>> today at noon. playing the tigers. >> who's going to win? >> the tigers. >> no, don't say that. don't say that at all. >> that was really good. >> if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." hope you have a great weekend. we will see you monday. thanks so much for your patience. >> it's an interpretative dance. >> it's lyrical. we'll see. there's a problem somewhere here. we'll see you later. i don't want you to watch this. we'll see you on monday. new developments in the fight against ebola. overnight, we learned an american cameraman has tested positive for ebola. while here at home, new details on why that texas hospital initially missed thomas duncan's ebola diagnose. it's also the first friday of the month. that means it's jobs day. a new report out just minutes ago shows the jobless rate below 6% for the first time in six

years. and today's trail mix. chris christie and rick perry are in iowa, lending some star power to 2014 candidates. mitt romney's kentucky derby, hillary clinton's florida foray. what one president bush says about his brother's desire to move into 1400 pennsylvania. if morning from new york. good morning from new york. this is "the daily rundown" for october 3rd, 2014. new developments in the ebola outbreak. a fifth american has tested positive for the virus. he's a freelance photographer working for nbc news in west africa. 33-year-old ashoka mukpo was diagnosed yesterday. he was hired to work with dr. nancy snyderman. he was worked in west africa for several years before the outbreak started. dr. snyderman and the rest of

her crew will also all be flown back to the united states. they'll stay in self-imposed quarantine for 21 days. this morning on nbc's "today" show, the doctor said no one else on her team has symptoms but the crew is taking expensive precautions. >> we're aprproaching this more cautiously because we want to send the right message. we have recognized and observed universal precautions here. and we're going to extend that for 21 days out of courtesy and respect to our colleagues and to the united states. >> his parents were also on the "today" show this morning. they said their son felt strongly about working in monrovia and reporting on the ebola outbreak but he's very anxious to get back to the united states. >> his spirits are better today. he knows he's going to come home. he knows he just has a couple more days. also, his symptoms fairly mild, just a mild fever. i was really happy to hear how

he's doing. he's walking around. definitely a little more cheerful. tender, but cheerful today. >> dr. nancy also tweeted this message this morning as well. nbc cameraman and ebola patient head home, we urge the world to stay focused on liberia's struggles. here at hope, the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the united states is in serious but stable condition at a hospital in dallas. thomas duncan was admitted sunday and tested positive for the virus after flying from liberia to texas. now, there's word that the nation of liberia plans to prosecute him for allegedly lying on a travel questionnaire. liberian officials say before he flew to the united states, dunk be denied he'd had contact with anyone in ebola when, in fact, he had. >> my first concern was why did he do this. the fact that he knew, as he

left the country. >> the hospital now says because of a flaw, only nurses can see duncan's travel history on an electrical record, doctors did not, so he was released. now, the latest on that part of the story from dallas. hey there, charles. >> a week ago today, eric duncan showed up here at the texas health press ba tash hospital. he complained of a headache and abdominal pain. he did not have any other symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea or nausea. the nurses interviewed him. they took his temperature. it was 100 degrees. they asked him a series of questions. one of which, have you been to africa. and he said yes. they asked also, have you been around sick people. and he said no. that information was entered into a computer. but for whatever -- but for some reason, that information did not get transferred to another

electronic medical record system that the doctors see. now, the hospital has said that it has corrected that flaw and it has published the flaw, trying to be transparent in what happened so that other hospitals can learn from the problem that they encountered here. they say they fixed that problem and it shouldn't happen again. the doctor did not see the information that this patient who complained of these symptoms had been to africa. had he known that, that could have been the red flag to immediately isolate him last friday instead of last sunday. >> charles, really quickly, didn't he also say that he had a fever, that he had abdominal pain? >> yes, he had a fever. it was 100.1. also abdominal pains and a headache. but he said it was mild, it wasn't severe. he had no other sim tops. so that could be any number of diseases. but when presented to the doctor, the doctor did not have information, one clue, that he had been to africa. had the doctor known that, that

probably would have been a red flag for him. >> charles, thank you. the question this morning, how did someone infected with ebola get into the united states. airports are screening international passengers for ebola sim tymptomsymptoms. the director for the centers of disease control today said on "morning joe" there's no way to create a zero risk situation for americans. >> even if we tried to close the border, people have a right to return. people transiting through could come in. it would backfire because isolating these countries, it will make it harder to help them. it will spread more there. we'll be more likely to be exposed. >> has been doing some fantastic reporting on america's response to the ebola crisis. always good to see you, maggie. that does not engender a great

deal of confidence. how much can the centers for disease control really do? >> they say they can do a lot. the dcd is very clear that really americans do not need to worry about ebola spreading here. a couple of reasons. one of them, even though it's a really scary virus, even though it's killing more than half the people in this epidemic, it doesn't spread easily. you're not going to catch it casually, the way you can catch flu by perhaps being on a bus next to somebody who has flu. ebola's not that way. you have to be in close personal contact with somebody who is sick. and people who are sick are really sick and are going to be isolated fairly quickly. even with the mistake at this hospital, where thomas duncan was sent home mistakingly for two days, that's not going to

help american's confidence. nonetheless, the cdc is fairly certain they can track down anybody who was in contact with duncan and keep an eye on them and if any of them is unfortunate enough to get sick, cdc says they can isolate them and prevent any further spread. >> how do we know something that happened in this particular dallas hospital, how do we know this hasn't happened at another american hospital over the past few days? >> well, we don't. they're fairly confident that most hospitals have been alerted to the possibility. cdc has been called in on about 100 different suspect ebola cases. hospitals do flag cdc when they get one. theme investigated about 13 of the cases and tested the people for ebola. until thomas duncan, nobody actually tested positive for ebola. if you can call it a good thing. the only good thing about ebola, it makes you very, very sick. there's no doubt that you have it. and once you're really ill with

the symptoms and can pass the disease on to somebody else, you're down, you're not walking around, you're not infecting a lot of other people. >> while we've been having this conversation on the air, you and i, we've been showing our viewers at home on the screen there. we've been trying to separate some fact and fiction here. we've been trying to show folks how to stop and how to prevent all these -- how it's spread. so i want to call our viewer's attention to that. your latest online story, you ask a simple question, why not just stop travel from affected countries until the outbreak is under control. what's the answer to that question? >> it's impossible. you can't stop people from traveling. you can't put a wall around an entire country. there was a person who sneaked out of one of the affected countries in senegal. they stopped the infection in senegal. there was a traveler who went from liberia to nigeria. people will get out.

what the world health organization and cdc says if you do cut the country off, what will happen is you can't get aid supplies in and the epidemic will worsen. and, in fact, you would have a worse explosion of disease than we have now. the bet thing to do is to get in there, help these countries in the epidemic as soon as possible. that will make everyone else safer. >> nbc's senior health writer maggie fox, nbc.com, read her work if you're not already. it's solid. if you still have questions about the epidemic, the risks, prevention, msnbc is hosting a live twitter chat. experts will be abcing your questions between 11:00 this morning and 2:00 this afternoon. just use #ebolaanswers it there's the information on your screen. let's turn to another developing story. those brand-new numbers from the labor department. the december jobs report shows quite the bounce back from august's disappointing figures.

248,000 jobs were added in september. meanwhile, the unemployment rate dipped below 6% for the first time since the summer of 2008. it's down to 5.9% now. we had a couple of significant revisions. august also revised up by nearly 40,000 jobs to nearly 180,000. the unemployment rate has fallen significantly over the course of the year. it was over 7% at this point last year. with regards to this particular point, the business and professional services, they added some 81,000 jobs. all showed big gains as well. joined now by cnbc's hampton pierson over the labor department. what's your general reaction and which numbers stood out to you most? >> well, this is one of those

jobs reports that is good for both main street and wall street for the reasons you mentioned. when you just look at the numbers. first of all, as you said, we had the big bounceback from august. it's a lot better to be looking at a headline september number of a gain of 208,000 jobs versus august. by the way, that august number broke basically a six-month winning streak, if you will, where we had been above 200,000 jobs every month. and, as you mentioned, too, so we had the revisions as well to the august numbers. we've got unemployment now below 6%. the interesting part of that is total unemployment decreased by 329,000 last month to 9 million. down significantly from where it was a year ago. >> hampton pierce sopierson, th. obama vowing to not give up the immigration fight.

he also gave a shoutout to one of our own. >> i want to congratulate tonight's outstanding honorees. jose diaz-balart. >> jose diaz-balart. live next. on whether the president's promise will help get latino voters to the polls in just a few weeks. former president george w. bush says he thinks his brother jeb, quote, wants to be president. first, though, a look at today's planner. the white house has dubbed today national manufacturing day. president obama will be visiting a steel manufacturer in indiana. among other things there. there's a calendar right there. you're watching "daily rundown" here on msnbc.

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president obama's approval rating among latino voters is at just 47%. it's down from 62% in april of last year. and before he spoke at the conference, congressional critic, said president obama has not done enough. >> part of the problem in the democratic party with immigration is still this. that we would not wait until after november if it was an issue affecting the gay and lesbian community. if this was about women's reproductive rights, if this was about the minimum wage, if this was about a series other issues, the democratic party would come together. >> well, president obama's decision to wait on immigration stopped latinos from doing what the president begged him to do last night, turn out and vote. >> yes, we can, if we vote.

>> i want to bring in msnbc telemundo anchor jose diaz-balart. who was honored at last night's gala. good to see you, sir. >> let's start with what congressman gutierrez said there. do you believe if there was another interest group, so to speak, if this were another party, that we would have seen quicker action? >> the congressman is talking more on a longer range. remember, in 2008, when president obama was running for office, he promised that he would tackle immigration reform in his first 100 days if he were to win the presidency. and so because that didn't happen, and because there is a delay and because there is another delay, that's why i think others feel, it's

something that some democrats talk a very good talk about. it just seems like nothing is being done. let's focus on why nothing is being done. this comes from the house of representatives. the senate passed the bill a year ago that would deal with immigration reform. a tougher border. legalization for the 11 million that are here and that have been contributing to this country but do not have any aspect of legality. so the house of representatives sort of dealt with it. should have dealt with it. because it's their responsibility to deal with it. they decided to punt on it. so now, people are saying president obama has to do something. you know something, he does have executive orders and he said he was going to do something. first, he said he was going to do something before the end of the summer and now before the end of the year. but the fact is, let's focus on why things are as they are now. >> did you get the sense that

folks were sold on the president's speech? >> it was a great speech. i think a lot of people have just kind of felt disillusioned with the delays. and almost as someone told me last night on executive order, it's better not to say you're going to do something and do it rather than promise you're going to do something and then say, i have to wait until after the election to do it. it's a matter of i think they just feel as though, why did you say you were going to do something before the end of the summer and now after the elections? it just doesn't have a good ring to it. >> when you said it is going to be something you tackled. within your first 100, 200 days. do we think at this point, this loss of faith, it's going to have a measurable effect? >> i think people have to participate in the democratic system. if you choose to stay home

because you're disillusioned, you have very little right to complain later. but, i mean, we're in a country where your vote matters. if you don't vote, you can't complain later. it seems as though it's such an important message. complaining, yes. but do something about it. chastise those you disagree with. chastise those you disagree with. >> i think we can all agree on that, my friend. >> by the way, his broadcast comes up in just a few minutes right here on msnbc. 10:00 a.m. one of the hardest working men in broadcast journal system right there. up next, we'll go overseas. we'll go to hong kong. protests there have now entered their second week. nerves are beginning to fray. we will get a live report. first, though, our friday trivia question.

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protesters are demanding beijing make good on promises to let them freely choose hong kong's next leader. they also wanted the chief executive to resign. but he's refused so far. it remains to be seen what the talks can accomplish. but prospects for a breakthrough look dim. here's the editorial on the front page of the people's daily. that's the paper of china's communist party. there it is right there, there's no room to make concessions on issues of important principles. it also goes on to say that the protests are doomed to fail. cnbc susan lee joins me now from the ground there in hong kong. you've been there for a number of days now. what's the mood like on the ground? compared to what the mood was like, say, a week ago? >> yeah, hi, craig. as you see behind me, it looks like the streets hong kong have

become a little bit empty here on this friday compared to the past week or so. it's important for this movement heading into the weekend, into another week of protests, is they're able to clog this main stretch of road. this is the central artery to the business district, the main government buildings. the protesters still occupy the street and traffic can't get through. tonight, we heard from the occupy central protest leader himself. he's calling for consolidation to this part of the city, this main protest site. we have other flash points as well. he wants to make this the main battleground. if this movement is to have traction going into a new week and also this weekend. this is something to watch for. we did see some isolated skirmishes between the crowd. i want to highlight what those are, isolated incidents and nothing in terms of mass conflict. back to you.

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now, kurdish soldiers say they're preparing for street battles to protect the city. at one point, there were some 400,000 people living there. nearly half have fled into turkey. after the parliament's vote, turkey's prime minister said this. we wouldn't want kobani to fall. we'll do whatever we can to prevent this from happening. just a few hours after turkey joined the fight, australia also agreed to expand its role as well. the cabinet, they're approving plans to take part in air strikes in iraq and send special forces to work with iraqi troops. >> only iraq can defeat isil. but iraq shouldn't be alone. and as far as australia and our allies. >> nbc's chief foreign

correspondent richard engel j n joining me live. what's the latest on the fighting near the border? >> it's good to talk to you. hopefully, we'll have more success than we did yesterday when the line kept dropping off. kobani has become something of a test case for this coalition, for turkey's willingness to get involved in this fight. kobani is a city, as you said, it had about 400,000 people. now they're probably less than 100,000 residents in kobani, and it sits right on the turkish border. there are some hills inside turkey where you can look down and see kobani and see the farmland around the city. for days, we have been watching, and many other people have been watching. turkish television has been broadcasting live images. we've been watching isis fighters moving in, moving quite openly in broad daylight, moving

their armored vehicles around the city, engaged in gun battles anymore with the kurdish defenders. kobani is the kurdish city. think it's just a matter of time before they're going to be outgunned. so far, turkey has not done anything. its troops are positioned along the border. its troops are watching. there is an enormous amount of frustration in this country from the kurdish community. there are kurds living in turkey. then say that turkey, the turkish military, must act to save kobani. that the united states military must act to save kobani. these isis militants are right out in the open. yet, still advancing right under our noses. not clear that any action will be taken before kobani falls to isis. >> if and when kobani does fall what does that mean? >> well, it means they'll be

tens of thousands more refugees pouring into turkey. there could be atrocities taking place in cobanny if there is face-to-face fighting. it will mean the coalition hasn't been able to stop a very slow deliberate and obvious encroachment by isis on a key city. >> our chief foreign correspondent richard engel, thank you. we're 32 days to go until the midterm elections. 20 2016 hopefuls are lending their star power to 2014 candidates. iowa, the hawkeye state, has become ground zero for surrog e surrogates stumping. perry, christie and sanders will be making appearance. perry, who's become iowa's most frequent 2016 visitor, will stop in dike, sheldon, and has now

campaigned for 17 different candidates in iowa. chris christie stumping for iowa governor brandstant tonight. one of the most sought after surrogates this year, right there, 2012 presidential nominee romney. in kentucky last night, raising money for republican leader mcconnell. with no 2016 front-runner, mitt romney has had to knock down speculation he may want a do over. >> governor romney, you said, i'm not running now. will you rule out running in the future? senator mcconnell, would you like him to run for president in 2016? >> you know, i've learned that sticking to the same answer makes a lot of sense when we're talking about topics like this, so i'm going to say the same thing i've done before and not add to the story. i'm not running. i'm not planning on running. >> that's what they always say. this week, bill clinton weighed

into the kentucky race as well, appearing in his first senate ad of the 2014 cycle for kentucky senator allison grimes. >> i choose allison because she will work with people in both parties to do what's right for you. >> speaking of the clintons, hillary clinton was in south florida thursday to try to help former governor crist win his old job back. clinton, who pitched to women voters, has become a stand-in for the 2014 message. also a new title to her political resume, grandmother. >> i think it's the grandmother glow. she's doing great. she's the most perfect, most beautiful, smartest 5-day-old you'll ever meet. i think my granddaughter has just as much god given potential as a boy who was born in that hospital on the same day. i just believe that. >> and will we see another

political dynasty back on the trail in 2016? george w. bush said thursday that he's pushing his brother to run. >> i think he wants to be president. i think he'd be be a great president. he understands what it's like to be president for not only the person running, serving, plus family. he's seen his dad. he's seen his brother. he's a very thoughtful man. he's weighing his options. >> joining me now, nbc news political reporters terry dan and perry bacon. good to see both of you. george w.'s comments, what can we make about what he said about his bro? >> we can get a lot out of it actually. he said his brother would like to be president, he didn't say his brother would like to run for president. j would like the job. does he want to rub in the republican primary, face the tea party and win the nomination? he's been reluctant to sort of jump into it, the way ted cruz,

rand paul and others have. >> kerry, one of the things that continues to strike me as we see mitt romney stumping for candidates, helping candidates raise money, two years ago, the gop couldn't seem to get away from mitt romney fast enough after the loss. now he's an a-list draw. what happened? >> well, i think if the president's approval ratings were higher than ever, you wouldn't be hearing from mitt romney. we're hearing the president's approval ratings are in the low 30s. people may have regrets about their vote for obama and they can sort of have midromney come out and say this is how -- i remind them this is how life would be if i were president. i want to see people in leadership. people stumping for johnny aarons. stumping for these candidates. i think we're hearing about his vision without delving into the things republican voters didn't like last time around. >> has there been a candidate in

iowa that's called perry's office and say, hey, i'm running for water and sewer commissioner, can you come help? has there been one candidate that said, no, i can't get there? >> he's going in a lot. he's not alone though. 16 republicans. 16 have went to iowa in the last two years. only eight democrats have. that goes to the romney question as well. the republican primary is this mad scramble. no one's sure who's going to win, who the candidates are or who can win. that's why you're hearing about mitt romney and john kasich. rick perry, if i was advising him, i would say, you're probably not going to win but he's definitely going to keep the door open for now, it looks like. >> hillary clinton, we didn't count the number of times she used the word granddaughter in that speech. >> it was a lot. >> it was a lot. >> it seemed to be a lot. is that just a grandma glow?

is this something we can expect to fade? is this something we're going to start to hear a lot of in the hillary clinton stump speech references to her new grandchild? >> well, i think there's so much hype around the birth of this grandchild, it would be weird if we weren't hearing from her about it. i think it's kind of a humanizing thing. the line about god given potential that my granddaughter has the same god given potential. clinton has struggled a little with the idea that she's not like -- you know, was the first lady for so long, hasn't driven a car in however many years. this is a way for her to say, for future generations, there isn't a difference. i think that's something you'll keep hearing about. >> we've heard early 2015, that's when she's going to announce she's running. >> or will announce something. presumably, if she wasn't running, we wouldn't see her every other day.

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ill and distressed. and poses a threat not only to the people on board but potentially to the people on the ground once the plane lands. if that happens, they should notify -- normally, they would notify an organization called stat md which is based out of university of pittsburgh medical center that handles about 9,000 calls a year from various airlines and aircraft around the world and ground staff concerned about somebody and then they would, if necessary, alert the local cdc office, the quarantine office, and potentially local health authorities as well. >> what can you tell us about this do not board list that's maintained by the federal government? >> so the cdc, under congressional mandate, the cdc and homeland security started this do not board list in which if they become aware of somebody they know has a communicable disease, they could decide they're not going to board him.

that is a list maintained allegedly by homeland security. i say allegedly because candidly, we're not aware of it ever being evoked. the cruise industry requires -- they say they require people to submit to a health screening. i was on a cruise about three years ago. i don't recall being screened. maybe they did it -- just an observation, decide i wasn't sick. we're really talking about, there are confined spaces in an aircraft, and there are concerns about distant parts of the world. >> do appreciate you, sir, thank you. we got this tweet in from our friend dr. nancy. here it is. temp now, 97.9, all good, nbc colleague with ebola resting. we all head home sunday. again, dr. nancy and the team

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sustainable? >> we're seeing aen economy that is strengthening and strengthening at an increasingly rapid rate. the decline in the unemployment rate is nearly the fastest pace we've seen in 30 years. a year ago, people didn't think we would see an unemployment rate with a 5 in front of it until 2017. i didn't think i would see it in this administration. but it's here. it's here now. and, you know, it's because the private sector is really generating a lot of job growth. the government is not getting in the way with the type of fiscal uncertainty and fiscal contractions that were holding back the economy before. >> there does still seem to be a bit of a distinguish. despite the good jobs numbers. good job numbers all year. the nbc wall street journal poll show that 53% disapproval of president obama's handling of

the economy. >> i'm not an expert in polls. when i look at measures of consumer sentiment they're about as strong as they've been over the course of this recovery, but they're not what they were before the recession and that's for an understandable reason. incomes aren't what they were before the recession. age growth isn't strong enough. that's something the president spoke to in his speech at kellogg in chicago yesterday. talked about raising the minimum wage, establishing a stronger foundation to see the gains in the job market and economy translate into incomes and ages for typical families. >> quickly, i know it's not cnbc. i know, initially the fed said perhaps they won't be slowering the interest rates until middle part of next year. do you think that it -- >> i'm not commending on the fed. it's not something we do.

our focus is what we can do to strengthen what the economy does for people investing in infrastructure, reforming our business tax code, investing in education. all the things we need to do. >> jason furman. you stayed on message on the friday morning. thank you, sir. >> thank you. that's going to do it for this edition of the daily run down. jose diaz balart up next. talking about more about prum's outreach to latino voter last night. stay with us. this is msnbc.

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home for our nbc family. overnight in liberia ground zero for the ebola epidemic. we learned that freelance nbc cameraman ashoka mukpo contracted ebola while working with nbc's dr. snan nancy sneid. we heard from his father, a doctor in rhode island on the "today" show. >> she's been scared and worried. he's been filming what has been happening in liberia for two weeks. it's hit home for him. he knows he's going to come home. >> the full nbc news crew will also be flown back to the u.s. with dr. nancy said they'll voluntarily quarantine themselves for 21 days out of the an abundance of caution. >> we shared a work space, we shared vehicles, weha