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severe liberal bias for liberalism. hello, everybody. i'm uma pemmaraju in washington. and this is a fox news alert. growing concerns over ebola with the center for disease control now looking into approximately 100 ebola scares in 33 states. this week the cdc taking some heat over the response to the country's first diagnosed case of ebola in dallas. with that patient now undergoing treatment. the cdc will be holding a news conference in a few minutes, an giving us up the update in texas, as well as five other cases. when that news conference happens we will take you live, cut to that scene and bring you
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the latest. and as health officials keep close watch on developments with the ebola alert, here's what we know so far about efforts to treat those who have been diagnosed with the disease and those who are being monitored for possible symptoms. in the d.c. area, one of two eing monitored for ebola has now been diagnosed with malaria. now, that other patient remains in the hospital with possible symptoms of the deadly virus. at the nebraska center, in omaha, a team is preparing for the arrival of the nbc freelance journalist who contracted the virus in liberia. and texas remains ground zero where the first person diagnosed with ebola in america remains in quarantine. thomas eric duncan is receiving liberia. as the first confirmed case of e!ola diagnosed in the u.s., duncan remains in serious condition. also at this time, 50 people in the dallas area who had some contact with duncan are being
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monitored for possible symptoms with ten of those now at higher risk of catching ebola. duncan could face criminal charges for falsifying his health screening test by failing to disclose that he had contact with a person who was diagnosed with ebola before he took his flight out of liberia. in just a few moments, we are going to be speaking with texas lieutenant governor david dewhurst for his take on the events unholding in the dallas area. now, the ebola scare has many saying that the u.s. needs to restrict flights from west african-america african nations where it's spreading right now. to prevent it from spreading here in the country, do you think the u.s. should ban flights to countries that have experienced a significant outbreak? let me know by sending out your treats to @uma pemmaraju and we will read some of your thoughts later in the show. mysterious and deadly virus hitting america, specifically
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putting young children at risk, health officials in new jersey are now reporting that a 4-year-old boy who died last week tested positive for the severe respiratory illness known as enterovirus. his death now brings the total to four who have died from this virus. the cdc confirming that at least 500 people in 42 states have come down with this virus. most of them children. many of those youngsters are al also experiencing paralysis and cannot walk. doctors still don't know what's causing this condition. anyone in any doubt about this organization can now see how truly repulsive it is and barbaric it is. >> that from prime minister cameron, reacting to the horrific beheading of british aid worker alan henning and is vowing to quote use all assets
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we have to help other hostages and their families. now isis is threatening to kill another american, an aid worker and a former army ranger. peters peter kassig. >> we didn't know that kassig was being held inside syria. late last night, it was confirmed that peter kassig is now in the hands of isis and the terrorist group released the latest beheading video by displaying another hostage and saying he is next. alan henning was kidnapped in syria and held by isis. in this video we're showing you the still picture, henning makes a statement under during it in the minutes before the execution. on the tape what appears to be the same masked executioner as in previous isis tapes says that because of american air strikes in syria, kassig would be next.
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kassig once served as an army ranger, did time in iraq before being medically discharged in 2007. he was abducted in lebanon while helping syrian refugees. his abduction and detention by isis was not publicly reported until now and he parents have taken to youtube to issue a desperate plea. >> at an early age, his son was inspired by his grandfather to do humanitarian work. when he saw the suffering of the syrian people, he went to turkey and founded an organization to provide aid and assistance. >> dear son, we hope that you will see this message from me and your father. we are so very proud of you and the work you have done to bring humanitarian aid to the syrian people. we implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go.
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>> in recent weeks, isis has executed four western hostages and posted all of the videos on youtube. it was two americans and two brits. western hostages isis now holds. the national security council issued a statement saying they would continue to use every tool at their disposal to try and bring peter home. uma? >> thank you very much. our heart goes out to his family who are desperately waiting for word about his situation. thank you. how many americans are fighting in syria on the side of the terrorists? >> in the area of a dozen or so. >> do you know who they? >> yes. >> each and every one of them? >> of that dozen or so i do. i hesitate only because i don't know what i don't know. >> that from fbi director jam talking with "60 minutes."
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rogue americans coming back home as terrorists, after fighting with isis. let's bring in fox contributing analyst ralph peters with his insights. welcome. >> hi. >> let's talk about the americans. most of these people who are fighting with the terrorists, are they self-radicalized, drawn in by slick social media pcampaigns? >> well, several things. they're radicalized by their own discontent, by radical mosques still funded by the saudis and the gulf arabs. you have a number of factors going into it, but the bottom line, these are socially maladjuáuq" people. these are not happy campers, not on the road to being physicists and doctors. and uma, while i worry about these guys of course you have to be concerned about them. statistically the problem we have with violent islam terrorists in our own country tends to be with young thugs.
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prison or self-radicalized social misfits like major hassan. he never found a place to fit in and the tsarnaev brothers who were immigrants, they never fit in. while we have to be vigilant and intolerant of extremism and we shouldn't allow the funding of foreign mosques, but we do, do not worry about the iranian eye surgeon you're dealing with. america is still a miracle. what's amazing to me, if you stand back and get perspective, is that despite the fact that we have -- we have grown some is&amist terrorists. it's amazing we have grown so few because the difference between us and the europeans, those coming here and the american-born muslims have a shot at the top. they can climb through the social hierarchies, through edu(páion, hard work, whereas in europe where the real problems are, where you have thousands of
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people going to fight for isis and other radical groups, muslims are basically ghettoized. >> ralph, stand by for a moment, because we need to break away and take you to atlanta where the cdc is now holding that briefing on ebola that's now getting u'derway. let's listen in. >> thank you for joining us today. today is the fifth day after the diagnosis of the first ebola case in the united states. we wanted to update on what has been done, what is happening, in atlanta, on the ground, and also address questions that have been arising and answer questions that you may have. the first case of ebola is obviously both scary and unprecedented. ebola is a deadly disease. and we know that the images from africa remind us all of the severity that ebola can cause in a community. everything we have seen until now re-enforces what we have
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nope for the -- known for the past 40 years. we know how to stop outbreaks of ebola. in this country, we have health care infection control and public health systems that are tried and true and will stop before there's any widespread transmission. the core of that, the way to stop ebola in its tracks is contact, tracing and follow-up. i want to sp&ute the facts in texas who are doing a phenomenal job of organizing their response, addressing this unprecedented situation, working in a highly structured, highly efficient and effective way and addressing the needs of the patient, the contact and the community. it is wonderful to be working with them and we value the partnership great&y. at this point, we have been saying for a couple of days that we're in the process of assessing contacts. and let me be really clear about what that involves, because in public health, we do contact
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tracing all the time. every day arou'd the year. whether it's for tuberculosis or por meningitis or measles or other things. it's core activity for us and in-contact tracing, we expect that there will be some adjustments, some changes from day to day. the numbers may shift by one or two, from one day to the next, as further interviews may identify that someone thought they had a contact and didn't. or someone may remember that they had a contact that wasn't initially remembered. but at this point, we'll give you information about what we know as of today, and going forward each day we wil& update that information. wq ill always have the fundamental principle that we will share with you any information that we have that you may need to know and that may be relevant for understanding the outbreak and our response to it. so as of today, or as of
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yesterday i'll say because áoday happens hour by hour, minute by minute, so as of the end of the day yesterday, we had assessed 114 people who may or may not have had exposure to the patient. we have done the assessments in all 114, but there's still a couple where we're sorting out whether or not they are actual contact. at this point, we have identified in conjunction with folks jz the ground in texas, nine individuals who were pretty sure are definite contact with the source patient. with the index case as we refer to him. well as some people in the health care profession. in addition, there are about 40 other people and the numbers may change by one or twoer day that we can't rule out had contact.
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which don't know that they had contact. but because we're not certain that they did not have contact, we will be monitoring them as well. as of yesterday, that number total was 46 and we had been temperatures of all but one of those 46. all were normal, all were healthy. all of the nine who had definite contact we were able to reach. so we are confident that none of those with definite contact had any symptoms related to ebola. none of them had fever. we'll be watching that very closely particularly for those nine individuals in the coming days. understanding that the peak period after exposure is about eight to ten days, but it can be as long as 21 days. so for up to 21 days after exposure, we'll be monitoring all of those roughly 50 people
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and any others if we identify other contacts and providing the information daily on the proportion that we have reached and the status of any individuals and whether or not they are ill. that group of 50 does include some individuals who travelled in the ambulance after the index patient and when we reviewed with the ambulance staff all of the details there, we couldn't be 100% certain that other people in that ambulance may not subsequently q) patients may not have been exposed. and therefore, those individuals, although they're not considered to be definite contacts, will also be monitored for the 21-day period. in addition to contact tracing, i just want to mention two other issues before turning it over to our colleagues in áexas. first, the issue of other cases in the u.s. as we anticipated, the arrival
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of the first ebola patient in the u.s. has really increased attention to what health workers need to do in this country to be alert and ensure that a travel history is taken and that if history or other symptoms that are consistent with ebát an" that travel history is very specific. were you in these three west african countries in the past 21 days? and in that case, we would of course do rapid testing. if that testing is negative, we actually repeat the test. if it's a high-risk patient or a high probability patient, after 72 hours unless it's become clear that that's not their illness, because it can take 72 hours for someone who's being tested to test positive. we have already gotten well over 100 inquiries of possible
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patients. we have assessed every one of those with state and local health departments, with hospitals, and just this one patient has tested positive. we have helped a dozen high quality ebola testing so that that testing doesn't all have to come to us here at cdc. it can be done more rapidly locally as is being done in austin, texas. and we expect that we will see more rumors or concerns or possibilities of cases until there is a positive laboratory test that is what they are. rumors and concerns and in fact, we want to see more concern. but we want that to be appropriate. we want the concern to be for someone who has symptoms. fever and who's travelled to guinea, sierra leone or liberia in the last 21 days. we are looking at this point at some people from nigeria, but we think really transmission there in the two cities that had transmission has ended.
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in addition, i know there have been a lot of concerns about the process of monitoring people when they come in to this country. i just want to make a couple of key points about that. the first is that our number one priority is the safety of americans. full stop. second, that we need to look at different suggestions that are being made and we have seen a lot of suggestions made in the media, by the public, by members of congress. we'll take a hard look at that and we're quite open to seeing what can be done to ensure that if there are ways to reduce the risk, we implement them and implement them well. we also -- i do believe have to recognize that we are all connected. we might wish we could seal ourselves off from the world, there are americans who have the right of return, there are many others who have the right to enter into this and that we're not going to be
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able to get to zero risk no matter what we do unless and until we control the outbreak in west africa. that's what we're working very intensively to do. and we're beginning to see some progress there. but it's going to be a long, hard road. and finally, in terms of the entry process, we reallv need to be clear that we don't inadvertently increase the risk to people in this country by making it harder for us to respond to the needs in those countries by making it harder for us to get assistance in and become worse, go on longer and paradoxically jomething we did to try to protect ourselves might increase our risk. i'll end with just one example along those lines from the time that i was in the -- in liberia. the african union is quite willing to send hundreds of hep&th workers in to help fight the outbreak in these countries. and they today have folks on the
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ground caring for patients. that's a terrific development. but their ability to get there was delayed by about a week because their flight was cancelled and they were stuck in a neighboring country. so that neighboring country had taken -- senegal, had taken that action in order to protect themselves, stopping all flights, but in fact, that action made it harder to stop the outbreak in liberia and elsewhere and potentially increase the risk in that country. so number one is to protect americans but not to do things that might inadvertently might make it harder to protect americans. i'll stop there and barbara reynolds will introduce the next speakers. >> thank you, doctor. the next one is dr. lakey.
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>> thank you. first, as i begin our thoughts and prayers are with the patient right now and his family. going through a very rough situation right now and our prayers are with him and our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who has been identified as a possible contact. obviously, a lot of concern there. and making sure that we're working with the individuals and giving them the things -- the care that they need. we're working hard in dallas to rounde issues here j)q and to keep people informed. also, a lot of interest -- heavy -- >> okay. we'll break away from the news conference taking place in atlanta. you have heard from the head of the cdc, the update about what's being done to deal with this ebola emergency that's been with the first diagnosed caseç that was just found in dallas and the steps to protect other people who may have come in contact with that individual. we are hearing that nine people are showing -- are not
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showing -- are the people that they're focusing on, they're not showing any real symptoms, they have had no fever. so they're keeping close watch on nine particular people who had direct contact with thomas eric duncan, the patient being treated in dallas at this time. so we're going to keep close watch on the developments from that news conference. if there's any other news to bring you from the conference, we will bring that to you. but we'll take a break and when we come back, still ahead, violence in syria has sent millions of refugees fleeing across the borders in search of safety. what's become of those men, women and children after they leave home? we will talk to a woman who just returned from working with a number of refugees in lebanon. a shakeup at the secret service in the wake of high profile security failures. homeland security chief jeh johnson vowing to transform and reform the agency. but what's likely goint on behind the scenes? we will talk to a former secret service agent ahead.
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do ou keep them fr home and attacking the homeland? >> ultimately an american citizen, unless the passport is back.ed is entitled to come so someone who's fought with isil, with the american passport, wants to come back, we will track them very carefully. >> that interview for an upcoming quality 60 minutes tomorrow night when we're talking about americans going overseas to fight with the terrorists against different points along the way in iraq and syria. now, i want to bring in ralph peters in once again, before we head to the news conference. we're talking about these individuals, and i want to ask you, ralph, do you think seizing passports of those who are fighting with isis is a crucial step to keeping those americans from returning to the u.s. for a possible attack? >> yes, absolutely. when you go fight for an american-hating, america attacking foreign terrorist organization, you are not
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entitled to the full protection of a law abiding citizen. we have two problems. the obvious one is islamist fanaticism and the other one is political correctness. we are worried about the rights of americans who chop off the heads of innocent people. we allow radical mullahs into the prison system to convert thugs. we allow foreign saudis primarily and gulf arabs to fund and madrases in the united states. one can only hope that the next president will get us beyond this suicidal culture of political correctness. >> ralph peters, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. well, violence in syria has forced millions to flee across the border into the surrounding countries. we are hearing about 250 people a day are crossing into jordan alone. take a look and you can see how the crisis has forced over 3
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million refugees to scatter across the region. more than a million people have made their way into lebanon. christian wright just returned from the nation and she's working with open doors usa. helping refugees in that part of the world. welcome. so nice to see you. >> thank you. >> let's talk about what is obviously a very dire situation right now. as the fighting in syria continues, so many people are fleeing into lebanon and that's a country that's quite small and not really equipped to handle the flood of people crossing over their borders. >> that's absolutely true. i think that one of the things that really struck me during my visit to lebanon was simply that this is the smallest host community for syrian refugees. and yet, have more syrian refugees than any of the other countries currently hosting these refugees. so currently right now, one out of every four people in lebanon is a syrian refugee. >> we are not hearing a great plight of the refugees because this is a very real problem, because they are obviously the % victim in all of this.
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tell me about some of the stories of the people that you have met and what they're up against, particularly the children. >> i think for me, while i was in lebanon, i visited areas of beirut so there are a lot of refugees that are actually living inside the city and they're renting apartments. re'ting homes wherever they're able. more remote area of lebanon and you have many thousands of syrian rq#ugees coming in. they're pitching tents wherever they can. lebanon doesn't have actual hosted refugee camps like some of the other host countries. so the refugees are simply being wherever they're able to find a home. >> we're taking a look at the video of that area right now. what are some of the biggest challenges facing them? if this continues on indefinite&y which we expect that it will, many of these people are really without resources. >> that's correct. in a country like lebanon this is especially a challenge.
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so many of the syrian refugees i talked to had a struggle with the health care aspect. in lebanon, much of the health care is private. so it's difficult for someone in health care. when i was visiting with one of the refugee camps out in the valley, a man came out of his tent to greet me and he had tears streaming down his face and he described to me how his 5-year-old son had just died. >> we're taking a look at the pictures that you have taken of the children there from your last visit. i know that you have some very emotional stories p!out these children. >> yes. the man that i met with who came out of the tent and he had tears streaming down his face described how he had buried his 5-year-old son three days before i arrived there and he said how $e and his wife had fled syria and the young son was suffering with leukemia. he and his wife raced him to the hospital as soon as they got to
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lebanon and the doctor -- he described how the doctor had written down on a piece of paper what the boy needed to survive. and then he sent them to another area of the hospital and so the family just raced as fast as they could with the son and in very critical condition. and the hospital staff informed them this would be $6,000 due immediately. and they had nothing. and he -- he had tears streaming down his face, he described to me how he and his wife picked up their son and brought him back to the refugee camp. >> how difficult is it for you personally to witness these horrible situations? we're dealing with people whose lives have been completely -- >> shattered. and they're dealing with real human tragedy in terms of the story you just told and about the fact that many have lost their children. >> yes. i think that any time -- i visited a couple of borders with syria. i visited with refugees in turkey and in lebanon. i can guarantee you that wherever you go, whether in
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syria or the borders, your heart will be broken. it's very devastating. >> very tough situation. our hearts go out to those people. thank you for joining us. we'll take a break and come back with more after this. much more on ebola and what's happening with that situation from our nation's capital. land here. >> oh, my! every day. p welcome back, everybody.
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we have breaking news right now on the patient being monitored pfor possible ebola at washington, d.c.'s howard university hospital. the district and cdc officials are saying that they have now ruled out ebola in that case. peter ducey joining with us the very latest on this story. peter? >> umptwo miles away from the white house, a patient at howard university hospital here in washington had been isolated with symptoms consistent with ebola. because this patient just traveled to nigeria and officials didn't want to take any chances. but now we get word here in washington that ebola is not what made this person sick.
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the department of health and the cdc are still going to keep an eye on the patient, but plan to illnesses. person for other now, a confirmed case of ebola in the nation's capital surely would have caused nervous panic, but there are no plans at this point to stop allowing % passengers who have visited affected areas from traveling to the united states. >> shutting down the ability to travel entirely is noá the way to go in our judgment. we are doing a number of things to screen at t$e various different points including keeping the airlines involved in this -- themselves and screening at arrival points. but we're continually evaluating whether more is necessary. >> furthermore, the white house says they are still confident in ebola protocol. in foggy bottom, meanwhile, state officials are relying on worldwide health organizations for traveling in and out of the
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united states and so far there are no travel restrictions. >> the cdc has not recommended that we cut off travel to the countries because it remains essential that the world community engage in order to help the affected countries to address and contain the cry. >> in the last few minutes we heard the cdc director say it's his best estimation to stop the ebola outbreak is to get to it at the source. >> thank you very much for the update. still ahead, some very embarrassing public security failures lead to a shakeup at the top level of the secret service. the day to day operations of the agency? we're going to talk to a former secret service for his take. and a boy who raps about causes close to his heart making him a youtube sensation. you don't want to miss this story. want to know how hard it can be... ...to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
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i hate to even imagine what could have happened if gonzalez had been carrying a gun instead of a knife when he burst inside the white house. >> well, the embattled secret service ij taking lots of heat for a series of embarrassing security breaches and now lawmakers are asking if the secret service is doing enough to keep the family and the president safe. "beyond safe" is dan emmett. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> you're is coming to us via skype. you spent 21 years as a secret service agent. and do you think the series of high profile cases of misconduct reveals an agency in complete disarray? >> in terms of misconnect, no. every agency is going to have those. and that's why julia pierson was
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essentially brought in was to straighten out the personal conduct issues. that. however, i think she was putting so much time on that thpá perhaps she took her eye off the ball in terms of what the secret service is really about which is keeping the president safe. >> you know, from what i hear talking to some agents off the background, i hear that morale is quite low at the agency right now and you believe actually that weak leadership is really the blame for the problems that have surfaced. what's going on right now behind the scenes from your view point? >> well, right now up on the eighth floor as we call it at complete crisis management righá now. they're in panic mode. with the bringing in of joe clancy, that's going to help a great deal. joe's very solid individual, i have known him -- i knew him my entire career. he was probably the best choice of anyone if they were going to bring someone back from
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private -- private sector back into the secret service. but in order to affect real change, they have to bring in a strong leader, a permanent director, and in my opinion, the director's staff needs to be changed also in order of some stronger leadership. >> i have to ask you about something that bothered me with the recent breach with the suspect getting into the white house. we learned he overpowered a @r% female agent. now, that's not supposed to happen. isn't there something when an agent one-on-one with a suspect >> well, the uniform division officer that was standing at the entrance to the white house should have stopped that situation on spot. however, because the secret service along with the rest of the federal government has no physical standards in terms of height, weight requirements,
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those were deemed and so now you literally have secret service agents under 5 feet tall in stature and some are very overweight. some arq out of condition. so we need to get back to some standards which makes sense in terms of -- in terms of armed law enforcement. >> one would think an agent regardless of height, they're there to protect the president, t$at they're able to stop any possible breach that takes place. >> well, mass, speed and size do enter into it. however, the individual mr. gonzalez, that was rushing the north portico is excite a bit larger than the officer trying to stop him, which is why lethal force should have been employed in this situation. mr. gonzalez should not have entered the white house. >> really quickly, in the few seconds i have left, do you think things will get better now there's new leadership at the top? >> well, i think they're going to change. whether or not they get better
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remains to be seen. that's really up to secretary johnson and whether he makes the determination that again the eighth floor needs -- the eighth floor needs to be cleaned out and new management brought in. so i think the train wreci that we have seen with the secret service hopefully is over and maybe we can get that train back on the track where it needs to be. >> absolutely. thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. all right. switching gears. coming up, a story of brotherly love. a talented young man who is using his voice to make the world a better place for his little sister. you don't want to miss this story. ♪ dad, i know i haven't said this often enough, but thank you. thank you mom for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad.
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in the song, the message is clear, he let's everyone )jju that he just wants her to be treated like everyone else. that message is being embraced across the world. joining us now, mattyb and his dad blake morris. >> thanks for having us. >> mattyb, tell us why you wanted to do this special song. i know you share a close knit bond with her? >> sometimes when my sister is on the playground at our school, some people look at her differently or not want to play with her because she has down i think everybody should get to play with whoever they want and with more practice she can do anything. >> it bothered you to know she was being teased and bullied? >> yes, ma'am. >> so how did you come up with the inspiration for putting this parti(u&ar song together? i know that she is also in the video. >> yeah, i think that she
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deserves to have a song dedicated to her and that she should have it and be able to do whatever she wants. >> dad, are you surprised that this video has taken off like wildfive across the globe. i know he's for his own youtube channel has over a billion views. >> you know, it was a special project for us and sara did a great job and sara has so much as a child with a disability, brought so much to our family, unconditional love and things that the boys that she brings to us included in our family and i think this video was really a way to show that if given a chance and opportunity to be included like one of the kids, what she really brought to the other kids was unity and love and it was just a special project for us. we feel like the message got across and we were fortunate enough to have others see it the
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same way. >> matty, i know you write a lot of your own music. how do you come up with the ideas for the lyrics and do you spend a lot of time working on these projects? >> well, my big cousin morris helps me. he likes helps me write the lyrics and everything. we don't spend too much time on it. we usually -- if we record a video, we usually have it posted like three or four days after we record it. >> what has been your reaction to the fact that so many people are moved by what that i have seen and heard from this video? >> how do you feel about it? >> i'm really happy because sara is a great person and she really is -- >> well, you're really a wonderful brother and i know that she must really feel very special because you dedicated this in her monday or and i know she's a special young lady in her own right.
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we wish you all the best. you are remarkable young man and i know that you're definitely going to be a superstar one day. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> a special young man there. don't go away, your twitter responses are coming up next, plus, fly high in new mexico, we will take you up, up and away right after the break. ♪ and when weather hits, it's data mayhem. but airlines running hp end-to-end solutions are always calm during a storm. so if your business deals with the unexpected, hp big data and cloud solutions make sure you always know what's coming - and are ready for it.
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take a look, everybody, a site to behold in the skies over balloons taking flight, the festival kicking off yesterday. this year the pilots working with local students to show them what it takes to get these colorful balloons off the ground. thousands of people watching the balloons launching this morning, similar crowds are expected throughout the week. quite a site indeed. we've been asking if you think flights between the u.s. and countries with he'ebola should writes unless you want all to pay for quarantine on the passengers banning flights would be like u.s. border control,
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