developments regarding ebola in the u.s. one hour from now, officials from the centers for disease control will deliver an update as they continue to trace the number of people who may have come into contact with nina pham, the texas nurse now in isolation with the virus. pham is in stable condition and says she's doing well after receiving a blood donation from ebola survivor kent brantly. customs and health officials have announced enhanced screenings at airports in washington, atlanta, washington and newark, new jersey, beginning on thursday. stepped up screenings began at jfk airport on saturday. all of this as administration officials say president obama has been briefed about an investigation into an apparent breach of infection protocol at the dallas hospital where pham was infected and where eric duncan died. ronan joins me from dallas. feels like a long time. >> i have separation anxiety.

>> give me an update what's going on in dallas with the new patient, newly named ms. pham. >> reporter: in the hospital behind me, nina pham is in isolation unit where days previous she was treating thomas eric duncan, who is now sadly deceased. people are looking for where any breach of protocol may have occurred and whether that contributed to her getting the disease. that's one thing under investigation today. and, of course, we are all waiting for an update on how she may be reacting to that treatment that you mentioned, that she has received some of the blood from dr. kent brantly. what we are hearing from the community here and from family and friends is that she is facetiming with her famimother other family members and in good spirits. i spoke to her catholic church, vietnamese congregation last night. they held a special prayer vigil, about 30 minutes from here in ft. worth. and they called on the world to pray for a member of their

flock, nina pham. one person i talked to after that service, the priest to the family of nina pham. he told me this. take a listen. >> she's doing well. she's very comfortable and she feels very supported now. she knows that everybody knows to pray for her, be with her, especially in the difficulty time. >> reporter: and, joy, that is the sentiment i heard from everybody in that congregation. that she's an incredibly giving young woman and their thoughts are all with her. a big outpouring of support here in dallas. >> that's really good news. this can be very isolate, i'm sure, experience, being cut off from being able to have human contact with people. one of the stories that's kind of developed, ronan, is people are concerned about her pet dog, ms. pham's pet and people would

like to know what the fate of the animal would like to know. >> reporter: there's been an outpouring of national support for that dog. the dog's name is bentley. nina, a dog lover. she's adamant she be reunited with her dog at the end of this. there was a troubling story out of spain where they felt it was necessary to put down the dog of an ebola patient because there's only been one study on whether dogs can transmit ebola. that study is inconclusive. they have him in an undisclosed location, receiving the best possible care. >> msnbc ronan farrow, doing a great job down there. thank you. >> joining me is natalie azar from nyu center in new york. it may seem strange to focus on something like a pet in this situation, but i think the anxiety even around something as simple a family dog of somebody who has contracted ebola, it worries people. because who's going to clean up the feces, the product --

because we know the bodily fluids of an ebola patient that is human are quite contagious. is there any wisdom, do people know whether or not that is the case with a pet? >> excellent question. we're going to see this probably with any patient who's infected in this country, unfortunately. yeah, if you think that the dog was licking the owner's skin or, you know, or came into contact in any way, shape or form. as ronan says, the data is incredibly inconclusive and some data says pets have a special immunity to this virus. they're not thought to be a host or reservoir of this virus. that's a concern we can lay to rest. more important bottles to overcome right now. >> human-to-human contact. that's the other question people have. we have the first case of person-to-person contact. ms. pham, a nurse in a hoespita treating mr. duncan was wearing

protective gear. >> what wement to reiterate is we don't think the virus has mutated and become more v virulent. we believe if the protocol is followed step by step, the infection shouldn't can occur. the cdc wants more observation. they sent a team out. let me see how you put it on. let me see how you take it off. they're observing what's happening and retraining, retraining how to put on and take off appropriately. they're also instituting the buddy system to that, you know, coworkers can help each other to make sure they're doing it correctly. lastly, they're considering doing this contamination. as soon as you leave the patient's room, doing a bleach wash and spraying everything before you take it off. what we're not sure is whether we'll talk new suits, more cumbersome, covering a little more. you know, are there places where skin may be exposed with just the gown and the mask? we're not doing that yet. we're worried about those suits being too difficult to take on

and off quickly. they have a lot of patients to take care of. lastly, do we transfer all these patients to the bigger biocontainment units. >> that was my question. would it be easier than training thousands of hospital workers who don't treat ebola and deal w with infection diseases, would it be easier to air lift people to one of the three or four federal facilities accustomed to dealing with ebola? >> the answer is probably yes and no. i think what we all agree on is that every hospital has to be able to effectively and appropriately identify and initially triage and manage the patient, period. a basic level of infection control and understanding how these patients need to be taken care of, needs to be done regardless. the issue with transferring patients is this, is that once they become so sick, it becomes much more difficult to transfer these patients. and there's only four in the country.

so, i think the more realistic goal that the cdc has now considered is to have one or two facilities in every state who's kind of going to be like the ebola go-to place. now, we know that in academic medical centers they're more accustomed to dealing with, you know, highly contagious or infectious diseases and may have access to experimental drugs. i think what most concerns people are these smaller community hospitals that just don't have the train organize capability to take care of these patients probably appropriately. >> that's probably going to be a lot of the focus of the administration and cdc trying to get their hands on what to do about this. thank you so much. great information. hopefully you'll come back. >> i will. thanks. also today, we got a sobering update on the real center of the pandemic. the ebola outbreak in west africa. according to the world health organization, the death rate in guinea, sierra leone and liberia climbed 70%, up from a previous 50% survival rate. the organization reports nearly 4500 people have died out of a

total of 8,914 cases that we know of. the w.h.o. co-director says that number will rise to 9,000 this week. he also responded to reports of the virus slowing in some areas, acknowledging there's been some progress. but he says ultimately, that's not enough. >> with a bit of change in the population with some burials happening, if you increase that a bit, with a little more case management, complements of new centers opening, you'll slow this down very quickly. that's not going to stop ebola. >> franky is the editor-in-chief of "africa" magazine and nyu professor and journalist who has traveled around the world writing about government and health issues for a variety of publications. thank you for coming back. it's good see you. so, you have this situation where the epidemic, the pandemic really is in west africa. americans are freaked out about it but it seems to be spiraling out of control in guinea, sierra

leone and liberia. why do you think that's happening? >> one of the major reasons is because of the health care facilities in those three countries. there are not enough doctors, not enough nurses. any time there's any development, it's not focused on health care. i say, health is wealth. if you don't have hospitals, doctors, nurses to handle emergency situations, then what you're left with is always careening from crisis to crisis to crisis. if we partner with these countries and we're going to help you in development, we're not going to build firestone tires or buy coco and move on. we will train doctors so you don't have to send them to russia, united states to get treatment. >> in liberia, you have health workers on strike saying they want hazard pay if they treat patients. let's talk about nigeria. nigeria has gotten it right. they don't get a whole lot of credit for doing things right. we'll talk about boko haram

soon. in this case they've done a gd job. the keys according to world health organization to stopping ebola, great contact trace, isolating the person on the same day, clinical training. is that what nigeria has done that has made it work? >> nigeria has done that exceptionally well. but what they've also done is they've had a proper message, with the federal government, state government, ngos, everybody had the same message. when this first broke out -- when the american liberia infected people, what immediately happened was there was a panic situation. people were doing all kinds of things. bathing with saltwater and all that. government institutions came up with text messages and psas saying, look, here's what we need to look. health care and isolation. don't believe the myth. talk to a doctor. and then what they did building up on that is that they actually isolated people. they did temperature checks at the airport and they made sure that if anyone was sick, 18,000 face-toe-face contact visits.

eight people died in nigeria, four health care workers. after the first health care workers died, nigeria got it right. >> is that really the issue here, a country that's more affluent is able to respond but countries struggling more economically they can't? >> yes, have you a point. nigeria has more resources and nigeria has history on its side. we dealt in nigeria with the polio epidemic and all sorts of other epidemics in the past. knowing you -- immediately something breaks out, have you to put all hands on deck and work with it. that's what nigeria has done. they've basically said schools have to be closed so we can make sure students won't be infected. they had to make sure they had all types of bleach and equipment available for health care workers. more importantly, all messages to-h to come together.

they all banded together and said, we need to make sure everybody knows what ebola is, how we're going to stop it and not be afraid of it. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much. and now a quick reid alert on another story out of nigeria. protesters are out in force today marking the six-month anniversary of the kidnapping of nearly 300 school girls by boko har haram. members of bring back our girls campaign are planning to walk to goodluck jonathan's home. susan rice says the u.s. is continuing to help in the search and aiding in the investigation. still ahead, we are 30 minutes out from president obama's meeting with the defense ministers of 20 allies in the fight against isis. we'll discuss after the break. ferguson police arrest several dozen protesters, including members of the clergy in a rapidly growing movement that's still calling for justice for michael brown while broonding its focus on other cases.

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welcome back. in just a few moments, president obama is scheduled to meet with military leaders from the u.s. and more than 20 other nations at andrews air force base. now, the meeting is being viewed as more of our rallying with troops than an actual strategy session. it comes at a time when air strikes, theallies find themselves at logger heads on two other fronts. whether baghdad can withstand tan attack from isis, eight miles away from the iraqi capital. two, whether turkey will ever join the fight after conflicts reports whether it fired first or second against an outlawed turkish group.

gordon lubold and david rhodes is an investigative reporter at reuters. general owdierno gave a not ringing assessment. >> i never make predictions about what's going to happen in the future, but i would say is i believe the capability is there to defend baghdad. so, i think we're somewhat confident in that. but we'll have to see what plays out over the coming days. >> gordon, somewhat confident doesn't strike me as a great, glowing endorse many of the iraqi army but is the assessment the iraqi army will at least fight hard to defend baghdad? >> doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement. general odierno, in particular, as well as a lot of other senior officers, are still kind of reeling from the departure of all american troops, essentially all american troops, from iraq

in 2011. what people like general odierno wanted was to keep a small force there so that the iraqi forces wouldn't deteriorate. i think, you know, the best they can say is iraqi forces can pull this out. certainly, baghdad is going to be a central focus of the iraqi forces, because if anything happens there, like it's really bad news. so, you know, i think they're hoping. again, u.s. military forces, although we have advisers in and around baghdad, they're not enough to really get in the trenches with the iraqi forces, necessarily, to help them fight. so, it's certainly an open question about what will -- how that would unfold. >> david, if the iraqi army needs american minders in order to fight hard for their own country and to keep their own capital from being overrun, well, then what good are they in general, i mean, if they need us? >> this is the problem. basically, when the u.s. pulled out its troops a couple years

ago, as gordon mentioned, the belief was maliki would have this inclusive government. but he marginalized those sunnis, which joined the islamic state, and you have a shia-dominated army. i think they will fight in baghdad, but it will be shia militias that will fight from sadr city. but the danger here, insurgents tried to do this when the u.s. was occupying baghdad, they tried to encircle baghdad, not take it. they could cut off water, electricity. have you the largest american embassy in the world in baghdad. you could have troops trying to evacuate diplomats. that's a terrible image for u.s. and great victory for isis. >> that is what a lot of americans are afraid of. we'll get more drawn into it. there would be threatening to american lives and embassy. gordon, it seems like we have two situations where there should be a dramatic and obvious self-interest to fight isis.

you have iraq, with a substantial shiite population under threat from isis, and then you have turkey that also would seem to be incentivized to fight this group. but they seem to be more interested in fighting the pkk, the kurdish separatist group within their midst. what is that about? >> well, turkey just wants the u.s. and the coalition to go further. and are very concerned -- it's very concerned about syria and it's concerned about the kurdish fighters. and this is what we're seeing as kind of this awkward negotiation kind of really public about what turkey will or will not do. it's already agreed to do some training inside turkey. it will help stem some of the flow of foreign fighters across the border, which has been a problem. this issue of what turkey will allow the u.s. to do in the u.s. bases in terms of basing fighter jets and drones and stuff there.

is still an open question. so, we saw that yesterday where the u.s. kind of hinted turkey had agreed to something. turkey said it actually hadn't. we're in kind of this zone right now that's a little awkward between the two countries. >> awkward, to say the least. you now have a situation where turkey, which is refusing to get actively involved in firing on isis fighters, firing on the pkk, which is this kurdish separatist group. they are actually using their military for something, just to use it against a group that's also fighting isis. this seems to make no sense. >> it does make no sense. it's a very dangerous game president of turkey is playing. he's pushing the u.s. for more, as gordon just said. most americans don't know this, but there was a very brutal 30-year insurgency where kurds were fighting the turkey army to create their own independent state. tens of thousands of people died. isis is very clever here. they're trying to reignite that conflict. reuters had a story about seven wounded kurds taken to the

border from this town in kobani and the turkey wouldn't let them get into turkey for medical treatment. a witness told reuters that these kurdish fighters bled to death in front of the turkish border guards. erdogan has to be careful. the head of the kurdish separatist movement says october 15th is the deadline. it's all very dangerous. if he pushes this too far, it's the kind of chaos that will help isis tremendously. >> that is the question, too, gordon, what would be the consequences for turkey if this town, kobani, large kurdish town, were to fall to isis? what consequences for turkey? >> it brings the fight to their door and shows how much more serious the fight is and the interest turkey has. turkey is also pushing the u.s. to agree to other things, including committing boots on

the ground. we've heard this term thrown around a lot. the administration here is essentially refused to do that. but that's still kind of at play. that's what we'll see a little bit out of this meeting that general dempsey is hosting with president obama today. >> everybody wants the united states military to fight in their interest. they don't seem to want to fight in their own. that's not a good situation. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. and now three things to know on this tuesday. secretary of state john ker rir met with his russian counterpart in paris today. kerry and foreign minister lavrov discussed foreign policy challenges including ongoing challenges in eastern ukraine. in a news conference secretary kerry reinforced the point that ukrainian sovereignty at the border must be restored. two defense contractors were shot near the arabian base. saudi officials say the shooter is a former coworker who was

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from 20 allies fighting the war against isis in iraq and syria. we'll bring you those details as they become available. after a four-day weekend of resistance in missouri, organizers of october in ferguson, they call it a success. they braved the wind and rain to protest outside emerson electric, two walmart stores and last night's st. louis rams game. dozens were arrested throughout the day. as a grand jury continued to weigh the evidence against the case of darren wilson, there's still more questions than answers about how the community and the nearly 70-day movement plans to move forward. "usa today" joins me live from ferguson. thank you for being here. if you could give us an update on those who were arrested. have people been released or bonded out? >> my understanding is many of those people have been released. the officers i've talked to, most of the police officers i've talked, to say they are not

intending to hold people unless they have another charge. if you have a clear record and you're not -- there's no warrant out for your arrest, then you should be able to be released. i just saw cornel west several minutes ago walking around. i think it's safe to say, several people are getting out. >> a lot of clergy were actually arrested as part of these protests. >> reporter: a lot of clergy were arrested. it was actually meant for clergy to be arrested. it was an interfaith event the day before that said, you know, we're going to have clergy come to the front lines. while they were being arrested, they were pushing the people out of the way to say, let clergy get arrested. they were lining up by fours, breaking the police line. that was the target. >> talk about where this movement goes from here. as we mentioned, it is 70 days' old now. started off being focus on mike brown. it's now expanded to really talk about other instances of police violence. you saw the walmart protest, which had to do with a walmart shooting in another state of a

young man killed by police. where does this go from here according to organizers you've talked to? >> the organizers i've talked to say this is really an event and a movement that's really evolving. people are saying that, you know, we started off impromptu meetings, organically meeting on sidewalks and marching in circles. but now what we're seeing is a very organized movement. we're seeing clear leaders, ashley yates, a lot of clear leaders coming out of this movement saying we're going to have coordinated efforts. just last night we saw multiple actions happening at different events at the same time. there were walmarts, the rams game, all these different things happening at the same time and they were very, very coordinated and controlled. i think that's where this movement goes. i think we'll see more coordinated actions as the weeks and months go on. >> are there political components? we've seen a state senator and a state representative out of jefferson city that have offered legislation that would require a

special prosecutor to head up any investigation of officer-involved fatal shootings. that would not pertain to the darren wilson situation. but are you seeing a political component to what organizers are looking to do? are they looking to change the political landscape in any way? >> i think they're definitely looking to change the political landscape. the people i've talked to have specific things they want changed. just yesterday they were at city hall and gave a demand to chiefs of staff to the mayor of st. louis. there they said they wanted to see civilian review boards. they wanted to see body cameras. those are things on all officers and things that are political and public policy changes. so, i think the young people here really understand that this has to be political. i just talked to some people who said they're not just going to be registering people to vote, but also looking for candidates. it's not also just like lobbying candidates, i think they might also looking to become candidates themselves. >> we'll definitely keep an eye on that. thank you very much. coming up, it is three weeks till election day and we've got

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welcome back. with exactly three weeks until election day, midterm senate races are coming down to the wire. there were contention bates in it kentucky and arkansas where candidates are separated by a few points in the poll. the weekend debate in iowa comes as the democrat has erased the republican's lead. and wild card, kansas and north dakota. races gop thought they had sewn up until missteps undermined the math. in north carolina and other southern states, what you have is a picture for the race majority that's anything but settled. nbc news senior political reporter perry bacon is live in louisville, kentucky, and tara is a political strategist.

berry, are you in louisville. let's talk about that debate last night between mitch mcconnell and alison lundergan grimes. what is the takeaway in the papers? >> nothing has changed. the two of them sat beside each other and gave the same talking points they've been giving for a year and a half. there really wasn't a lot of new material. two things i thought were interesting. i mean, i guess the first one was grimes was asked, you know, for the 97th time if she voted for obama or not. and she defended it differently this time. she said there's a sanctity at the ballot box and i don't have to say who i voted for. mcconnell said i voted for mitt romney, proudly. this goes to the question of obama being unpopular here. the second exchange was the obama program here has enrolled a lot of people and been successful. mcconnell was pressed on whether he wanted -- what he would do about it exactly? he stood behind his repeal stance and said it over and over

again, while also be confusing about exactly what he was saying. >> let me play that little part. this was the connect question from the debate last night. >> you would support the continuation of connect? >> it's a state decision. several states -- >> you would support it? >> that's fine. i think it's fine to have a website, yeah. >> several things happened because connect is obamacare. it's the affordable care act. that's why several states have it. does mitch mcconnell, how does he manage to skirt this line where he's like, i like the website, just not all the things it's advertising. >> well, this is where i think there's a big opening for alison lundergan grimes. she should continue to hammer him on this because kentucky connect is popular. people like it. so, she needs toe continue to hit him on this issue. he has been completely dishonest on the issue. she needs toe double down on calling him out. the other thing she needs to hit

him on, she did a good job with the minimum wage, 55% of people in kentucky, the bluegrass poll showed, the federal government, the federal government should raise the minimum wage to $10.10. she should continue to hit him on that. and also hit him on continuing tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. those are the topics where they present themselves because mitch mcconnell has no argument on. >> the other thing grimes hit mcconnell on is his own wealth as contrasted to raising the minimum wage. let's play that. >> you're not a multimillionaire? >> to claim -- >> is he not a multimillionaire? >> she knows that that's a result of an inheritance that my wife got when her mother passed away. >> perry, you know, mitch mcconnell is already unpopular in kentucky, and i know this because i read a lot of perry bacon who writes a lot about kentucky. is mcconnell at all vulnerable on this issue of not wanting to

raise minimum wage and then saying, i inherited my money, i didn't earn it? >> or his wife's money, is what he's trying toe say. i don't think this is the issue that's going to kill him. it's mainly -- grimes focused a lot, and this is what you're hearing in kentucky, people feel like mcconnell has been in washington too long, one, and he's behind the gridlock. people here don't like president obama, in case you missed that from grimes avoiding him, but they don't like the gridlock in washington more broadly. in the case that i think grimes can make to win this case is really focus on, if you don't like what's happening in washington, mcconnell is linked to that in the same way president obama. that's why she wants to avoid this i voted for obama sound bite because her campaign has run against obama and also to run against mcconnell. >> at the same time. we know that race is very close. grimes at 41, mcconnell at 59 in last poll. mike pryor down significantly in the polls. thought to be very, very

vulnerable, tara. will all of the clinton's magic help save pryor in arkansas? >> well, i think the clintons can be helpful, but i'm not sure if it's going to be enough to get him over the hump because he has managed to lose ground. and that's the problem. you don't want to be losing ground this close to election day. however, this and all these elections are going to come out to turnout. i don't want to continue to sort of beat that drum, but it's a fact. it's going to be about getting the base out. getting your core supporters out to vote. and every resource at this point, in addition to television, which is important, we know, but every resource from now on needs to be going into it. >> in iowa, bruce braley pulling within a point of joni ernst, and also where braley's people have an army of folks on the ground trying to get a turnout, right? >> it's hard to know who will

favor but that election is going back and forth. that and north carolina are margin of error races. we don't know who's going to win until we know what the turnout models are like. >> north carolina, specifically, a lot is going to be about black turnout. >> absolutely. and the bad news and the good news. the bad news is there's massive voter suppression efforts going on. democrats and groups have successfully fought and pushed back, some we have lost. people are angry. no one wants you to take something away from them. no one wants to be denied their constitutional right. especially black people. that's a sensitive issue for us. and that is mobilizing people and kay hagan, to her credit, is going out there and saying, look, they're trying to take your vote away. she's been very explicit about that. more democrats need to speak up and say, they're trying to take your vote away. not just black people. you know, younger people, all groups that tend to vote democratic. you're under attack right now. your constitutional rights are being treated differently than others. >>, and you know, perry, what's been interesting in this race is

the kind of surprising strength of these democratic women candidates in the south. democrats in the south might actually be the saving grace for the party. >> particularly like michele knows running a strong campaign in georgia, grimes running a strong campaign here. those candidates have the basic problem that most -- even in 2012 with huge turnout in georgia, for example, obama lost that state. he may be too unpopular in those states, president obama. when you look at north carolina, there's a path to victory there. there are enough young people, african-americans, there's really room there. you saw she's run a really effective campaign. she's really turned those -- the pro tests, the moral monday protests into part of her campaign and made this about tom tillis has been a bad person as far as leading legislature. she's made him an incumbent and it's worked there. >> very interesting. we'll have this all-star team back to decode this entire process. perry bacon, tara, thank you both for being here. we'll have more on the 2014 vote

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