i am john spinoza berman.y dutch jewish philosopher, a very big deal. statues, portrait, even treats bear his name. >> he has become an icon of the reason of a solitary thinker who braved not only his own community but also more generally religious . >> spinoza's petty idea of god being separate from nature and at the time the notions of freedom of thought were so radical they got him ex-communicated in 1556. scandalous then, now revered. good name, great lineage, if it's mine, which is what i grew up being told. >> when you come by here with friends, do you point up -- >> my father, gerald spinoza berman would point proudly at the name carved in the library. when you would see it, what would you think? >> i would think, that's me, my family. that's my heritage. my grandfather's name was spinoza, and we thought that we were descendents from baruch spinoza. >> which would make me the son of a fill lophilosopher? >> exactly. >> what do you know about spinoza, the man in terms of his family life? >> well, it's fa

john berman has the morning off. the nbc news cameraman has been named.year-old ashoka mukpo. nbc hired him a day earlier as a second cameraman for the network editor nancy snyderman. the network is flying the entire crew back to the u.s. for quarantine and treatment. nbc news president released a statement saying we are also taking all possible measures to protect our employees and general public. the rest of the crew, including dr. nancy are closely monitored and show no symptoms or warnin s signs. in an abundance of caution, we will fly them back to the united states on private charter and they will be quarantined for 21 days. in dallas, health authorities working furiously to prevent the outbreak there. a number of people they think may have had contact with the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the u.s. swells from just a dozen to about 100. officials trying to track the contacts to check on their health. the four people thomas eric duncan was staying with have been ordered by authorities to stay inside that apartment after they violated a vo

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is 5:00 in the east. the controversy rages over the ebola guidelines. should health care works and others returning from west africa be subject to automatic quarantine. the cdc advises against it and advises different measures for different levels of risk. someone with high risk must avoid public places. this is someone who had direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. someone pricked by a needle in treating a patient. an individual with some risk must be monitored and use common sense. this would be someone who has had contact with an infected person but wore protective gear. at low risk, someone should be monitored, but not restricted. this is someone with minimal contact with an ebola patient and no risk or monitoring. this is someone who had contact with an infected person before they were symptomatic. a number of states taking additional steps. six states monitoring everyone coming into the u.s. from the ebola zone. in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia, georgia, off

i am john spinoza berman.eets bear his name. >> he's been an icon of the soul thinker who is in the community and more generally religious tolerance. >> reporter: his petty ideas of god being inseparable from nature and at the time haughty notions about freedom of thought were so radical they got imex-communicated from the jewish community in 1656. scandalous then now revered. >> he's a popular symbol for all kinds of things that we'd like to associate with. >> reporter: i'd like to associate with that. it's a good name to have, right? >> absolutely. >> reporter: good name, great lineage, if it's mine, which is what i grew up being told. >> you've driven by with friends, do you point up? >> reporter: my father gerald spinodda points to the name carved in the public library. when you see it, what do you think? >> i would think that's my family, my heritage, my grandfather's name was spinoza my mother's maiden name was spinoza and we thought they were deend descendants from baroque spinoza. >> reporter: makes me

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. 31 minutes past the hour. overnight, the first dallas nurse infected with ebola nina pham arrived in maryland. she was taken by ambulance to the national institute of health in bethesda. we are getting a first glimpse of pham from her room where her doctor made this video at pham's request. >> thanks for being part of the trial and be our first patient. this means a lot. this is a huge effort by you guys. we're really proud of you. all right. >> come to maryland. everybody. >> party in maryland? okay. >> two things about the video. i see a woman sitting up and i see here laughing. brian todd outside the hospital where pham is being treated in maryland with more for us. >> reporter: nina pham, the 26-year-old nurse who contracted the ebola virus from thomas eric duncan has arrived here at the national institute of health behind me. got here a short time ago and treated in building ten. this is the special clinical studies unit at nih. a high containment isolation unit where she will be treated indefinitely unti

chris cuomo joins us. >> john berman, impressive objectivity.he real reason that you are doing that story. yes, we care about this child, but patriots fans are always looking to make themselves look like good people. let's being honest. >> wow! >> just a week ago, were you turning on your boy brady. now he is the best in the league. >> i declared my devotion to that man. i am more devoted to him than anything. >> as john berman's wife pops up in bed, what did he say? >>> we will take a new look on ebola. the president says he found a way to stop it. he and his team have new screening procedures at the airport. what will they about? will they be enough? especially with the 21-day gestation period? doctors and aviation experts will break it all down for you. some think we are not going far enough. we'll talk about what they believe should be done. >>> also, leon panetta. he ran the cia and defense department for president obama. now he has a new book and he is cementing his legacy. it may be the harshest friendly fire we have seen in a long time.

i'm john berman. christine romans is out today. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. health officials are trying to make sure ebola does not get into this country again and does not spread where it has already entered. in dallas, the first patient diagnosed in the united states, thomas eric duncan has been downgraded from serious to critical. and in the meantime the journalist is on his way home on a plane. officials say a child was past the incubation period for ebola and the cdc believes the likelihood of infection is extremely low. elizabeth cohen is in dallas to track the spread of ebola there and other points in the united states. >> reporter: john, authorities are following 48 people who may have come into contact with thomas eric duncan. the breakdown is this, they are following seven hospital workers and they are considered in the higher category and three family members in the higher risk category. the rest of the contacts, 38, are considered lower risk. what is happening with the contacts, they get visits twice a day from a health care worker and temperature

welcome to "early start," i'm john berman. >> and i'm christine romans, it's wednesday, october 8th, it's 5:00 a.m. exactly in the east. this morning, the fbi wants your help in the fight against isis. it's posting a video on a website hoping someone knows this man and can help identify him. this man speaking perfect arabic and perfect english with a nearly north american accent, listen. >> we're here in the 17th division military base just outside the city of irakka, and we're here with the soldiers of al assad. >> i can't get over the word "outside." joe johns has more on this apparently maybe kabian isis fighter. >> it appears to show a jihadi speaking very good english with a north american accent alternating speaking arabic. delivers an on-camera tirade before he and a group of isis fighters appear to shoot a group of syrians dead. the syrians had apparently been forced to dig their own graves. the man speaking has a mask over his face which makes him unrecognizable. and authorities have been using advanced identification technology but are coming up short. they're not sure if h

this is baruke spinoza, i am john "spinoza" berman.pher. big deal. statues, portraits even streets bear his name. >> an icon of reason and the solitary thinker who, braved his own community and religious habits and also religious intolerance. >> reporter: his idea about god inseparable from nature and his at the time, haughty notions about freedom of thought were so radical they got him excommunicated. expelled from the jewish community in amsterdam in 1656. scandalous then, now, revered. >> he is a popular symbol for all kind of things we look to associate with. >> i would look to associate with that. good name to have. good name. great lineage. if it is mine. which is what i grew up being told. >> when you drive by friend. do you point up there. >> for years my father, gerald spinoza berman would point proudly at the spinoza name in the boston public library. >> when you see it, what would you think? >> i would think me, family, heritage. my grandfather's name was spinoza. maiden name was spinoza. we thought, that, that we were desce

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. >> let's start with breaking news. eric frein facing the death penalty after capture in northeast pennsylvania. frein expected to be arraigned this morning. authorities say the charges against him include first-degree murder, two counts of possessing weapons of mass destruction. that's a reference to two pipe bombs found in frein's hiding place. we get more details this morning from susan candiotti. >> reporter: christine, after escaping capture just shy of seven weeks, suspect the cop killer eric frein runs out of luck and time. without one shot fired, he is taken down by u.s. marshals who spot frein before he even knew eyes were on him. sources say helped by intelligence, a special ops team clearing a previously searched area, spots him walking across an airstrip at an abandoned airport in henriville, pennsylvania. his latest hiding place, 40 miles from the pennsylvania state police barracks where frein's accused of shooting two troopers, killing one of them. marshals getting him on the ground and recovering two weap

. >> john berman is a lot like a seventh grader. >> i'm a lot younger than you. "early start" continues right now. >>> happening now. a tense standoff with a nurse returned from treating ebola patients in west africa and the state of maine. kaci hickox refusing to follow a mandatory quarantine as police gathered around her house. what she said overnight. >>> new information that high profile terrorists targeted by u.s. air strikes in syria have survived and could be actively plotting against the united states. >>> the san francisco giants on top again winning their third world series in five years. how did they do it? >> one word. madison bumgarner. >> that's two words. we are live in kansas city ahead. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. great to see you this thursday, october 30th. it is 5:00 in the east. does the state of maine have the right to keep the nurse quarantined with no symptoms just because she treated ebola patients in west africa? kaci hickox has no ebola symptoms as we said. she has tested negative fo

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. >> a lot going on. second dallas nurse to come down with ebola has arrived in atlanta for treatment. that amid new controversy over her air travel. 29-year-old amber vinson was part of the team that took care of thomas eric duncan. he is the liberian man who died from ebola in dallas last week. now there are questions about why vinson took a commercial flight from cleveland to dallas on monday with a temperature of 99.5 degrees. >> cdc director thomas frieden said she should never have stepped foot on a airplane after nina pham was diagnosed. vinson says she notified the cdc of her travel plans. the cdc is reaching out to each of the 132 other people on vinson's flight. it says the risk any of them was infected is extremely low. ed lavandera is live in dallas. >> reporter: john and christine, the second health care worker amber vinson has been moved from dallas to atlanta to continue her treatment here at emory. she was moved on the very day that bigger questions are being raised of how well prepared th

chris cuomo. >> john berman, always a pleasure.day. >> missed you. >> we will follow the latest in the ebola crisis. a kansas city patient is being monitored and we learn the identity of the texas patient. we don't know how she got the virus. do they really know? she was wearing protective gear. what went wrong in the first place? are nurses especially being given the training they need because they are the frontline in the fight against anything that happens in a hospital right now. we will talk with dr. sanjay gupta and infectious disease experts and mayor of dallas. he is uniquely dedicated to the situation and that of a family friend of the nurse. we will have that and more on the north korea leader kim jong-un. will they put rumors of an illness or a coup? >> we will learn more about your mysterious and cryptic past. >> we are cousins. you got the brains, i got the pocket square. >> chris, see you in a bit. pushing for prison time. the sentencing phase for oscar pistorius. we are live outside the courtroom. stay with us. would

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i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. let's begin with the nurse who volunteered to fight ebola in africa now fighting a quarantine order in her home state of maine. is kaci hickox battling for civil rights or endangering the public? hickox has no ebola symptoms. she has tested negative for the virus twice, but maine officials want her to remain isolated in her home. she will seek a court order to make sure it happens. she said she will not be violated by a policy in that is not quote science based. >> it is not my intention to put anyone at risk in the community. we have been in negotiations all day with the state of maine and tried to resolve this amicably, but they will not allow me to leave my house and have any interaction with the public even though i am completely healthily and symptom free. i am frustrated by this fact and i have been told the attorney general's intention is to file legal action against me and if this does occur, then i will challenge those legal actions. i'm fighting for something much more than

i'm john berman. >> i'm chris ten romans. it's 4:00 a.m. in the east. ominous news out of dallas there, officials there on high alert after the first ebola diagnosis on u.s. soil. cdc director thomas friedman saying the unidentified man traveled to the u.s. to visit relatives, developing symptoms four or five days later. the patient is now in isolation at texas presbyterian health hospital. the dallas ambulance crew that brought the patient to the hospital now also under quarantine. chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta has the latest. >> well, john and christine, we have details about what happened here. we know this is a patient who rived in the united states on september 20th. arrived from liberia, we know the person was not sick when they arrived from liberia. it was four days later when this first first started to feel ill. two days after that on the 26th when they first went and sought out care at the hospital. we don't know what happened at that point. but the person was sent home only to come back to the hospital two days later now on the 28t

i'm john berman. >> and i'm michaela pereira. we begin with the day of today being the first day the rest of nurse amber vinson's ebola-free life, you could say. the second texas nurse to get the virus after treating the first patient in the u.s. to die from the disease is about to leave emory university hospital in atlanta. she and her colleague, nina pham, who is also now out of the hospital, have been the only people to get the disease within the united states. this just leaves one confirmed ebola patient currently being treated in the u.s. dr. craig spencer here in new york city. >> then there is kaci hickox. she does not have ebola but she is the nurse who spent a weekend inside an isolation tent at a new jersey hospital. she is free for from her tent and she is now back home in maine where she will be monitored. hickox had treated ebola patients in sierra leone and, as i said, so far she's tested negative for the disease and has had no fever except from one reading, the preliminary forehead reading at the airport. she has b

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman.breaking news from ferguson missouri, this morning. there is word that the police chief there could soon step down. government officials familiar with ongoing discussions tell cnn that chief thomas jackson's depart ndur would be part of efforts to reform the ferguson police department following shooting of michael brown by after darren wilson. now, chief jackson and the mayor of ferguson flatly deny these reports. >> a plan in place to have chief jackson step down? >> no. >> are you being pressured from any -- >> we didn't say anything. we stood by him this entire time so -- >> nothing? >> there's no change on that. >> well, there is growing concern this morning in ferguson on what may happen if officer wilson is not indicted in the michael brown shooting. school officials in st. louis county have written to prosecutor bob mccullough asking him whether or not wilson will be indicted on night or a weekend so as to avoid putting students in the middle of any possible protests. residents

. >> i'm john berman. it is tuesday, october 28th, 4:00 a.m. in the east.start with the controversy over the ebola quarantines and new guidelines from the centers for disease control and prevention. should health care workers and others returning from west africa subject to automatic quarantine. the cdc advises against it and advises different measures for different levels of risk. a person considered high risk needs daily monitoring and avoid public places. this would be someone who has come in direct contact with infected persons' bodily fluids. an individual who is some risk, characterized as some risk, that person must be monitored and use common sense and restricted movement. this is someone who has had contact with an infected person, but wore protective gear. at low risk, someone should be monitored, but restricted. someone with minimal contact with an ebola patient and low risk means no monitoring. you may have had contact with an infected person, but before they were symptomatic. an additional states taking actions. six states monitoring everyone c

. >> i'm john berman. it's wednesday, october 29th, it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. we do have breaking news from ferguson. there's word that the police chief there could soon step down. officials tell cnn that chief thomas jackson's departure would be part of efforts to reform the ferguson police department, that, of course,le following the shooting of unarmed teenager michael brown by darren wilson. chief jackson and the mayor both flatly deny the reports. >> there are reports to having chief jackson step down. >> no. >> are there -- >> i mean, to step down, we stood by him this entire time. >> nothing -- >> there's no change on that. >> there is growing concern in ferguson this morning about what might happen if officer wilson is not indicted in the michael brown shooting. school officials in st. louis county have written to prosecutor bob mccullough asking him to announce whether or not wilson will be indicted at night or a weekend, so as to avoid putting students in the middle of a possible protests. residents have told cnn's sara sidner if there is no indictmen

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman.minutes past the hour. >> let's start with ebola. the first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states has new reason to hope as officials struggle to contain the virus and public fear over its spread. rick perry, governor of texas, where patient thomas eric duncan is treated says there is only so much state government can do. he is calling for the federal government to increase screenings. duncan is in critical condition in the dallas hospital, but getting experimental treatment. our cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in dallas. >> reporter: john and christine, a nurse assistant in spain is the first person to contract ebola outside of west africa in the outbreak. the authorities say she was using full protective equipment, so it is not clear how she came down with the virus. back in the united states, president obama held important meetings can top officials calling for additional screening measures in the u.s. and abroad at airports. he repeated that the chances of a

just like you, john berman. smartphones getting bigger. are redundant. >> tablets are expensive. you want to hang on to them longer. you will keep your ipad three or four years. >>> all right. there is a lot of news this morning. more questions surfacing about the second ebola nurse from texas. just when did she start to feel sick? this is very important. could she have exposed more starting right now. >>> breaking overnight -- the first dallas nurse to contract ebola flown to maryland after releasing a video message from her hospital bed. as the hospital back in texas admits it never trained its staff on treating a patient with ebola. are other hospitals ready now? >>> quarantined -- eight people being monitored closely in ohio after confirmed contact with the second nurse with the virus. health officials scrambling to find anyone amber vinson may have had contact with after new revelations about her symptoms before she got on the plane. >>> president obama considering a czar to oversee the government's response to ebola. standing firm ag

. >>> "at this hour" with berman and michaela starts now. >> hello, i'm john berman. >> i'm michaela pereira. we begin with the rush to contain ebola in the united states. the cdc is considering banning 76 texas health care workers from boarding any commercial aircraft. this move comes after federal officials in charge of the ebola response admitted that they knew that a second nurse battling the virus had a low-grade fever and traveled by airplane this week from cleveland to dallas, but they didn't stop here. nurse amber vinson who cared for thomas duncan, the man who died of ebola, is now being treated in atlanta. >> at this hour, director of the cdc getting ready to face congress and face new questions about whether his agency was ready for this disease, did enough to get hospitals ready and is even now handling the situation in the right way. earlier today a nurse at the dallas hospital that diagnosed the first ebola case described a facility in turmoil. >> he was put into an area where there are up to seven other patients. we took probably around three hours to make our first co

"@this hour with berman and michaela" starts now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm john berman. >> i'm michaela pereira. >>> at this hour we have new numbers in the ebola situation in the united states. 273, that's the number of people still being monitored for symptoms in dallas and ohio. the quarantine window has expired for all but five of the original 48 people who had contact with patient zero, thomas eric duncan, including his fiance and his family. >> 72. that's how many hours it will take the new ebola domestic response team of doctors, nurses, and trainers to deploy if the virus pops up somewhere else in the united states. and just a short time ago, the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, dr. anthony fauci, reminded us of a significant number in the united states dealing with ebola. >> in the united states, two people have gotten infected with ebola. two. both of them were taking care of a desperately ill patient in a risky situation. you have to distinguish the two nurses who were the only two people who were taking care of patients who got infected from

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman.h officials are set to start screening for ebola at five major airports in the u.s. the screenings saturday saturday at jfk and expand to newark, washington, dulles, o'hare and hartsfield-jackson. these will be from flights arriving from sierra leone and liberia. customs and border patrol will use thermometers aimed at your forehead. they will use a questionnaire. >> we are asking that to see what symptoms you have had and where will you be for the next few days and through a non contact thermometer, we are taking temperatures of every passenger that comes from one of the three affected countries. if you answer positive or test for a high fever, the passenger is referred to cdc. >> there is a 21-day incubation period. you may not have a fever when you pass through the airport. when the case comes through, we had the temperature screening set up, why did this happen. this is predictable it will happen. this is not a foolproof way. >> the first person diagnosed of ebola died on wednesday

ari berman is a contributing writer at "the nation" magazine and, during the 2012 elections, the firstational reporter to cover voter suppression issues. he is currently writing a book titled "give us the ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights in america," to be published be out next summer. welcome to you both. >> thank you, bill. >> thank you. >> so just a couple of weeks before the midterm elections, how do we know if these voter suppression efforts are working? >> well, what we do know in texas where we just litigated a major case involving voter i.d. we know that more than 600,000 registered voters will not be able to vote in this november's election because they lack the photo i.d. required by the new texas law. and because the supreme court has said that the election can proceed, even though a federal court has found that that photo i.d. law discriminates against black and latino voters. >> yes, the judge in texas ruled that it was unconstitutional. and yet last saturday the supreme court said, "let the election go forward." what was their rationale? >> i think the ration

"@this hour with berman and michaela" starts now. >> hello, i'm john berman. >> and i'm michaela pereira. we have so much news for you. we'll start with startling new figures about the rising rate of ebola cases. the world health organization says by december -- sobering facts here -- there will be 5,000 to 10,000 new cases each week in west africa. even more startling, the death rate has increased now to 70% up from 50%. meanwhile, the first american to contract ebola in the united states is fighting for her life. nurse nina pham is just 26 years old, the texas nurse has had a blood transfusion, she received the blood transfusion from ebola survivor dr. kent brantly. they're hoping this will help her. his plasma has anti-bodies doctors hope will kill the disease. so far we're told pham is in stable condition. >> pham had just received her certification in critical care nursing about two months ago. she was said to be wearing all the right protective gear. she's been call hidely conscientious but her peers but somewhere along the way there seems to have been a breach in protocol. >> they

i'm john berman. >> i'm michaela pereira. see you tomorrow. >>> hello, everyone.h banfield. we are dedicating the next hour of cnn's programming to ebola coverage because by now you probably know the first person to come down with ebola and be diagnosed with it inside the united states is in serious condition at a dallas hospital. and what no one can say for sure right now is whether there will be a second or a third or any more cases. someone or many someones harboring the dreadedla

i'm michaela pereira. >> and i'm john berman.rts right now. >>> just who is this 19-year-old from illinois arrested at the airport? was he on his way to join isis? wait until you hear the letter that he wrote to his parents and see the likes that he got on his facebook page. >>> also this hour, talk about organized crime. isis isn't just smuggling oil and extorting citizens to finance their terrorist takeover. they're so entrenched, they're charging bank fees and collecting taxes, too. >>> and nearly a week after that ebola diagnosis in dallas, ty

"at this hour" with berman and michaela starts right now. >> she breached the quarantine. the bike ride in the middle of a battle with ebola, the nurse ordered to stay inside the house is on the 3406 this morning. what are the authorities going to do about it. >>> nato jets scramble as russian military planes get caught sneaking into european air space. what's the kremlin up to now? >>> sit down and shut up! >> political oratory at its highest level. is the sit down and shut up version of chris christie the one that could be president? -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello everyone. i'm john berman. >> i'm michaela pereira. those stories and much more ahead at this hour. right now we're keeping all eyes on that house right now, fort kent, maine, population about 4,000. it might look like nothing special is happening there. however, this is the scene of a battle between the state and nurse kaci hickox. >> this morning she took a bike ride straight into controversy. hickox is the nurse ordered into quarantine after she came back from treating ebola patients in west

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i'm michaela pereira. >> i'm john berman. we'll have those stories and so much more ahead at this hour. >> it has been three days since ebola was first diagnosed ott american soil. concerns are mounting over whether enough the being done to break the chain of transmission. that apartment in dallas where ebola patient thomas eric duncan first became systematic? at this hour it still has not been sanitized. a cleaning crew contracted to do the job was turned away for not having the proper permits to transport the waste from there. the cdc director telling cnn this morning they're still working on it. four people remain quarantined inside that apartment. i had an opportunity to speak with the dallas county health and human services director this morning. he told me that the ebola situation there is "under control." he says the family with whom duncan was staying is being monitored. there is no outbreak so everyone should just ease their fears. >> so while they that's happening in dallas, an american freelance journalist working

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.second dallas nurse that came down with ebola has arrived in atlanta. she is 29-year-old amber vinson. she was part of the team that took care of thomas eric duncan. he is the liberian man who died from ebola in dallas last week. now there are questions about vinson taking a commercial flight from cleveland to dallas on monday with a temperature of 99.5 degrees. >> now cdc director thomas frieden says she should never have set foot on an airplane after taking care of duncan and another nurse, nina pham, diagnosed with ebola. but a federal official tells cnn vinson informed the cdc of they are travel plans and was not told she should not fly. now the cdc is reaching out to the other 132 people on vinson's flight. the risk of any of them infected with ebola is extremely low. the cdc is considering adding 76 hospital employees to the no-fly list. we have cnn's ed lavandera with more on the case. >> reporter: john and christine, amber vinson was moved from dallas to atlanta to begin treatm

. >> i'm john berman. it is monday. really monday. october 27th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. major controversy and confusion and policies of medical personnel returning from the ebola is outbreak zone in west africa be treated in the united states. new york state is now backing off the mandatory 21-hospital stay announced friday night. it will allow patients to be quarantined at home. it is a change of a change. new jersey is clarifying its quarantine allowing patients to be confined at home if possible. a nurse quarantined in a new jersey hospital tent with no showers and portable toilets. she is blasting chris christie for diagnosing her as sick although he is not a doctor. the symptoms treated by a doctor in a new york hospital have increased. now the conditions looked better for him on sunday than saturday. he is still serious and stable. cnn elizabeth cohen has more from bellvue. >> reporter: craig spencer is in serious condition. he has moved in the next phase. he has gastrointestinal symptoms. he is getting a blood transfusion from nancy writebol. he is also getting an

i'm john berman. >> and it's wednesday, october 15th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. >>> there are stunning allegations against a dallas hospital, a treated man who died of ebola last week. a national nurses' union is claiming that guidelines were constantly changes at texas health presbyterian and, quote, mrrp mon there were month protocols for the treatment. the hospital released a statement last night saying, we have numerous measures in place providing a work safe environment. including annual training in a 24-7 hot line and other mechanisms that allow for anonymous reporting. >> earlier today, cdc director thomas frieden admitted officials did not do all they should have to keep ebola from spreading from thomas duncan to the texas presbyterian nurse who cared for him. frieden promised to put a team of ebola experts on the ground anywhere after a diagnosis in the country. >> you know, i thought often about it 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. >> the infec

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i'm john berman. christine romans is off today. it is tuesday, october 14th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. there is clear concern among cdc officials this morning. the fear is there could be more cases of ebola transmission like the dallas nurse who became infected. others who cared for thomas eric duncan could become infected the same way. that nurse has now been identified as nina pham. cdc director thomas frieden says pham is stable. she has received a blood transfusion from dr. kent brantly. now doctors are racing to see how pham became infected. cnn's victor blackwell is in dallas with more. >> reporter: good morning. we learned that nina pham received her certification in critical care nursing two months before treating thomas eric duncan at the hospital. a person who knows the family well through the church says pham likely was doing more than she was supposed to have done in treating this patient. that is what the person told the local newspaper and cdc detectives are here in dallas trying to determine if all of the protocols were

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. are preparing to start screening for ebola at five major airports. the intensified screenings start saturday at jfk and expand next week to newark, dulles, chicago o'hare and hartsfield-jackson in atlanta. the screenings will affect the passengers arriving from the west african countries that are hot spots for ebola. officials will use thermometers and a questionnaire trying to spot those exposed to ebola. >> we are asking the passengers to fill out a declaration of the symptoms and if you are feeling ill and where you have been for the past 21 days and where you will be for the next 21 days and through a non-contact thermometer, we will take temperatures from every passenger that comes from the three infected countries. if you test for a fever, the passenger is referred to the cdc. >> a 21-day incubation period. when a case comes through, people will ask we had the temperature screenings set up. why did this happen. it is predictable it will happen. this is not a foolproof way from p

i'm john berman. welcome to "early start." >> i'm christine romans. the mayor of new york and the governor of new jersey both places where travelers from west africa enter the u.s. both giving news conferences thursday offering reassurance that everything possible is being done to protect the public. >> we faced terrorism, we faced natural disasters. we now face the possibility of infected by a pandemic. all of those other moments prepared us to handle whatever is thrown at us. >> of course, we're concerned. that concern is being moved into action. i hope the federal government moves more quickly to get newark airport up and ready to go. they are in charge of that aspect of providing security at our airports. i got assurance from the white house in a private conversation they are moving as quickly as they can and we will continue to coordinate. >> airport and air cleaners at laguardia walking out on thursday. angry saying they are not protected from ebola with training and protective gear. the port authority and the contractor that providers cleaning

i'm john berman. christine romans is out. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with breaking news this morning. nbc news is reporting that its cameraman ashoka mukpo has now arrived on u.s. soil. he was evacuated from liberia on a specially equipped plane. he is on his way to nebraska for treatment. he touched down in bangor, maine for refuelling. >>> in dallas, the condition of the first patient diagnosed in the united states with ebola, thomas eric duncan has been downgraded from serious to critical. >>> in delaware, a child from liberia has been placed in an isolation unit. he was past the incubation period for ebola. the likelihood for infection is extremely low. cnn's elizabeth cohen is in dallas tracking the ebola there and at the entry points in the united states. >> reporter: john, authorities are following 48 people who may have come in contact with thomas eric duncan. the breakdown is like this, they are following seven hospital work workers who had contact with duncan and three family members in the higher risk category. the rest of the conta

. >> i'm john berman. it is monday, october 20th. breaking news overnight. 48 people who were quarantined in dallas because they had contact with thomas eric duncan have been declared infection free. among them duncan's fiancee. all of them cleared to end seclusion after 21 days of quarantine. we will have more on that in a moment. on saturday, duncan's loved ones remembered him in a service in north carolina. at the same time, cruise ship passengers who endured an overblown ebola scare disemba disembarked in galveston. the worker who handled the lab samples of duncan was quarantined and her tests came back negative. we have alina machado has more from dallas. >> reporter: christine and john, 48 people in dallas county breathing a sigh of relief after reaching the end of the 21-day monitoring period without symptoms. these are people who had contact with thomas eric duncan before he died on october 8th. they include duncan's fiancee. listen to what a pastor at her church told us. >> they feel this is a tremendous miracle that has hap

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman.y and confusion over medical personnel returning from the west africa ebola the united states. treated in allowing patients to be quarantined at home for new york. new jersey clarifying allowing workers to be confined at home if possible. a nurse quarantined in a new jersey hospital tent with no shower and just a portable toilet is criticizing governor christie as diagnosing her as sick although he is not a doctor. the symptoms of the doctor treated in new york are changing. his condition is serious, but stable. we have elizabeth cohen joining us with more. >> reporter: john and christine, here, dr. craig spencer is now in serious condition. doctors say he moved into the next phase of the illness with gastrointestinal symptoms. he is getting transfusion from nancy writebol. he is also getting anti-viral medication. the doctors are not saying what, but it may be a experimental drug. here in new york and in new jersey, the quarantine controversy rages. the nurse kaci hickox, flew from si

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is friday, october 31st. happy halloween. we have breaking news overnight. suspected cop killer eric frein facing the death penalty following his capture in northeast pennsylvania. late thursday afternoon, authorities say the charges against frein include first-degree murder and two counts of possessing weapons of mass destruction. a reference to two pipe bombs found in frein's hiding place at an abandoned airfield. he is expected to be arraigned in a few hours in a county courthouse in milford, pennsylvania. that is where cnn's miguel marquez is standing by. >> reporter: this guy was found before sundown yesterday. he gave up because he was surprised, say officials. a tactical team, special operations team from the u.s. marshals. a 13-member team in the area. an area they had searched before. not necessarily that team, but others searched before and going back through there. it appears they had some sort of intelligence. whether that was human intelligence or people telling them they had seen frein or technology in the area

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour.e have new information about the first person diagnosed with ebola in the u.s. he is thomas eric duncan. a 42-year-old liberian citizen. he september 19th, he helped a ebola patient. four days later, he flew to dallas to visit friends and family. he developed symptoms and went to the emergency room and was turned away. his nephew was upset over not getting medical care and called the cdc. his worried family members are waiting to hear word of his condition. >> it is stressful. we are here. we appreciate as much help as we can get because eric just got here and now he needs to pay back the hospital. we will not sleep. we are feeling the pain. we just hope and pray eric survives the night. we got our hopes up for him. >> remarkable concern that he hopes he survives the night and concerns about how to pay the bills. meanwhile, we now know duncan contacted a dozen people in the period he had symptoms. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has more. >> reporter: john and christine, t

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i'm michaela pereira. >> i'm john berman. with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> seven women found dead so far in indiana, but that is only since friday. now we're learning the suspect has a criminal record dating back two decades in at least two other states. and also ahead, remember the man arrested in last month's disappearance of the uva student and then linked to a 2009 death at virginia tech? now jesse matthew has been indicted for sexual assault and attempted murder in a similar case from back in '05. >>> and later this hour, she says cyberbullying