Leon. Theres another patient at nih who may who may not have the disease. But this would be the very first case of a person traveling from west africa on a commercial air liner to land in the United States and get sick once they were here in the u. S. The patient is in a dallas hospital and this is Dallas Health Presbyterian Hospital, in the northern part of dallas, arrived from liberia in the last couple of days, its a man who apparently was asimple tom mattic, he did not show signs of the ebola infection which is a good thing, because if the patient with ebola is asymptomatic, the likelihood of there being transmission is greatly reduced. Of course theyre taking no precautions in dallas, the man is in strict isolation, and a go team for the centers of Disease Control will be leaving in the next few hours, three to four scientists to help with isolation, to help with Infection Control and to help with treating this patient. Its not known if this patient will stay in dallas or be medev
Virginia student to another student five years ago. Could police have a serial killer on their hands . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The centers for Disease Control and prevention has Just Announced the first case of ebola. First case has been diagnosed in the United States. Its a troubling milestone in the spread of the disease which has now killed thousands of people in west africa. Were standing by for a News Conference by the cdc, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Thats coming up in about half an hour. Well have live coverage. We have correspondents, our guests, including president obamas senior adviser, dan pfeiffer, here in the situation room with me. First, lets bring in dr. Sanjay gupta. What do we know about the first confirmed case of ebola in the United States . What we know is that this is a person who they had some suspicion, given where the person had recently traveled, west africa, and this person was having symptoms, high fever and symptoms
Reporter what did you say . Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The Islamic Terrorist Group known as isis said today it has executed another western captive. That would be the fourth in six weeks. Isis put out brutally graphic video purporting to show the beheading of a british aid worker, 47yearold alan henning. Of course, we will not show that to you. The terrorists are now threatening to kill another american, peter kasig, in retaliation for u. S. And allied air strikes on isis targets in iraq and syria. Holly williams has more now about the latest casualty in the war with isis. Reporter he was a british taxi driver and father of two daughters who worked with a Muslim Charity to deliver aid to syrians. And everybody watching. Reporter but that didnt matter to the isis militants who kidnapped alan henning nine months ago and have now beheaded him. His blood is on the hands of the british parliam
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condition, but we have been able to upgrade our other patient in the icu to stable condition, the other to remain in the hospital being treated for non life threatening injuries. i want to thank my team again. the emergency department physicians and nurses my trauma team at u of our health and all those that supported us yesterday. i also want to send a thank you to the american red cross. we used 100 and 70 units of blood yesterday to treat these victims which far outstrips our hospital capacity and their ability to get us that blood to save those lives help save those lives, so i want to thank them for that. i ll be happy to take questions at the end of the press conference. thank you. thank you, dr smith. now for a brief update on some information about things that we ve learned about the events and the assailant yesterday. i like to call on our chief of police, jacqueline gwyn villarroel. chief. to the mayor