awaiting nina pham to get off the plane.here are reports, in spain, a patient is under on ser vaebser because they rode in an ambulance that carried an ebola patient. an ambulance that had not been decontaminated. if true, what would it moon how the virus is being transported. >> it depend a lot on the environment of the ambulance. clearly if the patient was transported in the ambulance, had left behind bodily fluid. the flew is was left on the surface. and a patient came in contact with it. then, that could be the mode of transmission right there. you would assume that, that that, ambulance would have been thoroughly decontaminated before anybody else would have gotten into it though. so it is a little built surpr-- surprising that did not happen. we are looking at the pictures. takes them a little while for them to get together and get off the plane. this, they arrived fairly quickly. commercial flight here, 3:30. but they did it in a short amount of time. of course different when you are flying private. don't have to wait

nurse nina pham arriving from dallas to maryland where she will head now. to the national institutes of health. a facility they believe is better equipped to handle some one who has contracted ebola than, than presbyterian hospital in dallas. and sanjay, stand by one second here. i just want to update our viewers. >>> you are watching now our breaking -- >> this is "cnn breaking news." >> welcome back, everyone. i am don lemon. top of the hour. you are looking live at frederick municipal airport in maryland, where nina pham's plane landed. 11:00 on the east coast. cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. want to go become to dr. sanjay gupta helping us on the hours of cnn. at emory hospital. where amber vinson is being treated. a health care worker from dallas. transported from dallas to atlanta last evening. now we are witnessing another health care worker from dallas transported from dallas to maryland and is on her way by ambulance. very shortly. just got in. national institutes of health. and held in isolation there. also, brian todd is in bethesda, maryland, nina p

we're awaiting the transfer of 26-year-old nina pham. she'll be flown by air ambulance to the isolation unit at the national institutes of health in bethesda, maryland, right outside of washington, d.c., this comes a day after another infected nurse was transferred to atlanta's emory hospital. this is after health officials were grilled by lawmakers and admitted mistakes were made. we're covering the news from our key locations with our correspondents and guests, including house majority whip steve scalise who was part of the intense hearings. let's begin with cnn's ed lavandera. what is the latest there? >> reporter: we were waiting to see nina pham, who is going through the preparations of being transferred to maryland where she will continue her treatment there. officials in dallas say they are preparing and expecting more health care workers to be infected with ebola. tonight, apologies and second guessing as the two infected nurses are removed from the texas hospital where they contracted ebola while caring for thomas eric duncan. >

she did not take care of thomas eric duncan who died as a patient but she did take care of news nina pham after pham tested positive for the ebola virus. now aguirre has concerns about how the hospital is dealing with the ebola crisis, and she talked about this to matt lauer on the "today" show th >> knowing what i know, i would try anything and everything to refuse to go there to be treated. i would feel at risk by going there. if i don't actually have ebola, i may contract it there. >> aguirre says the protective gear they wear is not adequate. >> and the second week of an ebola crisis at my hospital, the only gear they're offering us at that time and up until that time is gear that is allowing our necks to be uncovered. and i just flat out asked several infectious disease nurses, i asked the cdc, why would i be wearing two pairs of gloves, three pairs of bootees, a plastic suit covering my entire body and leave my neck hanging out much, so that -- it can -- something can potentially go close to my mouth or nose? >> aguirre says she is afraid there could be fallout from her speaking out

our patient, nina pham, is free of ebola virus.ause we have multiple determinations of her pcr. she has no virus in her. she feels well. as you will see in a moment and probably have already seen, she looks extraordinarily well. i want to first tell you what a great pleasure and in many respects a privilege it has been for me and the staff here of the clinical studies unit, the clinical studies unit here at nih to have the opportunity to treat and care for and get to know such an extraordinarily courageous and lovely person. she as an individual is extra ordinary but she also represents the nurses and health care workers who put themselves on the line and put themselves in a risk to take care of people who are in such need. so i'm going to introduce and bring her here. before befo but before i do, first, thank you very much to the doctors and nurses of texas presbyterian who took such good care of her before they sent her to us. i also want to have a recognition for the extraordinary staff of doctors and nurses here in our own clin

toa look inside nina pham's hospital room before she left dallas. and a conversation that she had with her doctor who is also one of her co-workers. th doctor recorded that conversation and pham asked that it be shared. let's listen. >> thanks for -- [ indiscerni] we're really proud of you. [ indiscernibl] >> okay. do you need anything? >> no, thanks. [ indiscernibl] >> and we also need to emphasize thats spread in very specific ways. it is not airborne. it cannot be transmi by food or water. it cannot. it can only be contracted through contact with the blood or bodily fluids of the infected person. ebol does cause vomiting and diarrhea, which is why those who care for ebola patients, these medical workers, and their family members, are at such a great risk of contracting this disease. >> tonight, we know the cdc has expanded the list of people it's trying to contact about another ebol anotr nurse from the hospital in texas, amber vinson. she flew to cleveland and back after treating thomas duncan in that hospital in dallas. investigators are now try

nurse nina pham was diagnosed within days of mr. duncan's death, and the cdc told us this. >> we're concerned and would unfortunately not be surprised if we did see additional cases in the health care workers who also provided care to the infected patient. >> not 12 hours later amber vinson was the next confirmed case. and what's worse, she may have exposed hundreds more by flying cross country after officials told her it was okay. >> the second health care worker reported no symptoms and no fever. however, because at that point she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> tonight, we take an exclusive tour of the very airplane this nurse flew on. look at this. and we will learn more about who else may have been exposed and how. and we'll check in on those infected nurses. we'll also answer the question of how nina pham looked so healthy as recently as thursday. and we'll ask an expert just how deadly is this virus. but the biggest recent development may

we want to again show you the video just posted of nina pham from inside her room here. ted by a public relation department at texas presbyterian hospital before she left. her treating physician recorded the conversation with her before she was discharged. nina asked that the video be shared, according to the hospital. take a look. >> thank you for being part of this for 13 years to take care of the patient. this was a huge effort by all of you guys. and we're really proud of you. it means a lot. by all of you guys. don't cry. >> yeah, yeah, we're really proud of you. >> there is no crying. happy tears are okay. otherwise, no tears, okay. >> a couple of things, first time obviously that is the first time we've seen nina pham in her hospital room and other thoughts and prayers are with her and her entire family as well as with amber vinson, you see the protective gear that the staff is wearing there in the room. it is a far cry from the protective gear that the nurses say they wore, into two weeks -- into what happened at the hospital. the crisis inside. and it is also int

we are seeing and hearing from nina pham as she recovers from ebola. before she was mov to bethesda, a doctor recorded a conversation with her. he shared pham's gratitude for medical staff. you can see pham sitting upright and alert. she became emotional when talking about her trip to maryland but overall is in good spirits. her pet dog is in isolation. she had to leave him behind when traveling to bethesda. officials feared the dog would have ebola and would ha tbe put down. so far no sign of the disease. the pet will stay in isolation 21 days, the incubation period for humans. a lot of fear and misinformation about ebola. news 4 will be looking to get your questions answe one of the doctors from loud on hospital is holding a q and a. submit your questions. that will begin at 4:00 p.m. today. >>> 5:35. today marks five years since a virginia tech student nt missing in charlottesville. morgan harrington was missing for more than 100 days before she was founde. today her parents will tie a black ribbon around a lamp post in charlottesville for her memory

frederick, i'm shomari stone, news4. >> thanks, shomari. >>> we are learning more tonight about nina pham. the nurse became certified in critical care less than go months ago. she got her certificate on august 1st and was working on thomas duncan by the end of september. pham is 26 years old. she lives in dallas alone, except for her dog, a king charles spaniel named bentley. that dog has now been quarantined as a precaution. workers are e-mailing photos and videos of the dog to pham so she can be assured that her dog is okay. and just minutes ago, officials confirmed that an inmate at the loudoun county detention ce taken to the hospital earlier today does not -- does not have ebola. that inmate, a female, had a low grade fever, and she had just returned from a trip to sierra leone in the last 21 days. but again, tests just came back. the results are negative for >>> the fight against ebola took a decidedly political turn on cappel to hill today. republicans there demanded president obama order a travel ban. they want to block arrivals from the west african countries struggling with ebol

our patient nina pham is free of ebola virus. we know that because we have multiple determinations of her pcr. she has no virus in her. she feels well. as you will see in a moment and probably have already seen, she looks extraordinarily well. i want to first tell you what a great pleasure and in many respects a privilege it has been for me and the staff here o the clinical studies unit here at nih to have the opportunity to treat and care for and get to know such an extraordinarily courageous and lovely person. she has an individual is extraordinary, but she also represents the nurses and healthcare workers that put themselves on the line. i'm going to introduce and bring her here, but before i do, i want to have a shoutout to a few individuals. first thank you very much to the doctors and nurses of texas presbyterian who took such good care of her before they sent her to us. i also want to have a recognition for the extraordinary doctors and nurses who did an extraordinary job of taking care of nina. and nina is very sensitive

nina pham. she is expected to touch down in our area around 11:00 tonight. news4's shomari stone live at the airport in frederick, maryland, where they're preparing for her arrival now. shomari? >> reporter: good evening, we are now hearing that nina pham is expected to arrive sometime between 9:00 and 11:00 tonight. i'm here at frederick municipal airport. and let me move a little out of the way over here. that is the tarmac behind me, and the plane will land right over there and take her to a hangar to an awaiting ambulance. let's roll some video. pham will fly in from dallas. keep in mind, she is the first nurse to become infected with the ebola virus in the nation. she contracted ebola while taking care of thomas duncan while he was placed in intensive care. he died last week. pham contracted the virus, even though she wore protective gear, gowns, gloves, masks, face shields and sometimes a body suit. now similar to what happened in atlanta, last night, an ambulance had been here to pick her

. >> nurse nina pham in stable condition in bethesda while in d.c. the president named a lawyer and not a doctor as the nation's ebola czar. >> the ebola virus shakes the d.c. area today. it seems you don't have to have ebola to suffer from it. >> reporter: developing in the effort to ban the use of the redskins game, our exclusive interview next. >>> tonight the cdc says it's cracking down on ebola equipment in hospital protocol. good evening. i'm debra alfarone. >> i'm derek mcginty. now the agency says it has to issue new guidelines to protect our nation's caregivers. the cdc says the original recommendations put into place in august provided a lot of flexibility for hospitals but therefore often led to confusion. these new guidelines will be a lot more specific. >> texas health presbyterian claimed it followed cdc instruction when the gear left skin on their necks exposed. the hospital said the cdc recommended pinching and taping the necks. just this week the cdc changed that now recommending standard body suits. the hospital also lacked a buddy

party in maryland. >> okay. >> i'm no doctor, but the best thing i can see there is a laugh from nina pham. >> she is sitting up. >> i hope that improves from here. cnn's brian todd is outside the hospital where pham is treated at this moment in maryland with more. >> reporter: nina pham, the 26-year-old nurse who contracted the ebola virus from thomas eric duncan has arrived here at the national institute of health right behind me. got here a short time ago and is being treated in building ten. the special clinical studies unit at nih. a high containment isolation unit where she will be treated indefinitely until her recovery is complete. this unit is very highly specialized. everybody who comes in contact with nina pham will be wearing haz-m haz-mat gear and isolation gowns and special equipment. the air inside her room is highly isolated. running what they call powered air purifying respirators in her room. that means no air from the outside will get into her room and her room's air will not get to the outside. this unit is very highly specializ specialized. this is where she will recei

i am nina pham. it was only fitting that they were there wearing the stickers. eard that nurse pham was cleared of ebola. you are absolutely right. we have to do everything to protect our nurses and physicians and health care technicians. these are the people that are going to lick this problem. if we are going to put them at the frontlines of this fight, we have to back them up with all of the support we can come up with. >> we spoke with the councilman early or this show. he represents the district where the doctor lives and he was concerned they had bad information and they were more concerned about the threat than they should be. are you seeing the same? >> everybody is worried. it's a scary, scary thing. we heard by january if we don't get after this ebola thing in west africa, there could be upwards of a million people infected in that part of the world. >> we have to fight it there in west africa where the problems are the worst. thank you so much for your time, sir. >> thank you. >> up next, ronan is just back from riding along with the border patrol on t

overnight, the first dallas nurse infected with ebola nina pham arrived in maryland. she was taken by ambulance to the national institute of health in bethesda. we are getting a first glimpse of pham from her room where her doctor made this video at pham's request. >> thanks for being part of the trial and be our first patient. this means a lot. this is a huge effort by you guys. we're really proud of you. all right. >> come to maryland. everybody. >> party in maryland? okay. >> two things about the video. i see a woman sitting up and i see here laughing. brian todd outside the hospital where pham is being treated in maryland with more for us. >> reporter: nina pham, the 26-year-old nurse who contracted the ebola virus from thomas eric duncan has arrived here at the national institute of health behind me. got here a short time ago and treated in building ten. this is the special clinical studies unit at nih. a high containment isolation unit where she will be treated indefinitely until her recovery is complete. this unit is very highly specialized. everybody who comes

each men oinute some one is wit nina pham.ays a disease specialist with her and critical care doctor. on each shift. five nurses will be there. two will always be in the room with her at the same time. one expert says as far as the treatment sunny is going to be getting. the nih its not telling specific treatment. one expert says she is going to be getting fluid. electrolytes, antibiotics. if she has an infection that kind of thing. they have to look after her symptoms, because there its no actual direct medication for ebola. as far as whether she will make a full recovery. we asked that to dr. anthony fauci, head of division of infectious diseases here at nih. here's what he had to say. >> when you say recoverable, in the sense of recovery, absolutely. we fully intend to have this patient walk out of this hospital. and will do everything we possibly can to make that happen. >> now, tending to nina pham and her care in stroflz watvolves w condition of care givers. watching that meticulously. each care giver has a buddy watchin

and we see nina pham. she was flown from texas, but they released video of her to the doctor in reasonably good spirits. >> party, thank you for being part of the volunteer team to take care of our first patient. >> don't cry, don't cry. we're really -- >> i love you guys. >> there were tears all around. nina pham, appreciative of the care, no longer in dallas. she was flown overnight to maryland. >> we are covering all angles. we begin with tahman bradley at the national institutes of health in maryland. how is nina pham doing right now? >> reporter: well, good morning. over night nina pham arrived at the nih, traveling from dallas. we are told she is in good condition. this is a specialized facility where she will get all the care that she needs. there's a large isolation area for her here as well as infectious disease experts. she left texas presbyterian hospital because they are overwhelmed by the ebola scare. they don't have enough health professionals to care for her. she arrived in a special plane.

ebola patient nina pham landed in frederick thursday covered by night, sealed in a hazmat suit.t weeks ago nurse pham was treating ebola. now she is being treated after picking up the virus from thomas duncan who died this month. pham arrived from dallas and was transferred from a jet to ambulance, then escorted by maryland police to the national institute of health in bethesda. the cdc requested that the state department transport nurse pham. >> we asked the state department where frederick. we haven't got a response. >> reporter: the mayor says he can only assume why. >> we are one of the few local airports that has a tower. so from a safety aspect people asked why not gaithersburg. they don't have a tower. these are pure guesses on our part. >> they could fly through andrews. they could avoid whether it's dulles, bwi, reagan national, they could avoid airports where there's general public every day. >> reporter: nurse pham is not the first ebola transfer through frederick. more than two weeks ago an american doctor believed to have been exposed to ebola while treating patient

nurse nina pham was diagnosed within days of mr. duncan's death, and the cdc told us this. >> we're concerned and would unfortunately not be surprised if we did see additional cases in the health care workers who also provided care to the infected patient. >> not 12 hours later amber vinson was the next confirmed case. what's worse is she may have exposed hundreds more by flying cross country after officials told her it was okay. >> the second health care worker reported no symptoms and no fever. however, because at that point she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> tonight, we take an exclusive tour of the very airplane this nurse flew on. look at this. and we will learn more about who else may have been exposed and how. and we'll check in on those infected nurses. we'll also answer the question of how nina pham looked so healthy as recently as thursday. and we'll ask an expert just how deadly is this virus. but the biggest recent development may no

nina pham, she has been declared ebola free. that's nina pham. >>> good morning. dr. craig spencer is in isolation and being treated in new york city right now. the doctor was working with ebola patients in guinea. he left there ten days ago and returned to the u.s. jesse gary live. is there an update on spencer's condition? >> reporter: the city health commissioner says craig spencer is in stable condition in isolation. he is able to watch tv or use a phone, but he has no contact with any people. he is in an air-tight room. she cautions, typically an ebola patient's condition will worsen before it gets better. they caution, typically an ebola patient's condition worsens before it gets better. an advanced team from the cdc is expected at the doctor's apartment today to remove any items that could be infectious. after returning home last friday from guinea where he treated ebola patients, spencer rode several subway lines, jogged and took a car to brooklyn. he developed a 103 fever yesterday prompting officials to put him in isolation. >> we really are confident that a

. >> reporter: what have you learned by treating nina pham, and what experimental drugs if any did you use? and what does it teach other doctors in helping doctor spencer recover for example? >> we did not administer to nina any experimental drugs while she was here. remember this is only one patient. we are in contact and discussion with our colleagues at emery and nebraska. we continually compare notes back and forth. and there's the public health issue, and the scientific issue of understanding what is going on. and that's essentially what we do here. primarily it's the care of the patient first, but together with that is to learn information that might help others. now that's easy to do when you have a whole bunch of people that you can collect day fa -- data on, but when you have one or two or three you have to gather enough information. that's the reason why we may have done more lab tests. that doesn't mean that everybody has to do that, but we're trying to learn from that. >> reporter: why has it taken so long to get an ebola vaccine? there are reports that there was one ready

stone at the airport where nina pham's plane landed. did we see nina pham walked under her own power down the steps of that aircraft into that ambulance? >> yes, we did. that plane arrived a short time ago, and she walked off of the plan into an ambulance. the special medical team help turn down the stairs as they put her into the ambulance. she is currently being transported to the nih to approximately 35 miles away from the frederick municipal airport. the mayor says that a lot of folks need to calm down. there's no reason to panic about the ebola virus. the state department and the centers for disease control are working to make sure that this medical transferred blues safely. a specialized team is going to be with her, and they will put her in isolation to make sure she is okay. they will monitor her very closely. nina pham is one of two nurses who contracted ebola in dallas. she was diagnosed with the virus after treating thomas duncan. a lot of people in the community, some of them are supported saying, we hope you are okay. there

. >> what have you learned by treating nina pham? drugs, if any,al did you use? what can you teach other doctors , such as those helping dr. spencer and helping him recover? >> first of all, we did not administer to nina any experiment on drugs while she was here under our care. we followed her. we have a considerable amount of laboratory data. -- in contact with our colleagues at emory and nebraska, comparing notes back and forth. i think it is important for people to understand that it is a public health issue and there is the scientific issue of understanding what is going on. that is essentially what we do here. primarily, it is the care of the patient first or together, we learn information that might help others. that is easy to do, have a whole bunch of people that you can collect data on. but when you have one or two or three, you have to focus very much and try to get enough information where gradually we will be able to say things that will help others taking care of patient spirit that is the reason why we may have done different kinds of lab tests or m

nina pham has received a blood transfusion from an ebola survivor, dr. kent brantly. s are racing to determine how pham became infected. they want to prevent it from happening again. cnn's victor blackwell is in dallas with more. >> reporter: good morning. we learned that nina pham received her certification in critical care nursing two months before treating thomas eric duncan here at this hospital. a person who knows their family very well through church says that pham likely was doing more than she was supposed to have done in treating the patient. that is what the person told the local newspaper. cdc officials are here in dallas to determine if protocols were followed. we heard from the hospital on monday quick to point out a statement made by dr. frieden, the director of the cdc. he walked back something he said the day before. on sunday, he said there was obviously a breach of protocol that led to the infection. on monday, he said some people likely took that as blaming the nurse or hospital. that was not his intention. immediately after that, the hospital sent o

but as you indicated, nina pham, the second nurse to be transported from dallas presbyterian over the past two days. >> now, this morning, the dallas county judge, clay jenkins, told you he only wanted one ebola patient treated at the hospital. then he had none. is this a lack of confidence? >> they say no. the hospital has said that's not the case. they've said, in fact, that it's more of an issue of depletion of resources. i'm going to read part of that statement to you. this is again, from dallas presbyterian. with many of the medical professionals who would normally staff the intensive care unit sidelined for continuous monitoring, it is the best interest of the hospital, employees, nurses, physicians, and the community, to give the hospital an opportunity to prepare for whatever comes next. as we've been saying here, we've been given every indication that it is likely that we will see at least another ebola patient here. so what they're essentially doing, we're told, is trying to make some space at dallas presbyterian. they have three beds here that can house ebola patients, and

>>> and for first time, we'll hear from ebola patient nina pham. >> i love you guys. >> we love you, nina. >> love you. >> she has been moved a few miles from the white house to the national institutes of health. >>> plus, cocaine for joe biden's son boots him from the u.s. navy. >>> the giants are back for the third world series in five years. >>> and the story of the mama bear and her cub that got national attention. it is friday, october 17th, "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. ebola latest in a moment, but first, we begin with a tropical paradise bracing for impact. category 4 hurricane gonzalo is on a collision course with the island of bermuda. it has 140-mile-an-hour winds. half a foot of rain is expected starting tonight. nbc's dylan dreyer is on the island now. >> reporter: here in bermuda, all eyes are on hurricane gonzalo. it is forecast to pass just to the west of this island as a category 3 storm. that's the strongest storm this island has seen in more than ten years. it compares to hurricane fabian in 2003. talking with people around here, they're prepared

let's start with nina pham. she says she's doing well. she received a blood transfusion from dr. kent brantly who survived ebola, as you know. is that the most promising treatment right now, to get these blood transfusions, maybe to get some antibodies working in there? >> well, we don't know what's going to work in terms of different experimental treatments. our focus now is making sure that we do everything possible to have her care be both safe ee effective. safe, making sure that people caring for her don't themselves get exposed and effective, there's a lot that can be done with someone with ebola that is not experimental. there's a lot of fluid management and balancing and monitoring their health. >> what about the experimental drug that's been out there? is she going to be getting that drug as well? >> you'd really have to refer to the hospital and her or her family in terms of any treatments she may or may not receive but we know that good medical care can really reduce the risk of bad outcomes. >> so we don't really know if the blood transfusions work. it's too early. is

the ebola patient nina pham is in the hospital. her dog, bentley, will be monitored and quarantined in a home-like environment. the family has given -- was given a glimpse of her dog last night. they sent her a video to boost her spirits. i was talking to her friend early about it tonight, it is the love of her life. officials say they are doing everything they can to save the dog. >> when i met with her parents, they said that dog is important to her, judge, don't let anything happen to the dog. if that dog has to be the boy in the plastic bubble, we're going to take good care of that dog. >> well in spain officials there chose to put down the dog that belonged to a nurse infected with ebola because the truth is this, officials are don't know for a fact whether dogs can transmit ebola or not. joining me now is a cnn medical analyst with the institute of humanitarian affairs and eleanor dean from texas a&m. doctor green, let me start with you. dogs may be asymptomatic and not be sick with it. what type of symptoms are they looking

nina pham is the first person to contract the ebola in the u.s. and that has many people fearing the same scenario. >> reporter: inside the medical center in dallas, kisha bell has come in with stomach pains and also came in with a daughter and grandson and a question for the doctor which she is asking because of what so many people in dallas are talking about. >> the ebola, can you tell me -- like what the symptoms -- >> usually pretty significant fever, over 101, 102, somewhere in that range. a lot of stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, feeling really crummy and symptoms that don't get really better with time. >> before this case focused in dallas, have you been asked about ebola? >> never. >> but now the doctor says many patients ask about ebola and he works to make people feel at ease. >> i make sure you say you're not going to get it from somebody who sneezes, it requires more of an intimate contact and people seem relieved by that fact? >>> some medical supply stores have seen a spike in sales. >> they just want to put them on -- >> jennifer

with nina pham, we were told she only had one contact. it appears there will be many, many more. the cdc doesn't have an unlimited number of disease detectives. >> a troubling number, this occurred just a short time ago, more breaking news, shortly before air time president obama spoke on the issue. he covered a lot of ground off said he didn't rule out appointing a so-called ebola czar, and also talked about a travel ban. >> i don't have an objection to a travel ban if that is going to keep the american people safe. the problem is in all the discussions i've had thus far with experts in the field, experts in infectious disease is that a travel ban is less effective than the measures that we are currently instituting. >> and again, to our viewers, if you're just joining us, what you see is the aircraft carrying nurse nina pham to the washington, d.c. area. she will be taken to the national institutes of health at the bethesda, maryland area that they have waiting for her. and i want to bring in chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. and also the dean of public school of he

for first time, we'll hear from the ebola patient nina pham. she's been moved a few miles from the white house to the national institutes of health, plus cocaine for joe biden's son boots him from the u.s. navy. the giants are back for the third world series in five years. and the story of the mama bear and her cub that got national attention. good morning, happy friday to you. thank you for joining us today. we'll have the latest on the ebola situation in a moment. first, we want to begin with two tropical paradises bracing for impact. category 3 hurricane gonzalo is on a collision course with the island of bermuda. it has 130-mile-per-hour winds. half a foot of rain is expected to start this afternoon. nbc's dylan dreyer is on the island. >> here in bermuda, all eyes are on hurricane gonzalo. it is forecast to pass just to the west of this island as a category 3 storm. that's the strongest storm this island has seen in more than ten years. it compares to hurricane fabian in 2003. talking with people around here, they're prepared, they're boar

now nina pham's isolation is more intense. she's sealed off inside a high-containment chamber, the special clinical studies unit at the national institutes of health. doctors say she's sitting up and responsive. >> she's interactive with the staff. she's eating. she is able to interact freely and really think she's doing quite well compared to what we were told about her status at the other hospital. >> reporter: the other hospital, texas health presbyterian in dallas, asked to have pham transferred. much of the hospital's staff who treated thomas eric duncan is being monitored for symptoms. at least 50 health care workers there may have been exposed to ebola. that facility simply couldn't handle pham's treatment. in the n.i.h. isolation chamber, pham's in a room with powered air purifying respirators, meaning no outside air gets in and air from that room doesn't get out. at any given time, one infectious disease doctor and one critical care doctor are with her. they'll work in 12-hour shifts. five nurses are on each shift, tw

and each minute someone is with nina pham. the doctors tending to her, there will always be an infectious disease specialist with her and a critical care doctor with her. but also on each shift, five nurses will always be there. two of them will always be in the room with her at the same time. one expert says as far as is treatment she's going to be getting, the nih is not telling us a specific treatment. one expert says she's going to get fluids, electrolytes, antibiotics, if she has an infection, that kind of thing. we have to look at her symptoms because there is no actual direct medication for ebola. now, as far as whether she's going to make a full recovery, we asked that to the head of the division of infectious diseases here at nih. here's what he had to say. >> when you say recoverable, in the sense of recovery, absolutely. we fully intend to have this patient walk out of this hospital. and will do everything we possibly can to make that happen. >> now, tending to nina pham and her care involves watching the condition

yes, nina pham spending her first night here at national institutes of health, forgive me, ambulance noise, fire engines are coming by us, no need for an alarm. they are coming to the front door here, so, anyway she did spend her first night here after arriving here at about 11:30 last night. also medical transport plane that brought her here from dallas, texas. now we were on the ground at a if you goe, covered fredrick municipal airport when nina pham's flight arrived. she walk gingerly down the jet way from that gulf stream three on to an awaiting ambulance. we were kept back about a hundred yard from the airplane as the the police escort brought her here to the clinical care unit of the national institutes of health. this is where medical staff, trained in critical care, trained in infectious diseases, they were waiting here to greet her when she arrived. she's staying at a special bio containment the isolation unit, guys, as you have said, just one of four in the country. let's bring you back out here live, once again, some fire engines just arrived here. pham is said to be in g

left that facility, overwhelmed, short of critical staff. >> now, we have our teams transferring nina pham, who as we had mentioned that they are the first dallas nurse to contract that virus and that they are standing by where pham will be treated by the infectious disease specialist. bruce? >> reporter: yeah, derek and jan, the biocontainment facility where she will be treated is inside the clinical center, which is this massive hospital that is just up on this hill beside, behind me. it is just inside that beltway in bethesda. with some of the most infectious diseases that are known to human kind that ebola while deadly is not by a long shot. but doctors say that it could be transferred through the direct contact with that bodily fluids of a person that has symptoms. nonetheless the nih says that they will be taking every precaution to ensure the safety of all of their patients and staff in the public. the director of the national institute of the allergy and infectious diseases says they will personally greet nina pham who contracted ebola as you said while treating thomas duncan in da

later, that first nurse, nina pham diagnosed with ebola. amber vinson traveled back home to cleveland to prepare for her wedding, visiting this brial store. she called the cdc, reporting a slight fever of 99.5. the cdc does not stop her from getting on the plane, flying back to dallas with more than 130 other passengers. and now, the ripple effect across this country tonight. in ohio, seven people under voluntary quarantine. in cleveland, the airport scrubbed. three schools closed today. so, we traveled to the cdc right near atlanta today, inside the emergency operations center, to ask the questions. in front of the room, the ebola map. you can see the red on the map, the ebola cases. there's red up in spain, as well. reflecting the concern there. and we wanted to know where on the board is the cdc tracking dallas? and you can actually see they've added a small map here of the united states and in dallas, they have 23 workers on the ground right now. >> reporte we talked to dr. stewart nicoll, one of the leading scientists in the world on e

in less than and a half hour we are expecting that medical transport plane carrying 26 year old nina phamo arrive here to make her trip to the national institutes of health. 32-mile drive that should take about 45 minutes. take a look. earlier tonight pham left the dallas texas presbyterian hospital tonight. she's one of two nurses that were caring for that liberian ebola patient who contracted and died from the virus in dallas. after a request from texas presbyterian pham left dallas about 2.5 hours ago to make her trip to bethesda. many of her co-workers giving her a send off before getting on that medical -- that private medical transport plane. just hours earlier, you see pham was seen from her hospital bed. doctors in dallas thanking her for her service. she's said to be in good condition, in good spirits. you could actually see her smiling. the nurse will go into a special containment unit at the hospital. the director of the national institutes of health explaining what kind of care she will get. >> we'll be supplying her with a state of the art care in our high-level containment f

nurse nina pham arooiing at the airport. of course, we're also waiting remarks on ebola from president obama. and right now 48 dallas residents who had contact with ebola victim thomas duncan and 732 passengers who flew on a commercial flight with amber vincent and anyone in the ohio bridal shop that shin sent went to in ohio last weekend. the cdc is adding to the list of people its tracking. who is at risk of ebola. dr. linda helpeded treat dr. kent brantly in liberia. good to see you. you left when? >> at the beginning of august. >> when you were there, were you treating people for ebola? >> that's correct. >> and you're the ones who gave the injects to dr. brantly? >> that's correct. >> i guess we can all agree you're an expert on this, whether you want to be or not. we read the numbers ofst all these people being quarantined, is this a smart thing? are we overreacting on who we're monitoring? >> so, there are a couple of things that we know about ebola and how it's transmitted. one thing is you can get it by being in dir

nina pham is being treated here at the national institutes of health. before heading to maryland, the dallas hospital released a video where pham thanked them for their care and they thanked her for volunteering to help thomas duncan, the first ebola case to die in the u.s. >> >> really proud of you. after the three-hour flight, doctors here at the nih, told reporters that pham was well enough to walk off the jet and on to the ambulance. but they described the transfer as extremely taxing and draining for pham who tonight is described to be in fair condition. the nih also provided this photo to reporters today of the isolation unit where pham is being treated while at the same time, he they are gathering data to better understand the virus, whether it's mutated and the best way to treat symptoms. bizarre episode at the pentagon today, a woman claiming to be a defense contractor who had recently traveled to liberia got on a shuttle bus, then said she felt sick and got off and threw up. this created a lot of investigation here in washington, d.c. this afte

nina pham of course just traveling from dallas to frederick en route to n.i.h. where she will receive what is believed to be among the best care in the world for ebola. >> ok, thank you. now, another case, doctors are watching an inmate from the loudoun county detention center even though they sayed chances of infection was low. she was admitted to a hospital today with a low-grade fever. recently she had traveled to sierra leone, that is the hot zone for ebola right now. but the hospital says that she does not meet the criteria for testing. >> we were able to properly prepare that patient for transport, properly prepare our folks, from the standpoint of having the proper level of protective clothing, one, and utilizing those practices that we've been training on here for the last few weeks. >> the woman was arrested on monday on outstanding warrants after landing at dulles airport. because she a i rived from west africa, she was placed in isolation when she arrived in the jail as a precaution. >> meanwhile, congressman frank wolf of virginia is responding tonig

nina pham arrived here at nih just a little bit bor midnight. said to be in stable condition and in goo spirits. pham was flown from dallas to maryland in a special charter plane. she was not traveling through any of the commeral airports in our area. she was flown into frederick municipal airport. she was wearing a special protective suit. she was walking off the plane holding the hand of an escort. she walked under her own steam and got into a waiting ambulance. she was driven in an ambulance motorcade to nih in bethesda. she was taken to the special studies unit here, which is a highly specialized isolation unit. it is quick to deal with infectious diseases like ebola. there's space for two patients. so she's in one of the two beds. it was built back in the year 2000 and staffed by a team of highly specialized infectious disease and critical care doctors. should mention world renowned immunologyist is going to be overseeing her care here. in terms of what that care will be, we still don't know. it's unclear. the doctor says they have to evalu

her name is nina pham. she's 26 and she treated thomas eric duncan while he was here at texas health presbyterian hospital. duncan died last week. we just confirmed that she received a blood transfusion from an ebola survivor, dr. kent brantly. how did a health care worker contract ebola even with the protective gear and precautions in place for a hospital setting? and what does that mean for potential future cases? we'll hear from doctors and other experts about the protocols for treating ebola patients and about whether this country's hospitals are actually ready. we'll also hear about how the fear has been ratcheted up here in dallas now that it's home to the first person to contract ebola in the united states. we start with elizabeth cohen who is here with me live. you just got the latest on her condition, correct? >> reporter: right. we've still been told that she's in stable condition, so the hospital really has said very little about what they're doing to treat her or how she's doing. >> and you foun