It is no longer just africas problems. The mention from a top u. S. Expert. Lets make a comeback. From batman to birdman, Michael Keeton gets the Venice Film Festival off to a flying start. So we start this news hour with the crisis in ukraine and reports are coming in to us predominantly from the Reuters News Agency of the Petro Poroshenko calling angurgent security meeting because of what he is calling a Russian Military invasion. As i say, a Russian Military invasion is what president poroshenko is calling the Current Situation in his countritries, plus a spoesh that separatist leader has come out saying that russian soldiers are fighting among his ranks. We can go live now to our correspondent paul brennan north of mariapol. He has been following the stories for us. Paul, tell us what you know. Reporter martin, the crisis here in ukraine, i think, is entering a very critical next 24 hours. Two main questions on the table firstly, how long can russia go on denying what is increasing
Intensify screening at United States airports. This is something my colleagues from dhs will be discussing. We have worked with american hospitals to reinforce and strengthen controls. We have intensified training and outreach to build awareness. We have expanded lab capacity across the United States to test for ebola. We have developed response protocols for the evaluation, isolation, and investigation of symptomatic individuals. Have instance of louis extensively evaluated suspected cases. We remain confident that a bol is not a Significant Health threat to the United States. It is not transmitted easily, and it does not spread from people who are not ill. It is possible another infected traveler might arrive in the u. S. Should this occur, we are confident we can prevent the kind of significant transmission of ebola that would lead to an outbreak here in the United States. Remember thatt to the only way to protect americans is to end this ebola epidemic and to continue extensive foc
Evacuated from towns and villages in the path of typhoon haiyan across the central philippines. At least four people are died. Among the evacuated thousands of residents would living in shelters following last months devastating earthquake. Concern here is the earthquakeaffected areas after the 7. 1 earthquake in midoctober can last about 350,000 displaced. The storm knock knocked out power in several provinces and cut the telephone lines making it impossible to reach loved ones there. If you would like to help the victim goes to abc7news. Com with links to the local organizations that are organizing relief efforts. Time for a check of the traffic with laying. What is impeding our visibility is fog. You want to be careful over the bridges, Golden Gate Bridge, and the guantanamo the bay bridge. We have a fright liner on the freeway, no lanes are blocked but you could see spectator slowing looking clear. 680 walnut creek to dublin is 14 minutes. From santa rosa to San Francisco is 51 min
Production act, that is a law that was enacted in 1950 during the korean war. It gives the president the authority to mandate that private industry produce and manufacture certain things for the national defense. The president and the white house lurched to the invoication of this. As weve heard, he hasnt triggered it yet. My guess is that when they announced that they were going to be invoking, the president probably heard from his friends in private industry to say please hold off on this. And i think that what is required here is not so much the invocation of these things but what is it were actually going to do to surge mask equipment, test kits, hospital beds to state and local communities to address this very, very serious crisis . Kristen welker is at the white house. Of course, was part of that briefing. Kristen, we have a number of issues to cover, but i also wanted to just touch base with you on the state department announcing this professional alert which is stage 4 as i und
Washington d. C. What do we know about these high risk individuals . We really dont know much. The information came to us while we were on a call for centers for Disease Control and prevention. I think its probably safe to say out of those ten, four would be the family members who are under quarantine as we speak at that dallas apartment complex. They likely have the closest contact with this patient. The other six unleer. The other big update we got out of this Conference Call out of the 100 people, the state identified as to have had some sort of contact with Thomas Duncan either direct or indirect here in texas. 50 of those people now require daily checkups. That means that medical teams will be taking their temperature twice a day to make sure that they are not coming down with fever. One of the first ebola symptoms. In the same breath as all of this alarming news, they say that, again, no one here in this area is showing any signs of the deadly virus other than the man in the hosp