dr. william schaffner out of vanderbilt university hospital, thank you so much. elizabeth cohen, our chief medical correspondent -- our senior medical correspondent, thank you. ed lavandera in dallas for us, thank you so much. we'll continue to follow developments of this ebola story throughout the hour. >>> if air strikes are not stopping isis ground forces, what will? we get point and counter point from john mccain and bernie sanders. (receptionist) gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. like smart pick ups. they'll only show up when you print a label and it's automatic. we save time and money. time? money? time and money. awesome. awesome! awesome! awesome! awesome! (all) awesome! i love logistics. >>> now to the war on isis. we have been told all along that air strikes alone won't defeat isis, but the only boots on the ground, kurdish fighters and the iraqi security forces. both appear t

dr. william schaffner, from vanderbilt university. thank you for your answer he doctor. >> thanks joie. >> when we return, playing the field, "america tonight's" shoiz osarahhoye and how those tragedy be changing the game. >>> later on the program, as iowa goes, so goes the senate? >> 1-2-3 four, who you gonna vote for? >> in an otherwise bucolic background, michael okwu, what's at stake on america votes 2014. >> kentucky, a state that's hurting economically. >> when the mines shut down it affects other businesses too you know, it hurts everything. >> some say it's time for a change. >> mitch has been in there so long. >> while others want to stay the course. >> all the way mitch! you know exactly what these people needs in kentucky. >> communities trying to cope. what does the future hold? >> the economy, the struggling coal industry and healthcare are all impacting their vote. >> "america votes 2014 / fed up in kentucky". all this week. only on al jazeera america. real reporting that brings you the world. giving you a real global pe

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dr. william schaffner, sanjay gupta, thank you very much. there's more to cover on this story.e are ebola checks at our airports and some are calling from travel bans from the disease hot zones. would it work? would something like that squash the spread? richard quest joins us after the break. woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategies that can help. the all new, head turning cadillac ats coupe. it's irresistible. ♪ >>> while there have been growing calls for the u.s. to institute a travel ban from the ebola hot zones, some commercial carriers, they've already dropped flights from west africa. that's raising concern among aid groups transporting their workers

dr. william schaffner is an infectious disease specialist at vanderbilt university. >> if children get anness and infection and have underlying medical conditions that make them more frail, it's the urntd lying medical condition that will determine the outcome. the vast majority of these children are doing perfectly well. >> reporter: the mayor there says the boy's name was ely and his personality leapt off the page. he has two siblings and both parents are educators. the school district is inviting parents to a meeting tomorrow night. there is no vaccine for the virus. and another child who goes to the same school as ely is now being tested for the virus. michelle. >> mark albert, thank you. a day after isis released a video of the beheading of british hostage alan henning, the parents of an american hostage are making a video appeal for their son's release. charlie d'agata in london has more on the desperate effort to spare a fifth western hostage from execution. >> reporter: isis militants say he's next, 26-year-old american peter kasig, to changed his name to abdul rahman while in cap

dr. william schaffner, from vanderbilt university. >> thank you joie. >> when we return, a mother's fears. >> towards the end of the pregnancy i was so terrified to social services and her being born addicted and the consequences of what could happen to her if she was born addicted. >> "america tonight's" sheila macvicar, following up on a controversial law and what's more to it. young offenders, convicted of drug crimes in tennessee. so many money stories sound complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break down confusing financial speak and make it real. e-righter may not be -- e-reader may not be as good as a plain old fashioned book. top of the ho hour. >> in the last few years prosecutors have been going after another target, pregnant women. maint's sheil "america tonight's" sheila macvicar has been following this closely. >> a woman who visited a meth lab was sentenced to 12 years in prison, half of that sentence six years was solely because she was pregnant at the time. a coalition of activists has sent a letter to attorney ge

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dr. william schaffner, expert in communicable disease from vanderbilt university medical center. good morning to all of but you. >> good morning. >> this is a picture of a man dressed in a t-shirt in khakis, hosing down the sidewalk after duncan got sick outside. i think this picture says everything that is wrong about how that man is taking care of medical waste. that's a hazmat truck driving away from duncan's girlfriend's apartment. she, the girlfriend, louise, remains under court order to stay inside that apartment along with everything duncan touched. so elizabeth i want to start with you. hazmat teams need a special permit before they can go inside louise's apartment. what's taking so long? >> you know, i think perhaps health authorities just weren't prepared for this. i was speaking with someone who said look, there's a lot of steps to think through and they thought it would be easier to just tell a medical contractor, just go in there and clean the place up. the apartment thing was a surprise to them and experts say this say lesson learned. if this happens, god forbid but

dr. william schaffner, the of vanderbilt university, welcome everybody.g. >> bill, why don't you start off on if giving everybody, assume people know nothing, give us a little primer on go larks why don't you tell people what it is. >> so this is a virus that actually lives in the wild, largely among fruit bats and very successfully and only occasionally gets out into human populations. and starting in 1976, it has caused a series of outbreaks largely in the congo, not exclusively there, usually in rural villages, the villagers got interacted with animals and products to the fruit bats, became infected themselves and those outbreaks were relatively quickly contained. it was a serious virus, because when it got into people, it had high fatality rates, sometimes as high as 90 percent. sometimes lower. now, more recently, it has occurred in west africa many thousands of miles distant. heretofore unknown to the medical community there and it has spread very, very rapidly. it is an illness that when you get it, is characterized by fever, feeling terribly stick

dr. william schaffner, thank you for the information.ok at your headlines at eight minutes past the hour. despite coalition air strikes, cobabbie is in danger of falling into isis hands. more than 00 fighters and civilians from both sides have been killed in the battle for kobani, this according to a human rights group. back here at home a chicago area teenager is facing up to 15 years in prison for allegedly trying to join isis. 19-year-old mohammad hamzakhan was arrested at chicago's o'hare airport. >>> two planes clipped each other as the aircraft were taxiing on the runway in ireland. one of the wing tips of the airplanes seen lodged into the tail of the other plane. thankfully no one was hurt. officials say the incident caused minor delays at the airport there in dublin. >>> quite a strange discovery in new york central park, a bearcub was found dead in the city's famed park. the question now is, where did it come from? a dog spotted the carcass of the animal under bushes monday morning. officials at the central park zoo are sure th