individual to be an officer in our air force today. >> reporter: do you give eric thomas any credit for what he did serving asundercover informant? >> i don't want to talk about former cadet thomas anymore. >> reporter: the fact that he helped bring these cases, was that a good thing? >> i don't really buy into the fact that he helped bring these cases. >> reporter: really? not at all? >> no, i'm -- i'm finished talking about his accusations. i don't buy any of us. >> reporter: but even the air force inspector general found that thomas deserves substantial credit for his role in helping to bring cases of sexual violence to light. >> very positive. his work the definitely helped the osi in their investigation and later on helped obtain a couple of court martial trials. >> reporter: members of congress are looking into what happened to thomas and up nose and two u.s. senators are asking the pentagon to conduct a new independent investigation. >> it's a case of retaliation for people whose job is to root out and prosecute sexual assault cases. >> reporter: and it's not just a problem with the air force football

as thomas duncan fights the virus, doctors are hoping others have not been infected. >> you're watchingbc world news america. still to come. vote time in the seventh largest economy. brazil will choose a new president. whoever wins it is bound to be a woman. bbccast and crew of the program top gear has had to filming after their cars were pelted with stones. some objected to the registration number which was seen as referring to the falklands war. presenters had short filming because of fear for safety. fears that seem to have been borne out by damaged done to the cars which has been borne out as they prepared to leave the country. by some interpreted argentina as a reference to the falklands conflict of 1982. >> i think it is offensive but the reaction was too much. it is normal that people react. it should not be in such a violent way. british, it is obvious it was on purpose. there is no need to do that. especially these days when we are looking for peace. >> the bbc has denied that the car was chosen for its number plates or there were substituted for the original. the bbcstill pull

i think america's response to isis as thomas jefferson said friendship with all countries and tinkling alliances with non we should defend our citizens not going around the world policing the rest of the world. i don't think the average american should make any sacrifices to deal with isis government intervention once again in the dictator's and then to take them not from the middle east. government steps in to create the worst problem to go again and again and again to solve the problem and never gets better until the military budget bankruptcy less so what we should do and then a throwback to these policies indent keep a strong defense said that is all. hays: the security of our people is critical we witnessed on an 11 but it is taking place on the homeland and that was of prime example that we cannot always protect ourselves like they're reaching out now the goal of isis is to attack us to do damage to those in these united states. i had a chance to serve the end of military i was a captain in the reserves and proud of the men and women right now we're using technology to do battle

he's been identified by ktvt as thomas eric duncan. >> so the kids won't get sick and everybody. >> federal health officials are now trying to figure out why the medical staff here at texas health inish lie release d the infected patient when he fell ill. >> he initially went to the hospital after feeking weak and abdominal pain. a nurse reading from an i bow la check list asked if e h travelled from africa. he said yes but was released anyway. >> it's a key hall mark of where have you been along with the symptoms, how long have they been developing for. >> duncan was admitted to texas health two days later where he remains in isolation. we also learn that duncan traveled on a united airlines flight from belgium to washington, d.c., and then here to dallas, but the cdc says the passengers on those flights are not at risk because he wasn't showing any symptoms. anne-marie? >> all right. omar villafranca in dallas. thank you. >>> in west africa, ebola has claimed thousands of lives. more than 33 deaths were reported here. there are more than 7,100 cases reported to the world health organizati

and isolated since sunday at this dallas hospital diagnosed tuesday with ebola has been identified as thomas eric duncan, a liberian national. he is seriously ill. they said they are watching some children. >> today we learned that some school age children have been identified as having had contact with the patient and are now being monitored at home for any signs of the skis. >> reporter: officials say five children in four school districts have been told to stay home as the districts began alerting parents by letter. mike johnson picked up his daughter and said he was headed straight to a hospital. >> we're going to get it checked out just to see. >> reporter: authorities say between 12 and 18 people are being monitored for up to three weeks including three paramedics who rushed duncan to the emergency room over the weekend from this northeast dallas apartment complex. what gave them any sort of indication that this might have been -- this could be an ebola patient? >> actually, that wasn't the case. it was just more we're dealing with a contagious patient. any time we're dealing with a co

the associated precedent identified him as thomas eric duncan, a native of liberia. he flew last month and got sick a few days after his flight. his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious and also learned today the hospital claims doctors did not know the patient had recently returned from liberia so he was initially sent home. >> the personnel at the emergency room did not check his history. if they had, they immediately would have suspected ebola, instead of just a bad case of the flu. >> the patient's sister said he did in fact tell hospital staff that he had just returned from africa, but was still sent home. authorities say the ambulance crew who transported the man and members of his family are among the 12 to 18 people being monitored after exposure to the man. so far ebola has killed more than 3,000 people in africa. >>> a number of bills were signed in a state law by governor brown just before last night's midnight deadline, including one that expa indicts and ensures rape kit testing. tara moriarty joins us live from oakland where the assembly

he's been identified by cbs dallas station kvtv as thomas eric duncan. >> they're looking so the kids won't get sick. >> reporter: federal health officials are now trying to figure out why the medical staff here at texas health initially released the infected patient when he first felt ill. duncan originally went to the hospital on september 26th complaining of fever and abdominal pain a week after flying in from liberia. a nurse reading from an ebola check list asked if he traveled from africa. he answered yes but was released anyway. >> it's a key hallmark of a triage of questions, where have you been and how long have you had these symptoms and how long have they been developing for. >> reporter: duncan was admitted two days later where he remains in isolation. there is new information that duncan traveled on united airlines from belgium to washington, d.c., and then eventually here to dallas. but the cdc says the passengers on those flights are not at risk because he wasn't showing any symptoms at all. anne-marie? >> omar villafranca in dallas. thank you, omar. >>> in west africa

thomas duncan is on his eighth day in isolation here at this hospital. as you mentioned, he's on that ventilator. he is receiving dialysis after kidney failure and doctors say his condition is worsening. he's now in critical. as thomas eric duncan fights for his life, doctors are now administering an experimental ebola fighting drug. this, after officials had said that medicine would make him even sicker. >> i can't answer whether he would have taken that experimental medicine earlier or not would have made a difference. i can't answer that. >> reporter: since duncan became the first ebola patient ever diagnosed in the u.s., 800 calls a day pouring into the cdc, skyrocketing up from the usual 50. officials now trying to ease fears. >> we don't have an outbreak. we have one event that is being handled properly. >> reporter: that american video journalist who contracted ebola while working in liberia, reaching american soil this morning. that's ashoka mukpo in a hazmat suit, walking off the plane in omaha, nebraska, before heading to a hospital quarantine uni

. >> reporter: the patient, identified as thomas eric duncan by cbs dallas station ktvt, was visiting family from his home in liberia. he's in serious condition and has been in a specialized isolation room at texas health presbyterian hospital since sunday. there are questions about why he was not admitted two days earlier on the 26th when he first came to the hospital with a fever and abdominal pains. a nurse, using a check list, asked whether he traveled from africa. he answered yes but was released. dr. mark lester is with the hospital. >> regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. >> reporter: so was there a breakdown? should he have been admitted that day based on the information that he had traveled to africa or from africa? >> i can't answer that question because that's one piece of information that would be factored into the entire clinical picture. >> reporter: the miscommunication put more people at risk of exposure. texas health officials are monitoring 12 to 18 people who may have had direct contact with the patient who was staying w

tonight, as thomas eric duncan fights for his life, outside this dallas hospital, his mother is speaking out. >> i just want to see my son be all right, to be healthy. >> reporter: and now, new questions about whether western hospitals are ready to handle infected patients. >> the enemy here is a virus. the enemy is ebola. >> reporter: new concerns tonight after a nurse in a spanish hospital became infected while cleaning a missionary who died from ebola. she is the first person to contract the disease outside west africa. now, hospitals around this country are on high alert. our dr. besser in one new jersey e.r., where staffers are running preparedness drills. >> ebola patient in five minutes. >> so, they just got a fake call in and they're going through a drill as if this patient coming in had ebola. they're putting on full body protective suits. they're reducing the chances that if the patient had ebola either of them would get sick. there's no way that this patient wrapped this way is going to contaminate anyone in the emergency room or contaminate the health care workers. >> recent

the cdc had immediately sent a rapid response team of infection control experts to dallas as soon as thomas eric duncan tested positive. >> i wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the patient, the first patient, was diagnosed. that might have prevented this infection. >> reporter: today we heard from nina pham directly. "i'm doing well," she said in a written statement, "and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers." in her statement she defended texas health presbyterian hospital dallas saying, she was bless to be cared for by the best team of doctors and nurses in the world. but because pham was somehow infected while wearing protective gear, the cdc said today it will now monitor 76 hospital staff in addition to the four dozen already being monitored in the community. >> our teams have been working very hard to cast a wide net and identify everyone who might have been exposed. that includes anyone who went into the room and that includes people who might have handled specimens of blood that were taken from him. >> reporter: pham was certified to work as a

as thomas eric duncan. >> the kids won't get sick and everybody. >> reporter: federal health officials are now trying to figure out why the medical staff here at texas health initially released the infected patient when he first felt sick. duncan originally went to the hospital on september 26 complaining of fever and abdominal pains a week after flying in from liberia. a nurse reading from an ebola checklist asked if he had traveled from africa. he answered yes but was released anyway. >> a key thing is to ask symptoms. >> reporter: he is in isolation. omar villafranca, cbs news dallas. >> experts at the centers for disease control say they are confident they have the resources to contain this ebola case. meanwhile a patient in hawaii is currently in isolation and undergoing testing for ebola at a hospital in honolulu. >>> there's an alarming statistics on sexual assaults on uc campuses. they rose by almost 50% last year. every school except uc-san francisco reported an increase. >>> meanwhile, bay area lawmakers are praising new legislation that will help reduce the massive backlog i

he has been identified by cbs dallas station k tv t as thomas duncan. >> what is going on so the kids won't get sick and have been. >> reporter: federal health officials are trying to figure out why the medical staff at texas health released the infect patient when he first felt ill. duncan originally went to the hospital on september 26th, complaining of fever and abdominal pains, a week after flying in from liberia. a nurse reading from an ebola checklist asked if he had traveled from africa. he answered yes but was released anyway. >> the the key hallmark of the triage process is where have you been along with having these symptoms and how long have they been developing for. >> reporter: duncan was admitted to texas health two days later where he remains in isolation n dallas omar villafranca for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> a hawaii patient remains in isolation in the honolulu hospital over ebola concerns. the the man check in yesterday morning and under going testing to rule out several conditions includinge bowl a the state's department of health could not confirm if the man tra

. >> the final decontamination phase at a dallas apartment begins today as thomas duncan is fighting s life. >> what is the government doing to stop the spread here? that's a question a lot of people want to know. >> good morning to you as well. he is the 5th american to be diagnosed with ebola. he is scheduled to arrive in omaha, februanebraska today whe will be treated at the hospital. he is in good spirits walking and eating on his own. that is not the case for thomas duncan in critical condition at presbyterian hospital in dallas. he is not being treated fwith ay drugs because doctors are concerned it may make his condition worse. at the obama administration they are trying to assure the public the u.s. is prepared to handle the ebola threat. >> here in the u.s. i remain quite confident we will not have a widespread outbreak. we will stop it in it is tracks because we have infection control in hospitals and public health that tracks and isolates people. >> the outbreak didn't happen for 7 months this is the first time we are prepared for this. we will always be evaluated. >> the t

the hospital said this is right to move her, and it is reported as many as 75 people cared for thomas dunkin that later died from ebola virus later today hazmat crews were decontaminating the second nurse that got. it amber vincent was flown to emory university hospital in atlanta and dallas county commissioners met in emergency session to consider issuing disaster declaration in the end they de seeded against it for now. >> key issue is healthcare workers that came in contact with mr. dunk taken to make sure they monitor themselves and stay away from all public places. >> now it's still unclear how the two nurses got it. but national nurses united a union represents they failed to provide proper information in a timely manner. it was following cdc guidelines and from now on any worker that shows slightest system will be tested proactively for ebola. that's the latest from there, dann cuellar, "channel 6 action news." >> thank you, dap. continuing team coverage and health reporter and registered nurse alley gore map live in at lap ta tonight. good eveningeveningally. >> good evening,

the patient is identified as thomas eric duncan.sent home from a dallas hospital after two days despite telling a hospital he traveled from liberia. for more on this, i'm joined by one of the nation's top infectious disease experts. he's director of the institute of disease and he's importantly leading the quest to discover and prove an effective vax against ebola. thank you for having with us. >> thanks leuvment there's great discussion at local and state federal levels about how serious the prospects are. how likely the prospects are of an outbreak of a contagion an that would come from this first patient. >> my thoughts, lieu, it's extraordinarily unlikely there will be an outbreak. i'm very confident as the cdc there will not be an outbreak. the patients indeed as you mentioned was in the community for a couple of days for a few days with fever before he was finally recognized to be having ebola and was put in the proper isolation and he's being cared for right now in the hospital in texas. but the important reason why there wil

as for that first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states, cdc officials say thomas duncan is not treated with an experimental se rum. the liberian national is in critical condition this a dallas hospital after his condition took a turn for the worse over the weekend. the cdc chief will head to the white house to brief president obama on all that's going on here at home. let's bring in elizabeth cohen. good morning. >> good morning carol. as thomas eric duncan struggles to survive inside this texas hospital, his girlfriend and her family members are in quarantine being watched to see that they don't develop the signs of ebola. >> people are scared. >> this morning, cnn learned u.s. officials are considering new screenings at airports to detect passengers aarriving by the cdc. lawmakers are calling for halted flights from ebola stricken to america. >> prevent this coming furtherer in the united states. >> a step the cdc these too far. >> if we make it harder to fight the africa, we increase our own risks. >> the ebola patient now fighting for his life after being diagnosed almo

as a precaution. he had been briefly inside the apartment of thomas duncan's family but duncan was not there. he had already been hospitalized. the deputy not wearing any protective gear but neither did a local judge when he went in to help move the quarintined family last week. listen. >> i told him they were a great family, and proud of the they they were handling things and talked to one young man about his school and we had a conversation like people would have on the road. a fairly normal ride except for the fact they're being mon forced for a serious illness and we're surrounded by squad cars. >> the family members remain under!1 quarintine until october 19th. still, none of them are showing any symptoms of ebola at this point. >> now to spain. hundreds of protesters clashing with police, shouting, assassins, after authorities decided to take no chances, putting a dog owned by an ebola victim to sleep. trace? >> reporter: despite a plea from the owners the petition signed by 400,000 people to not put the dog down and instead put it in isolation, excalibur, the dog, was put down early to

are working to identify every person who's been in contact with the infected man, now identified as thomas eric duncan. he had multiple interactions over more than a week. they're monitoring more than a dozen people for symptoms, including five school-age children from four schools. but so far, none has been confirmed to be infected. >> every step, every contact where he might have had direct niz cal contact with somebody, and for each one of those contacts, we will monitor them for 21 days after exposure. >> the patient flew from liberia on september 19th and landed in dallas. four days later he developed symptoms. went to the dallas emergency room on the 26th. but he was sent home with antibiotics. on sunday the 28th, his condition worsens, he returns tots hospital by ambulance, and is placed in isolation. tuesday the 30th, lab results confirm ebola. a failure to communicate among hospital staff led to the patient's release after his initial visit. >> he volunteered that he had traveled from africa, in response to the nurse operating the check list and asking that question. regretfully t

hazmat crews are on the scene of that dallas apartment where ebola patient thomas duncan was staying. the one that as anderson cooper broke the news yesterday still contained dirty sheets and towels that duncan used before being hospitalized with ebola. a hazmat truck from the dallas fire department and a cleaning crew truck pulled up to the apartment a little more than an hour ago and we just learned they still don't have permits to dispose of the soiled sheets and towels from the apartment. state health officials say the items will be moved to a secure location in the meantime. cnn's martin savidge is live at the scene for us. martin, you're there. you see it all happen. do they know when the apartment will be finally cleaned up? >> reporter: we may be getting answers. we just had a brief through the fence kind of briefing from an official with the city of dallas that says what will happen in the next hour or so is the fire marshal from dallas county will show up here and once he's on site, they'll begin the process of removing those items that may have been tainted by the ebola patient from the se

the patient is the identified as thomas eric duncan.sent home from a hospital for two days despite telling a nurse he traveled from liberia. for more now on this first ebola case in our country, i'm joined by one of the nation's top infectious disease experts, he is dr. anthony fouchy, director of the national institute of allergy and diseases. he is importantly leading the quest to discover and prove an infective vaccine against ebola. good to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> there is great discussion, certainly in the media and among some office holders and local state and federal levels about how serious the prospect are, how likely the prospect are about outbreak of the result of a contain john that would end this first patient. your thoughts? >> it is extraordinarily unlikely that there will be an outbreak and i'm very confident as is the cdc that they will not be an outbreak. the patient indeed, as you mentioned, was in the community for a couple of days, for a few days with fever before he was finally recognized havin

say nina pham may never had been infected if they had sent a rapid response team to dallas as soon as thomas eric duncan tested positive for ebola. they are monitoring 76 hospital workers in dallas who may have had contact witduan. >>> i wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the first patient was diagnosed. that might have prevented this infection. >> for the next week, the cdc is hosting webinars and phone and conference calls with professionals around the country to ensure workers and facilities are prepared to respond. ♪ >> the ft. worth community showed their support for nina pham at texas christian university last night where she went to school. the community was out to show support for all health care workers and family affected by ebola. >>> a well-known d.c. rabbi will be arraign odd voyeurism charges. dr. barry rendell is accused of using a woman -- camera disguised as an arm clock. disguised as an alarm clock. he has been a leader for 25 years. he is a scholar, author, and professor at georgetown and townsend university. members of e naguar stunned. >> it's awful.

the boys wept as thomas smith or jefferson. d the women were others, and i dressed as betsy smith and brought in my father. i thought it would happen. i thought i would grow up black. happen. my focus changed. my early influences were betsy smith, ella fitzgerald and buddy hollow day. >> one of my favourites is your interpretation of "don't forget about me", what's your thoughts behind that? >> when i put the album together, tom hughes passed away. he directed the films that i'm known for "the breakfast club", "16 candles", and "pretty in pink." it was a surprise, he died young. i was thinking about him a lot. it came out of a rehearse am. i said to the pianist, is there any way to do a jazz version. i don't think there's an original cord in my version. i thought it would be a nice tribe out to him. ♪ don't you ♪ forget about me >>> i want to talk about the past and the present. you are at the carlisle now. >> i'm at the hotel carlisle until the 18th, tuesday through saturday. sundays and mondays off. >> a multifaceted career. a

. >> united airlines is reaching out to the passengers on the same flight as thomas eric duncan. the airline is referring the nearly 400 passengers to the cdc. united doesn't believe any fellow passengers are at risk, but making the move out of caution. >>> president obama promising the dallas mayor mike rawlings all of the support his city needs to deal with it. he is offering the resources of cdc to prevent the virus from spreading. meantime, the pentagon is sending 1,500 troops to the area to help in the matter. >>> residents of the syrian kurdish city of kobani have been ordered to evacuate as isis fighters close in from three sides. islamic militants have taken hundreds of villages as they push to the syria border with turkey. turkish lawmakers on thursday voted to authorize force against isis. opening the door with the u.s.-led coalition conducting air strikes on the terror group. joining us live on turkey's border is cnn's phil black. good morning, phil. >> reporter: hello, christine. the turkish government has taken action against isis. this is all humanitarian assistance

. >> the president of liberia as you know has made a statement saying that she's very angry at thomas i am so, so angry at her. this president does not care, she does not care. >> you're saying she's not doing enough to combat ebola? >> no, she's not doing anything and i have my three boys over there, they better not go after them, they better not go after my family. >> for more we go too liberia. >> this behind me is the room that thomas eric duncan was renting in this compound. it is the focal point of so much of the fear and paranoia that's ricocheting around the world and that room through that door is exactly how he left it the day he boarded that plane heading to the united states. >> nima elbagir says nine other people are dead or dying after coming into contact with the same infected woman as thomas eric duncan. >>> still to come in "the newsroom," think you pay enough for your cup of coffee? well, actually i was going to say don't freak out but i'm freaking out! the price of coffee beans just hit a two-year high, christine romans. >> sometimes when a price goes up you use lef

he's identified as thomas eric dunn kahn. he's a 42-year-old liberian citizen in the states visiting family and friends. elizabeth cohen joins us from dallas. how is the patient and what can you tell us about how he came here no the united states? >> reporter: hi, don. we are told the patient is doing better than when he went from critical to serious condition. he's on the phone to talk to family. he is not out of the woods yet. he arrived in the u.s. september 20th. he flew from monrovia to brussels, then to dulles with a stop in between. we don't know. >> there are reports tonight that he was very ill. he was vomiting outside his home and enroute to the hospital. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: you know, what we know is he arrived here at this hospital on september 25th and was ill. the hospital asked him, have you traveled to an ebola stricken country. he said yes, i just got back from liberia. that didn't go from the nurse who did the questioning on to the rest of the medical team. they let him go home. two

the man who's been identified as thomas eric duncan, though not yet officially by the hospital, said to be in serious but stable condition. we did learn from governor rick perry today among the contacts he's had, five school-age children. these are family members, all of whom went to school earlier this week at four dallas-area schools, but the governor quickly sought to soothe any anxiety that parents might have, saying when they kids went to school, they did not show any signs of being sick. here's the governor. >> let me assure these children have been identified and they are being monitored, and the disease cannot be transmitted before having any symptoms. >> so they say the children have not shown any symptoms yet. they are back home, not going to school. in fact close family members that had very close contact are in self-isolation, with the health department closely monitoring them, urging them to not go out in public or they might have to take more stringent steps. we learned of a very troubling dropped ball at the presbyterian hospital. this fellow went in with symptoms last

officials trying to track down anybody who may have common contact with this patient, identified as thomas eric duncan, he's quarantined, receiving treatment at a dallas hospital. he traveled to the united states from liberia, on a united airlines flight. first sought treatment, five, six days after arriving in the u.s., travel history wasn't shared with the staff so sent home. it has been confirmed that after he got ill, he did come into contact with five kids, who attended four dallas schools earlier this week. >> these children have been identified and monitored and the disease cannot be transmitted before having any symptoms. >> the cdc says there are at least 12 to 18 people who came into contact with duncan, three of them include the ambulance crew, the ones that actually took him to the hospital. they have all tested negative. >>> the secret service director, now out of a job, a mid security breaches, several security breaches corks have affected first family safety. >> now, an acting director has been named, and he has ties to the philadelphia area. fox 29's lauren johnson live now

the patient has been identified as thomas eric duncan and he's now quarantined and getting treatmentt a dallas hospital. he traveled to the united states from liberia to brussels flying united with a stop at dulles airport before ending up in dallas. hospital officials acknowledge that duncan told them he had just arrived from liberia when he first went for treatment last friday but he was sent home with antibiotics after that travel history was not shared with doctors. >> regretfully that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team, and as a result, the full import of that information wasn't factored into the clinical decision mak making. >> federal health officials are tracking anyone who has had close contact with duncan. they say ebola is not contagious until symptoms are present. >> sky fox over big trouble on the tracks. rush hour rail service ground to halt on septa's wilmington newark line this evening. a train hit a man in delaware county. now, it happened just before 6:00 this evening nearly darby station. we have no word on his condition. about 500 peop

thomas eric duncan. he's been in isolation at a dallas hospital since sunday. asst heard, though, the apartment where he stayed still has not been sanitized. >> even more shocking, four people -- duncan's perhaps girlfriend louise, her son, and her two nephews -- are still living there. they are inside that apartment. they can not leave until health officials confirm that they do not have ebola. and that could take weeks. joining us is john kaufman, president of the biosafety firm behavioral based improvement solutions. he was also a member of the cdc's response team for the anthrax attacks and also the sars out break. >> sean, we're glad you could join us because we have questions about this, the clean up, etc. you're the guy to ask. we know that a hazardous material crew went to the apartment yesterday. they were turned away because if we understand it correctly they didn't have the right permits to transport this infected material. help us understand the transport, the responsibility, the health concerns, et cetera, of disposing of and transporting such waste.

this as thomas eric duncan, the ebola patient seen here when he arrived in dallas on september 20, isow being given an experimental drug called brincidofovir, originally developed to treat viruses like smallpox. duncan couldn't be given zmapp because there's no more left. that drug was used on two emory university patients who survived. duncan remains in critical condition but his family hopes for the best. >> we know he's going to be okay. once they start treating him with the drugs, he'll be fine. >> reporter: the fifth american to contract ebola, nbc cameraman ashoka mukpo strong enough to walk off a plane this monday on a plane from liberia. health officials in nebraska say they're preparing for the worst as the disease runs its course. >> in most cases, the symptoms tend to progress over a period of time. >> elizabeth, another question surrounding mr. duncan. i know contacts of duncans are being monitored. they haven't had contact with him for at least nine days and they're healthy. does that mean they're clear? >> they're not quite in the clear, carol, but it's definitely a good

as to what can happen. potential danger lurking here in the u.s. >>> now to the latest on the ebola patient fighting for his life. thomasdrug. the cdc says as a result of this case, calls to their offices have skyrocketed. seeking to reassure americans, president obama saying ebola will be treated as a national security threat but stressing it's a battle that must be won globally. >> i said at the united nations and i will repeat, that this is an area where everybody has to chip in and everybody has to move quickly in order for us to get this under control. >> it's the first reported incident of ebola transmission outside of africa. a spanish nurse tested positive for the virus. the woman part of a medical team which treated a missionary who contracted ebola in sierra leone. he died at a madrid hospital last month. >>> the parents of the only child known to have died as a direct result of enterovirus 68 are creating a foundation in his honor. 4-year-old eli waller had just started preschool in his suburban new jersey town. the foundation will be called the first day of school foundation. eli was a triplet. has two siste