Center for Disaster Preparedness giveses i plan. Also Michael Browns family holds a news conference. You are looking at a live picture of the church where they are at this moment. They are demanding the officer who shot and killed their son last month be arrested right now. Well bring you that as it happens. Good afternoon to you. Im richard lui. Well start with the latest on the ebola outbreak. Within the next hour that nbc news freelance camera man with the disease will fly out of africa to the United States. Hes headed to the university of Nebraska Medical Center in omaha. His parents and girlfriend are on their way to meet him there. This afternoon the cdc updating us on patient Thomas Duncan in Critical Condition at a dallas hospital with the cdc director saying hes clinging to life. We have seen a lot of understandable concern. Because of the deadly nature of ebola, and we are hoping for the recovery of the patient in dallas, we understand that his situation has taken a turn for
High noon here in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. A new line of defense is in place to prevent the spread of the deadly ebola virus. Jfk airport here in new york began enhanced screening procedures for passengers arriving from west africa. Jfk is the first of five major u. S. Airports to screen passengers flying in from ebola hot zones. Screenings Begin Next Week at dulles, ohare, hartsfieldjackson and newark. Nbcs Kristen Dahlgren is live at jfk where we just got an update from officials. Hows it going so far . Reporter 43 of passengers from these ebolaaffected countries come through jfk here. Thats why this is first there was a flight that got in from guinea earlier today, originated there. So this is the first test of those enhanced screening procedures. They said what theyre doing is theyre separating all the passengers that come from those nations and theyre doing a few things, taking their temperatures, the coast guard is doing that, to determin
We know were at war with isil. We are at war with isil. The message is clear. We are at war. Well look at the complicated white house strategy for defeating ice sis and the critical roll the u. S. Allies are expected to play. Were going to take this enthusiasm and go right to New Hampshire tonight. Six years after her tough loss, this weekend Hillary Clinton returns to the ever important hawk eye state fueling plenty of speculation about her road awanchts thank you so much for spending time with us. Im t. J. Holmes. We begin with hour with another scandal for the nfl. This time one of his premier players has turned himself in on a charge to have causing injury to a child. Youre seeing him there. That is actually his mugshot. The Minnesota Vikings deactivated him from the roster meaning he will not play in tomorrow ears gaen against the patriots. This comes after the leagues commissioner is already under fire for his handling of the ray rice event. Were standing by for a press conferenc
Letting go. Yeah, pretty significant change there. We are looking, as we see images of janay rice and ray rice, part of the issue in that case, the differing accounts of what Roger Goodell was told, whether he was given the full story by ray rice about that incident with his wife that was caught on video at a casino hotel elevator. Some of the criteria also expanding the conduct that also can be subject to sanction, including domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse. There was a sense that Roger Goodell was cool on these issues which seems incredible for an adult man. But is part of this to try to get him removed from the policy because hes not seen as a credib credible arbitor . I think so. When he took over as commissioner in 2006, he was very adamant about protecting the shield. There were a bunch of player arrests and he said, im going to get tough. He got tough. He inserted himself into this whole process and alienated the players. With the ray rice situation, you said it pe
What he meant when he compared Donald Trumps rhetoric to kkk values. Heres what he told reporters while campaigning in florida yet. Yesterday. Hes got guys connected with the ku klux klan who are out there claiming him. And his record of im saying sometimes he doesnt disabuse that. Sometimes he wants to take advantage of that. I find that troubling. Meanwhile, donald trump believes his message to africanamerican voters is starting to resonate despite the criticism hes receiving. Heres what trump told supporters at the iowa state fair yesterday. Has seen whats been happening over the last two weeks or three weeks with me. And ill tell you, i think we have a lot of support out there. Theyre very, very tired of whats been going on and the hispanic. Community likewise. By the way, how quickly people have forgotten that Hillary Clinton called black youth superpredators. Remember that . Superpredators. And they were very, very insulted. But now people have forgot. As trump ramps up his pitch