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Berman. Im michaela pereira, great to have you with us. Those stories and more ahead at this hour. We do have some breaking news just in on ebola. Just a few minutes ago, we learned that defense secretary chuck hagel announced a 21day quarantine upon return for all military personnel who serve in ebolastricken areas of west africa. Its important to point out that this policy for returning military personnel creates a separate set of rules than what the white house has pushed for for civilian health care workers. I want to turn to our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. Well also brick in dr. Frank esper, Infectious Disease specialist. I think barbara well start with you at the pentagon. Why this double standard different set of guidelines . Good morning. This was expected, everybody had been waiting for it. What the secretary has ordered is a quarantine for everybody. But they dont really even know at this point how theyll do it. Theyll take 15 days to figure out how to implement it. Where do they put people . How do they monitor them . Nobody has the answers to any of that and then in 45 days theyll review and see if its really necessar necessary. Barbara, chag uck hagel is speaking about it right now. Our men and women would be returning from west africa. That policy was put in place by the chief of staff of the army a couple days ago for general williams and 10 of his associates who are now back at their base in italy and what i said in response was give me the operational specifics of how that would work. And i believe we should review that policy within 45 days. The military will have more americans in liberia than any other department. Thats number one. Number two, our people are younger, the cohorts are different. They are not volunteers. And this is also a policy that was discussed in great detail by the communities, by the families of our military men and women and they very much wanted a safety valve on this some thats essentially what the directive says. So thats the news of the day, lets talk about broader pictures. Steve in his introduction mentioned the parts in the world that was chuck hagel. Hes speaking at the ideas forum, a wonk conference in the washington, d. C. Area. He made this announcement talking about this 21day quarantine for returning military personnel from those three west african nations dealing with ebola right now. Barbara star is with us. Barbara, give us context. Lets pun pack this and explain whats going on behind the scenes here. Several military officials are telling us that it was last friday in the tank, the secure room in the pentagon, the chiefs met and decided they wanted a quarantine. Why did they decide this . What we know now is that they felt they didnt have any new medical data or scientific data, we are assure of that, but they had a lot of anxieties about all of this. Their feeling was families were concerned. Military communities were concerned but most importantly to them large number of young troops, very young people serving on this mission who have no health care training, no medical experience and to be very frank i have been told by several official this is morning that chiefs were concerned if they left it to be a voluntary monitoring of your temperature these young troops might not do it, they might come home, go out with their friends and basically the chiefs felt they couldnt trust them. Thats the very perhaps sensitive bottom line here. Secretary hagel did not want to go the fuel route of a mandatory 21 day quarantine for everybody. He wanted caveats, he knows the politics, he knows the white house doesnt want the country in a quarantine mode so he went for the middle ground. He said okay, you can have it, well figure out how to do it but in 45 days, well review it and really see if its absolutely necessary. So theres a lot of high level internal pentagon politics here. So many people have talked about adapting as we go with this. Dr. Esper, we are so quickly reminded by medical experts we have on our air that we have to stick to the science of this when were dealing with ebola. Yet we hear the military reacting essentially totoanxiety within their military families and personnel and it feels like a bit of a disconnect. Do you think thats troublesome . There is a difference between what we see in military versus what we see in civilian when it comes from infections. I think what the joint chiefs were reacting to is a history of infections within the military where we can see entire forces that are incapacitated from mild diseases like diarrheal disease or influenza where it inhibits their capabilities because these individuals, these brave soldiers, are working in very close quarter, living in very close quarters and they can spread infections much, much easier than individuals living in the suburbs and cities. But its important to realize that theyre saying this is how were starting but in a few days were going to revisit this to see whether or not its needed. Barbara, you spent a lot of time with the military, i spent my share of time embedded with them also, you dont get places fast a lot of the time so when does the clock start tick . In some cases from the moment they leave west africa to the time they might be back with their family members that might not be much shorter than 21 day days. What we know is while theyre in west africa their temperature is continually monitored. They are not going home if they show any symptoms. They will be asystem mmptomatic getting on that plane. We brought that story to everyone yesterday that a twostar general and his team is quarantined in italy. There will be 75 of them quarantined in italy by this weekend. None are showing symptoms but they are ordered by the army to stay in this building and stay inside. A lot of this is being driven by practical logistics. You are going to see perhaps 4,000 troops over there. Its going to be difficult for the u. S. Military to put 4,000 people in quarantine. The simple question of where they put time, how they house them, how this would all work is just is for the pentagon an overwhelming prospect. Barbara, thank you so much. I want to turn to our White House Correspondent michelle kosinski. We heard the president urging caution and reminding us we should treat these people going to the front lines in west africa as people doing gods work yet there are going to be some of this optics that people will struggle with. We understand from dr. Espers point of view that maybe there is reason the military is treated differently than uncivilian bus there will be some that will have a problem with the optics, no . Weve heard different explanations at different times because they keep emphasizing it needs to be based on the science. So now you have people who directly worked and care for victims of this disease in africa coming back and not being immediately quarantine d then yu have members of the military that came into contact with zero patients and are not providing any medical care and they go into immediate quarantine. Thats an enormous gap there in reaction. Also the white house and pentagon and other levels of government were supposedly so closely coordinating on the response. So this question came up in great detail yesterday to the white house. Why this big discrepancy . Why the difference in treatment . Does the white house disagree with the pentagon . If it doesnt seem to be based on the same science that the white house keeps relying upon. The white house response is this, that you have thousands of members of the military coming back, you have only dozens per week of health care workers, they say it is good to monitor them but you want to do it on a casebycase basis and with the military and those numbers its just not feasible to do it on a casebycase basis. Thats the white houses take. Interesting this new policy now in place. Really, really interesting. Chuck hagel announcing it 2. 1day quarantine for military personnel. That could be as many as 4,000 u. S. Military personnel by the time all is said and done. Key to this is they realize at some point they have to look at it, reevaluate and continue to tweak these measures. Our big thanks to me s s ts to kosinski, Barbara Starr and dr. Frank esper. Pope francis raising eyebrows. Did you hear what he said about magic . Did you hear what he said about evolution . A lot of people talking about that ahead. Wouldnt it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters shopping online is as easy as it gets. And even piano tuners were just as simple . Thanks to angies list, now it is. Weve made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. Buy their services directly at angieslist. Com no more calling around. No more hassles. Start shopping from a list of toprated providers today. Angies list is revolutionizing local service again. Visit angieslist. Com today. train horn vo wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. Norfolk southern. One line, infinite possibilities. Do you have the coverage . You need . 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Joining us to talk about this is clark kent irvin, former office of the Inspector General for Homeland Security. Clark, one might think the Computer Systems in and around the white house would be among the most secure on zblert one might think that. So how could bit that someone hacks in. Well, thats right, john. Theres no question that the white house is among the most secure but its not impenetrable. There are attacks against the white house everyday or virtually everyday and other Government Systems as well. This one is a horse of a different color. According to news reports it was persistent, sustained and were good at attribution so its pretty clear at least theres a consensus that this was emanating from russia. If it, in fact, did emanate from russia, ma that makes sense. Theres no question that putin is at a minimum an adversary of the United States if not a down right enemy. Help us understand what points to it being from the kremlin as the Washington Post elaborate for people that might have missed that reporting. A couple of things. Were very good at tracking exactly where threats come from. Thats called attribution. So the signs point to russia being the source for this, point one. Then we have to put that against the context. The context, of course, is this geopolitical cat and mouse game thats going on between the United States and russia around the world. Its clear that putin is testing us and using every means available short of war to contest americas supremacy in the world geopolitically. So those two things together suggest this is emanating from there. Are we doing this, too, clark . Sorry, you think this is the russian military, you think this is a kremlin thing, not a russian mobster thing. Theyre the ones who break into the banks and Financial Institutions but you say its directed by the russian regime as it were. This that makes me wonder is this the type of thing the United States tries to do when it can . I think thats a very good question, john, and the answer is, yes. We are certainly capable of offensive operations. Weve done that, notably, in iran to slow down the Iranian Nuclear program. There are news reports from time to time that cyber command, dod, is working to figure out the rules of the road with regard to offensive operations generally. My bet is were doing some of that with the russians and chinese because theyre engaging in industrial size espionage both economically and militarily. My bet is as i say were doing some of it. I dont know if were doing enough. Unless we raise the cost to russia and china for engaging in these activities, it seems it will continue to happen and pose an increasingly important danger to our country. Clark, i want to ask for your reaction to the fact we know security is being beefed up around several federal buildings around the nation. Nearly 10,000. A substantial amount. Meanwhile, the department of Homeland Security is saying its not tied to a specific threat. Do you buy that . I think the way to square that circle michaela is theres probably no specific intelligence saying this particular building and this particular city on this particular day in this particular way is being targeted but against the backdrop of what happened in canada and isis having called upon its followers around the world to target individuals, military installations, political installations of allies, the United States itself and our allies around the world, its understandable that we will take these measures. The bad news is there have been concerns about the federal protective service in the past, the component of the department of Homeland Security that is in charge of securing these buildings. There are only about 900 full time Law Enforcement personnel but there are about 15,000 coract guards who guards these facilities and theyre uneven in terms of their quality. So ive been among those in the past calling for at least federalizing the guard force because of the importance of the security of these buildings around the country. Nearly 10,000 of them will have their security increased starting now. Clark kent earvin, thank you for being with us. Appreciate it. Great to be with you both. A possible Major Development in ferguson, missouri. Sources tell cnn that Controversial Police chief is getting ready to step down. What does it mean . Where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road . A card that gave you that im 16 and just got my first car feeling. Presenting the buypower card from capital one. Redeem earnings toward part or even all of a new chevrolet, buick, gmc or cadillac with no limits. 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Im curious what your sources are telling you. Because were hearing one side say one thing and sources say another thing. The police chief tom jackson is expected to step down as part of this reform plan for the Ferguson Police department and in his place, into t st. Louis county Police Department is expected to take over management of the Police Department there, as you mentioned, that i ear kind of preparing for the results to come from this grand jury whether or not theyre going to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown. And theres a lot of concern about what the streets of ferguson the reaction will be on the streets of ferguson and they want to focus on changing the department because hay obviously had a bad relationship with the local community. Which seems completely separate in some cases. Not completely separate but that is a separate issue to the whole Michael Brown saga at this point. Evan, the mayor of ferguson was asked by our sara sidner about the idea of chief jackson stepping down and he says no. Lets listen. Reporter is there a plan in place if jackson steps down . No. No. Reporter are you given any impression people have been saying that for months. Weve stood by him this entire time so theres no change on that. I suppose the question is, is, it may not be up to him. Does he just not know about it or is this something that will be imposed. When we say step down, is he being forced to step down . This is part of a discussion thats ongoing with the state, the governors office, the federal government and local officials and theres been a lot of pressure on the mayor and the city council itself because it does seem like the department has not been able to handle what the protesters have been asking for there. A lot of duties have been handed over from the Police Department. And you see the tweet which is in some ways trying to deny what we were reporting but i think youll see some of that pressure increase on the police chief simply because its part of the plan to get this reform going. Come to think of an area thats very much your expertise, the Justice Department is still investigating all about what went on with Michael Browns death, how the Police Department handled it in ferguson. If he were to step down, does that complicate things . It doesnt. Part of the problem all along here has been this view inside the Justice Department that the leadership of the department was part of the problem. There was a letter that they sent just last month in which they were expressing some concern that there were officers who were still wearing these wristbands that say i am Darren Wilson which, you know, is obviously something that will inflame people on the streets. So theres been a lot of issues that theyve had. So it wont complicate things because process is already on going. And aalso have a separate investigation into whether Michael Browns civil rights were violated and those two things are still continuing on the same track. Evan perez, great reporting. This could be a Dramatic Development, thanks so much for being with us. Thanks. From the launch pad to kingdom come. It was bad enough to lose a spaus craft and its valuable cargo but is this one giant leap backward for private t private space industry . How much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40, 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . I dont think so. Well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. Alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours but aleve can last 12 hours. And aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. 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What caused a huge explosion over virginia leaving the ground shaking in millions and millions of dollars in cargo and technology practically atomized, the rocket mishap providing a dramatic picture with possible significant consequences. Look at this. Engines at 108 . Power nominal. Launch team, launch team, be advised, stay at your consoles. Everyone maintain your positions in your consoles. In the lcc, maintain positions at your console. Thankfully that was an unmanned flight taking supplies, equipment and experiment to the space station, the International Space station. But it certainly i guess you could be calling it a into question the future safety of the Space Program. Miles obrien joins us. I want to know if you think thats a fair assessment. Will it make people question the safety of our Space Program . It should make people ask question questions but i dont think we should presuppose the answer that its unsafe. Getting to space is not easy michaela. Youre starting at zero and eight and a half minutes later youre at 17,500 miles an hour. The laws of physics makes that a hard chore and youre pushing technology to the limits in every fashion it doesnt take much of a leap or you are the boy pump that fails to cause what we just saw. Everything has to work perfectly and things break sometimes. So what did we just see, miles . Youve had a chance to look at the video several times. What what do you think went wrong . I think the clue came in the News Conference when the Senior Vice President of Orbital Sciences, former shuttle and space station astronaut Frank Hulbert son said it afears rocket began to disassemble. Interesting term. Doesnt sound good. Breaking apart is probably the term we would use. It appears as if a piece fell out around the time they said lets go to 108 . Then you see a change in the coloration of the plume and things start to get crazy after that pretty quickly. The real question, we dont know how much of what we saw is organic to the problem, whatever it was. And how much of it was the later decision to push the red button which terminates the mission, as it were, the Destruct Button which every rocket is outfitted with. So the interesting thing about rockets is you dont have to go look for a black box, theres telemetry, every piece of equipment on a rocket is sending information back to mission control. Thats what those people are doing in front of those consoles is looking at whats happening on board. So finding out what happened wont take as long as you might thi think. You talk about that disassembly, if you will. Millions and millions of dollars went up. There were experiments, equipment for the International Space station, technology, et cetera. How badly was that those supplies needed . First and foremost, no one will go hungry on the International Space station this morning while we were all asleep in kazakhstan, russian territory, a russian progress freighter successfully made it to orbit and is on its way to the International Space station with supplies, in december the californiabased company spacex is going to launch another freight freighter Orbital Sciences was on the books to launch another one in april. I wouldnt put money on that one happening but the point is there are multiple paths to the space station and theres plenty of supplies on board. If nobody showed up until march theyd still be eating okay. A life supply of tang up there, thankfully. Miles obrien, great to have you with us. Thanks so much. We should note there is another rocket launch today it will be the highlight of wolf blitzers show from kavl. Not virginia like where this last one no, people i was corrected by one of our writers. There have been rocket launches can from virginia for decades but not always unmanned. Well show you a live broadcast launch from florida. Very exciting. Ahead at this hour, we are less than a week away from the election day. I can feel your excitement. Less than a week away. What will happen . Who will control the senate . We are going to tell you the answers to those questions coming up. And later, pope francis does it again, he said things about science and i are lidge i dont know. Science and religion that you might not necessarily expect to hear from the vatican. I won this 55 inch tv for less than 30 on dealdash. Com. Visit dealdash. Com for great deals. And start bidding today less than one week to go until election day, less than one week until we know who will control the u. S. Senate, who will control key statehouses, what the entire political atmosphere will be like for the next two years. But why wait until tuesday to find out what happens . We dont. Were immediate type people. Our experts are here to give you their postgame analysis. Its so wonderful you are such good sports. Joining us, republican dr. Heye and robert zimmerman. Doug, ill start with you. Lets start with the number one race you think republicans will be most proud of and is their most important one. Sure, ill allude to what you just said, the game will be over on tuesday. One of the races were seeing Great Strides in for republicans is in iowa where republicans are overperforming on the absentee and early voting for joni ernst whos been a strong candidate for republicans. I spoke to matt strong, the great former Iowa Republican party chair just yesterday, he said wed rather be a republican than democrat in iowa. I eid also point out another race which is similar. New york 21. Elise stefanic, shes a republican, 30 years old. I think they will be faces well see a lot more of on tv. Shes a favorite of romney and bush insiders, too. You picked two races there. You broke the rules. Robert, well ask you to stick to the rules. Come next wednesday, the race democrats will be most prout proud of is georgia. We may not know the results until january 6. I dont agree with doug well have an answer by next tuesday or wednesday. In georgia theres a runoff that takes place and it takes place the day after congress reconvenes. Why should bit easy . But in georgia, Michelle Nunn has run a Brilliant Campaign and the governors race is also very close. And that speaks to the fact that the economic message is so critical until this election with all the talk about ebola and isis and all the political scare tactics this is an economic election. The country according to the cnn poll is feeling more optimistic about the economy. Thats an advantage for democrats. All right. Lets flip the script a little bit. Robert well start with you and go the other direction. What will be the race that you think democrats just blew . I can give you a list. [ laughter ] ill tell you this realistically south dakota was a missed opportunity for us. I think also, we had to the credit of the Democratic Campaign committee, theyre running ahead of the approval rating. And one quick thought, the race to watch will be North Carolina, the polls close early thats a bellwether, if we dont win that, ill have haagendazs on iv. Doug, what where do you think the republicans blew it . Actually i would agree with robert. Im looking at georgia and my home state of North Carolina where ive worked three senate races in that state. Republicans have to perform well there early for us to know if were going to have a great night or a good night. Robert is right. In georgia and also in louisiana well know if its going to be a great night because well know if that goes to a runoff or not a runoff. Election nights tind to be long night bus it could be a several weeknight. Ill stick with you, doug, looking at the economy and robert you referenced it a little bit. Lets show this cnn orc poll. 62 of americans think the economy is doing badly. 62 . Thats significant, doug. You think that will make or break the elections next week . I think its certainly why republicans are poised to do really well. Voters are not happy. They are not feeling any recovery. We look at jobs numbers, we look at unemployment numbers and how theyre changing and we can point to good news but americans arent feeling it. They certainly arent seeing their wages rise, thats a problem. See, doug that cnn poll also points out that the countrys feeling more optimistic about the economy next year, and thats an important point. And the fact that this is an economic election plays into the democratic partys wheel housed a separating minimum wage, making college more affordable for kids, focussing on trying to rebuild the middleclass. Thats where you see democrats running well and in some cases slightly ahead of republicans in these very republican states. 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We knew just the man to ask about this, father edward beck is here. Were so glad you could join us to talk about this. Lets first hear a translation of what the pope had to say. Translator the beginning of the world is not the work of chaos that owes its origin to something else, but it derives directly from a supreme principle that creates out of love. The big bang that today is considered to be the other gin of the world does not contradict the creative intervention of god. On the contrary, it requires it. Evolution and nature is not in contrast with the notion of divine creation, because evolution requires the creation of the beings that evolve. So hes essentially saying that god sent science in motion. Im not catholic. But this feels like for the uninitiated like a departure. Or is it . Hes saying that god set the world in motion, science followed that. That it wasnt something random that occurred. That there was a design, an intelligent design, behind this. Why cant god create however god wants to create . And so you have the account in genesis where people some people take it literally. The Catholic Church has never taken it literally. You have adam and eve and everything from that so of course not. Its a mythic story to teach a religious truth about the power of god calling all into existence. Pope francis is saying darwinism is okay if you want to believe that, that thats the way god did it, it was over a long process. The big bang theory, thats kind of new, the big bang theory, that part, because because the big bang theorists say its random matter that came together and exploded. This takes the randomness out of it. Right. Hes saying its not random. Give me some comparative religion here if you would. How does the Catholic Church differ from other faiths or how does the pope now differ from what some other faiths feel about this . Its interesting to note this made news. But since 1950 with pious the 12th, the Catholic Church has thought that theistic evolution is possible. Evangelical christians think you have to take it literally, god created the world in seven days. Those who look at the bible and say, adam and eve, it all came from there. Those are the people who would have a problem with what the pope is saying. Pope benedict talked about the theory of evolution not being opposed to religion. So perhaps this isnt so much shocking within the catholic faith but maybe outside looking in because weve watched how this pope has in nuanced ways departed from the Catholic Church beliefs, finetuned some of them. Does it feel bigger, you think, from outside the religion . Its different because its francis saying. They werent listening before. And its the the way he said it. He did use the word magician there. That sends a message, i think. Hes saying this magic religion you say were part of, thats not what we are. 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Thats good news for your personal economy. First, gasoline prices, the National Average down more than 30 cents in the past month. The lowest level since december 2010, according to aaa. Several states now have averages below 3 a gallon, that means every day americans are spending more than 100 million less on gas than they did this time last year. Expect to see even lower prices across the country in coming weeks. Second, heating your home. This winter forecast to be warmer than last year. Couple that with the drop in commodities like heating oil and the Energy Department predicts nearly everyone will be getting a break on their heating bill, including about half the country that uses natural gas. The big drop in Oil Prices May save you cash on gas and heat, but dont expect to see cheaper flights. Airlines know that prices could rebound at any moment. So theyll use cheap prices to lock in cheap fuel for the future and boost their profits. Those savings dont get passed on to you. But on balance, oils plunge is a good thing. Consumers save on energy and put that money to work elsewhere and that boosts the economy. Citigroup estimates if brent crude prices fall to 80 a barrel, it would add 660 billion to the Global Economy every year. Our Christine Romans joins us from in front of one of those very gas stations that will be boasting cheaper gas. But theres a new poll out that shows only 38 of americans think our economy is actually in good shape. Gas prices are cheap, the economy is poor, wheres the disconnect . Reporter yep. Wages. Wages are the big disconnect here. Wages have basically been stagnant or falling for some groups. And really since the recovery, the people who benefited are people who already have money and already have jobs. Thats the disconnect there. When you look at the poll numbers, you see people feel better going forward, just a slim majority think that things will be better over the next year, maybe a little more money in their pocket because of lower gas prices can help that. Instead of hoping things will be better, theyll feel better. Reason to be optimistic. Means a lot more money for you in your wallet. There are major implications here, christine, on the international stage. Russia, an oil power. Iran, an oil power. Theres a report this morning in the New York Times that iran may be more likely to reach a nuclear deal because these gas prices are falling. Reporter yep. Make no mistake. The politics, the geopolitics of Falling Oil Prices are just as important as the geopolitics of rising oil prices. The Russian Parliament passed a budget that expects 100 oil. Were not there. That means big cuts for the russian economy and the russian people, right . Big cuts on top of western sanctions. How will that change the dynamic when youre talking about whats happening with ukraine and u. S. russia relations . The report about tehran this morning in the New York Times, whats the pressure on the government there. If youre only getting 82 in the global market, it really changes things. People have called america saudi america. For years, ive heard people in the energy patch saying the Global Political powerhouses are going to change. That dynamic is going to change if the u. S. Can produce enough oil and Global Energy prices can come down, thats good for america. At least right now, we know its good for consumers. We know its good that you just avoided being run down by that minivan. Christine romans in jersey city on assignment for us at the gas station. We had your back, dont worry. Great to have you with us. See you tomorrow. I was so excited when she was talking about airline prices because i thought, maybe holiday prices for my tickets home would go down. Nope. Darn. 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