dr. richard harding will make also a presentation. is a statement from the motae family regarding the public release of the harding/phillips collection by the library of congress. kerry fulton phillips is our direct ancestor and it is our endeavor to judge her on fact and not theory or untruth. with that we also historical scholars of this era to be cognizant of the extent of misinformation, distortion and speculation paraded as facts surrounding this woman and the subject. a prime example of this is a theory that not only kerry but her daughter ayes isabella were involved in espionage. there is no prove of this. this was vaeinvestigated by two u.s. government agencies finding no evidence of inclusion merely two people expressing their german sentiment. other popular notion is that there are no living dissidents of kerry phillips. remember these areg"3z four gre grandsons. a further area of concern to us is the portrayal of how kerry handled these letters during her lifetime. even well after the death of president warren harding when t

dr. richard harding, the grand-nephew of president harding. he was -- he is a psychiatrist on the staff of the university of south carolina and was the president of the american psycho analytical association in 1981/'82. >> american psychiatric association. >> psychiatric. sorry. okay. the -- i shouldn't make that mistake since we have sigmund freud's papers here. i need to apologize for that. a very brief description of the harding papers here which is probably unnecessary given the publicity they've received. but there are about 1,000 -- the collection, not the papers -- the major collection, the papers are in the ohio historical society. there are approximately 1,000 pages of correspondence between warren harding and carrie phillips who was the wife of one of warren harding's good friends in ohio. there was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. the collection, however, only has letters correspondence between 1910 and 1920. most of the vast majority of the letters, all of them, probably, i don't know if there are any carrie letter

hard. this unusual respiratory virus has spread to 11 states. it's called enterovirus 98. it is highly contagious and can live on surfaces. abc's dr. richard besser has some advice on what you can do. >> reporter: you can't eliminate the risk. but good hand washing will help. covering coughs and sneezes. and keeping your child home if they're sick. that will help prevent the spread to others. i think we'll be talking about this more in 11 states. viruses don't respect borders. >> more than 1,000 children have been sickened by the virus and hundreds have been hospitalized. so far, there have been no fatalities. >>> a fourth american infected with ebola is expected to arrive here this morning. the patient is a doctor who tested positive for the virus. the doctor is being flown to atlanta where dr. kent brantley and nancy ribol recovered. >>> there does not appear to be infection of a u.s. marshal in guarantee after being attacked by a syringe. the marshal boarded this flight to houston, texas. that's where he was met by cdc workers who put him in isolation. the marshal, showing no signs of illness. but investigators said he posed no danger t

dr. richard besser is at st. louis children's hospital which has been hit hard by the illness.ood morning, rich. >> good morning, robin. i'm at st. louis children's hospital which is at the e epicenter of a large and rapidly spreading viral outbreak hitting kids across the country. the doctors here tell me they've never seen anything quite like this one. 2-year-old cameron and his mom checked into the er after he was struggling to catch his breath. >> we called the doctors monday and because he was having labored breathing and wheezing so bad they said had take him to the er. >> reporter: 3-year-old penelope admitted with similar symptoms. >> you can hardly tell she's sick. >> reporter: they are among the hundreds of children with respiratory illness who flooded the er within the past two weeks. >> pretty rare in the summertime or fall to see this many sick children. >> reporter: the illness is under investigation in at least 12 states for ten terovirus 68 which has been rarely reported since discovered more than 50 years ago. symptoms start out much like the common cold with s

hard with little kids to keep their hands cleaned. >> we are talking little kids but adults and older children not immune from contracting, as well. dr. richardesser, thank you so much. >>> now a look at the other developing stories. for that we turn to ron claiborne. good morning, ron. >> hi there, good morning to you, paula and dan, dr. besser. good morning, everyone. we begin in california where hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in triple-digit heat. dozens of families near the cleveland national forest have been forced to evacuate their homes. right now nearly 400 homes are without power, and the flames are tearing through 1500 acres of dry canyon brush, and it's only about 10% contained. heat and smoke advisories in effect as temperatures may reach as high as 105 degrees fahrenheit in coming days. >>> and overseas in north korea american matthew miller who has been detainedn that country since last april was tried and convicted sunday. just a short while ago sentenced to six years in a labor camp without any chance of appeal of that conviction he was accused of entering north korea illegally and trying to commit an