. >> we do not have to leave the door open to all travel to and from hot zones in western africa. >> it needs to be solved in africa, until it is, we should not be allowing these folks in, period. >> this committee should consider forwarding to the full house a request that we have a vote on travel restrictions. because people are asking us to do that. >> i'm andrea mitchell in washington, not far from the national institutes of health where the first dallas nurse to contract ebola is receiving treatment. our nbc team around the country has this covered. craig melvin is in texas presbyterian hospital in dallas. gabe gutierrez is in atlanta at emory university hospital where amber vinson is being treated. we turn first to luke russert at the nih campus in bethesda, where this morning dr. anthony fauci updated reporters on nina pham's condition. luke? >> hey there, andrea. nina pham is in fair and stable condition. and she apparently is responding well and interacting with staff. she left texas in good condition. the reason why she was in fair was not publicly disclosed. there is some s

and nobody really was interested about ebola in western africa. of a sudden because it's reached the shores of the united states, it's affected americans. people start to care. and people start to be scared. so while it's never a good thing, our folks affected by something like ebola, i think in the grand scheme of things, it will help putting the appropriate resources where they should be. >> karin huster, such an important message, that's something we're trying hard for. we're just listening in now to the white house briefing. press secretary josh earnest delivering that and answering some of the questions we've been talking about. take a listen. >> you'll recall at the cdc, and usaid deployed personnel to west africa back in the spring. over the course of the summer, additional resources were moved to that region of the world. because this administration had a keen understanding that the best way to protect the american public and to eliminate risk from the ebola virus to the american public, is to stop this outbreak at the source. >> and that'

don't have anyone in the state that all the into the high to medium risk of having returned from western africa but nonetheless, the new guidelines will be going into effect immediately. >> surrounded by marilyn's top health officials, martin o'malley says it is the flu that poses the biggest health challenge to maryland residents. but that could contribute to ebola fears. >> given the fact that this is lou season, there will be cases where people early on wonder if lou symptoms might be related to ebola. >> to tamp down affairs, the governor announced all travelers returning from western africa will be monitored from 21 days. anyone reporting they were directly exposed to ebola fluids will be placed in home quarantines. anyone who treated ebola patients will be told to avoid public transportation and public gatherings. >> the abilities we need to for a public worker. >> dulles is one of the five airports that serve as a travel point four those coming from west africa. the governor announced they will institute similar guidelines in the commonwealth. about virginia department -- department of h

travelers considered at low wrist returning from western africa with no known direct exposure to ebola will be required to report their temperatures twice daily for 21 days. with dulles airport designated as one of the primary return points, the commonwealth will monitor travelers returning from western africa. >> my staff at the health department's top priority will contact and assess the health care workers and continue our work with all travelers. >> the city has been working with maryland and virginia to consider new guidelines for the district and working with that role officials. >> people have to understand we are well-prepared and we have been preparing for a month now. we are working with the cdc and federal government. >> they expect the new guidelines to be announced soon. with all of the pressure building, the white house today said president obama welcomes officials drawing up new guidelines as long as they are based on sound science. >> thank you. secretary-general ban ki-moon is condemning plans to quarantine health workers returning from the ebola zone. words, the world

troops to western africa to try and deal with this crisis at the actual source. sean. >> ed, too many mistakes to mention, but starting with the president when he said in the unlikely event that ebola in fact reaches our shores, we've taken the necessary precautions including working with countries in west africa. and of course you have the cdc chief saying, well, any hospital in america can take it as long as they have a private room and a private bathroom. he only said that on october 2nd. that's two weeks ago. and then this latest fi i can't say koe allowing this woman who had been exposed to ebola who did the right thing and called the cdc about her temperature and she was told it was okay to get on that airplane to dallas. >> and there's a lot of allegations back and forth about what she told the cdc, was she fully forthcoming about her temperature, about her symptoms and whether or not she was sick. look, there's been a shift in the rhetoric just today. remember a month ago the president was at the cdc headquarters and said it was highly unlikely there woul

he wanted to go to western africa as a journalist to expose who was going on, tell the world what was going on. what did he tell you about the conditions and the care there in western africa where this epidemic is wreaking such havoc? >> well, he sent us some footage that he was filming and with some narration that he wrote. and it's really distressing. you realize the degree to which the health care system in liberia is completely overwhelmed. people -- outside clinics with no room to get in. outside makeshift tents with no access to intravenous fluids and literally dying on the streets. and for the two or three weeks he was there, when i would talk with him, he would tell us with heartbreaking poi heartbreaki heartbreaking poignancy people were dying because of the loss of fluids. and he was going to shed light on that and the plight the liberian people are experiencing, both socially and culturally through the ebola epidemic. >> dr. mitchell levy, thank you so much. once again, our prayers and our thoughts are with your son and with your family. >> thank you, jake. >>> breaking new

this is your picture in western africa, and as you can see there is hip to toe covering in goggles and i believe if i understand the circumstances correctly, you were just abouting to to been dosed with a near toxic dose of chlorine, is that correct. >> yes. >> that's why you can't have skin ex-en posed because it is impossible to do the disinfection if you will, after taking care of an ebola patient, or being in a ward, it is impossible to do the disinfection, if there is skin exposed because exposed skin would be killed by the chlorine and that would not be good for the person delivering the care. i mentioned this statement, i am so concerned we know the numbers are going up on ebola. we know the case rate is going to increase, we know that 10% are healthcare workers and we know that 56% of those healthcare workers in western africa will succumb to the illness, so that is a dire warning if anyone involved in delivering healthcare. i would submit, what kind of stock pile of this personal equipment. >> let me ask this question, you know, what did you think the first person would look l

they know where people are coming in from those areas of western africa. new york city is one of those hubs. it's not surprising they had people in place. they have a part of that rapid response team on the way tonight. >> it's striking the federal decision to limit all travelers to five specific airports in the united states. two in the new york city area, one in new jersey and one, jfk. that is where dr. spencer flew in. we have seen president obama clear his schedule at times as these cases have developed, particularly when there was news that health care workers had become infected. do you know anything about what we should expect from president obama specifically, changes to his schedule or any response? >> we haven't seen that yet. i was talking to people tonight, and they say that's always a possibility, but they feel they have the infrastructure in place. it's also important to point out that we are focused on new york city in the coming days. from the federal government response, they are also looking at west africa. this is something they have be

travelers considered at low wrist returning from western africa with no known direct exposure to ebola will be required to report their temperatures twice daily for 21 days. with dulles airport designated as one of the primary return points, the commonwealth will monitor travelers returning from western africa. >> my staff at the health department's top priority will contact and assess the health care workers and continue our work with all travelers. >> the city has been working with maryland and virginia to

ramped up screenings at jfk for western africa travelers begin saturday. newark, washington dulles, o'hare, hartsfield following. the fear that ebola could spread at the speed of an airplane. tom costello, nbc news, new york. the rush to get a sheriff's deputy tested for ebola, at the same hospital where thomas eric duncan died, turned out to be a false alarm. it's news that worry says -- worries the county's top administrator who says fear is driving patients to other hospitals, leading to dangerous overcrowding. >> i've got people with congestive heart failure and regular, life-threatening diseases that are in our emergency rooms and it's taking a long time to see them because people aren't using this emergency room. >> reporter: the room and surrounding areas where duncan was treated are sealed off and being aggressively decontaminated. the cdc confirmed again today the 48 people being monitored are reporting no symptoms. ♪ at a church service last night, thomas eric duncan was remembered. >> we're gathered here to offer eric back to god and even sing h

get expert to western africa which the world is doing now try to help them f you know where source is coming from, identify the source not at end point and if we can help them there we will be helping them in the world. >> doctor rob, thanks very much. >> take care. >>> and of course you can get latest news on the ebola out break on cbs philly.com. >>> before you walk out the door we will check on traffic and weather together onn the three's. >> but first lets check out is what coming up tonight on cbs-3. the word is divorce. robin thick's desperate tempts to get his wife back did not work. patton filed for divorce yesterday citing irreconcilable differences and asked for joint custody of their son. they were married for eight years separated earlier this year. the split came in the long after thick's controversial 2013vma performance with miley cyrus and rumors of him cheating after pictures surfaced of him grabbing another woman's back side. >>> and speaking of the vma do you remember homeless man was miley cyrus date at the the awards show this year, he is now behind bars. jessed s

they know where people are coming in from those areas of western africa.rk city is one of those hubs. it's not surprising they had people in place. they have a part of that rapid response team on the way tonight. >> it's striking the federal decision to limit all travelers to five specific airports in the united states. two in the new york city area, one in new jersey and one, jfk. that is where dr. spencer flew in. we have seen president obama clear his schedule at times as these cases have developed, particularly when there was news that health care workers had become infected. do you know anything about what we should expect from president obama specifically, changes to his schedule or any response? >> we haven't seen that yet. i was talking to people tonight, and they say that's always a possibility, but they feel they have the infrastructure in place. it's also important to point out that we are focused on new york city in the coming days. from the federal government response, they are also looking at west africa. this is something they have been focu

does that cover western africa? >> yeah, it's western africa. it's western africa and the surrounding countries. i can give you a list of exactly what countries. and it's looking at what will happen if the cases begin to spread. and the thing that, the point that we were making is that right now, as long as it's not under control, as long as -- let me put it this way. right now, because we don't have adequate treatment services and, you know, if you think about it from the perspective of from guinea, sierra leone or liberia, the public health, the public health imperative is to stop the spread. but the human imperative, the individual human imperative is to get treatment. so the incentive right now is to go wherever you need to go to get treatment so you can live. right now we don't have the services in place so that the first thought of the people from those three countries is i need to go to my local clinic, because i know they'll take care of me effectively. that's what we need to do. now, the presumption of the $32.6 billion is things get de

and we learned today the new ebola cases in western africa have been doubling about every three weeks. we start our reporting on ebola tonight with nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: the haunting images of ebola's orphans and victims represent but a fraction of the suffering in west africa. today, a dire warning from the director of the cdc. >> i will say that in the 30 years i've been working in public health, the only thing like this has been aids. >> reporter: the toll so far more than 8,000 cases already diagnosed. at least 3,800 people dead, but the true number is surely much higher. a staggering 1.4 million cases likely by the end of january if the outbreak isn't contained fast. >> there's no way you can keep ebola in west africa. and as hard as we will try to deal with it and snuff it out there, it's going to run its course for some period of time. >> reporter: for months critics have said the world hasn't moved quickly enough. made worse by local corruption and an infrastructure that's nearly collapsed. shipping containers filled with medical supplies sitting on the dock in sier

they know where people are coming in from those areas of western africa.city is one of those hubs. it's not surprising they had people in place. they have a part of that rapid response team on the way tonight. >> it's striking a federal decision to limit all travelers to five specific airports in the united states. two in the new york city area, one in new jersey and one, jfk. that is where dr. spencer flew in. we have seen president obama cleared his schedule at times as these cases have developed, particularly when there was news that health care workers had become infected. do you know anything about what we should expect from president obama specifically, changes to his schedule or any response? >> we haven't seen that yet. i was talking to people tonight, and they say that's always a possibility, but they feel they have the infrastructure in place. it's also important to point out that we are focused on new york city in the coming days. from the federal government response, they are also looking at west africa. this is something they have been focused

expect the words from the president to be reassurance, why containing ebola in western africa is importantng an open border with those countries is important. we've seen in the last few days australia becoming the first industrialized country to cut off their borders to an extreme degree, some have said, to those people from western africa that could be, in fact, draconian as the government of sierra leone said in terms of stopping this outbreak. >> thank you. that wraps things up for "the reid report." be sure to visit us online at thereedreport@msnbc.com. >>> you are in "the cycle." we continue to wait for president obama to make a statement about ebola. he did just wrap up a conference call with u.s. aid workers fighting this epidemic in west africa. we have columbia professor and runs the university's masters of bioethics program. thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> what are you hoping the president will come out and say? we've had so many different responses across the country. we've had so much fear and misinformation. what are you looking for the president to say today?

this must make us increase spain's solidarity to brothers and sisters in western africa. second, spain wishes to support the united nations agencies and ngos on the front line so they can do their work, cooperating to ensure the safety of the humanitarian staff deployed. third, we we wish to do everything in our power to ensure first that the countries immune, the neighboring countries are immune, and the lead countries have the capacity to avoid this from occurring. we are working with guinea and mali to strengthen the capacity of their health systems, to prevent spreading of the epidemic. we recognize the mechanisms which have been established by the african regional organization, in particular specific military mission. for its important component training the personnel. all of these efforts need funding. spain has made actual contributions to the different appeals, cling to the w.h.o. for the value of $1,300,000. the next two days will make an additional contribution, $3.2 million for action in guinea, liberia and sierra leone. finally, i wish to pay tribute to the au

when it comes to the dead in western africa. some of these villages, the people will wash the bodies. that's immediate transmission. that's exactly how that can happen. we have seen it spread so quickly. this is one way it happens. we don't do that here. that's a very simple fact. there is a tremendous difference between what is happening in western africa and what is happening in the united states. our capability to handle things here and jump on the situation here in a very different way. this ability to try to educate viewers. to try to educate the american public, health care workers, hospitals, e.r.s, that sort of thing. that was the overall message that i got from this. it is time for everybody to calm down. >> calm down. that's the key. it is okay. when it is serious, we will give you a jingle. alicia acuna, thanks. it is certainly serious in west africa. it is not in the united states. >>> scientists say the ebola outbreak is not our only health concern either. you should now begin worrying about rats. the rats here in n

does that cover western africa? or is that -- >> yeah, it's western africa. it's western africa and the surrounding countries. i can give you a list of exactly what countries. and it's looking at what will happen if the cases begin to spread. and the thing that, the point that we were making is that right now, as long as it's not under control, as long as -- let me put it this way. so right now, because we don't have adequate treatment services and, you know, if you think about it from the perspective of a person from guinea, sierra leone or liberia, the public health, the public health imperative is to stop the spread. but the human imperative, the individual human imperative is to get treatment. so the incentive right now is to go wherever you need to go to get treatment so you can live. right now we don't have the services in place so that the first thought of the people from those three countries is i need to go to my local clinic, because i know they'll take care of me effectively. so that's what we need to do. now, the presumption of the $32.6 billion i

we do not have to leave the door open to all travel to and from hot zones in western africa while ebolas an unwelcomed and dangerous stow away on the flights. i'm confident we'll develop a reason and successful strategy to meet the needs. the current airline passenger screening at five u.s. airports through temperature taking and self-reporting is troubling. the ebola patients are only contagious when having a fever, but we know this may not be totally accurate. a determined infected traveler can evade screening can mask the fever with ib profin, and it's nearly impossible to conduct tracing on flights going all around the globe. let me be clear to those responding to the outbreak, if resources or authorization is needed to stop ebola in its tracks, tell us in congress. i pledge, and i believe the committee joins me in plemging, we'll do everything we can do keep the american people safe from ebola outbreak in west africa. i recognize the ranking member of the committee. five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. on monday, the director general of the world health organization called the

flights, but visas for people coming from western africa into this country. i think we need to put a pause on immigration, pause on the transportation side, to give us a chance to recover. i think the fact that this new patient was transferred to emory, i think that is good thing. every hospital, unlike what dr. frieden said a couple weeks ago, every hospital is not prepared to deal with this. gerri: let me ask you about that because i understand that there was a teleconference with some 5600 clinicians recently this week, telling him exactly what cdc expects out of these hospitals. i heard it was a screaming match. people from all over the country in those hospitals said we can't afford to do what you want us to do. we don't have the room to do it. we don't have the money to do it. we don't have the personnel. is that surprising to you? >> it is not surprising. i said early in this crisis i said let's move people to the centers where they can be taken care of. dr. brantley, taken care of at emory in the early part of august, and it all went well. but problem

we know the numbers in western africa go up on ebola. the rate is going to increase. we know that 10% of the cases are health care workers, and we know that 56% of those health care workers in western africa will succumb to the illness. that's a dire warning for anyone who's involved in delivering health care. i would just submit, well, dr. robertson, what kind of stockpile of this personal protective equipment do you have available to the health care workers on the front line, and bear in mind, no travel restrictions, so a new patient could come in tonight and go to any hospital in the country and present themselves. are you going to be able to quickly deliver a stockpile of personal protective equipment like this? >> so we know talking to the manufacture manufacturers, there's no shortages right now and willing to deliver within 24 hours or less. >> let me ask this question. you know, what did you think the first patient was going to look like when you knew you had a patient zero at some point or it was a possibility. we had the gentleman who died in nigeria end of

have you been to western africa? if you have gained western africa think you may have ebola, of course you are going to use any means necessary to get to a western hospital. particularly in the u.s.. people will lie to get here so that they can get the best treatment in the world. host: thank you for the call. this is from -- this editorial this morning from "the washington ," "missteps in handling the virus in the u.s. cannot be repeated." host: that is our question, do you have confidence that the government is so far responding appropriately? good morning. caller: good morning to you and all the fine folks behind the scene to bring us this great show. host: thank you. caller: you are welcome, sir. i have all of the confidence in the world that the government is handling this right. let's go back to where it started, the presbyterian church in texas. want,t as much as they they dropped the ball. what is it with texas? they don't need the government? don't need this, don't need that? the right wing attitude but the

a prime concern is that thousands of people in western africa and we need to mobilize forces for them while we try to develop the therapies. >> you have been described as "the virus hunter." what resources would you need in order to continue your work, and also to tell us how challenging is it? how technically difficult is it? >> i am leading a global collaboration to make these antibody therapies. this is unprecedented. i don't think there has been another scale were although scientists have gotten on the same page to do this single set of experiments to make the best antibody therapy. we have a proof of concept and more coming online. it is a very tight budget that we work under. ebola therapeutic would never be supported by free market. rare, andtypically most of the people that get it couldn't afford to pay for treatment. but treatment still need to exist. we are absolutely reliant on federal funding from the nah and department of defense. harder tos harder and do the kind of work we need to do. she said,rd what do you concur? >> of course. we have one glimmer of good news. conven

apparently the deadly virus has been transmitted outside of western africa. a nurse's assistant in spain treated a spanish priesin madrid who worked in sierra leone. and ebola patient in dallas texas is under a new experimental drug. live in the newsroom with more, greta. confirmed that nurses assistant does have ebola. her early that her only symptom was -- her only symptom was a fever. >> freelance cameraman -- is back from liberia. in omaha nebraska and is now in a hospital. he may have contracted ebola while hoping to clear a car. >> we saw him from a distance. >> he is enormously relieved. it is still quite frightening. >> quite a contrast to the thomas duncan in dallas texas. they are increasingly frustrated by his worsening condition. officials got emergency fda approval and started treating duncan with an experimental drug, the third such drug to treat a bullet. >> hopefully his body will be able to fight this out. >> duncan is now in critical but unconscioustion, and on dialysis. nine family members are in quarantine. ebola at obama called national t

dempsey, has recommended a 21 day quarantine for all of our troops returning from service in western africae white house today however refused to say whether the president agreed, despite the revelation that the u.s. army is already quarantining for 21 days, 11 individuals who arrived working in west africa. the white house also not denying reports that they had pressured the governors of new york and new jersey to ease their mandatory 21 day quarantine, which they put in place last week from health care workers returning from west africa. >> members of this administration have been in close touch with state and local officials in new york and new jersey over the last several weeks. and i'm telling you that i am not going to detail specific conversations. lou: the cdc admitted today that those two governors have the right to enact the very policies that they relaxed under obama administration pressure. and nbc today poll shows the public united in this white house position. 94% of online respondents say the way supporting mandatory quarantine for anyone traveling to the united states from w

that training period as we understand it for our troops will be four hours before going into western africaand does that make sense to you? >> dead. sending an over three troops, very deadly disease endemic. but it just doesn't make sense. the purpose of this is not to do this kind of health care assistance. i just disagree with the president on this. i really feel that these troops, got the bed, will come down with ebola. lou: that is a concern, i believe, with millions of millions of americans, today a concern about the amount of time that our troops would be in quarantine before returning to this country. if you would listen to this major general as he asked about it. >> the 10 days is to attempt to limit their possibility for exposure while they are in liberia. once they have flown back to united states they will be given a 21 day monitoring time where they will be required, to the unit twice a day for medical checks. lou: question is why would our troops have only a 10 date 19 before returning to this country. >> look, none of it makes sense. that's the real problem and it's common sen

president obama refuses to restrict travel from western africa and the administration confirms the newla czar isn't all about public health. >> it's not solely a medical response. that means that he is the right person for the job. person for the job. >> toica, we need to leave right now! - ( pop music playing ) - i need to get something! - dance recitals are so boring. - ( video game noises ) ♪ there's a me no one knows ♪ - ♪ waiting to be set free... - so what's the empty suitcase for? the grand prize trophy. duh! ( jessica speaks ) ♪ i was born to be somebody... ♪ lou: president obama once again being called out for his misstatements and misrepresentations on obamacare. "the washington post" fact checker taking issue with this claim. >> if we hadn't taken this on and premiums that kept growing at the rate that they did the last decade, the average premium for family coverage today with the $1800 higher than they are. now, most people don't realize it, but that is $1800 that you don't have to pay out of your pocket or see vanish from your paycheck. it is like an 1800-dollar tax cut.

what we are not focussing on so much any more is what is happening in western africa. our attention has been directed away from what is happening in western africa and focussing on the participation for an epidemic of ebola in the united states. we need to shift the focus back to that source of the epidemic. >> i have been preaching that. at the same time you hear the world health organisation say today, you know, that we are talking 40,000 diagnosed a week by disease. that is frightening no matter where you are. >> it's a frightening reality. number one. number two, in terms of media, we haven't been very good. we focused on a lot of scary images and ideas. when we hear numbers like 40,000, we are talking about resource poor settings, and not like our own. how many die of the flu? >> more than 30,000. >> far more. >> all right. >> i think that's good information. dana, doctor, it's good to see both of you, thanks you for sharing your expertise. we appreciate it >>> more on the story from west africa. we want to share a video from the red cross, a work are that leads t

been done is strike forces from cdc and the public health corps should have been sent over to western africa immediately when the ebola break-outs started. that would have been the smart thing to do, and we're about $1 short and about five weeks too late. >> sir, you were hhs secretary after 9/11, and back then the big fear was smallpox coming to the united states. hospitals were given millions to invest to protect against a possible outbreak. are you surprised the response has see e seemingly been so wrong? >> i think, yeah, i'm very surprised because we've been through this. we had, you know -- we had 9/11. we put in over $15 billion -- not million. $15 billion to improve the public health infrastructure. we also found we had 84 million doses of smallpox that were put away at a pharmaceutical company that we were able to use. we had enough smallpox vaccine that could have vaccinated every man, woman, and child in america because each shot would have been able to go down for four individuals. we have plenty of that. we were able to do this, and we also prevented, you know, the anthrax and t

staff are doing a good job swapping notes with experts from across the globe including western africa to make sure nina pham has the best care possible. left the dallas hospital yesterday afternoon in good condition. she is now in fair but stable condition at the special political studies unit. the federal government establish that unit in 2011 specifically andombat bioterror emergency infectious diseases like ebola. we are told nurses and the doctor assigned to the 26-year-old. they wear full body protective suits like we have seen in atlanta and dallas whenever they enter her hospital room. nih says it is well aware of the risks and doing all it can to keep stuff safe. >> we have a strict system of getting dressed with someone watching you, coming out, getting undressed with watching you. of have a limited amount time the person can be in the room so they don't get fatigued. >> despite facing such a tumultuous situation, doctors say pham is in good spirits calling her a trooper. her mother and sister have made it to the bethesda area. they are here to provide her with support. live

onht now they are counting points of departure and western africa. airport is one of only 20 stations the cdc has quarantines stations. reporting live from dulles international airport, rebecca cooper, abc seven news. >> a special commission will begin the search for a new secret service director after a series of high-profile failures involving the security of the president to the white house. senior political reporter scott thuman joins us live in the newsroom to look at the challenges the new leader will face. >> the secret service has an annual budget of about one point $5 billion. keep in mind, just one b-2 stealth bomber cost more than that and the agency doesn't just protect people. they still investigate counterfeiting and financial crimes. some say this seriously reduces andof the effectiveness increases the need. >> american leadership is the one constant in an uncertain world. >> in chicago, and likely under closer tabs in light of heavy criticism, the president was talking about international affairs but may well have been speaking of his

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duncan at a dallas area hospital and the united states stepping up support to fight epidemic in western africa. more u.s. troops and equipment arriving in liberia yesterday this ebola out break has killed at least 3800 people in western africa according to the world health organization. >>> lets turn our attention to this right here in the keystone state. horrible hazing incident leaves an autistic teen duct tape to the soccer goal? it a happened in pennsylvania. sixteen year-old austin says that after he was duct tapes at highlands high school sunday night he was there for 15 minutes while his teammates went to haze another student. off-duty pennsylvania state trooper found the allegheny county teen and helped him down. austin and his mother are really upset. >> they duct tape my hand all the way up to my waste and tightened it as hard as they could. then they tried to take a picture of it. >> i feel like the coach knew, he wasn't there but he he knew it was happening. he knows it has been going on. so he sees and he is the the the adult. >> the the school district suspend that had coach, the

of the things brought forward by pundits on fox news, saying that we should block flights from western africally that is more dangerous and will make the disease worse. >> those people that are determined to get to the united states are going to go through brussels or france. >> i traveled through africa, there's not a lot of direct flights from some of the countries they're talking about anyway. they all go through europe just about. >> and quarantine is a much better strategy scientifically anyway. so the idea to say we're going to ban travel from africa, that's particularly ugly and it's not actually effective. [ all speak at once ] >> isn't there some kind of subtlety, elizabeth, even in that, make the africans stay in africa? even isn't there some kind of undercurrent -- >> of course. and they're trying to politicize it. all of the news coverage, it's moatly centered on what's been happening here when the crisis and the epidemic is much more serious in western africa. >> and much more broader, it was certain countries, not all of africa. >>> next up, in atlanta georgia, they refused to p

and liberia, three small nations in just the portion of africa we are showing here, which is western africa. and that's it. so there are dozens of other countries on that same continent who do not have that same problem, even though they are also countries in africa. that's possible because africa is big. it's an enormous place. it's diverse. now, it doesn't seem like a very complicated idea, in the united states, we sometimes have trouble with that idea. we sometimes, embarrassingly conflate all of the different countries in all the different parts of africa into one big african thing. one big giant nation of africa. about which we are not only usually confused but definitely afraid. >> wednesday morning hundreds of parents removed their children from the middle school after hearing rumors about the principal's recent trip to africa. panic then spread to the elementary and high schools. >> that's local footage from central mississippi, just south of jackson, mississippi, where in a place called hazelhurst, parents pulled hundreds of kids out of a middle school then high school and elementa

kelly does not believe there will be a massive outbreak like western africa because the healthcare system there is much weaker. it is spread through body fluids, blood saliva or sweat. four workers were recently treated in special isolation centers, we told you about them. one remains hospitalized and the others have recovered. a u.s. doctor is currently under observation in a similar ups actual near washington d.c. >>> apple in the south bay are warning about a rash of robberies where people have gold chains snatched right off their next. they have 21 snatchings and while the robberies occurred in different locations and at random times of the day, there there was a comment link and they were all of indian descend. >> they snatched the chain from her neck and the other one was waiting further and he sat on the motor bike and did it. >> police say they believe the suspects drive down the street looking for victims. they have released information on a getaway car. the suspect is described as an african-american man who may be working with a group of men with similar descriptions. >>> now t

. >> there are other questions, have they traveled to western africa. do they have any other symptoms of pain or abdominal distress. this is beginning to be flu season. many people showing up with a fever. up to the team to do a thorough assessment. any doubt at all put that patient in isolation. >> to see if a person has a fever. you have got to touch the person or stick a thermometer in the person. putting yourself at risk while you make a determination is this flu or is this ebola? >> but it would be unrealistic to care for every person that comes into an emergency room with a full hazmat gear. >> totally unrealistic. >> you are not contagious when you have no symptoms. you tell me that's absolutely true? >> that's what we know about the virus at this time. >> and why are you not contagious when you are not showing the symptoms? >> because right now we do not believe there is airborne contamination or spread of disease so you would have to come in contact with other bodily fluids. usually as the disease progresses is when you see the vomiting and dia

troops to go to western africa to deal with this. this is not exactly new u.s. troops going. but what they are trying to do here is at least speed them up to get it going. >> okay. ed henry, we'll head back to you for any breaking details. thank you. hospital officials in dallas are admitting they made serious mistakes in dealing with the first ebola patient to be diagnosed here in the u.s. alicia is in dallas again tonight. >> reporter: underprepared and under fire. the botched treatment of the first ebola fatality in the u.s. admitted failure. >> we made mistakes. we did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as ebolaened we are deeply sorry. >> reporter: the handling of thomas duncan is what set the chain of events in motion. after duncan's death, they will move nina fan from a hospital to a biocontainment unit at the national institutes of health. for a third day in a row nurses unions waved a red flag. >> what happened in texas example of the missteps, what we have to fix. >> reporter: new questions also swirl over yesterday's movement of nurse amber vincent, because of the

they do not have ebola and make sure they don't spread it to anyone after they took a trip to western africaan explaining tonight "the army chief of staff has directed a 21-day controlled monitor period for all re-deploying soldiers returning from operation united assistance. he has done this out of caution to ensure soldiers, family members and their surrounding communities are confident we are taking all steps necessary to protect their health." as you noted the joint chiefs have now recommended defense secretary chuck hagel that all returning u.s. troops from west africa go through this quarantine. so i pressed josh earnest today why has the white house -- he wouldn't say whether the president supports this quarantine for the military or not. why haven't they decided? >> -- commander in chief send u.s. troops basically into the hot zone without a policy on whenx] they come home whether o not they're in quarantine? how could that have not been decided-j8;w before? >> because what we are seeing here, ed, is we are seeing this administration put in place the policies that we believe are nece

. >> get a travel history, you need to know if someone was in western africa in the past 21 days, and if that is the case, then put them in isolation immediately and then call us. >> the doctor says that following containment protocol when treating ebola is of the utmost importance. >> members of delaware county's ebola and task force is meeting with philadelphia international airport officials to discuss the ebola response plans, representatives from police, fire and delaware county school districts and the d.a. office met for a safe conference in drexel hill and one of the main topics ebola and the danger it proposes to school children and faculty. they still want to be prepared. we have to be concerned and take precautions and it's important now to take certain precautions because i don't know what tomorrow will bring. >> officials stress the importance of an all county wide being on the same page, the conk of the ebola outbreak continues on 6abc.com. we have the latest on the ebola health care workers and how ebola can affect pets. >>> a delaware county politician who plead guilty

according to the cdc more than 94% of travellers entering the united states from western africa countries impacted by ebola travel through these five airports and let me show you. they are new york, newark, washington, chicago and atlanta. new screening measures are about to go into effect at these airports but still a lot of people are worrying. want to make sure ebola stays out of the united states. many want to ban flights from countries impacted by the virus. is that possible? is it smart? let's talk about that. so gentlemen, we got a lot to talk about. beginning with you, sir, just from a medical perspective, thinking about this 29-year-old nurse, wanted to go see from what i'm hearing her mother in cleaver, hops on a plane, not 48 hours after this man dies of ebola in dallas, i want to give her the benefit of the doubt that she just didn't know that was breaching protocol, should she have known? >> i think there's every reason to think she thought she was reasonably safe because that's what we've been told consistently, health care workers won't get it. what we find this is indicati

we're spending $1 billion in western africa through the military, only $88 million was allocated for the cdc. we need to get back to d.c. and make sure that we get some new eyeballs on this to make sure all the procedures are being followed and the resources are there. you don't want to come back later and say we didn't the have enough money or didn't the make enough investments to track down anybody on that airplane or any further extensive contact tracking. any personnel you need people. >> should there be strict over sight of these hospitals that are dealing with this in handling ebola. i mean, clearly the nurses are saying that there are issues when it comes to education, preparedness, funding and exposure. so what is the over sight, some hospital administrator who wants to make a dollar? and make sure there's certainme protocols being followed. you got to catch it where it is. you got to dpet it rigget it ri not wait aaround. the cdc should have the personnel to do that. i'm not sure what happened in texas. the full story will probably continue to reveal itself. >> your thoughts