. they're doing investigations

right now about what could be done better in the dallas hospital. it's hard for me to answer that type of question. >> okay. let's look forward then. >> sure. >> flu season is coming. you will have people who have fevers and body aches and there will be the confusion. what exactly do i have? how do you expect that they will respond or have you seen any indication of a plan to respond when you have so many people who have the symptoms of this killer virus? >> you're right. some of the symptoms are going to cross over. but if you haven't been exposed to somebody, if you're not a caretaker of someone who has ebola, if you're not in direct contact with bodily fluids, you are most likely not going to have ebola. >> what's the impact of this new ebola czar, do you think? >> i don't know. it's way too early to judge that. he was just named by president obama a few days ago. >> what would you hope his

impact would be? >> i would hope his impact would be to relay an effective message. and to kind of push the agenda forward, that this needs to stop now. we need to have a galvanized response. no longer can doctors without borders alone go after this epidemic. if we have a galvanized response, we can stop this epidemic. >> dr. daniel saman, thank you for offering your insight this morning. >> thank you. >> christi? >> victor, thanks. there's been fierce fighting and air strikes in kobani, syria, as kurdish fighters try to keep the city from falling into isis hands. we'll give you the very latest.

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the battle for the key town of kobani in syria is heating up now. u.s.-led coalition jets pounded isis targets in syria and in iraq. there's been fierce fighting on the streets near the turkish border. isis militants appear to have vanish friday some parts of kobani, u.s. officials say the city could still fall. i want to talk to james spyder marks. thanks for being with us. >> christi, sure. >> we were hearing the city would, indeed, fall. the fact that it is not and two weeks later they are still -- they have some grasp on this city, the citizens there, what do you say? does that mean that these air

strikes are, indeed, helping? >> you have to draw that conclusion. yeah, you sure do. clearly the coalition strikes are increasing in terms of their effectiveness. i would tell you there are probably some spotters on the ground that are targets, pkk, the resistance fighters in northern syria or it could even be u.s. forces on the ground, infiltrated in with them and allowing themselves some degree of freedom of movement back into turkey if they need to do that because of the proximity of kobani to the turkish border. clearly the strikes are working. what's happening also is isis is dealing with a new dynamic. the strikes have been very effective, which has caused them to disperse, which means they lose a little bit of command and control. they have gone essentially from trying to conduct very concentrated operations. now they're much more independent, a little more diverse, as i indicated. but they have to coalesce. if they want to take kobani. and the coalition is going after

those targets. it seems to be working right now. >> it's working right now. one of the things -- one of the countries that has been noticeably absent is turkey, in terms of any sort of action. what do you think it's going to take to entice turkey to get involved here? >> yeah. the challenge with turkey is the pkk and the turks do not like each other. turkish blood is on the hands of the pkk. so if turkey were to engage in the fight against isis, they would be strengthening the pkk. that's something they cannot tolerate. the second challenge is that turkey wants the assad regime in damascus to fall. they want assad to go away. anything that strengthens assad is not in their best interest. so, turkey is sitting on the fence right now, trying to see how this thing might fall, might kind of move down the path. right now, they've got integrity of their borders. they've got an incredibly

strong, professional military. in essence, they're overwatching this fight. if something were to push or go in a direction that would challenge them, they could respond. right now turkey is probably saying we've got a humanitarian crisis. we still have refugees that are coming into turkey. turkey is accepting them from syria, but they are not going to get engaged in this fight just yet, unless there is some physical challenge and we don't see that coming right now. >> a few weeks ago, bob bear said it's very difficult to get inside isis because they're so hostile. we've had reports in the last couple of days that there are syrian kurds who are giving some intel to the u.s. from inside isis. how long do you think that can be sustained before those people might be found out? >> that's a -- i have to tell you, christi, that's the heart of the challenge of the human intelligence collection challenge that we have. if you can get a source inside your enemy, you've got to be able to allow that source to report in a way and to conduct operations in a way that

benefits you. that puts them at amazing risk. think about that for a second. what they have chosen to do to try to defeat this enemy they perceive and putting themselves at immense risk. that can continue if their trade craft is good and they can still report in a way that looks like it's normative behavior. there's no time line to this. in many cases they might disappear because they have to go back to ground, they can't do it or they might disappear because there's an unfortunate outcome. >> general "spider" marks, appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you. charlottesville, virginia, police make a grim discovery in their search for missing university of virginia student hannah graham. the case has now turned into a death investigation. controversial voter i.d. law in texas. you'll hear why attorney general eric holder calls it a major step backward.

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why not start today? 30 minutes past the hour. good to see you. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. let's start with five things you need to know for your day. >> got a little excited. >> moving through it. early voting begins in texas in two days, controversial voter identification law that would require voters to show certain kinds of state-issued photo i.d. in order to cast a ballot. critics say the law is unconstitutional, that it will make it harder for low-income people and minorities to vote. supporters argue that the new law will help prevent voter fraud. pope francis in a ceremony

at the vatican this morning. meanwhile, bishops end ed a consensus without coming to an agreement on same-sex unions. it was heavily revised. pope francis called the bishops meeting to update the church's teachings on family life, seen as outdated by many catholics. at least eight people were killed after an apparent terrorist attack. armed militants also abducted an unknown number of people. the talk come amid cease fire talks to release more than 200 school girls. boko haram has yet to respond to the cease fire agreement. missing hikers in the himalayas after a freak blizzard

slammed the popular tourist destination. israelis, poles. it comes six months after an avalanche of ice swept 16 sherpas to their deaths. number five, this is curious. mysterious u.s. military spacecraft, you see it there, landed back on earth. the air force will not explain what the unmanned test vehicle was doing up in earth for, wait for it, nearly two years. some theorists believe the ship might be some sort of space bomber or futuristic spy plane. whatever it was doing up in space, we may never know. police are now calling the case of missing uva student hannah graham a death investigation. human remains were found yesterday on an abandoned property just eight miles from where the 18-year-old was last seen. the body has not yet been

identified but authorities have notified graham's parents. graham vanished last month after leaving dinner with friends. a sophomore with cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney danny sevalis. thank you for joining us this morning. what else might have been found at the site that would have made them confident that this was hannah graham? >> by a parent or loved one looking at a photograph of the body and identifying it, but there are other ways, including tattoos, distinctive marks. there are reports that this -- the missing person, hannah graham, was about 5' 11" tall. that's pretty tall for a female. that might be an identifying characteristic. there are a number of different ways, including things like dental records and other forensics that investigators can

use to positively identify a body when they find human remains like this, even when they're in an advanced state of decomposition as, we suspect -- and i hate to be gruesome -- after about five weeks these remains will be. >> let's talk more about jesse matthew, the main suspect in this case, already charged thus far with abduction. now we know that the two were together the night she vanished. police have surveillance video. but if these remains are graham's, there's going to be matthew's dna there on the body in some way or another. how hard will it be to link him to the cause of death? >> well, it won't just be dna. there could potentially be a number of other things linking a suspect that you may find at a crime scene. because not only do you have human remains, you have a crime scene, that somebody had to get into and then get out of. and while we walk around all

day, we are particulate creatures. whether it's parts of our hair, skin or other forms of evidence that can be used. now, the other side of this is that when you find a body -- remember that you can prosecute for a no body murder case and achieve a conviction, but once you find a body, you may find evidence of the suspect being there, but you may find other evidence that sends the investigation in another direction. and a defense attorney down the road can take that evidence. one example would be the casey anthony case. once you find a body. there was evidence at that crime scene and evidence on that body that the defense used to point in another direction. having a crime scene is critical, finding human remain sincere critical, it may yield evidence that is not only beneficial to the prosecution, but it could actually confound the investigation as well. bottom line, for example, some

semen is found from this particular suspect at the crime scene, that's the kind of evidence that will go quite a distance towards building a case against this suspect. >> they can no longer build their own narrative. they now have facts to support it, and that could send it in one direction or another. ferguson report in the new york time that is michael brown's blood -- he, of course, the young black teenager who was shot and killed by white officer, darren wilson. his blod found inside the cruiser, on wilson's uniform, inside the -- on the gun as well. considering all of those facts, could all of those still be true? even the pinning down and the struggle in the vehicle? and we see charges against darren wilson? >> the story of ferguson is

emerging as a story of competing narratives from different witnesses that are nothing like each other. once we get into the forensic area. once we discover, for example, if there's gunshot residue in the vehicle, if there is blood in the vehicle, that becomes circumstantial evidence that will either support one of the narratives or discredit it. so, this evidence, if crew, will tell us that -- will tend to show us that there was a struggle in the vehicle. and if there was a struggle in the vehicle, whose narrative does that support? at least preliminarily, it appears to support the officer's story, which is that there was a struggle in the car and that the gun was fired in the car. so then investigators and law enforcement are left to answer the question, why would somebody have a struggle in the car? if that aligns with other witnesses' version of this story and if that tends to support the michael brown theory, that he was innocently walking down the

street, well then that might go towards an indictment against this officer. but at this point, it preliminarily appears to support officer wilson's narrative. and if it does, i think now we're getting farther and farther away from an indictment against this officer. >> even considering when you're outside the vehicle, brown has already been shot and quite possibly the threat has subsided if you're outside the vehicle? >> well, legally, let's talk about that very briefly. if there is a struggle, attacking a police officer, if there's any -- if you attack a police officer, legally, even if you are responding, practically you're going to be somebody that, in shorthand, the officer is allowed to use deadly force on. and once you're fleeing -- i want to correct this. people get very upset about this. there is a fleeing f lechlt on rule. it doesn't mean he had to be convicted right there and then of a felony.

instead if that officer believes he is apprehending a dangerous felon, he may be able to use dead deadly force. the net effect of that is, as shobing as it may be -- if you don't like it, take it up with congress and the supreme court -- that a police officer can use deadly force to apprehend a fleeing felon in certain instances. by that i mean someone suspected of a felony. >> danny cevallos, thank you so much for clearing up some things for us this morning. >> thank you. >> sergeant birdwell's turn the trips you have to take, into one you'll never forget. earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. expedia plus rewards.

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want to get you some picks that we are just getting in now. this is the carnival cruise that people have been waiting for just docking in galveston with that person on board who had been in self-imposed confinement in her cabin because she had possibly had some connection to the treatment of the ebola patient, thomas duncan who, of course, died from that disease. and for the last several days, people on that ship have been aware that she is there, but these are the pictures as they get ready to disembark. and, again, no public health threat, we're being told. she is still asymptomatic.

she may be in the clear. we'll have to wait and see. >> the latest on that. nick valencia is watching that story line for us. >> switching topics here, it's been more than four months since sergeant bowe bergdahl returned home after five years in captivity. >> these days all the ribbons, banners and feverish support for the former prisoner of war is all gone. even bergdahl's hometown is uneasy about its one-time hero. ed laveandera reports. >> reporter: a pile of boxes sitting inside the haley police department. filled with cards and letters of support, waiting for sergeant bowe bergdahl to read them. >> over 700,000 cards. >> reporter: part of a holiday campaign last year to bring bowe home. all the letters were sent to the white house a few months before bergdahl was released after almost five years in captivity. >> this would take weeks to go through. >> if not years.

>> reporter: now they sit, forgotten. a symbol of how the story of bowe bergdahl's rescue hasn't come with a triumphant ending. for stephanie, it's a more bitter symbol. >> everyone acted surprised when he was released. you knew the story always was that bowe walked off. for what reason, we don't know. these organizations were the first to pull their support from bowe. we've done our job. he's home. we're not helping anymore. we're not supporting him. it's interesting to see that so many of these came from organizations that almost within a week of bowe's release turned their back on him. >> reporter: that's what brought us back to bergdahl's hometown of haley. bergdahl had left his outpost deliberately and of his own free will. several soldiers in bergdahl's army unit say he is a deserter and traitor. signs of support in yellow

ribbons along the main street are now gone. for five years, this town stood by its soldier held as a prisoner of war but now the relationship is complicated. we asked the mayor to sit down and talk with us about bowe bergdahl and the homecoming that never was but they refused. >> they said we need to move on. that captures the mood of many around here who simply want the bowe bergdahl saga to go away. >> their son, bowe, is coming home. >> reporter: a family reunion would likely take place in days t never happened. bergdahl refused to see or even talk to his parents. but that's starting to change. two sources tell us bowe bergdahl is now communicating with his parents. but as far as we know, they still haven't seen each other, even four months after bowe bergdahl was rescued in afghanistan. the bergdahl family doesn't want to talk about any possible family reunion. bergdahl's parents have only

said they want to give their son time and space he needs to recuperate from almost five years in captivity. many who knew him before he joined the army now say he probably wasn't a good fit for structured military life. this man has known the bergdahl family 20 years. >> reporter: he became frustrated because he saw no end to a crisis. >> reporter: do you think he left, voluntarily left his base there in afghanistan? >> absolutely. and i'm not -- there's nothing evil about what he did, no intent of evil, but i believe he had become disillusioned and he was used to, as a young -- as a boy and a young man, going off on his own for many days at a time. >> reporter: his son was one of bergdahl's best friends. the families were part of a homeschooling community in hailey. he was raised in an intensely religious environment with a strict code of conduct. >> there definitely was a time

when he left home in that 15, 16-year-old range, left home for a little while. and no doubt it was some type of rebellion. his dad was making him, like with my boys, too. i was making them comply with certain things, as boy, they didn't like. there might have been something there that was a bone of contention. bowe did have a tendency to get frustrated and just walk off or throw up his hands. >> reporter: he can't say if that childhood rebellion is still a source of strain on his relationship with his family but sees a parallel between the young bowe he knew and the one, who some say, walked away from his post in afghanistan. >> and that's fine up here in idaho. >> reporter: that's fine? >> but when you're part of the u.s. military, it doesn't go. >> it doesn't go. what would drive that? what would drive that kind of frustration that he's actually breaking code? >> bring bowe home. >> reporter: those letters are still waiting for bergdahl in his hometown and so are his family and friends.

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up and at 'em. it's 7:00. we have a lot to talk to you about. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. >> big sigh of relief for passengers on carnival cruise ship in galveston. >> a lab worker on the ship may have handled lab specimens from an ebola patient, thomas eric duncan. we know that he has died, of course. but the worker is still asymptomatic and there's no evidence of a public health threat. we've got part of the statement here. the passenger and her travel partner have been allowed to disembark without restrictions. >> the man who died, remember, thomas eric duncan, is being remembered as someone who gave his life because he helped another woman who was ill with ebola. here are pictures, his mother and other relatives attending a memorial in north carolina. this was yesterday. >> reporter: the ebo>> the ebol is ripping across ohio.

a tsa agent who patted amber vinson down in cleveland is on paid leave and is watching for any symptoms. so we've got cnn's erin mcpike and nick valencia at the dallas hospital where duncan died and two nurses have become ill. we know they are now apologizing. >> this morning -- good morning, vicor and christi. texas health resources, that company that owns this texas presbyterian hospital, releasing a letter to the community, they're calling it, in two papers here. let me read part of that. "dallas morning news," part of that statement says in part, based on what we already know, i can tell you many of the theories and allegations being presented in the media do not align with facts stated in the medical record and the accounts of caregivers present on the scene. we've remained committed to being compliant with the cdc guidelines and our staff implemented them diligently.

now there's no shortage of criticism for texas health presbyterian. they've been a mainstay in this community for 50 years. it's not just criticism from outside of the hospital. it's also inside. earlier this week, anderson cooper spoke with one of the nurses here at the hospital who was very critical at how it handled it, saying nurses here may have been exposed to the ebola virus and that they were unprepared to handle this unprecedented virus at their doorstep. victor, christi? >> and we know that although we have this summation from health officials that there's no threat to public health, the blood test results are not back for this cruise passenger. is that correct? >> reporter: well, the galveston county health officials released a statement to cnn saying the public health assessment of this lab supervisor, who may have come into contact with thomas eric duncan lab specimens show there's no threat to the community. she is asymptomatic.

we don't have those lab tests officially ourselves at cnn. we know from galveston county health officials that they say there's no threat to the public. she's passed this incubation period. cdc says there's 21 days. that carnival cruise ship she is on has now docked in the port of galveston. victor? >> nick valencia for us in dallas. thank you very much. >> erin mcpike is at the white house. president obama held a high-level meeting there last night on this very issue. erin, who was there? >> reporter: well, christi, as you said, it was a high-level meeting. many cabinet officials, high-ranking administration officials as well. they also had a meeting friday evening as well as last night. friday and saturday evening, back-to-back meetings. vice president joe biden, secretary of defense chuck hagel, the deputy national

security adviser to the president, also dr. tom frieden, the director of the cdc, some 20 names or so, both nights. few different names for these two nights but these meetings were all about dallas, what happened in dallas, contact tracing of other potential people who could have been affected and also the state and local measures that are being taken in dallas and what kind of help they need from the federal government. i want to read to you a little bit of the readout of that meeting so the meeting conclude with a discussion of broader steps to increase the preparedness of our health sector nationwide. the last thing i would tell you is that there is another big meeting last friday evening that the white house office of science and technology policy convened with usaid and others, to meet with 100 or so experts, doctors, physicists and others about what they are doing to come up with new technologies to treat and diagnose ebola.

christi and victor? >> erin mcpike, thank you. police, we've learned, are calling off the search for missing uva student hannah graham because they say the case has now turned into a death investigation after they found human remains. these were found yesterday. the remains were apparently discovered on an abandoned property just eight miles from where 18-year-old hannah graham vanished. the body, we do want to point out, has yet to be definitively identified. investigators have notified graham's parents. one of the officers who found the remains says his team never gave up. >> i don't know how else to explain it other than something inside me told me just continue to look. no hair, no flesh whatsoever. completely, completely bones. there was no crushing of any bones as far as skull or anything like that. everything looked to be intact to me, from what i could see. >> graham vanished five weeks ago after leaving dinner with friends and was last seen on

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issues for the church. let's go to cnn vatican correspondent delia in rome. welcoming same-sex couples or changing the tone, maybe some content. it was heavily revised. >> reporter: that's right, victor. surprising report on monday with new language from the vatican on same-sex couples, on valuing the homosexual orientation, which was very different wording from anything we've ever heard out of the vatican. and, apparently, surprised some of the bishops and cardinals inside the meeting as well, because they spent most of the week trying to backtrack from that position and, indeed, in the final document, which we received last night, the language is completely changed. it has gone back to the more traditional language, with regard to gays and lesbians, that there should be no unjust

discrimination against them and they should be treated with respect and dignity. but the fact remains that that interim report that came out was representative of some of the views that were heard in the synod hall. that leads some to suggest that there has already been a kind of opening on the part of this syn od, even though there was no agreement reached on the exact wording. because even the wording last night, the more traditional wording, did not receive the two-thirds quorum necessary to find approval with the senate. it will be at least another year before we know exactly what the wording will be when they meet again in october 2015. victor? >> even the consideration was an olive branch to some. to some it was really supposed to be an effort to bring some who left the church back to the church. did even the conversation achieve that goal, even if they came to no agreement?

>> reporter: well, i think that pope francis, from the beginning, has been reaching out to those who feel excluded. so, probably on his own, quite aside from any conversation going on in the synod, he has accomplished some of that. in fact, what's interesting about all of this is that it's been such a public debate and the pope is okay with it. he said last night in his closing remarks that he would have been saddened, he said, would have been saddened had there not been this lively debate, this animated discussion. and he was the one who, in the very beginning, when they started in, in the hall, said i want this to be frank and open. everybody speak your mind. don't hold back just because the pope is here. what we're calling divisions and so on we already knew existed, frankly. they've just come to the forefront. and they've come to the forefront because pope francis has requested it. he has really got the conversation going. it will be at least another year before we see any kind of concrete results or proposals that this synod is going to make

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the dallas hospital that treated ebola patient thomas eric duncan under fire, obviously, for not having proper protocol in place. >> yeah. texas health presbyterian, that's the hospital where two nurses who treated duncan contracted the deadly virus. it's not the first time the hospital has been in trouble, though. it's lost portions of its federal funding in the past for patient remission. and you hear that term, patient remissio readmission and you think back, because thomas eric duncan was sent home. >> patient readmission is a problem for many hospitals. that's when patients come back within 30 days for the same issues. medicare and medicaid services have cracked down on this

problem with penalties. presbyterian of dallas has been fined for the past three years in a row. but those fees don't really impact the hospital's bottom line. the real problem is the financial hit it's currently taking. since mishandling an ebola patient, the hospital has closed down its emergency room, a significant source of revenue. there are also reductions in other areas and is reportedly two-thirds empty. presbyterian of dallas is part of a company called texas health resources. the network is the largest in north texas, operating 25 hospitals. all together, it generates about $4 billion in revenue. 17% alone comes from presbyterian of dallas. but texas health is well funded in the short term. so, if presbyterian of dallas suffers financially or even, worst case scenario, shuts down, it won't be the end for the parent company. right now, though, there are no active discussions of a shutdown. christi, victor?

>> christine alesci, thank you. a health lawyer and registered nurse, sandra, thank you for being with us. let's put your medical hat on first. how confident are you in the abilities of other nurses and hospitals and their preparedness for ebola? >> well, it's hard to say. i've been out of direct clinical care for some time, but as long as clinicians are trained and have the resources available for them, i think particularly with the cautionary tale they've all had coming out of dallas, they'll be particularly attuned to doing the best they can to remain safe. >> okay. let's talk about what one nurse had to say at the texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas. she slammed conditions there. listen to what one of them told cnn's anderson cooper about her equipment, specifically. >> no one ever spoke to me about ebola. why would my neck be exposed? why do i have on two pairs of

gloves, tape, a plastic suit covering my whole body, two hoods, a total of three pairs of booties, including the one on my suit, an apron and my entire body is covered in at least two or three layers of plastic and my neck is hanging out. and i just told them why would an area so close to my mouth and my nose, why would that be exposed? and they didn't have an answer. >> for their part, the hospital has been trying to shift some responsibility to the cdc. what is the cdc's responsibility or irresponsibility here? >> well, it's difficult to say. this is somewhat of an exceptional circumstance. while clearly the cdc and health care facilities are used to dealing with infectious disease, ebola is one we have not had to deal with in this country. there is going to be a learning curve. the key for hospitals is to ensure, as it sounds like others

are doing with great dedication and resolve, is to follow the guidance and to take whatever steps they believe to be necessary in accordance with that guidance. there's also nothing to say that there's no ability to go above and beyond that guidance. if there's a facility or a process that a hospital thinks could go above and beyond the government guidelines, they could choose to do that. i also understand that the cdc guidance, as we learn more about the disease and how it's presenting in this country is likely to shift. the key is making sure that policies, procedures and education that staff get keep pace with that. >> sure. sandra, put your legal hat on now, if you would, please. texas health presbyterian hospital issued an apology, a major one, in two snoops in texas this morning. as an institution, we made mistakes in handling this very difficult situation, this challenge, i should say. by admitting their mistakes, are they making themselves even more vulnerable to a lawsuit?

negligence of some sort? >> it's difficult to say. that's a classic lawyer answer, i know. at the end of the day, they've identified issues. they're well publicized. we're talking about them now. we're not the only ones. and they're doing what they can to resolve it. the actual act of apology might or might not influence the outcome of a civil suit, for example, if the patient's family chooses to pursue action against the hospital. they would still need to be able to prove that those things that were done by the hospital that might be alleged to cause a problem actually led to his demise for what is a disease with a high mortality rate. >> sandra divarca, thank you for being with with us. >> happy to be here. whoa, my cuts still there.

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