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goods morning to you from washington. i'm peter alexander. this is "the daily rundown." new details about the nurse who became the first person to track the virus. her name is nina pham. she's 26 years old and isolation. her priest says she is comfortable and talking on her own to her family by skype. pham helped treat thomas duncan. now they're monitoring 70 other health care workers who treated duncan before he died of ebola last week. officials are still investiga investigating how she became infected while wearing protective gear. >> we have to rethink the way we address ebola infection control. because even a single infection is unacceptable. and we're particularly concerned with taking off the protective

equipment. if it is contaminated, there's a possibility the worker will contaminate themselves in the process. >> meanwhile, for the third time, dr. kent brantly, the first american treated for ebola donated blood. he went right to the dallas hospital to donate. officials hope that dr. brantly's antibodies will kick start her system. and staff meetings are being held to talk to employees about taking precautions against ebola. judge clay jenkins has been leading the county's response to ebola, and he joins us now live. i appreciate your time right now. >> appreciate you. >> for the first time, the cdc says it's considering transferring patients with ebola to one of the four specifically equipped hospitals that have safely treated the first three americans with the disease. do you think that should happen?

are you satisfied that they are sufficiently well equipped and trained to deal with ebola? >> we're all focused on this and watching it closely. i was on the phone with tom frieden two minutes ago. we have the most experienced doctor in america on the ground leading the team now. and we brought in the most experienced disease protocol specialists. and right now we feel like the cdc call is for her to i believe stay here. and the situations have changed. and the supportive move. and it's going to depend on what we see hour to hour. and i want to ask if there's new you can share with us.

specifically about nina pham. what's the latest you can give us on her condition and how she is doing right now? >> she's stable. she's been concerned about bentley, her 1-year-old king charles spaniel. we focused on making sure bentley was moved to a good location where bentley had a room and is comfortable. so she can focus on her recovery. she's a heroic young woman dealing with a difficult situation. her medical condition is stable. her emotional condition is strong. >> and finally, i know nina has been a licensed nurse for a few years now. she just recently got confirmed critical grade nurse. this is not about casting blame. but is that limited experience as a critical care nurse a concern? >> she's a hero. it's the hospital's job to train her appropriately. that young lady is not to be

blamed. # that young lady is a hero and needs to be seen as such. >> we appreciate your time. thank you very much for being here. >> now to the catholic church and what's being called a dramatic shift in tone on gays and as well as remarried and divorced parishioners. they're two into a closed-door meeting. discussing family values. yesterday they announced homosexuals have gifts and qualities. but they also reiterated the opposition to same-sex marriage. >> we must respect the dignity of every person. and to be homosexual doesn't mean it should not be recognized and promoted. >> and on the contentious issue of divorced and remarried kalt

licks, the bishops now urge new pastoral paths to reach those who feel separated from the church because they cannot receive communion. this comes after pope francis married 20 couples at the vatican last month. nbc vatican analyst is joining me now. always nice to see you, george. thank you. can you help us understand, is this a shift in tone or is this a shift in church doctrine that we're talking about here? >> it's certainly not a shift in doctrine. in fact, peter, i think in the print reporting i saw this morning this story is wildly over interpreted. >> so what's the up side? >> if the senate were the congress -- it's not. it's a consulting body. if it were the congress, the interim report that was issued would be the equivalent of a sub committee markup. it's a report on what people were talking about.

and they're talking about the difficult, challenging problem of how do you call people to conversion without compromising the truth? that's a tough pastoral problem the church has been wrestling with for 2,000 years. now it's doing it in public. >> so does this document reflect the philosophy of pope francis? >> the document isn't a document in the sense of anything with finality to it. >> does the message reflect his philosophy? >> this report reflects the conversations that have been going on for the past ten days in rome. that will be the basis of the next three or four days of conversation, which i think will get feisty. and indeed already were yesterday as the church struggles to figure out how do you speak the truth? how do you invite us all to a

deeper conversion? that's what the church is for. >> and in preparation, the church sent out surveys to get a sense of what they're saying in the pews. so what are they saying? >> i think one of the things is the church has done an inadequate job of teaching what it believes. which is often heard exclusively in terms of noes. when in fact, every time the church says no to something, it's saying that from the basis of a higher yes. and pope francis is trying to get us to say yes more effectively so sometimes the no, which is hard to hear, can be heard better. >> we appreciate you being here. thanks for the update. we move onto ferguson, missouri. protesters took the rams nfl game. they hung a giant banner that

read rams fans know on and off the the field, black lives matter. they put it over the top of the the jumbo video board in the north end zone. earlier hundreds of demonstrators marched to the ferguson police department to mark moral monday. protesters presented demands and staged other acts of civil disobedience. 49 arrests were made, including cornell west, who was released. >> is this the start of a movement. >> that's what i pray. >> what. >> that it is the start of the movement. we can have some people come awake. morally, spiritually, politically. concern about poor people on this side of town. >> that was cornell west yesterday. jermaine lee is joining me now. you were at these protests at the football game yesterday. i want to get a sense of your takeaway being on the ground there. >> well, certainly.

last night's action iide the football game, monday night football, was the culmination of a number of meticulously planned actions across the city. they said black lives mattered on and off the field. and so at point one they marched out with their hands up. they joined a dozens other already out there with sign chls. some people offered high fives. but i think what was astonishing was the level of aggress that the fans had. on a number of occasions people rushed to the crowds. our hands are up now. and it was pretty astonishing they were maligned as violent.

>> and you got a real sense of the tension still on the ground in that community. and he said it's now time for a new movement. so what is the next stage we should anticipate? >> i think now protesters were emboldened with yesterday's actions. yesterday was again meticulously planned. they staged all these at various walmar walmarts, an upscale mall, the rams game. i think their voices are being heard. this this weekend thousands of people were in from town. they had bolstered manpower. the big question is what happens next many? the lieders are confident this can be sustained and evolve. >> jermaine lee in st. louis again for us today. nice to see you. we appreciate that update.

there are also new developments we have today coming up on a major storm. this is in the caribbean. another hurricane watch for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands with the approach of gonzalo. . it's expected to move northeast in the atlantic. it could hit bermuda on friday as a stronger hurricane. and coming up, more on the the fight to contain ebola and the nurse who contracted the virus with msnbc's own ronan fero joining us from dallas. and now matter how many times you ask senator alison grimes, she won't tell you who she voted for president. details are next. plus, a deep red state is now up for grabs thanks to a former republican who is now backed as an pindependent runnig for his old senate seat. he'll join us next. first today, the president is meeting with foreign defense chiefs. it will happen this afternoon. a lot more on that and the the fight against isis later in this

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you're watching the daily rundown. and now to the midterm trail and one of the most surprisingly competitive and exciting 2014 race unfolding now in south dakota. national democrats now believe they have two shots at the senate seat. though republican turned independent larry presler has not said which party he will caucus with. nervous republicans who once thought former governor would be a shoo-in are up. >> in the senate, larry voted seven times to cut medicare. he voted 11 times to cut social

security. and during a key vote to restore cuts to social security, pressler was in vegas getting paid to give a speech. weiland supports obamacare like pressler. weiland sports strict new gun laws, just like pressler. when it comes to looking out for south dakota, both fall flat. >> pressler joked about his new status as the guy to beat at a candidate forum yesterday. t. >> both parties are attacking me. i'm like a rabbit with a bunch of fellas with shotguns coming at me. >> former senator larry pressler is joining me now by phone. i appreciate your time. the simple question is, are democrats right to think you might caucus with them? >> i made no commitment. and they should not assume that. i'm taking the advice of senator king and i'm staying uncommitted

until i get to washington. if i get there. and i will look out for south dakota's best interests, but also, the main thing with me is, which party will give me roll call votes on fundamental issues that i'm interested in? i'm very much an issues guy. i want to legislate and so i will have to see. zb >> so give me a sense this hen. who would the country be better off with? harry reid or mitch mcconnell. >> i'm not going into that at this point. it is entirely possible there will be a lot of changes in american pop ticks this fall. who knows. >> are you satisfied with the direction of the senate right now beneath harry reid's leadership? >> i think the senate needs four independents to end the disputes we're talking about. so i would be a bridge between

harry reid and mitch mcconnell. there are already two independent senators there now. a third is from kansas. i would be the fourth. we could be a powerful force in a closely race and in terms of ending the nonsense that is going on. >> senator, you said yesterday you would have voted against the health care bill that is now law. why is that? >> well, i would have voted against it originally. but i spoth it now. at this point because we're so far along. and indeed, i have inviteded barack obama to south dakota to join us in making some changes that would make it more acceptable to south dakota. i support the affordable care act at this point and think it would be a mistake to repeal it, as my opponents suggest. south dakota needs the health care act. our indian reservations and our

counties are all for it. and i am for it. >> and i want to circle back to the point you made about the potentials for four independents in the sflat. that ininclude greg orman. is it your suggestion you four independents would create your mini caucus? and have you had conversations about that? >> no, i've not had conversations. and they ma by presumtuous. we could still caucus with whoever we wish. may tradition has been more on the republican side. and i did give money to mitt romney, and i held a fund-raiser for mitt romney. it is true that i'm a friend of both baumtz and mitt romney. and i don't think that this is a bad thing. i don't think a senator should come to washington planning to help impeach the president, as one of our candidates has joined in a a resolution. so i'm going to work positively

with both sides. only one term. >> fair enough. >> and not raise money during that term. >> last question. last question. i'll let you go. do you want rick weiland to jump out of the race? >> i have not suggested that. >> i'm asking you no. would you propose that. >> but i'm asking you no now. do you think that would be the right point of action? >> i think all candidates should continue their campaigns as best they can. and we should all state what is in our hearts. i have not said anything about anybody dropping out. i'm running from the heart all the way. >> senator, as always, nice to visit with you. thank you for your time today. >> thank you very much. >> turning now to kentucky democrat alison grimes. she may has served as an obama delegate, but that does not mean she'll tell you who sle voted

for. mrk konl is hammering her on the air in what was really an awkward 40-second exchange with the louisville courier. grimes again dodged the question. >> why are you reluctant to give an answer on whether or not you voted for president obama. >> there's no reluctancy. this is a matter of principle. our constitution grants here in kentucky the constitutional right for privacy at the ballot box. i'm not going to compromise a constitutional right provided here in kentucky in order to curry favor on one or other sides or for members of the media. >> there's also no sacred right to not announce how we vote. i voted for mitt romney. proudly. >> grimes twraked mcconnell, calling him senator gridlock, senator no show and senator shutdown.

mcconnell says he wants to repeal obamacare, but was less definitive about kentucky's pop lawyer state-based health exchange. >> you would support the continuation of connect? >> well, it's a state decision. >> would you support it? >> it's fine, yeah. i think it's fine to have a website. yeah. >> have a website. in arkansas democrat senator mark pryor slammed republican congressman tom cotton for voting against the farm bill. cotton called pryor a rubber stamp for the president. >> a vote for mark pryor is a vote for barack obama. >> when you ask about negative ads, he talked about obama. when you ask about isis, the congressman talks about obama. to ask about the farm bill, he talks about obama. you see a pattern? yes. clearly congressman cotton is running against one man. but i'm running for 3 million arkansans. pryor also mocked cotton for his

political ambition. >> he was there for one month and ran a poll on the senate race. didn't even know where the bathrooms were. but now he thinks he's entitled to be in the senate. leadership in washington involves walking across the aisle. you don't have the reputation, the ability or the desire to walk across the aisle to get things done in washington. >> senator pryor likes to talk about leadership in washington. i learned it in the mountains of afghanistan. >> pryor and cotton face off in their second and final debate tonight. political reporter perry baken is live in kentucky right now. right out of the gates, kentucky. grimes needs the momentum in the race sho shift. ast last night. it's the lead in the coverage again today. was she able to sort of do to mnl canal what she needed to this? >> it stays status quo.

last night was the two f of them citing their talking points beside each other grooichls wasn't very clear on voting for obama. although after hearing larry pressler, maybe she fits in with the candidates of the year. her new thing yesterday was to say this is the sanctity of the ballot box. nobody who should say who they're voting for. grimes herself has talked about voting for hillary clinton. in 2008 during the primary. so you have that challenge. it's just not clear the debate moved much. and it looks like mcconnell is narrowly ahead. and grimes needs something to change that. right now the local coverage is all who she voted for. >> turning to arkansas quickly. we saw an aggressive mark pryor last night. what were your takeaways from that? give us a sense of how pryor did? >> he's known for being relaxed,

laid back senator. i was surprised of him talking about cotton's ambition, which is true. i'm not sure if they punished politicians for having ambitions. it's still going to be hard to move the numbers. you saw this in kentucky and arkansas. all the ads and opponents, obama, obama, obama, obama. that's a real problem because of how low his numbers are in these states. one ore thing is kentucky and arkansas have had these huge declines in uninsured race. obamacare has worked in those states. but without on the and pryor and grimes have really had trouble making that case. they've not been able to say obamacare works here and what would you do about the the uninsured? >> perry is juggling arkansas and kentucky races. up next, protesters vow to stay in the streets of hong kong. we're there live with the latest

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instead of going after the protesters themselves, police took down barriers that demonstrators were using to block roads. ian williams is live for us in hong kong again today. and it seemed like there was a surge in the crowds when the government canceled talks. where do things stand now?

>> as we speak, peter. some protesters are trying to block another main road that runs just a short distance from here along the harbor front. perhaps to compensate for this morning. it was a big police operation. hundreds of policemen emerging and dismantling bare kids that looked medieval like with bamboo, metal, cement. but it was peaceful and calm. and those who remained on the road melted away and the police stresed they don't tend to move against the main protest count, which is just a few blocks from me here. >> ian, we appreciate that report. coming up next, isis gains ground and we're going to go live to iraq with new developments on this critical region. and later, new pick chers are leading to new questions about

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syria to the doorstep of baghdad, nevertheless, army chief of staff says he does not think i sis can take the capitol. >> i would say right now, i never make predictions about what's going to happen in the future. but i would say that i believe the capability is there to defend baghdad. i think we're somewhat confident in that. we have to wait and see what plays out. >> in northern syria, we have seen the fiercest fighting to date, specifically in kobani, a city about the size of oakland, california. turkey hasn't been any help for the defenders there. on monday a member of the government explained why. he said the kurds are no better than the militants. >> it's another terrorist

organization. and we should help a terrorist organization who favors one over the others? >> cur key culling the kurds a terrorist organization there. richard engel is joining us live now jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon for us right now. we'll start with you, what can you tell us about the the president's meeting today and really how the u.s. believes this strategy is going so as far? >> and first of all, peter, to follow up on what you were talking about. there are fresh reports today that the forces actually launched air strike against the militants in southeast tur cay today, or monday, rather. so it shows you just how complicated this issue is. as far as andrews air force base. the 21 coalition members will be there today, including the british and the frens and the

allies who have joined the fight. this is not a decisional meeting. they're going to talk about tactics and strategy without making any decisions. and the big player here will be president obama, giving everybody a pat on the back and urging them to continue to fight. i can tell you, one of the most disconcerting things to the u.s. military is they have discovered now, as psi sis advances throughout the province, that the iraqi military is even less capable than they first estimated, peter. >> mick, thanks for that reporting. and i want to get a sense from you of what is happening there. what is really the significance of the isis gains and what are the chances they cannot just attack, but successfully attack baghdad? >> to echo his point, a lot of the strength comes from the weakness of the armies that it is facing.

and the iraqi army is proving to be incredibly weak. the irk key military pull down from a military base in heat, which is in anbar province. the military said it was better to leave the base, take the weapons, than have isis take over, slaughter the iraqi troops inside, and capture their weapons. but the fact that yet another iraqi base felt it couldn't stand up to isis is not a good sign. it's not a gin sign that the army has great confidence in its abilities. that said, in baghdad itself. there is not a great deal of panic. i was just talking to people in baghdad. they feel that isis is still sufficiently far away. not to pose an imfrent threat to the city. u.s. military officials i have spoken to think it is possible that isis could try to launch some sort of foray to baghdad, try to capture a neighborhood,

even hold it for an hour or two, raise a plag and have a psychological impact. and one more thing before you go. i have more on what mik was talking about. i'm now in a kurdis region of northern iraq. this part is actually supported by turkey, but koban serks, the town besieged and under attack by aye sis is run by a different faction, the pkk, and that faction is opposed by turkey. and it was overnight that the aircraft bombed a pkk base. inside turkey. so that is clear -- clearly expressing turkey position that it has no interest in helping the defenseers of kobani. >> as always, richard, be safe. the u.s. has said it needs

sunnis and shiites to work together to fight isis. the exact opposite may be what's happening. here's a new report. it says the they are taking advantage to ab zukt and kill the men in surprise or revenge attacks against isis, which is a sunni group. even worse, it says the government is letting this happen, and the congress foreign policy for bloomberg news. nice to see you. i want to get your take on this report and ultimate how much of an impact it could have on the u.s. mission. >> it's distressing. this is a well respected group worldwide. they said a dozen scores of sunni men have been grabbed and killed as you have said for isis attacks on the population. now the problem with this is that we understand that even the families of these men who were abducted paid up to $80,000 for their release and were killed

anyway. what i'm not sure of is whether it will make a difference in the course of u.s. action or iraqi government action. because as you said, the reports are that the iraqi government has allowed this to take place. >> the prime minister was supposed to unite sunnies and shiites. the success based on successful government being created there. is his government succeeding or failing? >> it's only a couple months in, so i think it's too quick to say now and make a judgment on that. but sofa far the belief is it's better than the government we saw before. web, there was a lot of hope he would is to be the sectarianism. this seems to be a deeper problem that needs more work. this is a politician who comes out of the same lane. >> so give us a sense of what the real risks are here. not the least of which is potential for more moderate sunnis to side with isis and end

up swaying to that side of this equation. >> i hope that's not the case. i mean, we've also seen reports with isis basically saying they support slavery, that they are, you know, saying publicly how they have taken women and children hostage and made them into slaves. the problem is, they're now controlling 80% of the province, as you said. there's a good chance they could control everything in syria all the way to baghdad. we had martin dempsy saying that the airport looked like it was about to fall. i thought it was interesting that iraqi security officials came back and said it was not true. so the reports on the ground are somewhat unclear. but they seem to be advancing despite the coalition air strikes. >> aults nice to see you. and we're keeping a close eye on

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go long. back to the top stories and the latest details on the dallas nurse who became the first american to track ebola through human-to-human contact here in the u.s. a friend of the family says the 26-year-old nina pham was always dedicated the to her job.

>> she's a nurse. good choice. she has a big heart. she likes to help people. >> msnbc ronan is in dallas today. you're learning more about this nurse. what more can you tell us about the people who love her and what they're saying? >> that's right, peter. we've been spending time in the community. there's an an incredible outpowering of support and love. we also talked to the priest who is the head of her catholic organization. a very tightly knit group. pairs were said in her support. and there was a call from the church going kmint for the world to join them. right now we're hearing she's doing well as of recent conversations via face time with her mother. she's in ice lace behind me. he has received an extrearperim blood transfusion from dr. kent brantly. rye now the only official word

is she's still stable. >> ronan. thank you. you can see his special ebola coverage live from dallas at 1:00 eastern time. that of course is right here on msnbc. we go now to south korea. excuse me, north korea where many mystery is over. at least it seems after spending six weeks out of the public eye, the north korean leader is back. late monday state run media released images they say were taken as the leader visit a housing project. you can see him with a cane. he's supporting rumors he suffered a leg injury. joining me now is the form ek drk tor for asian affairs on the national security council. he's a senior adviser and expert on north korea. thanks for your time right now. are you convinced thises the end of the story? what questions are you still trying to get answered? >> well, i think, peter, the pictures are probably pictures of him reemerging from his

40-day absence. i think there are still questions about his health. he was clearly convalescing. he was using a cane. he still doesn't look healthy. i don't think the health issue is done. at the same time, we don't know what the whole power arrangement is in north korea. for him to be gone for 40 days because of a foot or ankle injury seems like a long time. >> do we feel confident these are new pictures? we don't know. they're not dated if any way. but to me it looks like they are recent pictures. again, the cane, i think is a giveaway. he was limping in the last set of pictures before he disappeared. and at least, to me, it looks like he has been convalescing if anything coaxed out early because of the media speculation in the west there was some sort of power vacuum in north korea. >> we only have a brief time with you, but i appreciate your

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week within two months. that's up from the current 1,000 new cases a week. that's with the 70% mortality rate. overnight we learned a 56-year-old u.n. medic from sudan died in a hospital in germany after testing positive for ebola two weeks ago. back here at home, new details about the first person-to-person transmission in the u.s. 26-year-old nina pham is being treated at texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas. last night she got a blood transfusion from dr. kent brand brantly. outside of dallas ebola jitters remain high. in kansas city, kansas a man who recently traveled to west africa is in isolation after admitting himself to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. the boston area has seen its second ebola scare in as many days. this is something you never want to see in an airplane