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kobani has seen the biggest clash in a week between isis terrorists and kurdish mill sharks and one of the bigger waves of u.s. bombing runs of the entire campaign. just in the last 24 hours or so, i am told isis brought in reinforcements, and they tried to take the offensive again against the kurdish militia, attacking at three different fronts and pounding the kurds with mortars sending in three car bombs across the battle lines. the kurdish offenders say they told the battle lines in ct, that town remain unchanged, and we're told one hospital in isis-held syria received 70 bodies of terrorists in the last day or so. centcom confirms lit today they have been on the offensive as well, hitting isis with 11 air strikes targeting 20 fighting positions, 5 vehicles, 2 occupied buildings. analysts basically tell me as brave as the kurdish fighters are, these air strikes are the only thing that's keeping them still in the game and it's still

not clear if they will win out because another big factor is turkey is still taking a hard line. president obama this weekend speaking by on telephone with turkish president erdogan no doubt trying to get him to play ball. he said again this weekend that he would not allow the u.s. to transfer weapons into kobani for the kurdish fighters who are linked to a kurdish group in turkey in ankara which is considered a terror group. nothing easy about this fight with isis all throughout the region. >> ain't that the truth. thanks so much. >> air strikes are pushing back some of the isis fighters somewhat, but you know they are still coming. this as u.s. officials say the battle for cobkabani is providi to be a magnet for new recruits. a fox new polls shows 57% of americans disapprove of the way the president is handling isis,

so if the coalition wants to win, why won't we arm the kurds defending kobani and why won't nations like turk doe more? john bolton, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, fox news contributor and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute joins us now. ambassador, turkey, a nato member will not arm the kurds or let us arm them. you can ask what side are they on? >> well, they are on their own side, and i think that's the most important point in feeling with everybody in the middle east is to ask what their interests are and then ask what's america's interests. turkey in many respects fears the kurds and the threat of kurdish independence from iraq, from turkey itself, from syria, more than they fear isis. let's face it. many of the jihadists now fighting with isis, turkey knowingly let's slip through their territory in order to engage in the civil war against assad. so why have the turkish armor and other personnel stood by and watched isis and the kurds fight it out?

because from turkey's point of view i think they are nearly indifferent as to who wins so even though turkey is a nato ally under erdogan it's about as distant an ally from the united states as you can imagine. >> erdogan, they are letting apparently drones fly from some of their bases. not allowing u.s. troops on those bases to attack isis, as we're told, and they are not allowing the kurds to be armed. not allowing kurd fighters to cross their borders so you talk about erdogan and the president as greg reported talking with him on the phone, mr. obama has not yet been able to change erdogan's mind. >> well, and the white house for years has touted the obama/erdogan relationship as being one where president obama's best friends among foreign leaders. i think it just underlines that the administration's -- i hate to call it a strategy, but the administration's way of dealing with isis is simply not going to work. the kurds will fight. they fight better if we would arm them directly which we're

not doing but only in defense of their own territory. the iraqi army is clearly not capable under present circumstances of taking on isis while we're focused on kobani, the situation in anbar province in iraq continues to deteriorate. isis continues to expand, and god knows the free syrian army is a mess at this point, so absent other outside troops from friendly arab states in the arabian peninsula, and let's be clear, ultimately from the united states, i sis is simply going to continue to consolidate its hold over the vast stretch of territory it now controls, as big as great britain by many estimates. >> as isis continues to grain strength in some areas, take a look at what the "boston globe" wrote about all this saying, quote, kabani needs arms. if the islamic state commits masser is, if more people die in clashes in turkish streets, the kurds will rightly blame erdogan and his government but also the inaction of the united states and its allies which appeased a

turkish state that supported jihadists. it is time for the world to pick which side of history to be on. so, ambassador, how do we convince those other coalition member nations to do more, and can erdogan and others be convinced? >> well, i think we have to lead, and lead means we need to do more than simply rely on air strikes. this is a very unpleasant, very dangerous situation for the united states and our would-be coalition partners, but if we believe, as president obama himself said that isis is a threat to us and to all of them, the choices are really very clear. either we let isis consolidate its power over the territory it now controls and be a threat to us into the future, or we eliminate that threat. you know, there are no half measures here, and there's no -- there's no reward for failing because you're too restrained. it just -- it just boggles the mind that the administration can be as schizophrenic as it is saying isis is a danger but not

addressing it adequately. >> but is it worth, you know, again sending americans' sons and daughters back into battle to save kobani and get back into anbar after all the blood and treasure we spent in the nation on the ground there? >> it's worth having a strategy and a plan to do it, but i think the other question is is it worth risking terrorist attacks inside the united states again because if isis is able -- let's be clear what they are doing. they are creating a new country in the middle east, and it will be, it already is, a magnet for terrorists from all over the world. al qaeda factions have broken with al qaeda and declared their allegiance to isis, so this is -- this is a situation where we should do what churchill recommended to the communist revolution in russia in 1917. we should strangle isis in its cradle, and the sooner we get on it the better. >> meanwhile, isis continues on its march to the islamic state. ambassador john bolton, thank you so much. always good to have your insight

on sunday mornings. >> thank you, eric. >> arthel. >> a carnival cruise ship carrying a dallas health care worker who was being monitored for ebola is now docked in galveston, texas. the passenger had voluntarily quarantined herself on the ship during the week long journey, but mexico refused to allow the ship to dock in the resort area of cozumel. i understand you have an update on the status of that patient. >> reporter: that's right, arthel, and can i tell you for passengers here it's a real sense of relief. we can tell you that this lab technician was the first person to actually make it off the ship behind me. passengers actually got some video of her being loaded into a wide bin. she was then driven to her car where she got into her car and drove herself home under no restrictions. that's because that comes after a coast guard helicopter landed on the ship yesterday to take a blood sample from the woman. we're told as a result she did not test positive for ebola.

>> it was so scary because you didn't know why did they do all this for somebody that's a plain lab worker, that was supposed to be a low-risk person. >> reporter: passengers say outside of an eventful two days, many still had great vacations. as for the other two nurses who have come down with ebola, nina pham's boyfriend and three of her family members have been quarantined while pham is being treated at the national institute for health in maryland. >> she's fine. she's fair and very stable, comfortable. when you get ebola, it really knocks you out, chris, so obviously there's a lot of fatigue and weakness and doing quite well. had a long conversation with her last night. >> reporter: second nurse, amber vinson, is in stable condition at emery hospital in atlanta. 100 people who she came in contact last weekend in ohio when she was traveling is now being monitored by the cdc, and

we can also tell you that the cdc just told us they finished contacting everybody on her flight from dallas to ohio and back last weekend and on monday they have now contacted all of those people and will be monitoring them moving forward. arthel. >> will carr, thank you for that update. the question here is the administration's response to ebola on target? north carolina congresswoman renee elmer has a lot to say. her district boston bragg where military members may be sent to west africa to help deal with the outbreak. we'll speak to the congresswoman a little bit later in this newscast. eric? >> there's a somber task under way right now in virginia after police found the human remains on an abandoned property, remains that could be those of miss i missing university of virginia sophomore student hannah graham. more live from charlottesville, virginia. >> reporter: we'll set the scene

for you. we're in the last place hannah graham was seen alive with jesse math two, nine or ten miles away from where the crow flies is where the police discovered the body and as you can see from these pictures it's rural virginia, heavily wooded, dense vegetation. we're told search teams have been out there day after day since she disappeared looking for hannah graham. they came up upon a body in a dried-out creek bed and also found some clothing there. police won't confirm or deny if this is hannah graham's body, but they have essentially called off any searches for her going forward, and they have also called her parents to tell them of this discovery. meantime, jesse mathieu remains in jail. so far he's not been charged with murder, only the disappearance of hannah graham, but obviously that could change. >> very significant, anna, that they were found so close by, two

miles from where morgan went missing and where the remains were found yesterday. the other thing that's very significant here is the fact that jesse math two's mother owned a home about a mile from where the remains were found yesterday and it's an area he grew up in. >> reporter: as rod wheeler pointed out, area that you're looking at is the same area that morgan harrington disappeared four years ago. she was found and her killer never found though they say there's a forensic link to jesse ma mathew. they will look to see if there's any evidence back there behind the abandoned home. the remains have been taken to the richmond medical center where they will try to fine out the cause of death and a final identification of who this is, to see if there's any closure to bring to the graham family as sad as that news may be. >> so tragic, thank you very

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chaos breaking out at a pumpkin festival early this morning after dozens of nearby parties quickly got out of hand. it happened near keene state college in new hampshire. one student says people just started throwing everything they could find, from rocks all the way to pumpkins. cops in full riot gear used tear gas to eventually control the crowds. at least 30 people were injured and 14 others were arrested.

well, get ready for what they call the cosmic event of a lifetime. you know, a massive comet is going to pass dangerously close to mars today, and it happens only once every million years. scientists say we can all get an incredible view of this event. brian ennis fills us in from the new york newsroom. today is the day, one in a million years. >> reporter: science news is the best. scientists says it's a once in a million event, we keep saying that, and approximately at 2:27 p.m. eastern time, a comet will zoom right by mars giving us the closest view of a comet passing by a planet ever. the comet will miss hitting mars by just 87000 mile. in astronomical speak that's a close encounter. that's just one-third of the distance between the earth and the moon. now, nasa has repositioned their five robotic explorers on the surface of the red planet to capture the moment the icy rock

zooms past mars, traveling at a speed of 126,000 miles per hour, the comet's dust trail is expected to blanket mars with cometary materials with dust and particles. at that speed even the smallest particle can damage the spacecrafts so nasa is sending them to the other side during the time when the comet comes closest to mars. >> we want to be able to protect our orbiters so they will be on the other side of the planet when the dust tail comes by. other than that we will be observing the comet before, during and after the encounter and then we want to see what mars do with the material it receives from the comet. >> reporter: the comet formed 4.6 billion years ago, when our solar system was just formed, and the comet is believed to be traveling from the outer most part of our solar system. back here on earth the best

viewing from the south hemisphere, south africa and australia. here in the northern hemisphere you won't have a view but plenty of science websites hosting a live feed online. 2:27 p.m. eastern time. >> thanks, bryan. >> new criticism of the white house for choosing an ebola czar who doesn't have any medical expertise. critics say it's just the latest in a series of missteps as the administration hits every sunday talk show to reassure americans it's all under control. >> there aren't absolutes. you want to have a delicate balance between assuring the american people but not scaring them with the fact that there may be a risk. (coffee be♪ng poured into a cup.)

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the administration naming political operative ron clain as the ebola response coordinator. some critics blasted it because he has no medical background. dr. anthony fauci, director of the infectious disease at the nih defended. >> there's misstatements and overstatements, when dr. frieden said we can stop this in its tracks. we were talking about an outbreak. we're not happy that the two nurses got infected but that's not an outbreak. >> my guest sits on the house commerce committee and attended the hearing with the cdc on thursday. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. >> good morning, good to be with you. did you walk away with the feeling that the handling of

ebola remains haphazard or feeling hopeful that the response will get better? >> well, you know, as you know, we're calling for travel restrictions, first and foremost. the number one job that we have is the safety of the american people. as we heard from dr. frieden and dr. fauci, we want to stop it at its source. well, the source is west africa, so let's put those protections in place first. we're dealing with the issue at hand, and i do have confidence that we'll be able to get a handle on this, but we all have to be working together, and i'm not sure that someone who has been a longtime political operative is necessarily the point person for this issue. >> what's the priority fix, do you think? >> what we have to do, again, first and foremost, make sure and reassure the american people that we are safe, that we're handling this situation so we know that this terrible disease is not coming into the united states, but at the same time we have to work on the solutions moving forward and those things

are happening. we have to take this in a sense of urgency for the american people so that they know that we're protecting them. >> do you not think at this point that everyone is not being handling this in an urgent matter? >> well, right now, and thank goodness we haven't had any more -- any further cases, but we know we have the two situations, the two nurses who are infected. that's a very serious situation because these individuals came in contact with the gentlemen, but as nurses they were practicing universal precautions. they were doing what they needed to do. >> as you know, congresswoman -- >> let's make sure -- >> you realize, congresswoman, it has been found that they weren't practicing universal precautions and there were missteps on the part of the direction from the hospital and the cdc so they are trying to fix that. >> well, what i will say is that the hospital has admitted that they were not up to par. that's the problem. we have to make sure that all of our hospitals understand how to handle a situation like this, but at the same time we don't

know the specifics yet. we need that information, but in the meantime before we gather that information and know what we're dealing with, let's make sure the american people are safe. >> what would you say or how much of politics would you say, congresswoman, would be getting in the way of progress? >> well, we don't want politics to get in the way of progress. what we need to do again is everyone come together on this issue. that's one of the initiatives that we have in the energy and commerce committee, with our 21st century cures initiative, working on initiatives like this one so we can get ahead of it, but at the same time if we have political operatives that will be running the show i wonder about the politics. >> congresswoman renee elmer, thank you so much for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> arthel, a special here on the fox news channel later today on ebola. facts versus fiction. "house calls" dr. david smam samadi and harris faulkner will

be here at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, "ebola in america" and we'll continue our conversation with our doctors on "sunday house call" which is momentarily coming up on the fox news channel. stick around for that.

. and it's time now for "sunday house call." i'm eric shawn. >> and i'm arthel neville. welcome now is dr. david samadi. >> and as always dr. marc siegel, professor of medicine at langone medical center. he's not in the studio today. he's joining us live from las vegas where he's giving a talk at gathering of the american academy of dermatology. dr. siegel, dr. samadi, welcome, as always. >> good to be here. >> good to see both of you, doctors. we're awaiting a major announcement from the