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roy says adrenaline at high levels all the time is a killer. thank you for writing and thank you for being part of "the real story" today. i'm gretchen carlson. >> ebola ebola confusion, different states and different policies for doctors doctors ans returning from west africa. now one nurse won her battle to go home. the end of an era in afghanistan. the last u.s. marines stationed there on their way home. are afghan troops ready to take charge? a highway patrol officer in one stayed admits he stole naked photos from the phones of women he arrested and shared those photos with other officers. did it for years. as a game. let's get to it. goods in afternoon from the
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deck. first from fox, tests are underway for a five-year-old boy who reportedly is showing ebola-like symptoms here in new york city, after health officials say he recently returned from west africa. we're expecting the results sometime in the next few hours. emergency medical workers rushed the boy from his home in the bronx, new york to bellevue hospital late last night, one neighbor told the new york post newspaper the boy, quote, looked weak, unquote. but officials at bellevue hospital said the boy did not actually develop a fever until 7:00 local time this morning. they say that is what prompted the ebola test. the post reports five members of the boy's family are quarintined inside their apartment while the city's health department has send so-called disease detectives to retrace the boy's steps. he came from west africa. bellevue hospital where is dr. craig spencer is currently in isolation. he tested positive for ebola last week after he return from treating patients in west africa.
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meantime, the white house is asking the governors of some states, including new york and new jersey to reconsider mandatory quarintines for medical workers returning from west africa, a senior administration official says such quarintines could discourage volunteers from going overseas to help countries decimated by ebola. a pentagon spokesman said the u.s. army has ordered some troops into isolation after they traveled from west africa to italy. the spokesman says the defense secretary will ultimately decide whether to enact any specific policy across the u.s. military. the centers for disease control and prevention is now expected to issue new quarantine guidelines today. we have team fox coverage. ed henry is live at the white house. first, let's get to rick leventhal who is live outside the hospital in new york city. what's the latest on the fire-year-old boy? >> reporter: he is in isolation here at bellevue hospital, being cared for by pediatric nurses. we don't have an official word on the result of his ebola tests but we're expecting those
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anytime now. i have a bit more on the temperature discrepancy. a police source tells me the family says the boy had a temperature of 102.7 yesterday and had other symptoms, including bloodshot eyes. that's why they called 9-1-1, and because he had just return from west africa with his mom on saturday, first responder took the precautions of wearing protective suits and they hathaway teened the rest of the boy's family as a precaution but no one else is showing any symptoms except the boy. >> in new jersey, a nurse was quarintined after a trip home. she has now been released. what are the details? >> kaci hickox was released 1:20 this afternoon, left the hospital in a private car, not an ambulance, and she is not being flown home on a private jet as had been previously reported. new jersey won't comment on the specifics of her transportation. she of course had complained loudly about her treatment since being quarintined on friday when she return from treating ebola patients in sierra leone.
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she had no symptoms but officials say the ran a fever at the airport so they moved her to an isolation tent, which she called inhumane and threatened to sue. governor chris christie is defending the decision to make a 21-day quarintine. >> i understand she was unafter the well. no one likes to be in a hospital but she was under supervision by the cdc and health officials at all times and i'm glad she is getting to go back home and hopefully her health will re main good. we're not going to take any risks. there's a public health of new jersey. >> reporter: once hickox gets to maine the governor's os will follow cdc guidelines for an in-home quarintine protocol to make sure there's no contact with public for the 21-day period. we're hearing the cdc will hold a telebriefing at 3:30, less than 30 minutes from now, on ebola response and interim
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guidance. >> rick leventhal at the hospital, thank you. for more on this national debate over travelers returning from west africa, our chief white house correspondent ed henry is live there we're getting new guidelines from the cdc coming up here at some point is in afternoon. but states don't have to follow those guidelines. right? >> reporter: right. the white house press secretary said they're guide laps, not mandates, and left the door open when pressed to the idea that veryos governors, various mayors around the country, have the power to move forward with what they want. if they want to have a mandatory quarintine. we know, at the very least, these guidelines will not have a mandatory quarintine from the federal government. something that has been considered by the obama administration, say it's still on the table but the president saying he does not want to did because he thinks it will discourage healthcare workers from going to the hospitals and trying to stop ebola. the bottom line moving forward
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is that what we were seeing play out as rick was reporting in new jersey, the back and forth with governor christie, it's possible it's going to happen again, not just in new jersey but potentially in other states because the guidelines coming out from the cdc can be ignored by governors or could be supported and listened to. >> ed, what about the matter of our troops returning home from this region? it sounds like there's some conflicting messages. how do you see this? >> reporter: sounds luke a dichotomy two different systems in place you have major general darrell williams, along with 11 troops who had just come back from western africa, now at a u.s. base in italy where, as you say, they're basically being observed and making sure, not a mandatory quarintine but make sure they're not infected and they don't infect others moving forward. we know from jennifer griffin that the joint chiefs last week recommended to defense secretary chuck hagel all u.s. troops
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coming home from the hot zone do the same. but josh earnest at the daily briefing said that's not a policy yet. the defense secretary has not signed off on it. listen. >> these troops are in the hot zone now. >> the vast majority of them are actually not in countries where -- that are affected by ebola. >> reporter: they're basically saying that the troops that there are in western africa are not necessarily coming into contact with patients who have been infected with ebola. the question is, why a uniform policy for the military was not put in place before they were sent there. >> ed henry, thank you. much more on this throughout the hour. another girl has died after friday's shooting in washington state. witnesses say a student targeted, not his enemies but his own friends and family. that was during breaking news in our program on friday afternoon. it happened at a high school about 30 miles north of seattle. police there say a 14-year-old freshman and a popular one at that, opened fire with a handgun in the cafeteria.
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one girl died on friday. another died in the hospital late last night. the local herald of everett newspaper reports three others are seriously injured with head wounds. police say the gunman eventually shot and killed himself. friends say he was popular football player, students voted him a homecoming prince. a fellow student told us friday the shooter recently broke up with his girlfriend but friends say they still don't know exactly what drove him to kill. the high school is closed all this week but students and parents were back on campus yesterday for a really emotional meeting. >> we're not just like all the -- we're all one family. >> it's hard to come back to her high school. the first time she has returned since friday's shooting. >> it's -- it feels like there's going to be something missing. >> inside there were hundreds of fellow students, parents, and community members, waiting with open arms. >> it was a really good environment to be in, have the
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whole community together. people were crying and people were hugging, some saying it's going to be okay. just made us feel like we were one big family. >> the school district cancelled classes at the high school this week but thought inviting students back would be an important start to the healing process. >> this is a tough day. and we have a few more ahead of us. >> our hearts grieve with you. we're still going through it along with you. >> tulalip tribe leaders offered songs and prayers but what they couldn't give were answers. the shooter was a member of the tribe, so were some of the young victims, still in the hospital. >> families are hurting really bad right now. looking for answers. answered that might not exist for us. >> we indiana to pull together and -- we need to pull together and get through this. >> it's beautiful to see, especially nate hatch's mother, denice hatch, say that we should put down any anger and just
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focus on the love we have for one another. and that's what we're going to be doing. >> students have put up a memorial and flowers and toys along the school fence. there are balloons to honor each victim along with one for the shooter. adam houseley if developments. what are youlashing about the victims? >> there are three that have officially died from this attack and three more in the hospital. the first of the three that died, one being the shooter, we also know we lost a girl, a 14-year-old zoe glass sew, she was killed on friday. then yesterday, gia soriano, a classmate of zoe, died of her injuries. she also was just 14 years old, sitting at the table when she was shot. her parents say they're completely heartbroken and have donated her organs. now to the three still in the hospital. there's one boy, andrew fryberg, who remains in critical
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condition in expensive care. a girl also is in critical can in intensive care. then one more boy, nate hatch. he has been upgraded to satisfy for condition, awake and breathing on his own and he has tweeted today two things. first thing, i love you and forgive you, jaylen. rest in peace. that's in regards to the shooter, and the second tweet, worst pain i've ever felt in my life. those tweets from nate hatch as he lies in a hospital bed recovering. people in a town on his' big island are now on alert. officials telling people to be ready to leave at a moment's notice as a wake of molten lava makes its way toward their home. details as the news rolls on this monday afternoon. [ female announcer ] knows her way around a miniskirt. can run in high heels. must be a supermodel, right? you don't know "aarp."
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>> pack up and get ready to go. that's what officials on the big island of hawai'i are warns dozen0s people as lava otherses closer to their -- others oozes closer to their home. you seek flames shooting up from the laugh vamp scientists say it's burning at 1600 degrees. water boils at a little more than 200 degrees. right? so the lava is eight times hotter than that or technically, very hot. this is hawai'i, there's the big
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island, and this one is -- it's mount kilauea, it's been blowing for 30 years but had been flowing this way. this is where the volcano is and all the lava had been going this way for years. a couple years ago it started moving to thepiece north. which puts this town in the way ask that's where all the people are being warned on the big island. threatening the whole area. and folks say they can see the lava from their balconies. i have incredible pictures to show you in our slide show. this is the crater right here and those blood veins are cracks in the crust there, and that is the spot from which it's all been flowing. it's a slow process but it is inevitable. a garden hose won't help. this is taking out a fence here. this used to be a shed. and no more -- no longer is. look at this. lava just coming across the
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road. that's one lane. some areas the lava flow is 14 lanes wide. trace gallagher is in the west coast news hub and has been monitoring this for us. trace, this thing is to my understanding, picking up steam. moving at a faster pace? >> it is for a couple ropes. one, it's starting to go slightly downhill now, and, two it's gotten into a gulley and picks up speed because it acts like rain through a gutter, moving down the hill. the authorities just notified us that it's now just 100 yards from the closest home, and it's moving at between nine and 15 yards per hour. so at that pace, the first homes in the city could be overrun sometime early evening or late tonight. there is no mandatory evacuation order but the authority does not expect anyone to stay. listen to residents. >> even if the initial flow misses our house, as the flow
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widens, there's a good chance that the widening will cover our property. >> i just think that the best thing to do is for us to get out of the way and let pele do what she is going to do. this is her land. >> pele is the godess they say lives inside the crater. down the line there are thousands of residents in the path. >> some explosions already. is that right? >> several explosions because what happens is the vegetation dies off and starts to decompose, creates methane gas, and as the lava flow moves over it, the lava catches the methane and, boom, you have the explosions every day. we should tell you in the 30 years this volcano has been active, this is the 61st 61st explosion, and in those 30 year kilauea lava has destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses. there's really, as you said, nothing you can do to save the
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homes. what they're trying to do is save infrastructure like wrapping concrete rings around the power poles so at least when the lava goes past they can save the power and that might make rebuilding in the town a lot faster. >> trace gallagher from los angeles, thank you very much. some breaking news just coming in out of the state of florida, and here we go again. police in tallahassee are investigating florida state university starting running back carlos william for an allegation of domestic battery. the incident is said to have happened on saturday night. so just two nights williams is a senior and the team's leading rusher for the seminoles. it is but the latest the a string of off the field incidents involving fsu players, some involving the quarterback, jameis winston, another arrest and allegations out of florida state university. much more throughout the hour.
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carlos williams, a rung back, being investigated for domestic violence incident that occurred on friday night. i said there had been an arrest. there has not been an arrest to our knowledge but an investigation is underway. >> a california highway patrol officer told investigators he and other cops played a game in which they stoled photos of women naked from the women they arrested and those pictures with each other. this came out after a woman claimed somebody sent out our naked photos while she was in custody. the contracosta times newspaper up covered another case. that same officer sent out bikini photos of a 19-year-old woman's phone -- from a 19-year-old woman's phone with the message, quote, taken from the phone of my arrestee while she is in x-rays. enjoy, buddy. he then apparently sent the photo to another officer add, quote, just rerun a favor down the line -- road, buddy.
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then a smiley face. that officer reportedlying to investigators hey had done the same thing at least a half dozen times in recent years. prosecutors will decide whether to file legal charges. mercedes joining us now. not supposed to do this. >> exactly. what the chips we grew up with. unbelievable that this officer says, it's fine. we all do this. this is what we -- we share nudie pictures all the time. that it a statute that says if you're doing this, there's computer theft, there's federal charges that can be imposed. we see that with hackers in the media. and each time you do this, it's a single count. so if you share these nudies ten times you could face up to ten charges. >> are police allowed to go into you're phone at all. >> they can if they have rome cause. once your arrested your property is their property. but there's no justification whatsoever to do what they did.
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>> i don't understand why they go into your photos. >> presumably if -- >> if i ran a traffic light you don't get to go through my photos. >> that's true, unless there is some contra band they believe that maybe when there's contraband, maybe there's criminal activity that could be in the photos. generally when they have your phone, it's not something, unless they have reasonable cause to believe there's evidence of a crime within the phone itself, they can't go in it. >> you have to give them your password? like if you're suspected of a crime, taken in for arrest, do you have to say, here's my password. >> in some states you do. even your employer can ask for your password in some jurisdictions and law enforcement can do it as well. >> anybody knows you can't take someone's photos and pass them around. >> they could face multiple years of prison. there's the whole hacking law, and the federal jurisdiction, and they can face separate charges and each time they circulated nude photographs under this commuter theft, they
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can get a felony for each one. >> so if you were send out a mail to seven friends that could be seven different counts. >> seven different counts. but these guys -- you're law enforcement. what are you doing? >> well, very good question. most of them are very helpful. >> obviously. maybe they should go back and eat doughnuts, hang out in the parking lot. i come from law enforcement. i come from military. these guys are bad guys. >> thank you, mercedes. there's word islamic state fighters may have advanced weapons to target u.s. helicopters. 'll talk with a reporter who broke the story. combat operations ended in a key part of afghanistan. we're approaching the bottom of the hour and the top of the news from the fox news deck.
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res just finished a promising year in the rookie marriages when he died in a car accident. the athlete apparently lost control of this chevy camaro. he was 22 years old. >> in northern california, investigators say man accused of killing two sheriff's deputies may have had multiple identities, and they say the fed had deported him to mexico not once but twice. police say on friday the man and his wife shot and killed two deputies, stole two cars and seriously wounded a driver who refused to give up his keys. both suspects under arrest. in san jose, 70 morals went up in flames at a dealership last night. they're trying to figure out what caused it but do not suspect arson. no reports of anybody hurt. the news continues from the fox news deck right after this.
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combat troops ending combat operations. u.s. marines and british combat forces are in the process of leaving helmund province, and even as the marines leave, some 21,000 american combat troops are still in harm's way across afghanistan. at the war which began 13 years ago this month continues. since 2001, more than 2200 americans have died there. while about 20,000 more have come back with injuries. our national security correspondent jennifer griffin is covering this from the pentagon. jennifer, with the downdraw continuing do u.s. officials say the troopings up to the challenge. >> it's where 80% of the opium was produced. the setting for the toughest fighting in afghanistan in five years. as the u.s. marines lowered the u.s. flag at camp leatherneck on sunday, simultaneously british marines lowered their flag next door at camp bastion.
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britain0s defense secretary admitted not everything went as planned in afghanistan. >> i think gallons have been clear that mistakes were made, and mistakes were mad militarily and made by the politicians at the time, and that's goes back to 13 years. some time now. >> now it will be up to the afghan troops who were handed this 6500-acre military base complex which cost the u.s. and its partners $230 million to build. there are already indications the taliban is gaining momentum in the province. >> a vary dangerous place and more evidence of that today. >> in fact the tall began carried out an attack on an afghan prosecutor's office earlier today that killed ten and wounded ten others. a four-hour gun battle ensued. a suicide bomber blew up at the gate of the government compound. three taliban gunmen then stormed through the gates. a taliban spokesman took responsibility for their attacks
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the taliban has been stepping up attacks as u.s. forces and others prepare to leave. i remember the night the marines were sent into the province as part of the surge in 2010. we were on the air with you at the time from the pentagon. we were on the ground with the commandant of the marine corps when the tents were set up. now camp leather neck has been handed over to the afghans. >> thanks as wells. islamic state fighters in iraq have begun using advanced shoulder fired missile launchers that could pose major threat to u.s. and coalition pilots. that's according to the reporting of the "new york times" newspaper. officials in iraq say isis shot down at least two iraqi helicopters, military helicopters, this month. and as u.s. airstrikes continue in iraq, the pentagon may begin using more low-flying apache helicopters to support ground forces. it also reports isis published a
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guide online describing to its followers how to shoot down apaches, like this one, with shoulder-fired missiles. more on this in just a moment. the retired american general, john allen, is in charge of coordinating the coalition fighting the islamic state. today he met with arab leaders and other allies in kuwait and urged them to do more to challenge the militants' online propaganda. >> they seek to portray themselves as winners. true leaders. worthy of financial support. that attracts and radicalizes foreign fighters. >> general allen called on coalition partners to, quote, clearly and forcefully and consistently, unquote, reject the islamic state's ideology. conor powell is live. what's the latest on the iraq military's efforts against isis? >> reporter: the iraqi military seems to be have something success in the isis-held areas outside of baghdad, taking back
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some territory from militants. iraqi officials say they're forces, lining with it should militia have taken back several sunni towns from isis fighters around and outside baghdad. if they can hold these areas -- that's a big if -- it would be a rare victory for the iraqi military who continue to struggle the further the fight moves away from baghdad and the shia population, but isis still controls last swaths of iraq in the northern and western part of the country, and even with u.s. and coalition airstrikes isis shows no signs of being defeated and the sunni tribal belts, iraq military is disorganized and ineffective and u.s. officials say it could be months and maybe even a year before the iraqi military is able to launch a large-scale, fully coordinated offensive operation against isis. >> again, this is going on in syria as well. kobani in northerntes on the syria? >> all eyes have been on kobani as kurdish syrian fighters have
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been battling isis. isis fighters, though, continue to try to take that city even sending reinforcements in the last few days according to kurdish officials. kurds are begging literally the world, the united states, for more weapons and more support. the u.s. has provided some weapons to the kurds but the kurds want heavier weapons. they don't want a ks and ammunition. they want anti-tank weapons and things that will help drive isis back and it's really unclear right now if kobani will fall or if the kurds will hold on. this battle could be over in the next few days or the next few hours. it's unclear, and much of it depends on what type of weapons are getting to those kurdish fighters, whether they can repel the isis reinforcement. >> conor powell life for us. turning to an author of "the new york times" report about the threat of isis using antiaircraft missiles. eric schmitt.
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how concerned are they really, eric, about the use of apaches over there? >> they're concerned because of several reasons. the apaches have been held in reserve to protect baghdad international airport to bring supplies in and get diplomats out in the event the capitol had to be evacuated. right now, as the iraqi military starts at the very beginning of the counteroffensive, the natural thing would be to have more close, air support which could be coming from these apache helicopters as well as iraqi helicopters. some apaches are vulnerable to groundfire and u.s. intelligence and allied intelligence officials believe that the islamic state has these so-called shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles that can knock these helicopters out of the sky. >> where did they get those? >> gotten from from a number of places. they've been able to capture them both in syria and perhaps in iraq as they overrun various
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syrian and iraqi military bases. they take stock of these. but they've also been able to acquire them. some of the older models in particular. so they have a ready supply. we have not seen a whole lot being used yet bus the offensive campaign has not begun in earnest, but as it dispossess more helicopters are used, u.s. officials are worried about that risk. >> your reporting is the larger campaign, as you describe it, is upon us. is it the sense from your report that the iraqi troops are up to this task now in a way maybe they weren't a couple months ago? >> to be sure many of these iraqi units are very mixed quality. what we're seeing in particularly some of the reporting, there's -- at the very beginning of an offensive at a place called bajii to reclaim oil refine riz. iraqi forces repelled some islamic state attacks near mosul dam, a crucial piece of territory. so you're seeing just the beginnings of some hopeful signs but, again, we saw just last
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week the islamic state holding on and even gaining territory outwest in anbar province, but very a difficult fight and could be several months before the iraqi military is able to mount a sustained counteroffensive against the militants. >> the president repeatedly said the goal here is to degrade and eventual he destroy isis and its capabilities on the ground. yet so many in the military and others on his own side of the political fence suggested that without more boots on the ground, reliable boots on the ground, that may not be possible. there is wording change in the mix? how do you see this? >> that's still the policy and the strategy going forward, is right now there are 12 different teams of americans a individualers, some in the baghdad area, some up north in irbil, that are helping to assist and advise iraqis and kurdish fighters. they, however, are not going out in the field with them. they're at the headquarters level, trying to help develop strategy, helping to coordinate
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the intelligence, in order to help target some of these airstrikes we're now seeing. >> eric schmitt from "the new york times" and ny times.com. nice to talk to you, thank you. >> thank you. >> breaking news. we're getting word from the centers for disease control and prevention they're releasing new guidelines for healthcare workers returning from west africa. last week the governors in new york and new jersey announces their own quarintine policy and officials locked up a nurse. she got lawyer, threatened to go to court. they released her. now the cdc is releasing these new guidelines and doing it not a traditional way in front of a camera. why not ison me but i have a guess. ing that doing it by teleconference. it's important information so let's listen. >> patients with ebola. we have had about 100 or a little under 100 individuals per day on average returning from the three affected countries in west africa.
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of those, about five or six percent have been found to have a background of working in health care, specifically it's been 46 out of the 870 people who we have evaluated. there's also a low but nonzero risk, such as someone who has been traveling within the affected countries but has had no known score shoes, and we put into that -- no san antonio -- no known exposure and we add in other healthcare staff working at a united states facility caring for an individual with ebola. bellevue, emory, nih, and nebraska. are the facilities currently and potentially doing that. for those individuals, they have very important differences between providing care in africa versus in the u.s. u.s. hospitals have a more controlled setting than a field hospital in africa. and the staffing ratio is very
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different. so, in that category, we consider them to be of low but nonzero risk. and the fourth category is those who have no identified risk. for example, individuals who did not travel to one of the affected countries, or traveled more than 21 days ago. we have received over 500 inquiries from health departments, hospitals and doctors, who have been concerned that patients might be at risk for ebola. in 90% of those inquiries, it turns out there is not either a symptom pattern or a travel history that is consistent with ebola, and for the remainder, we have been able to facilitate rapid testing. actions that can be taken, the first, and i believe most important, is active monitoring, and that means they health department, the local public health authority, takes the responsibility for a daily monitoring of the individual's symptoms and of their temperature. and if people have symptoms or
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elevated temperature, they're rapidly assessed, evaluated, and if appropriate, isolated, cared for and treated. this type of active monitoring is so important because it can identify people early in the course of illness and with ebola, as people get sicker they get much more infectious. those first few hours or days of the beginning of symptoms are far less likely to result in any infections than are the later courses of disease when people have much, much larger numbers of virus they're secrete -- ex-creating, but who cases where there's a high risk of an individual becoming ill or based on an individualized assessment of the exposure, of the activity of the individual, additional restriction maize be placed, may include on an sidized basis what
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is called a do-not-board order which prevents the individual from getting on a flight at the local level. restrictions on use of public transport, work, or attendance at congregate activities. but fundamentally, people want to do the right thing. and what i'm hearing from returning healthcare workers and others is an interest in making sure they're cared for effectively and responsible so that if they do develop any symptoms, they're rapidly isolated and treated. in fact, doctors without borders, msf, has had clear guidelines for their staff for their own protection. they should stay within close radius to a facility that can care for them, and this is the kind of approach that we think will be effective. in addition, while i understand there are concerns that individuals may not fully disclose information about their history, i think those concerns about illness are of a very
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different order. healthcare workers, of all people, understand that if they develop ebola, sooner -- the sooner they get care the more likely they are to survive, and the sooner they get isolated, the less likely they are to infect their family members. overall, there's real progress in different ways, in the ebola response, but we're still far from out of the woods. in texas, we have seen most of the healthcare workers who cared for mr. duncan complete their 21-day observation period. two nurses became infected in all likelihood in the initial days of mr. duncan's illness. we have improved our personal protective equipment and infection control guidelines to reduce the risk of infections in the future. in new york city, we continue to monitor closely the illness of
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dr. spencer and monitoring of his contacts. in africa, we have now surged, along with the world health organization to respond to the import addition of a case into the country of mali, where contact tracing has identified now more than 100 people who will be tracked and where the largest number are in a rural area. similar to other ebola outbreaks. but we're far from out of the woods. and in each of the three heavily affected countries in west africa, we are seeing definite signs of progress but it's going to be still a long, hard fight, and the assistance of healthcare workers from around the world will be essential to stopping it there and protecting these countries as well as ourselves. >> it is a world problem no doubt. dr. thomas frieden, they of the cdc. he mentioned but we have not gotten confirmation, five-year-old boy and his mom returned from guinea and that
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five-year-old boy last night showed symptoms similar to ebola and had a high fever this morning. they test the evidence child for ebola and the mayor of new york city and others say we should know this afternoon or evening whether that boy tested positive. he and his mother are in isolation and not seen as a threat to anyone but themselves but certainly hopeful that five-year-old did not contract the virus. this new report and then guidelines will take some dissecting and we'll bring you an update here and at foxnews.com. europe put some of its largest banks to the test and 24 of them failed. 20% of the banks officials tested, f. they include nine italian banks, among them the oldest in the world, a tuscan bank founded in 1472. italy is currently in its longest recession since world world war ii. the blanks who failed the tests have nine months to fix theirs finances or they could be shut down. a live look at the dow now.
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volatility. it's the -- the dow has been all over the place for weeks, it seems. right now we're up a little bit, 16 points or so a tenth of a point. gerri willize is here from the biz. explain how these banks problems could affect all of us here in the united states. >> well, if you saw one of the critically important european banks flunk the test you can bet the dow would show about thought that's not happening. the banks with trouble are smaller banks, not bank that influence trading. the point of the tests is to encourage -- encourage independent lending. they want to build up some confidence amongst consumers and everybody else about these banks and their ability to do business. >> is the thinking these 24 banks will be able to get their houses in order in nine months or might we see trouble. >> they actually have two weeks. >> i thought it was nine -- >> to explain their plan for getting better but the reality is they have been working on this since 2013. so the thinking is they should be able to go a long way to
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fixing their problems, but i have to tell you, these aren't banks. they're critically important to the planet. they're much more regional almost banks, not that critical, and you know what is going on with italy's economy. these are economies in trouble, not surprising that some banks are having trouble. >> we sneeze, they caught a cold. >> that's. >> see you in 70 minutes. >> you bet. >> can't fined? fox business.com/channel finder. >> humanity be ware. one of the biggest names in the tech world, scientists working on artificial intelligence could end up summoning a demon, serious. and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are ya? good. aleve. proven better on pain.
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astronauts to the international space station says humanity's biggest threat is artificial intelligence, elan musk said this, also founder of the electric carmaker tesla motores he said sky 'tises should be careful developing artificial intelligence or we could wind up with a monster. >> we're summoning the demon. all those stories where the guy with the holy water is like, he can control the demons. didn't work out. >> summoning the demons and said there should be government oversight to make sure we do not do something, quote, very foolish. kennedyes -- kennedy is here to stop that. >> a. i. is here. >> i fear it. >> you don't have to fear it. it's 25 years away. a quarter century. >> i'll be dead by then. >> people who study ai said will be here around mid-century, and i honestly don't fear it. i think you can't possibly know
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exactly what is going to happen, so people like elan musk, who has been at the technology, not only in space but has built and designed one of the best cars, tesla, one of the very best cars on the road. it's a monster and he comes up against so much government regulation. they will not sell his cars directly to consumers in arizona and texas and other states so he knows the hurdles of regulation, yet he is saying in order to save humanity from artificial intelligence, we need more government regulation. he is proving that through private space exploration humans will get to mars. even colonize mars but he is terrified of a consent we won't know until it happens. >> he thinks we'll make it smarter than us and eventually it will need things we will not provide so it will take us over. >> that's right. >> that's a for real. >> but it is a for real but it's a theoretical. and that -- when that happens,
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when aye i takes over, it's called the sing alert and then we get to new jersey with machines and -- merge with machines and be smarter and maybe we'll know everything. machines can't create souls. >> they can create dresses as well. >> yes, they can. >> is that alpha send towery. >> that's our closest star is the star closest to our solar system, very good. >> i wouldn't know it. we'll be back in a minute. we'll do something. i'm confident something will happen. and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. we've made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angieslist.com no more calling around. no more hassles. start shopping from a list of top-rated providers today. angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. visit angieslist.com today.
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some -- a chance to ride some vintage cars on the subway system that debuted 100 ten years ago today. when news breaks out we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto now. >> he is accused of killing two california deputies, but what was he doing in the country in the first place? welcome everybody. his name -- he was deported to mexico in 1997 for drug possession. arrested and deported a second time four years later. now he is accused of killing sacramento sheriff's deputies danny oliver and michael davis, jr. whose father also died in the line of duty. a hearing tomorrow will decide whether he gets justice. sheriff you're arpaio says if our borders were secure this never would have happened about it does.
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