reporting from washington, i'm katty kay. the black flag of islamic state is raised near the city of kobane, along the syrian and turkish border, they are running battles for control. in west africa's fight over ebola there is too much to do and too little time to do it. we are in sierra leone. >> they are utterly overwhelmed but there are warnings things are going to get much, much worse. >> and gabrielle was a pioneer of mexican cinema. now his work is being celebrated by a whole new audience. >> welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and those around the globe. there are fears that the syrian town of kobane across the border of turkey could fall to islamic state fighters. a flag has been seen on the outskirts of kobane today, that is days after intense fighting. following this latest i.s. advance, turkish tanks are being move to descend the border crossing. paul adams is at the scene and he starts our coverage tonight. >> a potent sign of looming defeat, a large islamic state flag flying where yesterda

dorian warren, katty kay is back with us.g to congressman michael burgess, a doctor in texas, his direct near the hospital. first some politics. a new poll shows hillary clinton has some work to do in iowa if she decides to run for president. a bloomberg "des moines register" poll shows potential republican opponents in strong standing. in a head-to-head match up mitt romney leads the former secretary of state by one point. romney's former running mate paul ryan is trailing clinton by just one point. just three points separate clinton and rand paul. and she's five points ahead of new jersey governor chris christie. iowa has not always been kind to clinton. she limped into a third place in iowa during the presidential race. >> john, you had to be surprised when you got this poll back. you're working with "the des moines register," come back and got romney ahead. everybody else tied with her other than jeb bush who actually seemed to be faring worse than everybody else. >> first time iowa poll has done a head-to-head race on 20

i amting from washington, katty kay.alth care worker in withs has been diagnosed ebola, and she flew on an airplane just one day before the diagnosis. boots on the ground in theory up. so far, the rebels say they do not have what they need to fight the islamic state. palace,he presidential and she wants to give afghan women a stronger voice. highhave achieved a respect for women and for their role in society. ♪ viewers onto our public television in america and elsewhere around the globe. today, president obama had an emergency meeting at the white house about the spread of ebola. this comes after a second nurse in alice was diagnosed with ebola. meanwhile, in west africa, they say at least 4005 hundred people have now died of ebola. john has the latest. >> another nurse that has been diagnosed with ebola after treating thomas duncan. on a frontier airlines plane from cleveland to dallas. now the centers for disease control is scrambling to contact the 100 32 other passengers who flew with her. how or why a health worker

reporting from washington, i'm katty kay. as the fight rages in syria and iraq, i speak with former u.s. defense secretary leon panetta who is looking far beyond these conflicts in the middle east. >> we are living in a world which i have not seen so many dangers confronting this world. >> one of those threats is ebola. doctors are working round the clock to find a treatment. and move over black jack, there is a new game. chess, yes, chess is making major moves with $1 million purse. >> welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. the skies over could he banny were full of ex-- could he ban were full of ex-- kobani were full of more bombs to stop the islamic state militants. inside the town there are street battles. we'll hear from former defense secretary leon panetta on what it will take to defeat i.s. first, our world affairs corpte has this report. -- correspondent has this report. >> more air strikes around the yrian border town of kobani. those watching from the turkish side of

." >> reporting from washington, i am katty kay.cases of ebola continued to spread, the world health it missed a admits perfect storm brewing in west africa. war than 200 nigerian schoolgirls could be released after a reported cease-fire between captors boko haram and the government. the shelves may be full in moscow, but after restrictions of imported food from the west, the menu is all made in russia. welcome to our viewers on public television. the ebola epidemic remains out of control in west africa. the world health organization now admits that clear signs were missed in the seriousness of this outbreak. president obama has appointed an ebola czar to handle the public response. >> the heavy machinery of international aid is at last cranking into gear. .his delivery was to liberia the spread of the virus has devastated the local economy. the three countries most infected me know most everything, far more rapidly than they have been getting it. it has ways of suppressing us all the time. are doublingses every three to four weeks

and it comes as president obama's former defense secretary leon panetta told the bbc's katty kay that very few anticipated how serious a threat the islamic state would become. >> i would not have believed it would have been as bad as it is. i didn't believe that the sunnis would be as discouraged as they are. and that some of that resulted in some of these foreign fighters going into syria and becoming part of isis. and i think it's fair to say that although we knew there were extremists in syria, that there are very few that kind of looked at isis as that larger threat that it became in terms of invading iraq. >> you've run the cia, you've run the pentagon. do you think that this is an enemy that america can defeat? >> i do. i have tremendous confidence in our ability to defeat isis. and i'll tell you why. because we declared war after al qaeda after 9/11, and this was a very similar kind of enemy. as fanatical and dangerous and terrorist as isis was and more. i think what's going to be needed more here, though, is a very long and sustained effort. this is going to be much longer in