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at a live shot as we await a public press conference expected to be led by new york city mayor, bill deblazio. it may include new york city governor. we're expecting to hear from them, an update not only on the status of this hatest ebola patient in the united states, dr. craig spencer returned 9 days ago if the nation of guinea with he was working with doctors e without borders. the doctor phoned authorities this morning when he found himself to is a fever of 103 degrees. but he has been back in this country for nine days. we're told he felt shiegtly off. today, it was two hours from when he made that call and when new york city officials got him to a specially designated unit at bellevue hospital, new york city. that just happened today. his first blood test came in tonight, squus about an hour ago. we're awaiting a confirming test from the cdc. but, again, it is being treated as a positive test -- positive case right now. and even before the blood test, he was being treated as a positive case. of ebola in this country, which may, if he is, indeed, positive, turn out to be very important in

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still another impressive example of the surge was the landslide win of bill deblazio of mayor of new york. was a self-prescribed progressive. a few weeks ago across the mighty hudson, another impressive victory was elected newark's mayor. finally -- an aspect of this is so inspiring it brings tears to my eyes. it has been the passing of legislation for marriage equality in state after state. these victories have become so common that it is easy to lose sight of the enormous change that represent and thanks go to the courage and tenacity of the lgbt movement. from this podium, let us tip our banner to the late harry hay as well as to the pioneering stonewall generation that includes our own gary and eric gordon. eric is with us. maybe you can stand up. the stonewall generation came out when it was difficult to do so. they lot of loved ones to the aids epidemic and never gave an" to ignorance and hate. if i can sum it up, i might say that things are breaking good, not breaking bad. i will be the first to say that the surge might have the capacity to resolve the crisis of capitalism in

this is what bill deblazio said. >> we can safely say, it's been a very brief period of time that thetoms a and the fact that this is a doctor makes this a situation where he was quite aware to quickly get in contact with the authorities upon feeling that there was a problem. our understanding is that very few people were in direct contact with him. >> so the mayor down playing the risk here, but at the same time, and certainly we know that this doctor was at tremendous risk compared to the average person here in the u.s., because he was in the zone, he was dealing presumably with many people who had ebola. but he was in contact with some people in new york city. his girlfriend has been quarantined. how concerned and really which people should be most concerned about having had contact with him? >> look, we heard a lot of public health authorities trying to reassure us over the last few weeks that it's not that contagious. at the same time, we've seen nurses get infected wearing protective gear. the mayor is right, the general public are at exceptionally low risk. even if you're at th