dr. greg spencer. >>> dr. greg spencer's fiancee is back this morning after testing negative for ebola. >> doctors say she's 100% symptom free. this despite sharing an apartment with an infected person. dixon, those will remained quarantine inside her apartment until november 14th as a precaution. >> reporter: morgan dixon's return home for many the first tangible sign it is hard to contract ebola. she's 100% symptom free. dr. craig spencer remains in isolation at bellevue. dixon will remain at their home in quarantine until november 14th as a precaution. her neighbors and health officials spoke outside the apartment. >> we'll be making sure in collaboration with many different agencies around the city that this person needs are taken care of. >> for inside the building we're very calm. up and down my halls it's very calm. there's no running, there's no ruckus. >> reporter: dixon's family who has not seen her since the ordeal said in a statement we're asking your thoughts and prayers for craig spencer and his f

dr. greg spencer near city doctor infected with ebola now in serious condition. luke and the next phase. he is getting a blood transfusion from survivor nancy let all and the mutt of medication >> : in jersey nurse came back from treatable patients and sierra leone slaving governor chris chris the fermented for 21 day quarantine imposed on all health-care workers ought from west africa >> : he calls her isolation and humane and feels fine tested negative for bullet twice >> : everyone keeps asking how are you feeling physically and of course i feel fine physically. and i don't think most people understand what it's like to be a long and to know nothing wrong with you and decisions being made that makes sense >> : the 21 day quarantine on health-care workers returning to new york state. >> : response from the one constant that administration officials saying we have concerns for the ascending consequences for policy not grounded in sites may have efforts to comfortable in west africa >> : and developing story new information about the man police believed to sherif

dr. greg spencer has contracted ebola, he is stable and being treated at bellevue hospital in new york.are working to decontaminate areas he has traveled. >> i believe they are going to nip this in the but. they are the treatments that can u

dr. greg spencer traveled freely for six days before being diagnosed with ebola. they are preparing to decontaminate his apartment on friday, officials traced his every move. the meat ball shot and the highline park and the coffee shop. and taking a train to this brooklyn bowli alley. and rushing to the hospital in the morning after waking with a 100.3 degree fever. spencer and his fiance and two friends are under quarantine as new york's mayor calling for calm. >> don't change your daily routine in any way. >> reporter: the new policy in new york and new jersey allows the states to make quarantine mandatory for 21 days for anyone returning from the affected countries, dan. >> thank you. let's bring in abc's chief medical editor, dr. richard besser. you have misgivings. but she did spike a fever, doesn't that in some way vindicate the policy? >> i don't think so. people will come back from travel and develop illnesses. but she didn't have ebola. i think the systemas working. you see pictures of dr. spencer around town and makes people uncomfortable. but he was not

dr. greg spencer also worked for doctors without borders. talk around the city was whether or not dr. spencer should have taken the subway after he returned home from treating ebola patients in guinea. we talked about how truly difficult it is to contract ebola. >> so we're on the a train right now. we were just discussing about whether this doctor should have gotten on the train. and this woman says it was completely irresponsible. and i've heard that from a lot of people. like, what the hell was this guy thinking getting on the train? what do you think about that? >> well, i can understand why people are upset and concern. the reality is it's when you're in the early stages of this virus infection, it's very difficult to transmit from person-to-person. if the doctor had influenza, then, yeah, there's a lot of risk. but this is not a virus transmitted by the aerosol route. unless you come in drekt contact of blood or other bodily fluids -- >> so you don't think it's irresponsible? >> well, i can't answer it that way. you can argue that anyon

dr. greg spencer is allowed to self-monitor instead.iscretion is advised. >> that's dinner on that side for me. thank you. >> the kitchen staff at oakland's santa rita jail must prepare and deliver meals for 3,000 inmates, three times per day, seven days a week. it's a big job, but the end result rarely wins praise. >> this is very unappetizing, bland. >> we call it white dip. because we don't know how they make it and it mile ki you, but that's all we got to eat. >> but for inmate workers like vincent del judas, chow time offers a break from an otherwise monotonous existence. >> i'm a pod worker. we get to stay out of our cell and clean out pods, help out with hot water and stuff like that. i'm going to get you another newspaper right now. it's all good. i get to wiggle. i get to really do things that other inmates, they can't do. i get to stay out of my cell all the time, use the phone when i want, listen to the radio, wake up early, load the ovens, feed the inmates, and whatever they need, i shoot it to them. i give them what they ne

dr. greg spencer when he went to the hospital and let's listen in and hear what they have to say. >> i wantou a briefing and i'm going to raise some items from last night and then we'll be adding information. you'll hear from my colleagues and then we'll take questions f from the media. yesterday we announced that a patient at bellevue hospital had tested positive for ebola. i want to repeat what i said last night. there is no cause for alarm. new yorkers need to understand the situation is being handled and handled well. there's no cause for every day new yorkers to be alarmed. ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract. it's transmitted only through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids of another individual. only through that direct and intimate contact can the disease be transmitted. it cannot be transmitted through casual contact or in airborne fashion. new yorkers who have not been exposed to an infected person's bodily fluids are simply not at risk and there's no reason for new yorkers to change their daily routine in any way. i want to talk about some of the people wh

dr. greg spencer is being monitored. this five-year-old returned from his family from guinea saturday with a 103-degree fever and had been vomiting before he was take on the the hospital. i had the opportunity to speak to a hospital official about this case earlier today on "new day." >> we are at the present time evaluating a five-year-old kid with travel history and fever at bellevue hospital pediatric emergency department and he's undergoing an evaluation and we will be making decisions in the next few hours. >> observation or being tested? >> we don't know yet. the evaluation is still going on. >> let's bring in dr. seema yasmin who joins us from texas and frank esper joins us as well, an infectious disease specialist. seema, i want to start with nurse hickox here. she is said to be released. she is set to be transported to maine. what concerns do you have about her and whether she will develop ebola symptoms? >> it's reassuring that the policy is aligning. she does not have any symptoms so she can go through the pro

dr. greg spencer will be the only known ebola patient being treated in the u.s.he's still in isolation at new york's bellevue hospital. nurse casey hickox is back in her home state of maine. speaking exclusively to nbc. governor chris christie defended his state's quarantine policy. >> i understand that the cdc has been behind on this. folks got infected in texas because they were behind. and we're not going to have folks being infected in new jersey and other states in the country, asking them to quarantine at home for 21 days unless their symptomatic. i don't think it's draconia n. i think they're responding like that because they've been wrong before. now they're taking steps towards the policy that we put in effect in new jersey. >> dr. anthony, whom christi was referring to the national institutes of health told "morning joe" what is important is the clarity of the guidelines and making sure the restrictions are based not on pop ticks, but on science. >> i think i know that they come back and not really bothered by having to do things that safeguard the amer

dr. greg spencer he is an isolation ward bellevue hospital. early a week after he returned from treating double patients >> : a reasonable leave he infected anyone else >> : patients being held in isolation and poses no threat to others >> : burst the bubble become free of the disease >> : for chambliss to be standing here today >> : affected by treating library and a bull patients in dallas. visit the white house got a big hug from president obama >> : the dual screen procedure failed in the case of the infected doctor said the only way to prevent health care workers from bringing in a bull virus make everyone spent three weeks isolation upon returning >> : a confirmed cases of ebola california state department public health identified this top hospitals for treating a bull patients >> : one of them here in the bay area >> : and reports >> : the b.c. medical and cleans up the system might desire location selected go to hospital treating the bowl and the state of california >> : ready to take a terrible double patient yes >> : kron traveler say

dr. greg spencer remains in serious but stable condition here at bellevue hospital center. in the meantime, a patient is being isolated and being monitored for ebola at the university of maryland medical center in baltimore as u.s. officials work to contain the crisis. >> not everybody is at the same risk. >> the new guidelines issued by the cdc classified travelers from west africa into four risk categories. >> high, some, low but not zero and no identifiable risk. >> health care workers who treated ebola patients using personal protective equipment posed some risk. while those who came into direct contact with body fluid will be considered high risk. and they will be directly monitored for signs of infection. their movements in public will also be restricted but a quarantine is not automatic. >> is this person reliable to adhere to the restrictions of not traveling in certain types of medium. of not going into crowded areas. if there's a determination that person could do it technically you could put a restriction on that person. >> casey's hikox whose quarantine caused w

dr. greg spencer did exactly what he was supposed to do.idelines. he followed them it sounds like perfectly, but when you also hear in the next breath that his girlfriend i believe or fiance, i'm not sure of the rupp but she is now under quarantine, it does raise the question, why are some people under quarantine and some people are not. it is confusing. they acknowledge that and want to try and have some clarity on the situation but frankly, even, myself i'm not sure i fully understand why some people are put into a quarantine, like his girlfriend, when it doesn't sound like he was, you know, transmitting the virus at the time that he was taken to the hospital. >> let's discuss this, because this gets to the heart of where the panic comes from. >> sure. >> one important clarification. you said when he got a fever. we've been getting different numbers. obviously the more fever, higher fever, the more sick he is. was it 103 or 100.3? >> it was 100.3 and i want to make clear that the patient always gave us this number. >> okay. >> so the numb

mislabel a crisis this morning after greg spencer marks a doctor infected with the deadly virus now in serious condition. move into next phase of his illness now dretting blood transfusion for mobile a survivor nancy anti-viral medication as well. right now in new jersey news to came back with sunning governor chris with but 21 the quarantine on health- care workers traveling back to u.s. >> : calls for isolation and humane and says she feels fine and tested negative twice >> : i feel fine physically. but don't think most people understand what it's like to be alone >> : in all there is the result, the un decision is being made that makes sense. >> : the governor also on the 21 acorns in health care workers returning from west africa also they're concerned with the quarantines discourage workers from going to west africa. >> : new informational the man who killed two sheriff's deputies northern california. willis deported twice from the u.s. to mexico also arrested in arizona for drug charges. he is able to live in the country and dissected till friday. that's when sacramento police believe he may have been living under many identities and not su