and margie is glad it coincides with football season. here's a look at her steelers dog. thank you for writing and being part of the realñ"b store. i'm gretchen and here's shep. >> as u.s. forces hit islamic militants from the skies, questions about where turkey stands in this fight. will the turks actually let our military use their bases? we'll take you live to the syria-turkey border for a look at what is happening on the ground. >> the risks and arrest of ebola after a healthcare worker comes down with the disease in dallas. officials say they're monitoring dozens more people who may have had contact with that staffer. burt the head of the cdc insisting the worker got sick because of a breach in safety procedures. another bounce house disaster. a gust of wind sending an inflatable ride over a fence with two young boys inside. let's get to it.

goods in afternoon -- good monday to you. the battle to save the baghdad airport as islamic state terrorists fight their way closer to the iraqi capital. the united states called it apache helicopters, the government reports to try to stop the advance. a sign of just how serious the fighting hawse now become. using the low-flying choppers is riskier than bombers. the iraqi officials say isis shot down two iraqi choppers north of baghdad. official says the latest is just you'd the capital. here's the baghdad international airport. there's the prison at abu ghraib, what used to be. some 15 miles from the airport. they're not being specific. the joint chiefs of staff chairman general dempsey said isis fighters would have had a straight shot to the airport and that's why the united states called in the apaches. that parent is chit -- parent is

critical for sendings supplies. all comes days after the pentagon sources played down the fighting near the airport, even dismissing it as harass. at best. now the general says he could recommend that u.s. troops work side-by-side with the iraqis to take out targets, in other words, u.s. boots oned the ground. the white house says the president is not considering sending in any combat troop. a new rye miner of the savage group that are being fighted. isis this weekend released messages from two of its hostages. one from an american journalist before the terrorist cut of is head, and the other message, a video from a british hostage. officials say the terrorists forced him to blast his own government. much more ahead. first let's get to jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. how far has the islamic state advance? do we have specifics?

>> iraqi sources on the ground in iraq tell us the town of hitt in anbar province has fall ton isis. this is significant because it is another key town. there's a military base there. and it's on that key artery through anbar on route to the capital. the pentagon is pushing back on the idea baghdad is falling into isis hands. >> iraqi forces continue to strengthen their positions in baghdad. >> the pentagon was turned enough about the march of isis to within striking distance of the airport it took the unusual decision last week to deploy those apache helicopters for close support. a sign how much assistance the iraq security forces need. the helicopters are vulnerable and not immune to being shot down. u.s. defense officials say they're not seeing any fighting around the airport, any fighting in the periphery of the airport area. >> that's good news. i'm guessing there's some sort

of plante pentagon should they see fighting and the airport be in jeopardy. >> that's right. in fact they'll likely do what you saw them do last week, deploy more apache helicopters and forces to protect the airport. here's chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey, yesterday. >> this is a case where you are not going to wait until they're climbing over the wall. they were within 20 or 25-kilometers, where -- >> of baghdad airport. >> sure. had they overrun the iraqi unit it was a straight shot to the airport. we need that airport. >> the capital, baghdad, is nine million people strong and most of them are shia. it would be very difficult for the sunni fighters in isis to take and hold baghdad but they are close enough to the airport that they could start firing on the airport, drawing the u.s. further into the battle. the u.s. won't let the airport fall. they need it to protect the u.s. embassy, the largest u.s. embassy anywhere in the world,

and they need it for ongoing air operations over iraq. >> thank you for the update, jennifer. let's turn to john bussey, the assistant managing editor of "the wall street journal." 15 miles from the airport is not close? i think to suggest that the airport was in some sort of jeopardy would be exaggerating the facts. >> i'm not sure about that. his point is, you don't wait until they're right on the wall. >> they're weren't knocking on the door but a you have to have a plan should they. >> 15 miles from the baghdad airport? that is pretty extraordinary, and it shows they weakness of the ground effort by the iraqi forces, and this is something that has frustrated the americans. they're now putting in low-flying apache helicopters, which can be shot down, with material that isis already have. >> they got from us. >> exactly. and this is accelerating u.s. involvement. the other point he made, which was that in this interview with

abc, that the u.s. would consider putting in advisers. doesn't this sound like vietnam again. they would put in advisers next to the iraqi forces to bolster the iraqi fors which are still in disarray, and what jennifer pointed out, the fall of this town in anbar, it can't be underestimated. anbar province is where the united states rallied the iraqi tribal leaders against al qaeda. now it's eroding. some of the tribal leaders want the u.s. to come in but don't trust the shia central government. >> the central government is the one we're counting on to prop up one side of this conflict, because without the people feeling some inclusiveness with that government, all of our leaders and world observers say this cannot work. >> that's exactly right. the prime minister has been swapped out. there's a new one in. it was hoped that there would be a more of a rallying effort but it's not there yet.

you do not see sunnis in anbar and elsewhere in iraq, rallying around the central government, saying we're going to put our forces in with the national forces to go against isis. still just a scatter-shot, unorganized defense of iraq against isis. and the defense of baghdad -- they're now close enough to baghdad where you saw over the weekend, bombs going off, civilians getting killed, where the destabilization of the cappal -- capital of walk underway. >> i don't noah they got the evidence the iraqi forces will stand up again. it seemed that the president once said, sort of like a fantasy. >> they've been reporting on this in "the wall street journal." the other area of concern, there's disarray in iraq. the other area of concern is what is happening in syria. you do not see the turkish forces beginning to take on isis. they are too concerned about their own battle against ethnic kurds who are fighting isis in

syria. they still have not somehow bridged their differences where they can align with each other to fight their common enemy. >> there's really no sort of -- what they call the on signature in syria -- the moderate opposition -- still no evidence of this existing itch keep hearing about it but we don't have any evidence. >> turkey says they're willing to let their land be used to train these individuals, the moderate opposition, but that's going to be months. that's going to take months. watch as this language changes about advisers to the iraqi government and at that begins to dribble into -- >> we watch for it. right near we're only hearing from military side. the military gives advice and then civilian leaders make decisions. he is the decider, as george bush once said. barack obama decided no. >> there's many in congress that say yes.

>> they are but he is the decider. >> yes. >> until further notice. john busy, great reporting today. here at home, the whole world its jumping up and down. you would think four million people in american have ebola, you would thick. i've been on vacation. and occasionally on vacation you turn on television channels. lots of them. my god you would think that every one on the planet had ebola. one american has gotten ebola. we'll take you to dallas for the latest on the fight against ebola and what the cdc boss is saying today about the apparent breach of protocol. he used that phrase yesterday and said, blast have misunderstood what i was talking about. i wasn't knocking any hospital. ebola. we'll talk about it. fair, balanced. context and perspective. that's coming up. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? that's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees,

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health officials are pushing hospitals to think ebola when someone comes in with a fever that has been to west africa. this comes after the centers for disease control and preventing confirm a nurse in dallas did contract the virus while she was treating a patient who identity there. >> we have identified one and only one contact who had contact with her during a period when she was potentially, although

likely not, infectious, it was at the very onset of her symptoms. >> so it's not spreading past here. that's what they're saying. a man was dying, had it very bad. a lot -- it was easy to catch it from him and as hard as they tried she caught it anyway. no one else did. it is not spreading. this marks the first time, though, that somebody contracted ebola within the united states. one person. remember, officials say it is very difficult to become infected. they say you need to have direct contact with somebody who is actually showing the symptoms or is recently died of the virus. in this case, officials say that nurse had been wearing full protective gear. the cdc director yesterday blamed the infection on, quote, breach in protocol and suggested something might have gone wrong when she was taking off her suit. seems like the rest of the country misunderstood me, he said. he apologized after health care experts accused him of using the

nurse as a scapegoat. they said the case shows hospital staffers are not prepared enough to deal with this disease. the white house says the president is meeting with senior officials this hour to discuss the administration's ebola response as all of this becomes a political football. we're live in dallas. where did the -- the cdc director gave a lengthy statement today. >> he did, shep, and in that statement, as you mentioned, considered dr. frieden is not blaming the nurse for getting sick. the cdc says it believes its protocol stops infection but clearly something went wrong because the healthcare worker is now being treated as well in isolation, closely monitored and there's at least one person who the cdc says she came into close contact with the onset of her symptoms. also being monitored.

so far no symptom that would sound alarms, however, the doctor added this. >> if this one individual was infected and we don't know how, within the isolation unit, then it is possible that other individuals could have been infected as well. >> shep, dr. frieden says they have to start to rethink the way they address spread. how they dress the spread, because it's not easy to treat people who are infected, but as you mentioned this isn't an outbreak here. we're talking bat very -- about a very limited portion of the country that narrowed down to right where i'm standing. >> that's it. yet their going to extraordinary efforts and extraordinary lengths not only to prevent spreading but make everybody calm down. >> right. exactly. and as i said they're casting a wide net. regionally the cdc has investigators on the ground and they're talking to anybody and

everybody who came in contact with those two patients. they're going to create what they're calling a map of potential exposure. the cdc emphasizes they are not saying they think a large number of people are possibly infected. again, here's dr. frieden. >> we do not today have a number of such exposed people or potentially exposed healthcare workers. it's relatively large number, we think, in the end, a portion of them will actually have had contact. we only know after we complete that. we cast a wide net and then narrow that down. >> now, nationally, the cdc is basically telling hospitals, they need to pay attention and they need to talk to the patients who are coming into their emergency rooms. they need to stay on alert. someone has a fever, ask them, have you traveled through western africa or come here from there? that's going to set off an alarm. however they don't want to sound off alarms all over the country and make everyone think they have to stay inside and hold their breaching it's not funny.

people have died. however they want people to keep perspective with this situation. perspective is the word here. >> yes, it is. thank you. some breaking news just coming into us now in a new series of terror arrests happen gone down in london. scotland yard reporting that officers investigating the commission, preparation, or investigation of acts of terrorism have today arrested three men. all suspects in their 20s. cops searched a business in west london and there are ongoing searches at a -- at four more homes. anti-terrorism forces in britain warned they are tracking hundreds of british citizens they believe joined isis in iraq and syria, and then returned to the united kingdom. we don't know l these returning isis fighters arrested today but for the past few weeks we have seen a series of terror arrests in the united kingdom, specifically in london.

it's quarter past 8:00 in the eveningful we might get nor details tonight. it's possible, and if we do we'll bring them to you. >> powerful winds apparently blew one of those inflatable bouncy houses into the air with kids inside. and doctors say one of those children is seriously hurt. a live update on this coming right up.

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storm's estimated wind gusts topped 130-miles-an-hour. hurricane strength. here a map jumps into the water to save a woman after a wave fell and pulled her in. and this guy is the same guy, we believe, pulling somebody else out. he was a hero of the day. you can see the person struggling with an umbrella. um -- umbrellas are rarely helpful in a hurricane. and this is my favorite picture. the child got in the bucket because kidded got in buckets. tens of thousands of homes destroyed. officials say at least two dozen people dead. from everything i know that little boy and that little green bucket, who is kind of cute as a button, is doing okay. >> doctors say a two-year-old boy is critical in the united states and another toddler hurt after a gust of wind launched a bouncy house 6 other feet into the air with -- 60 feet into the

air with the kids in there happened near boston. the owner of the farm says the bouncy house was closed and not anchored to the ground, when the two boys climbed inside that thing. witnesses say it flew over a large fence before it crashed. kid inside there. national. this is the third incidence of this crime in the last six months in may, three kids in upstate new york were trapped in a bouncy house after a gust of wind sent it into the air. then a few weeks later a slide flew injuring two kids in colorado. so two things to be afraid of. laura, tell us about the latest incident. >> these two boys, ages two and three, were playing in the bounce house that hat been inflated to dry out after a storm when it suddenly took flight yesterday. the boys managed to get around some bails of hay that were stacked up in front of the entrance of this bounce house, according to the owners of sullivan farm in new hampshire.

the owners just purchased the inflatable device on thursday and blew it up saturday to do a safety check. the owners say the bounce house got wet from the rain so they let it up to dri' no one was supposed to be in there. witnesses were shocked to see it take off with those kids inside. >> i saw the bounce house fly up in the air, as high as this building behind me, and as soon as it went up, it k flipped and just came crashing down. >> and now the investigation is on. police detectives and the state's fire marshal are looking into the case. >> i know they're looking into it. didn't it just kind of fly in the air in a gust of wind and it was closed and they shouldn't be in there? >> right. as we look at rules or regulations, there are no national regulations on bounce houses, people are asking that question. and safety standards differ from state to state in new hampshire there are no set standards for rental bounce houses. however, the state does require ride operators to carry liability insurance, usually these inflatables are tethered

down with ropes and stakes. the owner of the farm says the bounce house wasn't tied down because day were working on it and waiting to get more safety equipment equipment they ordered. listen. >> four tethers holding it down. only had three and didn't have any spikes. and while i was inspecting it, it rained, and the whole bouncy house got all wet. >> the father of one of the injured boys say they had been led to believe the bounce house was open and free of charge, but farm reps say no one ever gave permission to enter. that's the question. who whose decision to get in there. maybe the kids. >> thank you. we now know islamic state terrorists did see an american mother's plea to save her son from execution but did not stop them from cutting off the journalist's head. now the journalist explains why isis ignored his mother's message that his mother wrote before he died, obviously. an important message for americans eligible for medicare.

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>> illinois, a small plane crashed in a chicago suburb killing all three people on board. witnesses say the plane appeared to be circling before slamming into a vacant lot. nobody on the ground was hurt. california. lifeguards in san diego rescuing three swimmers after a rising tide trapped them in a cave. responders used ropes to hoist them into safety. the swimmers reportedly were jumping off cliffs before they ran into trouble. and arizona, cops in the phoenix area say a patient busted out of a hospital, stow an ambulance, and drove it back to his home. investigators say he used a gps to track down the vehicle and arrest the driver. they report a firefighter was sitting in the back of the ambulance at the time the guy swiped it but was able to jump out without getting hurt. thank you, phoenix. the news continues in a moment.

breaking news. we have been talking about it all day. sounds like it happened. another city in iraq has fallen to the islamic state militants. according to the reporting of al-jazeera, the iraqi army has pull out of the iraqi city of hit. that left the entire city under the islamic state's control. the city is to the west of baghdad. in fact this is baghdad here. baghdad, nine million people. it's not suburban baghdad but that far. the uneated makes reports 180,000 people have left their homes. the latest setback in the fight against isis in the anbar province. the pentagon says isis troops advancing within -- have advanced now within 15 miles of the baghdad airport, or at least there was fighting there. that this main gateway for u.s. troops to get into and out of

iraq, and now, within the last few seconds, fox news confirm the iraqi city of hit has fall 'to the islamic state militants. is it a surprise the iraqi army has not stood up in it is not a surprise. was there any indication that the iraqi military was in a position where, now, once and for all, it would stand up, rally around its central government, its new generals, and fight against the old generals who are now part of isis? with isis having our weapons? there was not. we were led to believe that those would be our partners, that this new government in baghdad would be able to rally the troops, get their military to stand up to the isis militants, and so far, the evidence suggests it has not happened. we continue to hear from our leaders that we have partners on the ground, the turks have now come in to some degree. we have moderate rebels in syria. we have the iraqi army, which everybody keeps hoping will

stand up, but as we learned over time, hoch is not a strategy. and another iraqi city has fallen. the question is, will they be able to draw our ground troops back into iraq? for ten more years of hell maybe? time will tell. the parents of an american aid worker, the islamic state is threatening to kill, say they cannot meet the terrorists demands. the parents say they're doing everything they can to save their son. he appeared in the latest beheading video the group released with the isis executioner, or at least the person doing the talking, warning the american would be the next to die. as we reported at the top of this news hour, the islamic state released two messages over the weekend from hostages, one of them the american reporter steven sotloff. the militants decapitated him but before thy that they had hem make this message. the message, sotloff reverends the video his mother recorded before his death in which she

pleaded for the group to save her son's life, trace gallagher has this. tell us more about the letter. >> the letter appears on the isis online magazine, and in it he apparently says he has very little time. now, it's very political and the authority does not believe it was actually written by steven sotloff. but he tells this mother he wants to get directly to the point, writings, quoting here, your recent public video of plead though caliphate not to kill me has been received loud and clear by them, beseeching the caliphate to spare my life will not help either of us as the matter is in obama's next judgment. mom, please don't let obama kill me, and as we know, the video showing sotloff's beeheading was released on september 2nd. the british journalist, hostage john cantlie, also released another in these programs that isis released where it shows him reading a tell prompter. he apparent his forced to blame

the u.k. government for the beheadings and then goes on to challenge the west to put ground troops in iraq and syria to fight isis. >> the parents of the american aide worker speaking out do we know why they're speaking out now? >> because they say the families of other hostages have stayed silent and it did not save the lives of their loved ones so now they say they are doing all they can. the parents of abdul acknowledge they have gotten a letter and an audiotape from him. the audiotape, they said he sounds very much like he is being forced to say this, saying he is running out of time and that in this letter, the father said, is different -- a different tone where he tries to comfort his parents. listen to the dad. >> don't worry, dad. if i go down, i won't go down thinking anything but what i know to be true. that you and mom love me more than the moon. >> in a separate interview his mother goes on to say, there is

no dialogue at all with isis. just demands and the parents do not have the power or the money to meet those demands. here's mom. >> in both cases, yes, and we have sent them back messages that we cannot do what you ask. we have tried. but we don't have the power to do it. >> the video of cass -- kassig was seen. >> no deal yet from officials in turkey as the united states tries to hammer out an agreement to use bases in turkey against the islamic state militants. the nurse national security adviser susan rice says there has been some progress. >> the turks have just in the last several days made a commitment they will in the first instance allow the united states and our partners too use

turkish bases bases and territoo dish. >> air space, too. >> let me explain this -- to train the moderate syrian opposition forces. that's a new commitment. >> the white house points out she was talking about training. training these folks in turkey. turkey's foreign minister says there's no new agreement to use the bases for operations at all but the two countries have agreed to train and equip opposition fighters. that's not what we need. there's an air base. that's what they need. they need that to take off and land and position folks but so far no good. talks are still going. the activists say the fighting picked up again in northern syria, just a couple of miles from the border with turkey. the u.s.-led airstrikes pounded islamic state targets in the town of kobani. the battle for kobani has been going on for weeks. hundreds of thousands of refugees crossed from syria into

turkey. crisis delving. greg palkot is near the turkey-syria border now. greg? >> the battle for kobani is quickly shaping up to be a crucial test of the u.s.-led war against isis. and it's looking like a war that the u.s. is desperately trying not to fail. take a look at what we saw near the front line. >> the grinding siege of kobani goes on all day long. we have been seeing and hearing small arms and machine gun fire from all across this town. the isis terrorists duking out with the kurdish defenders but all day long, too we have been hearing overhead u.s. jets and seeing airstrikes. the kurds tell us they now having an effect and turned what looked like an isis rout, into the very least a deadly standoff. kurdish fighters remain outmanned and outgunned by isis. terrorists have gotten more

reinforcement and more ammo in there in the last 36 hours and they're using truck and car bombs against their foe. in the kurds are page, a lot of nothing knowledge and guts and airstrikes, and confirming stenseven today in isis starrings and we have ben sayings accounts knocking down the u.s. claim to a access to turkish bases and we have seen tanks sitting there doing nothing. finally, shep, we have been working the phones for the past hour to give you and your viewers the absolute latest view inside kobani. from our contacts and source inside kobani. we have one startling account from one. he claims isis now controls 50% of kobani. we have not heard that high a figure other people are saying lower. you can't confirm that unless you're in there we can

absolutely confirm isis has a presence in koban going to be very hard to get rid of. back to you. >> greg, thank you. continuing coverage of the breaking news from moments agoment confirmed now the anbar operations command in iraq confirms that the iraqi military base in hit, iraq, has fallen to isis. we knew know isis took control of the entire iraqi army camp and everything in it. you know what that means, right? contacts and perspective, let's bring in douglas brinkley. that means the iraqi army gets its weapons and munitions and training from the united states and left behind everything they united states gave it at that place, so now isis is better fortified. i don't know when we start to come to some sort of reality that we don't have partners on the ground who can get this done. they've demonstrated this over and over. i don't know what's wrong with everybody. >> i don't know, either, shepard. the fall of hit is big news here, and it's grim.

you're dealing with -- only now 15 miles from the airport in baghdad. now, baghdad is not about to fall but the amount of havoc that can be done on the perimeter of baghdad and the amount of suicide bombers that it will have easier access to baghdad has just gone occupy. nobody wants to fight except the united states. turkey has been awol. the iraqi government and military has been next to worthless. only the kurds kurds and the non provinces of iraq seems to have stake? what is happening. >> the kurds have no interest in helping out in iraq. the kurds want kurdistan therapy. not coming to baghdad. they said that repeatedly. it would be a fantasy to think otherwise. >> absolutely. they'd like to have their own kurdish'm. something turkey doesn't want. turkey is a big problem. since 1947 we gave them money

and they have become nato ally, and at this moment they're haggling over whether they should train 4 thune syrian opposition forces? they should be getting the turkish army together for a fight, working side-by-side with the ute. turkey is a big disappointment and doesn't bode well for their membership in the european union. >> it would be useful for people to look at reality now instead of what we're hearing from everybody. the arrests -- realities are that says if the government doesn't come around this can't work and there's no military solution to this crisis, and yet we continue this pinpoint bombing which makes the whole world watching this, including the american people. we're not going to put ground troops in there. if not, is there another solution sniff not, what the hell are we doing? >> it's a mess. and i have not always liked

hearing john mccain be so hawkish -- >> everything, just have another war. that's the answer to everything. that's not what this is. >> that's not what this so we're in a conundrum right now. it's can you get an alliance built -- can the obama administration get people in the fight. if you can't get turkey, nato ally to start working closely with us, how in the world are you going to get other people in the middle east on our side? saudi arabia we tolerate because we get their oil. they've been a two-faced friend. so the united states is sort of hanging right now with not a clear strategy and just doing some bombing. >> douglas brinkley, thank you very much good to see you. you don't cut people's heads off and it it on the internet if you don't want news there they want us fighting on the grand are ground. that's what they want. so when you think, send our young men over there fight, that's what they want. is that what you want, really?

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ebola is now political. don't forget that when you listen to every being reported. it's about leadership, one side saying, we're leading. the other side saying, you're not leading. by the end of this week travelers at some of the nation's busiest airports will see screening measures as the feds try to keep ebola from spreading, which is hat not. ebola has not spread. one person, a medical professional, got it from another person who was dying of it. other than that it has not spread. there's no fear. there's no reason for fear. but yet we're going to do some screening. >> yes. so john f. kennedy international airport in new york have this new advance screening measures, as well as beginning this thursday, atlanta's hartfield

international jackson internal, chicago's o'hare, new york's liberty international airport, and washington's dulles international airport, and heres what travelers can expect. those who have been to liberia, sierra leone and guinea will have their temperatures taken with no-touch thermometers and if a fever happens to be present they will be interviewed by agents and then be taken to quarintined areas within theater. >> that makes sense. all of those who haven't been to any of those three countries are not affected at all. right? >> yes. >> that's exactly right. thank you. the ashley webster is at jfk in new york. ashley, is fear spreading? >> you know what, shep? no. in fact the reaction we have had from most passengers, outside the main international terminal around jfk, people understand all steps need to be taken in

order to prevent ebola from being brought into the country. to the point your guest was just talking about, these passengers are screened that leave these countries in west africa and they are screened again when they come here. their temperature is taken, and then they go on their way. homeland security tracks these passengers and know where they originated, even if they bounced to europe and then bounced somewhere else before ending up in the united states. they know where these passengers originated from and they are screening them to see if they show any of the symptoms that may suggest they have come in contact with ebola. >> screening is working? >> it is. the problem, though, shep, is that, as with the case with thomas duncan who ended up in dallas and ultimately dying, if a passenger does have ebola and is not showing the symptoms when they go through the screening, both the original airport and here at jfk, or all the other airports, that person will go through. it's very difficult to detect ebola until those symptoms are actually showing.

the other point i should make is that questionnaire being filled out relies on the honesty of the passengers. islaming they're truthful, awful is well and fine. if not, that could be a problem. i just want to point out the cdc says that is not fuel -- foolproof, but we are going to see a lot of false alarms as perhaps we are seeing at logan in boston, where a flight originating in dubai is suggesting there are a number of people on board who appear to have flu-like symptoms. authorities are taking it very carefully. we're going to see a number of these situations arise because just because you have a fever doesn't mean to say you have ebola but health officials are on high alert so they'll take all precautions necessary. >> another reminder, ebola has not spread in the united states. last week the dow soared triple digits one day then dropped by triple the next. an update on today's trading.

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something weird happened in the last 30 minutes. the dow is in the toilet. another rough day for our 401k's and iras. look at this thing here. off 218 points. just today after last week's roller coaster ride on wall street. a quick look at the board shows that number and a look at the wall, and this is the chart to do it. the dow lost all of its gains for the entire year. adam shapiro is with us hire. what happened today? >> part of this is very troubling. it is called the unchanged level. up and down, up and down, 60 times. there's a lot of volatility.

a 28-month high. investors are worried and there's real concern about the global economy and actually ebola is working its way into the minds of investors and traders. >> that's our fault. ebola has not spread in america. >> has not spread in america but you had the report about the airliner that came in with the four people with flu-like symptoms symptoms and that makes peoples anywhere obvious. >> earnings send underway, major banks reporting. >> those stocks up today happen to be financials we'll be looking at jp morgan chase, wells fargo, and investors hope -- wore using our credit cards but are imagining debt and the banks are making money because they charge the stores, so there's real belief the banks could make some profit. >> god knows the banks neat profit. >> help the bankers. >> oh, yes. we'll leave that for another day. so, we'll check the end of the dow's day and take a nod to the lookback at history, and top of

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