This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Good evening. Scotts on assignment. Im jim axle axelrod. There is sharp new criticism tonight of the dallas hospital that has become the focus of the ebola story in this country, and it comes from a nurse who works there. Brianna aguirre says the hospital was not prepared to deal with the disease. The hospital is where first u. S. Diagnosed ebola patient died and where two nurses who treated him caught the disease. One is now being cared for in atlanta. The other was sent to suburban washington. We have team of correspondents covering the ebola story. First anna westerner in dallas. Anna . Reporter jim, we spoke late this afternoon with that nurse aguirre. She did not work on Thomas Eric Duncans case, but she did help treat her coworker, nurse nina pham, when she became sick with ebola. I saw a chaotic scene. It wasnt organized. It wasnt safe. No one really was in charge. Every time id ask, who is in charge, and i went around and around a
News for friday, october 17th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning a Dallas Health care worker who may have handled a lab specimen from the liberian patient who died of ebola may have been on a cruz ship. The ship saled from dugalveston texas, august 12th. She has shown no signs of the disease for 19 days, the maximum incubation period for ebola is 21 days. President obama says he may appoint an ebola czar to head the administrations response to the disease. The first woman diagnosed with the disease is now being treated at the National Institutes of health. She flew in a private jet from texas to the National Institutes of health in maryland. Her doctors say she is in good condition. Mark albert is in bethesda. Ma mark, good morning. Reporter good morning. Pham arrived here just before midnight. She landed at a small airport near here that already closed to the immediate public. Meanwhile the hospital along with the cdc will hold an ebola u.
This is the this is the cbs morning news for friday, october 17th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning a Dallas Health care worker who may have handled a lab specimen from the liberian patient who died of ebola is in isolation on a cruise ship anchored in belize. The ship sailed from galveston, texas, august 12th. They say she has been selfmonitoring and did not have direct contact with thomas duncan. She has shown no signs of the disease for 19 days, the maximum 21 days. President obama says he may appoint an ebola czar to head the administrations response to the virus. The first dallas nurse diagnosed with the disease is now being treated at the National Institutes of health near washington. Nina phams colleagues showed their support as she left Texas Health Presbyterian hospital yesterday. She flew in a private jet from texas to the National Institutes of health in maryland. Her doctors say she is in good condition. Mark albert is in bethe
Captioning sponsored by cbs÷n this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Good evening. Scotts on assignment. Im jim axle axelrod. There is sharp new criticism tonight of the dal that has become the focus of the ebola story in this country and it comes from a nurse who works there. Brianna aguirre says the hospital was not prepared to deal with the disease. The hospital is where first u. S. Diagnosed ebola patient died and where two nurses who treated him caught the disease. One is now being cared for in atlanta. The other was sent to suburban washington. We have team of correspondents covering the ebola story. First anna westerner in dallas. Anna . Reporter jim, we spoke late this afternoon with that nurse aguirre. She did not work on Thomas Eric Duncans case, but she did help treat her coworker, nurse nina pham, when she became sick with ebola. I saw a chaotic scene. It wasnt organized. It wasnt safe. No one really was in charge. Every time id ask who is in charge, and i went ar