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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> miller: good evening. i'm michelle miller. the toll in the ebola outbreak passed a milestone today, surging past 10,000 cases, nearly half of them fatal. of the seven americans who contracted ebola, all have survived. but now a third state, illinois, has joined new york and new jersey in imposing a mandatory 21-day quarantine on passengers who have had direct contact with ebola patients overseas. and that has volunteer organizations worried, saying the new rules will discourage health care workers from traveling to places where their help is desperately needed. yesterday, new jersey isolated an american nurse who returned from sierra leona. she has tested negative for ebola, and, as jericka duncan tells us tonight, she hasn't had a positive experience.
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>> reporter: kaci hickox describes her quarantine as disorganized and frightening. she details her experience in the "dallas morning news." an official "barked questions at me as if i was a criminal." hickox says after disclosing she worked with ebola patients in sierra leona, someone escorted her to a quarantine office at new jersey international airport. she goes on to say, "my temperature was taken using a forehead scanner and it read 98. three hours passed, i was given a granola bar and some water. i was left alone in a room for another three hours." hickox is now being kept in a tent outside a new jersey hospital with nothing but her cell phone. "this is not a situation i would wish on anyone," she says. "i'm scared for those who will follow me." lisa balm is with the new york state nurses' association. >> the last thing we want to do is to have disincentives for health care workers to treat
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sick patients either here at home or in west africa. >> reporter: hickox is the first patient quarantined after new york city dr. craig spencer tested positive for ebola. health officials say they've now visited and cleared every place spencer went to before his confirmed diagnosis. cbs medical correspondent dr. jon lapook spoke to new york city's health commissioner, dr. mary bassett. >> reporter: you can imagine people are understandably concerned. maybe he should have been quarantined for 21 days. >> he did not have symptoms at that time. he had not yet had a fever, and when he had a fever, he absolutely immediately notified the public health authorities, and all the right actions were taken after that. and his temperature was not that high. he didn't say, "let me wait and see if it goes up." he measured the temperature of 100.3 and he picked up the phone. >> reporter: kaci hickox ends her article by saying, "we need more health care workers to help
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fight the epidemic in west africa. the u.s. must treat returning health care workers with dignity and humanity." and tonight, officials here at bellevue hospital report dr. craig spencer has entered the next phase of illness and is having gastrointestinal symptoms. and, michelle, spencer's fiancé, who was also isolated here, has been released from the hospital under quarantine. >> miller: jericka duncan at bellevue hospital. thank you. and late today, the f.d.a. granted emergency authorization for two new tests for detecting ebola in humans. police in marysville, washington, say it appears a 14- year-old high school student deliberately targeted his victims. this latest school shooting yesterday claimed two lives, including the gunman's. four others remain hospitalized. and in the small community north of seattle, many are asking tonight why a popular student suddenly snapped. here's carter evans.
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>> reporter: at marysville- pilchuck high school, there are flowers and stunned silence the day after the horror. >> it's a gun. it's a gun. run, go, go! >> reporter: jaylen fryberg, just 14 years old, walked into the school cafeteria and began shooting at people he knew. he killed a female student and shot four others-- two of them his own cousins, andrew fryberg, and nate hatch. two girls now recovering, both 14, both in intensive care. leanne enick is a cousin. >> there's a whole lot of family up there that's in sorrow. >> reporter: as students fled their classrooms, some walking, some sprinting, eric serks cervantes said a teacher, megan silberger, heard the shots and ran. >> she is a hero. she grabbed the arm. she grabbed his arm, hand on hand. it happened in seconds. >> reporter: police say fryberg died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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they recovered a 40-caliber handgun refusing to say how he got it or his motive. just last week, he was honored as freshman homecoming prince. >> he walked down, he was super happy. >> reporter: but fryberg's twitter page had messages that were getting darker. on thursday, he tweeted, "it won't last, it will never last." and friday morning, an ominous note, says one of his coaches, caleb woods. >> he sent a text message to his family and everyone asking them to do certain things for him after he's gone. >> reporter: what he did is still reverberating in this town where students and others held a vigil last night. >> it did help to know that there's a whole community out there that cares. >> reporter: of the four wounded teens, three are in critical condition. the other is listed as serious. students were allowed back on campus briefly today to pick up belongings left behind, but, michelle, school will be closed all next week. >> miller: carter evans in
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marysville, washington. thank you. a utah couple is under arrest, charged with multiple felonies, including murder and carjacking, after a shooting rampage in and around sacramento yesterday. two sheriffs deputies died and two other people were wounded. police are investigating why. juliana goldman has the latest. >> reporter: in sacramento, the law enforcement community is mourning two of its own. >> today, we grieve as a family. tomorrow, we will start healing as a family. >> reporter: plasser county sheriff's detective michael david davis, jr., was a second- generation officer. he died 26 years to the day that his father was killed in the line of duty. also killed, deputy danny oliver, a 47-year-old father of two. police say around 10:30 friday morning, oliver approached a suspicious car in a motel parking lot. the driver of that car, identified as marcelo marquez of
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west valley, utah, allegedly opened fire from an assault rifle, killing him instantly. authorities say marquez and his wife, janelle marquez marcello, fled and tried to carjack another vehicle. when the driver resisted, they shot him in the head. he's listed in serious condition. the shooting rampage continued over the next six hours. authorities say the two carjacked a red ford pickup and drove north, they were approached by davis and another officer. marquez opened fire again, killing davis and wounding the other officer in the arm. marquez eventually surrendered to authorities, and his wife was taken into custody. juliana goldman, cbs news, washington. >> miller: despite worldwide protests, iran hanged a woman convicted of murder today. reyjana jabbari said she stab aid would be rapist in self-defense but the court ruled the evidence proved premeditation. amnesty international called the investigation deeply flawed.
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now to some controversy in the world of golf. ted bishop, the president of the p.g.a. of america, has been fired over alleged sexist remarks made to a pro golfer over social media. here's vladimir duthiers. >> reporter: bishop was commenting on a new book in which british golfer ian poulter criticized nick faldo. bishop came to faldo's defense: bishop also criticized poulter on facebook, saying: bishop pulled the comment, but the damage was done. the p.g.a. of america fired him, saying bishop was being removed for insensitive gender-based statements posted yesterday on social media. the board deemed the remarks to be inconsistent with the policies of the p.g.a. dan kaplan writes for "sports business digest."
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>> in this environment of worrying about how an organization is perceived vis a vis issues of women, misogyny, sexism, there seems to be utter zero tolerance. >> reporter: bishop issued an apology: bishop is the first p.g.a. of america president ever to be ousted. adding further insult to injury, he'll not be invited to future p.g.a. invitations or ryder cups, as well. >> miller: hundreds of users of the social media site reddit descended on a town in kentucky today to make sure a world war ii vet got a proper send-off. roscoe cassidy lived to be 107, and it's said he was worried that having lived so long, nobody would be around to attend his funeral. happily, he was wrong. musician jack bruce has died.
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♪ ♪ with his band cream, bruce sang and played bass on some of the most iconic and influential hits of the 1960s and scored the first platinum record in history. a partial list of the group's hits: "white room," "i feel free" and "sunshine of your love." jack bruce was 71 years old. liberians burying their ebola dead in secret, defying the government's cremation orders-- that when the "cbs evening news" continues.
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burning each night outside the capital, monrovia. debora patta followed a burial team as it combed the countryside. >> reporter: life was hard enough in kakata before ebola. now it has one of the highest infection rates in the country. it's feared this woman's brother died from ebola, but she's not been allowed anywhere near the body. the villagers, too, say their farewells from a distance. government worker george woryounwon briefs the burial team he's brought to the village to help remove the body. >> reporter: the new rules don't go over well. sometimes villagers hide bodies or bury them in secret to avoid the government. after a long walk into the bush, the burial team begins suiting up, following strict new
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guidelines. the team discoverss that someone has covered the body with a blanket, which also means someone may have touched it and could spread the disease further. but nobody will own up. the body is unceremoniously packed away in a double-layered protective bag. the team sprays chlorine everywhere. then they move back toward the village, stopping several times along the way; the body is just too heavy. devastated villagers are only given a glimpse of the shrouded body. then, a ruthlessly efficient burial. every piece of contaminated clothing thrown in with the corpse. but inside that clorinated body bag lies a man who was loved. he was just 22 years old. cremation remains the safest way to manage the bodies of ebola victims, but it is being met
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with strong resistance. for villagers, it goes against ancient burial traditions which involves touching and washing the dead. and that's why it's proving so hard to stop the outbreak of ebola in rural areas. debora patta, cbs news, johannesburg, south africa. >> miller: another high school football season is canceled after charges of locker room hazing.
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>> miller: a few weeks ago, we told you about a new jersey high school canceling its football season after allegations of hazing. now, another school in pennsylvania with similar allegations has canceled its season and suspended the entire coaching staff. here's vanita nair. >> reporter: members of the marching band at central bucks high school west in suburban philadelphia were practicing yesterday, even though last night's homecoming game was canceled. school superintendent david weitzle found there had been
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"humiliating and inappropriate" behavior during the football pre-season. one ritual required a rookie to grab another player's private parts while fully clothed. there are also allegations that towels were placed over the heads of young players who were then sent into the showers, making it difficult to breathe. according to the most recent numbers from an anti-bullying group, almost half of all high school student athletes have been the victim of some form of hazing. students on the central bucks campus are debating if the school over-reacted. >> it's been a tradition for a while, whether or not it was a good tradition. obviously, not. bad choices. >> it isn't as repulsive as it actually sounded. >> i'm just a little angry at the people who decide to do that kind of stuff. >> reporter: with just one word, administrators are sending a strong anti-hazing message. vanita nair, cbs news, new york. >> miller: and still ahead, he's back: soccer's luis suarez returns to the field after being
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>> miller: luis suarez was back on the soccer field today, his first appearance since being banned for biting an opponent at the world cup. suarez says his biting days are behind him, as charlie d'agata reports. >> back to suarez. >> reporter: today, luis suarez finally managed to keep his considerable mouth under control, but he failed to make much of an impression in his debut for barcelona in a loss to arch-rivals madrid. he has been banned from the sport since that moment when he sank his chompers into an italian defender at the world cup. not just booted, but forbidden from going anywhere near a soccer stadium. it was more like a restraining order. he was the subject of international ridicule, mocked by fans the world over. that's because it was the third time he tried to take a chunk
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out of an opponent. once in 2010 for biting a player on the neck, in another game where he bit someone on the arm. suarez is what you might call a serial biter, an extraordinarily talented player whose feet are as fearsome as his fangs. but in an interview in britain's "guardian" magazine today, he said he's been reformed. today, he's trying to show more restraint while hanging on to that natural hunger, though everyone knows the trouble that appetite for victory has caused in the past. charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. >> miller: coming up, the 100- year-old math teacher who are says age really is just a number.
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well, for graduates of one new york city school, there's no need to look back fondly. their favorite teacher is still there. madeline scotto climbs to her second-floor classroom three times a week. >> my doctor says the stairs are good for me. >> reporter: she coaches students here at st. ephrem school for the regional math bee. >> plus five. >> 41. >> good. >> reporter: the only number she doesn't take seriously is her age. how old are you, mrs. scotto? >> well, the 16th, i was 100. somehow i never think about age. you know what? >> reporter: never? >> no. >> 81. >> 81 is the correct answer. >> reporter: she's too busy spreading her passion for math at the school she graduated from in 1928. she spent 77 years on the job, the last 17 as a volunteer. a lot of people looked for to retirement. >> no, that's not one of my words. >> reporter: mrs. scotto has
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lived her entire life in brooklyn, attending college, marrying and raising a family before returning. >> i became a math teacher myself. >> reporter: gerard buckley was one of her students in 1989. >> ♪ here i am... >> reporter: last week, he and 400 others showed up here to celebrate her life. >> it's her kind heart. it's her dedication to education. and most importantly, her commitment to caring for the student in our school. >> 3. >> reporter: ten-year-old alley says that dedication helped to get her to the regional math bee two years in a row. >> she seems like she's 40. >> miller: scotto says her secret to longevity is her students. >> the reason that i do so well is because i really love them, and i really want to help them. and i really want them to feel that making a mistake is not a terrible thing. >> miller: what's keeping you from taking it easy, getting a load off, relaxing?
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>> how can you relax... no. if you are going to help others, there's no time to relax. >> miller: well, mrs. scotto says she doesn't consider herself a senior citizen. on monday, students and staff at st. ephrem's will hold a special ceremony to thank her for her years of service. well, that's it for the cbs evening news. later on cbs two, editions of "48 hours." i'm michelle miller, cbs news, right here in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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