christine and john. >> ed lavandera, thanks. amber vinson's flight from ohio to texas is sparking ebola fear in both states. two schools in bellton, texas are closed because parents flew on the same flight as vinson. and in ohio, a staff member traveled from dallas home to ohio on a different flight from vinson, but quote, perhaps the same aircraft. schools in both districts will be cleaned. >> i understand why people are concerned. medical experts tell you this is an overabundance of caution. >>> a house committee is holding a hearing on the ebola situation in texas. among those under the microscope is thomas frieden and an official has submitted written testimony saying we are deeply sorry for failing to diagnose duncan with ebola. >>> house speaker boehner says the white house needs to consider the ban on travel from west african nations dealing with ebola right now. pennsylvania congress member schuster and tom marino joining this call. marino is demanding the resignation of thomas frieden. >>> four major airports begin enha

let's go now live to cnn's ed lavandera who is joining us by phone outside texas health presbyterian hospital. ed, tell us what do we know about this new case? >> reporter: well, good morning, guys. hospital officials here are preparing for a news conference that will happen in about 30 minutes or so we are told. but it's obviously a disturbing development. not one that health officials here in the state of texas say that they're shocked by. if you remember over the course of the last few weeks there has been a great deal of attention focused on tracking the contacts that had come in contact with thomas eric duncan, the ebola patient who passed away last week. there were some almost 50 people that they were closely monitoring. we were told that ten of those people were considered to be in high risk situations. those were obviously the people who were with thomas eric duncan in that apartment and you have to presume it was also some of the people that had treated thomas eric duncan on his visits to the hospital here. so we are told by hospital officials here in texas that it is a heal

>> i think you let your guard down a little bit on that. >> ed lavandera joins me from dallas with moreter: anymore, carol. as you well know the hospital has been criticized not only for the diagnosis and thomas eric duncan has criticized the hospital for the way it treated thomas eric duncan. the family believes he didn't have to die. it did say that early on in the misdiagnosis of mr. duncan and that's where it fell short. >> this morning the freelance cameraman who contracted ebola in liberia is now free of the virus according to health officials. ashoka mukpo weeted i fought and won with lots of help. a hazing feeling. >> looking forward to you both get news like this. they were caring for the now deceased man, thomas eric duncan the at the presbyterian hospital. the nurses wore protective gowns that exposed their necks. >> we were comfortable as we reviewed amber's use and nina's use that they knew what they were doing. >> i spoke with the chief clinical officer of the hospital who says he didn't know of any nurses raising concerns about having exposed skin. >> did anyone raise a r

cnn's ed lavandera is live with more on vinson's case. >> reporter: john and christine, the second worker was moved from dallas to emory in atlanta to continue her treatment here this morning. she was moved on the very day that much bigger questions are raised about how well prepared these health care workers are that treated thomas eric duncan, the first patient that died from ebola at texas presbyterian hospital. a nurses union saying that the health care team was not given the proper protocols and not prepared to handle the situation in which they were entering. questions about the protective gear they were wearing than could have been a failure in that area which what led to the infection. the cdc is concentrating on the first two or three days duncan was brought to the hospital where the health care workers were wearing two or three layers of gear. the hospital officials have not commented on the allegations, only have said that the safety and care of their employees is a top priority. christine and john. >> ed, thanks for that. amber vinson's flight from ohio to texas is sparking fe

cnn's ed lavandera is live in dallas with more on the investigation and how that nurse could have contracted ebola although protective clothing was worn. >> reporter: the cdc will investigate what they call a breach in protocol. the health care worker, a female nurse, wearing propertective ge despite that, she was infected during the time she was taking care of thomas eric duncan before he died here at texas health presbyterian last wednesday. this health care worker reported having a low grade fever friday night and drove herself to the hospital. cdc officials will be investigating just how all of this happened. it is critical. in the meantime, they will try to limit the number of people who have exposure to her. this new patient. they want to keep the number of health care workers who have contact with her. in the meantime, they are continuing with the decontamination process with her apartment and places she walked through texas health presbyterian. that work will continue as well as the calls for calm and explanation to people who live around the apartment complex not too far away from t

let's go to cnn's ed lavandera.us what you're hearing. >> wolf, this development just coming in to us now, as a quote from a cdc doctor telling the cleveland plain dealer that "we have started to look at the possibility that she had symptoms, amber vinson, going back to as far as saturday." obviously, this would be of great concern now, not only for the people that took the flight with her on monday, that was frontier airlines flight 1143, but also going back to that initial flight from dallas to cleveland last friday. now, it was interesting, because cdc officials have been saying she should not have gotten on that flight, even though our reporting shows she had been told by cdc officials it was okay to get on that flight. obviously, news that is of great concern to those people who were on those flights. all of this coming as we heard from one of the nurses speaking out and criticizing the protocol procedures and the safety procedures that were in place to protect the health care workers inside presbyterian hospit

our ed lavandera has more. >> reporter: texas health presbyterian hospital has operated in dallas for nearly 50 years. it's a fixture in the medical community. but inside the hospital it's a more dire scene. the hospital has almost 900 beds, and only 300 are filled. a cdc doctor who has been inside the hospital this week tells cnn people are scared to go there. they're having a rough time. i hope they make it through this. this comes as one of the hospital's own nurses is now criticizing the way health care workers were prepared to treat ebola patient thomas eric duncan. >> what explanation can you give me or anyone about why we would be in the second week of an ebola crisis in our hospital and we don't even have the same equipment or protection that is given to sanitation workers that have no contact with patients at all? and they said we know, we've ordered it. we've ordered it. i mean, i talked to charge nurses. i talk to supervisors. i talked to house supervisors. i talked to the cdc about it. i talked to infectious disease about it. i raised a stink with anyone and everyone, and

ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. >>> now, to the battle against i.s.i.s. u.s. air strikes on i.s.i.s.argets in kobani, syria, seem to be doing very little to stop the advance of i.s.i.s. militants. the terror group now controls a third of that city. >> u.s. forces launched 11 more air strikes in syria and in iraq thursday. most of them near kobani. military officials say they destroyed an i.s.i.s. bunker and other targets near sinjar mountain in iraq. >> the world's attention may be focused on the battle for kobani. but the syrian regime is not letting up its activities against forces. 25 civilians were killed including 4 women and 4 children. you're looking at amateur video posted on social media, that claims to show the aftermath of that strike. >>> and the united nations says more than 3 million people have fled syria because of the brutal civil war. when you factor in ton registered refugees, the number is much higher. look at your screen here. the number of total refugees, according to regional governments. 1.6 million in turkey. 1.5 million in lebanon. and 1.4 million in jordan.

ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. >>> now, to other stories we're following for you.t's been a tense night in st. louis, missouri, as protesters faced off with police. this time over the shooting of another black teenager. police say one officer was injured and two people arrested on thursday. the protest started wednesday after the teenager was shot and killed by a police officer. police actually say this suspect fired several shots toward the officer first before the officer then shot back. but he shot back apparently some 17 times. more protests are planned in nearby ferguson, missouri, this upcoming weekend, where michael brown was shot and killed by an officer two months ago. michael brown, unarmed at the time. >>> we want to bring you -- speaking of police force, new details on this. remember this video we showed you early in the week. we have new information about one of the police officers who was accused of using excessive force during a traffic stop in indiana. susan candiotti talks to a woman who says she knows what it felt like for people in that car. >> r

ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. >> yes, and protecting health care workers from the disease is crucial to keeping this virus under control. >>> all right. another health care worker is waging a battle against the virus. teresa romero ramos is a nurse's aide in spain. she contracted the virus after caring for a spanish missionary who died of ebola. now, ed algaman joins us live from madrid. we're hearing nurses there are too afraid to go to work. what is the hospital doing now to reassure nurses? >> reporter: all of that is happening in this hospital. that's where the two spanish missionaries who were working in africa got ebola, came back here and died. teresa romero, the nurse's assistant who now has the virus, is also in hospital here along with 15 others under observation. hospital officials say yes, some staffers have take whaeb they're calling psychological leave, not to come in to work. other people that they've been trying to hire have backed off once they found out what they were supposed to be doing. but they insist and there are multiple sources insisting they do have enough peo

ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. >>> and this development. a u.s.awmaker wants to stop people in the hardest hit ebola nations from traveling to the u.s. bill nelson, a senate democrat from florida, says the government should temporarily suspend most travel visas from those nations. the white house has refused to do that so far. reverend jesse jackson said such a move would send the wrong signal about what needs to be done to fight this outbreak. >> it is a crisis. we should not panic and begin to do irrational things in reaction. we had the sars crisis. we did not panic. we had the mers crisis. we should quarantine the disease, not quarantine nations and airline flights, for example. we should not panic. >> meantime the dallas apartment where the patient stayed with family members in dallas was in the news this week. you may remember as crews in hazmat suits finally cleaned it up with the neighbors watching. this took several days to decontaminate it fully. you see the neighbors there. but there may be a better way of zapping out dangerous germs. g

ed lavandera takes a closer look at the mistakes and the state's response. >> reporter: it took just one ebola patient to show the vulnerabilities of screening for the deadly virus. >> we have learned some lessons 2 in terms of what happened in dallas. we don't have a lot of margin for error. the procedures and protocols that are put in place must be followed. >> reporter: at times the response has seemed chaotic. keeping track of nearly 50 people who made contact with ebola patient thomas eric duncan has had its issues. >> we just need to locate this individual, and we could use your help in letting them know they're not in trouble. we want to move them to a comfortable and compassionate place and care for their every need while we monitor them. >> reporter: but the biggest confusion still swirls around duncan's first visit to texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas on the night of september 25th and why he was sent home, possibly infecting others, only to be admitted into the hospital three days later. last week the hospital said a flaw in the electronic health record led to h

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 to be losing territory and there doesn't seem to be anyone else who wants to do a ground war. with me now senator john mccain, republican from arizo

let's go now live to cnn's ed lavandera who is joining us by phone outside texas health presbyterian. ed, tell us what do we know about this new ca

ed lavandera and susan candiotti have the latest for us. ed, we're going to start with you. by now or at least in the coming days we might expect to see some signs of ebola and anyone who might have been exposed to this patient. what are officials saying tonight? >> reporter: well, don, as you start looking at the timeline from the moment that thomas eric duncan was taken into the hospital here in dallas and started showing symptoms of the ebola virus, that this is really looking -- going ahead into this week, the week that doctors and health officials here in the state of texas say will be very critical, that any of these nearly 50 people that were believed to have some sort of contact with thomas eric duncan, that this could very well be the week that if they are infected would begin showing those symptoms. there's that incubation period that could last up to 21 days. but it's anywhere around that 10-day period where in many of these cases so far you've started seeing those symptoms, and that's why health officials here in texas are saying this is a critical week. >> i thi

ed lavandera, thanks very much. passengers on amber vinson's flight to dallas are asked to call the cdc. frontier airlines says the plane has been thoroughly cleaned and it is back in service and it made multiple trips before the airline learned of vinson's diagnosis. renee marsh is joined at reagan national airport. the time between the flight and when the nurse reported symptoms are extremely close. within only a few hours. how likely does the cdc think that other passengers right now are at risk? >> reporter: wolf, in the cdc's own words they say the risk is low despite the fact that the time in which -- between which she landed in dallas and the time that she reported these symptoms. as you mentioned, extremely close and they say because she didn't vomit and she didn't excrete those bodily fluids, they do not believe that the other passengers onboard are high risk. that being said, they are reaching out to those passengers. we were talking about 132 people who were onboard this flight to answer any questions and

we've got our ed lavandera there inside, awaiting the start of this news conference. ed, there's so many questions, i think the most important question here is when did this doctor or this health professional contract this virus? >> reporter: those are obviously going to be many of the questions that will be asked here this morning as the officials here prepare for the news conference. we're told the mayor of dallas will be here shall the dallas county judge who has been very much on the forefront of this story as well as the hospital officials. but, victor, if you look back at what has gone on the last few weeks, there were a number of people who were considered to be high risk people who had been exposed to thomas eric duncan. several of those were health care workers that treated him here at texas health presbyterian hospital. we don't know for sure if this person is one of those people who was considered to be at high risk. i'm sure that those will be the kinds of questions, perhaps they can shed some light on exactly how this particular health care worker contrac

cnn's ed lavandera has more from dallas and what officials are doing there and on the apology. >> reporterjohn, officials with texas health presbyterian hospital have been on a campaign apologizing for the way it handled the case of thomas eric duncan. we sat down with the chief clinical officer, dr. daniel varga, to dig deeper into what exactly went wrong. do you think this is also a case of ebola had been in the news for the last six months or so, it is a deadly disease, trekked halfway around the world. was there a sense with the health care workers that it wasn't anything that was going to show up at our door step? >> i think that friend of mine awareness is hard to capture in the absence of real presence. i will tell you, we were worried up front about ebola. as i think anyone else, we looked, you know, starting in august and moving forward. but in the absence of ebola showing up in august, ebola showing up in early september, et cetera, it does become sort of isolated. >> let your guard down? >> i think you let your guard down a little bit on that. >> reporter: we asked dr. varga whe

cnn's ed lavandera has more on the investigation as to how this nurse could have contracted ebola even though she wore protective clothing. >> reporter: cdc officials will investigate a breach of proto l protocol. the female nurse was wearing the mask and gloves and gown and everything she needed. despite that, she became infected as she took care of thomas eric duncan before he died at texas health presbyterian last wednesday. this health care workers reported a low-grade fever and drove herself to the hospital. cdc will investigate how all this happened. in the meantime, they will limit the people who have exposure to her. they want to keep the number of health care workers who have direct contact. they will continue to do that. they are continuing with the decontamination process at her apartment and places she walked through coming here to texas health presbyterian. that work will continue as well as the calls for calm and explanation to people who live around the apartment complex not too far an away from the hospital where she lives here in the dallas area. really, the main focus

. >> all right, our thanks or ed lavandera in dallas. >>> new this morning, identifying the biggest threats to u.s. security. the former director of the national counterterrorism center matt olsen told our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto that the coursrres group posed the most likely threat. >> i would say that the most likely threat is one of he's homegrown violent extremists in the united states perhaps. and the rise of isis and the number of people going to syria, whether to fight with isis or just fighting the conflict there against assad. the likelihood, i think, does go up because of the number of people who are there who have gained some degree of training and radicalization. >> olsen said that the united states lost track of terrorists after edward snowden's nsa leaks. he said snowden's revelations changed the way that terrorists communicate, causing them to go further underground which makes them more difficult to track. >>> today, marks a national day of protests. protesters say they protest to stop police brutality and all eyes will be on ferguson, missouri. the

. >> reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. >> and the church attended by duncan's partner louise says duncan came to the u.s. so they could get married. >> louise spoke to anderson cooper and asked that her full name not be used. she hasn't felt any symptoms so far and is pleading for all possible medical help to save duncan's health. >> i am worried. i am sad. you don't know how frustrated i am. i just asking god. and asking the american government the same medicine wi with ebola to save his life. he is too young to die. >> there is no known cure for ebola, but there are several vaccines in the works, and you can get a look at where they stand on cnn.com. >> much more on the ebola outbreak later this hour. >>> but a north korean boat and a south korean boat have exchanged fire. the boat crossed a demarcation line. no injuries have been reported. >>> next on cnn, isis advances despite u.s. led air strikes. how they are trying to keep the militant flags from rising in the city center. >>> one father in the u.k. begs his jihadi sons to return home. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve

ed lavandera takes a closer look at the case and the fallout. >> it took just one ebola patient to show the vulnerabilities of screening for the deadly virus. >> we have learned some things given what took place in dallas. >> at times the response has seemed chaotic, keeping track of nearly 50 people who made contact with ebola patient thomas eric duncan has had its issues. >> we need to locate this individual, and we could use your help in letting them know, they're not in trouble. we want to move in to a comfortable and compassionate place and care for their every need while we monitor them. >> the biggest confusion still swirls around duncan's first visit to texas health presbyterian hospital in dallas. on the night of september 25th, and why he was sent home, possibly infecting others, oath to be admitted into the hospital three days later. last week, the hospital said a flaw in the electronic health record led to his release, despite duncan admitting he had just been in west africa. the next day, the hospital sent out a clarification. there was no flaw in the electronic health reco

she has arrived at emory university hospital for treatment and ed lavandera has details. >> reporter: the second infected nurse, amber vinson, is a 29-year-old registered nurse from ohio. she like nurse nina pham had close contact with duncan before he died from ebola. after caring for duncan, vinson flew to ohio to work on wedding plans. she shen flew back on frontier airlines flight 1143 one day before her ebola diagnosis. >> alshow they did not report any symptoms and she did not meet the fever threshold of 100.4, she did report at that time that she took her temperature and found it to be 99.5. >> reporter: the cdc says she should not have flown and is reaching out to passengers on that return flight. >> we want to deal with facts. not fear. >> reporter: battles on two fronts as texas health officials scramble to contain the deadly ebola virus and mitigate criticism of preparedness. >> we've been sounding the alarm. our nurses are not protected. they're not prepared to handle ebola or any other pandemics and the protocol that should have been in place in dallas were not in place.

ed lavandera interviewed the hospital chief today and joins now live from dallas with more. ed? >> reporter: hey, jake. officials here with the texas health presbyterian hospital have been saying that they believe they did a great job in trying to care and save the life of thomas eric duncan, but they do acknowledge missteps lining the way in diagnosing him and they cannot say whether or not that misdiagnosis in the end cost him his life, but in the interview that we did this morning with the chief clinical officer of texas health resou e resources, dr. daniel varga, he told us today that the hospitals in the weeks and months, despite warnings from the cdc throughout the summer months and warping hospitals to be prepared for ebola, the officials here say that this hospital did not do any simulation or any kind of drills in trying to -- in the answers of a patient walking in with ebola. and in his words, they essentially let their guard down. do you think this is also a case of ebola had been in the news for the last six months or so. it is a deadly disease. trapped halfway aroun

the stage by bringing in our cnn correspondents and experts n dallas, national correspondent, ed lavanderawhere this has happened and where the new patient is now quarantined n new orleans, senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. in washington, dr. gavin mcgregor skinner, infectious disease expert, joined me on reliable sources last week and get his take later in the hour about the media coverage of this. let start, ed, by telling us what did we learn this morning at the first local press conference that took place? >> the significant headlines of what we know so far is this is a health care worker who was not considered to be one of the high-risk people that was being monitored. this was someone in the lower risk category, but this was someone who came into contact with thomas eric duncan, not during his initial visit that first emergency room visit where he was turned away and returned three days later. so, it was after he had come back to the hospital. and we are told, and this is the disturbing part of all of this, is that this health care worker had been using protective gear,

at the press conference our colleague, ed lavandera asked the doctor do we know how these nurses got exposed, was there any skin exposed when they put on their personal protection equipment and he said yes at times skin was exposed. another possibility is you're supposed to wear one or sometimes two pairs of gloves. we were told they sometimes were wearing three or four. which may sound like more is better but experts say that's problem because you have more dirty stuff to take off than when you started out. >> i thought that part was fascinating. we'll talk to sanjay about that who had to put on a lot of this personal protective equipment. here's the next question, do we know as we're trying and everyone else is trying to determine the timeline, how close was she to, you know, eric thomas duncan the ebola patient who came over from liberia, who died last wednesday at that hospital. at what point in his treatment, i mean was she really in the thick of it during those days in dallas? >> reporter: brooke, it sounds like she was in the thick of it, she had frequent contact with him betw

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giroir, the top doctor at texas presbyterian sat down with ed lavandera and talked about what he believes that texas presbyterian hospital med. let's listen to that. >> where we fell short was in really going through simulation and training and drilling around what might happen if someone with appropriate symptomotology raised a suspicion of ebola. >> simulation, training, drilling. are all of those now happening at texas hospitals? >> well, yes. they're happening throughout texas as they're happening throughout the country because as you know the first patient changes everything, but i think we need to look back also and make sure that we're providing the hospitals the necessary resources to do that. hospital preparedness funds as i testified to congress have been drastically cut. these are vitally important to handle an outbreak like ebola like we just had. >> do you feel as if federal officials have adequately prepared you? >> um, i think preparedness comes at the all levels. we certainly rely on federal officials like cdc in a strong advisory role. they are the international experts.