Colorado, and virginia is set for a new debate as numbers emerge giving democrats a rare sense of relief. Good morning from washington. Its tuesday, october 7th, 2014. This is the daily rundown. We have new developments today in the threat of ebola. A nurse in spain is now the the first person to contract the virus outside of west africa. That nurse said to be in stable condition was treating a spanish missionary, who has flown home for treatment. He died on september 25th. The hospital is investigating how she became infected with the safety protocols there in place. Here in the u. S. , they announced screening is likely coming soon for passengers arriving from west africa. That would mean deploying cdc teams at four u. S. Airports. Jfk, newark, chicago ohare and dulles. To question passengers as well as taking their temperatures. After being briefed ot the outbreak, the president says hes confident americans are safe. We have learned some lessons, though, in terms of what happened in
Vote. They had the polling up one, maybe two points if 2012. The private polling done by the Mitt Romney Campaign showed mitt romney winning. Thats why they had him out here doing colorado events three days before the election in 2012. The Romney Campaign was doing this private daily tracking and the private daily tracking polls were event wrally published after the new republic. The secret mitt romney colorado poll on the saturday before election day showed that mitt rom fiwas going to win the election in colorado 48twooif 456 that was saturday. Sunday it was 4846. They still thought mitt romney was going to win. When the polling was over. President obama not only beat him in 2012. He beat him by a ton. Despite the polls saying otherwise. So what explains this distance between the polls and the results . Its an interesting outcome in colorado in 2012. Heres another. This is from 2010. This was some of the polling for the senate race in colorado that year. Of the final 18 polls, done i
Scott walker. Michelle obama has been to the state twice. The president s timing is interesting. The latef ras mussen poll has mary burke up one point over scott walker. Things are close down in georgia, as well. It shows that Michelle Nunn is up on Republican David Perdue by two points. The the democrats would love to have a senate seat out of the south again. Then, of course, theres kentucky. Last week, democrats a lot of stories how the democrats pulled all of their funding out of kentucky because they thought Mitch Mcconnell had this wrapped up. And a survey showing mock connell is only up by a point and this is a winnable race frr grimes, and democrats reversed course and decided to restore funding in kentucky. I will be in lexington, kentucky on monday to bring you more of the story. Meanwhile, other races around the country are not as close for the dems. Energy is making a big play in these races. For instance, in colorado, republican governor cory gardner is up by mark udall an
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
Inside to collect them or anything like that. But instead surrendering. They took him into custody in the handcuffs belonging to the trooper hes accused of killing. They say hes talking to the investigators. They say he has talked with them. Arranged a short time ago and after wards a pretsz conference when they commended the officers and the Law Enforcement personnel who captured him and dedicated so many man hours to the manhunt. They gave a little more insight how he survived on the run for so long. He was able to get into cabins, into other unoccupied structures. Find food in other cases he had things hidden but he was able to get shelter and in and out of the weather much as we suspected was occurring. Officials do say this investigation still is ongoing as they work to build the very best case they say to achieve justice. But right now, the best possible outcome. No one injured in the capture of eric frein. After 48 days on the run hes finally in custody. Which means that communi