. >> now that nurse is expected to garn teen at -- herself at home when she gets there and monitored by official in maip maip. nora muchanic, "channel 6 action news". >> nora, thank you, coming up "healthcheck" reporter ali gorman will explain guide loins on cdc of how to handle workers coming home from west africa we have a special section open our web site with ongoing he'll bowl assure have a. there we have a list of myths versus facts about the disease to help you steer clear of any misinformation. you can see the signs and symptoms of ebola along with a look at how he bowl owe threads. >> thank you. in other news tonight a philadelphia charter school khubld with overcrowding and if many concerns shut down today. high schoolers at the learning partner's school found doors locked and light off. the school's charter was threatened to be canceled because of too many students. and school officials will meet with parents about transferring those students. >> a wilmington man is charged with impersonating aa police officer. 46-year-old edward lindenhoffman went to a home yesterday sayi

every time the sponge goes in there, you're garn teened that it's a clean sponge. and over one month the tablets dissolve and after a month, a little light tells you it's time to change it. and it's eco friendly and nontoxic. >> what do you think about hand towels in the kitchen? >> don't use them to wipe down counters or on dirty services. the same thing can happen. germs will thrive. >> what's next? >> next is our cell phones. >> oh, look at this. >> our cell phones are 18 times dirtier than a public toilet handle. and the reason why is they get warm when we use them. this is a great problem. this uses uv rays. you put the phone in there and it only takes five minutes to completely disinfect your phone by uv light. there's no heat, chemicals or liquids -- >> you do that and -- >> if you put it in there overnight -- >> you touch your phone, you touch your face, you touch things -- you shake people's hands and you touch your phone. >> nobody thinks about it. our beds are a health hazard in our home because they harbor dust mites. your pillow and mattress can have u

you just heard anderson describe the situation inside the garn teen with some details that to me soundarming. i wonder if you have any questions about this? >> just the last thing anderson managed there with the sheets still being on the bed, that obviously is a concern. we've talked about the fact that this virus can live outside the body, can live on surfaces. it's unlikely for it to be transmitted to someone else that way. i tell you, the patients over here at emery just down the street, they would take the waste out of a patient's room, put them in bio containment bags and would subsequently be incinerated. you get the idea of the sort of effectiveness they wanted in terms of the virus. it sound like nothing, anderson, in terms of getting rid of things in the apartment were being done here? >> she's not clear what she's supposed to do with this. she seems to think she should wait for the cdc to tell her what to do. she said she put the towels he used into a plastic bag, they're still in the apartment, but that the sheets and the pillows are still on the bed. she said she did get so

lived with ebola patient thomas duncan has moved out of their apartment and they are currently in garn teen. >> it's been tough because no one wanted them. so someone was kind enough to offer up a private residence that is gated, that is separated from any neighborhood, any apartment complex so they can have their privacy and be away from anyone who has concerns. >> the u.s. sent a shipment of supplies yesterday and the first of 3600 troops also departed for west africa to support the fight against the epidemic there. the ebola virus has not been reported in the philadelphia area but the outbreak in west africa and the fears surrounding it are having a ripple effect on the local liberian population. many have been trying to fly their loved ones out of west africa but they tell us it's nearly impossible. >> they come to us as a travel agent and say, can you get them out? >> there's not much you can do. >> there's not much we can do. >> there are between 5 and 10,000 liberians in our region. the local liberian association are gathering supplies to support loved ones abroad. >>> today marks da

asking why are we allowing folks to come over here, and why once they are over here there is no garn teen. >> our fundamental mission is to protect americans. right now, we are able to track everyone who comes in. but you aren't stopping them from being around other people. even so, they are not limited from travel, they are not quarantined because they can still show up with symptoms they can still bypass other questions that they referred to. so -- and this is what happened with the nurse who went to cleveland. so i am concerned here, is this going to be maintain position of the administration, there will be no travel restrictions. >> we will consider any options to better protect americans. >> thank you. i now give five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. freeden i have some questions for you, and dr. varga for you, and i would appreciate yes or no answers because i have a lot to move through, and only a short amount of time. docken tor, spring of 2014, ebola began spreading through west africa, causing increasing concern within the international public health community, correct.

when you hear about three states now that have a mandatory garn teen, does this escalate panic or iss, you know, fitting for what could be to come? >> i'm afraid that it's contributing to panic. it's the wrong way to go. it sends terrible messages to the public. when you do it without good medical basis, this is what's going to happen. unless we get a handle on this it could get worse in terms of panic. >> we are waiting to hear how the city will courrrespond to t state, and mandatory quarantines. at the same time what we hear is maybe actively requesting that these states reverse the policies of mandatory quarantines. is the message now that there is a problem between communication between the state and federal level? we need all the actors who have different responsibilities to work together. without cooperation, if everyone is at everybody else's throw it's going to be a mes. so all of these governors and the leadership in washington need to sit down and calmly develop the policy that everyone is going to follow. if we don't do that it will be a mad scramble. this is the juncture

governors of new jersey and new york about the states mandatory ebola quarantine and a nurse is in garn teen now at new jersey hospital because she had contact with ebola patients in west africa. casey hickcox is showing no symptoms. chris christy says she cannot leave an isolation tept three weeks. hickcox lawyer plans to file a federal lawsuit to get her sglout these decisions should be based on medical fact. not on fear. nor myth. >> top federal health officials state quarantine policy is not necessary and called the policy not grounded in science. they fear it could discourage volunteers from traveling to west africa to help fight the outbreak. >> a delaware valley college in doylestown today students did their foort help victims of ebola. they packed more than 272,000 meals. so then shipped them to lie beer why and sierra leone. students worked in two hour shifts to pack up the meals and hope to provide nutrition for more than 700 children. >> the good people of hamilton township, new jersey did their part to help a little boy's legacy live on today. kids put on their halloween costumes

european partners since several weeks ago when that was written have addressed this by providing a garn teento health workers that they would be flown to europe or receive high quality treatment on spot. so it's not applicable at this point. >> in the memo marked sensitive gi detail saying there are four medical e situations situations. one, medical evacuation capacity, two, overflight, refueling andn;Ñ landing permission, three, a hospital able and unwilling to treat the patient, and four, backstop reimbursement art $200,000 for medevac and $300,000 per treatment for case. plus note the need for 24-hour care with up to seven medical professionals on duty attending that one patient. [yu bob goodlatte is furious saying "it's alarming that seniorçó oba vehemently denied the existence of any plans -- for treatment document shows such a proposal indeed exists. iowa republican senator chuck grassley says the best way to keep ebola from coming to the u.s. is to attack it in west africa, not here. believe this was some random bureaucrat drawing this up on his own. they note it was sent to the depar

person, they should be taking their temperature twice a day for 21 days, but should they also be garn teened? we're hearing different things on that. most people are saying they don't need to be quarantined unless they are sick. but on the other hand, the ambulance drivers are not sick but they are being quarantined so these mix messages make things challenging in terms of next steps and these are questions that need to be put to the cdc and folks in dallas. >> here's another thing. i'm totally healthy and i can't remember every person i came into contact with in the last four or five days. this man is critically ill. how can he possibly remember who he's contact into contact with? >> it's really challenging one thing i would say about being ill versus being healthy, when you're ill you're more likely to be home. but you raise a good point. when i asked the cdc folks about that, that i say "we think it's a handful of contacts." don't know what that means exactly but they don't think he was in a big crowded area, shopping mall, he wasn't feeling well enough to be doing that sort of thing. tha

garn teen them? >> impossible to police. >> thank you. so the bottom line is put the money in the research, find a vaccine and let's solve this for humanity. >> globally. >> all right. let's move back to another issue we touched on during the mayoral debate. and that's the d.c. general housing shelter. stay open for at least another year. may juror vincent gray announci $90 million for a plan to close d.c. general. >> the problem here is you have to have a plan of where the folks will go. i don't care if it's a shelter. i don't care if you're in chicago and on lake michigan and i green.ort of tearing in some of the testimony you have folks saying, well, sure you may give me housing, but if you only subsidize my rent for two, four, six months and then i have to pay full rent wherever you put me and i'm in school or i have small children or i'm doing job training, how can i then stay sneer i'd rather stay know there's food and housing for me. >> right. >> i think the answer to the sh almost like ebola, you can't fix it at this level. pe can

if you can't rid it of the virus, what good does garn teening do? >> that's a good question.type of virus of the ebola is an rna virus him rna viruses don't intend to persist. they are not likely to carry it the rest of their lives. >> it's not like a herpes situation. >> exactly right. >> herpes is a great example. it's a dfa virus. >> it occasionally manifests, can be passed on. ebola is not like that. >> right. >> saving the dog. >> i can't make that judgment? they decided that the rick was there and they were concerned about it. again, it depends upon what sort of resources you want to put if upon toreing and quarantineing. >> any idea how long it lives in the dog or the host pet? >> we don't know those sorts of things. dogs haven't been extensively studied. >> is anybody here? >> not right now. one of the things we had to think about ebola, we don't know a lot in humans. we know more in humans tan we do if dogs. but the number of cases that we've had is really not that large in the scheme of things. >> we have all the big shots. dr. fauci from nih, frieden from cdc sayin

bentley is still under garn teen until november 1st. he has one more we understand ebola test. hopefully, we see an updated picture of these two together. >> so cute. >> thanks, tamron. coming up, a wealthy polo mogul who tried to adopt his own girlfriend in a legal move, takes the stand in a dui manslaughter trial. he says he wasn't actually drunk until after the accident. >> plus on rossen reports, a dangerous mistake. parents caught at surprise checkpoints forgetting to put on their kids' seatbelts. you won't believe how often it happens. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> the "r" word i want good digestive health... ... but i don't want to think about the word regularity. benefiber helps support good digestive health... and maintain... the "r" word. you know what it tastes like in water? water! except this water makes you feel great. benefiber. now in stick packs. when laquinta.com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i'm sold! a "selling machine!" ready for you alert,