Returns with 20 reporting Mitch Mcconnell. 56 grimes. If the g. O. P. Gains control of the senate, as many suspect they will, he will be a majority leader, a lifelong dream. Lets look at another key race in new orleans, between democratic incumbent, kay hagan, and her competitor, republican thom tillis, another very tight race. Thom tillis is the speaker of the North Carolina house. He has forced through a lot of conservative agenda its. This is a toss up race, according to several polls. Turning to West Virginia now, this is the seat vacated by the retiring senator jay rockefeller. He is a democrat. The republicans are looking for a pickup. The race is between two women, natalie continuant. Virginia secretary of states, and shelley more cap ita. Cap ita has the lead and well check in on that race. Libby casey is life in louisville kentucky at the Mitch Mcconnell headquarters. A big night, but the question is whether hell take control of the senate. Thats absolutely the question. Its p
Matters to americans . Our special report. Tonight, a town on the sirra turkey border is fighting against isil. Kobane is about to fall to isil, despite several u. S. Airstrikes today. This would be a victory for isil fighters. Were in southern turkey. From across the border in turkey, its clear that the battle for kobane is more intense. Fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and lavant, reached defenses from the town on monday. And since then, kurdish fighters have been going street by street, building by building. The kurds are determined. And isil is more determined sweeping through soldiers with little appetite to fight. And kobane is different. U. S. Has hit positions but the kurds say that the strikes are not on their own. They want turkey to provide more weapons. Turkeys president , visiting a refugee camp, says that he thinks that kobane will fall to isil. A ground operation is needed to defend the town, but turkey wont go it alone. The problem of isil cannot be solved with a
Contain the border town. Good evening, the first person diagnosed with the ebola virus has died. Thomas erik duncan passed away in dallas success coupling to what a spokesman called an insidious disease. President obama said it will add another layer of protection for our country, and the pentagon said that the military will play an Important Role in the battle against ebola. Well build an infrastructure that does not exist to transport personnel and equip and supplies to deal with these deadly epidemic and disease. The president said there is little margin of error in fighting this disease. What has been the reaction to the news. Reporter doctors here had always cautioned i did speak with a member of the dallas local Ebola Response team who offered the family condolences. In this situation its likely that the organs were just not keeping up with the infection, and its very tragic as to what has happened. Now there will not be an autopsy. Thats coming from the coroner because the body
Why . Gender equality in the workplace . Tonight the mid term elections seen through coal country of kentucky. How they see their future. We begin tonight with a growing ebola crisis and the global fight to stop it. In africa, six u. S. Military aircraft and 100 marines have landed in monrovia bringing medical supplies, construction equipment. Also, building a 25bed hospital for Health Care Workers there. We have learned that thomas eric duncans temperature spiked to 1 03 degrees during his first visit. His high fever was marked with an exclamation point on his records with a note that he had been to africa. He was discharged with a prescription. He died days later. Now the crisis has claimed over 4,000 lives. Cases are now doubling every three to four wieks. Weeks. More from zoo ins and Technology Expert jake ward. The math is pretty scary john. Thats why experts are worried. Epidemiologists rely on the basic reproductive ratio. Every one person that ratio describes how many other peo
And veterans. We begin with a fight against i. S. I. L. The u. S. Launched a sustained air strikes against the group. Most hit Northern Syria fear the town of kobani, on the boarder with turkey. Fighters say strikes were helpful. Should have come harder and sooner. Here in the u. S. , an effort to find americans in i. S. I. L. The federal bureau of investigation started a social Media Campaign to enlist the publics help. Well, on tuesday afternoon the fbi went public, asking the public to identify a terrorist who prosecutors in a propaganda video. This individual is asked. He is throughout the video speaking with a northern american absent, and appears in front of several individuals digging a home, and they are near raqqa, known to be a stronghold of i. S. I. S. , and the individuals are digging their grave, he says. Its chilling. The fbi has released a portion of it in an effort to get people to come forward to see if they can identify who the terrorist is. The fbi releasing a small