amber vinson, our patient, and with ms. vinson are members of her family. her grandparents, mr. lawrence vinson sr., charlotte vinson, her uncle, lawrence vinson and her aunt, cheryl vinson. dr. ridner will make a statement. amber will make a statement and will not take any questions. after amber's statement, we will do a brief q & a. and then depart. i would ask that you respect our patient's privacy and not shout any questions and allow amber and her family to depart in privacy. thank you. dr. ridner? >> good afternoon and thank you for coming today. as you've already heard, i am bruce ribner, medical director of the serious communicable diseases unit at emory university hospital. i lead the team of physicians, nurses, laboratory technolo technologists, chaplains and a host of other people who are so critically important in caring for our patients in our unit. today, i'm pleased to announce that amber vinson is being discharged from emory university hospital. after a rigorous course of treatment and thorough testing, we have determined that ms. vinson has recovered from her in

built for business. >>> we are learning more about the ebola patient, amber vinson. he second nurse from texas toxs contract the disease. she's being treatedract at emory university hospital. according to a cdc official, vinson indicated that she felt h funny during her recent trip to ohio where she spentre time at a bridal shop. she is getting married. senior national correspondent john roberts reports from atlanta. >> reporter: we don't know specific details about her condition. she has instructed emory hospital not to dischose that. we understand from other sources that she's in stable condition. we're also learning nor aboutndt how she was feeling during her weekend trip to ohio when she was preparing for her wedding going to the bridal shop. the cdcdc said she was feeling funny, tired, had to rest on several occasions. exhibiting typical symptoms of ebola. sore throat, fever, aches or pains, but definitely feeling off. cdc dr. braden said vinson may have felt ill all the way back to friday when she took that flight up from dallas to cleveland. >> we can't rule ou

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. >> not 12 hours later amber vinson was the next confirmed case. what's worse is she may have exposed hundreds more by flying cross country after officials told her it was okay. >> the second health care worker reported no symptoms and no fever. however, because at that point she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> tonight, we take an exclusive tour of the very airplane this nurse flew on. look at this. and we will learn more about who else may have been exposed and how. and we'll check in on those infected nurses. we'll also answer the question of how nina pham looked so healthy as recently as thursday. and we'll ask an expert just how deadly is this virus. but the biggest recent development may not be medical, it may be political. after failing to stop this virus from coming, failing to protect the first health care workers, failing to contain the chain of exposure and failing to get behind a travel ban to halt new cases, the obama administration decided it needed

today, hazmat teams continued the cleanup at the apartment of amber vinson, the nurse taken to emory last night. nina pham, who's been at texas health presbyterian since saturday is headed to bethesda. the county executive says the hospital here only has three isolation units, and unfortunately they need to be ready to deal with new ebola patients. >> if we're going to have more cases, it's likely that they're going to be coming up soon. >> reporter: sounds like you're worried about that. >> i'm extremely concerned given that i had 75 heroic health care workers who were potentially exposed to the same sort of risk that nina and amber were. >> reporter: on the "today" this morning, brianna aguirre, still employed, described a hospital woefully unprepared to deal with ebola. >> i just couldn't believe it, you know. in the second week of ebola crisis at my hospital, the only gear they're offering us at that time and up until that time is gear that is allowing our necks to be uncovered. >> reporter: she said contaminated garbage was stacked up in the hallway. >> our infectious disease co

meanwhile, two co-workers of the lab technicians, nurses nina pham and amber vinson, are being treated for ebola. before being diagnosed, vinson flew round trip from dallas to cleveland. frontier airlines is notifying up to 800 passengers, including those who flew with her and those who later traveled on one of the same planes. >> i'm more worried than i am angry. it's kind of one of those things where it happened, now i just want to be positive and deal with it and move on. >> reporter: and other ebola scares continue. a sick passenger died on a flight en route from nigeria to jfk thursday. emergency responders determined ebola was not the cause. and at the pentagon this morning, a woman who said she had been to west africa vomited in a parking lot. she was taken to a hospital for evaluation. so everyone acting out of an abundance of caution. in texas, the state where these two nurses were infected with ebola, the state is directing all health care workers who had direct contact or even entered thomas eric duncan's room to stay away from public places where people congregate. that is

, the second nurse from texas to >>> we are learning more about the ebola patient, amber vinson, the d person from texas to contract the disease. miss vinson is being treated at atlanta's emory university. vinson indicated she felt funny during her recent trip to ohio where she spent time at a bridal shop. she is getting married. cnn correspondent john roberts reports from atlanta. >> we don't know specific details about amber's university. she has instructed emory university not to disclose that information, but we know from other sources that she is in stable condition. we also learned more about how she was feeling during her weekend trip to ohio when she was preparing for her wedding going to thatbridal shop. the cdc said she felt tired, had to rest on several occasions. she was not exhibiting symptoms, but she certainly was feeling off. vinson may have felt ill all the way back to friday when she took that flight up from dallas to cleveland. >> we can't rule out that she wasn't ill, okay, for the time that she was here in ohio. and so we're going to be very conservative. we're go

and amber vinson is at em moory hospital. the cdc knew she had worked closely with thomas eric duncan and before her return flight from dallas to ohio, she said she had developed a fever and was about to board a plane and yet was somehow green-lighted to fly. she flew from cleveland with a cabin full of 132 other passengers. cdc director tom frieden says this should not have happened. >> she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to ebola. she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> reporter: children who may have had contact with people on board that flight are at home as several schools in ohio are closed, a move that may be too little, too late. the federal government may decide to prevent the 76 hospital health care workers from flying and are thinking about lowering the temperature threshold for flight. >> commonsense has taken a holiday here. >> reporter: while haz-mat crews decontaminate amber vinson's home, here's what we need, here's the education, the training, here's the equipment and we

passengers on amber vinson's flight to dallas are asked to call the cdc. frontier airlines says the plane has been thoroughly cleaned and it is back in service and it made multiple trips before the airline learned of vinson's diagnosis. renee marsh is joined at reagan national airport. the time between the flight and when the nurse reported symptoms are extremely close. within only a few hours. how likely does the cdc think that other passengers right now are at risk? >> reporter: wolf, in the cdc's own words they say the risk is low despite the fact that the time in which -- between which she landed in dallas and the time that she reported these symptoms. as you mentioned, extremely close and they say because she didn't vomit and she didn't excrete those bodily fluids, they do not believe that the other passengers onboard are high risk. that being said, they are reaching out to those passengers. we were talking about 132 people who were onboard this flight to answer any questions and follow up with them. they even put out this 1-800-phone number for people

patients, four of them have been treated successfully and discharge and and as you mentioned, amber vinson one of two dallas nurses to have contracted the virus while treating thomas eric duncan who subsequently died from his illness. health officials are saying both pham and vinson are free from the ebola virus. >> it's remarkable at emory, nick, a 100% success rate at emory dealing with ebola patients. amber vinson just the latest one to leave there successfully, healed from the virus do we expect to hear from her today? >> she will make some comments. we don't know if she'll take questions. also expected to talk is dr. bruce ribnor. and he's been preparing for this for the last 12 years. it was back in 2002 that the cdc approached emory hospital about creating this isolation unit. it was intended to be a place where cdc workers who may have been exposed to infectious diseases abroad where they can come back and be in a secure zone. now health unit, the serious communicable disease unit being used to treat these ebola patients so dr. bruce ribnor will talk about how there were over 120 p

there is other breaking news tonight, where nurse amber vinson, we say may have, already been showing symptoms when she boarded the flight from dallas to ohio, that is three day before systemmatic. and the question is, if that was true, why did she fly? all of that is being investigated. on monday, when she went home and phoned into the cdc, she phoned in with a fever of 99.5, and said she had been treating a patient with ebola. why did the person say it was okay for her to get on the plane? president obama talked about that and more. we have elizabeth cohen here, let's talk about the news that amber vinson may have been symptomatic when she first got on that flight. where is that information coming from? >> that is coming from a federal official. we're hearing she did have symptoms while in cleveland, that she felt muscle aches, fatigue, not feeling well. and that she felt while she was in cleveland and on the flight home from cleveland to dallas, and she did not tell the cdc. >> is it known that if she had a fever earlier than that day that she was flying home -- >> no, not the feve

amber vinson is now in atlanta at emory university for treatment. the congressional committee that is asking for answers is going to be hearing from the cdc and also hospital leaders from texas presbyterian hospital in dallas. "today in the bay"'s chris pallone is live with more on amber vinson and her travel to emory and how her diagnosis is changing those for travelers. >> reporter: kris, that's right, amber vinson flew from cleveland to dallas on monday, as you reported. she had a low fever, possibly even kind of normal temperature but she called the cdc on monday to talk about that temperature of 99.5. and when she talked to a representative at the cdc, that representative apparently looked at the cdc website and told her that the cutoff not to fly was 100.4 degrees and so vinson got on that flight knowing that at least the stated guideline on the cdc website was higher than the temperature she was experiencing. so, of course, now the cdc is reaching out to 132 passengers on that plane to let them know that they might have been exposed to the di

there has been an update on amber vinson. we were able to watch her yesterday in realtime when she got off the plane to go to emory, she was able to walk with a little bit of aid of her own accord into an ambulance and then she was taken to emory university hospital where they have that special biocontainment unit. she was able to walk which certainly is a good sign. similar to kent brantly who was the first ebola patient who tested positive in liberia and he was able to walk off a plane and get into an ambulance as you may remember to go to emory. >> i talked to him last night on his show and he's doing better but by no means has he bounced back. you're in dallas. you're talking to people who live there. if you can, just give us a real idea of how people are feeling in this community. here they have thomas eric duncan and two nurses all of whom have ebola. is it fear? a couple schools have closed. put this in perspective for us, please. >> it's different for everybody. i can tell just about everywhere i go in dallas people r

there's also a mystery man involved with amber vinson's trip to atlanta. he's driving social media crazy. >> the guy with the clipboard. if you can't make that out, he's also the guy that doesn't have on any protective clothing. he takes various objects from one of the workers. the worker has on the biohazard gear. he then boards the plane. and he's seen again with vinson in atlanta. it's not clear who he is, who he works for, and why he's not protected if everybody else is. >> we will have more on ebola in america later on "good morning america" with live team coverage. >>> moving ton to a wild police chase caught on camera in northern new jersey. the driver of a minivan takes off just as he was about to be arrested for several outstanding warrants. and through a neighborhood and on to a highway. they thought they had him. the van was cornered, and the driver ran away. he's now behind bars. >>> and poking holes in the theory that crash dieting is less effective than regular dieting. those who lost it fast were just as likely to regain the weight as those

amber vinson is coming your way to emory university hospital in atlanta. is this a sign that the cdc has lost confidence in that hospital? >> it could be, and that's very disappointing. for some time we were talking about the fact that any hospital in the country should be able to take care of a patient with ebola because the isolation procedures really aren't that challenging. you don't need a big, sophisticated center like an emory, but to your point, maybe this is a little bit of a surrender to some extent and it's not so much the treatment, i don't think, jake. there is no specific treatment for ebola and you manage someone's fluids and replace those fluids as necessary and we know the nurse nina pham got a blood transfusion that could be given anywhere, and it could be given in dallas or anywhere. listen to dr. frieden closely and he said amber vinson is ill and sounds like she's more ill than nina pham and that was part of her reason to go to emory. what does that mean, exactly? how do you interpret that some the treatment will be better at emory, pe

first, amber vinson, who contracted ebola after caring for thomas eric duncan.e reported she had a fever flying back from cleveland to dallas. we learned she had symptoms three days earlier than she was symptomatic, and three days earlier than when she came into contact with the flight. and the cdc is trying to nail down who she came in contact with. also nina pham, on board a plane, that special plane according to officials they have the kind of expertise in training that simply doesn't exist at this hospital where she works and was infected. and nurse briana aguirre works at texas health presbyterian although her future now is uncertain. that is because she is speaking out about what she says she saw there. the chaos, the lack of training, the confusing protocols from the cdc and the risk that she says that the hospital exposed nurses to in the isolation ward where thomas eric duncan was treated. now, we spoke recently with her attorney, bob kelly. we want to apologize for the background noise. there was a helicopter circling overhead. sabrina, we have been to

the nurse, amber vinson, sounds like, ana, she wasn't told anything. she, in fact, was the one who called the cdc herself at some point and said this is what's going on with me. so she wasn't told she couldn't fly. that needs to obviously be more spelled out. >> absolutely. sanjay gupta, dr. sanjay gupta, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, you got it. >>> breaking news out of london, five men have been charged following a series of terror-related arrests in the pass few days. atika shubert joins me by phone from london. what have you learned? >> reporter: the five men were arrested over the last few days and charged with terror offenses, namely in one of them swearing an oath in support of isis, but also in terms of obtaining a firearm, specifically a bical handgun. we don't have much more information than that. what we dough know is all five men will appear in front of the westminster magistrate's court shortly to be charged at the hearing there. that's what we have at the moment. hopefully we'll have more details as the case progres

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amber vinson was this morning when dr. frieden talked to the press as the head of the cdc, tom frieden, he said that she had breached protocol when getting on that plane with the slightly elevated fever. we're now learning that she had actually called the cdc because she was self-monitoring and had been given the green light. this is twice in a row, we have to note here, in which the initial response of the cdc was to say that the protocol was breacheded in the case of ms. pham and in ms. vinson and that it later turned out that the protocol wasn't breached, necessarily, that either the protocol was insufficiently explained or in this case she had actually checked with the cdc apparently it appears told her to get on the plane. >> the cdc, in an attempt to try and explain it -- one could argue the explanation itself is even more confusing, but in an attempt to explain it essentially said they have these workers, get a phone call, they go to a website, and they look, 99.5, and they say, okay, well, yeah, it's fine for you t

those health care workers are showing amber vinson, this nurse, who today it was revealed has tested positive. the second health care worker at dallas presbyterian hospital who has tested positive for ebola. the breaking news as i said from chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta, the reason she was moved from texas presbyterian hospital is because of concerns that health care workers there, or here are going to walk out and there will not be enough people to actually treat this new case. we're going to have more on that in a moment. the nurse, 29-year-old amber vinson, there were concerns because she flew on a commercial flight from cleveland to dallas just two days ago and already had a fever at that time. so now officials are trying to track down all 132 passengers on that flight. i should say her temperature was elevated. there is more breaking news tonight. dr. sanjay gupta learned from an official that vinson called the cdc and got the okay to go. now, this is a bit confounding considering what the head of the cdc said today. >> she was in a group of individuals known to h

the parent oo a student who attends that school visited with amber vinson, nurse number two,.he student never had contact with vinson, but that student and parent are among seven individuals under voluntary quarantine in ohio as a precautionn anothhr precaution includes closing two schools in solon, ohio, because an employee of the school system may have flown on the same plane which carried nurse number two. similar situation n texas. two students were onboard that frontier jet carrying amber vinson, and those schools have been closed as well. liz: let's get to the ohio situation. we got the breaking news a short -@time ago that those three ohio schools closed today. in fact, one of them was being -- i guess they put it as calmly evacuating because resnik elementary school had a parent of a student who had come into contact with amber vinson. joining me now on the hone is the chief communications officer, mark williamson. sir, thank you for joining us. and we think it's very important just to clear the air first. what is the status of the school evacuation right now? >> well,

. >> two staff members at those schools were on a plane with amber vinson. and now the entire situation is under scrutiny after a slew of short comings unfolded. >> we have live coverage, tahman bradley at the white house. we begin with john ehrlichmann in dallas. good morning to you, john. >> reporter: good morning. now that you have two people who have contracted ebola at this hospital, health officials are stepping up their efforts to contain the virus. amber joy vinson walked off the plane last night after hitching a ride on this high-tech biocontainment play. now in isolation at emory hospital. the 29-year-old is the second dallas nurse to catch ebola after treating thomas eric dunc duncan, who died last week. she had close contact, inserting catheters and drawing blood. especially troubling, she flew to cleveland to visit family and back to dallas before she knew she had the disease. the cdcered, giving her permission to fly after a temperature of 99.5, but lower than the 100.4. >> she would not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> reporter: altho

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and as we come on the air tonight, there is a new development about amber vinson. that second nurse who boarded that plane from cleveland back to dallas. i want to bring in our chief medical editor dr. richard besser who is in dallas tonight. you are learning she might have shown symptoms before we even knee about it? >> reporter: that's right, david. the cdc just told mel that as part of their investigation, they learned that amber vinson was already feeling unwell on friday, before she headed up to cleveland. so, they're going to expand their investigation and track down every passenger who was on the plane going up there, just as part of an abundance of caution. >> that's going to widen this circle, rich, because we know she went to that bridal shop after showing symptoms, as you are reporting here tonight. rich, i wanted to ask you about something else, the experimental treatment being given to these two nurses. we had not heard about that yet. >> reporter: that's right. this is big news. we hadn't heard about experimental drugs in these two nurses. but you kno

and new information about where amber vinson was before she was under the influence. she boarded a flight despite a 99.5 temperature. and 24 hours later she was in the hospital diagnosed with ebola. we should mention that she was not supposed to be leaving her home. she was off work, supposedly monitoring herself for a fever. the said of the cdc said vinson should not have flown and from now on people monitored will not travel. and it is the latest example of how a system that the cdc has asked americans to trust has not lived up to expectations. late today the president tried to reassure the country but acknowledged much more needs to be done. >> i think what we've all learned over the last several weeks is that folks here in this country and in a lot of nonspecialized hospitals and clinics don't have that much experience dealing with these issues and we'll have to push out this information as aggressively as possible. >> part of the reason the u.n. said the world is now -- is not controlled in 60 days is facing an unprecedented situation with to plan. i want to get

she was on the flight that amber vinson was on. she didn't know that she had been on that flight with amber vinson until a friend told her about it. and she says the cdc was very slow in responding to reach out to the passengers on board that plane. let's listen to her. >> i was confident knowing if i had exchanged bodily fluids with someone that had the virus that i would be fine. but now, it seems like maybe that's not the case. i don't know. >> reporter: a lot of people reacting to the news that came out yesterday that amber vinson actually had an elevated temperature before getting on that return flight from cleveland to dallas. people at the airport were telling us yesterday when we flew in. they were surprised she got on the plane after she reported that she had the elevated temperature the cdc didn't stop her from getting on the plane. the cdc came back and said that was a mistake, we're going to look back and change our protocol on how we advise our people to travel. this hospital is advising people caring for duncan not to

amber vinson is being discharged. the national who died from the deadly virus. she was transferred to atlanta from dallas at a more experienced facility. she is expected to speak in less than an hour. covering the story in atlanta, gabe, we expect to hear from her and she will be fully cured like nina pham was. she will have the antibodies that will make her resistant to any further infection. >> great news out of emery university hospital. the second nurse infected with ebola is free of the virus and expected to spoke here. she is not expected to take kidnap questions like her colleague nina pham who was released last week. amber vinson got a lot of attention because she was allowed to fly commercially from texas to ohio to plan a wedding and visit with her family and she self reported the low grade fever and she was allowed to fly back to texas. she was taken here on october 15th and has made a full recovery. this is the same room where dr. kent brantley spoke to the media. he has been surrounded by doctors and nurses. there was the other aid worker as well as

amber vinson's flight from ohio to texas is sparking fears in both states. two schools in bellton, texas are closed because the students flew on the statement flight as vinson. two schools in cleveland are closed. schools in both districts will be cleaned. >> i think the steps are unnecessary. >> more than abundance of caution. >> exactly. >>> federal officials ramping up the government's response to the ebola situation this morning. president obama has canceled campaign events two days in a row now to respond to the issue. he met with top officials at the white house. the president is ordering the cdc to send what he called a medical s.w.a.t. team within 24 hours of an ebolaiagnosis anywhere in the country. >> we are reviewing exactly what we know about what has happened in dallas and how we're going to make sure that something like this is not repeated and we are monitoring, supervising, overseeing in a much more aggressive way, exactly what is taking place. >> later today, cnn has learned that later today the administration plans to announce to call up res

amber vinson is set to be released around 1:00 this afternoon eastern time? >> reporter: yes, good morning, carol. we're expected to hear the first public statements from dallas nurse amber vinson from 1:00 p.m., first comments since being declared ebola free by health officials. she was brought to emory hospital serious communicable disease october 15th after being transferred from her home hospital at dallas presbyterian. viewers at home following the story since the beginning know emory university has a strong track record for success in treating ebola patients. this is going to be be the fourth person expected to be released after recovering from the illness, and if you remember, amber vinson is one of two nurses in dallas treating a liberian ebola patient thomas eric duncan. they contracted the virus, both nina pham and amber vinson declared ebola free. >> all right, nick valencia, dr. sanjay gupta, thanks so both of you. >> you bet. >>> more top stories for a tuesday morning. county sheriff says washington state high school shooter jaylen fryberg invite

amber vinson was not having the symptoms that put you at risk. >> reporter: it intensifies. and another nurse explaining the scene inside the hospital. >> this is what makes me so upset right here. her neck is hanging out. >> reporter: proesident obama i open to appointing a czar. >> i may appoint a person. >> reporter: and the president is not convinced of stopping travelers from west africa. >> the problem is with all the discussions i have had thus far with experts in the field, experts in infectious disease, is that a travel ban is less effective than the measures that we are currently instituting. >> reporter: the emergence of ebola in america has sparked concern across the country. at coming attractions bridal shop, the owner says employees are too afraid to return to work even show she was fine. >> there was no coughing, sneezing. nothing like that. >> reporter: and so bottom line, the cdc is reaching out to the people, not just on the flight from cleveland to dallas, but the people on the initial flight as well. back over to you. >> okay. thanks so much. >>> three te

that appears to be nurse amber vinson. briefly, what's next in the legal fight here? is your client going to sue? >> she is considering her options. she clearly has a claim if she wishes to pursue it for damages. initially our focus was getting her out and what she is really interested in is being an aide to figuring out how this will not happen to another person. that's her phoning us right now. >> that is all of our hope. i want to hear more from you shortly. everyone in the audience, i think we will go to the briefing. they are just getting started. we will hear the latest on nurse amber vinson and this facet of the ebola response. >> with ms. vinson are members of her family. her grandparents, mr. lawrence vinson sr., charlotte vinson, her uncle, lawrence vinson and aunt cheryl vinson. the doctor will make a statement, amber will make a statement and will not take any questions. after amber's statement, we will do a brief q&a and then depart. i would ask that you respect our patient's privacy and not shout any questions and allow amber and her family to depart in

rene marsh has more on what the airline is doing to keep future passengers safe. >> reporter: amber vinsonm cleveland to dallas one day before she was diagnosed with ebola. the entire crew now at home and self-monitoring for symptoms for 21 days. after vinson's flight, frontier says the plane was cleaned in dallas before making five stops the next day. frontier says the plane received four cleanings. now it's replacing seat covers, carpets, and environmental filters on the plane. the airline is also contacting hundreds of passengers who were on vinson's plane to dallas and her flight to cleveland three days before. >> our fundamental mission is to protect americans. >> reporter: on capitol hill thursday, cdc director tom frieden was on the hot seat. >> was it a breakdown in the protocol? was it a breakdown in the training of the protocol? do we know whether or not the protocol works? >> the investigation is ongoing. we've identified some possible causes. >> reporter: cnn has learned the cdc is now considering expanding what's called a do not board list that prevents people with a known inf

we're told amber vinson is ill, but not seriously ill. the cdc deciding today two ebola patients at this hospital, too many. amber joy vinson in a full haz-mat tonigsuit, tonight walk onto that plane. the associated press reporting she had close contact with thomas eric duncan, drawing his blood. no word yet on exactly how she became infected. >> this is a heroic person, a person who dedicated her life and is dedicating her life, to helping others and is a servant leader. this is a person with their life before them. >> reporter: last friday, two days after duncan died, amber vinson flying to cleveland to visit her mother and plan her wedding. but while she was there, back in dallas, her fellow nurse, nina pham, developing a fever, going to the hospital, diagnosed with ebola. the very next day, vinson getting on a frontier airlines flight with 132 other passengers and flying home to dallas. the cdc tonight trying to track down those travelers. then yesterday, troubling news. vinson developing a fever, driving herself to texas health presb

amber vinson is being treated at emery hospital in atlanta. questions are swirling about exactly when she first had symptoms of ebola. the latest on both nurses. also, authorities learned a passenger onboard a carnival cruise ship may have handled lab specimens from thomas eric duncan. plus, proof positive that ebola has gone viral. this is the halloween costume of the year. also tonight, your question on ebola. your team has the answer for you. the health clinic center in bethesda, maryland, ryan todd, we were live last night when nina pham was transported to nih where you are. what's her current condition? >> she's under 24/7 care at a high containment unit. she's being tended to by a highly trained staff of doctors and nurses working in two 12-hour shifts. and each minute someone is with nina pham. the doctors tending to her, there will always be an infectious disease specialist with her and a critical care doctor with her. but also on each shift, five nurses will always be there. two of them will always be in the room with her at the same

amber vinson flew there on monday. the cdc told her that her temperature was not high enough for them to suggest she stay off the plane. also, a few hours ago, we learned that a yale university student who traveled to liberia recently is in the hospital and while we have seen many of these cases come back negative for ebola, we are keeping an eye on this given his travel history and the symptoms of his illness. all this as the director for the centers for disease and prevention control was grilled on capitol hill. let's just say this was not the most reassuring testimony we've ever heard. >> we're open to ideas for what we can do to keep americans as safe as possible as long as the outbreak is continuing. >> opened to ideas. so in case you missed that, that was the nation's top health official asking members of congress for their thoughts on how to stop the spread of the virus. our reporters are across the country to give you information. elizabeth cohen is outside of the texas presbyterian hospital in dallas. why the

the frontier airplane took nurse amber vinson from cleveland to dallas. two pilots and four flight attendan on vinson's flight are on paid leave now for three weeks. this fourth cleaning of the plane includes removing seat covers and carpets in the area where vinson sat. >>> meanwhile, 75 workers at the texas hospital where vinson works are monitoring themselves for ebola symptoms. one of them now says she personally would not seek treatment at the hospital, even though she works there, because she doesn't feel it's safe there. news4's barbara harrison has a story you'll see only on 4. barbara. >> pat, briana aguirre is a nurse at texas health presbyterian hospita in dallas. she did not take care of thomas eric duncan who died as a patient but she did take care of news nina pham after pham tested positive for the ebola virus. now aguirre has concerns about how the hospital is dealing with the ebola crisis, and she talked about this to matt lauer on the "today" show th >> knowing what i know, i would try anything and everything to refuse to go there to be t

a bridal store visited by nurse amber vinson is now closed. officials are scrambling to find shoppers who were in it at the time she was there. >>> at the white house in what would be a first for the u.s., president obama is considering an ebola czar. here's why. >> it may be appropriate for me to appoint an additional person, not because the three of these folks have not been doing an outstanding job, they are responsible for a whole bunch of other stuff. >> new images on the front lines of the ebola fight. u.s. customs in action. they're performing fever screenings at five u.s. airports. take you to texas, more unbelievable details on just how ill prepared that dallas hospital was. during an exclusive interview on "today," here's what nurse branagh aguirre revealed. >> the second week of an ebola crisis at my hospital, the only gear they're offering us at that time and up until that time is gear that is allowing our necks to be uncovered. >> this morning we're also tracking another possible ebola scare. nbc's tracie potts has more informatio

amber vinson is being treated at emory university hospital in atlanta. chris cato is live in dallas where both of those nurses worked. chris, you have new information just in. >> yeah, before we leave you, a couple new pieces of information about the 75 workers here who we told you are being monitored of signs of ebola because they were involved in the care of thomas duncan and those two nurses. those nurses we learned at a county council meeting yesterday those 75 had to sign legal binding agreements that would allow them to stay home during a 21-day period where they will be monitored continuously for any sign of ebola. they're not at the hospital now and that legal binding agreement will keep them home for 21 days and expanded the number from 75 to 87, the workers may be exposed to ebola because more workers needed to come in and care for the growing number of ebola patients while the others were at home being monitored. the number is now 87 people here at work for this hospital who are now being continuously monitored for signs of ebola. we're live i

amber joy vinson is being treated in atlanta. here's the very latest on the outbreak. president obama is under increasing pressure. president obama said he's not fiphilosophically opposed to flights from south africa. at the epicenter of the growing concerns in dallas. we begin with chris cato in dallas. a new report out this morning that amber vinson may have been sick earlier than first thought. tell us about that. >> we are trying to track down the passengers onboard the flight she was on from dallas to cleveland one week ago because they're saying now she may have been having symptoms earlier than they previously thought. its investigators did with people close to vinson who said she wasn't feeling well just before her flight out of dallas. this doesn't mean that she was trying to hide anything, but her case, now, remember, up until now the cdc was only concerned with the passengers who were on the return flight from cleveland to dallas because that's when she reported the low-grade fever when she was still in ohio. nbc news spoke last night with one of those passe

we know that amber vinson traveled to cleveland, ohio, right before she was diagnosed.e're now learning she could have been exposing members of ohio's summit county community because when she went to cleveland, she spent a couple hours in this bridal shop trying on wedding gowns. here's susan candiotti. >> reporter: a typical busy saturday for this bridal shop owner. her shop crowded with customers including amber vinson watching her bridesmaids getting fitted for a may wedding. the youngest only ten. >> she was probably here about three hours maybe. we measured her party. we showed her color charts. again, everything went well and i had no idea that anything was wrong with her. >> vinson didn't look sick taat all. at the bridal she aal shop it w another day until news broke that her customer was sick with ebola after caring for a victim in dallas. what did you think? >> i was surprised it came this close to home. i feel like my staff was more concerned. >> reporter: vinson talked about being a nurse but there was no mention of her work with an ebola patient. do you thi