of contacting the virus? >> plus mr. and ms. october. we are not talking baseball. who are the most valuable plate cal players 33 days out from the mid-term elections. >> i'm here to endorse mitch mcconnell. >> i choose al because she will work with people in both parties to do what's right for you. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the pent dpon is sending 600 troops to west africa to contain the spreading ebola pandemic. a 25-bed hospital to treat the disease is expected to be up and running in the next few weeks. they are building three medical labs, but in dallas despite all of our modern infrastructure

here, bureaucracy and human error had alarming consequences. the hospital that let an infected man go home is blaming software that failed to alert doctors even though he told an er nurse he had been in liberia. red tape stopped them from getting the permits to clean the apartment where he had been staying and a family of young children has been quarantined for days. i am joined by tom skinner, senior press officer at the centers for disease control in atlanta. thanks very much. me how cdc and dallas are coordinating. there have been a lot of missteps in dallas in particular. what does cdc think about the way the local officials handled it. >> we have a team on the ground pretty much working 24-7 to do everything that we can to stop this in its tracks and that's just what we are doing. we are trying to identify the

close contacts of the patient and intrude close to 100 people trying to determine the close contacts. we identified probably a dozen or so that are likely to have to be followed up on a daily basis having their temperature taken and checking in as far as the health of them goes. you raised very difficult issues. first of all the family and what they are going through and the apartment complexes are difficult. did you allude to some i guess red tape that is preventing the transport away from the medical waste and all that was is being addressed and we hope to have it out of there and the state and local health department is working on a plan to get a medical waste company there today to try to pick this up and remove it. so we are doing everything we can to address all the issues in dallas. >> we have an e-mail to nbc news, tom, from the local data

officials. we have been working to relocate the family members currently under the control orders, but do not have additional information. federal permits are required for this type of waste removal. are they under cdc? >> no, they are under the department of transportation. certain medical wastes are deemed a specific category by the dot and you have to have certain kinds of permits to transport some of the medical waste and we are working with dot to try to get some of these issues around these permits alleviated so we can have the company go in and remove the waste. >> you can understand from our viewers and for us as reporters, it seems incredible to me that a family with young children would be there with dirty bedsheets, dirty towels from someone who had been infected for days now. they are quarantine and can't leave and they are in an infected apartment and we are waiting on a dot permit?

you think that would be automatic. you get the secretary of transportation to sign off on it. >> fair question. it is. it's unacceptable. we have my understanding is the waste had been bagged and it's away from everybody and they are not in contact with it, obviously. there is really no excuse. i don't know what to tell you other than officials are working on a plan and hope to have it out by today. let me say this. a reminder that to get this infection, you have to have direct contact with a sick person's bodily fluids. their blood, their diarrhea and vomit and what not. if you don't come in contact with that, you are not going to get this virus. there has been clean up in the apartment. using chlorox and bleach and probably more to come. i don't believe that the risks for the individuals in the apartment right now is imminent,

but none the less. we have to get the stuff out of there and get it cleaned as best as we can and continue to care for this family. it's difficult what they are going through and we fully recognize that. >> let me ask you about the texas presbyterian hospital, blaming a software glitch for the fact that the er nurse's notations for where he traveled from did not get to the doctor. i'm not a doctor or nurse and i give great props to those in the er community, but software? how about a nurse picking up a telephone and saying hey, he just told me he had been in liberia? what happened to basic human communication here? >> again, i don't have a specific answer to that question. i just don't. what happened there in the hospital again is unacceptable. they have not have had to go

back home. having been sick with ebola, hopefully we can use this as a lesson learned. we have been preparing weeks and months and hospitals across the country to take in patients and isolate and ro tenth them. we are confident that we can stop this and do everything we can. >> we said close to 100 people. how is that tracking going? do you think you have everyone who was everyone potentially involved? >> we cast a very, very wide net and the people represent those individuals that we need to reach out to to determine if they are even a contact. most will not be. we are hedging on the side of caution and putting out a really

wide net. when all is said and done, we will probably see maybe a dozen or two of individuals that are going to be required to have their temperature taken every day twice a day for 21 days. there health will be monitored as well. >> really appreciate it. i know you have a busy day of briefings. thanks for touching base with us. we just want to mention as well, that direct contact with bodily fluids leads to the infection and so far there is no indication that any of those 100 people have actually been infected. as we mentioned, nbc's extended family has been touched by the ebola epidemic. a 43 lance camera man has been working with nancy sneiderman and has contacted the disease. we spoke to nancy from liberia?

>> how is this young man doing? >> he sounded this morning well. this has been quite a thing over the last 48 hours. when he realized he had a fever and feeling achy in this environment, the word ebola tops everyone's mind. he self quarantined and got the tests and it turned out positive. at that point it's all been a matter of logistics and stabilizing him. he is with doctors without borders and he will be airlifted out. he is good and the amount of virus in his body is low and he should have a good prognosis. >> there is a larger team in liberia with you and the question is, how long had you been working with him and how close was the contact between you and the other members of the team once he game tichl om attic?

>> once he became symptomatic, we 20 two hours together. we were in a work space when he said he was not feeling well. he joined us as an independent journalist and had been in the country two weeks prior to that. my suspicion is he was infected before we met him and he became symptomatic once we met him. we shared a work space and shared vehicles and equipment, but everyone here is hyper alert. we have not been in close proximity. no one shakes hands. there is no hugging. i do believe our team while we are being hyper vigilant, we are at very, very low risk for becoming ill. >> yet you are going to fly out today. you are monitoring your temperature quite a few times during the day. once you get back to the united states, you are going to self quarantine for up to 21 days. >> yes. we are taking this very, very

very -- we are approaching this cautiously and probably more judiciously than other people because we want to send the right message that we will self quarantine on our own and take our temperature twice a day. if i have a fever, we will then get tested. the norm is because you must come into contact with bodily fluids, vomit, blood, diarrhea directly, even though i was in ebola isolation, i was wearing protective gear and disrobed according to protocol. we recognized and observed universal precautions here. we are going to extend that for 21 days out of courtesy and respect for colleagues and the united states. >> nancy sneiderman has been

very, very careful and strong about what she is doing there, we want to point out, there 3300 people who died in west africa. 7,000 have been infected. as the nih told us yesterday, the infection and possible of infection and contamination here will not be totally contained and brought down to zero until it is contained. they are sending more troops as we pointed out and creating a hospital facility and doing more as has aid and the other agencies in africa. i am joined by the senior health writer maggie fox and charles hadlock with the latest from dallas. thanks for being there. you are outside of that apartment and hazmat suits have arrived and we have been talking about the red tape that held up the clean up for days including young children in the apartment. >> it must be frustrating for the people inside this apartment.

last night a hazmat team that is prepared to clean up biohazards arrived ready to clean up, but there was red tape. they had to turn around and go back home. we saw a truck come by and it is now entering the apartment parking lot out of camera range. we hope to see the crews go into this apartment. the requesty is, what will happen to the people inside while this crew is inside cleaning. we haven't been told what will happen to them. there four people in all including children we have seen and 21 days they have to stay there, self monitoring themselves, taking their temperature twice a day and they have been supplied with food from the red cross. that will continue. the school district will give the kids ipads so they can stay in touch with classmates while they remain quarantined in the apartment complex. andrea? >> thanks so much. maggie fox with me. this is very complicated.

there a lot of ethical and moral issues considering how many people in africa have been infected. our team is doing their job, trying to report and alleviate concerns, but it is a serious situation. >> it's a very serious situation. as you said yesterday and as the doctor said at the cdc, the only way to stop any of this is to stop the outbreak. it's not going to be easy. these countries have been suffering from civil war and have no infrastructure at all. what will need to be done is to rebuild the entire public health infrastructure. we have one patient here now. he is going to get the best care despite some of the mistakes that were made and some of the missteps. we will get the supportive care he needs to survive. the americans who have been treated here all survive because

of the good medical care they got. in liberia and sierra leon and guinea. people can't get into hospitals and clinics. they are dying at home. as long as the virus continues to spread in this way with people unable to get treatment and unable to protect themselves, everybody in the world is at risk. certainly the people in these countries are at risk. we saw from dr. nancy's reporting, she used best practices that she showed us the horror of the young woman who was dropped in the street and brought in my a wheel barrow and left outside. left and questioned on the street as she tried to be brought in and her mother brought her and she got out and tried to run away and was brought in. that's the kind of failed infrastructure and health

practices that we are seeing. i have been in the places on previous trips before the current outbreak. you can see the open sewage, but the lack of clean water. all the things we talked about when we talked to aid and the other officials. this is the price we are paying. >> it's horrific. nobody had been in liberia. there had been one group trying to build a hospital. everybody had abandoned the country. it was considered a hopeless case. now the world health organization and groups are raising the alarm and saying hey, this is happening because of a lack of infrastructure. they know ebola can be stoped. it has broken out across africa many, many times since 1976 and probably before then. it's usually stopped after a few hundred cases. 200 or 400 is usually the most. now we are in the thousands.

world health organizations said it will go to 20,000 or more. it's not because there is not a magical drug or vaccine, but it's a lack of basic care and basic hygiene. >> always good to see you. thank you so much. we will continue bringing you the latest on this developing story coming up. we will hear more from the parents of the american cameraman, wooing with the team in liberia and diagnosed with ebola. take a look at the severe weather crews outside of texas presbyterian hospital braved. 90 mile an hour winds and the storm tossing tents and equipment. residents are dealing with damaging winds. the weather system weakened moving through the southeast and heading up the coast. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. s at the beach. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time. and 2% back at the grocery store. even before he got 3% back on gas.

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. good news on the jops front. boosted by the lowest jobless rate in years, president obama will be taking his economic message to a steel manufacturer in indiana. 248,000 jobs were added in september. the unemployment rate dipped below 6% for the first time since the summer of 2008. there is growing evidence that the president's decision to wait on immigration is hurting democrats with latino voters. obama promised the congressional hispanic caucus he will be taking action between election day and the end of the year. >> i know the pain of families torn apart because we live with a system that is broken. if you want to know where my heart is or whether i want to have this fight, let me put those questions to rest right now. i am not going to give up this fight until it gets done. >> moments after he made that pledge, the president was

interrupted by a heckler, dreamer blanca hernandez. >> we have families that are waiting to be deported and there is no administrative action coming from your administration at the moment. >> i'm about to get to that. >> joining me for the daily fix, jonathan cape hart, contributor and molly ball, political writer at the atlantic. welcome both. first to you, jonathan. the delay on immigration, we know that the president is blaming boehner for saying that nothing will get past. there has been a long time now to come up with a man and so far they have not been able to move anything. >> keep in mind something that you know and the audience knows. they passed an immigration bill and on a bipartisan basis and sent it to the house where it promptly died. the house news to step up and

take action on that bill. as speaker boehner told president obama, there is going to be no action on it. that's why the latino community is pushing the president to issue an executive order. i have to you, this reminds me so much of what happened between the president and the gay community when it came to don't ask, don't tell. people were pushing the president to issue an executive order to stop gay and lesbian service members. he wanted a legislative fix meaning he wanted congress to repeal don't ask don't tell. a lot of people in the gay community were saying that the president had turned his back on the gay community. he no longer took their needs and concerns seriously. we are seeing the same thing happen between the president and latino voters. when the president said he is going to follow-through and take action between election day and new year's, i would tend to

believe him just given what he did on don't ask don't tell. don't ask don't tell was repealed. >> luis gutierrez was very tough at that same conference. he said if this were something happening to gay and lesbian voters or women's reproductive rights, the white house would have done something. >> the difference between the gay and hispanic communities is the lgbt community had to wait two years. the hispanic community had to wait for years. they had promises made again and again, the last one this summer where he promised to take executive action before the election. there is a feeling of a repeat betrayal and the president has not kept up his side of the bargain and they have waited for a very long time. you are seeing reports out of places like colorado and a difficulty by organizers getting potential voters excited about the election because they feel let down and don't necessarily have the faith that jonathan does that the president is going

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not. in talking to lots of republican leaders and many people behind the scenes, they didn't think he was going to do it. now it seems that little brother is opening it up again. >> it seems like there has been movement from the time when i ran into governor bush and his wife on the train going up to new york a few years ago where i asked him, are you going to run? he was like absolutely not. now here we are a few years later and he is letting it get out there that he is at least considering it, thinking about it. the republican party is desperate to have somebody who can appeal to the broad swath of the country to get elected president of the united states. they turned to folks like jeb bush. the person who is standing in the way of jeb bush seems to be jeb bush and whether or not he really wants to do it. >> and then there is hillary clinton. he was in miami beach, a new

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liberia will be evacuated back to the u.s. for care. tamron hall spoke to the parents on the "today" show about why he was compelled to cover the ebola outbreak in liberia. >> i know you spoke with your son on the phone. what can you tell us about his spirits and what he told you regarding his condition? >> i just talked to him earlier this morning and his spirits seem better today. obviously he is scared. he is worried. he has been filming in two weeks and seeing the death and tragedy and now it's hit home for him. his spirits are better today. he knows he is going to come home and just has a couple more days and his symptoms still are fairly mild. just a mild fever. i was happy to hear how he was doing. he is walking around and more cheerful. tender, but cheerful said to. >> as a mother, you are pleased to hear he is cheerful, but we

cannot imagine the worry and stress you are experiencing. what did he tell you regarding the conditions there and the care he is specifically receiving as he awaits a trip back to the u.s.? >> he is receiving the best care possible that they can offer him that doctors without doctors in monrovia, but it can't possibly because of the lack of resources compare to what is going to be available to him when he gets home to the united states. i think the enormous anxiety that i have as a mother or we share as parents is the delay between now and him leaving on sunday. the state department is being fantastic. they have been compassionate. i cannot say how much i appreciate how wonderful the government has been and doing things as quickly as they can, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he is going to be in liberia until sunday and i can only hope and pray his symptoms don't worsen.

>> lastly here when you spoke with your son, you told him how proud you are of him that he return to expose what was happening and the plight of the thousand who is died and the social situation on the ground there. >> yes. he spent two years in monrovia working with the organization and really made a strong connection to the liberian people and felt strongly when he started to hear what was going on. he wanted to go back and see if he can can make a difference. i was obviously conflicted as a parent, but proud that he has the integrity and desire to do something good and he went back to monrovia. i'm happy he has that integrity and concerned that he put himself in harm's way to do that. >> that was dr. levy and his mother, the patient in liberia. here we want to help answer any

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majority leader or lose it allison grimes. in grimes's corner, bill clinton and in mcconnell's corner is mitt romney. joe, thanks very much. i know mitch mcconnell started to pull away. where do you see the race? >> virtually all the polling showed the race within the margin of error. the grimes campaign has been pushing back, saying they have gotten internal polling that shows grimes taking a two to three-point lead. it's hard to tell at this point. the grimes strategy changed a bit in that they keep ads up longer. they seem to think it's working. we have a poll coming out next week. where that stands, we don't know. it could be and it will be a

close race no matter what. connell doesn't have much of an edge in this state. there is a certain amount of people and 40 some ought percent that don't like him. he is upside down in favorability. he is always going to be someone that the democrats think they can knock off. they think they have the right candidate in allison grimes. >> that's a pretty high negative, the 45% as a senate republican ladier. how much of an impact do the clintons and romneys have? >> they had a short press availability with him last night. he is raising money and hoping to add to the riches connell has. he raised more money than god already. he left the state fairly quickly. i think what you will see from the clintons, not just bill who has been to the state once or

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we are back with breaking news. the hazmat folks have arrived at the apartment. the crews have arrived at the apartment where ebola patient

thomas eric dunk an became ill. members of the family have been quarantined there for a couple of days. charles? >> reporter: yes, the dallas fire and rescue hazmat team is here. they are on the ground along with a private company that will go into the apartment to begin the hazmat clean up. it's a biohazard company and they deal with with crime scenes and that sort of thing. they are experienced on how to handle bodily fluids and they may be contaminated in the apartment. there are four family members in that apartment including children. they have been ordered there for the next 21 days while the ebola crisis continues here in dallas. back to you. >> thanks so much. charles hadlock in dallas. interim secret service director joseph clancy takes over the job. kristen welker said president obama himself recommended clancy for the job strongly supported by michelle obama.

the white house official said the president and the first lady know and have a great deal of confidence in joe chancey and agreed he would be an excellent choice. he led the protective detail for two years. the ranking member of the oversight committee. thank you very much. >> good to be with you. >> this has been an extraordinary couple of days on this story. you have written a letter to secretary jay johnson about what you want to see in the review panel. talk about that. >> i wanted the review panel to be ex-personnel. in other word external. it me in needs to be people from the outside. i wanted to look at culture and personnel issues and look at management and how did we get to a point where we have nafsnafusd

problems. i want them to return to the reputation we all thought to be the most prestigious elite protective agency in the world. >> you met with julia pierson hours before she said she was resigning. what did she say to you? that was a critical time and had she realized how badly she handled that testimony? >> i had a lengthy conversation with her. i think she fully understood it and she was a person who realizes she was in a difficult situation. i think one of the things that bothered her most is she had agents that were more comfortable coming to members of congress and telling them about the problems with the secret service and varied issues regarding investigations than they were in coming to her. i think she was a little concerned as to whether they were fearful or whether they

simply did not believe that the information they may have provided would be acted upon or whether they felt it would be blocked by people beneath her. in other words, her higher ups. i don't think she really wanted to leave, but she found herself in a situation that basically was a no win situation. >> she was aware of the elevator incident and not only didn't testify about it, but didn't tell the president about it until she learned it had been picked up by "the washington pos post". how did she explain that? >> i asked about that, andrea. she said basically they were investigating it and trying -- she knew about it, but didn't know all the details. she told a story a little bit different than the that came out in the press and said that basically they thought that the fellow did not have a gun. they told him not to bring a gun

that day. for some reason he had the gun on him. again, i think -- i begin to wonder whether she was always getting all of the right information. but you're right. no doubt about it, she knew about it and she did not tell the president until just before it hit the press. >> you confident now that this can be addressed? do you think we have to think about a whole restructuring and the agency should be put back into treasury or have a different management team to report to? >> let me say this about mr. clancy. from everything i heard about it and i talked to people in the white house that they feel confident. the president and the first lady feel he would take a bullet for them and they believe he is confident. with regard to the agency itself, i think it's going to

take some hard work. you have got issues with regard to management. you have got a complacency issue where there is a dispute that seems to go on and those who are in plain clothes. again, you have got this culture issue. we probably have problems with the technology. i don't think we have the best of technology being used. while we have access to it, i don't think that they had been forward thinking enough to have all the things they need to make this a top rate protective organization, from what it should be. >> elijah cummings, thank you very much. have a great weekend. thanks for being with us. >> same to you. >> which story is going to make headlines in the next 24 hours? that's next right here. when fixed income experts work with equity experts who work with regional experts

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