before they finish their concerts. that does it for tonight. rachel will be back on monday. i'll see you in a few hours on "up." up next, "weekends with alex witt." screening starts at one u.s. airport for the disease. what exactly are officials looking for, and can they really stop it from coming to america? high school football bombshell. new charges after allegations of hazing and sex assault by players in one new jersey town. >> the president is on the ballot as much as mitch mcconnell might want him to be. it's my name. >> mid-term madness. a fight to the finish in key senate races including kentucky. this could be the best time to start thinking about the holidays, at least in one way. we'll explain.

good morning. welcome. here is what is happening out there. the u.s. state department issued a new worldwide alert warning of kidnaps by isis. joining me now with the details is nbc news white house correspondent, i know the state department often issues travel warnings but this takes it to a new level. >> reporter: this warning replaces one that was put in place in april. the difference here is that it really emphasizes the increased risk of potential kidnappings of westerners and americans. i will read you a statement released by the state department and it says in response to the air strikes isil called on supporters to attract foreigners wherever they are, and there is

an increased threat. one particular concern, alex, lone wolf attacks, and it's hard for law enforcement to track and they are not on their radar, and that's a concern, and the other concern, it's believed as many as 100 americans have gone to syria or are attempting to go to syria to join isis in the fight against westerners. that's from the state department. it comes from the back drop of isis gaining ground. right now the focus is on this turkish border town, and the u.s. launched as many as 45 air strikes in the region, and despite the air strikes, isis continues to make gains there, and the obama administration trying to put pressure on turkey and other regional allies to put troops on the ground and combat isis on the ground. that has not happened yet. i want to emphasize the point that there is a lot of pressure

on turkey right now to intervene, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, democracy, is going to be meeting with 20 of his counterparts on tuesday at joint base andrews to discuss the growing and mounting threat by isis in these key areas in syria and also in iraq. >> certainly an important meeting scheduled for tuesday. thank you very much. let's go to the latest on trying to stop the ebola spread in the u.s. this morning, enhanced screenings start on jfk, and all of those traveling from west africa will have their temperature taken and those with a fever will be interviewed further. meanwhile, new questions today over why ebola victim, thomas eric duncan, was not admitted to the hospital in dallas when he first went even though at one point he had a 103-degree

temperature. and we are joined from dallas, and sara, alarming he was able to go home with 103 degrees there. could the loss days could have lost him his life? >> we asked the hospital specifically about the new revelation, the 103-degree temperature, and we have not heard back on that. however they did release a statement yesterday saying that they are changing their intake procedures to better screen for ebola. they also have in the past few days gone more into detail in the treatment that duncan did receive once he was in the hospital and saying he was administered that experimental drug as soon as it was available and he did not receive a serum blood transfusion because a match was not available. the doctor offered to give one to duncan if the two were a match and the nbc photographer

had a transfusion. and that the doctor spoke yesterday about the fears worldwide surrounding ebola. >> you don't need to be afraid. we're spending too much time in panic and hysteria instead of doing what is important, and that is seeking a solution to this global problem. >> reporter: meanwhile, officials continue to monitor 48 people here who had some type of contract with duncan. so far nobody is showing any signs or symptoms of ebola. as perfect strict cdc guidelines, his body was krcrem. plans for a funeral memorial service have yet to be released to the public. >> thank you. other news, north carolina became the latest state to

legalize gay marriage on friday after a federal judge struck down the state's ban on such unions. the judge issued his ruling shortly after 5:00 p.m. paving the way for hundreds of same-sex couples across the state to immediately start taoeying the knot. awful this comes as the supreme court issued another sweeping decision in favor of same-sex marriage across five states this week. police in juneau, alaska, made the mistake of a lifetime when they informed the wrong family that their son had been killed. in the case of mistaken identity, the state trooper alerted the family that a justin priest died in a car accident and it was a different justin priest. actress amanda bynes has

been hospitalized. this news comes after she wrote a series of tweets accusing her father of sexual abuse on friday morning. she blamed them on a microchip in her brain. this bizarre incident comes after a flury of legal troubles for the child star including a dui back in december. and then a four-day demonstration marking two months since the shooting death of michael brown. >> hands up. >> don't shoot. >> hundreds took to the streets last night marching outside the ferguson police department while calling for the arrest of the officer that fatally shot brown. and amanda, good morning to you. let's talk about the plans for the protesters today and what we can expect from that. >> organizers for this weekend of resistance are bringing events to downtown st. louis.

protesters will gather for another march. there are speaker sessions and community out reach programs in order to bring this into a national scale, and it will all culminate with an after party held at the museum later this evening. and there was a sense of tension and raw emotions last night, but everything remained relatively peaceful throughout the evening. we saw protesters carry a mirrored coffin up from the heart of where the protests were from ferguson two months ago and brought that to the steps of the ferguson police department. protesters stood toe-to-toe with the police, and both remains calm. >> a lot seems to be centered around wilson, and he is the officer that shot michael brown. what is the latest on the investigation into that?

>> we will not know whether or not wilson will be charged until the grand jury decides, and they have up until the end of the year, and i believe that this not knowing when exactly we will get an answer is an under current of tension for many of the protesters who are demanding justice. michael brown's family is demanding a special prosecutor and they want to see charges filed against wilson, and we have been seeing this throughout the entire protest that continues throughout the weekend. and let's go to the weather. thunderstorms are expected in parts of the south this columbus day weekend while it's a bit of a rainy day in new york city. ray stagic is here with the forecast. >> the rain is going away in new york city, and first we need to talk about this, and this is what is now -- there is more to come, and i many a calling this

a salad, you have the salad first, and then the prime rib. more rainfall, areas have seen 6 plus inches of rain. and then there will be two rounds of precipitation. memphis out towards little rock, and then a one to three inch rain event coming. rain this morning from texas out across arkansas and northern parts of mississippi and into alabama, and right across the northeast, and basically south of the line from kingston, and it's down towards new york city in the five boroughs, and this is all moving out this morning, a better afternoon, and nice weather for the jets game tomorrow afternoon, and this is the prime rib come into tomorrow. low pressure checks out of the rockies, and moisture from the south starts to set up severe weather. it will threaten the plain states tomorrow. and low jet coming in from the

south and southwest, and we could have isolated tornadoes tomorrow as the jet stream digs in with upper level support. what that means is that we expect this tomorrow. severe weather from wichita to oklahoma city to wichita falls. this is going to roll east, and potentially a multiday weather event for a large chunk of the country, and tens of millions could be impacted and a tor:con of a 3 in 10. >> thank you. is the former head of the cia re-writing history? you will hear how the obama administration is responding to the latest round of criticism from a former leader. no. it's called grid iq. the 4:51 is leaving at 4:51. ♪ they cut the power. it'll fix itself.

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dominican republic got a scare after a passenger sneezed and said he had the ebola virus. he was joking but few were amused. a flight attendant had this to say. >> i have done this for 36 years, and i think the man that had said this is an idiot, and i will stay that straight out. >> i bet that guy will think twice about pulling a prank like that again. >> and then with just 24 days until the midday elections, the republicans need a gain of six seats to take the majority in the senate, and kentucky is at play. the latest poll there shows grimes leading republican incumbent, mcconnell. >> did you vote for president obama in 2008 and 2012? >> this election, it's not about the president. it's about -- >> i know, but could you --

>> it's about putting kentuckians back to work. >> did you vote for him? >> i was an '08 delegate for hillary clinton, and i respect the santa tea of the ballot box and i know -- >> so you are 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. >> joining me now, the washington bureau chief of the city sun times. good morning, lynn. >> good morning. >> talk about the logic behind her answer there. do you think the non-answer might hurt her? >> yes, a more seasoned person would say of course i voted for president obama. she is a democrat. she has been a around for a while, and people can say they are disappointed in the president, and obama was popular

in 2008. 2012, it's still reasonable that if you were a democrat you would have voted for him, so it's credible. it means that her credibility, her -- it just was a question. when you put her in the poll, the margin of error, she is with mcconnell. >> yeah, more often than not the mcconnell of late has been leading. >> and hillary clinton is supposed the come in and campaign for her, and hillary clinton has been making the rounds of a lot of the big races, and she was in illinois helping quinn, and the democratic figures are coming around, and when you are in a contest like this, the people that know their democrats and republicans, and they are taking their sides in kentucky and the other races, and a swing voter

needs to feel whatever is that message, it probably is going to be factored in that they are dealing with somebody that was wavering on a question that seems essential. i think it's sir moundable, usually. as you get closer to the election, alex -- >> yeah, and some say the balance of power may come down to the state skprpbgs the latest poll shows the incumbent pat roberts leading orman by just a point. this is crucial because if orman wins, he is likely going to caucus with democrats that helps them keep the majority. do you think kansas is the hot spot here? >> well, i think there are several hot spots right now. the math is in favor of the republicans because they are able to play offense more and the democrats are on defense. i mean, you have -- they already have good prospects, and

montana, and south dakota and iowa, and it's really developing, and the big break in this kansas race is that the republicans tried to get a democrat on the ballot, and can you imagine that? they were going to bat for the party. but it was really just to try to keep orman's vote down. so i think no one state now is splittable. all the republicans need are six. >> can you give me a quick prediction, do you think it's going to happen, the gain of six seats for the republicans to take control of the senate? >> i think they have seats in play where they can do it. that's why the senate is in play so much, and the number one priority for the white house is to keep the senate. >> i want to talk with you about the new credit of president obama by former cabinet members

of the administration, and that would include gates and pennetta. let's take a listen to this. >> i notice that both of his secretaries of defense, after they got out of office have been very critical of the lack of positive action on the part of the president. >> uh-huh. >> he has been delayed, and sometimes he draws red lines in the sanned in the committees and when the time comes he doesn't go through with it. >> lots of external criticism. what has been the reaction to this? >> they are not pleased, and on the other hand it's not as an overwhelming way it would have been a roar like before the 2012 election, the books are the first and second drafts of what people are trying to, you know, figure out what happened. i think the question is really of loyalty. the books coming out now didn't have to be written at this time.

and it's -- >> you even have in terms of loyalty, there's a new article and it's entitled pennetta is trying to re-write history. a white house insider is talking about this. have you heard of allegations of re-writing history? >> that i have not heard, but through the years, when the white house wants to push back against a book when they do so anonymously, they know how to do that pretty well. everybody who has been on the inside has a version of history. pennetta hardly deals, for example, with hillary clinton in benghazi in his book, and can you imagine that? one of the biggest episodes politically that will be coming up for hillary clinton if she decides to run for president, pennetta in the room and central figure in the unfolding episode and that resulted in the killing

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aggravated criminal sexual contact. joining me now, "sports illustrated" contributor, greg hanlin. i don't want to get into graphic detail, but how did it start? >> there was ten days between september 19th and 29th, and this came to light a week ago from this past thursday, when they cancelled the high school football game, and at that point, you know, word got around the school, and a lot of what happened got around the school and people started to realize that this was pretty serious disturbing stuff. >> absolutely. the reality is for canceling the season, they figured somebody had to know what was going on, and would that include any of the football coaches or staff of the school? who made the decision to cancel? >> the superintendent is the one that made the decision to cancel, which in light of, you know, what has just come out and

what previously had been reported was obviously the correct decision. in terms of the culpability of the knowledge of any coaches or anything, that is still under investigation. it should be noted, though, that the coaches -- the configuration of the locker room and the coach's office, the coaches are down about two hallways from the locker room, so there is really, you know, it's kind of the perfect storm almost for something like this to happen. >> so conceivably it could have happened without their knowledge. in the past, is this alleged to have happened before or is it just this season? >> it's not alleged to have happened before to our knowledge, and it's conceivable this is behavior that has been passed down where, you know, who are now the senior and maybe, you know, the perpetrators were once the freshman victims.

>> yeah. >> and so you mention seniors, and in your orl for "sports illustrated" you quote a high school senior that said the media is gassing this up, and you are messing with peoples' scholarships, and it happens al oughtle schools, why don't you just go to the next town over where the same thing is happening and you can write a report on that. this is hazing incident happening at other schools? >> you would think it's likely to be happening at other schools. in 1999, there was a study by a university that said that 80% of college athletes have been hazed, and of those, 42% were hazed in high school. it's a widespread phenomenon. you would think something like this, obviously it's an extreme case, but it's not this one horrible outlier and it's symptomatic of a larger problem.

>> what is the town like, what is the community reaction been to? >> it's a pretty typical middle class town. it's about 35 miles south of manhattan, and demographically, the high school is about 50% white and then 50% of, you know, black latino and asian. it's pretty typical american suburbia. the reaction, i would hate to paint it with a broad brush. it has been totally mixed and some has been circling the wagons and people being hostile towards the media for painting a bad picture, but there is support for the victims, and there's a vigil in a park across the street from the campus. about 500 people last i checked were going, and it's probably more than that now. >> how big of a deal is it to

this high school and this town that the football season has been cancelled? >> the whole thing is a huge deal. the first -- i think before people realized the severity of the allegations, there was some uproar of the extreme tea of the punishment. now everybody knows what is alleged to have happened. i think a lot of that initial reaction, people have changed their tune. but the whole thing is a huge deal and there have been news trucks outside the school everyday, and students talking to reporters and the whole thing, and you know, this is just outside of manhattan. it's typici a typical thing. and then up next, jfk airport in new york is the first of five major u.s. airports that

will screen for ebola. and kristen dahlgren is live and we are about to see the new protocols go into action. are they ready to go? >> reporter: seems like they are here. we are waiting for the first flight to get in from guinea, and it will take a while for them to go through customs and the expanded screening and it will be a few more hours before we see passengers. things about to get started here. as for other air travelers say, some say it's making them feel more relieved and others worry it's still not enough. at new york's jfk this week, training for new stepped up screening, and 43% of travelers from the affected nations enter the u.s. through this airport. leaving many here, including airport workers, worried about what might come off of a plane. >> i have children, and i don't want to bring that home to my

babies. >> starting today representatives for the centers for disease control are on hand and passengers will be questioned about whether they have been to the affected countries and could have had contact with an affected person, and their temperatures will be monitored, and they could be possibly quarantines. for air passengers -- >> hand sanitizer and all that. >> fears of ebola have been growing since duncan died this week in a dallas hospital. on friday, a plane from new york was kwoerpb unteened in las vegas after a reports of a passenger vomit. health officials investigated and found no evidence of infection. and this was the scene on a board of a us airways plane after a passenger sneezed and said he had ebola, and another false alarm. stepped up screening will start at other major international hubs, and dulles, and o'hare and

jackson and newark next week. measures getting mixed reviews from travelers. >> if somebody is carrying the disease but isn't displaying symptoms yet, it's not going to pick them up. >> at least one texas lawmaker, alex, is calling for the new screening procedures to be expanded to dallas and houston, but even the head of the cdc admitted that in order to get zero risks in this country, you really have to control the outbreak in africa. >> absolutely. we keep hearing that over and over again. thank you so much. let's bring in the new york university rheumatologist. let's talk about the screenings starting at the airport. passengers get questioned and have their temperatures taken. how effective do you think it will be in preventing an ebola outbreak in the u.s.? >> probably not terribly effective. somebody else said we have an outbreak of anxiety and we have

that, and but we don't have an outbreak of ebola right now. the system is quite porous. that being said, if we had the resource and we don't want to stretch our resources too thin to accomplish this, but if we have manpower on the ground to prevent one or two cases, we have accomplished something. the focus should be on the vaccine trials and hoping to vaccinate people on the frontlines, and these trials are on going right now in maly. >> the unfortunately thing about this, if we look at the miss steps that happened with mr. duncan's case, one thing is to

initiate and advise on protocol. the failure in the dallas system was a complete failure of communication between doctors and physicians, and unfortunately terrible missteps in the intake of the history along with the physical exam. from our point of view as health care workers, and educating, and explaining to people over and over again that the virus, the transmission is low, and you know you need to be in contact with bodily fluids and that is important, and i don't know how many times we can restate the only way to prevent the outbreak here is to help with the aide effort in west africa, and the u.s. screenings not unimportant, and i don't think they will make a huge difference and are not going to make a difference in west africa and that's where the resources need to be focused.

>> a very practical level, and something of how it's affecting people is the flu. three children have died already from the flu, and now there are patients that have to wait to get flu shots because supplies are running low nationwide. how big of a concern is this for you? >> this is refocusing on illnesses and communicatable diseases that we know we can treat that can far more affect us than ebola, and of course the very young and elderly, and people compromised, get your flu shots, influenza, and pneumonia, these are all diseases we will contend with in the next few months in addition to a multitude of other tkeusyndrome. demanding justice for

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today's day two of a weekend of planned protest in missouri, and demonstrators are preparing for a major rally in st. louis in a few hours from now, and they are demanding justice after brown was shot by a white police officer. and ron good morning to you. let's talk about the organizers and what they are saying about today's rally. what do you expect? >> well, they are expecting to make a loud statement on a very big stage, and until today there have not been significant protest here in the heart of st. louis but this is going to change they hope during the so-called weekend of resistance. they are expecting thousands of people demanding justice for brown and others who lost their lives because of police. ferguson police headquarters, a

epicenter for another night of confrontation. protesters demanding the arrest and prosecution of wilson for shooting and killing unarmed teenager, michael brown. as the crowd crossed the street, police appeared. the tension began to build. anita jones mack brought her 3-year-old up front. >> i don't want to bury my son. he needs to know what is going on. in the crowd, demonstrators across the country, with more expected to yarrive. >> why come from new york? >> why not? we have to. this is a national problem. >> here, this week, renewed anger as another family of another 18-year-old, meyers, claimed he, like brown, was an innocent victim, shot and killed by an off duty police officer. >> he was respectful and he was my baby. >> police say meyers was armed and open fire first after the

officer attempted to question him. but many here don't trust the authorities, aspecial shrae since the officer who shot brown has not been charged with a crime. brown's father -- >> at this point i am a little at peace, i am not angry. i mean, you know, upset, angry. >> overnight the protesters and police in riot gear squared off face-to-face and eventually the crowd dispersed, but the weekend of resistance has just begun. overnight police say they made no arrests and there were no reports of significant violence, but still authorities in the region remain on high alert for what is expected to be a very unpredictable and emotional weekend of protests. alex? >> thank you for covering it for us. growing fears of a massacre. how can the u.s. prevent isis from turning one city into a terrorists killing field?

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new today, united nations warning that thousands of people will likely be massacred if the city falls to isis. between isis and kurdish forces. isis is believed to hold about 40% of the city. more planes fly overhead pounding the out skirts of kobani but avoiding the city's center. at least 500 people have been killed in kobani since isis began their assault last month. meanwhile in iraq, officials are pleading for help saying that western anbar province is in danger of falling. they are attacking. joining me now robert mcfadden and deputy assistant director and now senior vice president and i'm glad to see

you here to talk about this, robert. while isis makes the gains in syria and iraq in home and in western areas. you have the london mayor who reportedly said that the uk is monitoring thousands of terror suspects in the city. the state department here put out this worldwide kidnapping alert. have you seen any new specific threats or is this just everyone being vigilant? >> i haven't seen any new specific threats but we have events, the foreign fighter problem, much more pronounced from europe than it is from north america of fighters just not going to isis but islamic groups of syria and iraq. combine would the threat that's been ongoing with al qaeda core and its stated goals of international terrorism directed primarily at the united states, but nothing new, though. >> interestingly, robert, this

quote from the london mayor which reads thousands of terror suspects in london. is london the city we should be most concerned about? >> you see, when you talk about london, you might say the same thing with paris. they have situations there as far as the society and how primarily muslim populations are integrated within their cities. in the united states we don't have any equivalent where they tend to be highly segregated neighborhoods and societies. so, those kind of things make it much more tricky and challenging for london relative to here in the united states. >> this alert from the state department, robert, comes as the government is getting a lot of criticism from the families of the isis hostages. they rur intimidated to not buy, could and can more be done? >> well, you know, it's

terrifically difficult to separate the profound emotion with the families from a situation, a tragic situation like this. however, just bottom line with islamic state, that group just will not negotiate in any way, shape or form in good faith. it's shown its colors over and over again with outrageous claims for money and for comrades in different countries. so, really, it has seen the hostages, the u.s. hostages more as a propaganda tool and a commodity in that sense. so, that's the more difficult thing. there's no negotiation with a group like that and as far as the intelligence, they're highly compartmented. very, very challenging for the hostages. >> i'd like my director to pull up a picture that he was just showing there as you were talking. specific, too, to what david cameron had reportedly called for. a mission to kill or capture.

thisecti executioner jihadi joh. >> with the situation and lack of likely human sources on the ground, difficult. not impossible, but difficult. you're going to see a full-court press, if you will, with intelligence when it comes to technical means, surveillance from above and an effort to find him and others. part of the story here, there is a cell within a cell of islamic state that appears to have been holding the western hostages and like this individual english speakers. >> with regard to what's going on in syria with kobani tony blinkin that says the usair strikes aren't designed to save a city like kobani. where are the arab ground troops we seem to hear about? has kobani already lost? >> short answer to that to who is fighting. it is the outgun kurds, as you

put it. one thing to keep in mind, the people's resistance, a confederation of different paramilitary and historically and up until now they have been defensive in nature. they don't have experience with taking back territory. >> thanks, i appreciate it. that is a wrap of this hour. straight ahead, "up with steve kornacki." yell jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america.

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