what caught my attention i saw somebody get out of the table and like stand up and i saw him walk up and he like had a gun and i just saw him, boom, boom, boom, start shooting at people, and at that time i kind of just froze. >> witnesses describe the scene of a deadly high school shooting as new details emerge about who the gunman was targeting. new rules, another state changes its quarantine policy. what this could mean for doctors who volunteer in africa. warning signs, a report about the ottawa gunman's actions in the days before the shooting.

good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "weekends with alex pitt." i'm frances rivera in for alex as she takes some time off. breaking news we are awaiting a news conference this afternoon to begin outside of seattle, washington, where two teens are being treated after a deadly shooting at a high school friday. we'll bring it to you live as soon as it starts. two teenage boys are treated at another hospital where one is in critical condition and the other is stable. in the meantime police told nbc news in the past hour a ka of tieria worker tried to stop alleged shooter jaylen fryberg during his rampage. they confirmed he used a .40 caliber gun it happened in the cafeteria of his high school in marysville. student gave this account on the "today" show. >> stood up right away, i forgot

a lot of things, i left my longboard and a lot of my belongings at the school and started running trying to get offcampus. it didn't seem like he was going on a spree. he had set people he was going after, and he didn't just keep shooting at everyone else. >> again, awaiting a press conference to update us on the conditions of the victims. now there are reports that he was related to other classmates as far as this gunman is concerned. we will have much more for you in a little bit. to ebola and the fast-moving domements in new jersey, negative. health care worker does not have ebola, just back from sierra leone she was hospitaled after developing a fever. nina pham is home, released from the hospital friday. she got a sendoff hug from the president. her message now? >> i ask for my privacy and for

my family's privacy to be respected as i return to texas and try to get back to a normal life and reunite with my dog, bentley. >> at least she has a sense of humor there. inside the outbreak zone promising news. millions of vaccines could be ready by the end of 2015 and new quarantine rules in new jersey, new york, and illinois, they target medical workers. it means 21 days of isolation for anyone coming back from the epidemic spots. joining me now is msnbc sarah daloff outside bellevue hospital in new york city. good afternoon to you. you have more on the case there in new jersey? >> we do, frances. this is great news this health care worker tested negative for ebola. she's not released from quarantine. she has to fulfill the 21 days in quarantine before she can be released and doctors say they'll continue to consult with the cdc and the department of health

about the potential need for any additional testing. doctors without borders confirms she is with them and when she was initially placed in quarantine she exhibited no symptoms of ebola. she developed that fever last night and today that news that the test came back negative. now she is the first person to fall under this new mandatory quarantine order in new york, new jersey, and now in illinois, which affects health care workers returning to the u.s. from international destinations who have been treating or have had contact with ebola-stricken patients. now speaking of these health care workers on the front lines in these hot zones in africa, dr. craig spencer now back in the u.s., is in stable condition here at bellevue. he actually felt well enough to make several phone calls to family and friends from his room yesterday. the cdc worked with the nypd's missing persons department to track down any possible contacts he had, and to track down his route and his routine before he was admitted to the hospital.

they've located three contacts including his fiance, who are now quarantined. they also notified some places he had been including a restaurant and a bowling alley of his presence. those businesses and spencer's apartment in harlem aggressively decontaminated, that bowling alley today in the early morning hours tweeting out "have no fear, the gutter in williamsburg is ebola free and will reopen today." the city being cautious but cautious not to panic, frances, as we continue to see what develops from this first ebola patient in the tri-state area. >> interesting how they used his credit cards and subway metro card to track his path as well. nbc's sarah dallof thank you. officials are focusing on bringing additional charges on the prime suspect in hannah

graham's case. on friday it was confirmed the remains found in virginia belong to her. jesse matthew has been charged with her disappearance and also tied to another case, morgan harrington, she vanished in 2009 and was later found dead. in sacramento, two sheriffs deputies are dead after a shooting spree that started near a hotel. deputy was checking out a car when the suspect opened fire. the deputy was hit in the head. the suspect, marlo marquez took off. two others a sheriff's deputy and a civilian were wounded. marquez was taken alive after he was found hiding in a nearby home. to canada a heartbreaking scene people line the streets to say good-bye to nathan cirillo. he died during an attack on the parliament wednesday. he was shot dead near the war memorial and the attacker

michael he did haar zehar-bibea. alex has our nation's weather forecast, hi. >> good saturday to you, frances, as we follow the big story in the pacific northwest tracking the storm system is going to slam us here as we head on through the weekend. with it we have a bit of wet weather to contend with along with wind. the areas shaded in the darker shade of green, two to three inches, coastal washington down towards oregon and northern california could see some immediate rain coming on in, the forecast through monday morning and then wind, we've got high wind warnings and wind advisories across a good chunk of the northwest, even down into nevada, winds, 30, 40, 50 miles per hour gusting higher than that in some cases. the middle of the nation it's warmth, some october heat to deal with through the weekend, a good 10 to 20 degrees above average out there for you, so you are looking for a little sort of back to summer conditions, you're going to feel it here. midwest here we are today

looking for highs in kansas city, st. louis into the 70s, more than ten degrees above average, in fact we'll be approaching 20 degrees above average in kansas city for our sunday, 80s expected out there with the mid-60s in the twin cities. frances, we'll send it back to you. >> alex, appreciate it. breaking news out of washington state where the news conference has begun updating us on the condition of the two victims out of that high school shooting. let's listen in. >> i have not seen them this morning, i wanted to honor their privacy. i did talk with the doctors this morning. i spent a good deal of time with them yesterday. they went, they are having all of the reactions that you or i would have if we were in their circumstances. you know, much of the day yesterday was spent trying to make identifications, so that was terribly stressful for them. we've seen tears, we've seen anger, they are just just grieving. right now i think they are just

settled in. things are quiet. they know the circumstances. they're hoping for the best. >> is there any indication? >> there's no reason at this point to move them. the treatment now is monitoring and it would be the same here or at harborview. there's no -- if there were some need that harborview could provide, we certainly would transfer them, but at this point i think everyone agrees that the monitoring is as good here. >> they are both 14? >> they're both 14. [ inaudible question ] >> yes. i'll speak for myself. i'm drained and it's hard for me to even start thinking about this without thinking about my own children. they're out of high school, but i talked to one of my daughters last night and we talked through what would it have been like if this had happened at her high school. we were both crying. i think there's been a lot of

tears among our staff, a lot of people are trained, and that's why it's so important that we bring in lots of folks to help them out. >> can you tell me what -- >> i don't know, that i don't know. >> can you recap what their injuries were when they came in yesterday? >> i don't know the specifics. they were both head injuries. >> you may have addressed this, is one in more critical condition than the other? >> they're both very critical. they're both receiving similar monitoring. >> [ inaudible question ] >> prayers right now. i think both families need as much privacy with their loved ones as possible, so i would hope that people would honor that at this point. i think we're still at the stage

where prayers and hopes are the best things folks can offer. >> okay, thank you for coming today and we will not be having any more press briefings. >> a quick update there, everett hospital in washington state from the hospital officials on the two victims being treated at the hospital. two 14-year-old shealee chucklemascot and gina soriano in critical condition. they are being monitored closely, their conditions haven't changed at all since the shootings since they were admitted, but they are being monitored as far as those head injuries. the injuries that they sustained during this deadly shooting on friday out of washington state hospital. two other victims, the boys, nate hatchet and andrew fryberg are being treated at harborview medical center as well, so an update out of there.

this as we're hearing more reports of the shooting and more about him. nbc's hay leejayson is in mare yusville, washington. what have we heard about the suspected shooter's relationship with some of the victims in we are hearing some of the other two boys were related to him. >> reporter: correct. right, according to their grandfather, the two boys, the 15-year-old and the 14-year-old both at harborview are cousins of this suspected gunman identified by law enforcement sources as jaylen fryberg. police are not commenting officially wlafr fryberg's relationship with the young woman killed yesterday here at the high school and as you can see, frances, people have been coming by this morning putting out flowers, putting out stuffed animals. we expect to see more of that throughout the day today as people are sort of waking up to what is day two of a changed reality here in the town of marysville just outside of seattle about 35 miles outside

of seattle. we understand that there's going to be another news conference from police in about 3 hours here. we expect to find more information out then' we also hope to hear from harborview, the hospital which the 15 and 14-year-old boys are being kept. at this point police consider this an active investigation, trying to peace together what happened here in the cafeteria yesterday just after 10:30, when students describe seeing a classmate open fire essentially looking his victims in the eye, triggering a massive police response here at the high school. we understand, too, there are some ways that the community is coming together, first of all a candlelight vigil held last night drew about 1,000 people frances and police confirm that a cafeteria worker did try and stop the gunman from shooting poshlly more students and we're hoping to find out more who exactly she is and that story

too, a story of heroism and of hope at what is such a difficult time in this grieving process for maurysville. >> this is so perplexing in so many ways, hallie. can we talk about motive? a kid isn't described as a loaner, didn't have problems. we're talking about a popular kid, active in sports there, was recently crowned the homecoming prince there, too, and word of a recent breakup that might have triggered his anger and the shooting. what more are we hearing? >> reporter: right, so here's what we know. you're right, frances, he didn't fit the typical profile if there is such a thing of a typical profile of someone who may do something. his classmates describe him as popular, a generally happy person, an athlete, he was apparently on the football team and as you talked about was at his homecoming dance. he was recently involved in a fight over a girl, maybe a couple of different fights. it's way too soon to talk about motive at this point or to pinpoint that, that's something that police are working on and

we hope to find out more throughout the day and really in the coming days and weeks. >> makes it even more troubling to some extent. hallie, thank you for being with us this afternoon. joining me now on the known is the mayor of marysville, washington, john. tell us a little bit about what you're hearing right now as far as the investigation that's ongoing and how really the community is coming together and the school's coming together in dealing with yet another school shooting here in this country. >> the first thing i want to say is our hearts and prayers are with the grieving families of those lost and injured in this unimaginable tragedy. you know, you just never expect something like this to happen in your community but i'll tell you what i know will define marysville and that's not the violent act that happened yesterday but the incredible response and outpouring from our community, beginning with the heroic acts that you just described from some of the

students and the teacher there is at marysville-pilchuck high school, to our first responders, ems personnel to worked feverishly to save and transport the victims, police who secured the room quickly and professionally, went room by room to ensure there was nobody left. they found somebody who had been slightly injured and were able to remove that student as well and then on into the afternoon and evening, just the incredible outpouring i'll tell you e-mails and phone calls and that stuff coming in. i had e-mails from afar away as norway and uganda as well as all over the country and certainly the outpouring from the local communities around us every community around us offering support, the local county and sheriff's office and all our state and federal delegation and just i wanted to mention also candlelight vigil held last night. i know there were several of them around the community and

one that i was able to attend had well over 1,000 people at it, just grieving families and such an outpouring and it was a class act, too, from the oak harbor high school football team who was set to play our marysville-pilchuck high school team last night for the division championship. they forfeited that game to marysville-pilchuck and made the long multiple-hour trip out here to attend that vigil and be with our kids. you can see the community coming together. that's what will define us, that's what will define the maresville community. i lived here 20 years and this city rises to the occasion always and this will probably be the biggest test we faced and i no he that will come through. right now the top priority is these families who are grieving. >> have you spoken to any of the victim's families? >> i have not, no. we're allowing them to be with their kids in the hospital right now, and there will be a time for that in the coming days. >> mayor, your son went to

middle school with most of these kids here. so in so many ways, you know the area, you know these kids. how was that for you when you heard news of the shooting knowing your son is friends possibly with some of these kids? >> that brings is even closer to home. you know, he was friends particularly with a couple of the girls and knew all of them. he's a ninth grader as well and he all this hits closer to home, it does for all of us here and you know, your immediate thoughts are, this is something i talked about yesterday is you just start to reexamine your priorities a little bit and say what's really important in life and i think that we're all doing that right now. >> sure and hopefully it doesn't take another incident for that to happen. mar marysville was recently chosen for a $10 million grant for student mental health services over the next five years so hopefully with that will come in some support and some help and some changes in the future to

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new information is emerging about possible missed signals leading up to the trar attack in ottawa as police release a mug shot of michael he dzehaf-bibea. he drove around with a piece of paper instead of a temporary license plate. when you heard this report about

the taped junk mail on his rear window there that for 24 hours he was driving around, we get stopped for a brake light that's out. how does that happen in this age? number one the red flags that are sent up, you know, we'll get into that but how does that happen? >> look, unfortunately it's one of those missed signals. sometimes these things happen. it's not just in canada. it's also here in the united states. it happens this individual was attempting to purchase a vehicle in the days before this event. he was desperate to purchase what he described as a junker, a $600 or $700 vehicle and apparently this is the vehicle that he put that temporary license plate, a fake temporary license plate up. i think we'll have to find out what exactly happened here. where did he get the money for this car? where did this plot come from and that's going to lead us to answer more about whether this was someone really just mentally disturbed or whether there was some ill-intent. >> that's what i want to bring up the whole taped piece of junk mail for a license plate is

another issue. we have to consider the "new york times" and how they described him "an increasingly troubled mentally unstable man who initially may have embraced religion not as a political cause but as an attempt to scaffold a disintegrating life." where do you draw the blurred fine line here when you consider somebody's mental stalt and mental instability and illness to possible domestic terrorism? >> there are a category of people who are simply disturbed and they will latch onto any cause that there is that happens to fit with their disintegrating view of reality and unfortunately there are a category of people out there who may be rallied by what they see and isis only because of the fact what they see matches what's going on in their own personal lives but that really isn't the main threat posed by isis, and we have to be careful about labeling each one of these people terrorists. or even homegrown terrorists because there are people, look, major nidal hasan killed a dozen

people in ft. hood at the ft. hood massacre, homegrown terrorist attack. this person was sane. he was sane and he was with it and he didn't have mental issues. certainly not on the scale of what this individual appeared to have, yes. >> you can see how that can really blur the lines here. let's talk about canada's prime minister stephen harper who said "in recent weeks i've been saying that our laws and police powers need to be strengthened in the area of surveillance, detention and arrest." is canada equipped to handle terror threats here? >> it's important to understand that canada is a very open country. you can go directly up to government buildings. there's a lot less security here. you go up to the canadian intelligence headquarters it's not like the cia is massive guard gates and checking everyone going in and out and part of that is the canadian ethos. they like that. they treasure that. look, this is not the first plot that's targeted the canadian parliament building. we had a plot in 2005 al qaeda

recruits or homegrown al qaeda recruits were going to try to behead members of the parliament during the session. during how close this individual who again was not part of a coordinated plot who was simply a lone gunman how close he got to members of the canadian parliament you have to start asking yourself this might be the impetus for more change. >> especially if that sparked because he was frustrated because he couldn't get his passport to go and join isis in syria, too. >> right. >> as has been reported. >> right. >> thank you so much, evan, with he appreciate your time and perspective. >> thank you. with just ten days to go, dents aacross the country are stumping hard for your votes. ahead a look at kentucky politics and what senator mitch mcconnell did this week that's getting plenty of buzz. you're finally here. long way from the sandlot. first game in the majors? you don't know "aarp". because this family is enjoying a cross-country baseball stadium trip they planned online at aarp travel.

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welcome back to "weekends with alex witt." i'm frances rivera while alex takes some time off. to the ebola epidemic, good news out of new jersey a nurse with a fever does not have ebola. her tests coming back negative but she was put in quarantine friday after flying back from sierra leone. doctors are deciding if more tests are needed. joining me now is maggie fox, senior health care for nbcnews.com. thank you for being with us this afternoon for a little bit of hysteria control, i think it's safe to call that here in new york city with some of us on the edge here. let's zero in here on the bottom line. it's unlikely that an ebola epidemic will happen here and you say there are four main reasons why, so we want to you run them down starting with the first one here, reason number one ebola spreads via bodily fluids. >> that's right frances. it spreads via bodily fluids.

you're not going to catch ebola from having sat next to somebody who has it or traveled on the same subway as they have. you can get nasty and graphic if you want but you've got to think warm, wet droplets. you have to have been in contact with somebody's vomit or profuse sweat. one of the thing that confuses people sweat can carry ebola but this is normally in the late stages of disease when people have sweat pouring off their bodies early on in infection, they're not going to get it. >> some people may say i'm in new york city. our subways are really cramped. you get hit with bodily fluids all the time here. that may not set their mind at ease. maybe a reason, too, patients cannot infect others before they are sick themselves. so that also is very telling as far as when it can be contagious. >> that's right. dr. craig spencer did travel on the subway but it was before he had symptoms. he didn't spike a fever until later, and also one thing that doctors know is that the virus

builds up in your body progressively as you have the disease. when you're first infected when you first start showing symptoms you're not very infectious and it's people who are very ill or even at the end of life who are most infectious and unfortunately dead bodies are also infectious, too, but the good thing is when you first start feeling ill, you're not terribly infectious at all. >> let's go to the next one, does not spread through casual contact, the virus has to get inside you. this is as far as a comparing what happened in dallas to here, talk a little bit about that. >> well, yes, it's not going to, a, breathing it in is not going to infect you. it has to get in contact with your eyes, your nose or your mouth and that's a lot of contact. the people who are most at risk are health care workers because they're right there in the patient's face and doing things to them when they might still be vomiting or having diarrhea or a needle stick accident. if you're taking blood from someone and accidentally stick the needle into yourself that's a very dangerous thing to have happen. you can get a big infectious

dose that way. if your arm rubbed against the arm of somebody who was sick you'd be unlikely to get it. >> there's comparison of new york city's response and dallas. given that thomas eric duncan initially went to the hospital, turned away, sent home and also in this case dr. spencer went to the hospital fairly early as far as being diagnosed here. what letter grade would you give as far as the comparison? >> i think new york gets an a-plus clearly. everybody followed the protocols. dr. spencer did exactly what doctors without borders told him to do, to monitor himself and call ahead, not just show up and surprise the hospital but to call ahead and say look, i'm high risk, i've been in part of the world that's affected by ebola and i have a fever so that they could pick him up in hazmat suits and bellevue hospital had prepared very well for exactly such an instance. it was handled all according to the book. >> all right and it seems there's a confidence from mayor

de blasio as well who rode the subway saying i know it's tight in these cars but all is good. we are ready for you in new york city. >> in new york you spend a lot of time avoiding other people's bodily fluids anyway. >> exactly, well put. maggie fox of nbcnews.com we appreciate your time this afternoon >> my pleasure. let's talk kentucky politics now. the race between republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and democrat allison lo lond londergan grimes. reinvesting big money in the grimes campaign, join me is joe girth pritticolitical reporter "the career." good to have you perspective this afternoon. >> happy to be here. >> senator mcconnell's $1.8 million countering the $1.5 million the national democratic

group decided to pump into the grimes campaign. mcdonnell owned his own money to previous games. what is different this time around? >> i don't think it's all that much different. back six years ago when he was running against bruce lunsford, the democrat then he took out a bank loan and gave that to his campaign so he's done this before. he won that race by 5.8%. it's hard to tell at this point frankly i'm not certain where he's going to put it that money because our airways are already flooded with ad after ad after ad after ad. >> let's talk about what this does beyond actual dollars and putting that into these accounts and pumping up that way beyond the money. how much of a boost to the grimes campaign morale were these new democrat dollars in that sense? >> think it was not only a boost to their morale, but also it was able to reverse the headlines

that you had seen the previous week. we had a big story about the democratic committee pulling out here. others had big headlines also. this was able to get other headlines and kind of showed them not just to their own selves but to people reading the newspapers or watching the news that, hey, they're in this game. it's not that the democrats were seeing this race was over and that they were pulling out. >> let's talk about o'bamacare. semantics here, wording does matter with voters. >> it's amazing. you look at polling. obamacare is terribly not liked. you look at kikt, the governor here did a good job in putting

this program into place we didn't have the problems that you saw nationally putting obamacare into place. it was seamless getting people into the system. it has a better reputation here. >> coming to boiling it down and what matters as far as campaign issues in the final days, mitch mcconnell and kynect versus obamacare or grimes and her refusal to say who she voted for in 2012? what matters more in >> i don't think either. what you see grimes doing right now is traveling the state and trying to point out she's not an obamacare democrat, she's a clinton democrat. hillary clinton and president clinton have been in the past two campaigns hoping they can get them again. mcconnell is hitting hard on the seniority fact. chances are he'll be the majority leader and be able to deliver for the state. >> we'll see you in the days to come as it nears. joe gerth political report for

"the courier-general." thank you for your time. leaks in the michael brown case attorney general eric holder these leaks "harmful to the process, and it appears that people are somehow trying to shape public opinion." said the best thing to do is "do things in secret, which is how grand juries always operate." joining me now is faith jenkins, msnbc legal analyst. nice to see you. >> i had. >> you saw in the headlines here, let's talk about papers like "the washington post" and the "new york times" reporting on officer darren wilson and witness testimonies before the grand jury as well as a local paper releasing michael brown's autopsy and toxicology report here. in your experience as a former criminal prosecutor how often do leaks like this happen. i served on a grand jury last week. we're not even allowed to talk. we get our wrists slapped for having phones and breaking rules

so how does this happen? >> what you're witnessing is quite remarkable. here you have people telling the public and the citizens of that county to trust the process, and let the process work, and then you have all of these leaks that are undermining the integrity of the process, because the grand jury is supposed to be a secret proceeding. we're not supposed to know what witnesses are going into that grand jury, how many witnesses are testifying and what they are saying, and then you have a report like "the washington post" and they said seven or eight african-american witnesses testified that their stories lined one officer wilson's in large part, and that they didn't speak out publicly for fear of retribution. so somehow these leaks are happening and here's what you need to notice as well, none of the leaks are unfavorable to this police officer. >> okay. >> so that's when you have the attorney general stepping in and saying look, it appears that somehow this is a clear effort to persuade public opinion at

this point. >> especially if you have "the washington post" and the editor saying the editor of the "st. louis post dispatch" is defending the toxicology report saying the grand jury didn't release the information. the information came from sources other than that" speaking to exactly what you were just talking about. >> who are the sources? it could be officer wilson's attorney. how would he know how many witnesses have testified in the grand jury or what they've said. someone with knowledge of what's going on in that grand jury has, this is true, they told the paper that has said something and that is prohibited. the prosecutor can't talk about, the aides are not supposed to sbeek it, the investigators are prohibited from speaking about the witnesses. >> right. >> and the substantive testimony they give in the grand jury. this is highly problematic and troubling and should not be happening. >> this has already been highly problematic. this has already been a case as far as controversy swirling

around it already with the special prosecutor in the case. the shooting is centered around the community's outrage saying the prosecutors should recuse themselves. what responsibility does bob mccullough have in stopping the leaks. given they say this guy has no business to be there to begin with and a grand jury leaking all over the place. >> he appears to be largely unbothered by the fact that the leaks are happening. >> some may say doesn't come as a surprise at all. >> that's an issue, because if you're prosecuting, this is your case, you're putting the evidence in front of the grand jury, this is a high profile case. if people are finding out about witnesses and their substantive testimony in the grand jury if you're a prosecutor you need to find out who, under your watch, is releasing information, if that's happening. >> wow, this case can even get more complicated and more troersial in more ways than one. of course you'll be back as always, faith jenkins thank you so much. >> thank you. >> still ahead, how the environment is getting a

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sales were down 21% globally as you mentioned in its most recent cor doan and this is not an isolated incident. barbie's had several rough quarters. little girls are interested in smartphone games, tablet games have proved captivating for this demographic as the new monster high dolls much edgier than the traditional unabashedly feminine barbie doll. >> everybody saying the monster high doll also eventually take the place over barbie but barbie has kind of been iffy with kids before. the bratz dolls were a huge thing. do you think she'll make another comeback, so many think she's a classic and will be back? >> exactly. you make a good point we had this conversation 15 years ago about bratz dolls. i don't know any kids i'm shopping for, for christmas that have a bratz doll on their list. that didn't prove to be a doll with staying power. it's too early to count barbie out entirely. this say billion-dollar business for mattel and they have some

plans in place to try to revitalize the doll, so they're changing up her look a little bit, and they've added a suite of new accessories that will make the play around barbie more xre had inive. >> if this is the heend of barbie's golden age, as a feminist icon being astronaut to the president here or as a symbol of really rigid generals promoting unrealistic beauty standards saying you know what? i'm never going to look like her. what do you think? >> yes, she'll probably be remembered for both quite honestly. i think the incident that happened earlier this year surrounding the "sports illustrated" swimsuit edition is a great champl. barbie was featured in her bathing suit and mattel promoted it with a campaign that barbie was ##unapologetic for appearing in her swimsuit and celebrating her sexuality. some celebrated that and others

thought it inappropriate in a men's pinup magazine. barbie's legacy, there will always be a dichotomy there. >> don't forget the on again/off again with ken, are they broken up, divorced, all that, too. >> absolutely. >> we will continue to watch will you. thank you for being with us. >> happy to be here. jobs, health care and climate change. both sides going green as they spend big bucks on political ads to prove it. there are more reasons than ever why now is the best time to be on verizon.

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we see it every day in michigan, climate change having real effects so where is terri lynn land ignoring the science? she's got her reasons over 6 million of them. >> the 2014 midterm elections have brought a new type of political ads, ones highlights the environment and climate change. it's not just liberals with the message. more and more republicans are

talking about climate change as well. ashley parker joins me. >> thanks for having me. >> people are talking about the energy envirnment more than ever before. analysts find it is the third most mentioned topic in campaign ads behind health care and jobs. what do you think is prompting voters to take the issue more seriously this time around? >> well, one thing that's prompting this is actually sort of billionaires on both sides on the republican side you have the koch brothers, oil billionaires pouring a ton of money into the race and democrat side tom steyer, california billion mare and putting the money into the ads and determining the message part of this is what voters are seeing a ton so they're being forced to think about it more. >> you go beyond the dollars and think of the working class in states like kentucky and west virginia, where many people depend on jobs in the coal industry as have been pro-coal. do you think the voter also overlook what we know about

coal's effect on the environment since it's so important in the states? >> yes, in the red states and these coal states sort of the pro climate change, pro-energy, pro-environmental ad is not really what they're seeing. both sides actually even democrats saying i am for coal jobs, i'm for protecting coal miners. i think the message is a much more local coal focused one that is imperfevious to outside forc. >> the democrats are attacking republicans for science. the gop taken issue of what they call president obama's war on coal. so are we going to see this back and forth continue to play out after the mid times are over. is that done for now? >> yes, absolutely. what's fascinating is two things. this is the first time democrats have gone on the attack on some of these issues normally they're on the defensive. here hitting republicans over climate change and both sides are really, they want to win these races and win the senate

races and the midterm races but what they're doing is gearing up for a fight in 2016. as much as we're seeing this now it is going to explode in the presidential. >> interesting the money that backs it even then. thank you so much, ashley parker, writer for the "new york times." >> thank you. ahead in the next hour the dangers of youth soccer, why more and more parents are thinking twice before letting their kids take the field. oats go! wow! go power oats! go! go power! yayyyy!

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good day to you and welcome to "weekends with alex witt. . i'm francis rivera as she takes some time off. we begin with ebola and fast-moving developments in nmg. negative a health care worker does not have ebola, she got back from sierra leone where she was hospitalized after developing a fever. in dallas nurse nina pham is home. she got a send-off hug from the president and her message now? >> i ask for my privacy and for my family's privacy to be respected as i return to texas and try to get back to a normal life and reunite with my dog bentley. >> and inside the outbreak zone, promising news, millions of vaccines could be ready by the end of 2015. new quarantine rules in new

jersey, new york and illinois target medical workers. 21 days of isolation for anyone coming back from epidemic spots. joining me is sarah dallof outside of bellevue hospital in new york city. good afternoon to you. what is the latest on the doctor who is being treated there? >>. >> good afternoon, francis. the hospital will give me an update on his condition at some point today. at last check he was stable condition. he was feeling well enough to make phone calls to friends and family as he is treated in the hospital here behind me. he began to feel tired and rundown on tuesday first reported that fever on thursday. it was up to officials to track his contacts and the places he visited during the time period. with the help of the missing persons unit they believe they were able to do so, the places are frequented included a restaurant, a bowling alley, took a subway ride and taxi ride

as well. the businesses and his apartment in harlem being aggressively decontaminat decontaminated. the boley alley tweeting out "have no fear, the gutter is ebola free and will reopen today." frances, they identified three contacts his fiance and two friends who they believe need to be quarantined. none of the people so far showing any signs or symptoms of ebola. >> and how about the new jersey case that we're hearing about, what is the latest? >> reporter: the new jersey health care worker a member of doctors without borders, it was the first person to fall under this new mandatory quarantine in new york, new jersey, now illinois, which requires health care workers returning from the ebola stricken countries in west africa who had contact with patients to be under the 21-day quarantine, the first person to be affected by that. when she initially went into quarantine she didn't have any signs or symptoms of ebola but she did develop a fever last night. today the good news that she has tested negative for ebola.

that doesn't mean she's out of quarantine just yet. she has to fulfill that 21-day period and doctors are going to continue to consult with the cdc and with health owe fishes about the potential need for any additional testing in the future, frances. >> hopefully it will stay negative after that quarantine. sarah dallof, thank you so much. joining me to sort through the latest with ebola with dr. frank epber an infectious disease hospital at university hospitals of cleveland. we appreciate your time this afternoon especially with so much fear here in new york as well. the cdc is using its credit card and subway card to help trace dr. spencer's movements here. at what point will the city be in the clear, you have the bole alley tweeting out a humorous message saying they're okay. at what point will all the other places be in the clear as well? >> you know, with doctor spencer coming back to new york, he only recently developed symptoms and the one thing about the ebola

virus is that when you've just first start feeling ill, you're not very infectious, and when he realized he was coming ill, he worked with the city, he worked with the state health department and got himself into quarantine such as that the exposure was minimal. i have a feeling the city itself is in the clear for the most part because the exposure itself was not very intense. when you look at all the people who have had ebola, they are people returning from africa, missionaries, doctors like himself, or the people who were caring for very stricken ebola patients here in the united states, the two nurses from dallas. the regular public are not really the people who are coming down with the disease. it's really the health care workers themselves. >> you're saying the city, it should be fine g about your business, don't go freaking out or not take the subway. the united states is 7 for 7 treating ebola patients that should ease fears as well. >> ebola will kill individuals

even with the best care available. we think we do a much better job here which is one of the reasons why we have brought american citizens who are stricken with the disease in west africa and we bring them here for our medical experts to help them out, but we have to give this disease the respect that it deserves. even under the best circumstances there will be people who will die from ebola. it's just a very, very severe disease. >> we also have to consider these new quarantine rules especially after three states adopted them. there is concern it's going to keep volunteers from going to west africa. listen to what dr. rick saiker had to say about this. >> the big thing that's going to help america be safe against ebola is when we get the epidemic in west africa under control. we need to find ways to encourage more people to go and not make the situation too burdensome for them on their

return. >> do you think that's the case we should follow suit with other states as well, there should be some kind of quarantine rule across the board? >> i want to agree 100% with what he said. the threat to the united states is the disease in africa, and so long as that outbreak rages, we will continue to see people who will either come back to this country because they went there to help or they will be travelers themselves who will then enter this country unannounced, and/or at least unexpected and they will fall victim to this virus, they will become symptomatic. the main focus of our efforts needs to be in the controlling the epidemic in west africa as well as being prepared at home for anyone who shows up with those symptoms. >> doctor, i want you to put this in perspective in this sense to ease more people's minds here, flu season is coming up, peaking in december. compared to ebola here is the scenario, you're in a cab or in a restaurant or church, somebody has ebola and then somebody who

has the flu. which one are you more likely to get? >> no doubt it would be the influenza. the influenza virus is just a different tier of infectiousness compared to ebola. ten, 100 times more infectious. you talk about how contagious a vir virus is, it's how easily spread from one person to the next. there's no stopping influenza, we aren't able to quarantine off influenza like we are with ebola. when the influenza hits it's around the world. there's no stopping it. this thank is a respiratory disease. with ebola it requires prolonged intimate contact, the contact we get as being a health care provider to a stricken patient. >> these health care providers go through painstaking efforts with the hazmat outfits and everything, yet they are still the ones who have contracted ebola, tested positive for ebola and i think that's what's scary

for so many people. when you break it down in that sense hopefully those fears will be eased in the littlest sense. doctor, thank you again for that. >> very good to be here, frances. president obama is commending new york city for its handling of the first case of ebola and trying to reassure americans who are fearle of the virus. wet we'll get the latest from the white house on that in just about 20 minutes. another american community is shaken to the core and now four students are fighting for their lives. little more than 24 hours after one of their classmates opened fire at a school cafeteria in seattle, washington. just an hour ago an update from the hospital, two girls remain in critical condition. the hospital spokesperson acknowledged the parents of the victims. >> i spent a good deal of time with them yesterday. they went, they are having all of the reactions that you or i would have if we were in their

circumstances. much of the day yesterday was spent trying to make identifications so that was terribly stressful for them. we've seen tears, we've seen anger. they are just grieving. >> anguish and pain across the board. hallie jackson is in maresville, washington, where the shooting tack place. i spoke with the mayor an hour ago what the community is feeling. what are you hearing from the people there. >> reporter: people want to come together, they want to figure out a way to make sense of this tragedy if something like that is possible. you can see here outside marysville-pilchuck high school people putting up flowers, stuffed animals, more and more people coming by to drop the items off, some kind of action, something they can do to contribute. let's go back to the victims at providence everett hospital. the hospital is identifying both 14-year-old girls who were both shot in the head and are in critical condition, one is

shaylle chucklenaskat known as shay and gia sriana, her family is in sake sig we appreciate your thoughts and prayers and our hearts go out to the other victims and their families. the soriana family asks for privacy as they deal with this moving forward. you heard what the comments were from the hospital spokesperson there how the families are dealing with anger, grief, shock, all of the emotions you might imagine. the next three days are going to be critical in treating those young girls and at a different hospital two boys a 14-year-old and 15-year-old, one in critical condition, one in serious condition still. this morning we are learning that both of those boys are cousins of the shooter, according to their grandfather. law enforcement sources identify that gunman, the suspected gunman as jaylen fryberg. there's no official word from police just yet on the relationship between fryberg and the young woman who was killed at yesterday's shooting. classes here at marysville-pilchuck high school have been canceled all next

week, frances. police consider this an active investigation. you mentioned that interview you did with the mayor in the last hour and one thing that really stuck out, he talked about the support from the community, the community rallying together, coming together. we saw that at last night's candlelight vigil at a local church, more than 1,000 people attended, it was very emotional, people talking, hugging, crying together, praying together, and there was another kind of interesting moment, too, a special moment, there was supposed to be a playoff football game last night and the opposing team, the rival high school decided to forfeit and give marysville the first place, the division championship essentially. you're seeing some signs of people trying to come together, trying to sort of talk this through with their kids, with their families and have these conversations all over marysville and really across the country today, frances. >> it's got to be perplexing for everybody across the country, the community and the family given the fact that two of those victims those boys who are currently in the hospital as you said are cousin s of the shoote.

you can imagine the family mourning the loss of the gunman and two other family members as well. how is that being taken and received there in that community, knowing they're all within the same extended family? >> right. and it is an extended family even if you're not related by blood. anybody who lives in a tight knit community like marysville can understand that. it's interesting, you talk about the profile of the suspected gunman jaylen fryberg, he was popular. classmates described him as a happy kid, athlete actions, football player, he got into a fight recently, one perhaps involving a girl. there is a sense of shock here because one thing we heard again and again how could this happen here? people see it on tv, they see it in the media and other places, but it is now struck this community, this type of school violence, this school shooting and that's something that people are trying to come to terms with. >> we were talking about that he doesn't fit that profile, if there is one of a troubled kid, a loaner shooter that we've seen

in the past. hallie jackson thank you so much for that information this afternoon. ten days and counting, the race for control of congress enters the home stretch. new poll results are in on key tight races. the president follows the lead of almost 2 million americans to the ballot box. we'll bring you that next. ed vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself alriwe need to do somethinguble widifferent. ranch. callahan's? ehh, i mean get away, like, away away. road trip? double wings, extra ranch. feels good to mix it up. the all-new, fuel-efficient volkswagen golf tdi clean diesel. up to 594 miles of adventure in every tank.

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carolina to stump for democratic senator kay hagan off of her trip to massachusetts yesterday where she showed some love for elizabeth warren. listen >> i love watching elizabeth. you know, give it to those who deserve to get it. >> and as a spript to the official voting day continues, over 1.9 million americans have already voted in the midterms and we're talking about early voting, that includes president obama on monday in chicago. >> i'm here to vote. >> all right. >> go get 'em. >> i didn't saying in about that and most important office in a democracy. the office of citizen. >> the president early voting. mike donnelly associate professor at the university of florida, keeping tabs on the early vote. thank you for joining us, we'll

see if others follow suit what is the overall headline on early voting and is it indicative of how the polls will be down the road? >> right, so, so far this morning 7 million people have voted early in this election and we've still got another week or so of early voting to go. those numbers are up around 27% to 28% of the vote will be cast prior to election day nationally. in some of these key senate races what we're seeing is very high turnout early vote and these are some of the states that actually traditionally have very high early vote numbers, so we're getting some sense of the state of the campaign in those key senate races, and the strongest signal we're getting so far is turnout will be high. >> all right. >> so although nationally turnout may not be up very much or down from 2010 in these key senate races turnout is up. that's good news for the democrats because usually the higher turnout means that they're peripheral voters, people who are dropping off from

the last presidential election are engaged in voting in the election and that's what the democrats are spinning with the early vote. the republicans are looking at the numbers saying no, we're looking pretty good, our numbers are up but both parties invested very heavily in voter mobilization and that's a departure for the republicans, they traditionally have left the early vote mind, they've let the voters take care of themselves. this time they invested $125 million to have an early voter mobilization and you it's paying difficult depds for them so far. >> let's break down some key races starting with the swing states starting with iowa, the early vote is pretty evenly split between the two earths. what does that tell you about the senate race in iowa? >> yes, the strongest signal again is that there's going to be high turnout but when i look at these numbers and we look at how close the partisan balance is between the two political parties and the early vote, the best thing i could say about what we see with the early vote

is, it's going to be close in iowa. we're seeing that in other states as well, iowa, north carolina, georgia. >> you're bringing that up where hillary clinton will be later today with democrats way up in early voting. unusual? >> that's a typical pattern. once a state like a north carolina which has a dual method of early voting, mail ballots and in-person votes, once a state moves to the in-person early voting period which fk income did on thursday, you start seeing the early vote numbers wrack up very, very quickly. 90% of the votes will be cast in person early in north carolina and that's the democrats' preferred method of voting among any of the other methods of voting. it's typical to see the democrats pile in lots of early votes. >> finally in florida, so many watching this race here with the state that leads the nation in early voting, republicans with the lead. so what's behind the push there ahead of that tight race for governor that we've heard so much about as you know the ins and outs of it. wish we had time for that, but

what do you think is mibehind that? >> we've had a number of changes to election laws across the states including florida and one of them is an automatic ballot request in operation this election. the good news for the democrats is they're actually narrowed the advantage that the republicans had in 2010, but we still have another week or so to go in the elections, so i would say let's sit tight and see where we are at the end of the period next week. >> you will sit tight as will we here at msnbc. thank you for being with us, michael. >> thank you, rivera. it is bye-bye for honey booboo, the reality star losing her show after a scandalous claim, that's next. [ male announcer ] tomcat bait kills up to 12 mice,

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>> one, two, three, four. >> reporter: this morning, "here comes honey booboo" is over. >> you want to push it, aisle two, let's go. >> reporter: the mother of the show's 9-year-old star is defending herself. >> the statement of me dating a sex offender is totally untrue. >> reporter: the cancellation comes after tmz reported that mama june was dating 5-year-old mark mcdaniel, a registered sex offender, who was convicted in 2004 of aggravated child molestation. nbc news could not reach mcdaniel for comment but in a video statement on facebook mama june insists she is not dating him. >> i would not ever put my kids in danger. i love my kids too much. that is my past. i have not seen that person in ten years and don't seem to want to see that person. >> reporter: tlc won't publicly confirm its exact reason for dumping the show but it says "supporting the health and welfare of these remarkable children is our only priority." a network source says it will

provide honey booboo and her three is it sisters with counseling even though the show is off the air. >> this network thrust the family in the spotlight so they need to take responsibility as far as what happens next. >> i am ready to go! >> reporter: the series a spin-off of "toddlers and tiaras" followed the antics of honey booboo, whose real name is alana thompson and her family in georgia. >> the show wasn't doing as well as it was before but the show wasn't failing, not yet. >> reporter: tlc reportedly already filmed the show's fifth season which was expected to premiere in january. mama june has this mess annual for fans. >> we wanted to let you know from the bottom of our hearts that we love y'all and we do care about y'all. >> reporter: and abrupt end to a reality show with no shortage of drama. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. it has been a tragedy that's befallen too many in the military and this army veteran is trying to stop it as he wages

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welcome pack to "weekends with alex witt." i'm frances revera in for alex. it's 30 minutes past the hour. salt lake city man is under arrest for a shooting spree in northern california that left two sheriffs deputies dead, another wounded. the suspect also wounded a motorist yesterday before a six-hour manhunt and his capture. police say the man used an assault rifle in the separate incidents, an armed woman he was initially with was also taken into custody. human remains found last weekend are those of missing college student hannah gra. happen. a man who says he was on a mission for satan is under arrest for driving his car into a controversial ten commandments monument in oklahoma city. the tablet was broken into several pieces. he was arrested after going into

the federal building and making threats against the president. the nation's four major professional sports league and the ncaa have halted new jersey's plan to allow legalized sports betting at least for now. federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing betting to begin sunday. the league's plan is saying sports betting will irreparably harm them. >> most americans don't like seeing christmas displays in store before halloween. 71% say it's kind of annoying to them. you might agree. those are the fast five headlines on this saturday. something kind of wrong with the pumpkins and candy canes. there's a headline becoming disturbingly too familiar. another american community dealing with a school shooting, a scene becoming the norm. students filing out of the schools with their hands up. in the last hour i spoke with the mayor of marysville, washington, how his community is coping after friday's students in which four students were

shot, a gunman, a freshman at the school turned the gun on himself. for him the tragedy is a personal one. his son went to middle school with many of the students at marysville high school. tell us about your community and how the community and the school is coming together with yet another school shooting here in this country. >> you know, the first thing i want to say is our hearts and prayers are with the grieving families of those lost and injured in this unimaginable tragedy. you know, you just never expect something like this to happen in your community but i'll tell you what i know will define marysville and that's not the violent act that happened yesterday but the incredible response and outpouring from our community, beginning with the heroic acts that you just described from some of the students and the teacher there is at marysville-pilchuck high school, to our first responders,

ems personnel who worked feverishly to save and transport the victims, police who secured the room quickly and professionally, went room by room to ensure there was nobody left. they found somebody who had been slightly injured and were able to remove that student as well >> i have to ask you, mayor, your son went to middle school with most of these kids here. so in so many ways, you know the area, you know these kids. how was that for you when you heard news of the shooting knowing your son is friends possibly with some of these kids? >> that brings is even closer to home. you know, he was friends particularly with a couple of the girls and knew all of them. he's a ninth grader as well and he all this hits closer to home, it does for all of us here and you know, your immediate thoughts are, this is something i talked about yesterday is you just start to reexamine your priorities a little bit and say

what's really important in life and i think that we're all doing that right now. >> sure and hopefully it doesn't take another incident for that to happen. that was marysville mayor jon nehring. jim cavanaugh is an nbc news analyst and retired atf special agent and hostage negotiator pop as always your perspective is good when it comes to something like this and answering the questions of why. jim, earlier today police confurmd a cafeteria worker tried to stop the student as he was firing and confirm that the weapon that the shooter used was a .40 caliber gun. in your experience what is the police investigation look like today, day two? >> well, they're going to be tracking that gun which i think they tracked back so far, looking at his computer, getting oughtle information, frances, off his computer to find out what he was thinking, what he was doing, twitter, facebook, computer discs, they're going to talk to all his friends, his family. we call it a psychological workup or psychological autopsy of what he's been doing in the

last few months to see if there's any event and let me tell you, teenagers there's always events so we all live through those years, all the pressures on you and they'll find the pressures because they're on all teenagers. the thing that changes here is you have a 15-year-old who has access to unfettered access to a .40 caliber likely it's a barrett ta, .40 caliber subcompact model, ten-round magazine usually, one in the chamber, and he has unfettered access to that, and so with the pressures on him, even if if he doesn't have mental health issues, he brings it to school. >> let me ask you this when it comes to profiling. this struck me, too, classmates are describing the shooter as a popular student, he was an athlete, was on a couple of teams, recently crowned homecoming prince as well, and then on his facebook page there's some reports saying you know what? when it comes to shooting, he was an avid shooter and loved hunting. he says i don't like to go around shooting anything. i like being out there being

with my dad and my brother, going against what we may protile. how does this change the way you field analyze young people behind shootings because it doesn't fit the usual profile that we normally see? >> yes, i think we get messed up when we start trying to get into profiles. in law enforcement we realize because we talk to so many people in our careers that those things really don't hold. the serial killer, you know, looks luke a normal average guy, a ted bundy type and people that do terrible things look normal as well. so you can't get hung up on the fact he didn't look like he was crazy, going to shoot people. you know, there's pressures on people. they can't control their input, sorry, impulses. they act out and when there's opportunity for a young person to act on an impulse and he does, you got a tragedy. so it's up to the adults -- >> should we be more scared with what you're saying you can't necessarily look for the signs in many cases, there are those signs but in a sense, if that checklist isn't there, then

who's to say that you know, this great kid next door to me might be the next shooter? >> well, the signs leak out. it is a great question, frances, and a great point. the signs do leak out but the person can look otherwise normal to most of his human contacts but the signs leak out somewhere to family, to friends, to school leaders, sometimes to police, and you'll find these things will probably leak out on this young man, too, in his computer, his facebook, his twitter where he's exhibited some angst, problems, bullying, racial insults, and so it does leak out and that's what you look for and you know, when you find that, then you got to act and of course the main thing is adults have to lock these firearms up because you could destroy your own family, destroy the families of fellow students, all for nothing. you can shoot with your son and daughter, shooting sports are great, target shooting, hunting, but that gun needs to be secured when you're not there supervising its use with

children in the home. >> so many aspects to consider again as this investigation continues in its second day. jim cavanaugh as always thank you. >> thanks, frances. two big developments in the ebola fight, in new jersey a nurse tested negative for ebola. she was hospitalized friday with fever and tighter quarantine rules in new york, new jersey and illinois targeting medical worker, anyone coming back from epidemic spots will be quarantined for 21 days. let's get the latest on the white house ebola response from kristen welker at the white house. as always good to see you. >> good to see you too, frances. >> the president hugged ebola survivor nina pham and decided for a second week in a row to focus his weekly address on ebola. how has that message changed at all? >> reporter: to some extent it's been consistent. president obama in both cases trying to reassure americans that first of all ebola is very difficult to catch and second that the federal government does

have a plan in place to deal with any cases of ebola here in the united states. but of course what was different this week it came on the heels of the doctor in new york getting diagnosed with ebola so the president used it as a chance to draw distinction between the response that we saw in dallas, in which federal officials acknowledged there were some mistakes made and the response in new york, which was handled really in a textbook sort of way, president obama making the case that that hospital had been trained, the health care workers there had been trained, cdc officials were already on the ground in new york when that diagnosis came in. as you point out, president obama also invited nurse nina pham to the white house on friday. that was another sort of symbolic way not only of thanking her, but also of reassuring the american people saying look, she is not a danger to the public. she is ebola free. president obama has no public events scheduled. today he's out playing golf but i am told he'll continue to get updated throughout the day and

throughout this weekend on the response, the ongoing response in new york to deal with this issue. franc frances? >> what is the debate going on in the white house over this federal 21-day quarantine? are we going to see the white house follow in the footsteps of governor christie and governor cuomo here in new york and new jersey? >> reporter: it's a big question and too early to tell. press secretary josh earnest saying friday they're going to let science guide this debate, but clearly the moves that we're seeing by new york, new jersey, and illinois, will put increasing pressure on the administration to move in that direction, to tighten the restrictions that counter arguments show a mandatory 21-day quarantine in place for workers who have been overseas in the ebola zone is that it could disincentivize health care workers from going over to west africa to try to fight the disease there which is of course the nexus of the disease. the administration says the key to making sure that it doesn't spread here in the united states is to stomping it out in west

africa, so if you put that 21-day mandatory quarantine in place, you could really disinventivize health care workers from going over and serving in that capacity and just for some perspective, the goal is to set up about 50 more treatment centers throughout west africa, that would require more than 1,000 health care workers and at this point in time they're really far short of meeting that goal, so they need more people to volunteer to go to fight this over in west africa. >> and possibly putting themselves at risk as we've seen. >> reporter: indeed. >> kristen welker, thank you. >> reporter: thanks. coming up, hazards many parents might not know about, we're not talking about football here. an army veteran's heroic battle to save lives as he struggles with his own battle to survive.

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and in january of this year, the department found those numbers jumped significantly, 44% for male veterans under 30 years old from 2009 to 2011. u.s. army captain justin fitch is doing something about it while fighting a health battle of his own, stage four cancer. justin joins me now and we thank you for being with us and before we start i have to hand it to you, knowing your efforts and your cause and your personal fights, we so appreciate your perspective. >> frances, thank you for having me on today. i know my time is short so i'm going to try to be clear and concise. obviously very many people are not aware of those numbers, 22 veterans possibly more killing themselves a day is very significant. imagine that happening silently a boeing 757 crashing into the side of a mountain every single week and not making the news, no one aware of it. that's the kind of numbers we're looking at. over 8,000 veterans committed suicide a year. that is more u.s. troops that

have been killed in action since we started in afghanistan after 9/112011. that's happening every year. it's a really giant problem. and we're obviously, many people are trying to do everything we can to do it. i myself i have terminal cancer, and i feel i'm on a very tight time line right now. i'm trying to push this mission as strong as possible to give this cause and this epidemic a voice and a face so people will listen. >> i have to say, justin, some people may say, given the fact of your health and your condition now, where you can so very well be focusing on that and your family and people and things important to you, you're choosing this cause to a testament of how important it is to you personally. so many say why in. >> it is extremely important, and you know, obviously i do have to take care of myself. i maintain a healthy balance

between my family as much as possible, always busy but it's extremely important. myself in 2007, i mean, i've been diagnosed and treated for mental health tis disorders, not disorders, issues in the past and in iraq in 2007 i wrote down the date in case i forgot, august 2007 i put a gun to my head, and i was about to pull the trigger and blow my head off. because i didn't feel i could talk to anyone about it, and bottom line is that something stopped in my brain and i got, i reached out to the spirit buddy, got help, got treatment. it wasn't easy. it took time. counseling, medication therapy, everything worked out honestly, so i'm here today. does that make me weak? i think it makes me stronger. i got help, made me stronger. that's the message i send tout to vets, you're worth it, take care of yourself and at the same

time i'm pushing hard to give them different methods of treatment and therapy, things that will help them. >> sure. >> that's why i am push so long hard on the active hero's charity, specifically the carry the fallen campaign where we're building a national retreat for family members and their vete n veterans to reduce the signs and symptoms of post traumatic stress and reduce trigger points that lead to suicide. >> i have to ask you and i commend you being so brave to share your story, especially at that moment where you were ready to end your life. for those other families out there who are afraid this might happen to their loved one, a veteran who served, too, for those families who had it happen, what do you tell them and what are they telling you, being a person who was in that dark place at one point? >> all i can tell you is it's a very difficult thing to understand. i want to send out a message to a family in my hometown. i won't name the name but i was

contacted yesterday by them and i want to let that person know there's hope. she had recently lost her son, who was an army veteran, had a great career path in front of him. he just recently got >> then it ended. that's horrible. the thing is, the veterans need to reach out, talk to people. >> and with your help. >> civilians, too. take care of each other. ask people hard questions. are you feeling all right? are you thinking about killing yourself is a tough question to ask, but it's things that need to be done. >> with your help and efforts, hopefully that'll be the case. i know you've had more than six surgeries and more than 50 rounds of cheem -- chi emo

therapy. thank you so much. >> thank you. if i could just ask people to realize that awareness and -- awareness goes a long way, but money makes things happen. if you can look at active heros.org and consider supporting them or similar organizations, we want to make things happen and take care of my brothers and sisters in arms. we're losing too many a day. i do appreciate every single second of the time you've given me. >> we appreciate your time in sharing your story as well. our thoughts with you. >> thank you. >> we'll be back. uhh... um... hold on.

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concussions, brain injuries, memory loss. certain sports are tougher on the body than others. you're probably thinking, yeah, we'll talk about football. that's not the case. we're talking about soccer, which families use as an alternative to football. doctors are warning players, especially kids and teens, that

the game isn't as safe as previously thought. it is a subject of tonight's pbs news hour. joining me is the journalist behind the report. i know your kids are playing soccer right now. this follows your family, especially with all of them loving the game, and say, we're not going to be a football family, we'll do soccer instead. what was your reaction when the doctor says, you know what, that may not be the best alternative after all? >> my wife and my jaw dropped when our pediatrician told us. this was a healthy boy on the exam table. he said i hope when i see you next year, you're not playing soccer anymore. my son was like a deer in the head lights, didn't know what to do. our doctor said his years of seeing dozens and dozens of kids come through his doors are sometimes life-altering concussions made him think, this is not a safe sport for kids

anymore. unfortunately -- or not unfortunately but at that time, our kids were playing soccer. we have kept them playing to this day. it started this process of us examining, what are the risks of the sport that we used to think of as the safe sport? >> absolutely. we were talking about that. everybody says, we're not going to risk the helmets and hits and concussions and trauma that may happen as far as head injuries goes. at issue is heading the ball. in soccer, you have great goals where the head goes in. why not take the element out and say, you know what, maybe we should eliminate that from kids' soccer leagues. >> that is the argument i explore in the report tonight. i talk to two people prominent in the movement. brandy, who we remember scoring the spot against china in the 1999 world cup, and a doctor in boston. the two of them argue that heading should come out of the game for kids under 14. if they want to train and practice it, they can use a softer ball and learn the skill.

when they're 14, they can start reintroducing it into the game. they say to protect kids' brains, let's take this one part of the game out and let the rest of the game go on. >> how receptive has that been, given that your kids are playing now? do you see that happening at all? >> there's been little movement. >> some people think it's part of the game, where we get good shots, right? >> exactly. >> we'll see what happens. new awareness for many families now, especially the kids again as the alternative to the physical, violent football. >> that's right. >> thank you so much for shedding that light on us. >> thanks for having me. and that wraps up weekends with alex witt. thanks for being with us. i'll see you tomorrow at noon eastern. up next, richard louie. hope you enjoy your saturday and weekend. are you sure you're not ignoring them in your body? even if you're treating

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