in liberia with thousands more set to follow. six u.s. military flights arrived on thursday alone. >> we have unique capabilities that nobody else has. our military is essentially building an infrastructure that does not exist. in order to facilitate the transport of personnel and equipment and supplies to deal with this deadly epidemic and disease. and we are doing it in a way that ensures our men and women in uniform are safe. that has been my top priority. >> the initial goal is to run site surveys and start construction plans for ebola treatment units. 17 of them should be up and running before thanksgiving, along with seven mobile testing labs and additional training facilities. >> as we deploy america's sons and daughters to support this comprehensive effort, we will do everything in our power to address and mitigate the potential risk to our service members, civilian employees, contractors and their families.

if somebody does contract ebola and becomes symptomatic, they will be handled in -- just like you've seen on the recent ones who came back on an aircraft that was specially designed to bring them back. they'll go back to one of the centers that is specially designed to handle the ebola. >> here's how one of the 4,000 u.s. troops being sent there describes the mission. >> setting up warehouses to make sure that all the stuff that the doctors need gets in country, to build some facilities they need to treat patients and help americans feel a little safer. we're going over there to help the people of liberia deal with this deadly virus so they won't come back over to the states. >> now, the pentagon has been very adamant that no u.s. troops will have direct contact with ebola patients. they will build the facilities that nonmilitary health care workers will staff. but a few dozen military techs will be testing specimen samples from suspected ebola victims.

zoo t >> the numbers in the lab, between a three and four-person team. we have three labs deployed right now. we'll probably deploy several others. again, those people are trained to the very highest level of operating a nuclear, biological, chemical arena and they're tested continually. those are the ones testing all the people. >> the house arms services committee has passed an additional $700 million for this mission. that's on top of $50 million approved last month. but still shy of the $1 billion president obama requested. in other ebola news homeland security committee is hosting a rare field hearing in dallas. we now have video of a wednesday morning flight from philly that ended with hazmat teams on board. a passenger sneezed, then joked he had ebola and, quote, are you all screwed. that man later told hazmat crews

he was kidding. you can guess nothing about it is being treated as a joke. here to help us understand the u.s. military's role, gordon. this is not a traditional military deployment. what is the reaction of troops being sent over? is there any precedent for military to conduct a medical mission of this scale? >> right. it is a little nontraditional but also a bit traditional. we've been surrounded by war for all these years and in the last several months we've been hearing about what the military is doing in places like iraq and now syria. so, this is what the military tends to be doing when it's not busy fighting wars. but this is different because typically when the military deploys for a large humanitarian mission, such as the one in haiti after the earthquake some years ago, it was to kind of bring security and stability and potentially then address the humanitarian issues. this one is more -- this is a

logistical deployment for now. to build these medical centers and to address the kind of logistical concerns and really the command and control, what the military would say, is very good at doing to help bring some form to this overall international effort. >> and, gordon, in addition to the logistical concerns you talked about, there are going to be several dozen members of the u.s. military who are really dealing with ebola samples in these mobile testing labs. now, as the pentagon said, these are very specialized troops, highly trained in dealing with biohazards and other dangerous materials. but can you give us a sense of the training these men and women do go through and what they're going to be facing there on the ground? >> right. this is a special brand of military unit from the naval medical center, who as you say, are specifically trained in this. this is not just kind of your average rifleman who's going over to do some of that work,

which is very, obviously, technical. the pentagon at first had -- commander had said -- made the mistake, general rodriguez said they were going to be in direct contact and they did later amend those -- those words. you know, much of the military will be building these units and then this other specialized unit, right, with specialized training, just looking at the specimens, will be doing that indirectly. the thing is, unlike other operations like, say, what's happening in iraq where they've kind of announced deployments piecemeal about the number of people they might deploy there, in liberia they've said as many as 3,900 military personnel could be deployed. i think just as the footprint expands, the danger for some exposure, you know, increases as well. but one thing the military is

very good at is forced protection. and i think they're trained to make sure that they don't get, obviously, inadvertently exposed. >> gordon, there have been concerns this death toll sfiment we're seeing from the world health organization of just over 4,000 deaths is an underestimate. there's a lot of chaos, obviously, in liberia. we're not getting a reliable string of depth certificates. is one thing the military will be doing oe the ground there is figuring out what the exact scope of this outbreak is? could that, therefore, mean more deployments as they figure out there might be more needs for these sorts of operations than we realize now from afar? >> right. i think what we're seeing is the initial kind of deployment of this. i think so as your set-up piece mentioned, there's like 450 military personnel there on the ground, and they say up to 3900, 4,000 over the next several months. they already budgeted a six-month window for this. general rodriguez at the pentagon the other day did hint it could expand beyond that. but just -- they just don't

know. certainly, they're doing some kind of recon, as it were, to establish better what the problem is, but as we know from groups like doctors without borders simph the cdc that the math is very difficult to reconcile. the problem is very large. and even what the military is -- the u.s. military is doing there. and in aspect to the international community, it's going to take a long time. so, i think they are trying to assess the problem as much as they can. but -- the u.s. military's focus is to build these units, these mobile training units and do some training and also establish security and transportation capabilities there. >> i mean, that's a really important mission, but of course with any mission, you have the possibility, the fear of mission creep. there's no real end game for

this. looks like ebola may become endemic in western africa? when would these folks leave? but ebola fears have led to a breakdown in a lot of ways that they interact socially? there's fear of association with others. there's disruption of transportation. and a lot of times there's outright panic. yesterday liberian police used batons and whips on 100 protesters. if something like that is happening nearby and causing unrest and chaos, obviously the u.s. military would want to get involved and be a peacekeeping force. but that's not what we really want them to do over there. how do we keep them from becoming a local police force? >> sure. so, there's a lot there. i mean, there was a great piece the other day about people aren't hugging each other in a country that's very used to hugging and personal affection. it's obviously a very poor country and this is a chaotic environment. i think the way this white house has directed its military is to

have fairly specific missions. we know they can change and expand. but i don't think that -- i think president obama got some criticism for deploying the military for a medical crisis and not a war. i think, on the other hand, people could criticize that this is american leadership and sending the deployment of military to help in this crisis is a symbol of that kind of leadership. i think president obama very careful to limit his options, we know that from iraq, and i think in this case, that would be a big jump to move from where they are now to policing the streets. it could happen. i think, again, general rodriguez at the pentagon the other day left the door a little open for a possible expansion of this mission because it really -- as you say, we don't know the extent of the problem. we just know it's really, really big. >> yeah, absolutely. and tomorrow they start the

screenings at the airport, medically trained coast guards will help out there. give us a sense of what their role will be. >> well, i think this is going to be a new thing for first kennedy airport and then, i think, four major other airports following the next several days. and the coast guard personnel, which are trained in this area, will kind of take the first -- the first shift, as it were, and then it will expand as you pointed out to the personnel department for homeland security. i think it's a very minimal thing. this is where they are taking the temperature with noncontact thermometers that look like guns. i think this will be disruptive in that sense. but over time, i mean, it's -- the death of mr. duncan, i think, certainly was kind of a wake-up call this could come. >> absolutely. it is for the best. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. still ahead, the part of this conversation about ebola that toure finds most troubling.

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of a kobani hill top. they're isis. what's up? >> we have to stay broadly focused on the whole region. >> it's important for the united states to step back and remember our strategic objective. >> so, kobani seems to fall between a town to the greatest threat we've ever seen and a slow drip from the kitchen sink. >> you can add jon stewart to the critic of president obama's fight on isis. leon panetta who this week blasted president obama's foreign policy on his book tour. a number of democratic candidates are running as fast as they can away from the president. allison lunder gren grimes wouldn't answer this week if she voted for obama when asked by a local newspaper's editorial board. >> did you vote for president obama? in 2008? 2012? >> this election isn't about the president. it's about making sure we put

kentuckians back to work. >> did you vote for him? >> i was on the way to a delegate for hillary clinton. i respect the sanctity of the ballot box. i know the members of this editorial board do, too. >> you're not going to answer? >> again, i don't think -- the president is on the ballot as much as mitch mcconnell might want him to be, it's my name. >> perhaps not the most eloquent response but the sentiment is there. democrats hoping to win in november aren't hoping to do so by running next to barack obama. and the gop knows it, that's why they're trying to do everything talking about what's wrong with this country, ebola, isis, secret service, you name, it they're tying it all back to the president. in turn, to democrats. fair or not, the question s will it work? for more on these politics, less than a month out from the midterm elections we're joined by washington post -- political comments from the washington post, pardon me, dana, dana milbank, friend of the show. dana, we're thrilled to have you here. thanks for joining us.

>> glad to see you. >> we're getting as lot as jon stewart aptly showed at the top of this clip here, we're getting a lot of mixed messages from the president. isis is jv, now a real threat but yet we're doing nothing in kobani. is this a policy failure or just a communications failure? >> well, it's a communications failure, to be sure. if it becomes -- it depends on what happens on the ground there for it to be a policy failure. but it is a huge political liability. that's why democrats across the country have forgotten who barack obama is and the republicans are trying fervently to remind everybody. the president has not helped by saying, my policies, my economic policies are going to be on the agenda. certainly, leon panetta has not helped. he has every right to come out and make these criticisms. probably if he did not want to deliver the senate to republicans, he might have

waited to release the book until mid-november. >> i'm sure he knew what he was doing there. >> dana, i want to go back to the "new york times" article in reference -- that talks about how the gop is running on fear and loathing. of course, fear is the easiest thing to run on. it makes some people say, i must go out and vote. it makes other people say, why bother, it doesn't matter? it helps the press turn out, which is good for the gop and contributes to this midterm, as pew is calling it. ultimately, it reveals and exposes that the gop in general really has nothing but the world is horrible to say to us. >> right. well, you know, fear does work. had i not agreed in advance to come on the show today, i might still be in bed given all the ebola that's out there in my neighborhood. so, but of course, fear is sort of the last few -- remember when this election was going to be about obama care? remember when it was going to be about jobs? remember when it was going to be

about all those scandals in the obama administration? they are gone now. as my colleagues karen and robert costa pointed out, there are some surprises popping up that put the very clear republican claims on the senate in jeopardy now in south dakota, in kentucky, which we were just talking about, in georgia, in some other places. so, i think what you do, when all else fails is, you frighten people. that's pretty easy to do right now because most people in america think the country's on the wrong track. and they're worried. and so what do do you when people are worried? you tell them to start screaming. >> right. and republicans are jumping on that band wagon. let's pull up these most recent pew numbers that show majority believe we are at risk of another terrorist attack. there's little confidence in the government -- that the government, rather, can prevent a major ebola outbreak in the u.s. to your point, there's this crisis of confidence and the republican party sees where majority of americans are at.

"the new york times" wrote about this saying, look, the gop really has a simple job. the message is simple. you basically scare americans by saying, quote, the democratic party runs a government that is so fundamentally broken, it cannot offer its people the most basic protection from harm. da dana, to your point of, it may not be about policy, about some of the things i wish republicans were running on, but this could be very, very effective. >> sure. i mean, and they're even making a campaign issue of the secret service saying, things are so bad that even the president of the united states, the president of the united states we would like to remove from office, by the way s not being adequately protected by the secret service. look, i mean, you know, we -- we can -- some of us can remember back to, you know, max cleland in 2002, the morphing democrats into osama bin laden. scare really works. the problem works in the short term if you have nothing in your own quiver to say, here's my

alternative. also, maybe it will get the republicans across the finish line. then what do they do in 20167? >> what should this campaign be about? toure describes if as lizard braden campaign. congress doesn't have too much control about who gets ebola. leaving it to the president so they can blame him. we could talk about a minimum wage increase that will never be law. no serious domestic policy legislation that will get through the next congress, no matter who controls it. are we doomed to a stupid campaign? anything we can talk about that isn't stupid? >> you know, it's almost become a campaign about everything and, therefore, about nothing. the entire kitchen sink has been thrown in. each week we think it's going to be something different. oh, now it's really going to be about foreign policy and isis. just as we were sure it was going to be obama care. we were sure it was going to be this skajtcandal. basically, it comes down to the classic, traditional thing.

that is, voters register disapproval with a party that's in power, the president's party. the only reason they're not registered disapproval in larger number is because they're disgusted with the whole thing. and the republican fear message helps to make them disgusted with the whole thing. >> absolutely. >> the campaign about everything but nothing. you make it sound like a "seinfeld" campaign. >> dana milbank, thanks for joining us. why we found msnbc's own thomas roberts on the baseball field at yankee stadium. if i can impart one lesson to a

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if it's october, it's time for big-time baseball. important games, people. tonight the alcs kicks off in baltimore with krystal's orioles versus the can city royals. tomorrow the alcs with josh's cardinals against the giants. each of the four teams come from states where same-sex marriage

bans have been effectively tossed out. maryland, missouri, california. friend of the show thomas roberts reports what major league baseball is doing, and the captain is a former player going to bat for the lbgt community. >> going back in front of the wall, leaps up. he made a sensational catch! >> reporter: on the field in late 1980s and early 1990s, billy bean was a go-to love in the outfield. >> caught by billy bean in skrfl! can you believe it? >> reporter: and a slugger at the plate. >> billy bean! grand slam. >> reporter: after a lucrative career on the tigers, dodgers and padres, he quit his dream job at just 31 years old, leaving millions unearned because he didn't thimpk the sport was ready for an active player who was gay. >> i went away for a long time. the fact that i'm sort of back

in baseball after 15 years for the same reason i left it and come full circle is -- that moment is not lost on me. >> reporter: now the mlb front office and bud selig have drafted him because of it. this summer naming him mlb's first ambassador of inclusion. >> we want the people who play our game wish to be. >> reporter: be marvels at how the league and america has evolved since he first suited up. he suffered for years, tearing the seams of his professional and personal world apart. >> i was not comfortable with the reality of my sexual orientation and i needed help with that, but i couldn't put the two lives together. the reason i walked away, i had a partner who passed away while i was on the padres, died in the emergency room althout 7 a.m. i morning and i had a game at 1:00 for a game i played in. >> reporter: a lot of people it will break their hearts that you

lost someone that important in your life, a partner in your life at 7 a.m. in the morning and you suit up for a 1:00 game. >> when you're young and conflicted, it just felt easier for me to pretend it didn't happen. it's not an excuse that baseball didn't do anything wrong. they weren't aware of any of the problems. >> reporter: bean holds no grudges over the past. today he is proud mlb clubs are preparing for the reality when a player wants to be active and out like michael sam, jason collins or robbie rogers. mlb picked bean and also partnered with athlete ally, which works to stop homophobia. >> it's important that baseball speaks to that demographic of fans just as they are to any other demographic. >> but sometimes you just have to do a little olive branch. and i think that baseball's going to be pleasantly surprised

at how this is going to grow the sport in a way that affects everyone in a great way. >> even though thomas gets up way too early for early to watch each morning, he sticks around on a friday afternoon to join us at the table and show us what superman really looks like in real life. >> and he looks good. >> thomas, welcome. >> this is so nice, first of all, thank you for allowing me. >> we love having you. >> beautiful set, see you in person. >> billy bean as ambassador of inclusion, what can he do? >> billy right now is laying the foundation of what it means for when they want to have an active out player. we've seen in other pro sports, like what we've gone through with michael sam or jason collins or robbie rogers in soccer, they didn't have that foundation behind the scenes in the front office laid out. and so in baseball, they look at these major league teams and also at the farm league. they've got all these young men coming up through the system.

they want to make sure that the support is there. they've got the perfect mentor and leader in a guy like billy bean, who has lived the life, knows what it's like to have this mutually exclusive existence because professional career over here, personal life over here, you can't integrate the two. at least at the time for him. and so now, he's in this perfect position at 50 years old to come into the mlb and say, here we are in a time and place where the white house agrees with marriage equality. we've got a land where almost 60% of the country, marriage equality is a real deal. it's only a matter of time where we can expect a baseball player might actually have their spouse in the stands and it could end up being a guy. >> the tide is absolutely turning. you did such a beautiful job telling this story in that package. what stuck out to me is that he really didn't hold a grudge. he says, i am in part to blame. i don't blame at all the league for this. which at the time, when he felt as if the world was against him, it amazes me he comes back and is now working again for the mlb. >> the great thing is for billy,

and i think that this is a huge revelation for him, is that he thought that he would be excluded from the mlb for his entire life after coming out. that this would be something they would not want to be a part of their legacy. they are embracing it. they're inviting him back to say, this is really important. this means something to us. you mean something to us. your information, your history. this is all really helpful. you are a part of our family. we know -- i've been talking to billy almost every day, figuring out exactly who he has met with. again, this has met with over the summer. he's had in-person meetings with the yankees, phillies, angels, outreach to dodgers, giants, and winter meetings are coming up in december. they have rookie development program coming up in january. billy says he wants to make contact in person with as many people as possible coming up in spring training. >> the thing that strikes me

here, a couple years ago we had the last bastians of homophobia, military and professional sports. in military they have rank down, make people accepting. in sports, it seems it has to bubble up from the bottom. this looks like top-down effort to make it work. how do you achieve the changes in the clubhouse that support the players even if management is there and ready to support? >> i think we've seen the changes certainly from the football side of things. espn when it came to culture inside the locker room. we don't have to go into details about the showergate issue, but they're like, come oespn, get over it. we know there are players that have been openly gay for years to their teammates. it's not as if there are gay athletes that have just landed on mars all of a sudden on earth. they've existed for a very long time.

we all have. it's okay. >> trying to get somebody to come out? >> i don't think anybody is trying to rush anybody out beyond their comfort level. >> but when they -- >> they're saying, look, we are making the front office prepared and ready for you. this is kind of -- they're going through this together, figuring it out in a way that is unique and individual to them. they don't know all the things they don't know yet. they're saying, hey, we're ready for it because we're in a position to say we're open to, it trying to craft the proper language and we're setting it up. we don't know what we don't want. we'll figure it out. >> friend of the show, thomas roberts. don't be such a stranger. come back. >> i won't be a stranger. and -- >> oh! >> magic, magic! >> i wish you had the orioles song. >> you guys would like better in yankees hats. you can always see thomas on "way too early" at 5:30 a.m.

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that's really getting hit hard today, as you can see the dow is down 55. the s&p is down 14. the nasdaq composite is the biggest loser on the trading day and potentially on the week, down 84 points. you very rarely see that kind of move in the nasdaq. that's because a number of the big chip stocks are getting hit hard on worries that whole business will go into somewhat of a downturn. names like intel, like texas instruments, like micron technology, are all off by several percentage points in today's trading session. so, we'll see how we do in the final minutes of trading. it's not looking good for the bulls out there today. back to you guys. >> thank you. volatile markets can teach us anything about business, it's that things can get crazy. sometimes being crazy in business or life isn't such a bad thing. in fact, it can be an asset. that's the idea behind the new book "crazy is a compliment" linda rotenberg co-founded a

company that identifies mentors and invests in visionaries around the globe. she consults regularly with fortune 500 companies about how they can achieve their goals. linda joins us to share that advice with us. you've written a book encouraging people to be crazy. what does that mean? >> i have. i've worked with a thousand entrepreneurs. every single one at some point has been called nuts. but the reason i wrote "crazy is a compliment" because i got calls from people inside a company saying, i want to be crazy but i don't want to risk my job. they knew the riskier strategy was to do nothing and hope their jobs were safe. michael dell told me there are the quick and there are the dead today. >> you talk about people who are inside companies, a lot of times they are not necessarily the same kind of personality type as, say, a big visionary like a steve jobs or even a mark zuckerberg. you actually identify in the book four different types of permits. tell us about some of the less traditional personalities you consider to be entrepreneurs.

>> i use examples from people in companies like clorox and pfizer, not the googles. they see the problem, don't rush to the boss or create a power-d point. they tus things on the side n their kitchen, building momentum and then telling the boss. in terms of personality, everyone has an image of boys in hoodies creating tech companies. i said, you don't have to be mark zuckerberg. we developed a personality type. you can go on lindaroadenberg.com and take it. we noticeded some are more inclined for social businesses. some care about a brand. some care about metrics. what is important is know your strengths, your weaknesses and surround yourself with people who complement you. >> what about those who don't want to be too crazy because they're afraid of losing their job but at the same sometime, they want to get to the next level. they have those great ideas and they don't know what to do with them. >> the reality s our jobs aren't

safe. we know the topple rate of big companies has doubled. we know ceos want their workers to be more entrepreneurial. people fear failure. i talk about companies that have created free to fail companies. there's a prize for the best failed idea. here's the thing, you don't have to leave your job to be an entrepreneur, but even if you want to leave your job, you don't have to bet the farm. sara blakley started spanx, spent two years selling fax machines. we know half the fastest growing companies started with less than $500,000, some companies like ibm are actually using internal crowd funding platforms so people can invest in their peers. the point is today, everyone needs to think and act like an entrepreneur. we all need to say some risks or

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♪ tonight msnbc celebrates the best in american latino contributions to entertainment and music worlds with the 15th annual alma awards. eva longoria and mario lopez will host the star-studded event that begins at 10 p.m. eastern on msnbc as well as on msnbc's uni hispanic network.

just off the red carpet with a preview. what's the latest there. >> reporter: hi, abby. that's right. yes, we're here at civic center in pasadena. as you can tell, production is coming by. the red carpet is getting by for the arrivals of one of the biggest nights in latino entertainment here. close to hollywood. as you mentioned, eva longoria along with mario lopez will be hosting tonight's event. the second year they host. eva longoria is an executive producer of the show. it's promising to be an amazing night, spectacular performances , a lot of surprises, lifetime achievement awards given to charo, daisy fuentes. i was here yesterday and saw a lot of familiar faces as cast of "orange is the new black", and robert rodriguez. jose on msnbc will also be joining us at the alma awards in year. i invite you to check us out

tonight at 10 p.m. eastern/7 p.m. pacific. the alma awards live on msnbc and on mundos. >> thank you for that report. turning now to another big night in television. when zombies return for another season of "the walking dead." it's a fa nom that that has taken on a life of its own. got the experience the obsession with the first show -- with the show firsthand, when i visited new york's comic con under way right now across town. you may not know this all started out as a comic book, but it spawned action figures and a hit amc show which rises up once again for season five. it's this sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. chad coleman has been able to stay one step ahead of the walkers for two seasons as tyrese, but will he survive a third? chad joins us now in the guest spot. it is so nice to have you here. i just came from comic con. i know you'll be there the next couple days. >> yes. >> it is a crazy place to be. >> absolutely. >> i want to get into your character. before we get there, let's talk

about the show, because just to give people a sense, last season the first episode was probably one of the top rated shows in cable television. what is this obsession with zombies? >> wow. i think it harkens back to childhood. everybody has that relationship with being scared, you know, and this real feeling you get as a kid and halloween. so, i think it touches on that. and then we have obviously this amazing storytelling and incredible characters. it's gumbo. it's something for everybody. something for everybody. >> there you go. >> so, chad, i want to talk to tyrese. can i talk to tyrese? >> i'm here. >> all right. so, you've been through so much. your girlfriend was killed. you watched a 12-year-old girl get killed. and, you know, you've been in constant terror of zombies for years now. >> yes. >> how stressed out are you? >> very. i need a couch. i need a shrink. but, no, okay.

let me give you tyrese. i love people. and i love community. and that matters so whatever stress i got to go through i'm going to go through to take care of judith, carole, whoever it may be. i'm looking to keep us alive and start again. >> can we get back to chad? >> tyrese -- >> i like that. the next president. >> lighten up there. you are going to comic-con and speaking on a panel and interacting with the fans. they are rabid fans. >> absolutely. >> tell us about your interactions with the fans. >> when i first started on the show my very first episode i was up in boston and i had to -- i was traveling back to new york at 4:00 in the morning. i go in and every tsa agent came

from behind their desk and everything, you're tyrese. i'm like the first episode and you guys -- already i'm making an impact? something's good here. >> that is good. >> some of it we're saying, cutie, because you were on "the wire" too. >> cutie never dies. >> you're on "the wire" and this show. this show is a huge ratings success while being a critical darling. what makes everybody love "the walking dead"? >> you can go from 5 to 80, everybody can relate to the whole horror phenomenon. we love it. and we usually get it in films. we don't get it on tv. and now we are giving you a little movie. so i think it's that inside job and all of us, we all have a relationship to it whether you're repelled by it or invite

it in. there's something going on there. >> some people might want to be a zombie. >> if greg made you one. >> why would you want to be a zombie? you're not alive. you're dead. >> hey, buddy how about the thousands of extras who poured into georgia to be zombies. >> acting as zombie. but to be a zombie. >> i just came from comic-con. i ran into a lot of dressed up zombies. >> let's show them a zombie. at comic-con they have all these dolls and characters and it comes from a comic book. >> we were able to get one of these zombie characters. they sell out fast. >> absolutely. it's hot stuff. >> i couldn't find you. i looked really hard. >> they were sold out. >> there you go. well said. you don't want to be the left over inventory. >> get that away from me. i pull my hair out.

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problem the only thing spreading faster than ebola is irrational fear of ebola. professionals are telling us likelihood of an outbreak in the u.s. is nil. the irrational fear is fuelling the desire for a ban to and from the countries where the infection is numerous. it's strange that sometimes the american imperative to roll out and solve the world's problem disappears when people threaten us we attack them. the response to a virus should be equally aggressive. ignore the politicians feeding alarmism. people feeding the urge for a travel ban. ignore them because a travel ban would only make things worse. the world health organization

and the head of the cdc have spoken out against a travel ban because it will make it harder for medical professionals to get to the heart of the problem. what if we said there is a fire, just block the roads. what if the firemen can't get in. the president of sierra leone needs health professionals. supplies are being impeded by fear. the white house says there is no travel ban you will but there is a visitor yule travel ban in effect. several airlines have suspended flights. and uncertainly about how to get out. with a ban in place it's harder for medical people to get out if

they get infected. no travel ban will seal a country completely even if travel could be reduced by 80%, models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks and only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. do we want a travel ban that helps grow ebola? we are in a global village where our neighbors problems will become our own. even if we won't have an ebola outbreak here we can't close the borders and think that we're safe. of travel bans they, quote, give us the false assurance that we can ignore the problems that are happening in africa. at the end of the day, we can't. our own safety depends on getting it right there. "now" starts right now. >> after a night of violent

clashes in st. louis, it is a weekend of resistance. it is friday, october 10th and this is "now." >> a peaceful prayer vigil turned violent. >> protests in st. louis turned hot ill. >> the officer were seen pepper spraying into the crowd. >> it stems from the deadly police shooting of an 18-year-old. >> leaders demanding an investigation by the justice department. >> the anger is starting to build up. >> tensions are high in the area. >> two months after the death of michael brown. >> several to protesters are expected to arrive today. >> to keep the movement going. >> it's very troubling to us black parents because we never know is it going to be our child today?