No. No. All right, were going to leave it. Its your life, your secret. Lets leave it. She said it, she really did. Hillary clinton went back to kentucky tonight to try to help Ellison Grimes beat Mitch Mcconnell and president obama canceled a trip today to stay in the white house overseeing the Governments Public Health battle with ebola. If this one individual is infected its possible other individuals have been infected as well. Breaking news. A Second Health care worker to test positive for ebola. A Second Health care worker in texas. That is amber vinson, diagnosed overnight. She helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan before he died last week. What weve been doing here today is reviewing exactly what we know about whats happening in dallas. I dont think we have a systematic institutional problem. But were looking at every element. We also know the cdc is working to identify 132 passengers. Vinson traveled by air monday evening. Flight 1143 from cleveland. Vinson boarded that flight with a fever. This is selfpolicing were asking for, even among Health Care Worker es. I think we believe we could have done much worker. The Health Director was pressed on the cdcs response. I do have confidence in the cdc. Half the story is the fear factor. It may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better. The mood on the ground as you might imagine is tense. Wile were anxious about this, were not fearful. Tonight, nbc news has learned that the second nurse to have contracted ebola at texas Presbyterian Hospital, amber joy vinson called the cdc to report that she had a slight fever before boarding that Frontier Airlines plane to return to dallas from cleveland, ohio, on monday. Amber vinson was one of 77 people who had been in contact with ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan and who were classified as, quote, uncertain risk. Those 77 people were reporting their body temperatures to cdc teams routinely and a Government Official tells nbc news when she reported a fever of 99. 5, the person at the cdc didnt tell her not to ply, but also did not give her permission to fly. Cdc guidelines say a person of uncertain risk can fly as long as their temperature is below 100. 4. We also know that she did not have a fever when she boarded the first flight from dallas to cleveland. That is what the head of the cdc said today about her travel. She should not have traveled on a commercial airline. The cdc guidance in this setting outlines the need for what is called controlled movement that is include a charter plane. That can include car, but it does not include public transport. We will from this moment forward ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement. Late today, vincent was taken from texas Presbyterian Hospital by ambulance to Dallas Love Field and put on a special jet. She arrived in atlanta tonight to receive treatment in emorys special containment unit. Thats the hospital that successfully treated both ebola patients who were brought back from africa. The Union Representing nurses was critical today of the way texas Presbyterian Hospital handled Thomas Eric Duncan even before it was confirmed that he had ebola. Mr. Duncan was left for several hours not in isolation in an area where other patients were present. Subsequently, a Nurse Supervisor demanded that he be moved to an Isolation Unit yet faced resistance from other hospital authorities. Texas governor rick perry has taken some criticism all week for continuing his tour of europe this week. And today, he announced that he will cut that trip short and return to texas tomorrow. Tonight, the white house announced president obama cancelled his travel schedule for today and tomorrow. That makes it two days in a row, the president will stay in washington to monitor the governments response to the ebola crisis. With us is a registered nurse with a masters who trained workers in liberia. Also the assistant professor at the nyu school of medicine. And the editor for time magazine. First of all, doctor, im wondering about, weve had people sit in these chairs a couple of weeks ago, doctors, saying its not easy to get ebola. It is not airborne. One said you could sit beside an ebola patient on an aircraft and not worry about it. We seem to be getting a totally different feeling about that tonight. The most concerning thing here is the uncertainty. Were getting different messages from the hospital and the cdc depending on who you talk to. So, you know, the fact is at least based on what we know so far, people can only get ebola from contact with bodily fluids. So people seem to be safe, but it is concerning that theres a discrepancy in terms of what people are saying. A this patient at the worst of it, there was a lot of diarrhea and a lot of vomit. So if some vomit were to touch my wrist, is that it . Is that all it takes . Probably not. It has to enter your body. It has to enter your bloodstream or some of your other bodily fluids. You have to have a mixing of bodily fluids. The fact is there is a lot of uncertainty about ebola. We dont know all the answers. Its a work in progress. But we dont have information from whats been learned in the past in previous outbreaks and here as well. One of my concerns, here in terms of a fever, 99. 5, you know, we dont say that thats a fever automatically. Because there is some uncertainty about what actually the temperature fluctuates a percentage point easily. Ive had my temperature taken many times and it was in the 99ed and they took it to be exactly the same as 98. 6. Exactly. 98. 6 is considered normal. If youre 97. 6, no one would consider that abnormal. Maybe the conditions, if youre exercising, if your hormones are affecting you and stuff. So things can change. I dont know that temperature is necessarily concerning but the fact that people are saying two Different Things is alarming. The nurse called to ask for advice and we have to wonder when people are giving advice, do they know exactly what should be done. And ben, according to the cdc today, one of their rules about this is if youre in a possible suspect group, as this nurse was, youre not supposed to be on public transportation, airplanes,er trains, subways, buses. No public transportation. Well, thats exactly it. And even though all of our temperatures fluctuate, 99 is not a particularly alarming temperature. It is if youre one of 76 people who are known to have come in contact with a person who died of ebola. Its incredibly striking. And thats one of the things particularly alarming about the reports breaking just tonight. What do we know as of now, the cdc said that today. But do we know that these nurses were told that before she ever got on an airplane . No. In fact, one of the biggest problems here is that theres very little that we do know for certain. They said certain things that changed since then. The hospital has said very little. We may know more in a house subcommittee hearing tomorrow. But we have absolutely no idea what the nurses were told. The extent is that report that you excerpted today from the nurses union, and even thats not verified. Given your experience out in the field and seeing the real center of ebola in west africa, what is your guess at this point about what happened with these two nurses . Yeah. So to me, it seems that we are taking a hard look at what were doing in the United States. Because we have been so far caring for eight patients in total, i believe, and we have had two Health Care Staff who have been infected. Contrast this with western africa, for example, Doctors Without Borders whos been taking care of well over 4,000 patients and have had very few of their health fact infected. They have some, but much less. What i think they do very well is that they have stringent, scrupulous Infection Control measures that are in place. And nobody that isnt trained according to their guidelines is allowed to provide care to a patient who is sick with ebola. So thats one key thing, i think, that is missing is that this preparedness, this training that nursing, janitors, lab technicians, anybody who might come in contact with somebody who might be sick with ebola would receive, for example, if they were working at a Doctors Without Borders center in liberia or in sierra leon or in guinea, even. You have to keep in mind these Health Care Workers are working in very difficult conditions with 20, 30 patients in the same room. And yet the infection rates are much less among the Doctors Without Borders staff. So we might want to reach to organizations such as this to see, you know, what is it that they know that we dont know . Or what is it that they do so well that we dont seem to be doing so well . Its the same with equipment. I think that the cdc before, they just changed, i believe, but the requirements for the personal protective equipment was different from what Health Care Workers that are in contact with patients who are sick with ebola have to wear. So much more stringent requirements in west africa compared to so far what weve seen from the requirements that the cdc has put forth. But i believe that today that has changed. The cdc is putting new guidelines in place to have Health Care Workers wear appropriate equipment. Doctor, the thing i think a lot of people are still struggling with is really technically how can this happen . Because i mean as you said, it cant just be that one of those bodily fluids touches my skin. It has to be that one of those infectious bodily fluids gets into my system. And were trying to imagine how that could happen. And by the way, theres no nurse anywhere in the world who isnt careful about this with any patient. Its not like they go in there and they clean up these diarrhea messes and these vomit messes and they dont take every precaution to avoid coming in contact with it in any way. They have the gloves and all sorts of ways in preventing coming in contact with that on a routine basis. Give us some idea. This would have to be a nurse who doesnt notice that theres some exposure to this stuff somewhere on her. Which would mean it would have to be almost microscopic, wouldnt it . Her eye wouldnt pick it up. It could be microscopic. The other thing to think about is are there surfaces its getting transferred. For example, if theyre using with a vomiting basin, is there something going on there . There are also a lot of lines when people are in icu. I mean, we have a lot of different tubes and ivs and other things in patients. Okay, but, but, lets assume that the nurse has somehow picked it up. The nurse then somehow has to somehow get it in her system. Is that by rubbing the eye or Something Like that . We dont know for sure where errors occur, because by we dont know exactly what happened, but thats the highest risk. If you have the gear on, its protecting you. How do you get it off without contaminating yourself that way. Thats something to keep in mind. One thing i think is that people are being a little bit more risky in terms of, you know, like president obama for example, was kissing and hugging some of the Health Care Workers. Those are unnecessary risks. Were going to have to break it there for tonight. 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They all lost their lives because of preventable medical errors, now the third leading cause of death. Only Heart Disease and cancer take more lives. Proposition 46 will save lives with drug and Alcohol Testing to make sure impaired doctors dont treat someone you love. Safeguards against Prescription Drug abuse. And holds the medical industry accountable for mistakes. Im barbara boxer. Lets save lives. Vote yes on 46. Coming up, how Malala Yousafzai could be the key to fighting the Islamic State. I used to think the taliban all around the world the dedicated people of United Airlines are there to support you. Thats got your back friendly. I used to think the taliban would come and just kill me. I said what would you do malala . I say just take a shoe and hit him and i tell him how important an education is and i want education for your children as well. And i will tell him thats what i want to tell you, now do what you want. The extraordinary Malala Yousafzai on the daily show last year. Now shes become the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous fight for girls education, a fight she continued even after the taliban tried to kill her in 2012. You all may know that there was taliban organization. And no one was allowed to go to school. At that time i stood up for my rights and said i would speak up. I did not wait for someone else. I did not wait for someone else. I had really two options. One was not to speak and wait to be killed. And the second one was to speak and to be killed. And i told the second one. At that time there was terrorism, women were not allowed to go outside of their houses. Education was totally banned. People were killed. And that time, i needed to raise my voice because i wanted to go back to school. Malala may be the key to fighting against the Islamic State says my next guest who writes in a world in which one of the greatest International Threats comes from the spread of islamist extremist groups, it is ur gent that we also realize how sensual empowering women is to defeating jihadists. Joining me now, the ceo and editor of Foreign Policy magazine and nadia malick, cofounder and ceo for the Global Partnership for women and girls. Youve got this conversation started. Tell us how you see malala standing against the Islamic State . Well, malala has done a pretty good job of standing up against the taliban to begin with. But the bigger issue we face here is extremism. And there are a number of ways that one must fight extremism. There are cases where you must fight nit a military way. But if youre going to eliminate it or push it aside, you have to have something to replace it. And that requires political solutions. But beyond that, one of the key thrusts that we can make is focusing on empowering women, by educating them, by giving them jobs, by giving them a place in society. We have found that countries that dont do that are the least stable. They have the most troubled economies. They are the ones where extremism breeds. If you look at the rankings and the treatment of women, the ones at the very bottom of the list are the ones that lead in the headlines every night, whether its yemen or syria or afghanistan or iraq or iran or pakistan. And the ones that treat women the best are at the very top of lists of happiness, of quality of life, of economic performance. Like the countries of scandinavia. And so i think we need to look at this and say empowering women is not a soft issue as some of the tough guys in washington could like to suggest. It is an absolutely critical step to making societies immune to the kinds of medieval approaches that isis is pushing. And nadia, when the oppression of women in this male domination and trying to keep them out of schools is being pushed with a religious justification, doesnt that make it all the more difficult to fight . I think there are many layers to this nuanced conversation, and i think what we have to recognize is that women cannot do this alone. We cant go in and have malalas of the world take the stage and effectuate change in a way thats appropriate with a local and cultural context. We need to engage women and girls, men and boys in a way thats locally appropriate so theres not that feeling of a western centric agenda being imposed on a society that is already suspect. What would be your approach in a community where the male dominant position is women, girls, should not be educated in any way. Where does the conversation begin there . I can only speak from example. A project we support in afghanistan supports imams and in the space of their mosque create a safe space for not men and boys but women and girls, so the true islam that we all know, what were hearing from isis is a political agenda, has nothing to do with the true essence of islam. And through these trainings, its creating not a bandaid where youre simply sending somebody to school, but its starting at a very young age, peemg are hearing the same message. Theyre seeing their imams lead through example. Theyre seeing their imams accepteding their daughters to school and theyre seeing their daughters have an opportunity to make a choice. And thats and in societies like that where the imam plays such a pivotal role in daytoday decisions that people make, it starts from the top down. Thanks for starting this conversation. Thank you. Coming up, Hillary Clinton is back on the campaign trail tonight. 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Remember the Government Shutdown . And if you need more reasons, what about the sequester . What about the sequester . Do you remember that word . Arent you just so tired of the double standard that gives tax breaks to companies that ship american jobs overseas . Thats one ive never understood. I fought it as a senator. My husband raised the minimum wage when he was president. I voted to raise the minimum wage when i was a senator. No one who works hard every day should have to end up still living in poverty, not in this state, not in this country. Hillary clintons appearance on the campaign trail comes as alisyn crimes continues to refer to herself as a, quote, clinton democrat, distancing herself from president obama. Yesterday, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign committee announced its pulling its Advertising Money from kentucky and redirecting it to states like georgia and colorado. Joining me now is sam youngman, political reporter for 9 lexington Herald Leader and a contributor to the daily beast and karen finney, former Dnc Communications director. Its never a good sign when the party pulls out of the state in a senate race like this. The interpretation is the party is giving up on allison lundgrengrimes beating mitch mccobble so theyre pulling the party money out of that state and putting it somewhere where they think they can win. Thats true, although it was interesting that today, i think, it was, the democratic Senatorial Campaign committee actually walked that back a little bit and said tler going to continue to spend some money on polling. So im very curious to know the flurry of phone calls that might have gone back and forth after that announcement. But youre right. The read is okay, youre suggesting that perhaps this race is no longer viable, winnable, weve got to put our resources elsewhere. You have to give Alison Lundergan grimes a lot of credit. She helped change the narrative from what its been for the past week which is, you know, Alison Lundergan grimes refusing to say if she voted for the president. It certainly wasnt the home run that she needed. I think and then, of course, we spent the last two days talking about the dsc pulling out of the kentucky. I think tonight she got the boost she needed from Hillary Clinton and i think shell get a good ad out of it, too. Hillary clinton going in there while the party seems to be pulling back resources, which is to say while some political professionals in washington are thinking, it looks like mcconnell has this thing. Hillary clinton is not afraid to go in there on what could end up being a losing campaign. Thats exactly right. A couple of things. Number one, one of the demographics that Alison Grimes needs is women voters. The clinton name is still very popular in kentucky and obviously women voters are critical and im sure a lot of people came to see hillary and also im sure to kind of get a preview for oops, 2016, just in case that should happen. She definitely was able to capitalize on the fact that people were curious to come and see hillary, maybe at the same time they took a second look at Alison Lundergan grimes as a candidate. The strangest thing about their debate policy wise is Mitch Mcconnell saying they want to get rid of obama care root and branch and then saying he wants to leave one of those roots in kentucky, the very popular website in kentucky created by the obamacare, where people can shop for their health insurance. I think this is a simple matter of reading polling. Senator mcconnell gave us the same answer in may the day after his primary. I think its a case of wanting to have his cake and eat it, too. He wants the state to hear hes all for repealing obamacare. Just the term is exceedingly unpopular here, but kyneckt is very popular. Democrats in kentucky have had no ability to teach the population that obamacare equals kentucky kynect, its the same thing . Well, they spent a fortune trying to do that. I just dont think its broken through. The governor has been screaming this from the top of his lungs everywhere he goes. One thing i thought that was interesting tonight was secretary clinton, just like president clinton back in february, they really heaped the praise on governor basheer for what hes done in implements the exchange here. Secretary grimes has been very reluctant to embrace it for fear of being tied to president obama. Karen finney, the latest fox news poll has mcdonnell 45, grimes 41. 45 is not a good number for an incumbent. This thing is still a winnable race by either side. Absolutely. And again, at this point, you know this, it is about turnout. The Little Things about whether or not she voted for obama, absolutely was a distraction for a couple of days. I agree. Having hillary in there changes the narrative for her. But at this point its about the ground game. If all those people who showed up tonight dont show up for the polls, its not going to matter. Thats where they have to stay focus is turnout. We know Mitch Mcconnell will have a good turnout machine. Thank you both for joining me tonight. Thanks, lawrence. Coming up, president obama, fidel castro and a Certain United States senator are together in the rewrite. And later, will i am thinks he has a better idea than this little thing right here. He thinks hes got something you can put on your wrist that hes invented thats better than this. Mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmmm here we go, here we go, here we go. 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The times made the case that president obama used to make before he was president obama. In 2007, senator obama said weve been engaged in a failed policy with cuba for the last 50 years and we need to change it. The times editorial gave the president credit for what it called some important steps. The Obama Administration in 2009 took important steps to ease the embargo, making it easier for cubans in the United States to send remittances to relatives in cuba and authorizing more cubanamericans to travel there, and it has paved the way to expand Internet Access and cell phone coverage on the island, fully ending the embargo will require congress approval. The embargo, americas longest running idiotic Foreign Policy was 34 years old in 1996 when one of the most destructive senators in the history of the body, republican jesse helms of North Carolina pushed the helmsburton act through congress where it was formally titled the cuban liberty and democratic solidarity act of 1996. Then and only then in 1996 did the embargo actually become law. Every president from john kennedy to bill clinton was personally empowered to end the embargo until then. But none of them did. None of them had the political encourage to do it, including Richard Nixon who did, to his credit, have the political courage to normalize relations with the much more menacing dictatorial regime in china. Normalizing relations with china left no conceivable justification for our perversely abnormal relations with cuba, but the embargo persisted because of one of the Founding Fathers worst ideas the electoral college. As long as winning the state of florida in the president ial election could turn on the vote of cubanamericans understandably bitter about fidel castro, no man of serious president ial ambition, including reelected president s, dared to talk about ending the embargo. The year before jesse helms got the embargo written into a permanent law, the United States normalized relations with vietnam, only 20 years after that same communist vietnamese dictatorship was killing american soldiers in the war in vietnam that the United States lost. We never had a war with cuba, but our embargo with cuba outlasted our enmity towards the regime in vietnam that killed 58,220 american soldiers. Diplomatically, at least, all is forgotten with vietnam. We americans can all go to vietnam tomorrow and stay in the sheraton saigon or the marriott renaissance in saigon or use our credit cards to buy gr ande nonfat lattes at starbucks in saigon and try vietnams version of a big mac while were at it. We all have our governments blesings to go spend our money in a country that killed 58,220 american soldiers. Now, i suppose i can go there and rent a car and go and try to find the spot where my cousin johnny was killed, but we cant go to cuba tomorrow and rent a car and go to the beach. What did cuba do to deserve this . What did cuba do that was worse than china and worse than vietnam beating the United States in a war and killing 58,220 american soldiers just 20 years before we correctly normalized relations with vietnam. We were wrong to go to war in vietnam, but we were right to normalize relations when we did. When 2,500 americans soldiers a month were being killed in vietnam in 1968, no one in the world would have told you that the United States would normalize relations with vietnam before it normalized relations with cuba. In the decades that he controlled cuba with an iron fist beforehanding over the job to his brother, fidel castro masterfully exploited the embargo for his benefit. He was able to point to the embargo for every explanation for every difficulty the cuban population felt every day, though most of their problems were the result of castros crude dictatorship and his complete ignorance of modern economics. Yesterday fidel castro issued a written response to the times editorial. But no one actually thinks that that response came from fidel castro, who most knowledgeable sources believe is suffering from dementia now and is incapable of responding. In order to make it sound like fidel, the statement refers to the military dictator who seized power in cuba seven years before fidel castro then seized power from him. The fake castro reminds cubans, bautista took power on march 10, 1952, only 50 days after the general election. This can never be forgotten. That really is purify del. Pure fidel. What is extraordinary is that its a virtual full reprinting of the New York Times editorial which contains many very sharp criticism of the castro brothers regime. President obama has not responded to the editorial but senator Robert Mendez of new jersey has. New jersey has the second largest population of cubanamericans in the United States. Senator mendez himself was born in new york in 1954 after his parents fled, not castros cuba, but bautistas cuba. The regime that the United States supported. Senator mendez wrote a letter disagreeing with the editorial, leaning on the absurd notion that ending the embargo would be, in his words, quote, rewarding tyranny. Senator mendez pretends in the letter that the United States of america must never have normalized relations with dictatorships. Never mind that senator mendez has himself made official visits to some of the dictatorships around the world with whom we maintain full diplomatic relationships and trade partnerships. Hes met with them no doubt shaken their hands. 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This is not will i ams first foray into the tech world, he was one of the founders of beats headphones that apple acquired for a mere 3 billion in a recent interview, will i am spoke to msnbc about the goal of his new venture and the importance of Computer Science education for the younger generation. When it comes to education reform, theres a lot of successful people in america. If you want education reform, you just got to do that. Government is great, but its slow. But they sure aint slow when it comes to some Terror Threat and for some reasons billions of dollars get cleared and we send airplanes and stuff real fast. I dont get it. Theres some terror right now here in america and thats called lack of education. You ask a ninth grader, when are you taking ios . Do you have android in fourth period . Microsoft for Second Period . Those are the biggest businesses in america. You would think in america that kids are learning those tools. Apple has more money than the American Government has liquid. You should take an interest in Computer Science and s. T. E. M. So you can bring markets to product. I want them to see if i can do it, and i come from the same projects as you, same Living Conditions as you, you can do it. When you learned about the apple buyout, one of the things that you said publicly is this would be good for kids in the inner city. Why is that . Because it gives a new lane for people to aspire to travel down. Oh, wow, dr. Dre made some consumer electronic products and wow, apple bought it . You needed Something Like that in culture so kids can dream that way. This new venture is not about money at all. This is about a void i see that i want to fill. I think its going to spark a big movement in america and around the world for kids in the unlikely place to take an interest. Joining me now, the host of msnbcs ronan farrow daily. Its will i am versus apple. Quite the david versus goliath. Thats one of the interesting things he sees in it. Its a brandnew world with these wearable pieces of technology and its up for grabs in his view. He feels even an underdog like himself can go up against the big 800pound gorilla. Normally you see apple has this idea. Now its the watch thing. And theres usually the rest of the world seems to be six months behind. Heres will i am coming out, his device will probably be out around the same time that apples device. It could be the first time apple has something to compete with in the market at the same time. Thats one of his gadgets here. Theres a lot of skepticism. Were seeing the reaction come out in real time from the tech sector tonight. He Just Announced this. There is skepticism about it. Look, i saw him demo this. It is still being fixed for bugs. He has a small army of engineering working on this right now. He tried to demo it a few times and like with many products including apple products that make it to market. There are a few failures of voice recognition, but its fascinating. And he has a new ideas that arent present in the apple tech like charging it through fashion items that hes also making. It charges through contact with the wrist cuff of a jacket that accompanies it. Hes got big ideas and hes going allin. One of the things he told me that i love is the am in will i am stands for ambition. Thats good to know. I never knew that. So this point he makes about curriculum in schools is a really important point. You could argue about what should be taught. But the idea that the current curriculum is not putting people in the right pipeline for the job force is absolutely true. Thats absolutely true, and its such an Important Message and i think underrepresented in his current part of the music business, too. You dont hear this from a lot of role models that kids look up to in places like where he grew up in Boyle Heights in east l. A. In the projects. He connects everything he does to giving back. I like seeing him reach back. You have more on this tomorrow on your show, right . I do. A lot more of him talking. Hardball starts right now. Taking charge. This is hardball. Good evening. In washington, president obama has just taken charge of the global fight against ebola. Weve got all the bases covered tonight with craig melvin in dallas, tom costello and Kristin Welker at the white house where the commander in chief has issued orders to contain a Health Danger that he said threatens to become a global catastrophe if not killed at its source. Our goal here tonight, give you what you need to know in protecting yourself against ebola which has just today captured its second american victim here in the u. S. President obama canceled a planned fundraising trip to new jersey and a rally in connecticut to meet with cabinet