Jones as much as we already do. Today is saturday, october 4th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and Sheinelle Jones. Good morning. Welcome. That voice means it is official. How does the music feel . Its official. Im happy to be here. It is an honor to sit next you to guys. It is. Wait a half hour. You may feel differently. Awesome. First 15 seconds. We are always good at first impressions. Second and third. We will learn more about your journey here later. We want to move to the top story. The ebola emergency. In a moment, we will go live to dallas, texas for the latest on the high profile case there. We want to begin with the american journalist who tested positive in liberia while working with dr. Nancy snyderman and her news team. We will learn more about what he will deal with when he gets
Dictator of haiti, jeanclaude duvalier, also known as baby doc , is dead at the age of 63. We will speak to jean saintvil and journalist amy wilentz, author of the rainy season haiti since duvalier. West. Professor cornel how do we weigh the honesty and integrity and decency to have the courage to speak candidly and to fight for justice. Cornell west will join us to talk about his latest book, black prophetic fire. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Fighting is raging on several fronts amidst usled airstrikes on iraq and syria. Wereast 16 fighters reportedly killed sunday after attacking a hezbollah position inside eastern lebanon close to the syrian border. A female kurdish suicide bomber reportedly killed a number of Islamic State fighters. But the Islamic State is reportedly threatening to capture kobani after several weeks of fighting sparking fears of a massacre if it takes control. The latest violen
Its sunday, october 12th and were coming off a pretty gloomy and wet start. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell, what can we look forward to today . Can look forward to a dryer day and a milder day. If youre hoping for a ton of sunshine i dont have any good news because theres plenty of clouds to contend with. Raindrops for the most part are going to stay away today. Thats great news for everybody who will go out and run the army tenmiler this morning. First things first. Temperatures back into the upper 40s to low to mid50s. Definitely off to a cool start, and there are areas of fog, and i saw some on my way to work. The hourbyhour planner, patchy fog, temperatures mostly in the 40s to mid50s. Most areas climbing up into the low to mid60s under an increasingly cloudy skies. Risk of a few showers primarily after the sun goes down. Limited sunshine and raindrops back for your columbus day and still a chance for thunder by the middle of the week. More on all of that with your sevenday
Shocking security failures. How much would it cost to lock the front door of the white house . Its clear our security plan was not properly executed. This is unacceptable, and i take full responsibility. Whats next for the Agency Charged with keeping our president safe . Well have a member of the Senate Homeland security communityie kellie ayotte, and one of the president obamas former secret service agents, dan bongino. And with grohhing concerns over the scandals, can we trust the federal government to do its job . Our sunday panel weighs in, all right now on Fox News Sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington. That liberian man who became the first person diagnosed with ebola in the u. S. Is now in Critical Condition in a dallas hospital. Meanwhile, at newark, new jersey airport, Health Officials who met a plane landing saturday with a sick liberian passenger have now cleared him. Well talk with two of the governments point men in dealing with the ebola threat in a moment.
And this is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im tony harris. We begin with several new developments on ebola today. Amber vincent is being transferred to emory hospital in atlanta, one of the top facilities in the nation for treating Infectious Diseases. To make matters potentially worse, vincent flew on an airplane before being diagnosed. President obama in meetings on ebola said that the we must step up the peeps the virus. If we do these protocols properly, if we get the information out, then the likelihood of widespread ebola outbreaks in this country are very, very low. But i think what weve all learned over the last several weeks folks in this country and nonspecialized hospitals and clinics dont have that much experience dealing with these issues, and these are the instructions that ive provided to my team. Heidi zhou castro with more from dallas. Reporter just two and a half miles from the home of nina pham, the nurse who contracted ebola while working at Texas Healt