Epidemic in africa, made even scarier for americans now with the first case diagnosed in this country. And now the effort to find out who came into contact with the man who is now a patient in isolation in the hospital in dallas, texas. On top of that, there is the unbelievable challenge of trying to track a virl vir virulent illness from overseas in the jet age. And there are questions about whether the dallas patient, Thomas Duncan, told the truth about his exposure to ebola before embarking on International Air travel to the u. S. Were on top of all of it tonight, starting with nbcs ron mott at the hospital where the patients being treated in dallas. Ron, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. As this man continues fighting for his life tonight at this hospital, nbc news learned that before he traveled to the United States, he checked no on a health form asking whether he had any contact with any people infected with ebola. Now that contradicts what some of his neighbors
Their chance to get him off the street two days earlier. How prepared are other hospitals as ebola threatens to become one of our Biggest Health concerns in years. Our chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta is at cnn head quarters. Rene marsh at Dulles Airport outside washington. Sanjay, these four close family members of mr. Duncan who were ordered the stain side their home, and if they leave before october 19th, they could be placed under arrest. Why would authorities require this . Well, they want to keep a close eye on them. The concern is that they had direct contact with mr. Duncan, could they develop symptoms themselves. At first they said, look, its okay, go about your business. We just want to make sure you take your temperature twice a day. We have to be able to monitor you that way. For whatever reason, either because they werent complying or were not able to reliably get those temperatures, they say well put you in a location where we can find you. They went through s
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com this is cnn breaking news. A series of embarrassing incidents has now resigned after shocking Security Breaches that occurred on her own watch. Julia pierson is out just days after an armed intruder made it deep inside the white house and after word that a man with a gun recently stood in an elevator right next to the president of the United States. Were also following the latest breaking news on ebola. The name of the patient diagnosed here in the United States has just been revealed. Our correspondents, our analysts and newsmakers are all standing by with the very latest information. Lets begin, though, with our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta. Julia pierson submitted her resignation to department of Homeland Security jay johnson earlier this afternoon and president obama called pierson to thank her for her many years of service and now the white house begins the process of finding a successor to leave this bruised agency. After a string
First person diagnosed with ebola in the United States. People are wondering how this could happen and theyre wondering why he wasnt admitted the first time he showed up in the emergency room. He told a nurse he had just come from west africa. Reporter healths officials in dallas are working to identify every person whos been in contact with the infected man, now identified as Thomas Eric Duncan. He had multiple interactions over more than a week. Theyre monitoring more than a dozen people for symptoms, including five schoolage children from four schools. But so far, none has been confirmed to be infected. Every step, every contact where he might have had direct niz cal contact with somebody, and for each one of those contacts, we will monitor them for 21 days after exposure. The patient flew from liberia on september 19th and landed in dallas. Four days later he developed symptoms. Went to the dallas emergency room on the 26th. But he was sent home with antibiotics. On sunday the 28th
Leone contracting the disease. Would you leave liberia . The u. S. Has sent 3,000 u. S. Forces over to liberia to help. Our doctors, scientists. What happens if it mutates and becomes like the flu. You cannot get it casually and you must come into contact with bodily fluids. All eyes are on texas today where just in the last hour officials from the Dallas County Health Department as well as the city and its schools briefed reporters on the ebola patient currently being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. Giving an update on the situation and the contact tracing, officials ryed to reassure texas residents that the ebola virus is not something that is easy to contract. This is not like the flu. Its not something where it spreads broadly through the community. You cant contract this unless you have contact with somebody that has shown signs of having this. Officials are now assessing about 100 people who may have come into contact with mr. Curvi duncan, but only a handful are b