much more on where he and other a-listers are heading in a homestretch to try to help their candidates out. good morning to you from washington. i'm peter alexander. it is wednesday, october 15th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." a wet one in washington today. we begin with breaking news about we are learning more about the second health care worker who tested positive for ebola. just moments ago, officials there revealed the newest ebola patient is a woman, that she helped treat thomas eric duncan before he died last week. she reported having a fever on tuesday, was quickly isolated. it took about 90 minutes, they say, and questioned about contacts to find out if anyone else needs to be monitored. >> a lot is being said about what may or may not have occurred to cause some of our colleague, to contract this disease, but it's clear there was an exposure somewhere sometime in their treatment of

mr. duncan. we're a hospital that may have done some things different. with the wbenefit of what we knw today. no one wants to get this right more than our hospital. >> did they have the proper protective gear? >> we did. >> the only way we are going to beat this is person by person, moment by moment, detail by detail. it may get worse before it gets better. but it will get better. >> this morning on nbc's "today" show, secretary of health and human services said more could have been done. >> i think we believe we could have done much better is the oversight of the implementation of the protocols. >> do you have confidence in the cdc? >> i do have confidence in the cdc. >> that nurse, nina pham, the first case of human to human transmission in the u.s., is said to be in good condition. and 75 people who had contact

with thomas duncan or his treatment team are being monitored for symptoms. overnight, the cdc said, quote, it is not unexpected that there would be additional exposures. and if any cases of ebola emerge in the u.s. in a u.s. hospital, a rapid response team will be immediately deployed. one of those teams already said to be on the ground in dallas now. the cdc's director said yesterday he'd wished he'd acted sooner. >> i thought often about it. i wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the patient, the first patient, was diagnosed. that might have prevented this infection. we will do that from today onward with any case anywhere in the u.s. >> in our new poll, out this morning, 56% of americans believe the country is prepared for an outbreak. 42% believe the country is not prepared. nbc's mark potter is joining us now live from dallas. i know they wrapped up this

update really within the last several minutes. give us a sense of what we are learning today about this latest case of this latest health care worker. >> good morning, peter. officials here describing this as a gut shot to the hospital community. another patient diagnosed with ebola. as you said, we know it's a woman. a health care worker. we do not yet know her description. we know she is among the team of 77 caring for thomas eric duncan, the original ebola patient here. another person identified the other day, nina, we know she is in good condition. now we have another worker being treated. based on preliminary tests that came back from the state overnight. there will be a confirmatory test at the cdc. that's two here. officials are quite concerned. she lived in an apartment building about three miles from the hospital in northeast dallas. a big apartment community there. and early this morning, fire officials and police officials

went to that neighborhood, knocking on doors, notifying neighbors of what was going on. reverse 911 calls were also sent to notify people. the first lempl lle level of cleaning has begun. cleaning the outside area, the commons area at the apartment. cleaning of the apartment itself inside, phase two, will twin this afternoon with a specialty company, and that's going to take some time. we've seen -- unfortunately, this is a scene that people here in dallas have seen before. the patient we were told presented herself with a fever on tuesday. then 90 minutes of coming into the hospital, she was placed in isolation for that testing i was talking about. and there are 75 more people they are watching very closely now. because they don't know how these people contracted ebola. that's the concern. the warning is there could be other cases. the on good news is the 48 other people being watched who had contact with duncan before he went to the hospital are ending

their testing period sunday. the chances, officials say, of them actually getting the disease now is quite minimal. peter. >> all right, mark potter. the hospital setting up an area for any workers working with duncan to be monitored at the hospital if they like as opposed to at home. we'll have more on the developing story later in this hour. another major story we're watching is the midterm election. less than three weeks to go. our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll finds republicans have the edge but they are not walking away with this election. a combo of unusually low voter interest and high dissatisfaction with leaders in washington has really become a volatile cocktail, as you might describe it, that makes the political environment more unstable and results less predictable than might have been initially the case. republicans have a two-point edge among likely voters. 46% to 44%. that is more narrow than at seven-point advantage they had back in 2010, a wave year. in a wider poll of all

registered voters, democrats lead 46-42. meaning the election will come down to turnout. what's a worrying sign for democrats, republicans have a 2 12-point enthusiasm advantage. the gop still has to work to win this. democrats are leading among registered voters in the top 11 senate races. a reversal from a month ago when they trailed by double digits. so the takeaway, the big story of this poll, as election day approaches. voters are tuning out. they're less engaged than they were in either 2006 or 2010. just 50% of voters rate themselves, a nine or a ten in terms of interest in this election. more than ten points lower than in the final weeks of those campaigns. though the public has a lot of doubt about the president, americans are equally skeptical that anybody is going to be able to change things in washington. take a look at this. just 42% approve of prmtzesiden

obama's performance. his job approval has dropped for the sixth straight poll to an all-time low. it stands at 31%. just a quarter of voters think the country is headed in the right direction. it's usually a pretty good hint that the party in power is about to be trounced. just 2% call themselves very satisfied with the economy. but it's not clear that voters believe republicans are really a viable alternative. just 27% of voters view the gop positively. more voters support president's agenda than the republicans in congress. if you need more evidence this isn't 2010, this year, voters prefer a congressional candidate that will make compromises. by an eight-point margin. over one who will stick to their positions. voters are putting incumbents on notice. just 12% approve of congress. that is an all-time low. when we asked respondents to give their leaders a letter grade, no one got higher than a c-plus. joining me now is chuck todd,

moderator of "meet the press" and nbc's political director. this is a lot to swallow. voters tuning out now. that's a broad issue here. who does that stand to benefit? >> well, look, it puts a premium on mechanics. the lower the turnout, the more the idea of who's got the ground game and who's spending all this money and who's got the boots on the ground and things like that. all of those cliches you hear about when election day comes about get out the vote efforts. the lower the effort, the lower the amount of persuadable, the premium that gets put on that. so that's why it's, you know, in a situation like that, that you got to think, well, maybe that's worth a point or two for the democrats. their ground machine, particularly in places like north carolina, iowa, colorado, in particular, is better than the gop's. so while the wind is blowing in the republican direction, you could say mechanically it gives the democratic advantage an

opportunity to be put into use. >> just 35% of independents saying they're very interested in these midterms. on the topic of voter issues and where priorities lie right now, it seeps the campaigns aren't doing a very good job addressing them, are they? >> no, the number one and number two issues for the public for their congressional candidate, job creation and breaking the partisan gridlock. i can't find a campaign in the country where that's the top two issues being debated, right, i mean, it's nowhere near there. notice how health care has fallen. national security has risen on that list. what this poll tells you is something weem seen for the last four or five years frankly with the american electorate. they're desperate to punish somebody in washington. but they're afraid of rewarding the other party. right. because basically they've done that for three of the last four elections. they punished one party and rewarded the other. they didn't like the result so they punished that party and awarded the other one. now you have an electorate

that's sitting there going, you know, i'm mad, so i don't know if i'm going. you have some say, i'm not participating. some saying, you know what, i'm going to protest and vote third party. i think that explains why if you have a viable independent candidate that they're surging. see kansas, see south dakota. >> i want to talk to you. you mentioned how health care, moving down on the list. i guess foreign policy, isis moving up a little as well. what is the takeaway? given so much and so many headlines are focused on the intability of the u.s. to success on its crackdown of isis. 61% note u.s. national interests in this effort in isis right now. how does that play into this conversation in these waning days? >> that's still unclear. boy, it's hurting president. while his approval rating did tick up overall, his approval rating on foreign policy went down another point. the fact that one goes up, one

goes down, tells you the public's not satisfied with the response so far with the president when it companies to isis. they believe it's in the national interest. what amazing here, we're seeing support for ground troops, u.s. ground troops creep up yet again. not a majority who are in favor but it went from 34%, now it's up to 31%, in a matter of a month. you beyonder as the progress. you wonder, you have a public that's willing to do more. >> the way the president came in and the promises he made and the way he potentially will go out. chuck todd, thank you. much more on major developments in the fight, as we noted, against isis, including stepped up air strikes in a critical region of syria. more side-stepping by turkey. numbers of the taliban throwing support behind isis. also right here, a little bit later, this is a wild one. confessions from the first lady

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you're watching "the daily rundown" right here on msnbc. president obama is working hard to get in front of the isis threat overseas. battlefield is becoming more complex. less than two hours from now, president obama's going to talk strategy with leaders in britain, france, germany and italy. a lot of moving parts in this

fight. the president admitted as much during a meeting with military chiefs. >> this is not simply a military campaign. this is not a classic army in which we defeat them on the battlefield and then they ultimately surrender. what we're also fighting is an ideological extremism that has taken root in too many parts of the region. >> underscoring that point, a group of leaders from the pakistani taliban is now throwing its support behind isis. this announcement came from a taliban spokesman and five other leaders on tuesday, although they say they aren't speak for the taliban as a whole. the situation remains on the ground -- remains fluid there. in syria, defenders of kobani, backed by u.s. air strikes, have managed to keep isis from taking the city. although neither side has taken much ground. turkey has made it clear it won't send troops. it is now pushing back against

reports it will let the u.s. use one of its air bases there. in iraq, isis is claiming credit for new bombings inside baghdad. including one tuesday that killed two dozen people and a member of the iraqi parliament. a bigger problem may come from the sectarian split that is causing bloodshed in iraq. nbc's chief foreign correspondent is richard engel. he's joining us live from dohook in iraq. jim miklaszewski is joining us from the pentagon. richard, first, to you and iraq. i want to get your sense of the status on the ground there, what's happening there, but also want to get your take on this new report from amnesty international about how shiite militias are going after sunnis as revenge for isis advances. >> what we're seeing now both in iraq and syria is an absolutely sectarian fight. the u.s. is presenting this war

as a clean war with united allies, partners on the ground who can be counted on, who are fighting against an islamic extremist against isis, that all of these allies universally despise. when you look at the problem more closely, it is far mom complicated than that. sunni versus shiite. in baghdad, it is the same sectarian fight. look at baghdad itself. the iraqi capital, 6 million people. outer ring of the iraqi capital is being protected by the iraqi army. which is sectarian, but it is still the iraqi armed forces. the inner core of the city is being protected about the whole host of radical, many of them backed by iran, shiite militias. that is the defenses of the iraqi capital. it is not surprising at all when a report comes out like the report that came out from amnesty international that says

some of these shiite militias have been rounding up sunnis and killing them because it is sunnis in the form of isis carrying out the car bombings, carrying out the assassinations in baghdad. then you have the shiite militias responding. that's the reality, very complicated reality of the war that now president obama's going to be meeting with his european officials to be discussing. >> thank you very much for that. mik, give us a better sense of what you can tell us about in terms of strategy and talkings with turkey specifically. >> yesterday, the president sat down with the 29 leaders, military leaders, of this so-called coalition of the willing. some are actually characterizing it as the coalition of the willing but still somewhat suspicious. because each one of these countries has their own personal agenda. has their own personal outlook

on what should be achieved here. for example, many of the arab allies in this, and including turkey, don't think -- they're suspicious and afraid that at some point the u.s. is just going to pull up stakes and leave. and instead of just going after isis, of course, many of them want the u.s. to go all the way to damascus and overthrow the syrian government, which is just not in the cards. and at the same time, u.s. officials are looking warily at many of these allies at the same time because of particularly turkey, because they're trying to play both sides of the fence here. they claim to support the coalition but they're doing nothing yet to go after isis. and this idea about the airfields that they said the u.s. would be able to use, that's still up in the air. and so everybody's sitting back and waiting and it will be interesting to see how the political leadership responds to any entreaties from president

obama. >> joining us right now is retired army colonel jack jacobs. he of course is the recipient of the medal of honor and an msnbc military analyst. colonel jacobs, give us a sense strategically. what is isis doing so well that's allowing them to continue to make all these gains after we've entered the fray? >> they have a single-minded purpose, that's to create a caliphate across iraq and syria. they're well trained, well armed and also well led. they've got a lot of sunni officers who have a great deal of experience during the previous regime. and they've got limited objectives. they don't want to take over everything. they just want to take over what they can take over. they're also facing the peshmerga who are not very well resourced. they're brave, but not very well resourced. they're facing the iraqi army, who's neither brave nor well

resourced. they are actually a very poor army. not well trained at all. they've got everything going for them. it's not surprising a relatively small number of them could take over large swaths of land. >> more broadly, i guess, right now, for people who witness this obviously from thousands of miles away like we do here in the u.s., it seems like this should be a much more simple task because there's so many available targets from isis. we're talking about it on the news, about their positions. why hasn't the u.s. been more aggressive perhaps in hitting those targets? >> well, there are two reasons. they're closely related. you heard one from mik. the turks are not going to give us use of incirlik air base, which is only about 100 miles from the action. instead, what we've had to do is launch aircraft from aircraft carriers and land bases much further away. have to refuel and so on. second, very closely related to this, is that the administration

is not particularly interested in making it look like we are really devicisivegageengaged. i know the president said we want to degrade isis. but destroying it requires a commitment the administration is not going to make. >> have we degraded isis? >> targets of opportunity only. i don't think the administration wants to make it look like we're as engaged as it would look if we actually mounted a very serious, very organized air campaign against isis. >> colonel, thank you. coming up next, the umbrella revolution turns nasty in hong kong. dozens of arrests and allegations of a police beating in what was a peaceful pro-democracy demonstration. plus, a west coast governor defending his policies and his personal life. some stunning revelations about his fiance's secret past. if you haven't heard this, wait until you do. first, today's trivia question. when was the last time a president's political party

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>> marriage fraud is a federal felony. but the statute of limitations in this case expired years ago. still this political scandal didn't end there. this week, hayes also admitted she took part in a plan to illegally grow marijuana on a property with a different man around the same time. in a statement, she wrote, i was involved in an abusive relationship with a dangerous man. >> certainly ups the stakes in an otherwise very, very dull governor's race. >> this week, governor kitzhaber ordered a review of his fiance's business and whether hayes, who advises him on goval issues, has tried to benefit financially as first lady. president obama gets ready for his first campaign rally today. we're going to tell you who he is stumping for and why some democrats worry this could be just too little too late in hillary clinton's push to boost kentucky senate candidate allison grimes. first, your white house soup of the day.

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this year. nbc's kristen welker is at the white house for us. our white house correspondent. give us a sense, the white house carried connecticut two years ago by 17 points. not exactly a red state he's visiting today. the governor's race there basically tied up right now. can the president prove today that he can still be a net plus for some democrats? >> well, peter, he can be. the headline, though, is that you're going to see president campaigning for democratic gubernatorial candidates but he's largely sitting on the sideline when it comes to the main event. a lot of democrats locked in tough battles to try to win senate seats. but, as you point out, president obama will be in connecticut today, stumping for governor malloy. the goal is to really get him to rally the democratic base, particularly african-americans there. there's a large concentration of african-americans in bridgeport. that's where this rally is going to be tonight. peter, that's really going to be the strategy moving forward.

for president obama to rally the base to try to bump up voter turnout at the polls. so that democrats can win some of these competitive races for governor. let's take a look at where the president's going to be over the next several weeks. it really gives you a snapshot of what the strategy is, peter. this sunday, he's going to be rallying for anthony brown in maryland. pat quinn in his home state of illinois. and then a little bit later, mary burke in milwaukee, tom wolfe in pennsylvania. gary peters, the only senatorial candidate at this point in time who president obama plans to stump for, you will not see him in places like alaska, new hampshire, places where he's not so popular. according to the latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll, president obama has a 42% approval rating if you look at the ratings in connecticut, it gets a lot higher for the president. >> kristen welker at the white house. hillary clinton is going to

headline a rally for allison grimes tonight in louisville. the stop comes at an unfortunate time. just yesterday, the democratic senatorial campaign committee made it clear they would not spend any more money on ads for grimes. another way of basically saying this one is over. republican mitch mcconnell, he welcomed clinton to the state. and interviewed yesterday with kacie hunt. >> we're good friends. she's doing what candidates for president do. one thing i think is noteworthy, allison grimes doesn't have any trouble announcing she voted for hillary clinton, even though apparently she doesn't want to say she voted for barack obama. >> have national democrats given up on your opponent? >> i don't think hillary clinton would be coming in here a couple of days from now if they had given up. >> and in lass lass's first senate debate, republican congressman bill cassidy kept his focus trained on the president. democratic senator mary landrieu focused on her seniority in the senate. and both tried to avoid being linked with two less than

popular political figures. >> i want you to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 two people, president obama and governor jindal. >> obama's a zero. he's going to go down as one of the worst presidents -- >> how about governor? >> he's taken some tough licks so i give him a 7. >> 0 and 5. >> i would give jindal barely a 3 and i would give president obama a 6 to 7. i think he's had some really tough issues to deal with. >> in arkansas, democratic mark pryor and republican tom cotton faced off in their final scheduled debate. republicans are trying to get this prior moment plenty of air time. >> under this law, there's a lot of different definitions of middle class. i think of most of arkansas and maybe that goes up to $150,000, $200,000. there's different ways to judge it. here's the thing. we need to focus on the middle

class here. we need good middle class jobs. >> senator pryor must be the one who's hanging around with out of state billionaires if he thinks $200,000 in arkansas is the middle class. >> the debate was combative. trying to make the point that cotton is not a regular guy. >> he did go to harvard and certainly we're proud of that. i know he probably couldn't get into the university of arkansas. we get that. he brags on the fact he went to harvard. he has used harvard to further his political career. and that's okay. but it's not okay to then turn around and say you want to eliminate the very same student loan program that you used to get your education. >> tonight, kansas senator pat roberts faces off with greg oralen in front of what's likely to be their largest prime-time audience. paul and bratt, who's surprise victory over eric cantor shocked washington. will try to motivate the tea party for ed gillesspy in

virginia. mitt romney stumping in new hampshire for republican scott brown. joining us now, mark murray. and nbc news political reporter carey dan. thanks for being here. the law firm of dan and murray as it were. if we can, just right out of the gates, talk about kentucky. the timing is awkward for hillary clinton to be showing up given the dnc said we're done. >> it's not good timing. you need to understand what's going on in kentucky. allison grimes has been behind. maybe a couple of polls have shown her competitive or ahead. most every poll has had mcconnell leading. what democrats have decided to do is say, look, we don't think we're going to win kentucky but we have a much better chance in a place like georgia. where the polls have shown the race to be much closer between republican perdue and democrat michelle nunn. georgia, particularly the fact it has a runoff that goes to january 6, may be a better investment for us. >> carrie, your takeaway from

the debates, arkansas and louisiana? >> i thought mary landrieu's answer was an example for other democrats. rating him a 6. >> perhaps like allison grimes. >> and mark pryor who stumbled earlier in this campaign answering questions about the president. she gave him the same answer as bill cassidy gave to the governor of that state jindal who is almost as unpopular in the state as the president is. it's something that can't really be turned into a sound bite. and yet gives herself a little distance from the president. >> speaking of the president, give us a sense, the president now finally less than three weeks to election day is out on the campaign trail in a race that's close, but none of these races he'll visit in the next seven weeks are senate races. what should we take away from what the president is sending? >> one, president is unpopular. when you have a 42% approval rating, you're not going to be pop rular in a whole lot of places.

there are gubernatorial races where there is that democratic base of african-americans or latinos. we're seeing in connecticut, an illinois governor's race. what states are up for grabs in gubernatorial races are a little different than terrain for senate purposes. like the arkansases, the louisianas. president obama even on his best day wouldn't do very well. you see why he's probably not going into a colorado or new hampshire as well. >> this is not his best day, some might say. orman, roberts tonight, what do we anticipate? >> there's room for fluidity in this race. our latest poll shows orman with the lead. also showed a third of voters don't know enough about him to make a judgment. what roberts needs to do is win back some independent support. if he can sort of get some of those people back into his camp and energize republicans, that's what he's going to have to do to pull up even with orman. >> carrie dan and mark murray, thank you. we'll all be working into our

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and in english and in spanish. we knocked on every single door in this apartment complex. >> just moments ago in dallas, the public information officer, working to alert neighbors and cordon often the apartment of this second dallas health care worker to test positive for ebola. emergency workers surrounded her dallas apartment overnight. that worker we have learned lives alone, has no pets. hazmat crews are expected to clean the apartment later today. this new and as of yet unidentified patient treated thomas duncan before he died last week. we're joined by nbc.com senior health writer cathy f er maggie. in that news conference, we learned it was a total of 77 health care workers who had interacted with mr. duncan over the course of his treatment, before he passed.

we know two have been infected. what's being done with those other 75 to make sure they don't potentially expand the reach of ebola and it doesn't become exponential in some way and others would haven't yet been diagnosed are properly treated? >> that's what everyone's worried about now. the health authorities in dallas say it's a good sign that another worker has been diagnose signatured so quickly. she spiked a fever, was immediately isolated. that says, they say, that their preparations are actually working. the idea is, you stay home. you take your temperature twice a day. the moment you have a fever, you call -- >> because you may have symptoms but you cannot spread them until you spike that fever. >> that's right. you can't spread any of the virus until you're shedding body fluids. until you're vomiting, diarrhea, sweating. you may not actually have a fever first. your first symptom might be diarrhea or loose stools. they're told to call in if they

get any of those symptoms. >> what is being done actively by the cdc? the concession made why the director that perhaps there are things we wish we would have done more of before this situation in texas took off. what's being done to make sure it doesn't get worse? >> they're setting up what i'm calling strike teams. they haven't called them strike teams. they're these teams of experts who will swoop in to a hospital and help them get their measures up to snuff. they'll have an officer. one of the things they'll do is have an officer on site who helps spot the workers as they get in and out of their gear. that's the weak point, when you're getting in and out of your protective gear. >> that so-called buddy system they have in place. one thing i want to ask, because people have been asking me about, there's almost a superman among us right now in dr. kent brabtly who has now given blood to three of these patients. why is it? and perhaps does his blood get more powerful in terms of those antibodies going forward? >> once you've been infected with ebola, your body starts developing these anti-bobodies t

have specific to ebola. seems to peak after you've recovered. evidently, his blood is getting more potent. and then it will level off. it is almost truly wonder blood. >> it's almost truly wonder ri. he's given about a gallon of his blood to the other patients. he's been a hero in the process. nice to see you. >> my pleasure. trivia time george w. bush's first midterm in 2002. that was the last time a president's party gained seats in the house and senate. congratulation today our winner is sean pastorknack. we'll be right back.

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eric duncan before he died from ebola at texas health presbyterian hospital one week ago. she's in isolation while 75 other hospital workers are being closely monitored. the dallas mayor urged caution despite this morning's announcement. >> while dallas is anxious about this, and with this news this morning, the anxiety level goes up a level. we are not fearful. >> also, at that news conference and joining me right now is dallas county judge clay jenk s jenkins. thank you for being with me. i know, you've been up dealing with the crisis. in the news conference you said there's a real possibility that there will be more cases. what leads you to believe that? >> well, the breach -- it's a medical term not saying anyone did anything wrong as far as the nurses, i don't think they