we're told there could be up to 70 people who were treating thomas eric duncan, that first patient who> well, they call it contact tracing. first, they were just tracing everyone who came in contact with thomas eric duncan. now the web is getting bigger, they have to trace everyone who has come in contact with these two health care workers who have themselves become infected in texas right now. they are in care. we should note that these two new ebola patients are now inside texas health presbyterian. the very hospital where protocols, the protocols, have come under serious question. >> we've been looking at some of these pictures. sanjay gupta did a nice demonstration showing what it is like to take off the protective gear once it's soiled, how to take it off. and it is easy to see how you could breach those protocols. how easy it would be to touch the skin to those fluids. >> very, very difficult to do it perfectly. but ebola say virus where you need to be essentially perfect if you are caring for an ill patient. so there are serious questions as we sit here this morning. what to do

that worker cared for thomas eric duncan, the patient that died last week. we are here with details, this is a concern for a lot of people in the community. >> a big concern there and the american public. fearing for ebola. a health care worker that thomas eric duncan was treated at tested positive for ebola. the health care worker was u.s. late for testing. a state health officials released a statement saying we knew a second scas could be a reality. we are broadening the team in dallas, working to prevent spread. the hospital employee helped to care for thomas eric duncan, the first to be diagnosed with ebola, and died on wednesday. the second person has been diagnosed with a deadly disease. the health care worker will under go treatment and testing. health officials are identifying michael. contacts and exposures. >>> more on this coming up in the next sure, and ross will be back >>> there are pleas for aid to help west africa as the death toll continues to climb. the virus killed 4,033. there's relief in spain with news that the nurse was sitting up. the

with profound sadness and heart felt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of thomas eric duncan morning at 7:51 a.m." that's dallas time. "mr. duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, ebola, he fought courageously in this battle. our professionals, the doctors and nurses in the unit as well as the entire texas health presbyterian hospital dallas community are also grieving his passing. we have offered the family our support and condolences at this difficult time." this is obviously just terrible news. i was just speaking with his nephew this morning. yesterday afternoon they had so much hope because his blood pressure was going up, his temperature was going down, both of those good signs. i think the family will have a lot of questions for this hospital. they want to know why he was sent home when he arrived with a fever and having said that he had been in liberia. they will want to -- i know they'll want to know why it took nearly a week to get him an experimental medication whereas other patients who have ebola got those medications immediately. they'll want to know why he di

do we know if this person was actually treating -- having direct interaction with thomas eric duncan? were they handling just fluids, blood, do we know? >> we don't know. we know this person is a woman. we know she was directly taking care of thomas eric duncan. i think it's interesting. i was talking to a nurse who took care of ebola patients at a different hospital and she said she felt nurses were particularly vulnerable. they spend more time with the patient and they're also -- they're the ones responsible. i don't mean get too graphic but they're responsible for cleaning up bodily waste and you have a huge amount of diarrhea, a huge amount of vomit when you're dealing with ebola patients. >> we'll check in with you throughout this hour. the nurses union, as elizabeth mentioned, said it is sounding the alarm, to use their words, on the dallas hospital where two health care workers are diagnosed with ebola. national nurses united said it spoke with a number of workers at texas health presbyterian in dallas. she said what the nurses told her made her cry. she says adequate safety pr

ebola patient who e recei -- received that treatm was toncan thomas eric duncan in dallas. sadly, though, that treatment and supportive care that he received was not enough. thomas eric duncan died this morning in dallas. he's the first ebola patient in america to have died from this disease. even though this disease is thought of as being ruthlessly fatal, even though responsible for thousands of deaths abroad, the fact that we never before today had somebody die of it who was being treated in this country, it did make it a shock when mr. duncan's death was announced. >> today we're deeply saddened by the death of the patient in dallas despite maximal interventions, we learned today that he passed away. and our thoughts go out to his family, friends. he is a face that we associate now with ebola. >> before this news was announced publicly today, the family of thomas eric duncan was told of his death, told in person by dallas county judge clay jenkins. clay jenkins drove out to house where the family is staying and told them the news himself in person so they would not have

unfortunately, thomas eric duncan's disease had already progressed quite a bit by the time he got intoly, kate, because we're out of time. mr. duncan started showing symptoms on the 24th, but he did go to the hospital two days later. but was sent home. so on the similar time line of seeing symptoms and going in for medical care, seeing that duncan two days later did seek care and was sent home. >> right. i think there are going to be a lot of questions about that now, tamron, obviously. a lot of questions about who did what, who dropped the ball. but the unfortunate truth now s is, his family i'm sure is mourning and our condolences with them. >> thank you very much, kate snow, joining us for this breaking news. we'll continue to follow the latest developments. this is "news nation." up next, my colleague andrea mitchell will take over our coverage. no. it's called grid iq. the 4:51 is leaving at 4:51. ♪ they cut the power. it'll fix itself. power's back on. quick thinking traffic lights and self correcting power grids make the world predictable. thrillingly predictable. yeah. it's in

officials confirmed a worker was among those who took care of thomas eric duncan. the first nurse, nina pham, is recovering and she, worked at texas presbyterian and took care of thomas eric duncan. other workers would by have had contact are closely monitored. officials in dallas shared the latest information from dallas county with us a few minutes ago >>> at the hospital we have a situation involving 77 people, two testing positive for ebola. we are preparing contingencies for more. that is a very real possible. >> the virus is spreading so quickly the world health organization is predicting up to 10,000 new cases in the next few months in west africa unless drastic action is taken. and we are learning now nina pham and the other health worker may have been infected. a union is claiming measures at texas health presbyterian worked for days without proper protect ive guy. >>> there are constant developments on ebola and you can get updates as they happen and other breaking news with our news app free to download on apple's app store or from google lay and we have

this infected patient is a health care worker in dallas who treated thomas eric duncan. ied wednesday after contracting the virus in liberia. >> according to texas health officials, the worker reported a low fever on friday night and was isolated then for testing. the hospital confirmed the preliminary test overnight with this statement saying "we knew a second case could be a reality and we have been preparation for the possibility. we're broaden our team in dallas and working to prevent first spread." >> he liz beth cohen has been in dallas covering the fight against ebola. she's with us throughout this hour by phone. elizabeth, we heard from the secretary of hhs. we heard from the texas lieutenant governor that duncan's case and the handling of it was led by county officials. considering some of the missteps, the problems, do we expect the state or the cdc to take a larger role in handling this case? >> that will be interesting to see. the cdc traditionally let state and local governments run investigations. it's not the cdc's place to always take the lead. they really

and that would have been great had that been true about thomas eric duncan in dallas. the day after this headline, he died in dallas. if what the nurses in that hospital say is true about the way that thomas eric duncan's case was handled and the waste piled up to the ceiling and him left out in the open for hours and all the rest of it while he was symptomatic, it is better to know than to not know. if understanding how this virus works and what it does to people is about getting real about understanding its treatment and to stop it from spreading to more people it's better to know than to not know. joining us is dr. adam levine. he recently spent five weeks in liberia setting up and running an ebola unit. he has direct experience in the field. thank you for being with us. i really appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> so i obviously am a jerk on tv, i'm a layman who doesn't have any expert knowledge about this at all. i feel like i'm trying to understand the virology here so i can get a better grasp on the news here. can i ask you to correct me if i explained any of

so again, the first patient to die of ebola in the u.s., thomas eric duncan.eath had been confirmed by resources. of course we'll bring more details as this becomes available. the first death from ebola in the united states, is with sad and heartfelt condolences we announce the death of thomas eric duncan. back to you guys. >> thanks dominick, chu. sad news. we did know he was in the words of officials fighting for his life and the watch remains on the nearly 50 people with whom he did have contact. this is the week symptoms probably would present so this story continues. >> this is sad carl, and sobering i think. sort of this idea that in the united states it's different. when we bring people here who contracted ebola overseas, that there is this idea that the prognosis is better. and it is better. but this is a serious outbreak. and this really underscores that. >> one thing that patients in the u.s. john, as we know they have had is access to experimental drugs. one of which was made by chim chimerics stocks. and we were seeing better results when taking th

dallas ebola patient thomas eric duncan succumbing to the virus this morning.the first to receive an experimental drug, it's a course of treatment that we learned today did not succeed. >>> now, the race is on to identify an ebola vaccine. just today, the head of communications for doctors without borders uk tweeted this. quote, i'm now officially a human guinea pig, no ill effect so far, just hope it works. everything crossed. she's partaking in the first ever ebola vaccination clinical trial at oxford university. testing the safety of these drugs before taking it into the field. >>> and earlier, new link genetics announced at least five clinical trials involving a canadian-made vaccine provided by that country's government. all of this arriving during a new wave of controversy in america over vaccines. dr. peter hotez, the dean of medicine. he joins me now. should resources be going to finding an ebola vaccine right now? or better treatments for those already infected? >> well, that's a good question. we're going to have to walk and chew gum at the same time.

they will work up that contact list just the way they did with thomas eric duncan. you remember, what is interesting about this situation is that there were close to 50 people who were on that official contact list with thomas eric duncan. about ten of those were believed to be high risk. this particular health care worker does not fall underneath that because this was someone who came into contact with thomas eric duncan after he had been admitted to the hospital here in dallas after the second visit. this is someone who hospital officials say was part of the team that cared for thomas eric duncan and that's why they're monitoring the situation very, very closely with her, obviously, and health officials here in texas, deb, have been saying that they are not surprised that there has been another case, that they have been putting plans and procedures into place preparing for just this kind of event. >> ed, is there a prevailing theory about how this nurse contracted this? there was a breach in protocol. they haven't said at what point, whether it was while she was i

and as you point out, thomas eric duncan died. so is this hospital the best equipped?hen new dallas, are they equipped to deal with the two patients they currently have? >> that's a tough question to answer, but one of the key things is we keep talking about whether we should airlift ebola patients to these biocontainment units. we have to take a reality check. there are four biocontainment units between them. they have about 17 beds and i spoke to the folks at the nebraska biocontainment unit just yesterday. they said sure, we have 10 beds, we're the biggest unit but we'd only be comfortable taking two, maybe three ebola patients. so this idea that we can airlift people to a special place will quickly become redundant if those 17 beds or fewer beds become filled. and that's why it's so critical now that we learn from the missteps here in dallas and make sure that every hospital in the country is ready to deal with an ebola patient. the likelihood is if somebody feels ill, they will not turn up in nebraska, they will go to a regular emergency room. >> one last question

where just moments ago health officials confirming a second health care worker who treated thomas eric duncan has tested positive for ebola. here's what we know exactly right now. the latest patient reporting a fever yesterday and was immediately isolated. and officials say they identified potential contacts who are currently being monitored. the cdc announced yesterday it would deploy a team of specialists wherever a hospital confirms a case of ebola. the agency's director now admits that type of immediate response should have occurred initially in the city of dallas. >> i've thought often about it. i wish we had put a team like this on the ground the day the patient -- the first patient was diagnosed. that might have prevented this infection. but we will do that from today onward with any case anywhere in the u.s. >> meanwhile, nina pham is listed in good condition and speaking out. the 26-year-old nurse says she is doing well and thanked well wishers for their prayers. officials say pham contracted ebola after a breach of protocol, while treating duncan. but a union speaking on behalf of s

written testimony was given saying we are deeply sorry for failing to diagnose thomas eric duncan withla. house speaker john boehner says there needs to be considered a travel ban to west africa countries. along with representative schuster and representative marino. the west africa travel ban is not on the table at this point. >>> four major airports will begin ebola screening today. chicago and knee arc and dunewa hartsfield-jackson will take these measures today. >>> and asian stocks ended the day lower. tokyo down 2%. european shares mixed. a brutal three days in stocks. yesterday, the dow plunged 460 points and bounced back. it ended down 173 points. that's 1%. a lot of things going on. stalling global growth and stocks climbed over 1,000 days without a correction. the s&p has come down 700 points. it looks like it is in the process of a correction. they are healthy for the market and in this case, long, long overdue. for 1,000 days, stocking have gone straight up. >> it was crazy yesterday. >> it was bonkers as you like to say. >>> 36 minutes after the hour. let's get an early lo

according to doctors thomas eric duncan is in critical condition. he contracted the condition in liberia. the c.d.c.'s director said nearly 50 people who had contact with thomas eric duncan were located and tested. >> we are confident that none of those with definite contact had any symptoms related to ebola. none of them had fever. we'll watch it closely particularly by the nine individuals in the coming days, understanding that the peak period after exposure is 8-10 days, but can be as long as 21 days. diane eastabrook is outside dallas presbyterian hospital where thomas eric duncan is being treated. the number of people said to have come in contact with duncan has decreased from 100 to 50. why the change in the number? >> what happened was the c.d.c. talked to duggan, and talked to health care providers about who duncan might have come into contact with, and cast a wide net. then they went out and interviewed 100 people, and by talking to them they were able to eliminate half of them. >> i know there are experimental treatments for ebola available

she was part of the team that took care of thomas eric duncan.s the liberian man who died from ebola in dallas last week. now there are questions about vinson taking a commercial flight from cleveland to dallas on monday with a temperature of 99.5 degrees. >> now cdc director thomas frieden says she should never have set foot on an airplane after taking care of duncan and another nurse, nina pham, diagnosed with ebola. but a federal official tells cnn vinson informed the cdc of they are travel plans and was not told she should not fly. now the cdc is reaching out to the other 132 people on vinson's flight. the risk of any of them infected with ebola is extremely low. the cdc is considering adding 76 hospital employees to the no-fly list. we have cnn's ed lavandera with more on the case. >> reporter: john and christine, amber vinson was moved from dallas to atlanta to begin treatment this morning. she was moved on the very day that much bigger questions are now being raised over how well prepared the health care workers that treated thomas eric du

built for business. >>> it's the hour's breaking news here on cnn, the death of thomas eric duncan, thewho had traveled to the united states from liberia last month infected with the ebola virus. he was the first and only diagnosed case here in the united states. duncan was isolated in a hospital in dallas, texas, and then doctors confirmed that he, in fact, had the disease. dozens of people have been identified as having had to come into some kind of contact with thomas eric duncan and many of those people -- as many as possible are being watched now in case they develop symptoms. and let's not forget, it's approximately a three-week period where that could be a possibility. >>> also breaking, the united states supreme court has now put a temporary hold on same-sex marriages, but in idaho and maybe in nevada as well yesterday a federal appeals court struck down the bans on gay marriage in idaho and nevada. but it was the idaho officials who then asked the high court, the supremes, to intervene on an emergency basis. and in an emergency way, block the enforcement of that lower court rul

the 29-year-old is the second dallas nurse to catch ebola after treating temperature -- thomas eric duncanhe had close contact with thomas eric duncan including drawing blood. especially troubling, she flew

what is the latest you hear about thomas eric duncan's condition. >> we know he's in critical condition. the c.d.c. says he's fighting for his life. duncan had been visiting from liberia. and his illness is a frightening reminder for many in the community. >> at the fellowship church, liberian parishioners lifted their spirits with song and praised the virus decimating their homeland, won't do the same here. the current ebola outbreak in west africa sickened more than 7,000 people, killing roughly half. the first u.s. case diagnosed in dallas last week. before that ebola has touched many here in one way for another. this woman lost her daughter to the disease and worries about her grandchildren. a doctor lost colleagues. >> because of heat, you are sweating, use the hand to wipe your face, something like that. then you transfer the virus. >> with tears, these liberian immigrants hope their families will be spared. this bishop offers words of encouragement. >> there are 3,000 marine in our country helping. they are there helping us. that is a sign that the international community are not

s intense attacks in northern syria spill over into turkey. >>> thomas eric duncan fights for his lifen a dallas hospital, u.s. health officials are fighting to couple of sphere of ebola. thomas eric duncan was the first and only person diagnosed with the disease. he remains in critical condition. diane eastabrook joins us live from dallas. >> what do we know about his health so far? >> well, all we know at this point is that he is in critical condition. the hospital is not saying more than that. dr john freeman for the center for disease control says he is fighting for his life, so is a sick man. >> also today, health officials said they had lost track as a man who had had contact with duncan, what date do we have on that? >> they have contacted him, it was a homeless man who rode to the hospital in the same ambulance. he has been identified and taken to parkland hospital and is being monitored. >> how are people in dallas handling all of this? >> well, there has been a lot of concern. we went to a church service in the liberian community. many have been touched by ebola. they have re

so i know how important that is. >>> it is likely thomas eric duncan had direct contact with dozens, n dozens of people, and among those, five dallas school kids from four different schools who went to school every day until duncan was actually officially diagnosed with ebola and as you know, kids are no strangers to passing germs forward. understandably, parents in this area are very nervous about this. look at this video, janitors in hazmat suits cleaning one of the schools of concern in this story and joining me now live is carolyn duff, the president of the national association of school nurses, who herself is a practicing school nurse in columbia, south carolina. thank you so much for being with me. first and foremost, i want to get your reaction to this story and how this actually has pro peled you to take any kinds of action that nurses around the country in schools need to be aware of? >> well, first of all, i want to say that the role and the goal of school nursing is to keep students safe, healthy and ready to learn. and the school nurses are alert to signs of infectious dis

thomas eric duncan is now the first person to die from ebola on american soil. ing questions about the treatment he got. david mattingly is out front? >> reporter: thomas eric duncan's death leaves behind a question of treatment and prevention of ebola that is more than 5,000 miles long. liberian health officials didn't expect the sick woman he helped was infected with ebola until after duncan was already in the united states. five days after his arrival, an ailing duncan goes to the hospital in dallas and tells them of his recent travel from africa, but they just give him anti-biotics and send him home. >> regretfully that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. and as a result, the full import of that information wasn't factored into the clinical decision-making. >> reporter: duncan spends three days potentially exposing others before he's back, even sicker this time, in the hospital. it takes two days to confirm, he's infected with ebola. duncan's case is a sharp contrast to doctor kent brantly and missionary nancy wrightful, the first

the family of thomas eric duncan said nothing as they left texas presbyterian hospital wednesday morning. hours earlier, duncan passed away while being treated for ebola virus. >> today we are deeply saddened by the death of the patient in dall dallas. despite maximal interventions, we learned today that he passed away. >> reporter: in a written statement, duncan's fiancee, louise, said "his suffering is over" and that the family is experiencing "deep sadness and grief." she also expects a through investigation into duncan's care. he was originally sent home from the hospital, despite ebola-like symptoms and having traveled to the from the u.s. to liberia and returned two days later in an ambulance. now the family wonders what might happen to them. >> their thoughts not only go to the shock and sadness of losing mr. duncan, but also whether this will be the course that their life will take next. >> reporter: they're part of a group of 48 people being watched for 21 days. that's how long ebola is incubate in the body. so far, none has shown any symptoms. >> i'm on pins and needles every d

i know when i came back from liberia, it was about the same time that thomas eric duncan arrived. i found no screening. they took my temperature in liberia at the airport there, but not in the united states. in fact, they basically had no screening for myself and colleagues who have arrived from liberia. now federal officials may have more stringent measures which may include taking temperatures from ebola-effected countries. john. >> thanks, elizabeth. >>> with the elections coming up and isis, the white house has a lot on its plate, but now ebola is adding to the complications of the administration. erin mcpike is live at the white house with more on that. >> reporter: john, as you know, the mid te-term elections are o month away and ebola is an issue. the white house is trying to manage the fear. listen here to white house senior adviser dan pfeiffer do that yesterday. >> no country is better prepared to deal with this. the best public health infrastructure. >> reporter: there is a different message from the cdc. dr. tom frieden held a briefing yesterday. in that briefing, he m

are retracing the steps of amber vinson, the second nurse to contract ebola after treating thomas eric duncan. and more importantly she violated cdc guidelines and flew afterwards. >> she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> they now acknowledge that the team of health care workers treating duncan was experienced and exposed to the virus when first admitted to the hospital. >> first, some of the forms of the ppe used did allow exposure to some parts of the skin. >> cdc officials found that healthcare workers were using varying forms of protective gear, not one uniform standard. some were wearing three or four layers of equipment. and medical experts say that may sound safer, it could cause more problems. >> it shows you they were not prepared for this and not set up to take this kind of patient. >> the national nurse's association portray how nurses had to use medical tape around their necks to protect themselves and take it off on their own. and while nurses were given as face shields and surgical machks, some supervisors were not. texas health hospital officials have not res

>>> right now, thomas eric duncan, the first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states, sadly just became the first person to die of ebola in the united states. >>> also, kobani now on the verge of falling. a lot happening right now on the border between syria and turkey. one kurdish official warning, quote, a terrible slaughter is coming. >>> one u.s. congressman now claiming isis members have been caught trying to cross the southern border of the united states. the department of homeland security has just issued a formal statement categorically denying that. we'll try to get to the bottom of this bombshell claim. >>> hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. 6:00 p.m. in london. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. 9:00 p.m. in moscow. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. the sad news out of dallas, texas, today that thomas eric duncan has lost his battle with ebola. the 42-year-old liberian man died this morning ten days after being diagnosed with the disease. we're also learning about new significant changes to

thomas eric duncan mind me. ñno.the family due to>r arrive any minute now to meet with medical staff. this emergency response team that formed here. they have been meeting today with reverent jesse jack who arrived in the community at the specific request. they have concerns as to whether thomas eric duncan receives equal treatment. in will did ass it would be in any community. here to look at the k458 enjs and to talk about being at the center of it, someone took the risky move of leaving the community and moving the family to a safe location. thank you so much for your time, sir. >> good to be with you. it was not risky for me to move that family. >> tell us about that. >> the cdc and our state's top health officials, all talked to me before i did it and assures me that there is zero risk to our citizens. i saw the young men as people deserving of respect and dignity and it sent a strange message to them and the world for them to walk in in a space suit when there was no need to do so. >> you didn't wear protective

melissa tacked about thomas eric duncan -- talked about thomas eric duncan.wo weeks after his death the family gathered for a memorial service. a small group sang and prayed at a church. including duncan's mother and other relatives from the charlotte area. the 22-year-old man died earlier this month. his grieving family recalled his kind spirit. >> if he didn't have anything, he'd help you out. he doesn't care about money or anything. just humanity. >> he contracted the virus, daying 10 days after being admitted to the hospital. >> the hospital published a level of apology as well as the fort worth telegram. the hospital said: officials responded to how the nurses responded or contracted the virus. that they didn't use protective gear prooperly did not aline with what they have been told: . >> president obama urged americans not to give in to what he calls hysteria on the spread of ebola. as heidi zhou-castro reports, health officials are caught in a catch 22 - the more action they take, the more some fail. >> reporter: an obstetrician who practices on the c

only coming into contact after thomas eric duncan was hospitalized. experts are looking into her own ring of possible exposures. so far, extending only to up person who came in contact with her when she started showing symptoms and her dog is machine tored. the apartment is now decontaminated for nabs on alert. >> it is scary. being in dallas. but right here... >> officials stress that the country is not at risk. >> the centers for disease control landing to offer more training to health care be workers here and across the country saying for now they sticking with their poll of supporting local hospitals and treating ebola parent rather than sending the patients to one of the four high-level biocapement hospitals in the country especially prepared to handle the cases. >> a rare show of legal unity in oakland. the six high el polling candidates in the mayor's race will appear in an hour to urge the passage of proposition z seen as a critical public safety measure. it renews funding for police officers and violence prevention programs in oakland. it pro

officials say others cared for thomas eric duncan could become infected the same way. the nurse infected has been identified as nina pham. thomas frieden says pham is stable. she received a blood transfusion from dr. kent brantly. now officials are racing to see how pham became infected. cnn's victor blackwell is in dallas with more on this effort. >> reporter: good morning. nina pham received the certification two months before treating thomas eric duncan at this hospital. pham likely was doing more than she was supposed to have done in treating this patient. that's what that person told the local newspaper. cdc detectives are here in dallas to determine if all of the protocols were followed. we heard from the hospital on monday. they were quick to point out the statement by dr. frieden, when he on monday walked back something that he said the day before. you remember on sunday, he said there was obviously a breach of protocol here 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. im

nina pham cared for thomas eric duncan, the liberia patient who died. >>> in dallas, governor rick perrythat a new statest art treatment facility will be built. and it also said that the texas presbyterian hospital where thomas eric duncan died, that hospital will no longer treat ebola patients. cnn's ed lav van dara has more from dallas on a new apology from texas officials. >> ron, officials at texas presbyterian health hospital has been on a campaign apologizing for the way it handled the case of thomas eric duncan. we sat down with the crew chief clinical doctor, dr. daniel varga. do you think this is a case of ebola had been in the news for the last six months or so. it's a deadly disease, trekked halfway around the world. was there a sense, perhaps it with the health care workers that it wasn't anything that going to show up at our door step. >> i think that friend of mine awareness is hard to capture in the absence of a 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

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 health care worker who had cared for thomas eric duncan. in what capacity and specific details of all that we don't know just yet but state health officials say here they expected and they had been preparing for the possibility that a second person considering the number of people who were considered to be at high risk of contracting the disease will be monitoring, so we hope to hear more information on just who this person is, how it might have been contracted and see if that shed some light on what the situation is here. but obviously a disturbing and sad development in this ebola story this morning. >> ed, how are people in dallas responding to this latest news? >> reporter: well, it's early. i don't think most people here have kind of gotten the news. this is something that they will be waking up to here this morning. but, you know, there have been a great number of people who have been on edge about all of this goin

thomas eric duncan has now died of ebola. another crime stories we are following.n against ms. of the vikings running back adrian peterson arraigned on child abuse charges. the kids of spanking his young son with a wooden switch. peterson said he never intended to hurt the four-year-old be at hell spring court claiming if he doedeservesdoes of the neutralif lawyers up in the conviction and death sentence for the murder of 11 women. the bizarre attack in florida, a strip club dancer got angry because her boyfriend would not talk to her, so she went after him with an ax or do police and the dance was apparently drunk. eric: shannon, back to our other story now, the fight to save kobani. kobani is right on the border with turkey. the country under fire for not doing enough to stop the terrorist movement. tomorrow the head of nato will visit turkey and special envoy to the coalition john allen heading there as well with deputy under center estate investor. people tried to convince the government to do something instead of just standing by like bystanders. will it work?

what we can tell you is a lab supervisor from the hospital where this ebola patient, thomas eric duncan, died -- this lab worker is quarantined, self-quarantined within her cabin on board this cruise ship. the woman never had direct contact with duncan. but she may have had contact with his samples. so they're doing this out of an abundance of caution. the ship is currently, as i said, returning to texas. we should note, mexico refused to allow it to dock. that was one of the stops along this seven-day cruise. and also a request by the united states government to evacuate the passenger through belize. that was rejected. we should note, she has no symptoms at this point. >> it goes to underscore how concerned people are all over the world. mexico wouldn't let it dock. belize wouldn't let it even accept this one passenger. we'll continue to watch this story. thanks very much. for the first time, we're getting a look at one of the american ebola patients in the hospital, dramatic images of dallas nurse nina pham, now in isolation at the national institutes of health here in the washington,

you have nina pham, a nurse treating thomas eric duncan now in the hospital with ebola but thomas eric duncan's fiancee, she was with him, and three days after he went home and sicker and sicker and then quarantined in a while in the apartment with the bloody sheets and towels and so far she has not contracted the virus. how is it possible nina did and she didn't? >> because there is a lot of factors that go into determining whether an individual is going to manifest disease or not. and time and time again, in outbreak after outbreak, we know of individuals that have had equally very close contact, very high exposures and one person becomes ill and one never does. so there are host factors involved well beyond issues of the virus itself. >> dr. marty, thank you very much. dr. marty risked her life to go try to save other lives in west africa fighting the ebola crisis there. >>> and at the top of the hour, cdc director tom frieden will be a guest on ac 360. >>> up next, the dallas nurse's bentley has been moved to a new location and being monitored. but what is known about how dogs with

from west africa died this morning in a dallas hospita thomas eric duncan's health too rse this weekend >>> the man who brought ebola to the united states from west africa died there morning in a dallas hospital. thomas eric duncan's health took a turn for the worse this weekend and he was unable to recover. good afternoon, i'm elizabeth wenger in today for frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. we start with that breaking news this noon. cbs reporter omar villafranca with more on the death of the first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states. >> reporter: thomas eric duncan is now the first person in the united states to die from ebola. the 42-year-old liberian passed away after being hospitalized at texas health presbyterian in dallas since late last month. the hospital released a statement expressing its condolences and saying ebola is a disease that attacks the body in many ways. we'll continue every effort to contain the spread of the virus and protect people from this threat." duncan was originally sent home when he first came to the hospital. by the time he was admitte

consider this, he never actually had contact with thomas eric duncan. into the apartment where duncan was living, but he was there three days later and he touched surfaces, but ebola cannot live on surfaces for more than a few hours and duncan had been out of the apartment for several days. also, monnig doesn't have the signs of ebola. he doesn't have a fever. authorities saying the risk of him having ebola is very low. john. >> thanks, elizabeth. we are learning more about the spanish nurse infected with ebola and how she may have caught the virus. we will go live to madrid in 15 minutes. >>> more on the coalition on air strikes. ramadi and kirkuk and mosul is where the fighting has happened. this underlines a point that the pentagon insists air power alone is not enough to fight isis. >> air strikes alone are not going to do this. not going to fix this. not save the town of kobani. we know that. we have been saying that. we continue to get questions of why aren't you doing more and how come they are not more effective? we have been honest about the lim

and they're still under quarantine, those still very close to thomas eric duncan. us an idea of the transition now from just this monitoring to possibly more people being quarantined. how will that decision be made? >> certainly more people will be monitored. we are hoping that this list of contacts, the new case's contacts will be very short. because this health care worker was instructed for quite a while now, take your temperature. if it is elevated, isolate yourself. you're only -- you can only transmit the disease to someone once you're sick. so hopefully this health care worker realized he or she was sick and isolate ed themselves immediately which will make for a very short contact list. so that's what we're hoping. now whether or not they quarantine people in the end has much to do with how much they trust people. so, for example, duncan's family would have been quarantined and that's because they were concerned that this family wasn't trustworthy, wasn't able to be monitored in the way that they wanted to monitor them. so a lot of this has to do with how m

paint a chaotic picture of how texas health handled the case of thomas eric duncan the first person to die of ebola on u.s. soil. >> there was no protective gear. there were no gowns that were adequate to properly treat mr. mr. duncan. there were no adequate masks and face shields to protect the nurses and other healthcare workers. he was not put into an isolation room for several hours. >> reporter: the nurses are not only worried about the disease and handling it but also it became clear in the news conference yesterday about losing their jobs in this blame game. coming up at 6:30 we'll tell you how local bay area hospitals are working with the cdc to prepare in case ebola hits. live in the newsroom, ryan takeo, kpix 5. >> the cdc says the second ebola patient is in isolation and is being interviewed about any contact that could lead to other potential exposures. >>> 6:03. a lot going on traffic-wise, liz. >> yeah. if you are traveling through downtown san jose, of course we're following that porta- potty spill that frank and michelle mentioned at the top of the hour. so it's actuall

tell us a little bit about him, thomas eric duncan. what's he like? eric duncan is a very hard working person, he's the last child of my mother. he loves work a lot and we were refugees and i lived there and i came to the united states for -- and he stay there going to school. he went to school. he has some experience and something he did in school, and then he moved to liberia after the refugees were over in ghana, he begin life in liberia, got his visa to come to the united states. >> do you have any plans to go to dallas to see your brother? >> if i had a plan to go see him or he come to see me until this news broke of ebola, we had a plan to go and see him because i haven't seen him for nine years, so it was our duty, i'm going to find a ticket to go to dallas and see him. if i did, we would be in the house. my son is there right now. they're quarantined in place. >> your son is being quarantined right now, that what you're saying? >> he's with them. he lived there with them too. i just talked to them this morning. the woman and my son and all of t

others who cared for thomas eric duncan could become infected the same way. that nurse has now been identified as nina pham. cdc director thomas frieden says pham is stable. she has received a blood transfusion from dr. kent brantly. now doctors are racing to see how pham became infected. 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 at the hospital. a person who knows the family well through the church says pham likely was doing more than she was supposed to have done in treating this patient. that is what the person told the local newspaper and cdc detectives are here in dallas trying to determine if all of the protocols were followed. we heard from the hospital on monday, they were quick to point out a statement by dr. frieden when he on monday backed on something he said the day before. he said obviously there was a breach of protocol that led to the infection. on monday, he said some people took that as bl

there were preliminary tests that came back positive among those who took care of thomas eric duncan irst nurse to come down with ebola anyone that pham is recovering and works at texas health presbyterian and took care of thomas eric duncan. 76 other health care workers who my have had contact are being monitored this morning. the outbreak has global health officials on high alert. >> it is far ahead of us. it is running faster than us. it is winning the race. >> the virus is spreading so kickly the world health organization is predicting up to 10,000 new cases in the next to months in west africa unless drastic action is taken. we are learning how nina pham and other worker may have been infected. a national nurse union is claiming the nurses worked for days without proper

officials think one of thomas eric duncan's nurses was infect. >>> manhunt for accused cop killer eric frein, continues but officials say mother nature is now providing help, and flushing him out. >>> and hope from grief how tragic death of the little girl is providing inspiration to help a local community. >>> but first the growing concern, over ebola the in the u.s. health care work shore treated thomas eric duncan last week, has been diagnosed with ebola. experts are trying to figure out precisely how this happened. abc's marci gonzales has the latest. >> tonight health officialness dallas trying to figure out how a nurse contracted ebola. well, she did treat thomas eric duncan died of the virus here wednesday, hospital management claims that she followed cdc guidelines and wore protective gear. >> certainly very concerning, and, it tells thaws there is a need to enhance training and protocols to make sure that protocols are followed. protocols work. >> reporter: the nurse in her 20's started having symptoms friday night and drove herself to dallas health presbyterian hospital. with

due to a family's request for privacy says she has extensive contact with dunk job. -- with thomas eric duncan. >>> texas presbytarian said the results came in saturday night. >> late saturday night tests proved positive for ebola. >> reporter: the worker cared for thomas eric duncan, the man that died of ebola on wednesday. the worker had worn full protective gear. >> the individual was following full c.d.c. precautions which are barrier and droplet. gown, glove, mask and shield. >> we don't know what occurred in the care of the index patients, the original patients in dallas. at some point there was a breach in protocol, and that results in this infection. c.d.c. director tom freieden sas an investigator interviewed the worker and she is unaware hue she contracted the -- how she contracted the virus, meaning others could have been infected. >> there may have been a breach >>> the c.d.c. is evaluating other workers, in addition to the 48 previously identified as duncan's contacts. those individuals have not shown symptoms. >> you cannot contract ebola other are than from the bodily fluids of

so if you had a travel plan on all three of those countries, thomas eric duncan would still be here. there are eight confirmed cases of ebola. one was thomas eric duncan. four were americans who came back into the country infected. you can't chemothem out. >> and some we brought. >> three missionaries and a camera man. they were taken immediately to a fillsy who knows how to deal with ebola and were treated there. thomas eric duncan was the one case we've seen primarily treated in a hospital had no experience treating a peasht with ebola. >> i want to push on that question of the experience in treating ebola. i hear we need to go to west africa. but when we go, we. in the persons that are our soldiers and national guards because of the president's new governing this week, are we prepared to manage that crisis there? a new reporting saying maybe four hours of training on ebola protection. >> i think it's not that hard to be trained. >> uh-huh. >> i think four hours ain't going to cut it. we're talking about something that no one sees that you have to avoid. >> but you say it's not that