." >>> french health officials say they're ready to take on ebola in west africa. they plan full scale clinical testing to try to combat ebola in west africa. a drug has been developed by a japanese company. >> translator: we'll conduct a clinical study with the medicine favipiravir. we'll know the result by the end of this year. >> a team from the french national institute of health and medical research will conduct the testing. the medicine was developed as an anti-influenza drug by a subsidiary of japan's fujifilm corporation. favipiravir has yet to be approved as a treatment for ebola, but it was administered as an emergency measure on patients in france and spain. researchers say they chose the drug because it's already available in large amounts. they also said the drug is easy to administrator because it's taken orally. the team will test the drug on about 50 patients in southern guinea. if the results are positive, the medicine will be given to more patients to confirm its effectiveness and safety. >>> and officials at the world health organization are also

west africa. she's being tested for ebola in newark after developing a fever. e governors of new york and new jersey say there will now be mandatory quarantines for to-called high risk travelers returning from the ebola hot zone in west africa. that comes one day after new york city announced its first case of ebola. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has more on that and the recovery of two texas nurses. >> there is no cause for alarm. >> reporter: tonight, new york city health officials are urging calm as they look for anyone who had contact with dr. craig spencer, the city's first ebola patient. >> the patient continues to be stable at bellevue hospital, where he remains hospitalized on the isolation unit. >> reporter: the 33-year-old doctor returned to the u.s. last week after treating ebola patients in guinea with doctors without boarders. three people who had contact with dr. spencer have been quarantined, including his fiance who will be monitored more symptoms. as haz/mat crews worked to decontaminate his apartment, officials are alerting all w

today, the welp organization announced that more than 9000 people have been infected with ebola in west africand more than four and a half thousand have died. this comes as leading health officials appeared before congress to testify about the u.s. response. we will have more about that in a moment. first, the bbc medical correspondent has this report. >> in guinea, the grim battle against an invisible enemy continues. the concern is seems like this could spread the on the three countries currently to perhaps more. those fighting ebola are paying a heavy price. >> so far, 427 health care workers have been infected with ebola and 236 have died. our data shows that the cases are doubling every four weeks. >> in the first days after infection, before a patient exhibit symptoms, there is no chance they can pass it on. it is not an airborne infection like flu. sitting next to someone on a plane or a train should not be a risk. it is the second phase when patients become seriously ill that the dangers ramp up. it takes direct contact with bodily fluids to pass it on. that is why health workers need

in this country of ebola is exceedingly low. but the only way that we can entirely eliminate that risk is to stop this ebola outbreak in its tracks in west africa. and in order to succeed in stopping this outbreak in west africa, we're going to need doctors and nurses traveling to west africa to treat ebola patients. sadly, tragically even, this ebola outbreak in west africa has occurred in countries that have little to no modern medical infrastructure. and that is the reason that we have seen this ebola outbreak spiral so quickly, in a way that has claimed so many lives. so we want to make sure that whatever policies are put in place in this country to protect the american public do not serve as a disincentive to doctors and nurses from this country volunteering to travel to west after coto tre-- africa to trea ebola patients. first, it reflects a commitment from a doctor or a nurse to travel to west africa, reflect as generosity of spirit and a concern for common humanity that is worthy of praise. it also reflect as commitment to the ideal that stopping the ebola outbreak in west africa is the only way we can eliminate the risk to the america

he will work with government agencies to stop the spread of ebola in west africa as well. >>> local schools>> right now on lesson plan in some area schools is ebola. nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong found people being educated about the virus. >>> if you've been following the news coverage you're probably pretty concerned about the ebola threat. you might not have thought about how it could affect your child's school. >> how to transfer, where it's coming from. >> reporter: school nurses are soaking up every drop of information they can get on ebola. >> i think it's a good idea. knowledge is power. i'd rather have them know and be prepared for worst-case scenario. >> it's scary for everyone. it's something we're not used to dealing with. >> reporter: pat gilday leading brandy wine's team of school nurses. they are learning more about ebola. she's actually more concerned with the threat posed by the flu and enterovirus d68 but she really does want to know what to look for in a child that shows up with ebola-like symptoms. that's key, what to look for, knowing the questions to ask.

17th. >>> meantime officials at dover air force base are ready eto support the fight against ebola in west africa. developing several scenarios and training for air crews that may be ready to call for missions. call in response for a person returns to the base showing signs or symptoms of ebola. meantime, maine's governor says negotiations between the state and nurse kaci hickox have gone no where. treating ebola victims in west africa. two days in a row hickox defied the safety quarantine, including taking a bike ride with her boyfriend yesterday. she left her home. hickox said she tested negative and she's not a threat. >>> 5:48 now. happening this weekend, tomorrow morning, in fact. 6,000 people will hit the street to make a statement about a disease that often doesn't get the headlines. we're talking about diabetes. 200 die from it every day. and it affects a lot of children in the philadelphia area. nate among those. he was diagnosed with diabetes at age 6. >> for a 6-year-old who's in kindergarten telling them he has to take injections every day and test your blood, it's scary. >> holds the

ebola out of this country. tomorrow, officials will begin tougher screening procedures for passengers arriving at jfk airport in new york from west africacongressman swalwell sent out a statement outlining his goals for today's hearing which are, quote, to learn how we can address ebola in west africa, protect the united states from this disease, and bust the myths surrounding it. live in the newsroom, anne makevoc, kpix 5. >> to learn more about ebola, go to our website, kpix.com. click on health. >>> the first case of the enterovirus has been reported in santa clara county. that makes a total of 7 cases reported in the bay area. there were two cases in alameda county and one each in san francisco, contra costa, solano and santa cruz. the person infected in santa clara county is under 18 reported in good condition. >>> at 1 years of age she was hot -- 11 years of age she was shot in the head by the taliban. malala yousefzai is sharing the nobel peace prize with kailash satyarthi. malala has continued her activism. satyarthi is at the forefront of a global movement to end child slavery. >>> 6:33 we're looking at the skies through our we

in west africa. as of today the only patients in ebola u.s. are in hospitals. and it is important to put in perspective what the risks are. ebola is scary. it's a deadly disease, but we know how to stop t and we're stopping it in west africa community by community. dallas is doing an excellent job of tracing contacts to stop it there, and healthcare workers throughout the u.s. need to think ebola in people who have fever and have returned from any of these three countries in the past 21 days. two more questions, and then we're going to stop. >> cdc set out strict guidelines from ebola patients. can you expand on those guidelines, and will the cdc be involved. >> the way ebola works is if you're exposed but not sick you have no ability to pass it on to others. as you begin to get sick, you have a fever you may be able to pass it to others. the sicker you get, the higher amount of virus in your body. when people die of it, there are high quantities of virus. we've worked very closely with shorts in section to insure that respectfully and the ability of the family

in west africa? >> the fight against ebola in west africa is challenging. the health systems are weak. what we're finding is that it's moving quickly. there's a risk it will spread to other parts of africa. the key ingredient to progress there is speed. because the outbreak is increasing so quickly, the quicker we surge in a response, the quicker we blunt the number of cases and the risk to other parts of the word including the u.s. decreases. >> are you resource constrained in that context? >> congress provided money or approval or agreement to use money for the department of defense, usid has resources going in. at cdc we received $30 million for the first week of this fiscal year which we appreciate. >> you have a number, cdc has an unprecedented number of people in the field right now in west africa and texas. how many people do you have deployed doing airport scre screenings? >> i would have to get back to you on the exact numbers. we're overseeing screenings in west africa and to screen individuals here and -- >> it would be interesting to get that number and also find out if thos

in to the fears of a panicking public. ebola, fears and science. it's the inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. after a doctor coming home to new york after treating ebola treatments in west africa submitted himself to treatment, and a nurse landed in new jersey's newark international airport, worry about the disease spread in the country's most densely populated region. governor chris christie puts the nurse in involuntary quarantine even though she's show nothing symptoms of the disease. he backed off the absolute form of mandated quarantine for people who showed no symptoms over the weekend. the obama administration was critical of both' approaches, noting mandatory quarantine for volunteers made it less likely for volunteers to head to west africa where their help is badly needed. the u.s. is trying to figure out how to treat the trickle of potential cases landing here. over the weekend a child checked into new york city's belle vue hospital center with a fever. >> he had a low-grade fever this morning. he has as was noted a travel to one of the three affected countries and has a fever. that's what triggers an assessment. he has no clear exposure to ebola, but our exposure h

ebola quarantine policies here in the u.s. casey a nurse who recently treated ebola patients in west africa is defying her quarantine orders. now, this morning she left her home, she took a bike ride. this is no legal action against me. >> police followed her, but did not have a legal reason to detain her.

nearly 5,000 people have died of ebola in west africa, almost 1300 of them in sierra leone. and officials estimate about 80% of infections in the freetown area were caused by touching the dead bodies of ebola victims. many countries have stepped up their response to the outbreak which includes educating people in ways to prevent the spread of the disease. >> if people can discipline themselves to follow those protocols and resist the temptation to hug their loved ones and to treat them in the ways that people of sierra leone has been treating their loved ones for many, many generations, if they can resist that they can be part of the solution and can avoid infection. >> reporter: the hope now is that this trend of education and prevention can be continued in neighboring countries, guinea and liberia. linda kinkaid, cnn. >>> and we just see that health care workers really do face a major risk. well, a guest contributor to our website says that health care workers have always rallied to care for the sickest, and we'll need it to continue if the world wants to beat ebola. >>> al

battling enin -- ebola in west africa. dr. and your group and many others are doing one of the only things that will truly ensure the world will be free of ebola. we need to support you as much as we can, do it foerszfully, and convince the rest of the world to do the same. again, i say this is our watch. and two, my fellow committee members, it is not a time for us to move to common ground. we have no choice but to move to higher ground, and so with that, mr. chairman, i look forward to the testimony today, and with that i yield back. >> i thank the member. with that we go to our panel of witnesses. the honorable [ inaudible ] is the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict. major general is the deputy director in affairs in africa. the honorable john ross -- sorry, i apologize. the honorable john ross, the inspector general for homeland security. the assistant secretary for preparednessen -- preparedness and response. and the senior vice president of international operations at the inte

in to the country from west africa. and let's assume that everything in the screening process works right. may be in day 14 of having been exposed to ebola in west africa. they show up here in america with no symptoms. they go through the screening process. and so they go on about wherever they go. akron, cleveland, cincinnati, los angeles, wherever. day 17 or 18, they start getting ill. and they start seeing a spike in their temperature. if they walk into any emergency room and appalachia, ohio, and start throwing up, having symptoms, does your plan identify that? and does your plan tell that hospital emergency room what to do in that scenario? they don't know that person came from liberia or any other place. >> we have detailed checklists and algorithms we've distributed widely, provided repeated trainings and information so that health care providers throughout the country have a detailed checklist of what to do step by step by step to determine whether the person has ebola if they do, to call for help and we will be there. >> okay. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. green's next in line. so mr. mathison is next for five minutes. >> w

it gives us confidence that we will be able to control ebola in west africa. there is a lot that we are doing, based on what we have learned in the past week. for example, we have hospital awareness. we already work regularly with hospital associations. we have an intensive involvement in infection control, technical support. calls from doctors have increased tenfold since the first case was diagnosed. there is a lot of awareness. we are working to increase further. we are working closely with health departments, big city, state, and help the public associations. is a good example of a function health apartment. we want to make sure that the lessons that we learn from dallas are rapidly incorporated into the practice of health departments around the country. i know that people are eager for more information about travel. i want to adjust that. -- two address that. as the president said, we are looking at what we can do to increase the safety of americans, and, in the coming days, we will announce further measures to be taken. right now, i can get easily basic p

the former head of the united nations say he's bitterly disappointed with the response to ebola cries in west africa. >>> and hurricane gozalo is hitting bermuda. we'll check on the conditions with kevin. >> well, the "world health organization" said that it botched the ebola response in west africa. it admitted that it mishandled the stages that the virus is spreading at an alarming rate. and kofi annan said that he was disappointed, first of all, with the international community for not moving faster in this world we are in it together. when you hear that in a city like monrovia there wasn't even a single bed for a patient with ebola, then you know how desperate the situations are. we go to the senior health director with the international rescue committee. doctor, thank you for your time. you're just back. >> that's correct. >> what country were you in? >> i was in liberia. >> so you were in liberia. one of the epicenter states. describe the conditions. tell me what you saw. >> i saw a lot of bad things. i saw dead bodies and loos also a lot of fear. i saw a man who had a huge abscess on his face

west africa. four states thus far, new york, new jersey, illinois and maine ordered health care workers treating ebola patients in west africa must be quarantined upon arrival even if, this is the important part, even if they are showing no symptoms. doctors without borders nurse kaci hickox appears to be the first to fall under that mandate. she says if you initially read her dallas morning news piece and now heard the interviews on cnn she says her human rights have been violated under quarantine. she was forced into it after arriving from a very long journey overseas at newark airport this past friday. >> everyone keeps asking how are you feeling physically and, of course, i feel fine physically. but i don't think most people understand what it's like to be alone in a tent. don't you know there's nothing wrong with you and decisions are being made that don't make sense and that show no compassion. >> she's now headed to her home state of maine where she will be under quarantine at her home for that 21 day incubation period. we'll get the latest on the nursing a moment. first back to the possible bob case back

west africa now face a mandatory quarantine. the state joins new york and new jersey in requiring 21 day quarantines for health care workers who have had direct contact with ebolaomes two days after dr. craig spencer who volunteered in guinea tested positive for ebola in new york city. saturday, the city's mayor again tried calming fears by visiting a restaurant spencer ate at two days before he was hospitalized. he is in stable condition at manhattan's bell view hospital. since his diagnosis, decontamination crews have been working inside his apartment. american medical aide workers like spencer are critical to the fight against ebola in west africa. the centers for disease control hasn't required mandatory quarantines when they return home. cbs' dr jon lapook says the c. >> bob: is trying to strike a -- cdc is trying to strike a balance. >> if they hear i'm going to be put in quarantine for 21 days i may not go out there. >> reporter: in west africa more than 10,000 people have been infected with ebola and and nearly half have died. don champion for cbs news, new york. >> preliminary ebola tests on a nurse friday came back negative today. >>> uc sf says its m

needs go there to stop the problem to protect those folks and us as well. >> reporter: less ebola in west africad get to the rest of the world. john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> apple ceo tim cook is now the first and only openly gay chief executive in the fortune 500. he says he has been open about his sexuality with his colleagues but at this moment he tried to -- at the same time he tried to maintain his privacy. cook says he decided the desire for privacy was holding him back to work for more for the benefits of others. >>> bill now in the weather center for the parade forecast, the halloween forecast -- [ talking at the same time ] >> a friday like we convenient seen in a long time. you lump rain on to the that for the morning commute. we have clouds now. this is the system ramping up. what we will see here in the next few hours a few showers showing up. this is priming the lower atmosphere and increasing the humidity. increasing the dew point temperatures. that means a wetter environment when the front gets here. more rain. right? i didn't say that well at all. it will be wetter becaus

in the time period prior to that. that is discretionary spending. it's about a billion dollars less as compared to a decade ago. they will spend about a billion dollars on this ebola outbreak in west africa and here in the united states. we are down about a million dollars. that is part of the problem. if you look at the issue this is past week and the not disclosing, for example, the travel history for this patient and as a result he was out and about two days still sick. things like not cleaning up this woman's apartment with all the decontaminating the areas over there. that's not a money issue. part of that is leadership and part is human error. i'm not sure how much money can fix those things. it's a combination of both. >> that's a good point. why is there no ebola vaccine available right now? >> the numbers have been small. up until this past year, you talk about an infection that is in central or west africa. a small number of people roughly. frankly pharmaceutical companies were not that entered in creating a vac seen this can be expensive to create for a small number of people. the people that were interested in it were the defense department because they worried could ebola be

in america and also around the globe. the number of next due to the ebola outbreak in west africa has now exceeded 4000 -- the number of deathsat never came today as the united nations ebola envoy said the number of cases could be doubling every month. efforts to contain the spread within the three worst affected countries increasingly focus on education. our global health correspondent reports from sierra leone. >> hope and warm hospitality. in the midst of fear and uncertainty. we are afraid of the sickness of our children. we are mothers. >> these volunteers are on a mission to end the ebola outbreak, armed only with facts and soap. >> we show them how to wash hands, how to do the prevention. >> there are two key things now needed to bring this outbreak under control of according to the world health organization -- one, more doctors and nurses on the ground here. the other, though, is this -- community action, getting volunteers to go into villages like this one and giving them very basic information on how to keep themselves safe. .t seems this tactic is working no one has been infected in this village so far. >> if you d

said she was first into quarantine in new jersey after treating ebola patients in west africa have it released from hospital tonight. this comes as doctors in new york city are testing a five-year-old boy for ebola. he was traveling to west africa and was rushed to the hospital when he had a fever. hospital wheree greg spencer is being treated for the virus. the pentagon says a two star army general and dozens of soldiers who served in west africa are being isolated at a base in italy. the pentagon stresses the soldiers showed no signs of an action. the quarantined is part of a new policy that calls for isolating and monitoring the health of all soldiers who have deployed to the ebola zone in west africa. the u.s. navy and air force may their troopslate or chuck hagel may decide to issue an order. chance to getr answers to your questions about ebola. abc 7 and our sister station will host a national town meeting on the potentially deadly virus. overlot of arguing tonight who is right on the quarantined issue. debateetter to have that wet here in our studio where have a phone bank to a

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 for the virus twice, but maine officials told hickox to stay isolated in her home. they will seek a court order to make sure that happens. with hickox's boyfriend at her side, she told reporters this is not science based. >> it is not my intention to put anyone at risk in the community. we have been in necessigotiatio with the state of maine all day. we tried to handle this amicably. i am completely healthy and symptom free. i am frustrated by this fact and i have been told that 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 myself. there are so many aid workers coming back. doctors without borders estimated 20 american aid workers are coming back from the ebola response next month. it scares me to think how they will be treated and how they will feel. when we let stigma win, we all lose

health care workers will be treated at airports when they declare they have been fighting ebola in west africa. i'm scared like me they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization. will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners? now dr. anthony fouchi chit sized the mandatory quarantine. listen. >> the best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in africa and we need those health care workers. we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to volunteer to go. >> the back and forth continues. >> it continues indeed, brian. so the nurse was there. what is governor cristy's response. he was in guinea and came back sick later. >> that's right. that's part of chris christie's point. he says i'm sorry for the inconvenien inconvenience. bottom line, the current cdc policy calling for voluntary quarantine is simply not strong enough. >> i don't believe when you're dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system. this is government's job. if anything else, the government's job is to protect the safety and hea

ebola. anyone with fever should be asked if they have been in west africa, specifically guinea, sierra leone, and liberia in the past 21 days, and if so, rapidly isolated, fully assessed, and if appropriate, tested for ebola. we provide something called health alert networks which reach hundreds of thousands of health care workers. we do webinars, reach out to professional associations, hospitals, emergency department associations and many others so we can assure that the valuable inform something's up to date and useful. right now the bottom line of what we're talking about today is that we're stepping up protection for people coming into this country and for americans to travel. we will continuously look at ways that we can increase the safety of americans, and we do that at many different levels. we do that in dallas where officials there are working intensively to monitor every person who might have had contact with the index patient to ensure that if they do develop fever, they're immediately isolated and the chain of transmission can be broken. we do that in our health care system with

. >>> and a nurse who just returned home from treating able patients in west after -- ebola patients in west africa now defying a quarantine. >>> a nurse who helped treat ebola patients has defied a quarantine in maine. she went for a bike red with her boyfriend despite calls that asked a judge to order a mandatory quarantine for her. she was held in isolation in new jersey before being allowed to return to maine. one neighbor says she should observe the quarantine. >> why she is being so defiant i'm not sure. it is causing consternation here and people are trying to ask why she is not honoring it. stay in the quarantine until it's over and we are good. >> she said she has twice tested negative of ebola and has no symptoms. >>> a stanford surgeon is now under quarantine. under state rules just announced yesterday travelers who have had close contact with ebola patients in west africa must be quarantined for 21 days upon their return to the u.s.. officials say dr. collin bucks has not develops any symptoms but has agreed to a voluntary quarantine. >>> breaking news out of stockton where a judge just

ebola cases has now surpassed the 10,000 mark and though nearly half of those have died. w.h.o. officials adding those numbers are likely even greater since so many people in west africa have either been unable or too fearful to seek medical care. meanwhile, mali becoming the sixth country in west africa to report a case of ebola. the patient, a 2-year-old girl who came over from guinea. she's now dead. dr. nina radcliff is going to join us later to talk about the virus. >>> new york city's police commissioner calling thursday's hatchet attack on four rookie officers an act of terrorism. one officer was hit in the head and remains in critical but table condition. the other was hit in the arm and is now out of the hospital. the suspect was shot to death by two other cops on the streets in queens, new york. investigators are examining the suspect's computer to find a possible motive. they say there have been no clear ties to international extremists. canada's parliament hill reopening to the public after a fatal shooting on wednesday. a gunman killed a soldier at the national war memorial in ottawa and stormed the parliament before he was shot and killed there. >>> an i

. >>> the world health organization is now reporting the number of cases of ebola in west africa has past 10,000. this comes just a day after the governors of new york and new jersey ordered a mandatory quarantine for anybody who travels through the major airports in their states after coming into contact with infected patients overseas. this morning we're also following new developments about a health care worker who is being tested for ebola in newark. nbc10's matt delucia is live in the digital operation center with new information. matt, fill news on this. >> rosemary, just got new info from the new jersey department of health. a woman who was being treated or rather quarantined after flying to newark, liberty international airport where she was just clear tested negative. preliminarily nor ebola. the first person placed in a mandatory quarantine set up by the governors of new york and new jersey. we will show you some aerial video of the hospital in newark that she was taken to. the health care worker was immediately put into isolation after arriving from west africa. this worker

in new jersey violated her basic, human rights. now the nurse who treated ebola patients in west africa is expected to be at her home in maine today. new jersey governor chris christie ordered her released from isolation after she tested negative for ebola. >>> a 5-year-old boy in new york who had a fever, has also tested negative for the virus, but he'll remain in the hospital in isolation for now at least. also in new york, dr. craig spencer is now in serious but stable condition. he tested positive for ebola last week. >>> and take a look at the american mood toward ebola. a new poll shows 8 in 10 americans believe someone in the u.s. will become infected with ebola in the next few weeks. but a majority, 54%, believe the u.s. government is doing a good job handling ebola. 42% say it's doing a poor job at the moment. >> no matter what the polls say, there's increasing scrutiny over chris christie's decision to quarantine kaci hickox. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie not backing down from his mandatory quarantine order. >> i have no second thoughts about it. >> reporter: but his handling of kaci hickox's quarantine

in the ebola crisis. the federal government today announced a new set of guidelines for people coming to the country from west africa. travels in the ebola zone would be quarantined at home. in new york city a 5-year-old boy tested negative for ebola. he was hospitalized after developing symptoms consistent with the ebola virus. he returned from guinea. more on the nurse who fought her quarantine. >> reporter: the nuse being quarantined in -- nurse being quarantined in new jersey has been allowed to return home. kaci hickox was tested twice for the virus and the test results were negative. she will isolate herself at home and officials will help her monitor her health. kaci hickox was the first to be held under the new new jersey policy. she said she did not have a fever and should not have been quarantine. governor chris christie said the policy will stay in place. >> i am not going to step away for a minute from pecting the people of the -- protecting the people of the state and the region. she didn't want to be there but my obligation is to all the people of new jersey. >> reporter: new york city's first ebola pa

year, john. >> nic, you were talking to the medical workers on the way and those fighting ebola in west africa. what do they think about the quarantine debate going on in the united states right now? >> reporter: the headline on that is none that i talked to, whether officials at the world health organization and experienced doctors giving the training and training program that we witnessed yesterday or the doctors part of the training program on the way to west africa. none of them agreed with it. this is a big picture according to the world health organization. there are 1,500 health care workers to be needed to contain and get on top of the crisis. they are woefully short of that number right now. the training course was for 32 doctors and professionals. they really need to ramp up and encourage more people to join and go to west africa. they say the quarantine regulations will put people off because they don't believe they are scientifically necessary. the idea for some people to spend four weeks in west africa and come home and have another three weeks under quarantine, that will put some

ebola. anyone with fever should be asked if they have been in west africa, specifically guinea, sierra leone and liberia in the past 21 days and if so, rapidly isolated, fully assessed and if appropriate, tested for ebola. we provide something called health alert network which reach hundreds of thousands of health care workers. we do webinars. we reach out to professional organizations, hospitals, emergency department associations and medical associations and many others so that we can assure that the available information is up-to-date and useful. right now the bottom line of what we're talking about today is that we're stepping up protection for people coming into this country and for americans related to travel. we will continuously look at ways that we can increase the safety of americans and we do that at many different levels. we do that in dallas where officials there are working intensively to monitor every person who might have had contact with the index patient to make sure if they do develop fever they're immediately isolated and the chain of transmission can be broken. we do that

in quarantine. officials say so far they have not shown any signs or symptoms of ebola. brian, we are just learning tonight that another health care worker who landed in new jersey today, from west africa, was quarantined as a precaution and has developed a fever. right now they're doing testings on her to see if she could be the second case of ebola in the tristate area. brian? >> katy tur in bellevue hospital in manhattan tonight. katy, thanks. >>> this doctor's movements around new york city have raised some questions about whether or not he should have been quarantined immediately upon his return from volunteer work with patients in africa. meantime, we did get some good news on the ebola fight today about one of the nurses from dallas. our national correspondent, peter alexander, has our report. >> reporter: walking out of the national institutes of health today, nurse nina pham said she felt fortunate to be free from ebola and eager to go home to dallas. >> and try to get back to a normal life and reunite with my dog bentley. >> reporter: but first a stop at the oval office and a hug to -- from president obama to send the message that someone cured of ebola is not contagious. med

live in norton, i'm dann cuellar, channel 6 "action news." >> okay thanks dan. >>> now the ebola outbreak was first identified in west africa in march, since then this virus killed more than 4,400 people and defer stated new guinea, sierra leone, and liberia. now "action news" is teaming up with the american red cross to give you a way to help those communities, sara bloomquist is live now in our call to action center with more on how you can get involved. >> that is right, the american red cross volunteers are taking donations to help in the fight against ebola, the number to call is 1-877-940-6222. all money donated to the red cross this evening will go to west africa to treat patients and help contain this deadly virus. we have judge renee cardwell hughes with us from the american red cross, tell us why this money is desperately needed right now and how the american red cross is working to help in west africa. >> thank you and thank you to 6 abc for having us on. it's a critical tun to help, we have 4,000 volunteers on the ground in west africa, and our goal is to get out life saving information about how one protects th

learned that later today the administration plans to announce to call up reservists to fight ebola in west africa. we have learned there are no immediate plans to do, that but that could help fill the need for technicians with special skills in the effort to fight ebola. >>> on capitol hill this morning, a house committee holding a special hearing on the outbreak in texas. among those under the microscope is thomas frieden and an official from texas presbyterian says we are deeply sorry for failing to diagnose thomas eric duncan with ebola. >>> congressional delegates are demanding action. house speaker john boehner says there needs to be considered a travel ban to west africa. two others joining the call. congress member marmarino is demanding the termination of frieden. >>> newark and washington dulles and hartsfield-jackson in atlanta will join kennedy airport for screening. passengers arriving from the west africa countries will undergo increased scrutiny and have to answer questions. >> health ministers from the eu are meeting today to discuss tightening controls from ebola-stricken countrie

nearly 5,000 people have died of ebola in west africa, almost 1300 of them in sierra leone. d it's estimated 80% were caused by touching the dead bodies of ebola victims. many countries have stepped up the response to the outbreak, which includes educating people in ways to prevent the spread of the disease. >> if people can discipline themselves to follow those protocols and resist the temptation to hug their loved ones and treatment them in the ways they' been treating their loved ones for many, many generations. if they can resist that, they can be part of the solution and can avoid infection. >> the hope now is that the trend of education and prevention can be continued in neighboring countries, guinea and liberia. linda kinkade, cnn. >> well, there's word of a decision on a police chief from a tense community. the latest in ferguson, missouri, just ahead. [rob] so we've had a tempur-pedic for awhile, but now that we have the adjustable base, it's even better. [evie] i go up...heeeeyyy... [alex] when i put my feet up on this bed, my stress just goes away. [announcer] visi

visit coming on the heels of grim numbers on ebola released by the world health organization reporting nearly 10,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths in west africa. >> hi, arthel. no question ebola has become as much of a political issue as a public health one in the united states. powers is now on her way into the hot zone to highlight the administration's plan of attack in attacking ebola where it started. >> all of us need to make clear what these health workers mean to us and how much we value their service and contribution. we need to encourage more. we need many more than are going right now. we need to find a way when they come home that they are treated like conquering heros. >> the need for u.s. and western health workers is an evolving issue, especially now they face those mandatory quarantines when they return, something that doesn't sit well with one of america's top docs. >> there are other steps that you can protect american people based on the scientific evidence that does not necessarily have to go so far as to have unintended consequences over disincentivizing health care workers. >> initially the cdc said they had all the answe

. >> reporter: the ebola outbreak in west africa costing the region's already weak economy hundreds of millions of dollars. but new report from the world bank predicts if the virus starts to spread at high rate corks cost the small countries more than $32 billion by the end every next year. >> business starts closing. transportation gets disrupted.

ebola quash teen policies here in the united states. casey hickox, a nurse who recently treated ebola patients in west africa is defying her quarantine ordersn maine, now, this morning she left her home, and took a bike ride there is no legal action against me, i am free to go for a bike ride in my own town. >> police, followed hickox, right now the state of mine -- he says she will sue if the state tries to legally enforce that quarantine order. thomas drake is here with more. >> she is ready for a fight. normally a simple bike ride wouldn't take headlines. you saw it, sparking more debate about the treatment of healthcare worker whose treat ebola patients in west africa. >> it was the morning bike ride seen across the country. >> is it worth all this, casey. >> she openly defying an order to stay in her home after she treated patients in west africa. >> you know, this morning we just said we want to go for a bike ride. >> with her boyfriend by her side, she pedaled along a long country road, with law enforcement and reporters following her every move. >> we are zillion waiting to hear from the state of maine to see what they want to do. i

cohen is in dallas. >> reporter: john and christine, a nurse assistant in spain is the first person to contract ebola outside of west africatbreak. 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 an epidemic here in the united states are extremely low. here in dallas, authorities are monitoring 48 people who had contact with thomas eric duncan. seven of them are hospital workers. you had relatively high risk contact with him and three family members with high risk contact and 38 others like people who lived in the apartment complex who had lower risk contact. the hospital in dallas is where duncan is receiving the experimental medication. they hope it will work against ebola by going in and stopping it from replicating in his body. duncan was six for ten days before being started on the drug. it is not clear that it will work. john, christine. >> of course, these ebo

in august. the ebola outbreak killed more than 4,500 people in west africa and the w. hnch oranh.o. ays t be 10,000 new cases every week if the response isn't stepped up. back to you. >>> learn more about ebola by going to nbc10.com. we have a special section that shows how this virus is spread. it's not easy to catch. we're posting information on social media using #ebola. >>> now to a developing story tonight in southwest philadelphia where a correctional officer was found stabbed to death in her home. the victim's brother found her body after her bosses said she never showed up for work. tonight we learned that the woman worked for the philadelphia prison system. police believe she may have known her attacker. >>> only nbc 10 was there as a bucks county teen headed into court. he's accused of trying to rape a classmate at knife point after dragging her into a bathroom. >> reporter: police say 15-year-old cody hendricks wanted revenge, flipping this kitchen knife into his boot before school this morning and holding it up to the throat of a female classmate who he forced into a boys

must be balanced against the rights of healthcare workers returning from fighting the ebola outbreak in west africafair and reasonable treatment and a full disclosure of information to them. some expects say this balancing act could discourage healthcare workers from helping in the fight against ebola. >> here are doctors and nurses who are putting their lives on the line, taking a hit in terms of their earnings back home and spending time away from their families to volunteer to help control the outbreak. and they are reworded by being stigmatized. >> the doctor also says the healthcare workers whose have been on the front lines in the ebola fight know better than anyone of the importance of coming forward as soon as they get symptoms because early treatment is essential in surviving this virus. >> ross, speaking of the symptoms the doctor in new york what are the symptoms? >> awake and communicating but city health officials say he is entering the next phase of the illness with gastrointestinal and expected because the situation and treatment of ebola will become worse morgan before it gets bette