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how close can this get to me? can you see me now? new questions this monday morning an how the first transmission of ebola happened in the u.s. and the nurses union raises more concern about the guidance health care workers are getting. also happening this morning, more protests in ferguson, missouri, with demonstrators calling for acts of civil disobedience and exclusive new comments from the father of michael brown. and the court hearing to get underway in texas as we go live to austin to find out what to expect and why the governor is in europe today. and a very good morning from washington. i'm kristen wellinger, it's monday, october 14, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." we start with the latest developments on the fight against ebola and new questions about how the virus is spreading. a female nurse who cared for

thomas eric duncan is the first person of person to person emission in the u.s. the cdc is investigating how she contracted the virus. >> we don't know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. but at some point, there was a breach in protocol. and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection. >> officials were not releasing the nurse's name. we do know she came down with the slight fever on friday and tested positive for ebola on saturday. we also know she had extensive contact with duncan after he tested positive. the woman's apartment in dallas is now on full lockdown. hazmat teams decontaminated common areas of the complex this weekend. dallas authorities including mayor mike rollins went door to door this weekend to ensure residents while the health care worker is being treated in isolation 1. one other person she came into contact is being tested.

they are currently tracking 18 employees and the 48 people who may have had contact with thomas duncan are also still being monitored. well, some good news for nbc freelance cameraman has he is doing better this morning after contracting ebola. what are we learning about how the health care worker may have contracted the disease? >> reporter: good morning. president obama ordered an inquiry into exactly how this happened. and as he does this, officials are looking closely at specific things that may have led to this breach in safety protocol, including how workers were removing their protective suits and a procedure of dialysis and

intubation. in the interviews, the nurse herself has not been able to pinpoint where the infection happened. she has had repeated extensive contact with duncan. she was part of the group self-monitoring. so when she came down with a slight fever on friday, she followed protocols that were put into place in case of something like this. she alerted the hospital, drove down here apparently and was in isolation within 90 minutes being tested for ebola. preliminary tests came back saturday showing a positive result. the cdc confirming yesterday. at last update she was in stable condition and we are expecting a press conference at noon eastern from the cdc with the latest on this outbreak. back to you. >> sarah, you have been on the ground there for several days, just what is the mood like there? are people concerned for their own safety? you would think that would be a big fear right now for a lot of people. >> reporter: there is a lot of concern here on the ground, kristen. but i wouldn't call it panic. people are wanting to know what is going on and wanting to know

how this young woman who was in full protective gear contracted ebola. the city made a big push yesterday. when they found out that the preliminary test came back positive, they sent hazmat crews out in the middle of the night along with people to knock door to door. they wanted people to not feel panicked when they woke up to see the hazmat crew going on. they were informed and learning more about the situation. >> all right, sarah, thank you for all your great reporting. we appreciate it. multiple scares this weekend over sick passengers on airplanes, one in vegas and one on a nashville-bound plane that originated in dallas. and emergency vehicles in hazmat teams surrounded a plane at lax after a passenger on a flight from new york's jfk showed ebola-like symptoms. health officials determined the patient did not have ebola. meanwhile, workers at jfk airport are now screening passengers arriving from west africa. newark, chicago, o'hare,

washington, dulles and atlanta hartsfield will follow suit on thursday. nbc's kristen dahlgren has been tracking it all and is joining us live from jfk. kristen, how are the increased screenings going so far? >> reporter: well, so far we are told they are going well. they started here, kristen, on saturday. there were about two dozen flights or so with passengers that originated in west africa that came into jfk. about three to four passengers are so on each of the flights. there are no nonstop flights that come in from west africa. so they do need to track where they originate and where they have been via flight manifest. and via passports. the passengers getting off the flights are also asked whether or not they have been to liberia, sierra leone or guinea. that's the first indication they will be brought away, isolated and screened further. what then happens is they are asked whether or not they could have come in contact with anyone who could possibly have had ebola. and their temperatures are taken.

the coast guard has been using these infrared no-touch temperature guns. if they do have a fever, they are isolated further here in new york and brought to bellevue hospital. if not, they are given information and told to self-monitor and then sent on their way, kristen. >> kristen dahlgren, thank you so much. well, even while we're hearing about the new case of ebola in the u.s., the cdc is confident it can stop the wider spread of the virus. take a listen. >> we're still quite confident because of our ability to reach out, do the tacontract tracing d isolate those with the outbreak. that's an individual health care worker unfortunately getting infected. >> joining me about the realities of containing the virus is a doctor from nyc new york. thank you for being with us this morning. you heard cdc officials say there was some type of breach in

protocol. based on what you know, what is the most likely scenario here? >> the most likely scenario in what we believe to be the greatest risk of exposure is when people are disrobing and taking off their protective gear, including the gown, gloves, the go goggles and the face shield. the cdc has two protocols for disrobing and they both involve taking off each piece of protected gear very carefully. and that in between taking off the gown and the gloves, for example, if you think you have contaminated yourself, you wash. but i will tell you, looking at the pictures, even myself, it's a little frightening to think how easily you could potentially contaminate yourself. i used this analogy if you think about doctors and nurses going into the o.r. and learning how to put on sterile gowns so they don't infect patients, that's a procedure that has to be practiced and people need to train to know how to do that properly. and if there's a misstep, a

nurse or something says, oops, you just touched your face and put your gown on, you have to start from the beginning. >> so are we just not prepared, doctor, because you have heard the cdc saying they have sent out the clear guidelines but obviously to your point this is such a delicate process and really should be carried out by people who have been trained. it doesn't seem like there was a whole lot of training in dallas, is that a fair characterization? >> i think that's a fair characterization. now my institution is starting, the hospital is in communication with city and state health officials to put into place a procedure in accordance to what the cdc is requiring. it's going to be multiple town hall meetings, training the individuals at highest risk. that's the emergency room workers, for example. some other hospitals, a recommendation is to do practice drills with a pretend patient coming in. it's up to the hospital in that scenario, but if you look at the

cdc website on ebola, it's incredibly detailed. and i still have to say that if we're following the basic science of this virus and the particular ebola virus, kit be contained and we can reduce transmission. but implementing the guidelines is something very different from just making them available to people. and i think that what we're talking about, last week we were talking about how is this disease transmitted, bodily fluids, et cetera, and i think the conversation has appropriately shifted to the preparedness of u.s. hospitals and u.s. health care workers. >> all right. dr. azar, we are going to be discussing this throughout the hour. we appreciate your insights this morning. thank you so much for breaking it all down for us. and we will have much more on the ebola response later in the show with msnbc's own rhonan farrow and bob casey. up next, setbacks for protesters in hong kong fighting for free elections. and two separate incidents of police-involved shootings are

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protesters in ferguson, missouri, are calling today moral monday and say they are planning acts of civil disobedience after a tense weekend of demonstrations to mark michael brown's shooting by a police officer two months ago. hundreds of protesters marched to st. louis university early this morning yelling out of the

dorms into the streets. the father of an 18-year-old teen who was shot and killed last week by an off-duty police officer thanked the crowd for supporting his family. before giving protesters access to the campus, officers in riot gear beat police batons on the ground and blocked the entrance. earlier 1800 people gathered for an interfaith service at the university. 17 people were arrested at the entrance to a convenience store early on sunday in the shaw neighborhood where myers was killed. st. louis police say some were throwing rocks. in an interview with msnbc's tramaine lee, michael brown's father said this -- >> there's a whole lot on my back. it's a situation where i'm never going to heal on the inside.

you know, i get better day by day, people probably think i'm doing okay and i'm really not, but it's just something i have to work on. we have a lot of support and i have to be strong for other people, too. >> and msnbc's tramaine lee is joining me now. congratulations on that interview, you did a really good job. talk to me about how michael brown's father seemed to you and this issue of justice. what type of justice does he want to see? >> reporter: yeah, thank you very much. michael brown sr. seemed stoic. he's holding together putting on a brave face every day. but i talk to many parents who lose a child and there's something you never get back. you're never whole again. so two months later he's trying to come out with his family to make sure he's strong for the thousands of supporters across the country demanding justice for his son and other young black men. he's trying to deal with it. but for him, justice is pretty

simple. it's the arrest of darren wilson, the officer who shot and killed his son. his family, it's plain and simple, they want an arrest. >> one of the things so many people have been inspired by is how michael brown's family has dealt with this, is they continue to call for a peaceful response to their son's shooting. and i know you asked him about that and said, what if you don't get an arrest, an indictment at the end of the day, how should people respond? what was his reaction to you? what was his message? >> reporter: his reaction was, as long as they are not using his son's name in vain, he's okay with the protests and people being riled up and pushing for justice. but he said, again, he wants people to be peaceful. because there's nothing to be gained from any kind of violent protests. but at the end of the day, the only thing he can control is his family. he can't control what anyone else does, but they have asked again and again for people to be

peaceful. there have been times where things got a little out of control. >> trymaine lee, thank you so much. there already will be peaceful demonstrations planned for later today. we really appreciate it. we want to turn now to a different set of ongoing demonstrations. overseas in hong kong where pro-democracy protesters are facing growing opposition to their fight for free elections. earlier today police began removing some barricades set up by protesters to block off government buildings. and the people of hong kong opposed to the pro-democracy movement were joining in on that effort also removing barricades. this after the chinese government called off political talks with protest leaders on friday. coming up next, some key senate races are looking a lot more up in the air just 22 days before the election. we'll tell you which ones and why it could be a make or break night for the kentucky contender allison grimes. but first, which president made columbus day a federal

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back now with more of your monday "daily rundown." with just three weeks to go until election day, the first and only debate will happen tonight. hillary clinton will stump for grimes on wednesday in louisville. clinton's busy week includes stops in colorado and nevada. today in michigan. and also the first of two back-to-back debates begins tonight. in iowa democratic senator bruce brayley clashed with joni ernst on saturday. brayley responded with his

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>> thank you. >> dan, i want to start with something you wrote. quote, two narratives have competed for attention since campaign 2014 got underway. one says rightly that the political environment favors the republicans. the second narrative says, hold on, it's not over yet. now "the post" model gives republicans a 95% chance of winning but you say, hold on, not over yet. tell me why. >> it does sound like it is over based on the poll there. all of the predictive models tilt in the way of the republicans. post-model is way more optimistic than some of the other models. but the reason it's not over is some of the things you have just put up in the air this morning. there are a number of races that still surprise people. the south dakota race at this point, if it is a real race, puts the republicans in a hole. the race in kansas, which they had thought they would easily win, is still a real race. they could lose that. there are places in the country that republicans thought they were going to win that they

might lose. that means winning the six seats they have to win that much more difficult. a number of the races are still very close. still the map favors the republicans but the races will go down to the wire. >> kerry, pick up on that point of dan has there with kansas, it's hard to know what's really going on on the ground in the two states. >> especially because the two states recently have become contested races. and sometimes polling will say, for example on nbc news, a marist poll showed greg orman leading him by ten points. the polls show it closer. some people say it is roberts resurgent. the likely voter models in the polls are different. the pollsters have different ways to address this and the hardest part is to figure out who are the democrats and republicans going to the polls to vote. the campaigns don't know and the pollsters have their own way to predict this until really close to the elections.

>> one big theme in the midterms has been democrats distancing themselves from the president. we saw this last week when allison lundgren was asked if she voted for president obama. she couldn't answer. she has a debate tonight, will she have an answer? >> i assume she'll have an answer and it will be the obvious answer of her voting for president obama. it was a surprising moment. she's been in this campaign a long time. not to be able to answer that question, in a way that's predictable to everybody. it said to me she's still so nervous about this relationship between the president's unpopularity and her own campaign that she's reluctant to talk about it. but i assume she will have a very crisp answer tonight and try to move away from it very quickly and get back to issues she thinks will be important to allow her to win. >> we will be listening very closely to her answer. and president obama reenters the campaign trail although he's going to campaign for a gubernatorial candidate, or the governor of kentucky on

wednesday. he's really staying on the sidelines. he'll really doing more fund-raising than anything else. is this about president obama right now, kerry, or the six-year itch and historically see this with the president in their sixth year that the party distances themselves from him? >> i think it's a combination of the historic president in their final term always lose seats in the midterm. but that said, the president's approval ratings have been, especially on issues like foreign policy, which is something dominating the news, between foreign policy and ebola, things we are seeing headlines about, the lack of faith in government and institutions when you have a president with a 38% approval rating on foreign policy, i think it's a combination of things. and the state he's campaigning in, connecticut, he won by 17 points and this is not a swing state. >> he's staying away from the states he won in 2012. thank you for being here, appreciate it. up next, growing concerns about the nation's preparedness and ability to contain the spread of ebola. we'll get the latest from ronan

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behind this. this health care worker had close contact with thomas eric duncan before he died. this apartment of hers is being fumigated just like thomas duncan's apartment was. and now 18 health care workers are being monitored who had contact with this woman, the nurse we are told, as well as one person she had close contact with in isolation. now, the big question here is how this transmission occurred. health workers are telling me there are a couple potential points at which this happened, removing protective gear is one being looked at. and intubation is another one when they put a tube into thomas duncan. and the other is when they had contact with him with other medical procedures. these are options being looked at. the nurse apparently doesn't know when a breach might have happened. but officials at the cdc are saying that it's not possible that this transmission could have occurred without such a breach. so we'll be keeping track of a lot of the unanswers questions

here, kristen. >> ronan, i know you'll have the latest this afternoon. we'll bring you that programming note. you can see ronan's special ebola coverage live from dallas at 1:00 eastern right here on msnbc. well, some nurses are now saying hospitals just aren't doing enough to prepare staff. >> hospitals as you heard from the survey are not providing the training that we need nor are they providing the personal protection that we need to keep our patients, ourselves, our families and our communities safe. >> and i'm joined now by democratic senator bob casey of pennsylvania who backed the reauthorization of the pandemic and all hazards preparedness act last year. senator, thank you for joining me this morning. >> kristen, good to be with you, thank you. >> i want to get your reaction to what we just heard from that nurse. she says they are not prepared for this. that they have not been trained properly and don't have the proper equipment. meanwhile, we heard from the administration they have been

preparing for this for seven months. so why the disconnect? why aren't nurses and hospitals prepared? >> kristen, one of the problems here is a basic funding problem. all those folks in washington who thought sequestration, the across the board cuts was a good idea, i think should rethink that. because this is a program, the specific program is the hospital preparedness program. that's one element of that legislation that you referred to, but that one program has been cut by about 50% in about 11 years. so instead of being funded at a level of about $515 million, it's been cut to about $255. and that's a level of authorization with the authority to fund it at least to $375 million. so dramatic cuts to this program, which helps on coordination, it helps on training, it prepares hospitals with checklists and all kinds of

support. so the hospitals need more help in the united states congress and they should provide it. >> what can be done with existing funds to make sure hospitals are getting up to speed to deal with this in the near future and the near term? >> well, when we are back and start considering this year's or next year's appropriation bills, we should make sure this program is fully funded and make sure that hospitals are using the dollars in the manner they are intended. meaning using the dollars for this training, having checklists, having drills, all of the activities that you would hope would support a fully functional preparation program so that you don't have some of the breaches we have seen so far. >> senator, let me get your reaction to what the colleagues have said. congressman mccall said you need to consider restricting or

suspending visas from people coming from west africa. would you support that? is that the right move to make at this point? >> i'll talk to medical professionals before i'll ask members of congress. respectfully, if you are not a medical professional or if you don't understand or have great experience in the kind of preparedness we need, the kind of training, then i think you should wait to hear from the medical professionals. and the folks who know something about that field, but i do think we're hearing a lot of calls from professionals about lack of funding for the hospital program, lack of investment or appropriate levels of investment in nih investment funding, which makes it harder to develop the vaccines to have them surge and grow so fast we're able to use them in a timely fashion. >> senator, just yes or no, senator john mccain says there needs to be an ebola czar,

something not yet appointed do. you agree with that in? >> i don't because under the bill we have such a person in hhs already. >> senator bob casey, thank you so much. and we want to go now to dr. steven morris answering your e b ebola questions online. doctor, what is the question you're getting more frequently and what is the answer, more importantly? >> well, probably the question i'm getting most often is about stopping travel from these areas. and i personally think at this point that is unenforceable because people will just go to other cities if they can afford a plane ticket, they can afford to go somewhere else to start their trip. and that will make it harder to find the people who might actually be exposed. so i think it's premature and may never be necessary, but at this point i think it's too

early to think about that. the other questions i've been getting most often are about hospital preparedness and, of course, dallas is case in point there. >> and in terms of transmission, i assume you're getting questions about what the most likely scenario is for the health care worker to have gotten ebola. what is your answer to those questions? >> well, of course, that will require investigation and finding out the specifics. usually the most dangerous time is when you're taking off your protective equipment because you tend to want to get out of it as quickly as possible. and it's very easy to make mistakes when you're that tired. so that might be the most likely thing. but we'll find out, i guess, as the investigation gets done. >> all right. thank you, dr. morris. we really appreciate it. msnbc will have a doctor answering your ebola questions until 2:00 p.m. eastern today. go to msnbc.com and use the

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holding their ground against isis despite fierce fighting in the heart of the city. the two sides are fighting street by street in the town center reportedly being shelled overnight. despite new air strikes in the area, secretary of state john kerry made it clear kobani isn't a priority. >> kobani is one community and it's a tragedy what is happening there. and we don't diminish that. but we have said from day one it is going to take a period of time to bring the coalition thoroughly to the table, to rebuild some of the morale and capacity of the iraqi army, and to begin to focus where we aught to be focusing first, which is in iraq. >> well, with the u.s. focusing on iraq, the administration had hoped turkey would lend a hand in syria. that hasn't happened but the officials say turkey has now agreed to let the u.s. use its bases. initial reporting indicated it includes a major base 100 miles from the syrian border.

however, turkish officials say the talks are ongoing. that could be a boost to the air campaign in syria and iraq where isis is seizing more territory near the capital. the head of the anbar provincial council says 80% of the area is under militant control. they also claimed credit for weekend bombings in baghdad that killed more than 70 people. and over the weekend, joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey said the u.s. had to call in apat apat apache helicopters to keep them from reaching the airport. nevertheless, the capital itself is safe. >> the iraqi security forces are in full control of baghdad and continue to strengthen their positions in baghdad. >> meanwhile, national security adviser susan rice continues to insist that the u.s. won't send ground troops in. but not everyone is ready to take that option off the table. >> we'll do our part from the

air and in many other respects in terms of building up the capacity of the iraqis in the syrian opposition. the moderates, we are not going to be in a ground war again in iraq. >> would we be more effective against isis if we had u.s. troops on the ground spotting targets? if we had those ground troops? >> there will be circumstances when i answer that question and it will likely be yes. but i haven't encountered one right now. >> steve clemmons is washington editor at large for "the atlantic." thank you for being here this morning. >> good to be with you, kristen. >> why are we hearing this clash between general rice dempsey? >> well, gem john allen who is our front lead in organizing u.s. forces and the coalition against isis and have put together a formidable intelligence operation, nevertheless see that isis is quickly moving, pivoting,

changing course and direction. and despite having succeeded in some places like mosul, isis moved elsewhere and raises the question, when you see something as tragic as kobani unfolding, why wouldn't ground forces be useful. also at home in the region, if you deployed u.s. ground forces into this mess, it's exactly what isis would like to see. because it gives them the legitimacy with other sunni to say yet again the west is coming into our land, and it will help them fuel their recruiting. >> let's talk about what's happening in iraq specifically, the u.s. says iraq is its priority. you heard the secretary of state make that point. according to some reports, 80% of the anbar province is under control of isis. so what happens if the province does in fact fall. can baghdad stand and how significant would the loss be? >> baghdad could withstand it because you have a very

different balance of population in baghdad. baghdad is under threat. baghdad could be attacked. but the difference in population mix between sunni and shia is quite different. what worries me about anbar is one of the hot spots when the u.s. attacked and invaded and governed iraq is that anbar is a huge swath of territory. and it basically helps further, at least isis' apparent claims of creating sort of a new vast territory that it controls. what is worrisome is we've seen one base in anbar abandoned again by iraq military forces. there is another major base that hasn't been abandoned, but we're seeing despite really hundreds of billions of dollars that the united states has spent arming and training iraq military forces, that they are collapsing in different places. and what the equalibreum between

them fighting to take territory back from isis has been very disappointing. and i think that this is something that's going to call for a different strategy. i've been saying on your show and elsewhere, you know, in afghanistan, when the soviets invaded saudi arabia, took a lead in organizing tribes, where was the saudi intelligence now organizing sunni tribes and sunni leaders against isis? that's the missing dimension of this. we talk about what the united states can do, but we need to focus on the fact that our legitimacy with many of the players is very low. and that we need to see much more engagement of the other key international stake holders in that region. >> steve clemmons, great insight. thank you so much. >> thank you, kristen. trivia time now. franklin roosevelt made columbus day a federal holiday in the 1930s. it's still a federal holiday, but these days less than half of the states plus d.c. officially recognize it on that level.

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he's the host of the program "state of texas." >> just set the stage what is today's hearing about and what are you expecting to happen? >> well, just like you said it's a status hearing. it's just an update on where we stand with the case. no evidence is going to be presented. which is the reason the judge said perry didn't have to attend because he's in europe. you obviously have been tracking this governor for some time. what are people saying? what is your assessment about how this case may or may not impact his desire to run for 2016. he hasn't announced anything yet. but he seems to be considering it >>well,ic that depends on the timing of the case. how fast it plays out. because it's a little difficult to run for president when you have a legal case hanging over your head like that. but if he does comes out on top and this is a quick case, then that's a perfect platform for him to go up against democrats. >> of course, his camp is trying

to get the case to be dropped. where does that effort stand? >> not very good so far. the judge has been pretty lenient, i would say, you know, to let him skip the hearing. they've said that he can't skip future hearings as a blanket, you know, way to get out of all of these unless there's evidence presented, but the governor -- but the judge said he would have to ask for each individual. for right now the case is going forward and the special prosecutor seems, you know, bent on making sure that everything is followed by the rules. >> and people are calling it special treatment. obviously the governor would deny that. but to some extinct is there a sense he might be getting special treatment? >> well, you know, you have both side. critics say he shouldn't be in europe right now. because not only the hearing but he has, you know, the crisis with ebola happening here. he just launched the special

task force to look at the ebola situation and infectious outbreak in texas as a whole. a lot of people think he should be focus on that instead of going to europe and talking foreign policy and texas economy. >> all right. great reporting. thank you, josh engel, we appreciate it. thank you. that's it for this edition of the daily rundown. coming up the latest on what is happening with ebola in the u.s. jose will go to the pentagon for new details about the u.s. military's response to the outbreak in of a cap. plus, a familiar face in iowa on the midterm trail in the next hour. have a great monday, everyone. and a great week! hi, i'm meteorologist. strong to e severe thunderstorms expected today from areas of the ohio valley to the gulf coast.

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