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good evening. "outfront," the breaking news, the cdc announcing a change in how the doctors and nurses in america will fight ebola. this come as amber vinson is in a hospital only the. her family is fighting back. they've hired a major defense attorney and they're taking the cdc and health official to task. they say it is untrue and hurtful that vinson ignored the protocol and put others at risk by taking commercial flights between dallas and cleveland. they insist she did everything properly, consuling health officials and the cdc repeatedly throughout her trip. they say they cleared her flight to cleveland with the hospital and cdc officials them say she spoke with texas health officials and asked if she should fly back immediately after learning her colleague had ebola. she was told that was unnecessary. the next day she decided to fly back. she called health officials three separate times to report her temperature and was cleared to fly each time, says her
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family. we'll speak to prime minister tony blair about the ebola crisis and the death of a third u.n. aide worker. first tom foreman has the coverage. >> reporter: a commercial jet pulled from service. 800 passengers, schools and businesses shut down, all because nurse amber vinson flew with her temperature rising. her family is pushing back hard. in a written statement saying to be clear, in no way was amber. the nurse had no business flying. >> because temperature point,
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she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> but her family said she contacted the cdc repeatedly and she reported her temperature before boarding her flight three different time, in all three instances, she was cleared to return to texas. amid confusion, fear and blame, the ebola problem is getting worse. true, nigeria and senegal have now been declared ebola-free. they had small outbreaks. world health officials say by december, guinea, liberia, and sierra leone could see up to 10,000 cases a week. that's spurring even some democrats to say the obama administration needs to get tougher. for example, by focusing on a study that says some patients can be infectious far yonl the three weeks the cdc so often cites. >> sentencing this period where people are monitored or quarantined beyond the 21 days would be in the best interests
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of making sure more people are not infected at home. >> all that of it has some calling for calm and action. >> i don't think this is the time to blame. we need to settle down. figure out what the challenges are and solve them together. >> the biggest problem in all these conflicts is their tendency to produce mixed messages about the threat of ebola and of course, make it very hard for anyone to figure out who they can trust. >> that is the big problem. thank you so much. joining me now, the former british prime minister tony blair. he is involve in the initiative which has been very involved in ebola. mr. prime minister, it is a real pleasure to have you. the number are stunning, 10,000 people a week is the projection for possible infections. that would would have mean more infections in a week than the world has seen in the spring. the number are terrifying. is that a fear mongering number
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or is it the reality the world needs to get ready for in. >> that would be the very worst case scenario. hopefully it is significantly less but it is extremely serious. and i have team of people living and working on the ground, trying to hem the governments cope with the problems of capacity when they're faced with a crisis such as this. an important amount of help coming into the countries. on the other hand, we need to get that help in place. you need to get it working and all of this happening very fast. >> the head of the cdc here in the u.s. has said that no one who treated an ebola patient should have flown commercially. what we've seen already in the united states, with the ebola scare, is that people don't want to think it can happen to them. they go ahead with their lives because no one can imagine the horror of such a thing striking them. it begs the question of whether there should be involuntary quarantines. is it something that should be under consideration? >> i think the really important thing with the situation like
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this, and anyone who as a leader has dealt with a crisis, you know, of this nature, or of a nature similar to it where you have something that is developing very, very fast and you need to take the most urgent action, the important thing, i think, is to understand who the experts are that can tell you exactly what it is you have to do and then no matter how difficult it is, how challenging, how tough, how frankly extreme it may seem, you have to do it. so rather than me give an answer to that question directly i would say, what is important is that those who are the experts on this, and are telling us what to do, that's what we need to do. >> i guess the question i have, the frustration, the world looks to the cdc has admitted it has made mistake after mistake. they said thing were zero risk. maybe we shouldn't have said that. they told a woman she can get on
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a plane and now they're saying she shouldn't have gotten on a plane. what do you think when the cdc is telling you the wrong thing? >> there is nothing you can do when that happens. but now the cdc, i'm sure, all of those people are working on this now and know what it is they need to do. we have to make sure that it happens. when you talk to the people, the presidents and the people, my own staff on the ground, they have very specific tasks and they're very practical around the thing that need to happen. the people that need to come. whatever it is we need to do, we've got to get on and do it. >> i would not about the money. the u.n. has gotten not even 40% of the money that it asked for. apparently it has gotten only a small part of the emergency fund. that $100,000 came from colombia. that is pretty astounding. >> i think that is pretty astounding. the world needs to understand, if that's what it costs to knock
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out this disease at this stage, then it is money that even though it sounds a lot, is well spent. if it continues to rise, and we don't get a tipping point reasonably soon, we'll be spending a lot more. the other thing that is very important is for these countries, you know, when i was talking to the presidents of sierra leone and liberia the last couple days, they're also incredibly worried about their economies. they were making some progress over the last few years. suddenly all of that is at risk. if we want them to take drastic action that will have big economic consequences, we have to be prepared to hem them through this. so you know, this is not something where it is sensible tube shortage of funneling. the u.k., others are putting substantial amounts of resources behind this. in talking to the presidents in the last few days, my ang side
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is there is a mismatch between the speed at which we're able to get stuff to them and the speed at which the disease is spreading. >> prime minister blair, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you. "outfront" next, they're being monitored for ebola. what were they doing at the grocery store? plus, as ebola explodes, scientists are racing to find a cure. how close are they? we'll go inside an ebola lab. and the suspect today invited in a 2005 rape. this as remains have been found in virginia. have police found hannah graham? (receptionist) gunderman group.
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cdc just issuing new guidelines for health care workers treating patients with ebola after admitting so many mistakes. there has been a lot of concern about equipment. two nurses contracted the deadly virus while treating thomas eric duncan who died of ebola nearly two weeks ago. sanjay, the head of the cdc has been addressing the press and obviously he's had a lot of tough sessions with the press in recent days. what did he just say? >> one thing that came out at the top of the call, he said the hospital in dallas did seem to be following cdc protocols. remember, it was back and forth, what exactly happened with these two nurses. he said they were issued. they were something to work on over the summer. they seem to follow them. now he can see, they were
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inadequate for what needs to be done. there are three things he was talking about. emthat every health care provider and hospital across the country, before they start taking care of a patient with ebola, they have to go through some competency training now. some specific training. and to demonstrate they're able to do that. they will have a buddy system for every step of the way. perhaps the most important thing, something you and i have talked about quite a bit, we look at this video again. one of the thing we pointed out is there was skin exposed and that's something that would seem to be a problem and part of guidelines, they say no skin will be exposed for health care workers taking care of ebola. these are obvious things. they've been done in africa for decades. why it wasn't done here, wasn't part of guide alliance initially, i don't know. they're working to correct that. >> a major admission that they're saying the hospital followed protocol. as you said, they have not been
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saying that. that's significant. please stay with us. >> there's a lot of confusion over the cdc guidelines when it comes to monitoring people who have been in contact with the ebola patients. hundreds are being monitored. they're receiving different information on where they're allowed to go. should a person who spent time with someone with ebola be out shopping in the u.s.? >> reporter: at least 43 people in dallas county are breathing a sigh of relief tonight after reaching the end of their 21-day monitoring period. but according to dallas mayor mike rollings, 120 others are still being monitored including tiffany and byron waters. for them relief is still weeks away. >> from my understanding, my research on ebola, if anything is going to ham, it will be this week. the dallas couple flew to cleveland and back on the same frontier airlines flights as amber describeson.
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to presbyterian nurse who got ebola after caring for thomas duncan. it wasn't until they saw the news and vinson's picture two days after the flight that they realized they had sat next to the 29-year-old outside the gate in cleveland. >> did she appear sick to you? did anything stand out? >> not at all. nothing stood out. there were no indications that she was sick at all. >> the waters say they were proactive and reached out to their own doctors and called the cdc twice before finally hearing back on friday. >> the first few days were a little more nerve-racking. we hadn't received any information specifically what we should be doing. but once we got back, we were able to calm ourselves and you know, wait it out. >> health officials in dallas county asked dozens of health care work here's had contact with duncan to sign this legal document stating they would stay away from all public places and
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avoid public transportation for 21 days. the waters meanwhile faced far fewer restrictions. >> we were requested to have limited social interactions and requested tonight travel via public transportation and traveling. did i ask if we could go to the store. >> they're now focused on getting through rest of the monitoring period. they're thinking of vinson as she fights the deadly virus. >> we're praying for her. i hope she gets better. i know she'll get better. >> now this couple made the decision to stay isolated at home out of an abundance of caution on their own. and to be clear, they have not shown any symptoms indicating an ebola infection. their hope is that they'll be able to return to work by november 3rd. >> all right. thank you very much. i want to bring sanjay back in. so the couple you just heard from, they were told by the texas department of health, don't take public transportation.
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don't travel. they then explicitly say, can we go to the store and they were told yes. these are the things that, you know, me as not a doctor. i don't get. how can you be told not to do anything in public but it is okay to the grocery store. >> it doesn't make sense. that's part of the problem. that's part of the problem with the whole situation that's fueling these fears. when it come to ebola, a quarantine really doesn't, is not done because of any threat to the public's health. a really important point. different than other diseases. we think of quarantining somebody so they can keep the public safe. that's not what's happening with ebola. unless somebody is sick, they won't be transmitting the virus. so this couple, we don't know that they even have an exposure really. and they certainly don't appear sick so there's no real renal to quarantine them. it was a different thing talking about a nurse who had lengthy contact with the patient in the hospital and that protective
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gear. in her case, they said no public travel. no jumping on any commercial airline. but you could get in a car. could you still drive around, and be out in public. just not in an area where you're congre congress gaiting with other people will. >> it doesn't seem to really add up. >> it is not to protect the public's health though. that is an important point. >> saw so much. next, the cure. experts warn of 10,000 new ebola cases a week. we'll go inside the lab where scientists are in a race against time to find a cure. what are they doing? plus the suspect in hannah graham's disappearance indicted in the rape of another woman. tonight human remains are examined in a lab. are they hannah's or are they not? sheila! you see this ball control?
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a united nations staff member in the hot zone has died from ebola. the aide worker's spouse has symptoms tonight. the world health organization warns of 10,000 cases a week. that means more people dead in one week than have died in the entire outbreak since the spring. researchers in the united states
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are in a race against time to find a cure and kyung lah is "outfront." >> reporter: often fatal, no vaccine, no sure-fire cure yet. and the professor's lab, the race is on to outwit ebola. >> we need to do in weeks and months what it used to take us years to do. >> reporter: because time is running out. 4,500 dead worldwide and eight recent cases on u.s. soil. in her lab, one of the few in the world, they work with ebola ant-bodies. sent from around the world. they're injected here into two high-tech machines that frankly -- >> this looks to a lay person like a big giant mess. >> intimidating but highly advanced equipment like this. >> reporter: through this web of complex steps like this come purified proteins. a critical building block for a cure. they're sent back out to a worldwide network chasing a serum. it is a constantly moving target. sapphire is mapping the virus
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constantly mutating. >> if you do not have a map, you are blind. completely blind and fighting that virus. >> reporter: that's why she uses battle terminology. we solve the structures of the protein of the virus. like enemy intelligence. we understand what the pieces are, how they work and how to fight them. >> reporter: because this is a war and it is exhausting. they're up until midnight, back at dawn. sapphire's lab already helped develop the drug zmapp. more antibodies are coming in. researchers are pushing any idea that might work. thomas duncan and journalist were both given another experimental drug discovered at uc san diego's school of medicine and this is being used right now in germfully to treat a ewing an a doctor with ebola.
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they filthter ebola body out of the blood. they don't know in any of this will boring for sure. with ebola, there is a common call. try it. >> when you have a hard to treat pathogen like this, it pulls researchers together. it is really the ultimate challenge. >> reporter: the biggest challenge isn't just the disease but money. she's turned to crowd funding, trying to buy another one of these critical machines. >> this seems ridiculous that you're having to crowd fund. why are you crowd funding? >> because we need the money fast. and crowd funding gives people the opportunity to put their money into what they think is important. >> first of all, an incredible report looking at those finers and imagining how quickly they're doing it. i don't understand how you have a disease that could kill 5,000 people a week. you have the worst outbreak in human history, according to health professionals and they're not getting money from the government? they have to go online and ask important people out of the goodness of their heart to donate?
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>> reporter: yeah. it boggles the mind. it come down to government dollars. i want to you take a look at this graph. this is provided to us by the national institutes of health. that is a primary source of research laboratories looking for cures. you can see that it is dropping. that reflects billions of dollars in lost budgetary dollars. that's less money for cancer research but also, ebola research. what the nih also tells us is that since 2010 when they started keeping track of all this, they realize that there were 62 unfunded ebola grants. or they were delayed. just scarce dollars. >> wow! that's, that boggles the mind. thank you very much. next, the news on virginia. the man charge in the dispence of student hannah graham now indicted for the 2005 rape of another woman. this coming as remains were found in the virginia woods. are they those of hannah graham?
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the prime suspect in the dispence of hannah graham indicted for sexual assault. a grand jury has just indicted jesse matthew in a rape from 2005. the charges very importantly include attempted murder and abduction. the case against matthew is growing. he has been forensically linked to the case of another dead young woman, morgan harrington. a virginia tech student who vanished from charlottesville in 2009. now authorities are at him in a possible suspect in four other unsolved cases in virginia. this as police found a skull and bones scattered eight miles from her hannah graham was last seen. jean casarez is there. did this help bring the new indictment for another rape
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today? >> reporter: the commonwealth attorney was asked that question and he said yes. the hannah graham case did help. we know when they collected all the evidence, it is easy to get dna from a cup or a straw and he had never been convicted of a felony. furthermore, there is a living allegedville in fairfax, virginia, that was able to potentially i.d. who her perpetrator is. it is so different here in charlottesville. day and night, crime scene investigators are processing a makeshift grave. it has been every day for five weeks. searching for missing uva student hannah graham. on saturday, everything came to an abrupt halt. >> a search team from the chesterfield county sheriff's department was searching an abandoned property along old lynch road when they discovered what appears to be human remains. >> something inside told me, continue to look.
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>> reporter: sergeant dale terry was part of the search team that made the grim discovery about 10 miles from the campus. a ask you and bones, scattered across the creek bed. along with a pair of tight dark colored pants. no hair, no flesh. pants, much like the one hannah graham was wearing when she went missing on september 13th. the development quickly became a difficult reality for investigators. >> the detective sergeant james mooney of the police department made a very difficult phone call. and reached out to john and susan graham to share with them this preliminary discovery. >> reporter: it was just last week that hannah's parents pleaded for anyone to help them find their daughter. >> we appeal to you to come forward and tell us where hannah can be found. >> reporter: now authorities may have found her, but it will take forensic experts to confirm it is the 18-year-old uva sophomore. >> full decomposition down to skeletalization as soon as three
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weeks. so 35 days, i'm not surprised. i expected it. >> reporter: the scene continues to be processed right up there by investigators. we are in the southern part of the county, albemarle county right outside the city of charlottesville. and if you go up that road for four miles, what you'll find is the house that jesse matthew used to live in with his mother. this is house that matthew lived in for with six years, according to his neighbors. >> his mother talked a lot and she seemed to be a real nice person. she wanted to stay out here to try to keep him away from the city and the gangs. >> reporter: but as jesse matthew sits in the county jail for the abduction of hannah graham, he could be facing a lot more trouble than the gangs of charlottesville. and law enforcement tell me they will continue processing the scene for as long as it taefls it could be at a imminent on thursday that they could be finished. then there is so much more to do. because with the chief medical examiner, number one, they have
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to identify these remains through dna. and number two, the cause and the manner of death, and then those black pants that they did find at the scene. they have to see if there is any foreign dna of the perpetrator that may have caused hannah-the alleged victim here to lose her life. >> jean casarez, thank you so much. "outfront" now, retired fbi profiler, jim, let me start with this question of whether this is hannah. they said they found a skull and scattered bones but no hair and no flesh. the remains were found 35 days after hannah graham was last spotted. is it possible that it is not her? >> it is possible it is another victim or some random body. the chances are pretty good. i mean, offenders can accelerate that skeletalization process by putting the body in a stream. if it rained, it could have been much more activity. could have removed the skin and
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so forth from the bones. the offender himself could have used some type of acid to get rid of the flesh and hair. >> to try to hide his tracks. let me ask you a question about where there was. the remains were found ten mile from her hannah graham was last seen. four miles from where jesse matthew once lived. five miles from where morgan harrington was found. matthew has been linked by forensic evidence to morgan harrington's disappearance. she women missing outside uva in 2009. you study serial killers. is there any significance that you see when you look at these distances? >> well, this looks like a fairly classic example of what a serial killer might. do they move the person away from the abduction site to where they have more privacy and control. that could be an abandoned house, a place they can pull their car off the road without being seen. when they kill the person, they
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want to distance. they from the body. typically they'll go away from the abduction site. not toward the abduction site when they dispose of the body. in this case, it looks like this was a fairly good disposal site. it was located behind an abandoned house and in a stream bed. although there isn't active concealment, it is a very difficult place to find. >> thank you. of course we're waiting to see. and of course, the hope that that would not be hannah. we're awaiting those friendsic results. the city of ferguson, missouri, there is new evidence that could acquit the office here shot the unarmed teen, michael brown. law enforcement sources tell cnn that brown's blood was found on the gun, uniform of wilson. this may support wilson's account. that account was that he fired in self-defense. that brown had approached him at the car and attacked him.
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>> reporter: this is the new normal in ferguson. protests night and day for the past 73 days. their number one demand? justice. to them that means the indictment and arrest of officer darren wilson who shot and killed unarmed teenager michael brown august 9th. tensions are high again after new details about the investigation were leaked by faerld source to the new york times. indicating forensic evidence may mean potential civil rights charges are unlikely. u.s. law enforcement sources told cnn, brown's blood was found on the wilson's gun, inside wilson's patrol car and on his uniform. >> what that does is that tends to support any testimony that there was some kind of scuffle in the police car. and if so, that tends to support officer wilson's testimony and his justification for using deadly force. >> reporter: early on, brown's
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friends said there was a scuffle but that wilson was the aggressor. >> he pulled up alongside us, he tried to push the door open. we were so close that it ricochetted and it bounced back to him. and i guess that got him a little upset. as he was trying to choke my friend. and he was trying to get away. and the officer then reached out and he grabbed his arm to pull him into the car. >> reporter: cnn legal analyst says the newly reveal forensic evidence only goes so far. >> ultimately, that officer will have to come one justification, not for firing his gun the first time but for each and every bullet that came out of his firearm. whether at the car or away from the car. >> reporter: whatever happens, police tell cnn, they are preparing. especially after hearing this time and again for protesters in the streets. if there is not an indictment, excuse my french. all hell is going to break loose. >> are you worried that there is
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going to be serious violence? >> yeah. again, we're constantly at those things. i believe it was five shootings in august. then also to protect businesses and the property and the citizens who live in the area. >> protesters also have plans. >> serve planning for whatever the grand jury decides. i think certainly there are lots of us planning peaceful protests for, should it not be indicted. certainly there are other people that have other ideas at hand. >> there are four main charges that the grand jury is being asked to look. a one, first-degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. they're being asked to look at that.
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they've been given the statutes for what is self-defense and for what is legally the use of forceful and as far as when this grand jury is going to come back with a decision, everyone is trying to figure that out. we talk to the prosecuting attorney's office and the officials told us, they're expecting something to come down in mid-november. these protesters want to it happen fast better you they say they will be here every single night until then. and depending on what the outcome is, thing could get pretty hairy around here. >> thank you so much. "outfront" next -- >> survivors. a survivor spirit. survivor. >> don lemon with an emotional trip in search of his roots. and journalism can be a dangerous job. covering the pumpkin festival? you wonderful bet but you would bet wrong. goodnight. goodnight.
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test. >> yep. here we go. >> so these are your results. 76% african and 22% european. and then you've got 25% nigeria and 22% cameroon and congo. 50% of your genetic make-up comes from that specific region in africa. >> wow! >> my ancestry is deeply rooted in what is now known as the slave coach. my mom and i traveled to the castle, the main exit point for slaves coming to the united states. >> nice to meet you. this is my mother katherine. >> hi, mom. >> why are we here? >> i'm going to take you back in time. >> this was constructed in around 1792. it was design for a thousand people. >> here --
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>> can you imagine? >> they stayed about three months on average in this darkness. it felt like a descent into hell. i felt like this must be what it is like to enter hell. i couldn't believe that people walked down that path and then walked through here and then spend months in here if you survived. >> this was a dungeon. >> it was dark in here. >> all dark in here. they were healthier in chains. you see the holes on the wall. they were held in chains. and this opportunity, the floor which you stand on now, with feces and blood. decomposed bodies, clothes,
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food, vomit, sweat. >> i kept looking for places to escape and there was no escape. the only escape was either become a slave, go to a new world our escape through death. >> what you are standing before now is a shrine. and behind this wall there was a tunnel. through which the captives were led to the exits. >> is that where the ship? >> yes, to get on the boat and to get on to the ships. now they're dedicated to the souls is of our ancestors. >> i don't know how many thousands or millions of people ended up in places like this. >> i have candles for you to light in memory of ancestors that passed through this facility. >> that one little candle was a fire of inspiration.
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we're survivors. >> yes. >> survivor spirit. survivors. >> through this door they left behind the known for the unknown. left behind security for insecurity. >> you walk through not the passage you came in but then through another passage, through the toor of no return and then on to a ship away from your family and who knows what happened to you after that. right on to the ship.
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>> in 1998 two bodies of exslaves were exhumed in america and jamaica. they were brought back through this door to reverse the trend of no return. >> i was thinking here i just can't it any more. every day i feel like i'm dreaming. i had such a wonderful life. i'm so blessed and so fortunate. i want all those people who think that they can't survive and all those people who say i can't do this, i can't do that, i want to show people that that isn't true. you can do whatever you want. so on behalf of the people of this country, it's my pleasure to welcome you back. >> who do you think i am? i know that i'm a survivor and i came from a group of people who are survivors. why wouldn't i want to do the best that i could to honor those people?
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>> and don joins me now. >> very heavy. >> emotional. >> yeah. >> and i guess one of the hard parts has to be that even though you were able to find out a lot, you couldn't find out everything. >> no. and you don't see a lot of pictures. that's because there's not a lot of information. most people who came over on the atlantic slave trade or through that process, there's not a lot -- there aren't a lot of records. you can go back and it will say, erin -- >> well, a name. a simple thing as a name. >> on the census reports people were just tick marks. how many people are on your property, how much property do you own, how many slaves and they'd gave them tick marks and not names. tough to get a lot of information. >> do you know where your name came from? where lemon came from? >> not exactly, no. mostlily it came from somebody who owned slaves, whose name was lemon or a variation of lemon. >> incredible that you got to go where you did and have that
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moment. >> with my mother. i'll have that forever. so that i will always have. so thank you very much. >> thank you for sharing it with us. >> all right, erin, appreciate it. >> if you missed any of our roots stories, you can see them all on cnn.com/roots. remember our cnn series ends with a primetime special tomorrow at 9:00 eastern. outfront next, they went to a pumpkin festival and a fight broke out. >> i'm going to pull the plug on you because you're a guest of the pumpkin festival and i assigned you this spot. >> you heard it first here, everybody. 3rd and 3. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. if you convert 4-quarter p/e of the s&p 500, its yield is doing a lot better... if you've had to become your own investment expert,
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a new hampshire pumpkin festival erupted into total and utter chaos when sell brandts started throwing glass bottles and lighting fires in the street. police were wearing riot gear. i'm not kidding you. at a pumpkin festival. a local journalist then got involved, tried to report on the melee and he got caught off not from someone in the crowd but from a festival organizer. jeanne moos reports. >> reporter: what makes live tv fun? watch the guy taking the selfie. is that you never know what will happen. a leash breaks and the weather man has a 100% chance of being
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showered by doggy affection. >> we'll be back with more in just a moment. >> reporter: things really came unleashed at the new hampshire pumpkin festival, not only did rowdy students riot a short weak away from where peaceful pumpkin fans were gathered, but there was this. the strange dance as a pumpkin fest organizer tried to block the public access tv host covering the festivities. >> she would not like me to tell you what's going on. >> reporter: ruth sterling wanted jared go goodell. >> i'm going to pull the plug on you. you're a guest of the pumpkin festival. >> reporter: she went for his mike five times. >> you heard it here first, everybody. >> you are our guest. thank you. >> when you report the news, when you report the reality, the people in charge want to shut you down.
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>> reporter: so while pumpkin fest went on relatively undisturbed the students were busy beaning each other and police with cans and bottles not far away. >> i got hit with a jack daniels bottle. >> reporter: the organizer and the public access host lobbed verbal bombshells. >> and you have no right to self-promote here. >> i'm not self-promoting anything. >> reporter: on monday ruth sterling doubled down dauling goodell a self-promoting punk who was metaphorically yelling fire in a crowded theater endangering festival goers. meanwhile goodell told us he's been contacted by lawyers who said she was guilty of battery, though he has no plans to sue. >> do you have anything you want to say to her directly? >> reporter: apologize to residents of keen, he said. >> i wouldn't mind an apology from her either. >> do we agree he's self-promoting? i agree. >> everything, ruth sterling. >> reporter: no wonder the jack-o'-lanterns were smiling. jeanne moos, cnn. >> you heard it here first,
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everybody. >> you are our guest. >> reporter: new york. >> it takes censorship to a whole new level. ac 360 begins right now. good evening. thanks for sxwlojoining us. breaking news on ebola. just before air time the cdc laid out new guidelines for preventing the spread of the virus. and from emory we learned that another patient being treated there has recovered and has actually left the hospital. all this at the end of a day that saw 43 people who came in contact with ebola victim thomas dungeon pass that vital three-week landmark without any symptoms and saw an entire country, nigeria, declared ebola-free. we're starting with new guidelines issued just an hour ago. for that we go to dr. sanjay gupta. the new guidelines look like the old guidelines that docrs
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