good morning from new york. i'm craig melvin. this is the "daily rundown." we start with some breaking news with new developments in the first ebola patient diagnosed in this country. state and local officials in dallas, texas, are now ordering four close family members of that patient to stay home and avoid visitors. officials say the relatives came in contact with thomas eric duncan before he was admitted to texas health hospital over the weekend. duncan remains in isolation at this hour. now duncan's nephew said he

called the centers for disease control and prevention himself and the texas hospital did not handle the situation very well initially. >> they could have moved quicker. when they -- when he first went there. with those symptoms, coming from liberia, they should have done something immediately. they sent him back home. only to get sick and come back by ambulance. >> duncan left liberia after getting screened at the airport for fever. he connected at brussels, transferred at dulles, and then landed in dallas the next day with no symptoms. he developed those symptoms four days later. and went to the er last friday. but left with just antibiotics. dallas health department tells nbc as many as 80 people came into contact with duncan but not all of them had close contact. they'll be investigated.

but officials are not sure if duncan was even symptomatic when he had contact with them. the cdc says at least ten people who did have contact with duncan are being monitored and some of them are children. the school district says five students are being monitored. reassuring parents saying, individuals are not contagious until symptoms appear. another person placed in isolation in the united states, being tested for the virus. this patient checked in thursday at queens medical center in honolulu, hawaii. the hawaii department of health says they're taking extra precautions while waiting for test results. >> whether or not this individual even has ebola, we took the precautions necessary to make sure if this was, that nobody else was going to get sick. >> nbc's charles hadlock joins us. what can you tell us, sir?

>> reporter: as you mentioned, as many as 80 people may have come into contact with the patient here during the time he was in dallas. the health department says they've tracked down most, but not all of those 80 people to try to determine what kind of contact they had with him. they still believe that only 18, that's one-eight, 18 people had close contact with him during the time he was showing symptoms. that includes the family members and the paramedics who are in quarantine for the next 21 days. as you mentioned, the family had been ordered. four members of the family had been ordered to remain in their homes for the next 21 days. it's been learned by state officials that the family had guests into their house during this time. and they've been warned not to do that again, to keep people out of their house and to self-monitor. their children, who have been taken out of schools, have been taken out as an abundance of

caution. nobody else is showing symptoms. the school symptom says out of an abundance of caution, they want to take those kids out. they're disinfecting the schools. they have extra nurses, getting information out to parents. a lot of students in those five schools infected are keeping their kids home today. >> quickly, what more can you tell us about charles -- excuse me, thomas duncan's condition, thomas eric duncan? >> yesterday, the hospital said that his condition was listed as serious. they said that he is still communicating with doctors and still eating. so he is still in the hospital here, still being treated for his deadly disease. >> charles hadlock for us in dallas, thank you. joining me now to separate some fact from fiction on ebola, dr. sima yas minumin. she once worked for the cdc, now at the centers for public health, also a staff writer for the dallas morning news. doctor, good to see you.

if we are to believe the nephew, and there's no reason not to, how troubling is it that a major hospital in your city may have dropped the ball initially here? >> many questions being asked about this today. and of course as more details are forthcoming, the situation becomes a bit more confusing. the hospital tells us he actually presented last thursday night, after 10:00. he had a low grade fever and abdominal pain. those could be signs of ebola. there are also signs of many other illnesses. crucially, he gave the nurse that information, that he had traveled from liberia. with those miscommunications, that information wasn't passed on to the rest of the team. the cdc has been saying that u.s. health care workers need to take that history. what's also confusing is the hospital says he is expected of having a low-grade viral illness. then he was discharged with antibiotics. from a clinical perspective, that doesn't make sense either. >> if he was discharged with

antibiotics, how real is the possibility that during that time he could have come in contact with dozens of other folks and been presenting and not even known it? >> it certainly means exposure could have been wider than if he had just been admitted and isolated. this cdc team in dallas working with local public health officials has to cast that net really wide. the number of days that he was infectious. the number of days he was in contact with other members of family and also with friends is longer. that increases that list of people that could possibly become infected. they're doing all they can to monitor all those people, to get in contact with them, and see if they do develop fever and other signs of ebola. >> let's talk about some facts and myth, related to ebola. some of this, we've covered before, but it bears repeating. how is it transmitted? how is it not transmitted? what can we all be doing to make sure we're all okay? >> we know ebola is not transmitted through the air. it's not transmitted through

water or even through food. to contract ebola from a person with the virus, firstly, that person has to be contagious, which means they already have to be showing signs and symptoms of the disease. things like fever, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. there has to be direct contact with bodily fluid. things like blood, feces, vomit or urine. there would have to be breaks in the skin or cuts in the skin. or there would have to be contact with muss cass membranes, mucus membranes, things like eyes, nose. >> we saw a number of airline stocks plummet. overreaction? >> it's quite normal to be concerned. we've heard from so many of our dallas morning news readers that they're quite frightened about it. that's why it's important to get that information out. about how ebola is transmitted. about how it'ses no transmitted.

and to think about the amount of time he was in dallas without symptoms. the people he had contact with then, before he had symptoms, are not at risk of becoming infected. >> before i let you go, how is the way that ebola's being dealt with in west africa, how is the way they're handling it, how is that causing the disease itself to spread faster? >> of course, the health care infrastructure there is very weak. there aren't enough doctors and nurses. there's not a public health system in the same way we have here. we're hearing from fellow doctors, they're having to turn ebola patients away from clinics. they're inundated. there aren't enough hospital beds. that means patients go back home. they're cared for by family members who then become infected. that's why this chain of transmission in west africa is ongoing. the same should not happen in dallas. we have the facilities, the resources, the training here to make sure that is not further spread. >> doctor, very informative, thank you. much more on this story

throughout the hour. want to turn right now to the secret service. and that sudden resignation of julia pierson. just 18 months after president obama appointed pierson to clean up an agency tarnished by a series of embarrassments including a prostitution scandal, now homeland security secretary johnson says clancy, a veteran of the service, will be the director. for the past three years, he's run security here at comcast, nbc's parent company. secretary johnson also announced that his deputy, not the secret service, will lead an investigation into how a fence jumper was able to force his way deep into the white house earlier this month, wielding a knife. the white house was still defending pierson wednesday morning. but with a growing bipartisan list of lawmakers calling on her to go. by wednesday afternoon, pierson was gone. >> we've seen recent and accumulating reports racing questions about the performance

of the agency. the president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required. >> pierson telling bloomberg news she believes her resignation was the, quote, noble thing to do to take pressure off the organization. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle welcomed that decision. >> i april pleased that she did step down. the secret service needs to be looked at from the top to bottom. if there are people that need to go, i do believe there are others, they need to go. >> it was the right decision. it's in the best interest of the country. it's the best interest of the secret service. >> nbc's kristen welker at the white house. what do we know about joe clancy? >> hey, good morning, craig. as you mentioned, he is a 30-year veteran of the agency. he's someone who has worked on presidential security detail all the way back to president clinton. i've been talking to his friends, his former colleagues. they say he has an intimate

knowledge of the way security at the white house works, how it should be run, and that makes him uniquely suited for this task. they also say look, he has a very close relationship with president obama. as you pointed out, he was in charge of his presidential detail for more than two years. this is someone who the first family trusts, who they have faith in. that was clearly key to president obama cheesie in choo. he has three years outside of the agency. he's been work in the private sector. it's an indication that the white house really want someone with a somewhat fresh perspective to bring a fresh set of eyes to this problem which seems to be a broader cultural problem within the secret service. we're seeing that also because of course dhs is tasked with launching that investigation. an independent investigation. another sign president obama has lost faith in the broader agency to fulfill responsibilities. clancy is someone who has a lot of faith. at least on the part of the

white house. but he is not without his own controversy. he was in charge of the president's detail when the sa la his, that reality tv couple, crashed the state dinner in 2009. his former colleagues say that certainly doesn't disqualify him for this task. they think he's the right person at the right time. craig. >> kristen welker from 1600 pennsylvania, thanks. i want to bring in "the washington post's" carol leoni, whose reporting led to the resignation. really quickly, for folks who have not been following closely, what was it that changed the white house's position so quickly? they'd been defending pierson for a number of days. then all of a sudden, yesterday, the resignation. >> so, craig, you know, on the outside, it is president kept saying over and over again that he had full confidence in the director. and then his wording changed ever so slightly to he has full

confidence in the agents that protect his family. and he is grateful to them. then you saw his spokesperson, josh earnest, get up yesterday and say the president concluded new leadership was required. the big things that happened were the president and the secretary of the department of homeland security were basically learning what was going on inside the secret service from press accounts. and probably the final straw according to aides, top aides, folks making that decision, was the discovery that the president had been on an elevator, on a trip to atlanta, about 2 1/2 weeks ago, with a man, with a gun, and with a criminal history, with an arrest history. and that was something they were learning from reading, you know, "the washington post" and other media accounts. and i think we see how quickly that made them very nervous. i've been told that jay johnson

was, quote/unquote, deeply disappointed to learn that through the media. >> your reporting, more than anything, has really driven the story. what have agents told you that pierson did wrong? and how likely is it that a new director or new interim director is going to be able to fix the problems at the agency? >> so, i like ton stress that, you know, agents and officers that have been talking to me over the last two years don't have anied an hoy ad hominem at. their biggest issue is basically what they call the eighth floor. the director's office, the director, and all the assistant directors. they don't have faith in that leadership group. they feel as though that group is treating people that are their favorites in a different way. it's -- the agency's not run like a meritocracy.

they're not on top of their game in terms of training, being proactive about how to run a 21st century, you know, security operation. and they've let, you know, over the last several years, they have let this agency lose staffing by the hundreds. and this is not a time for us to be losing people on the boundaries of the white house complex. >> "washington post's" carol leoni, thank you. we could be less than an hour away from a potentially groundbreaking decision. will the supreme court take up the constitutionality of same-sex marriage? nbc's pete williams will join us from the high court next. first, though, a look at today's planner. president obama talks about the economy at northwestern this afternoon. hillary clinton will be heading to florida to campaign for charlie crist. more on those high-profile names on the stump a little later in the show. you are watching "the daily rundown" right here on msnbc.

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do same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry? we may learn this morning whether the supreme court is prepared to take up that question this term. right now, same-sex marriage is legal in 19 states and the district of columbia. but the court sidestepped the question about whether it should be permitted in all the states. two terms ago when it struck down the federal defense of marriage act or doma. monday the justices reviewed seven cases challenging marriage bans in five states. virginia, indiana, wisconsin, utah and oklahoma. the push for marriage equality has gained momentum since the court struck down doma. there have been 40 victories for same sex marriage at state

federal and appellate courts. a tennessee state court and louisiana federal court, judges have upheld marriage bans. advocates want the high court to decide the issuance and for all. this week, the group, freedom to marry, started running a natural ad campaign with this tag line. it's time. but will the high court step in. given the fact appellate courts have decided in favor of gay marriage proponents? this month, justice ginsburg suggested cases pending before the sixth circuit in cincinnati might play a role in the court's timing. >> if that court should disagree with the others, then there would be some urgency in the court taking the case. but when all of the courts of appeal appeals are in agreement, there's no need for us to rush to step in. >> nbc justice correspondent pete williams is live for us at

the supreme court this morning. pete, what is the likelihood that the court takes us same-sex marriage this term? >> this term, quite high. today, i don't know. about 50/50, i'd say. and we'll know in about ten minutes. this will be our first opportunity to find out which cases the supreme court is going to grant from the big pile that came in over the summer. the justices conferred in a closed door conference on monday and today is the first day they open a little window into that and tell us which -- some of the cases of that long conference that they're going to grant. the same-sex cases that you mentioned from the five states were in that list. so the question is, will they grant them today? will they want to discuss it a little more and wait another couple of weeks? it has the feeling of inevitability they're going to take it at this term at some point, and there are many people who watch the court that say, you know, why wait, the courts, the lower courts, have chewed this over very thoroughly in the

past 18 months with a number of different justifications for it. the two sides are lined up. and something very unusual here. both the winners in the lower courts, that is to say, the challengers of the state bans, and the losers, the defenders of the state bans, both agree that the supreme court should take the case. and of course they additionally say, take mine, mine is the best case. so we'll know in ten minutes. >> i know you talked to outgoing attorney general eric holder about the federal government's position on same sex marriage. what did he tell you? >> well, he said that if the court does agree to take up this issue, the justice department will file a brief, urging the court to say that same sex marriage, granting same sex marriage is constitutional or, rather, banning it is unconstitutional. >> justice correspondent pete williams. again, in about ten minutes, we should find out a little bit more. i do appreciate you. a live look right now, the

streets of hong kong, where the clock is ticking on a key deadline that could have protesters, you see there, a little more aggressive in their pushback against the chinese government. it's a massive fight for free and fair elections there in hong kong. new details on those protests on the other side of this break. first, though, today's trivia question. who was the first u.s. president to receive a secret service code name? there's the question. tweet us the answer. the correct answer. @dailyrundown. if you do it, we'll give you an on-air shoutout. the answer next on "the daily rundown."

developing right now, who will blink first? hong kong protesters or the chinese government? demonstrators had set a deadline for the leader to step down. that is noon our time today. if he does not do it, they're threatening to push into

government buildings. protesters have already gathers outside the main government headquarters face-to-face with police. a live look now. you're looking at some pictures of hong kong here. where, for nearly a week, those massive crowds that you see right there have filled the streets. they've been calling on china to give them more political freedom. specifically, the right to freely elect their next leader. china not budging. suspending tourists to hong kong, cutting off critical revenue. when secretary of state kerry called for china to respect protester's demand, china's foreign minister pushed back hard. >> translator: lohong kong affas are china's internal affairs. this is also a basic principle governing international relations. >> cnbc susan lee is live for us in hong kong. susan, what's the feeling on the ground, with the deadline just

2 1/2 hours away? >> i can tell you right now there are some heightened concerns at this point. we've got new images. reportedly showing hong kong police restocking their riot gear in the form of more tear gas and rubber bullets. that's really heightened concerns of the protesters behind me tonight, which i should point out is noticeably smaller than they have been in the last 24 hours. just the last 45 minutes or so, we've had activity pick up. we've had rally protests from protest leaders. telling demonstrators to stay together. stay together and be in it for the long run. and there have also been calls right now to march on to the chief executive's residence. we are just three hours away, 2 1/2 hours away now from that midnight deadline for the chief executive. the hong kong city leader to step down or they will go in and occupy government buildings. also surround his residence. which are the places we've actually seen heightened police

activity in the last few days or so. that's sort of right now we'll continue to monitor the situation here in hong kong and send it back to you now. >> susan lee for us in hong kong, susan, thank you. robert daily is the director of the kissinger institute on china and the united states at the wilson center. robert, thanks so much for being with me. how worried are you about more violence if the chief executive does not leave and his protesters try to get into government buildings there? >> this is a key moment for the students. the chief executive is not going to leave. as your correspondent just mentioned, the crowds are now smaller than they had been. it is reasonable to assume those who remain are more radical, are willing to go further. so if the students move toward occupying buildings, two things could happen. one is the police could use some more coercive measures, as you've mentioned. two, they run the risk of losing the support of more of the people of hong kong. this could break either way. people in hong kong could be angered by police violence. they could be put off by a more

radical student movement willing to push the government too far, too fast. so this is a key day in the protests. >> robert, the chasm between folks on mainland china and folks in hong kong. are people in china at all sympathetic to what's happening in hong kong? >> the evidence so far is that while there are people who are sympathetic, they are probably in a minority. most people in china, because there's been a news blackout, don't know very much about what's going on in hong kong except through social media. some have protested in support of the demonstrators and people who have been detained for that. there's no. ing on this of course in china. so much of the evidence is anecdotal. there's reason to think that many people on the mainland, including the young, look at hong kong as already wealthier, more privileged, as already enjoying far more civil liberties than they, the people of mainland china do, and there's a sense among some they're pushing a little bit too

much. furthermore, this is the background of the past few years of a growing cultural gap between people in hong kong, some of whom call mainlanders lock locusts. and main landers who see them as ungrateful. as one famous professor in beijing said, as dogs of the english. so there's a growing gap prior to these demonstrations between the people of hong kong and those in mainland china. >> would it be correct to call the strategy as simply just waiting these guys out, just waiting out the protesters? >> for now, it is a waiting out. which waiting for one of several things to happen. one, for most of the protesters to go home. which certainly the government of hong kong and beijing would like to see. although, as i said, that means those who remain are more radical. but also waiting for public opinion to perhaps indicate to

the students that enough is enough. remember, these elections that are being contested are three years away. there's time. this is a long process. and the mainland government, the hong kong government, seems to know that. i think one of the things that's interesting about the waiting out strategy is we haven't seen real leadership from hong kong. you've seen declarations that this is illegal activity and that the protesters should disperse. and you've seen a hunkering down. but no real effort to get out ahead of this, to lead public opinion and to explain why it's in hong kong's interest to proceed with the elections in the way that beijing has mandated. so waiting out, yes. but also, i think, a vacuum of leadership in hong kong itself. >> very informative, thank you. do appreciate your time. u.s.-led air strikes continue hitting isis targets in syria and iraq and it seems at this point that turkey is going to join as well. turkish participation could be decisive in defeating isis. also, a little bit later, look

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nearly two months after the united states started bombing isis, the group shows little sign of slowing down. in fact, the terrorist group has been seizing even more territory in both iraq and syria. within the last 24 hours, we got word that militants overran an iraqi army base, took control of the town of hitt and surrounded the city of kobani on three sides. that could push turkey off the fence and into war. that country's parliament is

debating a motion that would let turkish troops pursue isis in iraq or syria. a vote in turkey is expected later today. turkey also facing a flood of refugees trying to escape militants accused of beheading soldiers and civilians. a new u.n. report accuses isis of staggering violations. including targeted killings of civilians, abductions, rape and other forms of violence perpetrated against women and children. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins me by phone from the border. what are you seeing, what are you hearing? >> i'm just in the cobani area and isis is still very strong here, very much in evidence. in fact, some fighters from kobani have been moving their armored vehicles. >> i think we just lost richard. we'd been having some trouble with his phone signal there. if we get richard engel back, we

will of course rejoin him. let's go to indera lachman, covering foreign policy. how surprised should we be that isis is still able to make not just gains but some significant gains, despite weeks of bombings? >> look, again, as u.s. officials have made clear from the beginning, the u.s. has no intent of putting its own boots on the ground, and really to wipe out a group like this, you need boots on the ground. the iraqi army and the kurdish peshmerga forces are meant to be our boots on the ground there. and the free syrian army is a group that's shown itself to be not very strong in the last three years of this uprising against the syrian president bashar al assad. in a way, it's fonot surprising. you cannot wipe out a group like

this through air strikes alone. that's the point the turkish prime minister was making yesterday, on the eve of this parliamentary vote you were referring to, that would authorize turkey to allow further military action or allow its territory to be used by others in military action against isis. >> we expect this vote to happen. we expect the lawmakers in turkey to sign off on this, correct? >> yes, it is expected. that's not to say it's not a debate. keep in mind, though, turkey, of all countries, has been besieged by this threat. it's had real consequences for them. 150,000 syrian refugees have crossed the border into turkey in the last week alone. that's on top of 1.5 million refugees who are already in turkey. so they've been coping with the real crisis from the syrian civil war. this isis problem makes it even worse. >> i didn't mean to cut you off. stand by for me for just a second. we do have richard engel back, our chief foreign correspondent.

what were you saying before we lost you there? >> yes, sorry, i'm in this border area and the connections here are touch and go. so i'm very close to kobani overlooking some of the villages that are controlled by isis. we've been watching the isis fighters maneuver around. they have been going close to kobani. kobani sits right on the turkish border. it is a big part of the discussion right now in the turkish parliament. that meeting is under way. and the fact is, if kobani falls, then probably another 100,000 people, or at least 70,000 or 80,000 people in the city, according to residents from kobani we have been speaking to, would probably try to cross this border and become new refugees. so the turkish government, the turkish parliament, is

discussing whether we'll authorize to establish some safe half haven, some sanctuaries inside syria. right now, you have these ungoverned spaces. >> all right. richard engel who again just indicated he's having some trouble with his cell service there on the border. richard's just fine. but just service with his cell phone. thank you for that reporting. let me come back to you for just some parting thoughts. what will be the practical effect of this vote in the turkish parliament that's happening today? >> well, look, i mean, it could conceivably allow the united states and other members of this coalition to use incirlik air base or other turkish facilities or cross turkish you know airspace or land in this fight against i'm sis. but i just want to make this separate point. i think it's interesting that just this week the pentagon has deployed this rapid reaction force of marines that's going to

be based out of kuwait. 2,300 marines. done inbenghazi. they'll be like a 911 global force responding to conflicts in the middle east. >> thank you. again, richard engel for us as well, along the border there. israeli prime minister netanyahu says he is deeply skeptical of president obama's efforts to broker a deal with iran in an effort to restrict that country's nuclear program. netanyahu talked to andrea mitchell here in new york. >> what if president obama agreed to a deal with iran that you say is unacceptable? what does israel do? >> well, all i say is that israel always reserves the right to defend itself. >> the interview, noon today, right here on msnbc. some striking new numbers on the spread of ebola in west

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far. nbc's chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman has the very latest from the hot zone in liberia, the epicenter of this outbreak. >> good morning. unfortunately, the story in liberia is the same day in, day out. more people infected and more bodies than the government and relief organizations can handle. the concern is there needs to be an increase in supplies, people who are volunteering and, frankly, more of a global communication. because the concern is, if this infection is not contained in liberia, we will continue to see it show up on other country's doorsteps. back to you. >> dr. nancy snyderman in liberia. because of the seriousness of the outbreak in west africa, the united states is now warning international travelers to take precautions. nbc's tom costello joins me now with more details on these travel warnings meant to keep the ebola virus from spreading in this country.

>> no restrictions on anybody traveling. clearly, they have concerns about people coming from west africa. here is the route that patient took coming from liberia, over to the united states. from liberia, he traveled to brussels, a major hub in europe for flights to and from africa. then to washington dulles, then dallas texas. in africa right now, in west africa, those countries that have a serious ebola problem are already trying to screen passengers before they ever board a flight. we've seen that in airports in liberia, for example, in sierra leone and other countries. screening passengers for any symptoms at all of a potential exposure to ebola. we can tell you that now in the united states customs and border patrol have put up this health alert sign. a poster. this is what it looks like. essentially, a health advisory, warning people of the symptoms of ebola and to get help. then they have also put out this flyer that i'm holding. anybody who flies from a country

that has ebola gets one of these flyers as they enter into the united states. the flyer essentially is, here's what to look for as it relates to ebola. there's a 21-day period in which your health could be at risk. and so they're advising people, watch for these symptoms. if you see anything, contact your health professional. we can also tell you they have been monitoring, the centers for disease control monitoring as best they can incoming passengers at 20 different u.s. airports for any signs of exposure. that is a massive task. there's no way you can adequately assess the health of people coming and arriving at 20 different airports across the country. they've worked with customs and border patrol to try to help them identify obvious symptoms. if somebody shows up at a checkpoint, when they come into the united states, and they appear to be sick, but if they don't appear to be sick, then of course there isn't anything you can do. i will tell you the department of transportation does require

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now to the latest in the disappearance of uva student hannah graham. the suspect was due in court on reckless driving charges, but learn moments ago that that hearing has been postponed until

december. matthew charged with attempt to defile. the hearing for that felony had already been postponed wednesday until december as well. meanwhile, officials at two universities in virginia say matthew was accused of sexual assault while attending their schools more than a decade ago. joining me with the latest, gabe gutierrez in charlottesville. what happened in court? >> reporter: good morning. reporters were assembled in court. matthew's attorney was not there, and learned as you mentioned moments ago that that court hearing on this reckless driving charge had been postponed until december. the hearing on the abduction charge had been postponed yesterday, also until december. as you mentioned, there's a lot of developments in the case. officials at another university say that matthew was investigated but not charged more than a decade ago, in connection with sexual assault

allegations. liberty university previously reported in 2002 matthew has been investigated but not charged. now christopher newport university says after matthew transferred there, he was investigated back in 2003 on accusations of sexual assault, but again, he was not charged. there's still a lot of questions about his past. state police a few days ago had confirmed they were investigating a forensic link, there was forensic link linking him to a disappearance of morgan harrington. they previously connected that to a 2005 sexual assault in fair fax, virginia. there are a lot of questions out there. all matthew's attorney is saying is that prosecutors so far have not shown him any evidence that matthew is linked to any of these crimes. again, the breaking news now is that this hearing scheduled for this morning has been postponed until december at the request of matthew's attorney. meanwhile, the search for hannah graham continues. search crews looked at almost

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♪ diaz-balart. our focus, major developments surrounding the first ebola case diagnosed here in the united states. texas health officials are saying this morning that 100 people may have had some kind of contact or exposure to infected patient thomas duncan, a significant bump from original estimates, as precaution, health officials ordered the quarantine

of four of his close family members until the 19th of the months while duncan remains in isolation in critical condition at a dallas hospital. and more ebola concerns in hawaii where a patient is in isolation and being evaluated. back in dallas, a team of ten cdc investigators on the ground, trying to contain the deadly virus. the cdc and hospital officials are under fire for their handling of the case. despite telling a nurse he was in liberia, he was initially sent home with antibiotics before later having to return by ambulance. his nephew, accusing hospital officials are not taking the ebola threat seriously. >> i called cdc again, some action was taken, i was concerned for his life, and he wasn't getting the appropriate care, and i feared other people might, you know, also get effected if he wasn't taken care of. >> he called the cdc! meanwhile, the school days