decontaminated. 77 other health care workers are under observation. >> it may get worse before it gets better. but it will get better. >> safety breach. serious allegations from a nurse's group claiming the dallas hospital was not prepared. >> mr. duncan was left for several hours, not in isolation. in an area where other patients were present. >> i don't think we have a systematic institutional problem, but we're looking at every element. >> cracks in the coalition. the president talks today to key allies after meeting with nearly two dozen military leaders from the countries he's counting on to help fight isis. but are they all willing to pull their weight? >> our coalition is united behind this long-term effort to degrade and ultimately destroy isil.

good day, i'm andrea mitchell in new york today. we are all following breaking news on the second patient diagnosed wit ed with ebola thi. the female health care worker that treated thomas eric duncan flew from cleveland to dallas on monday, only a day before reporting symptoms. the cdc is working with frontier airlines today notifying passengers on flight 1143 about potential exposure. this is video only just in, which our nbc affiliate in cleveland tells us is the plane the health care worker flew on. joining me now from dallas is nbc's mark potter on the situation there. mark, what do we know? because the briefing today from the dallas officials indicated that they have a lot of work to do to find out where the breach was. do they know yet where the breach was with now two health care workers who treated mr. duncan? >> hey, hello, andrea.

we don't know what that breach is. they say that they've given no indication they know. but i want to make one point. in that briefing you were just talking about, they told us about this worker who had tested positive. and we were all getting over the shock of that and the sadness of yet another worker who treated thomas eric duncan testing positive. what they did not tell us is that young woman also flew on the 10th to cleveland and then back, as you said, on monday, to dallas. and now people on that flight are being notified by the cdc in an abundance of caution because right afterwards, she then presented herself voluntarily with symptoms. and that is raising great concern here now about this situation escaping outside the cordon that we had been assured had been placed on the workers here. there were 75 workers who were still being monitored because of their contact with mr. duncan

after he came into the hospital. and they -- the officials were saying regularly that they thought they were going to be able to keep this from spreading because they were watching these people, they were being monitored, it was a closed community, and everyone was being assured it was under control. and now this. someone flew clear across, who was in that group, flew clear across the country and then back, potentially exposing patients to her condition. now, doctors have said there was one on the air short while ago that the chance of infection is very, very low. the chances typically are low at the beginning of someone presenting symptoms. and we understand all that. but half of the story as you well know, andrea, is the fear factor. and this doesn't help for someone in that control group to fly out and come back in a closed environment. and now those calls are going out. if you can imagine being one of those passengers getting one of those calls, that could be quite

frightening. and this does not help. there's going to be a news conference from the cdc coming up shortly. you know this is going to be topic "a" and this story has ratcheted up considerably because of the fear factor, the concern people have about what this means and the fact it wasn't all contained here in dallas. it went outside dallas to another city and back with passengers along for that ride. >> and, mark, even within dallas, from the briefing we heard earlier and at 1:00, there's going to be another cdc briefing and we'll be hearing more. even within dallas, we were told repeatedly that cdc was on the case, they were there in dallas, that hospital was doing the right thing. now we learn that they acknowledge they were late to get there and that the procedures clearly failed. now, you still have not been told you all covering it in dallas where the breach was, but clearly, according to at least the nurses who were overnight on that conference call organized

by a labor of organizations representing nurses. there were serious breaches from people who went in and out of containment in the care of mr. duncan. >> absolutely. and that's what's -- representing or speaking with nurses purportedly from here, anonymously, that the guard they wore originally were not complete, their necks were exposed. mr. duncan sat outside the isolation room for quite some time, that nurses went in and out of the area without decontaminating. questions were asked of the doctor today about that. and he did not have a comment. so that's -- that's how the day began. it wasn't great. and now this. just completely taken into it a new level of concern. and, again, one step behind all the way. the cdc, the local officials. they knew about this. they had to know about this.

before that news conference. frontier airlines were notified at 1:00 a.m. if i read the e-mail correctly, mountain time. and that news conference was a lot later than that. if they knew the cdc was telling this to frontier airlines, that statement we might have more cases really seems quite ironic right now because it may mean that the concern is much greater than we were led to believe. >> thanks so much. i know you're on the case, you'll be back with updates throughout. and more now on the response to ebola here in the united states i'm joined by kenneth davis, ceo and president of mt. sinai, thank you very much. dr. davis, we have in the media, many of us have been trying to calm fears. but this is very concerning because the cdc clearly fell down on the job. >> well, it's a little less concerning than we think. and here's why. >> tell me why. >> patients to be contagious have to be symptommatic.

it's not clear that the second health care woman certainly wasn't -- she was on the initial flight was at all symptommatic. if she was symptomatic, it would clearly be at the beginning of the illness. what does that mean? what is contagious are the bodily fluids. what makes the bodily fluids so contagious is there's so much of them and the virus gets increasingly concentrated as the disease progresses. if she wasn't vomiting, didn't have diarrhediarrhea, wasn't pr the bodily fluids that would carry the contagion. i think what the cdc is doing here by calling the people on frontier airlines is appropriate but it's probably to calm them down and to tell them watch yourself, look for fever, but the chance that anything happens here, that was transmitted on that plane is really relatively remote. >> taking a step backwards, shouldn't the cdc, which has this very celebrated contact tracing procedure, shouldn't

they have been tracing all 77 of the health workers who had treated mr. duncan, and those people should not have been flying. those people should not have been traveling? >> well, look, i don't know what the cdc told texas presbyterian to do. what texas presbyterian, in fact, did and whether this individual who flew to cleveland was breaking a protocol that they had put in place. it's unclear. so much of what goes on in that hospital system at this point is a black box and we don't know. >> and some of the nurses on this overnight conference call were claiming. and, of course, they're anonymous unidentified nurses at this stage. they were claiming there were no protocols. >> yeah. >> and texas presbyterian has a lot of questions to answer. two health care workers. we know how successfully dr. brantly, other patients have been treated at emery, at nebraska. there is a procedure, which in cases -- >> you're precisely right. >> that do this right where

there's a contagion. >> right. at nebraska, at emery, where they're used to dealing with patients like this or they've been prepared. those staff people are educated, they're drilled, they're protocoled. they know exactly what to do. it almost becomes second nature. there are nuances to taking care of patients who were so highly contagious that really requires a lot of drilling and education. things as subtle as taking off your protective gear is actually not so straightforward. it has to be done in a buddy system and it has to be repeatedly practiced. >> that's labor intensive. >> labor intensive. whether texas presbyterian had done that and was prepared, we don't know. >> let me ask you a couple of questions more about potentia y potentially. if more people among these 75 now because two have tested positive. if more people are -- turn out to be infected with ebola, they

do not have enough isolation units for patient care. not for screening, but patient care. and according to the nursing director, even an experienced facility can't handle successfully more than two or three patients at a time. so where will they put them? we know that -- >> there are hospitals clearly in dallas where they can go and there are some great health care facilities. and i'm sure by now, those health care facilities. >> have been identified. >> identified. established teams that know what they're doing and should be able to take care of patients should it spread beyond that. remember, the 21-day period from duncan's exposure is shortly ending. and if we don't start to see new cases quickly, we're not going to see the new cases. >> good point. sunday would be the 21 days, at least, from his first entry, i believe, to the hospital. >> yes. >> governor perry of texas has issued a statement regarding the second health care worker saying that he's in daily contact with

the doctors in charge and with the white house, as well. this is the first time, said governor perry, our nation has had to deal with a threat such as this. everyone working on this challenge from the medical professionals to the bedside -- working to end the threat posed by the disease. he has great faith in the success of this important mission and a task force in place. there was earlier criticism and i don't know where he's releasing this statement from. it's released from austin. criticism earlier in the week he was traveling on a foreign policy mission rather than being in texas. we'll check that out as the day proceeds. the other thing i wanted to ask you about is what mt. sinai and other hospitals here in new york and elsewhere are doing. because of all of the publicity. you've had a lot of people coming in with fevers saying, well, i think it might be and you have to deal with that. >> sure. our health care system to this day has had five patients who have come in with fever, potential travel from west africa all prove negative.

in new york now, at least at a couple of days ago, there were over 100 identifications of potential patients all have proven negative. so with the real stress on the system right now is, is the false positive identifications and the overuse in the facilities that were really unnecessary because we are so concerned about this. >> are you finding at all a morale problem or any kind of issue among your staff at a place as superior and as well trained as mt. sinai is? >> a heightened level of awareness. but, you know, a lot of people enter medicine because they want to experience these challenges. so, no, i don't see any demoralization, no undue anxiety. it's all appropriate. >> did i read correctly there's one to be the place if a patient is determined to have it? >> for now, bellevue is the face

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and we have breaking news. nbc news has confirmed president obama is convening a meeting at the white house of cabinet agencies coordinating the government's ebola response. the president is cancelling a political fund raising trip to do this. i'm joined now by chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." >> the president had to do something like this. >> this is crisis management. >> crisis management 101.

this is learning the hard lessons from decisions not to cancel events when they didn't cancel a trip, when the malaysian airplane got shot down over ukraine. this is a white house at a minimum nobody can say they're not learning pr lessons. >> learning late in the game. >> always late in the game. >> she's also in charge of coordinating ebola. susan rice, dennis mcdonough. questions by the cdc, about how quickly they moved to monitor this hospital that was clearly not up to the task. >> right. as everybody has said, some protocol breach took place so this wouldn't have happened. and obviously the administration knows they have a problem pr wise at the cdc or they wouldn't have put -- >> let's play a little bit -- >> i don't know how helpful that was today. >> let's see what she had to say with matt lauer today.

>> i think we believe we could've done much better is the oversight of the implementation of the protocols. >> do you have confidence in the cdc and dr. frieden. >> 98% of the people questioned are aware of this. the awareness level. >> the word is out. >> completely out. what about the confidence that the u.s. can avoid of a major outbreak. >> i could say these are okay numbers, but we should put a caveat. this was in the field before the second was diagnosed. two becomes a point of extra concern. look, there has been this balance and this concern about balance of the ebola coverage and ebola panic versus what's reality. but a second diagnosis of somebody who gets ebola from a

patient. there's suddenly a lack of confidence, at least in that hospital of being able to do it. then it does say, okay, is the cdc ready for a real outbreak? west africa's an outbreak. we do not have an outbreak in the united states. if you're like, wait a minute, are we not handling one case? you know, so now we've got the crisis in confidence issue that i think that the white house is well aware of. and i think they're trying to move pieces on the chessboard here both because part of governing is keeping the public both informed and calm. and i don't know if they've done either very well. >> and let's look at the other midterm numbers. what you see is a lot of anger. you see a lack of confidence. and this -- >> this adds to it. >> to the lack of confidence in our institutions? >> it is. this adds to it. i was talking to a few strategists on both sides who say it's kind of an unknown how this is playing, but it's having an impact. and ebola and isis collectively, it's having an impact. it's certainly not helping

people, the voters' views of president obama. right, it is certainly this idea that not everything is under control. certainly, his numbers aren't improving the way democrats want to do it. but this is more of a, boy, all of washington is this dysfunctional. it could put competency on the front burner compromising, getting things down, a pragmatist. if a candidate can take advantage of it in a short period of time because that's what you get out of this poll. a bunch of people fed up with the partisanship and the incompetence. >> they're not going to vote. evenly divided pretty much. >> should i tell you, the public knows nothing changes. this isn't going to change anything. we've reported it. you and i know it. we know how the system works and, guess what, the voters are not stupid either. they know it and so when you tell them, this election -- >> i'm so passionate about voting, emotional about voting.

>> no, and 35% of the country is. but that next chunk, if you look at it in three chunks, a third never votes. it's that third in the middle. they've got to be motivated. they've got to be motivated. >> what could motivate voters at this point in time? >> i think if they thought there'd be a competency sea change in washington. would washington work again? ultimately, whether you want big government or small government, you want competent government, that's what is there. and i think that's the frustration over polarization. the frustration over the idea that, boy, they always bicker, don't seem to get anything done. and it's like we're lurching from crisis to crisis. i have to say, we go back -- is there an agency that can withstand media scrutiny? it seems as soon as there's a crisis and agency, we go down and find out you start lifting rocks and, boy, they're not ready for this, not ready for this. does not help the case for governing sometimes. >> thank you, chuck. i know you've got to go. and now the latest on a string of deadly storms ripping

across the south. the national weather service confirms an ef-1 tornado touched down in georgia. >> woken from a dead sleep to this horrible sound. very, very scary. >> all of a sudden, we heard like a jet plane or a freight train just coming across the back of the house. >> arkansas, a family of five was caught in an ef-2 tornado there. it is -- it had 111-mile-per-hour winds blowing the house to pieces. all three children and their mother survived. she was seriously injured, the father, a former marine who served two tours in iraq did not survive. >> gone. everything he's not going to be able to do. he's not going to be able to see any of us graduate. walk me down the aisle. >> and in the tropics, hurricane

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flew back on that frontier flight from cleveland to dallas, landing at about 8:16 p.m. on monday night. i think that's the question now that you will start to see asked at these cdc press conferences and hospital press conferences. should anyone who is in any way associated with the care of an ebola patient be prohibited from mingling in plublic areas, from traveling? that's the question. we need to stress yet again. this nurse is asymptomatic. and that is the beginning sign, the first sign there may be an ebola sign. they are trying to contact the passengers aboard. as of 1:00, they will be told to call an 1-800 and a cdc number and they'll have a conversation with the cdc personnel interviewing them about what if anything they've seen in their own health.

have they noticed any changes. they'll be answering questions about what they should look for. the risk, again, said to be very, very, very low. they want to take this step out of an abundance of caution. if anybody does become symptomatic or become concerned, they would arrange for follow-up and monitoring of those symptoms. but, again, this is highly expected to be highly unlikely. i think it opens the gates here to all these questions about whether we should be doing more as it relates to the people who are actually providing the care, andrea. >> and of course, she was on an airplane, but what other, who else was she in contact with? >> that's right. >> it widens the circle, tom. >> the taxi cab, the tsa check point. you can go on and on. maybe she bought a soda at a restaurant there in the airport. i mean, there are so many different areas here that this raises concerns about that clearly they need to discuss this. >> and, tom, you've had such a varied career. i wanted to ask you also about the financial impacts.

because if you look at the boards that airline stocks are now really tumbling, there's a, you know a lot of other issues that go into the stock market every day. but this report of a second health care worker in dallas and the fact that an airline may or may not have been involved. this is just all concerning. it's public psychology. >> in fact, i was working on the stock market story for "nbc nightly news" tonight before we learned of this -- >> i knew i could ask you anything, tom costello. what do you know so far? >> stock market was down 370 points at the open for a variety of reasons. ebola is a component of that. and when we learned about the frontier airlines element, then airline stocks sold off today. in addition, though, there's concern about isis, there's concern about global economies in europe that are slowing down as well as in china. all of that weighing on the stock market today. there was also economic news out this morning at 8:30 that wasn't great. retail sales numbers not great. but that kind of has been weighing on the market.

and as you know, the market's been struggling for a better part of a week or two now. >> and tom, before i let you go, we've been talking about crisis management and failures at various agencies. the white house is, of course, cancelling president obama's political trip today to chair a meeting on crisis management of ebola. and now we learn that governor rick perry is still in europe on a trip, a foreign policy trip that has been criticized in the last couple of days for being away during a crisis in dallas, a crisis affecting his state. this is someone who has been considering a trip -- considering, rather, a campaign, another campaign for the presidency and, perhaps, burnishing his foreign policy credentials. rick perry's office confirms that statement we read earlier that was issued while he is traveling in europe. thanks so much, tom costello for all of the above. and we're moments away from the white house briefing. we expect to hear more about the newly announced meeting this afternoon when the president will be huddling with cabinet agencies to coordinate the ebola

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and as isis continues to gain ground, president obama is meeting by secure satellite at this hour with leaders from britain, france, germany and italy to discuss potential changes in their strategy as well as talking about the ebola crisis. questions remain about the isis strategy and the unity of the international coalition. as isis continues to advance in iraq and syria. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in iraq north of mosul with the latest developments there. first of all, what about the strategy? we've seen increasing air strikes now from the u.s.-led coalition basically the u.s. and it hasn't seemed to deter isis at all regarding kobani and other advances they made in anbar province in iraq. >> reporter: they are having some impact, for example, let's start with kobani.

kobani is this city of a few hundred thousand right on the turkish border. and a few days ago, looked like kobani was about to fall completely. the city was falling, isis flags were being raised and the defenders of kobani looked like they were going to be wiped out. there now have been a number of air strikes, quite intensive air strikes, more than a dozen just in the last 24 hours or so. and that has slowed the assault that it has given the defenders of kobani a new lease on life. at least given them an opportunity to defend the city. supplies are difficult to get inside kobani. there is still a battle underway in the city. so the city is not out of the clear. but it's not that the air strikes are having no impact. but globally, when you look at syria and iraq, they are not enough to have so far changed the tide of the battle. they are helping to slow the attack in kobani, but they are not eliminating isis or even

slowing its general spread across these two nations. >> richard engel in iraq, thank you very much. and as president obama is in crisis management mode, can democrats pull off an election night surprise in georgia? will the president's unpopularity help republicans hang on to that senate seat? there are new developments on the trail. the democratic senatorial campaign committee is expected to make an ad by a big one around $1 million to help michelle nun. sam nun is co-chairman of the nuclear threat initiative and the father of michelle nun. thanks very much, senator, good to see you again. we hear now that the democratic campaign committee is pulling money out of kentucky, out of the grimes/mcconnell race and putting it in georgia. tell me what your hope is on the ground there in georgia about your daughter's race. >> well, andrea, i think that's indication that the race is very close and it's winnable.

from michelle's point of view. i think it's also important that the republican committee, which it announced they were pulling out three or four weeks ago have now come back in because that tells us that they are reading the same polls. and i think they have a slight degree of great concern at this stage. this is a winnable race. michelle's become an absolutely terrific candidate. i think she is reflecting the desire, majority of voters which is try to do something about improving the dysfunctional government in washington. and that's a matter for our economy, our jobs, but also a matter for national security because as you well know when america seems to be dysfunctional, particularly in our congress and between the congress and the president. if countries have an inch around the world, north korea, iran, or isis, they figure it's a good time to scratch. it creates real dangers when we're a dysfunctional

government. >> senator, there's a big drag on your daughter on all democratic candidates this year. and it's the president's 42% national approval rating in our latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll. how big of a problem is president obama for michelle nun? >> well, you're talking to someone who ran in 1972 when george mcgovern got 27% in georgia. but when you look at the six-year term, it should be a different perspective. i served in my first term with three presidents and four vice presidents in the first six years. so the senate seats in georgia, historically have been viewed as long-term investments and the best candidate. and candidate who will work with the other side and listen to others. and so i think that's where a majority will come down. >> but president obama is a negative factor in races such as your daughter's. >> well, you certainly would hope that the president of the

party you're running with without have high ratings. but at this point in time, a lot of problems in the world and the economy. and i think the voters are going to judge you on an independent basis. it's very important that people realize that this is a long-term proposition and will be a number of presidents. i served with six presidents overall. and i think this is an amount of independence, common sense and a pledge to try to work with others and listen to republicans and work with both sides of the aisle. we have an increasing number of voters who are disgusted with both political parties. and to me, i think a lot of those of the undecided votes now. i think they're attracted by someone who is going to be a problem solver and, of course, michelle's opponent said after got the nomination that he was going to washington to prosecute the president. i think even if you're not in favor of the president, you don't want that kind of attitude because that's the attitude that causes dysfunction.

do the voters want a problem solver, which is michelle? or do they want a prosecutor which is her opponent? that would continue dysfunction in my view. >> you're there in atlanta, the cdc has been really under fire for the way it's handled the dallas case. how is ebola and that crisis affecting these political races and the feeling that people have that everything is out of control? >> well, of course, the cdc is here, emery university's here, people are concerned about ebola. i think a lot of confidence in health officials. but there's great concern, no doubt about that. i haven't seen that play one way or the other in the presidential race. but when you look at isis as we've discussed, when you look at ebola, russia, ukraine. you have to figure this is not a good time to cut back the defense budget and have it on automatic pilot. and michelle has said, and that's really important point that she is not in favor of automatic cuts. she disagrees with both president obama and the congress

on this. she believes that we need to strengthen our defense and send strong signals to the world and stop the very destructive short-term approach. >> sam nunn, senator, good to see you, thanks so much. and we've reached out to david perdue the republican and we would love to have him on, as well. and we're following breaking news out of dallas. that where the cdc has confirmed a second health care worker to test positive for ebola. actually took a flight from cleveland to dallas-ft. worth on monday and only two days before she tested positive for the deadly disease. expect to get more from the white house at any moment. the daily briefing is expected to start soon. moments after we learned the president has canceled a trip today to convene a cabinet level meeting on the ebola outbreak. and we should note as you can see from these pictures, washington is experiencing terrible weather. severe storm right now, the national weather service has issued a tornado warning for the d.c. area until 1:00 p.m. ugh... ...heartburn. did someone say burn?

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and now to another big health story that we are following. two silicon valley giants are offering their female workers a new benefit. paying for employees to freeze their eggs. but should working women be grateful or offended? she specializes in reproductive and clinical ethics. journalist and author of everything conceivable. how assisted reproduction is changing men, women and the world. she's also the director of the work family program of new america. welcome both to you. first of all, the issue is, is this a health benefit that young women who might want to postpone their reproductive years or postpone family, having a family. should they be grateful for this? since it's an expensive benefit. or is this implicit pressure

from an employer that having a family is not good in terms of your career? >> i think it could be both. you know, it's a pretty -- it's no longer considered an experimental procedure. but it's still not really a widespread means of having children. it certainly is not a sure way of having children. egg freezing can contribute to an atmosphere where women feel a certain amount of pressure to postpone childbearing. this is a part of the country where there's a lot of young women who are really concerned with leaning in very hard. and could feel pressure or encouraged to put off having families. >> or, is this a way that young women should feel encouraged that they're getting a very advanced health benefit, it's worth a lot of money, and it's giving them options? >> well, it does get them some options.

my concern is one concern is that they really need to be fully informed about. the chances of getting pregnant with these technologies. >> they shouldn't be misled into thinking it's a sure thing. >> now, there are companies that are marketing their egg banking services, they're even holding cocktail parties in large cities and saying, come to our cocktail party and we'll tell you all about this option for your future reproductive lives. the problem is that most women don't freeze their eggs until they're about 37 or so. at that point, the chances of your getting pregnant through this technology have really decreased. >> because of the age of the egg? >> because of the age of the eggs. i don't want women to feel a false sense of security, if they have banked their eggs that they will be able to have children.

no questions asked. it's still an uphill battle. >> but on the other side of the argument, could this be a game-changer for women and their career development? >> i don't think it will be a game changer. i think, you know, in terms of work family supports, coverage for egg freezing is fine, but it's much more important to have supports like paid maternity and paternity leave, on-site day care, flexible work schedules. those are the sorts of things that will enable women to lean into their careers but be able to have children when they're ready and care for their families, as well. >> also sends an interesting signal, in my experience, at least, when people have families, they bring other interests and other insights to their professional lives. i love being around my colleagues who have young families. and i learn so much from them. you're sending a very unusual signal to say the least, liza. >> yes.

i mean, earlier this year a number of these big tech companies sort of grudgingly issued their diversity reports and didn't look good in terms of gender. and there's been a fair amount of strategizing around that. how do we attract more women to this profession and these companies in particular? and this is a very high-profile way to, you know, get out there. egg freezing is always kind of a sexy topic and guaranteed to generate discussion. and i think it's part of a recruiting strategy among other things. >> thank you. and right now, continuing on breaking news from the white house, the president as we've been reporting has changed his schedule due to the second health care worker infected we bow la. the white house announced he'll no longer be going on his fund raising trip. instead a cabinet level meeting on the now two confirmed cases of ebola. more from the white house coming

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nbc news white house correspondent, kristen welker joins me from the briefing room. kristen, the president is going to be holding this meeting. he's canceled his trip and the briefing is postponed. and we expect we'll be hearing from the president. they realize they have to address this issue. >> they realize that, and i think president obama will try to reassure the american people when he makes those remarks after his scheduled meeting later this afternoon. i think the white house has to answer a couple of key questions today. first, who is in charge of this response, the administration said lisa monaco, the head of homeland security. has been in charge of the response. as you know, we've seen a number of different officials from the obama administration come out on a daily basis and at times they have had different information,

different messages. i think there's a sense that the administration has to have a more robust coordinated response and they need to get on the same page. the other question for this administration today, are hospitals around the country prepared to deal with cases of ebola if that were to happen? of course, the concern has ratcheted up a level today in the wake of the knowledge that a second health care worker was diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease in dallas. and now, the news that she traveled on an airplane. of course, we are learning that dallas hospital wasn't prepared. the nurse's union saying they weren't clear about what the protocols were to handle a patient with ebola. i anticipate that president obama will try to answer some of those questions when he makes remarks later this afternoon. certainly white house press secretary josh earnest will get a number of questions along those lines when he comes into the briefing room. as you point out, that briefing has been postponed until 2:15. it was supposed to take place at

12:30. and, of course, underscoring the severity of this. the fact that the president has canceled his trip today. he was supposed to be in connecticut campaigning for governor malloy. now he'll be holding meetings about this ebola crisis. >> and we're told now that the cdc is acknowledging that the dallas hospital is consulting emery university hospital, atlanta, which has the experience in dealing with dr. brantly and with nancy writebol. and the statement indicates they are considering, at least, transferring that second patient to emery in georgia. now, that raises other questions, transferring how because -- there are very few options here. about two specially equipped airplanes that can be used. and that doesn't give a whole lot of leeway around the country for transferring patients around. but a lot of questions to be answer answered. thank you very much, kristen welker. >> thanks, andrea. >> and kate snowe, i understand, is reporting that second patient is going to be transferred to

emory university hospital. that does it for us for a very busy day on "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show online, facebook and twitter for the latest on ebola. and my colleague ronan farrow joins me with what's coming up next. ronan. >> a lot happening right now. i'm back from texas where we've been covering these cases of ebola there. and obviously, as you've reported, a lot of developments today. we are continuing to monitor that telephone briefing ongoing right now from the cdc. they announced one of the patients is going to be transferred to emory university hospital today. we have all the latest on the other side of this break. ♪

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this moment, we're monitoring a telephone briefing from the centers for disease control. we know now that a second health care worker in dallas is infected we bow la. and this most recent patient is going to be transferred to emory university hospital today for treatment. this latest case, a woman treated thomas eric duncan at presbyterian hospital. within 90 minutes of finding she had a fever, she was in isolation. >> this is a person with their life before them. and a person who is dealing with this diagnoses with the grit and grace and determination that nina has dealt with the diagnosis. >> the patient took this frontier airlines plane from cleveland to dallas monday night, the day before she exhibited those symptoms. the airline and the cdc are working to notify other passengers on that flight. and today, crews are going to begin decontaminating the apartment where she lived alone.