A week now but today we saw a full scale riot. The trigger seemed to be the funeral of freddie gray. The latest name in the conversation of police brutality. Businesses including this five story structure were set on fire along with police vehicles. This is not protesting, this is not your First Amendment right. This is just criminal acts doing damage to a community that is challenged in some way that do not need this. Reporter several thousand people attended todays funeral for freddie gray. His unexplained death from a spinal injury has sparked questions. After todays funeral, those protests turned violent. It started with High School Students throwing objects at officers. Today at least 15 officers have been injured. Six of them in serious condition. About three dozen people have been arrested. Were seeing unprecedented type of violence throughout the city. Reporter the National Guard has been called in along with Law Enforcement from around the state of maryland. Were not going to
And climate warriors try to blockade australias largest coal port in a protest over Global Warming. Good to have you with us. The secretarygeneral of the United Nations ban kimoon has launched another urgent appeal for funds to help fight ebola after a United Nations drive for donations fell short of its target. It comes as his predecessor accused the worlds richest countries as responding to the Ebola Outbreak only after the disease reached europe and the United Nations. He told the bbc that he is bitterly disappointed with the International Community for not moving faster to stop the spread of ebola. Earlier, president obama authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to west africa if they are needed, and the number of people who have died from the virus is expected to reach 4,500 by the end of the week, 236 of those were Health Workers. Of the five countries hardest hit by the outbreak, nigeria and senegal are saying theyre on the brink of being clear of the disease, but the
Indications from the Oscar Pistorius hearing that it may be several more weeks before the judge sentences the athlete. Reporter im Karin Giannone live outside the court in pretoria where reeva steenkamps cousin has said she wants Oscar Pistorius to pay for what hes done. And continuing our series on the u. S. Midterm elections, we take the blues highway to americas poorest state, mississippi. Those blues is what i play and its what im gonna do for the rest of my life. Hello, and welcome to the program. The World Health Organization has said that a major outbreak of ebola in north america and western europe is unlikely given their Strong Health systems. While president obama also said that the risk of americans getting the virus was extremely low, although he ordered a much more aggressive response. The u. S. Is investigating how a nurse infected when treating a victim in texas was then allowed to travel on a plane. From dallas, this report. Reporter americas latest ebola patient being
Date, nina pham is at the National Institutes of health. She is doing well and resting comfortably. Amber vincent is at emory. They have said she is conversing with her family. Also, her family made a statement. In it, they said she roared her slightly elevated temperature several times to the cdc before flying. Several times was given the all clear to fly back to dallas. Now, the other Health Care Workers who also took care of Thomas Eric Duncan, they are monitoring themselves until october 29th. So they still have a while where they still need to be monitoring themselves and where they have limited movements and cant get on airplanes and that sort of thing. We mentioned the family of Thomas Eric Duncan. That happened yet. His girlfriend issued this statement. She said we are so happy this is coming to an end. Our happiness is pittsburghed with sadness at the same time. We continue to mourndown duncans loss and grieve the circumstances of his death just at the time we thought we were
My crew a long time ago id keep them alive. Thanks for joining us. Although the ebola crisis in west africa is far from over, there are some positive developments to report. First, the u. S. Military is getting more involved. A Quick Strike Team of doctors, nurses, and trainers will be able to deploy anywhere in the u. S. Within 72 hours to help at hospitals. Also, 48 people who came into contact with Thomas Duncan before he died in texas are now cleared from monitoring. Duncans fiance will complete her 21day quarantine in the coming hours. And blood tests show the spanish nurses aide who contracted the virus is now free of the disease. Teresa romero ramos will probably stay in the hospital in spain for a little while longer to fully recover from ebola. Shes been there for two weeks now. Our Nic Robertson has been following her case and joins us now live from madrid with the latest. And this indeed is very good news. And of course the whole world has been watching this, particularly he