Increasing screenings for passengers from ebolasickened countries. Alexandra, these are not times to joke about ebola at airports or on planes or at all. What are you seeing . Yeah, don, youd think that goes without saying but if you thought that, you would be wrong. Health officials were forced to take the claim seriously. It comes at the same time when five different airports are trying to step up regulations to protect people against the spread of this virus. Heres the situation, i need everybody to sit down. That was the announcement from a Flight Attendant before several Health Officials in four hazmat suits boarded the flight in the dominican republic. A passenger posted this video and local reports say the man said i have ebola, youre all screwed. Please stay out of their way. Let them do their job. Reporter the flight from philadelphia was checked and cleared but kept passengers stuck on the plane for two hours. Its unclear what happened to the man who made the claim. This inci
Accused of sending bomb threats. Making it up and accusing it was a legitimate news source. The feds claim we didnt do anything wrong. How far the fbi can go to catch suspected criminals. How much they can deserve. Lets get to it. Now Shepard Smith reporting. Its 3 00 on the east coast, noon on the west coast and here are the headlines from the fox news deck. The military will quarantine american troops returning from fighting ebola in africa before theyre allowed to go home. That is the order today from the defense secretary chuck hagel. He says those troops will have to wait out the threeweek incubation period in isolation. That goes well beyond the federal guidelines for civilians. Secretary hagel says theres a good reason for that. They are not volunteers and this is also a policy that was discussed in great detail by the communities, by the families, of our military men and women and they very much wanted a safety valve on this. The u. S. Has more than 1,000 troops in the west afr
Mixed in with Illegal Immigrants surges, but the number of federal stay the same. Thats why we have this official from a union with 12,000 immigration and Service Officers telling people to call their congressman if they want to prevent threats in their own neighborhood. The abuse of our asylum procedure, islamist radicals, the taxpayers are being fleeced and Public Safety is being breached on a daily basis. They claim the white house is not behind this plan but that they just watched the news, thought amnesty might, possibility and they wanted to have their bases covered. Bill what is the white house saying . Reporter they say its about an agency that ordered more paper than normal and they dont think its right for people to put together 2 and 2 that green cards means amnesty. They are responsible for issuing green cards. Those who are trying to read into those specific orders about what the president may decide are a little too cleverly trying to divine what the president s ultimate
The there. Im john berman. And im michaela pereira. I trust you beheyed while i was gone. We have those stories and so much more ahead. We are watching to see when nurse kaci hickox will be released from the hospital in new jersey. She returned from treating ebola patients in sierra leone, she was subjected to the states tough new controversial guidelines for ebola. The Governors Office in a statement said hickox had been similar free for 24 hours and in truth she never had ebola symptoms at all. She shad one test with a fever but every other test said she lad no fever. She will be sent home to maine by private carrier. Elizabeth cohen joins us to talk about this. Elizabeth, scientist say there was no reason to keep her inside the tent. Is there any development causing he ref lease . Its more of a political development. She never had any symptoms, she had apparently one high fever read with a thermal scanners but she was flushed, she was upset, the blood was going to her face and i was
Maine to determine what their policy is. Whether or not they will enforce any kind of quarantine for her when she arrives back there. As long as she is in this strait, Health Officials say she will still be kept quarantined. Carol . The private ambulance that will transport her, is it equipped to deal with ebola patients . Well, look, the senior state officials in new york and new jersey have said repeatedly that their states were prepared to deal dw w any threat or possibly of ebola and these patients who are suspected cases are only take on the facilities are that are, were told, prefired handle these things so you have to believe at this point that every proper procedure would be follow followed. This hospital says that theyve been working closely with cdc officials to monitor casey hickox. So, yes, it seems she will be taken, kept quarantined and brought back to maine where decisions will have to remain about her treatment. This is a woman who said she felt her rights were being vi