captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for sunday, october 12... a dallas nurse is diagnosed with ebola after treating the liberian man who died of the disease. the latest on the war against isis. tonight, turkey's role. it's on the border with syria and iraq, and on the fence about getting involved. and in our signature segment, jeffrey brown interviews james earl jones about his return to broadway. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by:

corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. a major development today in the ebola scare. a dallas hospital employee, believed to be a nurse, has contracted ebola after treating thomas duncan, the 42-year-old liberian man who days ago died of the disease. it's the first time ebola has been transmitted in the united states. during a news conference today, the head of the centers for disease control called the development "deeply concerning" and warned that other health care workers at the same hospital might also have been infected because of what he called a breach of protocol treating duncan.

>> unfortunately it is possible that we will see additional cases of ebola. this is because the health care workers who cared for this individual may had have a breach of the same nature as the individual who appears to have a preliminary positive test. that risk is in the 48 people who are being monitored. they're all being tested daily. none of them have the symptoms or fever and in any other health care workers who may have been exposed to this patient while he was being cared for. >> sreenivasan: 17 additional hospital employees are now being monitored for symptoms of the disease in addition to the other 48 who had contact with duncan. state officials said the infected hospital worker was wearing a gown, gloves, a mask and other protective gear during what frieden said were extensive contacts with duncan, but she became infected anyway.

>> the care of ebola can be done safely but it's hard to do it safely. it requires meticulous and scrupulous attention to infection control and even a single inadvertent innocent slip can result in contamination. >> sreenivasan: top health officials have said a key to defeating ebola is stopping it at its source-- west africa. but yesterday, the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases described the situation there this way: for more about the situation in west africa, where more than 4,000 people have died of the disease, we are joined now via skype by drew hinshaw of the wall street journal. he recently was in sierra leone and liberia and joins us tonight from ghana. >> throughout the week we have heard health experts from europe and in the united states say that the problem is much worse

in africa, that there aren't enough healthcare workers to deal with this. what is life like on the streets where you have been visiting? >> it is terrible, particularly in monrovia, liberia's capital. i was there two weeks and every time i left the hotel, i saw some sign of the tragedy. you would see a body in the road, or a sick person surrounded bay crowd. you do see more response too, you see ambulances blaring up and down the street. you see body teams going to collect bodies. unfortunately it is just the response still seems just so far behind the disease. >> drew, you have been to this region multiple times now. give us a sense of perspective on the scale of how bad it is. >> it is incredible. when i first went there in early august, you really have to work to find people, victims, now, they find you. i mean, the cases are coming every three-week, the differences are extraordinary. everywhere you go you see this massive increase in ebola cases.

every three weeks you can sit down with a calculator and plot how bad, how quickly this becomes sort of a huge once in a generation event, both in west africa and global public health. >> the scare is increasing extremely fast and extremely hard to see how the world will catch up with it if it doesn't come soon. >> does that mean the number of doctors has to double every three weeks to deal with the patients? >> exactly. just mentioned we need a 24 increase in what we are doing right now. i think, you know, i am not an epidemiologist bute@ just beinga liberian, and sierra leone, he is right, the number of sick people, the number of families that have been totally wiped out, neighborhoods that are fallen with people who have been infected is just a huge increase between what it was like in august and what it is like now, and yeah, the number of doctors and nurses we immediate on the ground is just so vast and the gap between what we need and

what we have is only getting bigger. >> at this point they are trying to convince people to sort of stay at home and possibly die there instead of coming to a hospital? >> there are no good answers right now, there is! debate, the cdc thinks it is a really horrible idea to basically give people gloves and painkillers and say, stay with your family members while you have ebola, on the other hand unicef says what are you going to do? people are stuck in their house with their dying -r. the rules are that you shouldn't touch them, you should leave them in a bedroom essentially to die, but that is just not a tenable option for most people when their loved one is dying to wet to a point where compassion overrules self-preservation and that's exactly how ebola has been spreading house to house and unless there is a huge increase in the number of hospital beds available, it will continue to happen. >> and i think the journal had this morning just the amount of water, for example, per patient that it takes to try t to contan this. >> you need this massive amount

of logistics, bleach, water, you know, hundreds of head to toe suits every day, face masks, gloves, just a huge amount of logistics you need to operate these clinics and these are in countries, in sierra leone airport is so far from the capital you can really only get to it by boat. these countries are just not set up to have a huge increase logistics like that. >> what is the happening to the sense of, i guess, comfort in the people, they must know the entire world is looking at them in this way and as the economy slows down are people looking for exit strategies? >> people are trying to leave and people are extremely edgy. even when people accept the science of ebola, they obviously are scared and when people don't they are confused and panicked, it is extremely edgy. >> just the other day i saw a giant mob, i have no idea what was going on but right outside of an ebola clinic, giant mob appeared to be, i don't know if beating someone but we turned the car around and left,

everywhere you go you just sot sort of see angry mobs age triabout stick people in the neighborhood or bodies that have not been collected, people are very, very frightened. >> drew hinshaw of the wall street journal, thank you. >> thank you. >> >> sreenivasan: in iraq today, isis claimed responsibility for a series of car bombings northeast of baghdad that killed at least 58 security forces and citizens and injured dozens more. in a separate incident near ramadi, west of the capital, a roadside bomb killed a top police official. earlier, isis fighters captured parts of that city and took control of fallujah, where more than 140 u.s. troops died during fighting ten years ago. in syria, warplanes from the u.s.-led coalition once again struck isis targets in the besieged border city of kobani. despite repeated bombing, isis forces are attacking the city from three sides and have captured portions of it. we'll have more in a moment. elsewhere in the middle east today: at an international conference in cairo, secretary of state john kerry announced

that the united states will send more than $200 million to help rebuild the gaza strip following hamas's war with israel. >> this money will, we hope, help promote security and stability and economic development. >> sreenivasan: the president of the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas, has said $4 billion is needed for the reconstruction project. qatar today pledged $1 billion. back in this country, a michigan toddler has died of enterovirus 68, the disease that has infected more than 500 children in 46 states and the district of columbia. the victim was identified as a 21-month-old girl. last week, a four-year-old new jersey boy died of the disease. four others infected with enterovirus have also died, but the cdc says it is unclear what role the virus played in their deaths. in st. louis, demonstrations are continuing for a third day over the august shooting death of michael brown, the unarmed black teen who was killed by a white police officer. the four-day event, dubbed" ferguson october", has attracted a few thousand protesters.

overnight, police used tear gas to try to disperse demonstrators staging a sit-in. 17 people were arrested when they ignored police warnings to leave. and facebook is apparently having a difficult time keeping up with at least one very hip, very senior citizen. anna stoehr of minnesota had to lie about her age to open her facebook account. that's because the earliest possible birth date listed on facebook is 1905. anna stoehr was born in 1900. today, she celebrated turning 114. and now more of our continuing interview series, the war on isis. our focus tonight: turkey's role. it's a nato partner, but so far it's been reluctant to get involved. to help explain why, we are joined now from washington by geoff dyer the u.s. foreign policy correspondent of the financial times.

>> so, jeff, sometimes these pictures that come out, you can see turkish tanks literally just looking over the border where some of the fighting is happening. what is keeping turkey on the sidelines. >> well there are a number of reasons for that, one the turkish government says it has a different outlook to what their main objective should be in the campaign, the u.s. is focusing just on isis, the turks would like the us u.s. and coalition in general to also take the fight to the assad regime and not just a campaign that focuses on isis. the turks are also to some extent ambivalent about the political groups that have been dominant in terms of a about a any that are sir idea kurds that have links to a militant group, kurdish militant group where the turkish government has been at war in three decades that is some of the concerns and also a broader sense of a slippery slope for the turkish government if they were to intervene here, do they send in their own troops if they manage to push isis troops, intervene in other towns if this happens? if isis goes

away and come back in a few weeks time what does that mean for the turks? are they involved again? so all of those slippery slope arguments president obama has been[dxl÷ grappling with the turks are grappling with them as well. >> what sort of coalition would make turkey get into this fight and put boots on the ground? >> well, the turks have been very aggressive in the campaign against assad, re, in the campaign against the assad regime for a last couple of years, they have had a lot of emphasis on that and that's where the big strategic goal is to try to push the u.s. in the direction of not just against isis but the assad regime and putting more resources into opposition forces that can fight the assad regime and if that happened you may see a turkish government more willing to use some sort of military assets and even intervene more directly in the conflict. >> one of the concerns right now has been this hmm freeway or pipeline of supply in terms of humans coming from, say, great britain or the west and wanting

to join forces of isis, it seems a key way station is turkey, is turkey stopping that flow? >> well, that's a very hard question to answer. i mean, you g reports on that front. over the last couple of years that has been one of the main roots, in the turkish government says it has not only on the fighters but the financial aspect of it, it is a very open and porous border, smug king in roots between syria and turkey that have been around for centuries, it is not easy to just clamp down overnight. >> geoff dyer and the financial times joining us from washington. thanks so much. >> my pleasure. >> >> sreenivasan: and now to our signature segment. tonight, a visit with james earl jones. he's back on broadway, but during a recent interview with newshour's jeffrey brown, he confided that the words he

speaks don't always come easily to him. >> i was to stand there, say the ten numbers. four, five... and then fall over-- fall flat over. that was exiting. and the kids liked that, too. that's the one thing they remember. nine, ten... >> reporter: in 1969 james earl jones was the first celebrity guest to appear on sesame street. since then he has lent his voice to some of the most recognizable characters in popular culture. >> he told me you killed him. >> no, i am your father. >> i'm not who i used to be. >> remember who you are. you are my son and the one true king.

>> reporter: beyond the voice, of course, has been the actor. and at 83 years old he's still going strong, now back on broadway in a revival of the classic 1936 screwball comedy" you can't take it with you". >> reporter: you spend much of this play smiling from ear to ear. >> you caught me. >> reporter: i did. i know it's the character but you look like you're just having a great time. >> that happens to be true. but also it happens to be a choice that the director and i made. well, you know, it's the first time i've ever been in a comedy. >> reporter: the first time, i mean, why did it take you so long to get into a comedy? >> well, i don't know. i guess i thought if you... if you took acting seriously, you had to take acting as serious, you know, and serious stuff. >> you can't take it with you. >> according to our records, mr. vanderhoff, you have never paid an income tax. >> that's right >> why not? >> i don't believe in it.

>> reporter: in "you can't take it with you" jones plays grandpa, the patriarch of an unusually happy and wacky family in depression-era new york whose members live life as they please-- not paying income taxes, not working, simply because they don't feel like it. one review said jones "infuses every word with a steady grace". but jones told us for as long as he can remember he's been uncomfortable with words, a man with difficulty expressing himself. how can you think of yourself as inarticulate? you don't... >> oh... >> reporter: you... you think of yourself that way? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: really? >> oh, at parties, yeah. i'm--i'm good at listening. that i learned well. and keeping up is... could be... can be a chore. >> reporter: it began early, during what he's described as a difficult childhood. his father abandoned the family and he was raised by primarily by his grandparents, first in mississippi and then on a farm in michigan.

and he developed a severe stutter. >> eople would come to the house and there'd be introductions made couldn't introduce myself. >> reporter: it was that bad? >> yeah. >> reporter: it's kind of remark... >> i found it was oh, so good sometimes because... silence isn't bad. it's good to listen. and i learned to listen. >> reporter: jones says it was, in part, that very thing, that drove him toward acting. a high school teacher had helped him overcome his stutter by having him recite poetry at the front of the class. in the early 1950s, jones had just gotten out of the army and decided to give new york theatre a try. >> and i didn't know i was landing in the middle of the revolution that involved theater being changed to every man. i just came and walked into it like a dummy outta the army. and this stuff is going on around me. suddenly, i began to put it together. and it's quite wonderful. >> reporter: it was a time when

broadway embraced stories about regular people like willy loman, the protagonist in arthur miller's "a death of a salesma"" and stanley kowalski in "a street car named desire", famously performed by marlon brando. but in jones's very first small role on broadway in 1958, in "sunrise at campobello," a play based on president franklin roosevelt's struggle with polio, an old problem came back to haunt him. >> i was playing a houseboy and i had a scene. i came into eleanor roosevelt. i said, "mrs. roosevelt, supper is served." well, i got as far as "mrs." we're often hung on the m word, the mama word or whatever you wanna call it, us stutterers. i think the audience knew what was happening. it was... it was a play. they bought tickets. and i'm up there acting. and i can't talk.

my line was simple, "mrs. roosevelt, supper is served." and i exited. and that's the last time it's ever happened to me. >> reporter: it may surprise you that jones, with undoubtedly one of the most recognizable voices in the world... >> this is cnn. >> reporter: ...says he still struggles with stutter to this day. but it hasn't held him back on stage, film, or television. jones has won three emmy awards, an honorary academy award and two tony awards for his stage performances in the "great white hope" about a black boxer, and for august wilson's play" fences" about the african american experience and race relations. >> don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. you best make sure that they are doing right by you. >> reporter: jones had several other notable roles including othello on broadway... >> people will come, ray. >> reporter: ...and in the

modern film classic "field of dreams." jones told us that early on, his roles were limited because of his race. >> i'm going to bust it wide open and the we are all going to go out for a champagne lunch. >> reporter: but despite being one of the most prominent african american actors of his generation, jones has never defined his career in racial terms. >> i never thought there was a thing... such a thing as black theater or african american theater. >> reporter: race wasn't even a consideration in the current production of "you can't take it with you". all the other actors playing members of his family are white. but the 1936 version of the play did have some racial references, one of which made jones uncomfortable. >> my questions were, for instance, okay... these characters, these... these writers wrote in two black people, it's... two people who were servants. when the girl who plays my daughter, penny, says, "oh, they're so cute. they're a little, like, porgy and bess." >> reporter: really?"

porgy and bess", the opera first performed in 1935, portrayed african americans in ways that some-- then and now-- felt were racist stereotypes. >> i-i recommended we don't say that line. 'cause why beg the question? >> reporter: the line was ultimately taken out. ironically, after all his success on stage and screen in more than 200 roles, jones is probably still best known for being the voice of darth vader in the star wars trilogy. and the first movie, released in 1977, may have been his easiest gig ever. >> reporter: "star wars" was almost, like, for you... it wasn't a big deal, right? i mean, you recorded it fairly quickly, i understand, and... >> oh, in two-and-a-half hours. yeah. >> reporter: two-and-a-half hours. and yet it became one of the most well-known voices... >> because the overall... >> reporter: in the world. >> the overall theme of that project meant something to everybody. >> reporter: jones says the

roles he's most proud of, though, are ones in which he played characters who, like himself, struggle with language. men like lennie in "of mice and men" and hoke in "driving miss daisy." >> sure i do. don't worry none about it. i hold on no matter what way she run me. when i was nothing but a little boy on the farm butt naked wrestle hogs on the ground at killing time and no hog get away from me yet. very simple people, people who don't articulate much, people like me, who don't have language, who are inarticulate. i-i like hoke in "driving miss daisy." hoke invents a language of his own. he doesn't know how to use english as you and i are doing right now. but he has a way of talking that is quite poetic. >> sreenivasan: james earl jones' career has spanned six decades. which role is the most memorable? sound off at facebook.com/newshour.

this coming tuesday, a new frontline investigation examines how the widespread use of antibiotics on farm animals may be limiting the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat human diseases. in this clip, "frontline" correspondent david hoffman of the washington post sets out on a journey across the united states to explore the potential link. >> for the past two years, i have been investigating the emergence and spread of nightmare bacteria.k.ioñ super bugs that are increasingly resistant to the strongest antibiotics. the bacteria are fighting back and they are defeating the drug? >> correct. >> i have been tracking the phenomenon through hospitals

around the country, where doctors have been dealing with patients infected by these super bugs which go by names like kpc and mdm 1. >> all these are mean that the bacteria is resistant to that antibiotic. >> i found outbreaks that have paralyzed some of our best hospitals. >> no matter what we did, the bacteria still, it was still spreading. >> more than 20,000 people a'e+ñ year are dying from these infections, and as many as 2 million get sick them from -- from them. what has become apparent these nightmare infections are being fueled by the over use of antibiotics, creating bugs we can't kill. but the war, the more i looked into it, is more i saw there was another dimension to the story. >> it turned out most antibiotics aren't even used by humans. >> they are used on farms.

>> some late news this afternoon. the cdc confirmed its preliminary finding that dallas hospital worker did contract ebola after what is being described as a breach of protocol treating a man who died of the disease. president obama has ordered an inquiry. earlier martin dempsey says isis fighters are blending into sunni communities and cities near baghdad and predicted they will fire at targets in the capital. he said an out right assault on baghdad remains unlikely. join us on air and online tomorrow. i am hari sreenivasan. have a good night. >> captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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