Good morning, everyone. We have new developments in the ebola crisis this morning. The condition of the first nurse to test positive has changed from good to fair after being transferred to the national of institutes center. And the second nurse, vincent, may have been at a more advanced statement of the illness than just thought when she travelled on frontier flights between dallas and cleveland, but an email to an employee says crew members on the flight were at a low risk exposure, and the doctors that treated all three ebola patients in dallas is talking about how the two nurses caught the virus from duncan. He says, i think these two nurses took care of a critically ill patient at a time when he was not in control of his bodily fluids, and at a time when the recommendations from the cdc that we were following did not include the full respiratory mask. I dont know that, but thats what one person thinks, and thats me. Joining me now is sarah outside the hospital in dallas. What do we know, first of all b. How both of the nurses are doing . Reporter alex, as you know, both nurses have been transported to specialty isolation units in other states, and vincent taken to Emery University hospital in atlanta where they are barred from giving out information about her case because of patient confidentiality laws, and nina pham, we know a lot more about her condition. She had the emotional sendoff on thursday with the video of her doctors in full protective gear telling her goodbye and that they loved her, and she says she loves them in response and tears up, and an emotional sendoff as employees line the road where the ambulance drove her down with signs of support. She is reportedly in fair condition. She is downgraded from good to fair, but we are told she is still sitting up and eating a little bit and engaging with the staff there. Doctors say this is all part of the natural progression of ebola, and there will be up and down days, and they do say they fully intend to see her walk out of that hospital. Certainly we hope that is the case indeed. What about the cruise ship, sarah. There was a lab worker in self co quarantine. I guess the workers are trying to disinfect that ship. Thats got to be really hard to do. Reporter its a huge job, alex. The cdc manual on how to sanitize a ship is more than 200 pages long, and this is disinfecting the carpets and life switches and air shafts, and its a huge job. Passengers on the ship report seeing crew members going around and sanitizing things, railings, the bar, the elevator, and this passenger, like you said, is in a quarantine with her partner inside her room and she is not showing any symptoms. She is nearing the end of the 21day window and not showing any symptoms, and as the cdc said, its not possible for anybody not showing active symptoms of ebola to infect anybody else. Okay, thank you for that. Joining me now in the studio, a raouheumatologist, natalie. One nurses condition has gone from good to fair. What does that tell you . Good to fair, we never like to have a drop in status like that. We go from stable to critical and etc. Again, not knowing all the details of her care, you know, we always know that patients that get sick with this seem to do okay for three to four days and then it kind of hits at day six, seven and eight, when the bodys immune response starts to fail and the virus takes over and we note that that can happen. It just might be that this is a bump in the road for her, and that either with electrolyte imbalances, orch kidney issues, this could happen. She is going to get plasma from dr. Kent bradley, and experimental medications, and thankfully she is being taken care of in the most appropriate place possible, and her chances of survival still remain very good. I think that this is not an unexpected or not anticipated event for her. So again, this is part of the normal progression at this point. It could very well be, yes. This is still fair when you talk about ebola, fair is not critical . Right. And what is important for the viewers to remember, we have had one death in this country from a patient with ebola, and the three people who have been infected on u. S. Soil are surviving this disease, and that sends a very Important Message to the American Public that while it was a shame, and even the cdc conceded they mishandled the texas case by not having medical personnel on the ground immediately after the first infection which led to the transmission, and it shows us we can effectively treat the cases in this country. We have shown that. You mentioned dr. Bradley, and he survived it, and how much can he give and when do they decide to bring his plasma into the situation . They have to make sure he is a match and it ago. Its not a blood transfusion, and he is not giving tons of blood. You dont need that much plasma to get the ap antibodies out. Survivors could offer their plasma to newly infected people if they are a match. Its a wonderful resource. The dallas workers, if they get past the 21day period relative to mr. Duncan, do you think things will calm down considerably . I think things will calm down amazingly, considerably, and the numbers compared to the numbers in liberia, a manageable number for contract tracing, and we learned a lot in the last month about holes in our preparedness, and we have reacted to those and we are hoping not to lose any american lives in this process. I just want to reiterate what we heard from gary weinstein, a doctor that treated all the patients at the texas hospital. They believe duncan had a lot of bodily fluids and thats how they got infected, and this is one person saying this, and that is me. We know the mode of transmission and we know the nurses were not properly suited up, gowned and protected, and thats when the infection occurred. This is not outside of the box. And, again, we are learning lessons from this and we hope not to repeat that. We appreciate your insights. See you soon. Thank you. The big story developing overnight, bermuda in the dark this morning after a category 2 hurricane slammed into it overnight leaving a path of destruction and knocking out power to the island. Our meteorologist is joining me now with more on this. Still in the dark there, huh . Yes, that is the case. Gonzalo was a destructive storm, so it certainly was that was the case, that was anticipated as we have been forecasting the system for the last several days, and it made landfall right over bermuda at 8 30 p. M. Eastern time friday night, and thats 9 30 p. M. Bermuda time and it made landfall has a category 2 hurricane, and most of the damage was due to the strong gusty winds and, of course, the storm surge. Not a whole lot of rain fell on the island which was forecasted, again, most of the damage was due to the strong gusty winds through the saturday morning, and the good news is, as gonzalo continues to push away, the rain ended and the winds are subsiding in terms of the storm surge and water levels will subside as well. Take a look at gonzalo now, and its continuing to push off to the northnortheast at 16 to 22 miles per hour, and gonzalo is less than 200 miles north of pw burma tkau. Hurricane ana, we dont think its going to have direct impact on the big island as we head into this saturday and sunday, there will be heavy rains and gusty winds. The main track of the storm will stay away from the big island, so thats the good news, alex. 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Reporter we know he was really upset and dissatisfied at the way this Ebola Response has been handled. We are learning there have been a number of mistakes and missteps by the cdc, and we know there were a lot of mistakes made at the dallas hospital, so he reportedly told his aides the response was not tight enough. He held the emergency meetings on wednesday and again on thursday with his cabinet officials to try and make sure that the response was more coordinated, that there was a more robust federal response. That is part of the reason why he decided to appoint a socalled ebola czar. A former chief of staff to Vice President biden as well as to Vice President , al gore, he was getting a lot of pressure to do that, not just from a country concerned with the negative headlines coming out day after day, but also political pressure. Democratic sources telling me they were concerned that the administration getting so heavily criticized, that would hurt their chances. And the republicans are saying the czar doesnt have any medical background, and the white house is saying they did not want an ebola expert but an implementation expert, and they are trying not only to reassure the public but quell a political storm. Well, you need to put the politics aside for all of us, but specifically what is he going to do . Do we know from where he is going to work . Well, he is going to be here coordinating the federal effort, and all of the agencies working together to make sure they are on the same page and they have the same information and they are disseminating that information to the hospitals throughout the country so the hospitals can be prepared to deal with the ebola patients and the public has the correct information, and again, the strategy on the part of the white house is not only dealing with the response here in washington, but they are sending a team down to dallas, and of course, i wouldnt be surprised, alex, if we saw ron claim making a trip to dallas in the coming weeks. Thank you for that. Joining me right now, the doctor from the university of pennsylvania and former white house special adviser on health policy. Good to see you, sir. My first question would be the apartment of the ebola czar, and it was written up in the new york times, doctors say we need a manager and scientists are not that good at managing something. Do you think that the fact that he doesnt have medical experience is a deficit at all, or do you think its a good appointment . I know him and i worked with ron for two years when i was at the white house p. He is an incredibly smart and terrifically well organized, and he will bring in the experts and get the advice he needs, and the institute of health down the street has experts on this disease as do other institutions, so i am sure he will get the advice that he needs, and i hope he keeps them close in the white house. We keep hearing about dr. Kent brantley who survived ebola and his plasma is being used for treatment. First of all, how much can he provide, a Single Person treating this virus, and beyond that what is the treatment for someone . Well, the main treatment for people is supportive care, and that is the two big problems with the ebola clinically are that you drop your Blood Pressure like you have what is called septic shock when the immune system reacts to an infection, whether bacteria or a virus and it releases things, and they decrease the pressure and open up the vessels and that could be extremely dangerous and people die of that, and the second problem is the clotting problems, because the liver doesn function, and clotting happens. The on set of symptoms are 12 to 14 days before the people turn around and those problems are sort offoffio oviated. They need to make sure they have enough fluids and the plate lets are available. And some of the doctors antibodies, he has those against the surface protein and that should neutralize it, and you can pull that off without taking all of his blood, and thats what they are doing, whether its tkpodoing, and whe its going to be effective or not, thats the problem on not doing a trial on this stuff, and we wont know if the patient survived if it was these kind of antibodies or not. Nobody else further comes up with the ebola virus, does that greatly reduce the problems that were having here in this country at this point . I know you have to look at all the screening at the airports and any number of different factors as well, but past that period, do things calm down a little bit or not . You can take a sigh of relief. Actually, i think most of it is probably in the first 14 days. But we can, then, take a sigh of relief. But the whole point of appointing the czar is who knows when you might have somebody show up from west africa or someone else that has ebola, and, you know, we have a whole series of events like we did in dallas. We should not take that and let our guard down. In fact, the 21 days happens and we still need to be sure hospitals have educated their staff and have gone through training, and they are really ready. I think we have to push forward also on two other fronts, and one is to really get enough vaccine and other experimental agents to actually test them and see if they work or dont work, and we do need to make sure that the situation is under control, because after all if we get that under control and the get ebola epidemic there, its better for the whole world. We have to make sure that while we are trying to get things under control in the United States, and trying to reassure the public in the United States, we dont for get the epicenter. Nigeria was able to control their outbreak with the right infrastructure, so we know its possible and what we need to do is concentrate the resources, health care workers, the protective gear in those areas. I am curious, can you put a timeline on where this potentially ends for the u. S. . You cant put a timeline on it precisely because we dont know whether anybody else is going to come down with it. It looks increasingly unlikely, but over the next few weeks with hopefully the nurses recovering, we will be out of the danger zone. We wont see another case, and then as i said, we can probably take a breath of calm, but we shouldnt let our guard down. I think having somebody at the top who can make sure that all the hospitals in the country really do get the right information, do educate and train their staff is going to be still important even if we dont have another recurring case. One of the things i would like to emphasize, we should take this opportunity to really double down on all of our Infection Control measures, what happened in dallas doesnt reassure you that all the other Infection Control measures for everyday patients are at top notch, and thats also important as we have millions of people per year who go into hospitals and get care. Absolutely valuable Lessons Learned for sure. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. No problem. Will concerns about ebola affect your travel plans. My handle is alexwitt. During the summer it used to cost me 35 to fill up, and now it costs me 15 bucks. Thats a big difference. Very big difference. I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Like 70,000 bonus points when i spent 5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. 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A new report says that defected Iraqi Military officers are training isis militants to fly three russian jets seized from a military base. The planes have been spotted flying below radar near the air base that isis captured last january. The propaganda video from 2013 claims to show aligned militants fighting for the air base and seizing these training jets. Joining me now to talk about it, retired colonel jack jacobs. The government wont confirm this and dont have information other than that which has been released from isis and its propaganda machine. Theres some indication its unlikely they have captured fully working aircraft and if they do, they dont have the repair parts or the technology to repair them and they need constant attention, so its probably not as big of a threat as isis is trying to make out. Thats the mechanical part. What about the training when they talk about the iraqi soldiers, sympathetic or members of isis now . Thats a different story altogether. The video shows looks like they are training aircraft, and they can put bombs and rockets on them and attack ground targets. This is the threat, and its the biggest threat, and the biggest threat is against the current. We have eyes in the sky, and we have the ability to keep our eye on these things if they get up and start attacking people. So clearly, isis would like to get their hands on something that is functional and operation to get to the skies. Yeah f. Things get worse for the syrians, they are lable to get ahold of those. The possibility is a real threat. Sort term and Tactical Operations using air by isis could be devastating to people on the ground. What about up in the air . We have fighter jets up in the air and doing missions. If they are mig 21s and 23s, and we have f18s, and 22s, and they can shoot down radar, and we can launch airtoair missiles, and we could take them down quickly. When is the last time Fighter Pilots were engaged in the air in the air wars . Iraq, it has been sometime ago, but we are pretty good at what we do. The real problem with isis, of course, they will achieve gains on the ground, and they have done that, they just recently were run out of kobone. They are going to be able to hold the terrain they seized, and if isis gets planes it could be hard. They are not going to last very long without repair parts, and the technology to keep them flying, its extremely difficult to do that, especially with aircraft this old. They need lots and lots of repair parts. They have to be changed continuously, and isis doesnt have they dont have they have the operational capability, perhaps, but not the maintenance. Good, and thank you very much. They say imtaytion is the serious form of flattery. Congress is having none of that. Why the classic schumaker is suing more than 30 of its competitors. Ifying. Ifying. Goal is to grow. Gotta get greater growth. I just talked to ups. They got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. 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Chris, good morning and welcome. What you have learned about the new guidelines . Reporter these new guidelines come in direct to the response to the two texas Presbyterian Hospital workers that contracted ebola after caring for the first patient, duncan, that passed away from the disease, and criticism from hospital administrators and nurses from texas presbyterian that said there were shifting guidelines from the cdc. Here are some of them. One, all caregivers cover their skin, and one nurse said her neck was exposed, and they should use alcohol based Hand Sanitizer on their gloves when they emerge from the room, and there should be a dedicated dressing room outside of the patients room so they can properly suit up and also when they come out, there is a way to quarantine the personal protective equipment they wear, and also, finally, hospitals use a buddy system, everybody who enters an ebola patients room, has another partner that witnesses them put on their gear and take it off in the certain order of steps they are supposed to do it, its a check to make sure that everybody follows the proper protocols. Can i ask you about amber vincent, and we are not hearing much about her. She is being treated in atlanta. Why have we not heard any condition reports . Medical reports are a very sensitive thing, and its up to the family on how much information is shared. So the family of vincent has chosen to remain private at this time. I just spoke with a spokesperson here at the hospital who did confirm the family doesnt want any information released about vincent. You may remember a couple days ago her family issued a written statement where they thanked everybody for prayers and support but said they request privacy at this time, and thats why we are not hearing anything about vincent at this point. Thank you for the update. The other big story this morning, bermuda is recovering from the pounding of hurricane gonzalo, and that storm knocked out most of the electricity with winds higher than 100 miles per hour. And lets go to dylan dreyer. It was prettier than yesterday. At least the sun is out. Reporter yes, the sun returned and the waves roughed up, but last night was brutal. The eyewall came through just before 8 00, and right around 8 00, the eye passed over the island. Everything went calm. There was not the slightest breeze and then the backside of the storm raged through the area. We are looking at wind gusts, we have had reports of 144 miles per hour. It was the first time during the storm i was getting nervous, and i was trying to get sleep and then it was no, i will go into the bathroom, and i felt maybe i was be abg baby through the storm, and i found out a lot of other people were going into the bathtub, and everything held up fine. We were totally safe, but all of that wind did cause a lot of damage. We will assess that damage later on, and so far we have 30,000 people without power, and Cell Phone Communications are shaky at best, but we were talking a lot yesterday about the causeway, the only connection this island has to the airport, and during hurricane fabian in 2003, that category 3 hurricane washed out the bridge, and there was a replacement bridge and engineers are out assessing it and they expect to reopen it after they just make sure structurally its okay. Seems to have held up, but we have not seen the damage yet, because we are in an isolated area. Once we go out and see, i am assuming a lot of vegetation like what we saw in the Tropical Storm last sunday here, we will see what happens. The island is built for it and seems to have handled it okay. A lot of that, they are experienced in bermuda. They are frequently hit by at least Tropical Storms in that area, and i know you have reported that so many times. 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There was a massive selloff on wednesday and a bit of a meltdown, and then yesterday a meltup. We have a lot of volatility. It can be a bit tricky sometimes to pinpoint what is driving financial markets, especially in volatile times like this, but it does seem that once again markets woke up to general economic weakness around the globe. An important forecasting group, the International Monetary fund, marked down their Global Forecast by almost half a point earlier in the week, and that caught some investors attention. Germany, which has been a powerhouse in europe, one of the few, they have posted unfortunate numbers. If you look at the overall rate of inflation in europe, its down to. 3 , and thats low. When it gets too low its a sign of weak demand and danger ahead, so i think these factors contributed to some of the volatility. We have talked so much with you about how people have not benefitted during wall streets rice, so many, i mean, the vast majority, and you wrote about how wages never rose with that. Why is this . This is really one of the most important factors that is yet to recover in the u. S. Economy. I was just telling you about europe, and our economy is doing better on a variety of Macro Economic indicators, but you are right, alex, a lot of folks that are just drawing paychecks, and i am sure they are glad to hear the gdp is doing well, and if its not reaching them, thats a big gap. I think the key there, alex, is diminished worker bargaining power. Its connected to the inequality issue that you and i have discussed before. The American Worker just has less ability to claim what i think many of us would call their fair share of a growing economy. Some of it has to do with the lack of unions, and of course that has been around for a long time, and some of it has to do with generalized weakness in the job market, and the fact the unemployment record has been elevated for so long, and it makes it tougher for workers to press for equal pay. And there were quote, significant income and wealth games for those at the top and stagnant Living Standards for the majority. What are the solutions to that . I do agree with that, and i am speaking to you from boston, where i am at, the conference at the federal reserve, and janet yellen spoke there yesterday, and its one of the first times that the chair in the federal reserve, the worlds chief economists spoke in such depth about the inequality problem, and i give her tremendous kudos for bringing that to the forefront. This is real. You mention college debt. Again, thats kind of an intersection between two trends, stagnant family incomes, particularly in the middle and lower end of the scale, and increasing college tuitions. That kind of collision made it tough for families who want their kids to get ahead. And they talked about the challenges of inequality of opportunity, and the education channel is so important there. Gas prices, at least, a lot of people are smiling because the price is dropping. National wide the gallon of gas is 3. 14, and 2. 89 2. 89 in new jersey this weekend. Wow. Sorry to be a boring old economist, but lets go back to supply and demand. There has been a significant increase on the supply side when it comes to oil. Some of that is fracking, and some of that is the fact that the saudis in particular are stepping up their oil production. 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Chuck taylors might have been a little too popular with the competition, converse filed lawsuits with 32 companies for frayedmark infringements. Alex an der kauffman has been following the story. Youve got discounters and high fashion, who all is being accused . Well, you have four chinese companies, which is important for part of the suit. You also have a lot of really big retailers, sketchers, h and m even. After we called converse for information about the suit, they sent us these three pairs of shoes, one is the original, two are the alleged knockoffs, not a lot of difference here. This one is the legit one, has the converse seal. Theres that. This one is pretty close imitation, got the stitching. This one is not expensive at all, k mart shoe, runs like 16 or 17. How difficult is it for a Fashion Company to make a Trademark Infringement case like this . Well, its very difficult, what this is relying on is that test consumers and prove the fact that consumers associate this design with converse and not just this design with these sneakers in general. And that will really prove to be a difficult test for the converse to prove. Yeah, look, im curious why converse is filing the lawsuits just now. We talked about them being iconic in the 60s, they we t the timing . Nike owned them since 2003. And converse claims that since 2008 theres been a great proliferation of these knockoffs. So their sales have been doing pretty well. They make up about 6 of nikes overall revenue, but its kind of unclear why they are suing now. I mean, one would i would venture to guess its just because they are seeing so many different brands produce their own knockoffs and now they want to crack down. I guess you have to define the work knockoff, i would like to have murray pull back up the graphic. Price points for all three, k mart, 17, converse at 55, the original one. Then you have these fashionista ones, 225 a pair. Can you give me an assessment how prominent this look is across fashion today . Its very common. You have all they are suing 31 Different Companies and many are the biggest retailers in the world. Its a very common shoe now. Its something that a lot of people are wearing and thats whats going to make this even more difficult to prove in court. Okay. I appreciate that. Business editor there, thanks for your time. We want to know, we did reach out to the companies we mentioned here, and ralph lauren and ed hardy, none of them returned our calls and others said they are not going to comment on an ongoing lawsuit. That wraps up this hour. Straight ahead, youve got up with steve kornacki. Man i know the name of eight princesses. Im on expert on softball. And tea parties. Ill have more awkward conversations than im equipped for, because im raising two girls on my own. 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