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>> lahmic state militants -- islamic state militants in the skies in reports that terrorists are learning to fly capture it fighter jets. what we know about the planes and what the people at the pentagon say about all of it. and tired of hearing about the credit card security breaches? tired of being a victim? well, today the white house and in of the largest chains in america taking action to try to keep or personal information safe. this is new today. and it's going to affect your wallet for sure. the high school girl who got an f because she cheated on a test? and then took her school to court. and the powerful category 4 hurricane that is right now set to slam bermuda. let's get to it. >> good friday afternoon to you from the news deck. terrorists are building an air force. that's the word from a group monitoring the war with the islamic state, which reports
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that isis militants are flight stolen fighter jets. according to the british based observatory for human rights can iraqi pilots who detected to the terror group are chaining their fellow isis fighters to fly. these are russian made migs. witnesses say they've seen them booming overhead in syria, not far from that border with turkey. this would mark the first time the islamic state has taken to the skies. today we asked officials at the pentagon about the report. and here's the response, and i quote: based on the information we have, we are not aware of, they say isil -- islamic state fighters conducting any operation, flight operations, over syria or anywhere else. not aware based on information we have. so, that's not really a denial but it is what it is. president obama has long said he will not commit combat troops to the ground. now the question is, what happens if isis takes the fight
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to the skies? i would guess we would shoot them out of the skies. lea gabrielle some know. a former fighter pilot. >> seems like a good guess, shep. according to reuters, the human rights group is saying that the islamic state group is training pilots using three jets. we have a map to show you. these are reportedly -- these flights are taking place near a captured syrian air base, 45 miles south of turkey. the report the planes appear to be mig 21s or 23s. it can be used for bombing and air-to-air missions in the 1960s and and '70s it was considered state-of-the-art back then but is limited in its range and ability to care missiles or bombs. the mig 23 is improved and is the first of its kind to shoot down other planes using radar before pilots could see them. a number of countries fly both
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21s and 23s. they are fast but these are older jets and they're far, far infear you're to what the u.s. is flight and what our allies are flight. >> i mentioned you were a fighter pilot for the navy. i'm guessing your colleagues are not all that concerned. >> no. i think they're probably chomping at the bit. and i spoke with one that is senior today, and he said, let me go flight. i'd love to get a chance to shoot one of these down. it's every fighter pilot's dream to shoot down a guy in a mig. but in the mig 21 has a small radar cross-section so can be tricky to pick up on radar. but the quality of the jet comes down to quality of the pilot. the reportedly they're being trained by former iraqi air force officers, who flew under saddam hussein, and if you remember back in persian gulf one, within days we completely established air supremacy so that kind of speaks to the level of training, their capabilities. that being said, it's something i'm sure we'll keep our eye on.
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>> even if it's not a big threat, it is a big development, that terrorists have their own jets. >> if it's true it's a big development and our u.s. military are keeping an eye on it. but listen here, air bases are great targets. for one thing, they're going to be surrounded by people who are watching those jets, which means that we are not going to have to worry about collateral damage if we go in and strike them, shep. >> good point. thank you. let's go to d.c. now and james gold, a former member of security council and is now the dean of the school of international service at american university. worked in the government a lot. good to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> big development, big concern? what's your take on this? >> well, i agree with what you were just saying, that -- i mean, it's not a greating there to see these members of isis being able to have access to the migs, but a little tough for people who are just getting some training underway to go up against u.s. air force pilots
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who have years of extensive training and superior equipment. so i don't see this as a huge threat to the operation, and think it should be pretty easily dealt with, and again, the bigger problem for the operation is the limits to what airstrikes can accomplish. we have soon the disruption of isis forces. we've seen people getting killed, but territory remains under their control, and that is not going to change unless we have partners on the ground who can do something about it. >> it your sense, as it is that of so many others, that our partners on the ground in many cases are just not up to the task yet? >> well, that is the problem. we don't really have reliable partners on the ground, and we should start first and foremost with the government of iraq. the biggest problem has been a government that has not been inclusive. you have illennated sunnis who are easily attractedded to isis, and until we have a government in iraq that is inclusive and
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can govern and doesn't send people fleeing to isis, and rather supports them, we're going to have a problem. >> isn't the government the bigger problem? we keep hearing there's no military solution over there, and by that they mean long-term. if you don't fix that government, and get something inclusive, some other place for them to go, that's when the bad guys turn to worse guys. isn't it? >> the big problem is, again, you have these individuals in iraq and feeling alienated from the government, attracted to isis. or thinking that might provide a better path for them, are easily recruited into the forces, and unless you have a viable alternative, and a government strong enough to attract people to its side, you're going to have increasing numbers of people joining this islamic state. >> and that seems to be the situation right now. james gold, good to see you. thank you. >> thank you, shep.
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>> in nigeria we're learning what could be a major development involving hundreds of kidnapped school girls by boca haram. may be the best news yet. the nigerian government official said today they have agreed to a cease fire with that terrorist group, boca haram, but say they're still negotiating an agreement to free the girls. you'll remember militants of boca haram said they kidnapped nearly 300 girls six months ago now from a school in the northeastern part of the country. dozens of kid reportedly escaped but 219 are still listed officially as missing. no agreement for their return just yet. so earlier reports from other outlets may have been a little ahead of the game. if we get new information we'll bring it to you. >> president obama naming a point person to oversee the fight against ebola, that and the hospital room video of a nurse who got infected. and the protests heat up in hong kong. reportedly fierce fights between police and protesters. that's ahead.
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in west africa, officials at the world health organization reportedly say they have made mistakes that's try get the disease under control there. according to an internal document, the "associated press" reports it obtained no arely everybody involved failed to see, quote, some fairly plain writing on the wall, unquote. again, there is no outbreak of ebola in the united states and health officials said there's no reason for concern by anyone in the general public in america at all. as for the two healthcare workers in the united states who did contract ebola from that one dying patient, the woman on the left is now in a specialized isolated unit in maryland at the national institutes of health, and the woman on screen right is in a similar unit at emory university hospital in atlanta. there four such isolation units across the country. we'll get a live update from atlanta later in maryland the doctors say the nurse is in fair but stable condition, which is very good news. tired but in good spirits.
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again, that's from the hospital. she arrived there from dallas last night before the transfer her doctor in texas reported this conversation. heads up on this. the audio is not great since they were in suits and the words are blurry, but the hospital put those words on the screen and -- [inaudible] >> i'm real where proud of you. >> health officials said she asked them to share the video with all of us. it's the first time we've actually heard from nurse and she is doing well. catherine herridge is outside the institutes of health in maryland. this is as good as you can hope? >> we had a news conference earlier today with an update. there could be more updates later today on her status. they said they had her for 12 hours and have done a full medical
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evaluation and feel she's doing okay. >> she is not deteriorating. i cannot tell you why we have said fair because the patient confidentiality but she is quite stable now and resting comfortably. >> one of the issues she emphasizees this morning is that it was extremely draining and taxing for nurse nina pham to make the ride to the area and then tike the ride to the nih. she found is extremely fatiguing. she was then transferred to a special isolation unit here at the nih, and while there's no discussion that the rye russ is -- no indication that the virus is airborne, the doctor said everybody who is treating her is wearing protective gear from head to toe. >> there's no evidence whatsoever that this virus is airborne transmitted. everything we know is that direct contact with bodily
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fluids. >> they've got a team of 20 people who are treating nina pham and to try to cut down on any errors that could result in exposure, they're limiting how much time they're spending there in that special isolation unit, shep. >> catherine, doctors explained to us all this is a very difficult virus to contract. yet they're watching a number of people who have become ill, including one in washington. >> right. there's a bizarre and concerning episode that took place earlier today in the pentagon parking lot. on the other side of the river in washington, dc. a woman who described herself as a defense department contractor, boarded one of the shuttle buses to take people from the pentagon over the river to the marine barracks. when she got on the bus she felt ill, got off, and threw up and a defense official tells fox news she volunteered she had been in liberia two weeks ago. at this hour we're trying to
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work out what happened to the woman and the individuals who were on the bus, and whether they're in any kind of quarintine or whether they have been released. but given the circumstances and where she has traveled, it is being investigated, shep. >> all right. that's good. catherine herridge, thank you very much. health professionals tell us there is no reason for concern among anyone in the general population even mention if you have a child with sniffles or elderly person in your family who has suddenly gotten sick, it's not ebola, unless you have been contacted bay medical professional to warn you that you have been in the presence of one of the two people in america who have ebola. there is absolutely nothing to fare. >> in hong tong, police went head-to-head with prodemocracy demonstrators as violence on the streets north carolina up yet again. police used pepper spray and batons to push back large crowds. cops were reportedly trying to clear out an area that activists have occupied since the protest started three weeks ago.
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here's a live look at that area. protesters are demanding more freedom to select their own candidate to lead hong kong, and less control from mainland china's communist government. >> a teenager is taking her school district to court after she got an f on a test. her teacher claims the student had a cheat sheet, about the student's lawyer says nobody can prove she actually cheated. so does she have a case? we'll break it down with our own lawyer. that's next. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ]
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happening. they doing this on the slopes of manalo would. this is the big island and that's manalo would, and it's big. one of the most active volcanos on earth. the researchers are staying in this giant dome. here's one of the researchers in a space suit. and that is -- see down here, that's the dome down there on the right. and a better look at that dome now. it's just inside the nasa reports it's part of a study to see imhumans can handle long periods of isolation in a tight space. pictures are reminiscent of mon walks. officials tell us that team members are completely cut off from the outside world. e-mails are delayed 40 minutes to simulate the lag time between earth and mars. nasa officials say they believe a manned mission to mars could be possible by the 2030 -- if they can find any money. that does cost money.
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>> a high school student in washington state is suing her school district after she got an f on a chemistry test. the teen goes to lindbergh high school just south of seattle. according to the student's attorney a science teacher claimed to have found a cheat sheet in the girl's bag and says she could have easily look at it during the test. so the teacher gave her an f, and the school gave her detention. but the lawyer says the teacher never actually saw the student cheat. the school board eventually did drop the punishment, detention but kept the failing grade. the teen's lawyer says the family does not want any money at all. they just want officials to remove the f from her transcript. because they say it could hurt her chances of getting into a good college. school officials, in the district there, say they're cooperating with the investigation. fox news legal analyst mercedes joins us. just depends on what cheating is, like the definition of "is." if you have a cheat sheet, it could also be -- i like to write things down, makes me remember them. sometime when to there are a
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number of facts i need i'll scrip scribble them dune. >> that's what happened here, and it's funny. the school district is playing fast and loose though law says you can challenge a discipline of a student but you can't challenge the grade. but here the grade is the discipline. so, the fact they dropped the detection, the school board is like, we dropped the disciplinary part, but really? the f is the disciplinary part to this student because it was, quote, in conjunction. there's no prove it to and typically the school boards have a minihearing in order to determine whether or not someone should be penalized. so they talk to the student and the teacher, but the attorney is right, there's no definitive proof this student actually took those notes out of her pencil bag. >> would it be pro cheated if her teacher saw her holing the cheat sheet? >> undoubtedly, or even sliding down but there wasn't anything like that. nothing like that. >> now the family and the girl are saying -- she got a b in the class, which at my house would
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have been a wonderful thing. at her hour -- >> not at my house. i'd get a whooping for that. >> wouldn't be able to sit often. the claim in her house is she's a really good student and that b is going to hurt her. >> i think they're playing -- it's pretty much too emotional. this is ridiculous. get a b, it's fine. but the attorney is very adamant about it. this child doesn't have a disciplinary record, gets a lot of a's, and some college is going to say you got that b in chemistry. >> i always thought there was a way you handle things like this and that the last line of defense, the supreme court of this matter, what the district ruling. apparently younging take that's into legal accurate and get wapner involved here? >> unbelievable. an actual law that says that -- in washington state you can bring a suit in court. i don't know any of jurisdiction that has it. >> i shouldn't have said wapner.
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should have said hot bench. i have a friend on that show. >> happy friday. >> the week that wouldn't end. >> i feel that way. >> it will in a little while. what do you think? tweet us at shep news team oar post on our facebook page. our twitter handle is @shep news team. >> the teaching job teams to be a lot cushier in another country where officials offered beamers and other luxury cars. i think they mean bmw. >> why not mercedes. >> this happened in saudi arabia. the arab news reports, officials say bmws should be a good incentive for teachers to do a better job. the newspaper reports those outstanding teachers are also eligible for cash rewards up to $32,000. but this could be a much better deal for men because in saudi arabia, women can own cars but
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women cannot drive cars. our friends, the saudis. >> i don't know where to begin with that. white house officials say islamic state militants are creating even more targets for airstrikes. where exactly? we'll get answers and talk to fox news sunday's chris wallace who joins us from washington, and after months and months of credit and debit card surety breeches we say all you need is a chip but the banks won't do it. well, news for you. the white house pushing banks and stores to make those cards without the magnetic strips -- or at least in addition have the chips. fox business network's jerri willis will drop by because it's friday.
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>> headlines from across america. in florida a man is convicted of murder for shooting a teenage teenager overloads music. the was given no chance for
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parole and is sentenced to life in prison. two years ago in jacksonville he shot the blow. prosecutors say he did not call 9-1-1 and instead went back to his hotel and walked his dog. >> california. small plane crashes the the mountains east of l.a. yesterday but investigators say all three people onboard survived. possibly with broken bones. no word on what caused the crash. and colorado, hershey settle with a company that made pot can by bars that looked like almond joy. the company stopped selling the stuff and will have to re-call or destroy all the knockoffs. >> if by destroy, you mean --
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>> the islamic state is creating more targets for u.s. and coalition airstrikes by gathering reinforcements around the syrian city of kobani. that's new today according to the white house. >> when they see clusters of
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fighters or see depots or materiale or supplies that are critical to the cities of the fighters, it's easier to take them out. you have seen a stepped can up operational tempo in and around kobani. >> well, officials with the kurd say they're sharing information with u.s.-led coalition to help direct bombing against isis targets in that area. take a look at our wall over here, kobani itself is right on turkey's border but the country's military has not joined the fight for the city. president obama met with military leaders or countries, including turkey, for a coordination sentence. chris wallace is with us. a coordination session? how did that go? >> well, we know that the president met with the defense ministers of a number of the countries, about three dozen countries, and it continues. we have about, what, eight
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countries that are bombing in iraq and syria. there are strengths and obvious weaknesses. the biggest weakness is we don't have a viable ground partner at install syria, and not much of one either in iraq, because both the iraqi army and the kurdish peshmerga lack equipment, lack training, and we have done precious little to get them in any kind of fighting shape. >> we discussed this repeatedly, that the most important part of this is getting a government in iraq that is on some level exclusive. i won -- clues -- inclusive. is that happening. >> they still do not have a defense or interior minister that the sunnis have bought into. that's over a month. there are a lot of these things that haven't progressed. we talked about the u.s. forces training the iraqi forces. that hasn't happened yet. or the kurdish, hasn't really happened yet. we have not re-equipped them.
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a week ago the vast majority of the kurdish peshmerga, their army, did not have helmets. not much of a fighting force without helmets, and continues on in syria, a real lack of a coalition there because of the fact that the turks, right across the border, literally, as we have seen from greg palkot's reports, they can look over at the bombing and fighting in kobani and don't cross the boarder to try to help the kurdish militias there fighting isis. so a real vacuum on the ground. >> the fight on in kobani, but in iraq we have been watching over the last few days it looks like isis is eating up more and more territory and flags are going up in town after town. >> that's right. when they're fighting in the infamous town of abu ghraib withinsite sight of iraqi international airport, you're in in the western suburbs of baghdad.
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people talk about kobani and it's strategic importance but that would be a problem if you lost that. if you begin to lose the capital of iraq, baghdad, that's a catastrophe, and we are -- not to say they're about to enter baghdad but they are on the outskirts. they're within eight or ten miles of baghdad, and of course, with that vantage point they're able to come in and you have seen kinds of suicide bombings, taken out hundreds of shia forces. so it's a very dangerous situation, even in the capital city. >> you have been watching the rebels? >> i got to say, i'm all in on mississippi state. i love the fact -- -- zack prescott. i can't wait for the egg bowl. you have to tell the people what it is. >> it's your saturday viewing after thanksgiving, and it's mississippi state and ole miss this year. i'm not here to rag on mississippi state. they're doing great, too but we'll settle that then.
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this weekend it's tennessee. state has a bye week. with i go home to oxford as i will in an hour and a half, people say what is with that chris wallace and why does he hate us? >> i do not hate mississippi. but come on, mississippi state, they have always been kind of the poor cousins, the stepchildren, and now they've got the best team -- the number one team in the nation. >> they are. >> think about the idea that the egg bowl could be for national supremacy. >> never thought of that. while trying to sleep on tuesday and thursday and all days. this is very exciting. >> would you actually be there? >> what? would i be there? i'm not missing this, chris. you don't miss when you're winning like this. you just don't. would you like to come? >> that would be exciting. the egg bowl. i will be watching that. >> you better. that's saturday, a tough ticket. chris, we'll be watching this
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weekend -- there's a question. >> katy perry. >> i did hang out with katy perry. she went in our football practice facility and was throwing the ball around with some pro football players and we hung out. she was very nice, as nice as she could be. i'm glad she is a rebel and she picked well that morning. >> i'm very happy for you, and i'm told in the egg bowl i have to root for mississippi state. i have a cow bell in hi my office ex-we say, mississippi state, graze fog the grass, take the cow bells and tell me what it coming up on "pox news sunday." >> i'm glad i walked into that. we'll talk about ebola. we'll have the head of the infectious diseases in the national institutes of health and hear from two people who have questions about the government's response and that is tim murphy, who headed the congressional hearing, and michael osterhohm, on old
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picture or him -- an infectious disease expert, and we'll talk politics and we'll have -- this is information. dib be wasserman -- debbie wasserman -- the first joint appearance by the two of them this entire year and it will be on "fox news sunday." i'll ask them where they stand on mississippi and mississippi state. >> will you have a rink or just duke it out on the set. >> that's may be an all-time low for me in asking questions. i may just say, have at and it just sit back. >> get your hate on. chris, thank you. we're playing tennessee this weekend. we're 17-point favorites. you can see it espn. >> hotty toddy. >> one of vice-president joe biden's sons says her is very sorry he was discharged from the navy after reportedly testing positive for cocaine. in a statement, hunter biden says, and i quote, it was the
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honor of my life to serve in the u.s. navy and i deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. trace gallagher has the latest. how long was he in the navy reserves. >> not long. about nine months. he was commissioned in may of last year and discharged in february of this year. we're just now learning about it because the privacy act prevents the navy from issuing details, and "the wall street journal" just broke it. hunter biden, a lawyer by trade back to the navy as part of a special program that allows the military to tap civilians with needed skills. he didn't have to attend officer candidate school or reserve officers training, just an abbreviated training program and needed two special waivers to get in, one because of his age -- he was 43 at the time -- and another because he had a drug-related issue when he was a young man. the rest of biden's statement concerning his discharge reads, quote, i respect the navy's decision with the love and support of my family, i am moving forward.
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hunter biden is married with three children. >> did the vp say anything? >> not a word. vice-president's office declined to comment. of course, overbiden's oldest son, beau, spend a year in iraq. beau biden is the attorney joan and plans to run for governor. hunter biden is a managing partner at an investment firm and made news because he joined the board of a ukrainian gas production company run by a man with tie thursday to former ukrainian president and because his father was involved, as we know this diplomatic efforts with ukraine, it raised concerns about conflict of interest, but the vice-president's office says joe biden did not endorse any particular company. >> trace gallagher in los angeles, thank you. as nation we need do more to stop security breaches for credit and debit card users. the profound word from president obama. he is signing an executive order
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to tighten security for millions of americans who receive federal benefits, including social security. they now get benefits on debit cards with internal chips. that means no more magnetic strips to rely only they're phasing those out. of course the u.s. is very late to this game. the news comes after we have seen huge dat da breaches at retailers including home depot and target. those affect millions upon millions. they're talking about put a chip in the card which they have done for years in europe. >> we're late to the party. >> but there are beverages still available. finally we're there. >> you are correct. and this is a big deal, and people are really upset, worried, nervous about their financial security. because of this. so, let me tell you how serious this problem has been. more than 100 million americans have been in the position of having their personal data breached, and at stores like home depot, 5 some lots of folks have
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something of theirs, that they thought was private, being stolen by hackers. >> jerri, anything else for us? >> i have something else. i want to tell you that, look, at the end of the day, this situation is already being reviewed by retailers, by the end of 2015 we expect many of these home depot target, walgreens and wal-mart to have this in place. this will come to pass but that's not the end of the story. they call them hackers for a reason. they'll find a way around this, too would be my guess. >> hopefully they won't. >> apple pay starts monday, and that is going to be one of the solutions i think some people will try. >> i wonder if this one will catch on. didn't with google. >> very well me a. there have ban lot of peep behind them. they're working with lots and lots of banks. >> yep. jerri willis from the business network and the willis report which givens in an hour and 18
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minutes. to find out where it is go to fox business.com slash channel finder and you can find her. as if cruise lines don't have enough trouble, one cruise ship passenger is under quarintine. a health worker whom officials say may have handled an ebola lab specimen. beaut we're told she is showing absolutely no symptoms of the virus. that means she is not contagious. she's in quarintine so there's no danger but that would be bad. a live report is next. [ male announcer ] are your joints ready for action? osteo bi-flex® with joint shield™ nurtures and helps defend your joints° so you can keep doing what you love. what'd you guys do today? the usual! the usual! [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex, ready for action.
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ebola, we report it erred early in the this newscast, the two health care human being workers in the united states who have the disease are now in specialized isolation units, one in maryland, one in there they're the only two people who have contracted ebola in the united states. and they were each treating the man who ultimately died of the disease. ebola is not spreading in
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america. a carnival cruise ship carrying a different health care human being -- health care human being worker is heading back to the united states but state department officials say she is putting herself in isolation and does not have the possibility of infecting anyone else and shows no signs of ebola,. the cruise left from galveston texas. the cruise stopped in belize. it was set to dock for a stop but carnival reports officials in mexico did not give the okay so now it's on its way back to texas. as i reported, administration officials say the woman is not showing any signs of disease. they say she is a lab worker who may or may not have handled some blood or some other sort of specimen from the ebola patient who died, but that she did not have any direct contact with the man himself. carnival also reports there is
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no risk to the other passengers and the other crew onboard of any kind. >> jonathan surey is live in ft.. what else do we know about the woman? >> reporter: obviously public health officials are interested in monitoring her but they say the chances of her having ebola are extremely low. that's because it was -- it's been 19 days since this lab supervisor may have handled's -- handled specimens from thomas duncan. the maximum incubation period for ebola is 21 days so it's highly unlikely this nurse and her husband, who have remained healthy until this late stage of the game, will get sick with bloom. nevertheless texas governor rick perry says public health officials need to err on the side of caution. listen. >> defies common sense from my perspective that one who has been in close proximity or have treated these patients, that they would go out and expose
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other people, possibly to this. they would travel out of state. that they would go on a cruise. >> governor perry says he has spoken with barack obama and is urging the president to place persons who may have had contact with ebola on the federal no-fly list to prevent them from travel until they're completely in the career. >> what about the nurse who is now at emory hospital there in atlanta? what's her situation? >> that nurse is amber vinson. she is being treated in the special isolation unit at emory university, one of only four like it in the country. meanwhile the cdc expanded the list of airline passengers they're notifying to include the october 10 outbound flight that vinson took to ohio in addition to the october 15 return flight. the agency says it can't rule out the possibility that vinson was experiencing minor symptoms when she set out on the trip to plan her wedding and as an added precaution, frontier airlines
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says it's notifying everyone who flew on that aircraft between the nurse's first flight and the time the plane was taken out of service for deep cleaning. that's 800 passengers in all but public health officials say the chances of amber vinson infecting anyone onboard the aircraft are extremely low. >> jonathan, at the cdc where they're operating in abundance of caution with the headline that no american has contracted this disease in the general population. bermuda? looking out for a big, bad hurricane. they're bracing for what would could be a monster one. it's already drawing comparisons to a deadly storm that slammed the islands more than a decade ago. a live update coming up.
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a fox extreme weather alert now. a very big hurricane, powerful category 3 right now and it is on track for bermuda. either hit it or just barely skirt it but it's going to see it a lot. set to make landfall within hours now. accord together reporting of the national hurricane center in miami. a major tourist destination, a few hundred miles from the east coast of the united states. bermuda's leader has urged people to seek high ground. folks in the capitol city have been boarding up homes and storefronts and stocking up on groceries. satellite image shows the hurricane. you don't have a lot of context because you don't know the size of the land mass but it's big. it's gonzalo. forecasters say the storm could be as powerful a hurricane as fabian from 2003. it killed four people on bermuda. and caused all sorts of damage. showing it to you on the wall. even bigger on the wall because
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the wall is ginormous. so gonzalo is also ginormous. forecasters say a few hours from now the hurricane will slam into island. winds to top 100-miles-an-hour. that's what i'm hearing from the good folks in our extreme weather center. rick, how is this looking? >> looking bad for them. $100 million damage in hurricane fabian in 2003, and now we have this storm here. a popup weather 8 behind me. that's the wrong storm. there's another storm going to hawai'i. we have weather eight up here -- this is the one. this is what we have going. not impacting the u.s. except for rough seas so stay off the beaches across the area. we'll see this pull off to sea venally, bring rain across the uk. in the short term we have big problems in bermuda. the center of the storm,
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30 miles wide, bermuda 15 miles in the middle of the ocean, at the center of the storm goes right over bermuda two or three hours from now. very rough one. >> rick, thank you very much. news continues with a final check of the markets today riling after this.
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>> bon foe from u2 has great shades, pink, blue, green. seems he has them in every color but they're not just a fashion statement. sarah is here from our team. not doing great. >> we always wondered why he wears the shade. he didn't always ware them. in the '80s, a young bon know, no glasses but it's been his trademark, even at the white house, talking to president bush he was wearing whether you -- blue shades but he has grabbing
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glaucoma. he says he is doing well. >> you guys tweeted us about the story on the girl who is said to have cheated in class and then got an f and has a lawsuit and hill yap has response -- lillian has responses. >> people agree she should not have gotten the f. i used to teach high school french. i if i suspected someone of cheatle i cooperate prove i'd have a student retake a different version of the test. also, a straight a student, and knocks her down a peg, might be ropes to pursue. one says i have notes in my bag. doesn't mean she cheated. one says, hope the teacher reverses the grade. >> i don't know if you have been following the dow today. it's been a rough week. look at this. the dow is up 263 to close the day. what great thing on a friday.
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i would normally say when news breaks out we'll break in but trace gallagher will be breaking in because i have to get to oxford. have a great weekend. "your world" starts right now. >> fighting ebola. the president says a travel ban won't work. so why are so many countries doing it? welcome everyone. i'm in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." the world health organization declaring today the ebola outbreak is over. senegal is one of three african nations that closed its borders do to the ebola outbreak in all, 22 countries, including great britain, have instituted a travel ban or other restrictions. a fox news poll finding 60% of americans would support a travel ban from the affected countries. this guy dressed in a hazmat suit taking that message to the white house but so far the president's