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health investigators try to locate other possible ebola victims after the first u.s. cases discovered in texas. a man in dallas is hospitalized in serious condition with the virus. >> we welcome our viewers were watching us around the country. our top story in nine member team of federal health officials tracking anyone who had close contact with the man. the victim recently returned from liberia where there is an updatthe outbreak of ebola. complaining of symptoms. he was never asked and never offered any details about his recent travel. he then went home and did not return to the hospital for two days. in the news
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room with the latest. what makes the virus so frightening is that the 21 day incubation time during that three week. a person unknowingly infected with the deadly disease can pass it on too many others before the chain is even discovered. by then potentially thousands of people could become victims. ready to unintentionally pass it on to others. >> scientists to deal with diseases say the ebola virus is different. >> you're not contagious until you have symptoms. even though you contracted the virus a few days prior if you're not experiencing symptoms you're not contagious. no one should be surprised that the virus has been detected here in the united states and dallas tx. we know the person flew from liberia to dallas on september 20th. since that person was not feeling sick at the time he or she did know
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>> affect other >> the average is more like eight days. if you isolate them for 21 days and they did not show any symptoms you can understand that you can expect that they're not g re d >> the person is in serious to critical condition. officials are trying to calm the public by demonstrating that the situation is under control. >> we have one confirmed case in the united states. when you contact investigation the assumption is based on close contact you cannot be shocked if there is a second case. there's no confirmed second case at this time. >> they think they know the number of people who could have come in contact with the passenger. >> it is a small number of people we're looking at. 2.4 million people in dallas county we may be looking at 12-18 people in terms of contact investigation.
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>> once all the people came into contact with the patient have been identified a will all be monitored for at least 21 days. >> they to be questioned to learn the identities of everybody who came in contact with th. containment of the deadly virus has and will continue to be a job of solving a giant jigsaw puzzle. >> we are learning more about the threat that forced the evacuation of sandy hook elementary school in connecticut this morning. officials said a bomb threat was called into the school. children were initially set to a nearby school. >> the district spokesperson called el low-level threat. and are being searched and no evidence of an explosive device.
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there have been going to class as in the former truck kill school since january 2013 after a deadly shooting. >> breaking news out of texas where a girl who was abducted 12 years ago has been rescued in a secret mission. found in a small town near mexico city where she had been living with her mother who did not have custody. in 2002 she was just five years old and police say her mother a doctor during his supervised visit. she is expected to be reunited with her father. the rescue was planned by the federal authority fbi and u.s. marshals. the girl's mother is in custody and officials will released new details later this afternoon. >> a rhode island child with a staff infection and enterovirus died this week. >> to a team of
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experts for the centers of disease control also in denver this week trying to figure out if the virus was blamed for the mysterious paralysis. all of the children had paralysis and their arms and torso and problem speaking and swelling. four of them tested positive for the virus. cdc says similar cases have been reported around the country. >> a woman is tracked into the alley and sexually assaulted. >> >> sometimes between late saturday night and early sunday morning with word of the community aware circulating today. more residence known to have their guard up. >> with a lot of traffic and quite a few pedestrians along lincoln ave there is a general sense of safety. it is a busy street. a fairly safe area
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most of the time. >> kind of go around with blinders on where people in other areas may be more iin tune with things. >> reminded residents that safety is never guaranteed anywhere. the 24 year-old woman said she was walking along the 2500 block of north lincoln when a man grabbed her by the hand and began fondling her. then dragged her into one of the alley way is for the victim was sexually assaulted before the man ran off. >> the scene is not far from the depaul campus. many women say they are always aware any way as. >> generally it is a day fairly safe area. a good area borders the bad ones. i think as long as people are aware of their surroundings hopefully it can be avoided. >> that happens. you have to be careful. it is scary here after dark.
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>> police may have images of the suspect to help in the investigation. business owner says she often sees a woman walking along andso she is constantly worried about exactly what happened over the weekend. >> i did crisis intervention for 18 years once you come to girl who has been raped she is not in good shape. >> nobody ever thinks it is going to happen to me. >> police are working with a very vague description of the suspect. a black man between 35-45. >> police are also investigating the assault of a woman sunday night on north racine. it is not clear if the two cases are linked. >> two brothers are charged in a string of sexual assaults
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that date back more than 10 years. being held without bond. charged in all six attacks and began in 2003. his mother charged in the most recent to attacks. dna evidence led them to the brothers. victim advocates are criticizing the time it took. for a state crime lab to process and link the two cases. the murder rate dropped. shootings rise across chicago for the last nine months. >> compared to the same period last year. shootings were up 5% in shooting victims increased by 6 percent. the police superintendent said state and federal gun laws are partially to blame. however he is upbeat about the city's so- called customer notification program. and the impact on reducing crime. >> print gang members and sit down and talk to them and explain to them that if they continue in the past that
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they're going they're up to 800 times more likely to be involved in murder as a victim or a fender. >> we do that in front of family members and people they're going to be listening to it. >> the program has about a 30 percent success rate so far. in the wake of the fence jumper incident we're learning about another breach of security. in an elevator with the president at the cdc two weeks ago. the man was a private security contractor. a secret service official says they realized it he had a gun after he was taking pictures in the hazing and professionally. the secret surface is supposed to determine who can carry firearms or around the president. the washington post reports that he had three convictions for assault and battery. >> and of the obama traveling to chicago but he will be arriving via northwest indiana. airforce one will arrive at the gary airport today.
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caused by last friday's arson fire at the aurora air traffic control center. tomorrow president obama will attend a fund- raiser and deliver an economic speech. authorities have released tapes. >> where is your emergency? >> when a smoke in the building be the fire department done here. >> and is coming from inside the building appeared to get a call from the fire department. >> police say the accused arsonist used his facebook page to announce the plan to set the fire. he was allegedly disgruntled over america's foreign policy and what he described as the laziness of government employees. >> 175 flights have been canceled the appearance of maryland experienci delays of 35 minutes. there
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are no delays or cancellations. meantime cleaning crews and technicians are working around the clock at the your air traffic control center to finish cleaning ventilation system. installing communications equipment. the faa hopes to have the operation fully operational. airlines will have to replace cockpit displays on more >> the display units are made by honeywell international and used on the 737 and triple seven jets. the faa says frequencies can cause cockpit screens go blank. says it has never happened during a flight only during testing on the ground. given the airline five years to replace those displays. right now health officials are joining the texas governor to address the media on the first ebola case. the governor said if
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you school children have had exposure to that patient. they're being monitored at home. we will continue to update this story. >> the latest on the search for the accused cop killer. but he left behind at a campsite. the judge in colorado demonstrates whether the massacre trial can be >> how much the united states has mi ffow
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in havana authorities fined pe as they search for a man who allegedly killed a state trooper. officers believe the 31 year- old the stressed out and making mistakes. the survivor list and is thought to be hiding in the rugged terrain. officials are calling on him to surrender. the murder trial for a man accused of launching a shooting can be televised. charged with killing 12 people and wounding several others. a judge ruled yesterday the trial can be shown on a closed-circuit feed. will not be allowed to zoom in or out without the judge's permission. when the show the jury. prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. australia becomes the latest country to join the international coalition against
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isis. there is not made a final decision on whether to actually drop bombs. three air strikes took place around the city earlier today. despite the latest round of bombings isis' militants continue to a chance on the city which is dangerously close to the turkish border. troops are fighting militants. >> the united states could use the help. air strikes have already cost $1 billion. the center for strategic and assessment estimates it will cost $4 billion a year to maintain. the cost could rise dramatically of ground troops are added to the mix. u.s. military efforts have mostly been limited to air strikes. president obama has said he has no plans for u.s. ground troops to engage in combat. >> may become involved in the controversy surrounding the washington redskins. some believe the
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team's name is offensive. a legal activist is petitioning to remove a radio stations licensing rights for using the term redskins. can essentially declared the use of the term rats can end of scene stealer. that will prevent sportscast as from using any longer. the owner is strongly opposed to changing the name. next out students with a good gpa may get a free ride to city colleges. new balance and it's not all of their shoes are fully made in the united states. are fully made in the united states. >>
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live at the chicago cultural center. >> the catch is you have to graduate from high school with at least a 3.0 gpa. part of the idea of creating an incentive for promising young students to do well. >> if you hold up your side and get a 3.0 graduate our side of the bargain is community college will be free. the mayor announcing in a scholarship fund for incoming city college students ll15 theg in the chicago star scholarship guarantees 40 commission that community colleges withan books for graduating seniors heading to any of the seven community colleges. the mayor says it is designed to reward hard-working students many of whom struggle >> is holding down a
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full-time job. it is going to school to improve himself. of us who are responsible in this room will hold our side of the bargain. >> goes to high school graduates to finish with at least a 3.0 gpa and place at the college level lasmath. not a similar scholarship to help her finish at daily college she says it was absolutely essential to get her on the road to a four year university. >> more than half of the graduating class did not go to college because they cannot afford. money should not be a factor. >> that young lady now a student at st. xavier university. a brand new scholarship fund there is no application form yet no web site that we can send you to. more details will come soon from the city colleges. i
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school students will be graduating in june of 2015. pro- democracy protesters in hong kong warned the region's leader that they will take over government buildings. thousands of demonstrators flooding the streets angry about china's involvement in the political process. speaking out on china's national day. marking the anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china. federation of students says they will expand a civil disobedience if the chief executive does not resign. >> process going on in hong kong right now. the dollar down about 223 points. >> and business travel to hong kong over the last several days. the company is warning
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staff not to travel there at least until october 6th. l'oreal has a subsidiary based in hong kong which is an important hub for luxury goods. new balance has acknowledged not all of their shoes are made in america as advertised. the company says only 70 percent of the value of its shoes are made domestically. the outer soles are actually imported from china. conflicting at what the u.s. government says can be labeled made in the united states. federal trade commission says a product has to be all or virtually all made in the united states to qualify. >> some 11 stocking up on healthier food options. >> customers will be able to buy spicey salad. prices for the new food lion will range from 4- $7. an official says health foods are the
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may already be in midseason form after he had him going to practice is on the first day. the first practice is that the advocates . rose butler gasol and noah took the floor together. it is a first for the rookies. manhattan jitters. >> butterflies came last night. once i step on the floor and is just basketball. awoke up every hour. i kept hearing a voice in my head. i went to bed early and walcott and thought there was time to go. it was like 3:30 p.m.. i said i have to stop this. >> he forgot to bring donuts. i have to ask him about that. the chicago cubs president is talking next year this year. the team finished. they cut
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$41 million from the opening day payroll. that could mean they could spend some of that on top free agents. and next year's trade deadline will certainly will add impact talent from outside of the organization. we hope to find the right fit to accomplish that this off-season. even as he tried to optimize our chances for next season. baseball playoffs started with the royals hosting the a's >> this one went into extra innings. drives him in to take the lead. the royals respond with this infield hit that scores a game- tying run. there were two outs with a man on second. the winning run comes home. the win their first playoff game in 29 years. they
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a little bonus to the imperial not last long. quite an autumn storm wrapping up. it is going to bring us the biggest drain potentially in five weeks. even more so tomorrow. showering into the weekend. some very cooler air. we could be talking about a time on saturday. in to the low 50s. that would be the coolest day since may and around here in four months. munhall this is going to transpire. have you ever been hot air ballooning?
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>> he was up sunday morning over the ground fog that you can see underneath. a beautiful shot. right at the moment it went down below the sunshine. a gorgeous shot right there. below the horizon. he cocked his brief sunny break in tuesday's reign of fact clouds. right here at the city. fall colors are bursting forth at the periphery of this southern golf course she sends us the shot. takes a moment to share this gorgeous illinois sunset near north suburban like villa. finally a trip to the mississippi river failed to yield the fall colors. it was still beautiful. i am sure the colors are blossoming right
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now. it will across most of our area. a gorgeous day in chicago. what a difference a day makes. today little cumulus have kind of washed out. clouds are assembling to our west. weather conditions are changing as conflicting and mastheir mass prepares to do battle in the country. there is one storm appeared in canada. another one is going to spend up down here. going to listen to the region. for the moment it is sunny here. >> some scattered showers could be in here as early as tonight. the good news is temperatures are rebounding after that chilly air mass that we saw yesterday. we effectively between sunday and monday went from july levels temperatures to halloween temperatures in a 24-hour period now the '70s are coming back courtesy of the southerly wind flow on the front side of that storm. sharp klink is to follow.
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august 21st to the 23rd. >> and we're not going to have quite that much. some areas with a pretty good rain. here's what is going to happen. one storm is maturing. here is the one we're watching. >> you bring up want and humidity that could produce severe weather. the big story would be the big grain could range from over a third of an inch. to as much as 2.8 in.. seems like quite a spread. you know how rainfalls around here. some areas get
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hit hard. the average among all of our models as we look at a whole fleet of them. it puts us into a pretty rainy category. this particular snapshot from one of our models gives you an idea the extent to the area that will be hit by some pretty the reins by the time is all over. it will come in waves. it will not ran continuously. >> all of this follows a 58 degree high temperature. right now we're at 63. st. louis. as a pool of warm air that the south wind is going to blow up into our direction. increasingly humidity is get into the warmer air. leading is the cooler air mass. 20s up in the yukon territory. we could have a time forties' on saturday and 30's at night. in parts of the area. for the
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moment it is eight degrees warmer than it was 24 hours ago. registered as significant temperature increase. we're in the mid-60s. it is a gorgeous day out there. wind slicing and off of the lake. committee have 50 percent. low mold spore count. we washed the pollen out of the air. the warmest temperature is at 70 on our weather but a network. they're in the '60s. cool readings from valparaiso. a beautiful fall color on the weather but the camera. this color will become more and more pervasive as the weeks pass. details on our forecast. we'll talk more about the cooling expected this weekend. mostly sunny today. submit and high-level clout. a high temperature of 73 today.
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>> tonight clout to increase. breezy and mild. for percent coverage of shellers and thunderstorms. more southerly wind later tonight. tomorrow will be warmer. scattered thunderstorms grow more numerous. a high of 76. south wind at 12-24 by late in the day we will have mid-60's agreed to points. that seems pretty humid. much cooler friday. we will start at 62. might do that again. saturday is going to be a pretty awesome like affair.autumn like affair >> 78% of the ears. we have a lot to look at in the air. he pulls that statistic right out of hd. he is a walking whether computer.
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say five students have four different schools in the dallas area have had exposure to the patient currently in serious condition with the deadly ebola virus. >> information about the patients travel to liberia was relate to a nurse. she did not communicate that. when she initially came into the our she is diagnosed with a mild viral infection. now hospitalized in isolation. >> raising a red flag about football and a connection to brain dias >> study is the brains of 128 deceased professional semipro high-school football players. 101 show some form of cte >> among the 79 deceased players all but three tested positive. the data may be skewed because many of the players whose brains
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have been donated to research suspect they had cte >> u.s. doctors and teaching hospitals received nearly $3.5 billion from a drug company. over five months of last year. between august 1st and september 31, 136 doctors and more than 1300 teaching hospitals received payments and other transfers of value. information was released by the government under the physician payment sunshine act. that is part of the affordable care act. industry groups are raising concerns about the accuracy and contact with them that information. >> in the report suggests you may want to move to norway. the global age of watched index looks at the economic well-being of all the people in 96 countries. norway ranked no. 1 because it had well- developed organizations for the elderly a long history of state welfare and strong social media campaigns that create public
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actually a cheese cake filling. connection to play with the ingredients to your liking. i'm making a straightforward chicago cheeseca. really what i'm doing is taking about two packages about 16 ounces of cream cheese and we're going to make our filling. coughlin and i go everywhere. a little bit of milk. >> that is what i was just going to ask. a little bit of manila. that is going to give the basic cheesecake filling. >> put it into the food processor. >> you want to keep it going until it gets nice and creamy and smooth. >> you can actually dive right in. make it more like in your
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stuff killing. absolutely can do that. for the better it is very straightforward. >> we will have all of the details on our web page. it is a very simple ingredients. a little milk. a little water. cannot be as thin as a crepe. somewhere between a pancake and a crepe. >>i will get our pan ready to go. pretty straightforward. >>you can make this ahead of time. will stay in your refrigerator for 2 days. >> cheesecake filling will last in your fridge for two days.
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>> you save us some work. >> what i have done as i have made a full clarified butter. >> a little bit of canola oil. when you print your pan you're not going to burn or seen as the butter. you do not want to do. a quick way >>a quarter cup worth of batter. >>give it a stir. the end result will be something like what we have here. >>you can stir to thin it out. >>for the essence of time i am going to take one of our finished. put a
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little bit of butter around it. at this point we are going to add the f illing. two tablespoons roughly. we are going to fold this over half way. bring in the edges. >>we can take that and flip that over. >>when it is done, you want it brown and crisp on the outside. >>typically it serves with sauce over. >>the cheesecake filling is sweet enough. it might be too much.
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once there was a girl who even in her laundry room. with downy unstopables for long-lasting scent. and infusions for softness. she created her own mix, match, magic. downy, wash in the wow. time for the answer to today's trivia question. which a leader was an officer in the 1989 revolution in place? europe too >> it was on this day in 1987 when he became president of the soviet union. >> unforgettable series of events. it changed history. >> the storm in the texas panhandle lifting into the midwest. you will see the isobars explode. the bright colors coming in
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indicating it is going to get windy. these are the showers moving at us that will scatter across the area tonight. here you concede the three- dimensional mo. how they tower above the midwest horizon. that has become the heavy rain producer. only the first in a whole series of waves. wind from the southeast. watch it changes the storm deepens. not so much tomorrow. the poms temperatures into the mid '70s tomorrow. look at the cold air diving down the backside of this as this storm deepens. when they do the air rises into the center of the storm. the air around it rushes in. you get an increase in wind speed. moisture comes into the system. clouds and widely scattered showers. we go into the morning hours tomorrow. same thing little scattered showers. these will
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begin to proliferate. here's a little better depiction of how the brain area will come together. even this is a little conservative. the colder air that comes down the backside of it we're talking thirties' by saturday morning. by sunday morning with a daytime high on saturday only 51 degrees. that means the bulk of the day will be in the '40's on saturday. >> the upper '30's and parts of the area. 76 tomorrow. the little warmth area. 76 tomorrow. the little warmth before the
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by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. these are their stories. okay, pal, let's go. rise and shine. coffee at the mission. let's go. let's go. come on. up we go. ( horse neighing ) look at this. oh, geez. what is this? shoe shine out call? they look like my shoes. terrific. sure, sure. just drop them, drop them, drop them. take off. ( scoffs ) what do we got here? oh. oh, you okay, buddy? huh? ( groaning ) i must have got mugged. good morning, new york.
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