from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, thanks for joining us. the white house is reportedly pressing governors to reverse course and not require doctors who treat ebola patients in africa to be quarantined. and today, one of the nation's top infectious disease experts, dr. anthony fauci, said the new policy adopted in new york, new jersey, illinois and florida could actually damage efforts to contain the disease. >> well, as a scientist and as a health person, if i were asked, i would not have recommended that. if you put everyone in one basket, even people who are clearly no threat, then we have the problem of the disincentive of the people that we need. lets not forget the best way to stop this epidemic and protect america is to stop it in africa, and you can really help stopping it in africa if we have our people our heroes the health care workers go there and help us to protect america we cant lose sight of that. >> sreenivasan: this, as a nurse, who, tested negative for ebola, was quarantined after returning from wes

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from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. president obama today once again appealed for calm following the news that a new york doctor who treated ebola patients in africa has been hospitalized with the disease himself. >> we have to be guided by the facts, not fear. yesterday, new yorkers showed us the way. they did what they do every day-- jumping on buses, riding the subway, crowding into elevators, heading into work, gathering in parks. that spirit, that determination to carry on is part of what makes new york one of the greatest cities in the world. >> sreenivasan: in new jersey today, a 30-year-old nurse, who was quarantined after returning from africa, was determined today not to have ebola. even so, she'll remain in quarantine for another 20 days. late yesterday, new york's democratic governor andrew cuomo and new jersey's republican governor chris christie announced new, stricter rules governing health care workers returning from africa. anyone who treated ebola patients there will be required

from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. the united states is taking new steps to try to stop the spread of the ebola virus. enhanced screenings of travelers from liberia, sierra leone and guinea went into effect today at j.f.k. international airport here in new york. the same measures will be implemented next week at dulles airport outside washington, d.c.; newark liberty international airport; chicago's o'hare and atlanta's hartsfield. nearly 95% of all travelers from those three african countries enter the united states through these airports. under the new protocol, travelers from those countries will be taken to a special screening area, where they will be interviewed and have their temperature taken with a non- contact thermometer. thomas duncan, the liberian man who died of ebola in dallas, only became ill several days after he arrived in dallas. we'll have much more in a moment. kmart has become the latest major retailer to be hacked. the incident occurred early last month but was only disclos

from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. during his weekly radio address today, president obama offered reassurances that ebola does not pose a major threat to the united states. >> what we're seeing now is not an 'ioutbreak' or an 'iepidemic' of ebola in america. we're a nation of more than 300 million people. to date, we've seen three cases of ebola diagnosed here. we have to keep this in perspective. as our public health experts point out, every year, thousands of americans die from the flu. >> sreenivasan: the president also answered critics who have demanded that he cut off all travel between the united states and the west african nations, where the disease has already claimed at least 4,000 lives. >> trying to seal off an entire region of the world, if that were even possible, could actually make the situation worse. it would make it harder to move health care workers and supplies back and forth. experience shows that it could also cause people in the affected region to change their travel, to e

from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. secretary of defense chuck hagel has ordered the creation of an emergency response team in case additional ebola cases are discovered in the united states. a pentagon spokesman said the team of five infectious disease doctors, 20 critical care nurses and five experts on infectious- disease protocols would work alongside civilian health care workers. the team will be trained by army infectious disease experts starting next week. on the sunday talk shows today, the nation's top infectious disease doctor acknowledged that many smaller hospitals around the nation are not fully equipped to deal with any ebola people to think that any hospital, community hospital is totally equipped to care for the patient. they must be able to identify and isolate and then from there get them to a place where you have pre-trained people who know how to do it. >> sreenivasan: we'll have more on ebola right after the news summary. turning overseas now, american warplanes struck isis t

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once again to hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: williamson, west virginia, has been known for a few thingsr the years. as a coal town, a mountain town, a feuding town made famous by the hatfields and mccoys -- (horn honking) -- but williamson, west virginia has never been a running town. in fact, it's one of the least healthy places in the united states. so the fact that hundreds of locals are now showing up for monthly 5k races is a sign of something deeper here, an unexpected shift toward better health in coal country. dr. dino beckett is among those responsible for the new energy. when he moved back home after medical residency, his main goal was expanding basic healthcare in this part of the state. >> everyone was why would you go back to southern west virginia to practice medicine? i couldn't think of a better place to be because it was such a joy to grow up here and have these people look out for you and help you with whatever was going on in your life. >> sreenivasan: more so, beckett thought he could do something about the challenges they faced including diabetes, hypertension in b

from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. u.s. health officials said today they have fielded inquiries about 100 suspected cases of ebola since the first case in the united states was confirmed in dallas, but that no new infections have been identified. this afternoon, officials from the centers for disease control raced to newark airport to meet a plane that had landed from brussels. two passengers believed to be from liberia became ill during the flight. later, health officials said the two apparently do not have ebola. another similar scare was reported in west florida today. and those two suspected cases in the washington, d.c., area turned out not to be ebola, either. but thomas eric duncan, the liberian man who on thursday became the first person in the u.s. with ebola, today was downgraded from serious to critical condition. joining us now from washington is one of the nation's top health experts. dr. anthony fauci is the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. the

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again to hari sreenivasan, who spent part of this week in the community. >> sreenivasan: while you wouldn'tby looking, this stretch of apartment buildings in a neighborhood called park hill on staten island is the heart of the liberian community in new york city, commonly known as little liberia. it's home to one of the largest concentrations of librarians -- liberians outside of west africa. the ebola outbreak still hits home. this is a home health worker who immigrated from liberia in 2011. she's one of the thousands of people in this neighborhood with family ties to liberia, and she told us that, three weeks ago, her pregnant sister saw a nurse who had previously dealt with ebola patients. so your sister died? her baby died? her 13-year-old son died? >> yes. what's it like in the united states when people hear you're liberian? love is forgiving is what's happening to liberians everywhere. yates is the president of the staten island liberian community association. she says the treatment of liberians got worse after the news of thomas eric duncan, who died in texas of ebola earlier this mo

good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. gwen ifill and judy woodruff are away.o ahead this wednesday, health officials on the look out for those who may have been exposed to ebola by the first patient diagnosed in the u.s. including five school-aged children. then, from an elite university to the city's community colleges. chicago takes steps to make college more accessible and affordable for low-income students. plus, former providence mayor buddy cianci's bid to come back and lead the rhode island city after being in prison.

good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. gwen ifill and judy woodruff are away. also ahead this wednesday, health officials on the look out for those who may have been exposed to ebola by the first patient diagnosed in the u.s. including five school-aged children. then, from an elite university to the city's community colleges. chicago takes steps to make college more accessible and affordable for low-income students. plus, former providence mayor buddy cianci's bid to come back and lead the rhode island city after being in prison. >> frankly i did my time, i did it like a man, i paid the price and the law says i can run and i'm running. >> sreenivasan: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institut

hari sreenivasan has the story. >> sreenivasan: a hazardous materials team arrived this morning at thelas apartment complex where thomas duncan stayed before being hospitalized on sunday. they collected anything contaminated, including a car that they covered with a giant plastic bag. they have been quarantined under armed guard after they refused to remain inside voluntarily. >> nobody is supposed to go inside the apartment. they are in the apartment. they cannot come out, they are not even allowed to come on the porch. >> woodruff: dallas county judge clay jenkins, the county's top administrator, voiced concern for the family's plight and apologized for the delay in removing the soiled items. meanwhile, texas health officials said they've narrowed the group being monitored to 50 people who had direct or indirect contact with duncan. crews have also cleaned schools attended by five students who were exposed to duncan. but some parents say they're far from reassured. >> and then we just got letters in the kids backpack yesterday saying they had it under control. i feel otherwise. if yo

hari sreenivasan has our conversation, recorded in our new york studios. >> paying for something withr phone isn't necessarily a new idea. i've been using mine to pay for cabs for the past year. but today apple launches its mobile payment platform called apple pay. and here to help us understand how the arrival of apple into this arena changes the game is the senior editor at technology news site ricoh. why is it a big deal that apple decides to do something google has been doing for a while. >> partially because with the google experience it is inconsistent. there is resistance from the carriers. for instance verizon has its own payment plan. and has resisted google's infrastructure, google's plan so it has been inconsistent and uneven experience on the google platform with. apple we have a completely unified experience. apple has also, it's been a lumbering giant in payments for a long time there are more ed:ity card accounts associated in the itunes infrastructure than on amazon or pay pal. and so it is-- only been a matter of time before the technology to come, and the experience

hari sreenivasan recorded this conversation in our new york studios. >> sreenivasan: to get more information perspective on this now from dr. william shaffner, an infectious disease expert joining us from nashville. first off, there were quite a few cases we heard out a few months ago about enterovirus d-68. this was something that was discovered in the '60s, but this is really first outbreak that we've had. yeah, hari, it's a very large outbreak. it's run across the entire country. children, many of them, have been affected. some children had difficulty breathing and asthma attacks. and now there's even a question about whether this virus is capable of producing a paralytic illness. that's still under investigation. but that was a big surprise that came upon us, yes. >> sreenivasan: okay. then something that we thought was long gone, measles. we've kind of seen a reemergence of measles, almost 600 cases this year. >> yeah. can you imagine that? that's because there's still measles out in the world, but our parents, many of them, are withholding their children from vaccination, and so when s

hari sreenivasan has a look at the scientific phenomenona behind all this. >> sreenivasan: the nationaluard itself began trying to help hawaiians today. the lava that began flowing this summer from the volcano on mount kilauea is endangering a small community of about 950 residents. it may be moving slowly, at speeds of just five to ten miles an hour, but there's been no way to stop it. and now it's started to burn homeowners property there. at the same time, a whole different set of fiery images from space may also be in your daily news feed. it's the largest sunspot in more than two decades. federal officials have warned frequently about the possibility that solar flares could potentially disrupt navigation systems and radio frequencies. science correspondent miles o'brien is with us again tonight. miles, let's start with this planet first. when we think of laugh awe think of huge explosions and volcanos like mount st. helens and other places but that's not what we're talking about here. >> with mount aint helens, the most recent eruption in japan, we had what's called a pyroplastic f

hari sreenivasan has this report from minnesota. >> sreenivasan: when people go out to eat at restaurants like this neighborhood bistro in st. paul, they might be mindful of how much they're eating, or how much butter is used, or possibly calories. but most don't focus on a key component of the meal that they all share in common: salt. the center's for disease control say we eat twice as much salt as we should. three recent studies say that too much salt can lead to high blood pressure and heart disease. health officials recommend eating less, but consumers complain about the taste. enter professor devon peterson, an expert in food chemistry and analysis, he has made it his mission to revolutionize the processed food business by creating low salt products that taste good. to help with that goal he created the flavor research and education center at the university of minnesota. >> we should be reducing salt in our diet about 30% or 40%, and if you look around there's a lot of salt low options out there, or reformulations, but i suspect most people when they're opening things up at home mig

. >> ifill: hari sreenivasan sat down with johnson recently in our new york studios to understand moret idea and others that johnson explores in his new work. glass cold sound clean time light. what is it about these innovations? >> well we didn't want to just have stories about the things we think of as high technology today, right. so there's no chapter on the smart phone or something like that, right. what i was really interested is basically objects and innovations that are so ubiquitous we don't think about them as technology or a scientific break through. i also wanted to have thing that have had a really interesting history, and that involved kind of characters that areeeinteresg stories, and that led us to a series of unanticipated consequences once they got unleashed in the world. there's a thought process trying to figure out what to include. but we ended up with these six. >> sreenivasan: connect the dots forpress and the selfie. >> you invent the printing press, books get into circulation and there's this revolution of theology and science because of this. there's this othe

hari sreenivasan reports. >> sreenivasan: the newshour's margaret warner, reporting outside aleppo, syriaw clear battle lines. >> warner: we traveled into the rebel-liberated areas of northwest syria to see what 20 months of conflict had wrought. >> sreenivasan: just days after that report was filed, journalist james foley, who had done work for the newshour over the years, was kidnapped in a location nearby. 40-year-old foley and fellow captive reporter steven sotloff were beheaded by islamic qtte militants within weeks of each other recently. they are only two of the 70-plus journalists killed covering the syrian war. pá!ich has claimed the lives of nearly 200,000 syrians since 2011. the very act of telling their stories, as the conflict rages across syria and iraq, has become prohibitively difficult, and dangerous. the newshour and many other news organizations have decided not to send in staff or freelancers inside of syria until the security situation improves. today, the few international journalists who are going rarely travel outside areas controlled by the syrian regime. cbs news