maybe it's a mismatch in the system and that's why they're being kicked out. we don't know. what we're asking for is very simple. transparency. whether it's jared thomas or brian kemp. this is not a matter of being frivolous. this is a matter of seeking information because the most sacred right we have as americans is being jeopardized. >> georgia state representative stay sill abrams. thank you. that is "all in for this evening." >> good evening, chris. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we've got a big show tonight. the nation's top expert on infectious disease is going to be with us tonight. very much looking forward to that conversation. but we need to start tonight with some breaking news from the united states supreme court. late tonight, just within the last couple of hours, the u.s. supreme court has handed down a pretty significant ruling on abortion rights. the u.s. supreme court tonight reversed a lower court ruling that earlier this month had shut down all but the last handful of abortion clinics in the state of texas. tonight, because of this

intervention from if supreme court, the dozen clinics that were basically shuttered overnight earlier this month, legally, those clinics should be able to reopen effective immediately. whether or not their can let rally reopen, whether they're in any position to reopen, that remains to be seen. but legally, at least, they are now officially unshutdown. this all stems from a sweeping piece of anti-abortion legislation. the law did eventually pass. it was signed into law by republican can governor rick perry in texas. two weeks ago, a federal appeals court did rule that the entire texas law could take effect. and when that appeals court made that ruling two weeks ago, that shut down nearly 80% of the clinics that provide abortions in texas. before this law took effect, there had been more than 40

clinics in texas. that provided abortions after the appeals court let the full law go into effect two weeks ago. all but eight clinics in the state shut down. from 40 clinics plus to agt. there are 5.4 million women of reproductive age in the state of texas. in the year 2011, which is the last year for which we have data, it's thought that more than 70,000 women in texas had an abortion that year. but, again, the number of places they can do that have gone from more than 40 down to eight. that ruling left no clinics open south or west of the city of san antonio. there was not a single clinic in the entirety of the rio grande valley. asking that the supreme court take immediate action to put this whole thing on hold. allow those clinics to reopen. at issue here is part of the abortion law which forced abortion clinics to make multi-milliion dollar renovations, basically. that particular part of the law

was put on hold. in part, because they are the only clinics in their respective, vast and remote corners of the state of texas. i should tell you that one of the clinics that got that specific reprieve from the supreme court tonight is the clinic that we visited a few months ago. this is the clinic in the rio grande valley. it has been the only clinic that did abortions in that whole huge part of texas before this texas law shut them down. as of tonight, they will legally be able to reopen. ever since this law was pasted last year against that filibuster wendy davis, it has been suspected that this has been shutting down some of the

most important parts of that law and letting the clinic reopen. the decenting judges from this decision were justices scalia, thomas and aledo. they were perfectly confident with keeping the law in effect. ultimately, it's not clear if this is the final word. the case will go back to the lower court to the fifth circuit. that's not to be before the end of the year, at the earliest. in the meantime, clinics are reopening in texas and that draconian law will remain on hold. four of her clinics were forced

to close. amy, thanks very much for joining us tonight. i appreciate you being here. >> oh, absolutely. it's nice to talk to you with something good happened. >> obviously, this is good news for you and people who support abortion rights in the state of texas. first of all, did i summarize it accurately? i'm still trying to absorb this ruling and what's your reaction? >> my reaction is i'm very delighted. i can't believe that we got both kennedy and roberts to rule in our favor. i think that's a huge precedent for us. it's delightful to be able to say yes to the women who have been calling us instead of having to turn them away as we've had to do in the last two weeks. we are already calling trying to set up a physician in that state to serve women in that community. we're doing our best to keep our ft. worth office open.

>> when you say you've been turning women away, since the federal appeals court a couple of weeks ago i shall shoed that ruling that shut down so many clinics, including that clinic in mcallen, did you have women still coming into the clinic still trying to be there for their appointment and you had to turn them away? >> absolutely, rachel. over the last two weeks, we had quite a few women. the day after the injunction got overturned, we had every single patient show up anyway. it's not a community that we can call everybody by home. my staff found themselves there the whole day with those women doing, you know, ultrasounds and cancelling and talking with them

and doing our best to raise money for some who were able to travel north to get services. but there were quite a few women who said i can't travel north and take matters into my own hands. those will be some of the first people we reach out to. >> amy hagstrom miller, founder of whole woman's health. thanks for being with us. keep us posted on what happens next. >> thank you, rachel. >> joining us now is nancy northop who's president of center for reproductive rights. nancy, when we talked about you asking asked the supreme court to intervene, sort of on an emergency basis in this case, i did not think you were going to get what you want. you clearly have received the ruling that you were looking for. is this what you wanted to happen? is this half the way there? is this everything? >> it's exactly what we wanted from the supreme court right now. it's extraordinary the action that they took tonight. extraordinary in the sense that it's not usual for the supreme court to step in at this point

in a lawsuit. and it's extraordinary for what it means to the women in texas. to have 13 clinics remain open, that's just huge. we are delighted. >> it is a -- it is not the final ruling. obviously, this goes back to that appeals court which will. it is a very con sifbtive court, not as it used to be, but it's still pretty conservative. in the meantime, we see the immediate effect that those 13 clinics reopened at least all of them that it can. what does it mean to you legally? that you did get justice kennedy? you did get justice roberts? you did get a bigger split than you would expect. it wasn't 5-4, it was 6-3. does that say anything to you about this issue? >> you never want to make a substantive inference from what the court does. but clearly, six members thought it was important to take this unusual step and to reverse the decision by the fifth circuit which was closing those clinics

and allow the injunction at the district court. we wanted trial. the district court found this is a sham law and that it's designed to shut down the clinics. and the court put back into place the injections that that judge had found. so that is a very good sign. a year ago, when unfortunately, half the clinics in texas are still closed in the wake of that law. and when we were up in the supreme court a year ago, we were not able to get the clinics reopened. and that was in a 5-4 ruling from the court. we're looking at 6-3 today. it's a better day. >> so the parts of the law, they used to be before this law, there were 40 some clinics that did abortions in the state of texas. after the law, it shut down about half om them. and then these final provisions of law were allowed to go into effect a few weeks ago. that shut down all of about

seven or eight. it is that final portion? >> that's right. it's those 13 clinics that are able to be reopened and in practice during the time of the appeals court that. 's a good thing. in just the days in which they were closed, a lot of damage was done. >> nancy, keep us posted. thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >> all right. lots more ahead tonight, including what a world war -- pre-world war ii era airplane can teach us about combatting ebola. plus, we've got the nation's top expert on infectious diseases here. plus, we have one of my favorite stories in a long time that involves a fancy hotel spying on a secret trend station. yes, stay with us. ♪ there's confidence... then there's trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. it's no wonder last year we sold

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that is not how it got its name. hill air force base is actually named after a guy named hill. peter hill, a u.s. army test pilot who died in really dramatic circumstances while flying test flights in a new plane that the army was considering buying at the time. in the 1930s, the army air corps wanted a big, new bomber to add to its fleet. and boeing designed one to try to get that contract. boeing was almost kaput as a company at that point. they basically bet the whole future of their company on trying to win this army air corps contract. and what they built was a whole new approach. instead of two engines, it had four.

it was huge. its wingsand was more than a hundred feet wide. it could fly faster than previous bombers, it could fly further. it could hold tons more bombs than the army had been able to put in a plane like this before. but on october 30th, that boeing test model number 299, the 299 had an ace test pilot named ployer peter hill at the controls. it was being evaluated by the army to see if they were going to invest in this huge, amazing new plane that could do so much more than any other bomber had before. and in that test, the plane crashed. took off, it got its nose up way too high. basically went straight up and cart wheeled over on one side, came down on one wing and exploded into flames. peter hill, the chief of flight testing in the u.s. army air corps. he was piloting that plane. he was killed instantly. the army awarded the initial contract for their new bomber to

a competing aircraft to a different company. turned out there was nothing wrong with the plane. it was human error. a thing was locked at take off that was unlocked. it was enough to crash the model 299. a doctor and writer wrote about this for the new yorker magazine a few years ago. because that diagnosis of that plane crash, that diagnosis that this incredibly good, incredibly experienced, incredibly expert pilot was responsible for that crash. it wasn't the plane's fault. it was the pilot's fault. that diagnosis led to a really important cure. convince that this boeing bomber was still the right plane for the u.s. military. after that crash, a group of test pilots had gotten together. they still wanted that plane and they wanted to try to figure out

a way that the army could still use this boeing plane. and what they came up with was deceptively simple. it was a checklist, a point-by-point pie lot's checklist for taxiing in that plane, taking off in that plane, flying that plane and landing that plane. so, yes, this boeing model 299 was more complicated than other planes had been at that point. but if you didn't just depend on the expert pilot memorizing everything and doing everything perfect, if, instead, you broke it down and you wrote everything down that needed doing and you made someone in the cockpit overtly check off every time those things needed to be done, well, then, maybe it was flyable. maybe the army air corps could have this plane with all of this capability that they wanted so bad. well, that plane went onto be the b-17 bomber, which was, frankly, a really big help in

bombing the snot out of the nazis in world war ii, thank you very much. and, yes, the b-17 and its prototypes, they were more complicated than planes had been before. but with this pilot's checklist innovation, pilots flying after peter hill went onto fly that boeing plane nearly 2 million miles without having another accident. and to this day, one of the things pilots carry around in those giant, over-sized, boxy suit cases is their cockpit checklist. it seems like a dumb thing, but it turns out that having someone check with you overtly that you have taken every step you need to take, it can make all the difference. it can make the difference between you just being an expert and you being the kind of expert who performs basically flawlessly in an environment

that account not tolerate mistakes. and the reason that peter hill has become something that doctors write about in popular magazines is because that idea, that deceptively simple idea of the pilot's checklist, that's the same basic idea that led to check lists being used by doctors. there's now a famous study from johns hopkins hospital about a decade ago in which intensive care unit nurses were told to follow a checklist. fill out a checklist every time doctors put in a central line catheter, which is a big kat they are that goes into the neck. and nurses were told to use the checklist to make sure that doctors followed all the steps they needed to follow to keep the patient from getting an infection when they were getting a line inserted in their neck. and, you know, this kind of stuff, i wouldn't want to do it. but to a doctor, it's not rocket

science. it's stuff they needed to do and wasn't the toughest. but at johns hopkins, they, never the less, decided to put all steps on a checklist. and then look at this, look at what the checklist did. the unit that made this change monitored the results in patients for a year after they started this checklist system. the results were so dramatic that they weren't sure whether to believe them. the ten-day line infection rate went from ten days to zero. they calculated just one hospital in this checklist had prevented 43 infections and eight deaths. just putting what they already

knew they should do on a written checklist as a way of making sure they actually did it. just like flying the b-17. this is not the hardest thing about their jobs. washing your hands is not something you need years of medical school to do. but that is the kind of stuff it turns out that can easily go wrong. it doesn't mean that you're an idiot. you might be the most intensely trained expert in the world in your field. but that kind of stuff can go wrong. we're human. and so there needs to be ways, systemic ways, of stopping those kinds of small and schism but potentially fatal errors. a checklist works, turns out. genius.

>> the hospital in dallas had him in isolation. its employees, presumably including this infected nurse were all issued and wearing protective gear that you're supposed to wear when you're in contact with someone who's symptomatic of ebola. but somewhere along the way, something went wrong. the centers for disease control says they are confident in their advice to help facilities in how to protect yourself. medically, it does not seem like there's reason to denounce the protocols they had been prescribing. everything has to be done right. will that be cockpit style checklists? what's the perception? as we deal with our first cases

of ebola, avoiding an outbreak is not rocket science. but from the people who do come into contact, it's going to take, basically, perfect behavior from those individuals. is there is no margin of error. how do we get that? the cdc today held a nationwide training conference call for health workers on how to deal with potential ebola cases. they're advice after the still unexplained failure in dallas

led to this worker contracting the virus in this country. they're reminding us that after all, it really could turn up anywhere. >> every hospital in the country needs to be ready to diagnose ebola. everyone needs to ask where have you been in the past month. where have you been in the past 21 days. have you been to liberia, sierra leone or guinea? >> the number of cases have been treated in the united states stands at seven. of those seven patients, three

have recovered, three are still in treatment and one has died. those are our the numbers here and how successfully we've dealt with this disease so far. we knew ebola was spreading rapidly. with this spike in the progression of ebola, any time you see a graph shoot up like this, unless the thing you're measuring is a good thing, in which case this is not, you're looking at a really scary trend. it's on track to be 10,000 full-times next month. the topic was supposed to be the koord nated global military strategy in the middle east. unless we continue to contain this at the source, it's going

to continue to pose a threat. the cdc announced a new program to get their experts on the ground anywhere in the country immediately as soon as there is a new ebola diagnosis.

>> the second thing that we will be doing is establishing a cdc ebola response team. anyone in the country that has a confirmed case of ebola, we will put a team on the ground within hours with some of the world's leading experts in how to take care of and protect health departmentcare workers from ebola infection. >> today, we anxiously awaited word from one of nose hopts dealing with potential cases. this was different than a lot of scares. he had worked as a medical officer on a ship. he entered this hospital in kansas city with a high fever and with other sittoms that could be associated with ebola. they announced the initial test came back negative. it is a good sign, obviously,

that the initial test did not show that he was infected. a desperately needed piece of good news today against the backdrop of huge and alarming international numbers. and a ton of fear about what we are facing even here in the united states. there's also a real need to communicate with us, right? to communicate effectively with the american public about this new disease we've never thought very much about before. of course, we do have a position in our government for that exact purpose. that's what the surgeon general does.

the senate never voted on his nomination. the national rival association decided they didn't like him. they announced they would score murphy. and that was it. that was enough to send senators running. that void has been filled with the national institute of infectious diseases. those two have stilled that

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the world as a whole is not doing enough. there are a number of countries that have capacity that have not yet stepped up. those that have stepped up, all of us are going to have to do more. >> on the day that the world health organization upped its estimate of new ebola infections from roughly 1,000 new infections a week now to 10,0 0 new infections a week within sometime within the next two months. what we need to do right now is talk to an expert in how our

nation is responding. >> good to be with you. >> can you shed some lights for us on why that estimate leapt ten-fold today? why did the forecast go up by tenfold today? >> it's spreading exponential. as you get more and more people who are getting infected and not getting into the kind of isolation and able to contact trace, they're infected a lot more people than if you had a system where as soon as somebody was identified as infected, and there is no place to go, they go out into the community and they infect several other people, so,

instead of the curve just going up this way, it goes up like that the way you just showed on that slide. >> so in terms of, i mean, the -- not just the experience in sierra leone and guinea and liberia which is so tragic, but in terms of the risk to the globe, in terms of the locust of this epidemic and getting that under control, is that basically the idea of what u.s. military forces and logistical help is doing there? frying to upscale the number of places people can go so they stop infecting people in the community. >> that's exactly the point. the military is involved in setting up those 17 by 100 hospital bed units. that's a big leak to what we

have now. now, as you just showed that piece, there is no one country that can actually do that alone. that's close to 2,000 beds. setting the organization's ngos. it's not just one person or group or country doing it. as the epidemic itself in the speed of its expansion out strips the speed and quantity is that the health workers that are there to work actually are commensurate with what the challenge is there. right now, they're not. it's all catch-up ball. >> in terms of the u.s.

contribution to that and u.s. leadership on that, obviously, we're doing this out of self interest but also out of responsibility for global leadership because this affects everybody ands everybody at risk. today, there was an interesting development when an american billionaire, the guy who founded facebook, decided to give $25 million as a personal donation to the cdc foundation to try to help contribute to that effort. on if one hand, that makes me happy for him. i'm glad he has those resources and that's where he wants to put them. it does call to question whether or not as a government, as a polity, as a country, whether we are resourcing adequately what we're doing. whether this is the sort of thing where we ought to be saying bar the door, the budget needs to get really big really fast. >> that's a good point. no one is doing enough.

we're doing a lot. but i think if we get the global community involved, that's going to be something that may be compounding the amount that you're doing. and that's what you need to do. right now, getting the military there was really an important thing because we really do need the command and control of the logistics, the engineering and the able to get those beds up. again, i have to emphasize that we can't do it alone. >> is it clear to you that we are never going to know how she became infected? forgive the term, but can that be postmortemed i have enough in terms of the the way she reacted to let us know how that happened so we can stoch it from happening with any other health care workers here? >> we may not be ache to know exactly what this particular individual came into -- how they

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you can park your rail car down stair. the bellhop will help you and your luggage right into the elevator and right into your suite. must have been very, very nice. but then it became national security. what began as a luxury perk for the unimaginably rich became ultimately an important escape route and a source of privacy for vips including u.s. presidents when they were staying at the waldorf in new york city on official business. and yes, that train track may have been put in more than 80 years ago before the great depression, but that train line is still down there. and every few decades it gets

discovered again. as mysterious track 61, the hidden vip-only train station stuck underneath this fancy hotel. >> travelers using the station, including general douglas macarthur. not only was it convenient for roosevelt, but it offered a way for him to travel. >> haen his advisers went through elaborate precautions to make sure even though the country knew he had polio, they did not know he could not walk on his own power again. >> the night of october 31, 1924, after a long day of traveling through the burroughs of new york city -- >> we have to back american

words with american deeds. >> after the speech, he descended to the basement. >> when that speech was over, what a pleasure it must have been to go back in without people seeing the body carried to the train. >> so what a discover of the secret railroads. presidents stay in that hotel. lots of other countries' presidents do as well. in 2003, amid hyper security fear whence george w. bush came to new york that fall, they kept a train idling on the tracks so president bush would have a getaway if he needed it that year. here's president obama at the hotel for meetings. that hotel is also the regular home, the permanent residence for whoever is the ambassador to the united nations. part of the gig is you get a big suite at the waldorf to live in. it's not exactly a secondary

white house but it's a little close. essentially the residential outpost of the president and his administration for when they have business in new york. and because of that, it was bigger news than its appeared to be at first when news broke that the waldorf has just been sold to the chinese that has ties to the ruling communist party in china. u.s. state department officials now say that this is the thing. the state department is publicly expressing their concerns that the chinese government might use the new purchase to spy on u.s. officials staying at the waldorf. officials say monday they are reviewing the sale and implying the glittering renovation scheme might mask a nefarious purpose -- espionage. as in they're worried the chinese spies will bug the rooms. the smat department already warns u.s. diplomats going to china that their hotel rooms could be bugged. now they're concerned the chinese might bug hotel room

here's, including the room where the mount stays every year and where the ambassador to the u.n. lives all around. press 1 for the front desk, press 2 for the news service to the people's republic of china. i love this story. we will see you tomorrow. now it's time for "the last now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. tonight, the revolution will be televised because look who is here, the author of "the revolution" mr. russell brand. >> canadian actor, best-selling author russell brand is out with a new book called "revolution." >> we have a pantheon of celebrities we overvalue, overworship, overplay. >> you have to look at alternative ways of thinking. me personally, i don't think change can come from within the political system. >> covering his views from everything on drug laws to voting to the redistribution of wealth. >> it's the media that tells us our stories, the stories we believe about ourselves. >> yesterday, russell brand went on a 12 1/2 minute rant on