Right now at 10 00, an ebola scare in delaware. A child is in isolation right now in dover. Good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im karen hepp. This patient is being treated at the Bay Health Medical Center and thats where dave kinchen is right now. So many questions, dave. Reporter . Dave, can you hears . Reporter well, i was but having some difficulty he is getting to dave. Can you hear us now, dave . Reporter officials here at the Bay Health Medical Center confirmed to us that a child from liberia was admitted to the er here on saturday showing ebola like symptoms. Lets go to some video right now. We actually have new information from the hospital. Theyve just sent us a statement. They tell us that the child from liberia was brought to Bay Health Kent general on saturday. Emergency staff completed an initial test that was guided by the centers for disease control, and after those tests were told that the child was admitted to a private isolation area while the medical staff gathe
Time to complplan and prepare fe patient. Another is fighting for his life. Duncan is in Critical Condition and not taking any experiment that will drugs. Doctors are concerned the drugs will not help but hurt his recovery. We are really hoping for the recovery of the patient. We understand his patient is taking a turn for the worse. An apartment where he has been staying haz mat crews are conducting their second and final phase of the decontamination. It is not clear what will become of the apartment once the cleaning is done. There is debate on whether the u. S. Should issue a travel ban on ee bowl gnaw infected countries. The answer is not let people come and isolate them once they are here the answer is not to let people in to the United States. The experience is when you close off a country you create so much stress and fear and amplify the problem. So there is a lot of debate going on right now as to what to do. Dr. Tom creden will brief president obama later today on the ebola s
Are fleeing amidst that chaos. You have the right to free speech unless you are preaching from the pulpit about politics. Im shannon bream. Americas news starts now. We want them to channel that fear into being incredibly meticulous about Infection Control. Top u. S. Health officials are trying to calm worries about the eye rainfall of ebola in america. So far only one diagnosed case of the deadly virus here on u. S. Soil but that is not stopping some from calling for travel bans to and from infected african countries. Cdc director tom frieden is not in favor of that kind of travel ban. He says it could prevent medical workers and equipment from getting to places that need it to try to get this Ebola Outbreak in africa uncontrol. As for the situation here in the u. S. , frieden says he expects more reports of possible cases but he believes the American Health system can handle it. Here in the u. S. , i remain quite cough depth we will not have a widespread outbreak. We will stop it in
With that outbreak. The outbreak killed more than 3,000 people. Molly henneberg has an update. Reporter tom friedencontends a travel ban to countries with Ebola Outbreaks could make it worse for a couple reasons. First, it would create more fear and anxiety, and secondly, could prevent medical workers and equipment get to go places that need it to get this outbreak under control. As for the situation in the u. S. , frieden expects more reports of possible cases, but believes the American Health system can handle it. Here in the u. S. I remain quite confident we will not have a widespread outbreak. We will stop it in its tracks because we have Infection Control in hospitals and Public Health that tracks and isolates people if they get symptoms. Reporter some republican members of Congress Want the obama administration, pressure is under way. Lets go to that live. Our first speaker today is cdc director dr. Tom frieden. Dr. Frieden . Hello, everyone. It is exactly one week since the firs
President obama is about to do something he has never done before he will address a congress controlled completely house and senate, by the opposition party, as he reports on the state of the union and lays out his agenda for the final two years of his presidency. The question, of course, is how much of that agenda the republican majority will accept. Among the things the president will say, this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett has the speech hot off the press. Major. Reporter scott, the president will tell the country the time has come to turn the page on an era defined by recession and direct u. S. Combat in afghanistan and iraq. In another excerpt just released from the white house, the president will say from the white house, the president will say reporter for the f reporter for the first time in office, the u. S. Economy is an asset to p