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Nationwide is on your side hello, everyone. Im debra in for fredericka whitfield. We are following a lot of breaking news today. Happening now in dallas. A nurse at Presbyterian Hospital is in stable condition after testing positive for ebola. This is the second ebola case in the United States. However, it is the first known transmission of the deadly disease inside the u. S. The nurse had substantial contact with ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan wednesday. According to hospital officials, the nurse was considered to be at low risk because she was wearing full protective gear following cdc protocols. The white house says the president boem has been updated on the situation by the secretary of health and human services. Another person close to the nurse is not showing any symptoms, but has been placed in protective isolation. Ed lavedera is covering this development for us. Dozens of people now being monitor for infection because of their contact either with the original patient or in the situation of the nurse. One additional person. Do Health Officials expect to see more cases in the coming days . In the coming days theyre going to be focussing on following up on the contacts that this particular Health Care Worker dealt with and they know of one close person who has already been isolated. They will work up that contact list just the way they did with Thomas Eric Duncan. If 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 thats why theyre 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 havent said at what point, whether it was while she was in the room wearing the protective gear or when she came out from wearing the protective gear. Isnt the hospital a little too confident that they could contain any future infections . Theyre describe this particular part of the story as very concerning because they do say that this particular Health Care Worker, of time she had come in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan did wear the proper protective clothing, the facial mask, gloves, and Everything Else that was part of that. Somewhere along the line the Health Care Workers are saying there was some sort of breakdown in the protocol. Perhaps in the way these garments were removed is one possibility. They need to track down where exactly this came from and the director of the cdc talked about just how concerning this part of the story is for them. We dont know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas, but at some point there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection. Hospital officials, you know, they talked about how there were close to some 50 people who were involved in the care for Thomas Eric Duncan during his ten days or so here in the hospital. Cdc officials now are saying that theyre going to work on limiting the number of people who were exposed to this particular patient to as few people as possible as they kind of go through the process here and investigate just where the breakdown was and how someone who was supposedly under all of this protective garments and clothing and everything you needed to do, how despite all of that, they still were infected. Yeah. Theres no question. Ed lavendera, thank you. Clearly, Health Care Workers are the heroes in all of this. A number of them have died in west africa. Now one here in the u. S. Is contracted it, and now they say their thoughts are with this nurse. We are breaking medical ground here in the u. S. Not in a good way. In just a matter of days the first person to ever be diagnosed with ebola and now the first ever to contract the virus. Joining me here in the United States, joining me now, dr. Alec anned are a garza, former assistant spaekt for hospital affairs, and Board Certified physician for infectious diseases. Dr. Garza, let me start with you. One thing that the cdc director said was that when it comes to disaster response, you need humility because clearly what theyre dealing with is so dangerous and so deadly. How alarming is this particular diagnosis to you given the conditions as we know them . Yeah. This is a very formidable virus, and so dr. Frieden is entirely correct. You need to have a little bit of fear and a little bit of humility when you are handling both the patients and the virus, and so the news coming out of dallas as well as out of spain with Health Care Workers now becoming infected from helping to treat these patients is a little bit concerning. When we think about when we think about how this did spread, look, you have mr. Duncan was exposed to several people during the point that he was effectively contagious and the contact spread to the contact virus. This Health Care Worker was with mr. Duncan for a much shorter period of time. Those he knew first were not dressed. Those he knew after were in fact, dressed. How do you reconcile those two images as somebody in full protective gear coming down with this . Well, its definitely concerning. What i would emphasize is that when he was taken to the intensive care unit at texas presbyterian, he was getting very hightech stateoftheart critical care. For example, he was intubated. He was also getting dyalysis. These are all procedures that put you at high risk for blood and body fluids because you are putting things into the patients body. For example, dyalysis catheters are a large iv line that needs to be inserted into one of the central veins. Theres a lot of more potential for blood exposure in a hospital setting, and that may be part of it. People can get contaminated on their outside personal protective equipment, and when theyre taking it off, they may contaminate themselves. Thats where we need to really be just as meticulous with taking off the gear as when we put it on. You are suggesting a droplet of blood that may have gotten on some of the protective gear and somehow spread or been touched. Is that one way it could be transmitted . Right. Yeah. When you are taking it off, it could have been some men skul type of amount of blood that was he totally inadvertently got the patient contaminated, and thats why we need to have a second person watching someone take off this gear. A supervisor or the buddy, for example that, weve talked about before. Dr. Garza, how hard is it to be in a hospital setting when you have, as the doctors say, this minuscule droplets of blood, for example. Again, respecting the virus. Get infected with the virus. They have treated thousands of these people. Then doesnt it go to the point that there should be certain hospitals that deal specifically with ebola cases given the fact that, look, you know, its much ease wrer to train, say, 100 people than it is 1,000 or 10,000 people on how to deal with these kinds of protocols. Dr. Garza. I think thats an excellent point that you are making. Its one that is probably taking place now at the highest levels, whether these patients should be treated at these high containment facilities both in atlanta and in nebraska where the people do have the equipment, the knowhow, and the training and now, unfortunately, have the experience in dealing with these types of patients. No question. Everybody getting sort of a crash course. Dr. Alexander garza, doctor. Thank you for your guidance. Isis is making big advances in the province surrounding baghdad. Up next, we will hear why the white house says, well, its not worried. 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Just this morning general martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was on abc and he was saying that there certainly will be days when isis can use indirect fire into baghdad. Now, that comes just hours after secretary of defense chuck hagel was saying that baghdad is safe and secure. Listen to those comments. Iraqi Security Forces are in full control of baghdad and continue to strengthen their positions in baghdad. We continue to help them with air strikes with our assistance and our advisors which i have at the direction of president obama added to our numbers there. Now, just the night before on friday chuck hagel was saying how dire the situation is in an bar province as other administonurse uses very brutal tactics, but the other point i would make, deb, is that president obama has said very recently that they have overestimated the iraqi armied forces for five years or so, and those are the very armed forces who are supposed to be securing baghdad. Now, of course, though, there are american troops there in security roles, deb. Are there signs that the administration is getting pressure from the outside, as taking heat for what is going on within iraq . Well, we are essential hearing more and more from republicans who are criticizing the administration and also the situation on the ground, that it is not going as well as planned. I want you to listen here to comments that senator john mccain made this morning. First of all, theyre winning and were not, and the iraqis are not winning, the kurds are not winning, and theres a lot of aspects of this, but there has to be a fundamental reevaluation of what were doing because we are not we are not degrading and ultimately destroying isis. And also, deb, this is becoming a bigger issue in the midterm electrics with more and more republicans saying that the administration has to do more. All right. Aaron mcpike, thank you so much. We appreciate that. Well, let me bring in cnn military analyst Lieutenant Colonel rick frankona. You look at everything that is happening right now. Baghdad apparently is not in danger. Theres no effective strategy that isil has. Can they potentially do enough damage either by choking off the city, by taking control of the airport, pounding it and creating terror within that, in fact, is destabilizing baghdad right now . Yeah. I this i all of the above. What were seeing is isis make a concerted effort to get lowers to the airport, and as the chairman mentioned, baghdad is susceptible to indirect fire. What that means is artillery and mortars . Weve already seen mortars impacting into the green zone, and were seeing a lot of car bombings. These fit isiss tactics very well. What they like to do is surround an area, choke it off, and then send in a bunch of suicide bombers to destabilize it before they do anything else. Were seeing the initial faces of that. Now, i dont think that were going to see a frontal assault on baghdad. Baby is just too big. The military forces there are too strong, and thats where the best of the Iraqi Military is going to be. What were seeing in an bar province, on the other hand, are the lesser qualified units of the Iraqi Military and despite the use of american airpower, they still have not been able to retake any of the cities that isis has rolled up and, in fact, isis continues to take territory from the iraqi army. So when you think about it, the situation that you have just described effectively baghdad is sort of the one city that it seems that the United States has some control inside. Youve got u. S. Advisors who are there. Youve got troops. You have the embassy. When you talk about destabilizing baghdad, how does that change the game . Even if isis doesnt take the city, how does it change the game . Well, what theyre going to be able to do is create terror in thissed the city. If they put enough artillery, mortars, car bombs in the city, that makes it very difficult for this new government to say that its maintaining control or that its able to open up to the sunnis and create this inclusive government that everybody hopes will change the game in the country, and were not seeing that. Isis continues to move around the city. Theyre moving on the north. They already control much of the west, and some of the southwest. If they can actually get more around the city, that puts us in a bad way. I want to underscore what i think Barbara Starr said earlier. That Baghdad Airport is critically important to all of our plans there. There are a couple of hundred american troops there. There are six apache helicopters there. So thats very critical to, you and theyre only eight miles from that. Unless the iraqi army can get its act together and start securing that area out there, somebody is going to have to go do it. I dont know what thats going to be. Lets include the u. S. Who wants to put more force theres or certainly reinforce that airport, but let me just ask you this question that keeps plaguing me. Theres something, like, 30,000 isis fighters. No more than that is the numbers that we were being gin. How is it that they are able to make such ground and hold these different cities and effectively now come so close to baghdad. Yeah, thats a really good point, deb. What theyre doing is theyre amassing their forces where they want to conduct these hitandrun operations, so while the iraqi army has to keep itself spread out to try and protect everywhere, isis moves its forces where it needs them. If theyre going to attack the haditha dam, they will move as many forces they think theyre going to need and overwhelm the forces that are there. Its not the numbers you have in total. Its the numbers you have on the battlefield in any particular spot. Isis is very good about moving people. Just take a look at what theyre doing. Theyre controlling a battle in kobani and almost 500 miles away theyre battling in iraq. Their command and control structure has want been defwraded. Theyre still effectively managing their forces. Meantime, theyre paying people within the cities that they have taken control over to at least have some presence there. Lieutenant colonel, thank you. Appreciate that. Still ahead in the cnn news rm, the first known european case of ebola has a nurses aide in madrid struggling to recover. It has left people in spain wonder if anything their country is also up for the fight. Growi. Getting in a groove. Growth is gratifying. Goal is to grow. Gotta get greater growth. I just talked to ups. They got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. Like smart pick ups. Theyll only show up when you print a label and its automatic. We save time and money. Time . Money . Time and money. Awesome. Awesome awesome awesome awesome all awesome i love logistics. For over 19 million people. 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This source did add that contrary to rumors, she does not have massive organ failure. Were also hearing from the special committee that is investigating and remping and looking at the ebola situation here at the moment, and Theresa Romero in particular, and they say that there are some signs at least to be hopeful that the level of virus in her body is going down. Translator the amount of the virus that she has seems to be lowering. It is important to believe that there is hope in her case. We have to be careful. It is a good sign for hope when a person who has contracted ebola is always in Critical Condition. Reporter now, 15 other people remain here quarantined under observation. Five doctors, four nurses, three beuticians, and her husband all under observation in quarantine at the hospital here. We also understand for the European Center for disease control, they consider that the facilities here in the hospital dont match what is required to treat and contain ebola. The special committee has also commented on that saying that their facilities are too small to do the job. Experts are sure that the infrastructure and the treatment as well as the protection for the employees are high quality, but obviously they are here to guarantee that we learn and that what we learn is put into practice. As we have said before, one of the main issues is concern about the isolation locker rooms because of their small size or specific use. Now, that area, where they have the concern that its too small, the space they have to put on and take off, the protective clothing, wrovl a very critical issue for the potential of skin contamination. Nick, cnn, madrid. The amount of virus going down in the body. Nick robertson, thank you. And just ahead, how did a texas nurse in full protective gear still manage to be infected with ebola . Well talk with former u. S. Surgeon general Richard Carmona about what it will take to contain this disease . 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He joins us on the phone from tucson, and, dr. Carmona, what is your analysis of what youre hearing about this nurse who appeared to take all precautions still being infected . Well, thanks for the opportunity to comment and to educate the public to alay their fears. Think expense is without having looked at this myself, it appears that there was a break in the protocol because theres no way she could have been infected by just exposure if she held appropriate personal protective gear and followed all the policies. I agree with my colleague tom frieden, the director of the cdc, that if we look carefully well probably find a break in the protocol, whether it was gloves or whether it was something in the eyes or a blood draw. Somewhere along that whole pathway of care, there was a break in protocol. Its interesting because weve heard a lot of people say, in fact, you immediate some sort of a buddy, you need someone to be watching you, you need a supervisor who can look at exactly how youre taking off the protective gear to make sure after you do take it off, you dont come into contact with anything that could potentially have touched the patient . The cdc and other Health Organizations put out guidelines and some of them are mandatory because the hospitals have to be certified by the joint commission on accredit igs, so theres a lot of the regulatory issues as well. Whether or not hospitals are totally compliant is usually left up to their Infection Control committees, their chiefs of surgery, the chiefs of staff, people in senior positions to be sure compliance with all of the policies and procedures. There is no doubt in my mind as dr. Frieden has said that the pofls and procedures that we have put out through the years are the best chance of protecting anybody from all hazards, whether it is ebola now or any other germ in the future. West africa is ground zero for all of this. Youve got more than 4,000 people who are infected. Youve got close to 1,000 who have died. What is the publics concern here . What is a reasonable approach by the American Public in terms of how vulnerable they might be. We have layers of protection that are in place. Both for people traveling to the country that get screened by temperature, by history. If any of the flights go up that they may have been exposed, they are looked at by Health Professionals and then they are isolated by coming to the country. Once they get to the country, if they pass the first check, theres another second layer now in major airports where people are coming from the affected wrarz where theyre screened once again and the same procedure occurs. Most important issue, especially now where people are a little concerned, is that were in flu season. Lots of people have a low grade temperature. They have aches and pains. They have stomach aches. Thats not ebola. You probably have the flu or a cold. The real critical issue here is what apparently didnt happen in texas is when a patient comes in and has those signs and symptoms, the Health Professional must right away ask where have you been, who have you been exposed to . If the question comes back i just returned from africa or i was in spain and i was taking care of somebody in a hospital who had ebola, then those people get isolated right away. Its a combination of history and the geography of where youve been and who you have been exposed to. We are going to take a look at some of our other top stories. Protesters in ferguson, missouri, want charges brought against the white officer who killed unarmed blackstein Michael Brown in august in st. Louis. 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Led coalition has unleashed nine new air strikes in iraq and sear wra. Does not seem to be stopping isis terrorists from advancing. In syria there were more clashes early this morning on the besieged town of kobani on the turkish border. A fighter tells cnn that the town is strangely byte, and thats sparking fears that isis is preparing something. To the south there have been deadly explosions in spartans of iraq. One of the blasts killed the an bar police chief. It is not clear if isis is responsible, but the terror group is tightening its grip on an bar province. The provinces leaders are pleading for u. S. Ground troops to come in and defend it against isis. The white house insists that iraqi forces can defend the iraqi capital, which is close by. Cnn International Correspondent ben weederman is in baghdad. Ben, there have been a series of bombs in baghdad this weekend despite what the white house is saying. Is there concern for those living in baghdad . Well, debra, just to add to that within the last hour, weve gotten reports of another bomb in baghdad. At had point thats about four or five within the last 24 hours. As far as the americans in baghdad go, they are really sort of in a fortress in the u. S. Embassy. That is probably one of the most if not the most secure diplomatic facilities the wraits owns on earth. The situation for them is still fairly secure, and apart from the very frequent bombs, suicide bombings that occur in the iraqi capital, the city itself seems to be secure. We were on the western perimeter the other day talking to iraqi soldiers and officers, and they seem to be fairly well disciplined, well trained, and well armed, although they did likely show us how well they could shoot out into the distance where there didnt seem to be any possible targets. The u. S. Says that the capital is secure. That american advisors are near those prim meters helping the iraqis and, therefore, isis we understand does conduct hitandrun attacks on the perimeter of baghdad, but theres no sign of any sort of frontal assault on the iraqi capital. All right. Ben, thank you so much for that update. Well check back with you. Still ahead, are hospitals really ready to handle ebola . Do preparations differ from hospital to hospital . We will have that report. Want to change the world . Create things that help people. Design safer cars. Faster computers. Smarter grids and smarter phones. Think up new ways to produce energy. Be an engineer. Solve problems the world needs solved. What are you waiting for . Changing the world is part of the job description. [ male announcer ] join the scientists and engineers of exxonmobil in inspiring americas future engineers. Energy lives here. Having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pickup truck slams into your brand new car. 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Now were being told that a breach in protocol happened at the same hospital and a female nurse who cared for mr. Duncan has tested positive for ebola. Allison, what are you learning now about the readiness of new York Hospitals when it comes to handling ebola cases . Deb, new york citys 11 public hospitals, morning City Health Commissioner is telling us that the hospitals are ready. They really have to be. New york city, you look at it. This is a fwloebl city. Ist also a gateway city for many to come to, especially since almost half of the passengers who actually arrive here from those ebola affected countries, they land here. When i talk with dr. Mary bass, she told me that each of may not may nots public hospitals, they each have isolation areas, and that staffs at all of those hospitals that they have been trained not just in the classroom, but theyve also gotten hands on training as well. You know, anything that people do is really foolproof. People do make mistakes. But that doesnt mean that people have to make mistakes. We can put in place the safeguards that we need for people. Innovative ideas like the buddy system. I cant think of a better person to lead the Ebola Response than dr. Freiden. And he is absolutely correct that we know how to stop this ep deckic. Here we have confidence to identify people who have ebola, to isolate them, evaluate them and best protect their health and sees them through to recovery and ensures that the people looking after them are safe. You may have heard what she was talking about with something called the buddy system. What she is referring to is innovative. All of that gear that these hospital workers have to wear when theyre in contact with someone who has ebola. All the gear can get clungy and thats often where mistakes happen. What she says is they are incorporating this buddy system and its very simple. It sounds simple. What it means is one hospital worker watches as another worker puts on that protective gear to make sure its put on correctly. What is amazing is you think ability when they take it off, a little drop of blood, how many times do you touch your nose and wipe your eye or something. Are they looking at dallas and saying okay. Were safer than that. Which maybe an unfair statement. Are they looking closely . You know, they i did talk. New york city is really keeping an eye on dallas and using it as a learning experience the drek tour came out to the public and was very reassuring about the spread of the virus inside of a hospital i want you to listen to what he said. I said and i repeat that we know how to stop ebola from spreading in hospitals but that doesnt mean its easy. It means you need meticulous attention to detail. You need a team and make sure that every aspect of the protocol is rig lousily and meticulously followed. Now that we have learned of the nurse who you have been talking about all day is now sick with ebola. It is a big question about are hospitals doing all they can at least here in new york city, the Health Commissioner says yes. The operative word being meticulous. Yes. And she repeated that word often during the interview. Its a good word to use. Thank you so much. So allison just told us what hospitals are doik goal is to grow. Gotta get greater growth. I just talked to ups. They got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. Like smart pick ups. Theyll only show up when you print a label and its automatic. We save time and money. Time . Money . Time and money. Awesome. Awesome awesome awesome awesome all awesome i love logistics. For over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. Transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. Transamerica. Transform tomorrow. With the first case of ebola being transmitted in the United States, american authorities are working hard to be sure that it doesnt spread. Thousands contracted the virus and thousands more have died from it. Dr. Sanjay gupta goes inside a town hit hard by ebola. Youre about to go inside an isolation ward. Theres a reason you may not have seen these images before. This has disarmed their immune system, shut off their bloods ability to clot. Up to nine out of ten patients will die. Acelation is the beginning. We found traffic to still be busy here. Markets are full. You see as scary as ebola is, its not particularly contagious. It doesnt dispurse through the air and does not live long on surfaces and people dont typically spread it until they are sick. Really sick. When that is the case the patients are not up Walking Around on the busy streets. They are down in bed in hospitals or worse. Even the dead are highly contagio contagious. This doctor has helped trace outbreaks for more than 30 years. The chris sk not people dealing with ebola patients and regular patients. It only takes a small amount of the virus to cause an infection. As i learned, no precaution is too small for the doctors who care for these parents. Nothing gets in, nothing gets out. Tim is one of the doctors without borders. He is not married. He has no children. That can be a job liability he tells me. The head is completely covered. A multilayer gown, boots and than these are the final layers. Preparing to treat a patient is like preparing to land on the moon. But youre their only visitor. The only person helping them survive. They do this so people outside these wards, the people on the streets will never know what its like to be inside. Dr. January jay gupta. Were here today to communicate about a Health Care Worker who has contracted the ebola virus. There was a breach in protocol and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection. The care of ebola can be done safely but its hard to do it safely. It is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of ebola. Breaking the links in the chain of transmission is the key to preventing further spread. Thats how we will stop it in dallas