Their homes. I want to bring in nn pentagon correspondent, brash are a starr. Shes on the phone now. President obama has said that what are these strike teams designed to do. Well, what were talking about here is the department of health and Human Services as we said to the pentagon, we may need help. The pentagon responded and now has is in the process of assembling. Some are calling it a Quick Strike Team. Some are calling it a Rapid Response team. This is the team for the first time of military medical professionals. It will go to houston, texas, get trained up within the next couple of days, and be ready to deploy the team, 30 people, is going to be made up of 20 and five socalled trainers. People in the military who are very highly trained. A personal protective equipment, how do you compliant with the procedures so it helps workers that are protected in more cases erupt from Health Care Workers getting the virus. They are to be ready to deploy. For the first time now we have peop
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. We begin at the vatican tonight where a twoweek meeting of 200 bishops has revealed a deep split over the the direction pope francis upons to take the church. The assembly had considered language in a document to be issued at the conclusion of the meeting that would welcome gays as well asicals who had been divorced and remarried andmented to be able to take communion again. Conservative bishops vowed to fight this, saying it undermind the traditional family. In rome, alan pizzey tells us how this all turned out. Reporter the pope came out smiling, but the final vote on the synods deliberations showed deep divisions. A draft document at the Halfway Point of the twoweek gathering included an unprecedented acceptance of gays. A final version was watered down to people with homosexual tendencies must be welcomed with respect and delicacy. But even that failed to get the required twothird majori
Response initially by local and federal Health Officials to this ebola crisis, and under intense pressure to do something, the president today appointed an ebola czar. Official title, Ebola Response coordinator, his name is ron klain. Hes a lawyer, Democratic Party veteran, former chief of staff to al gore and joe biden. Hes got his work cut out for him as the government makes a push to restore calm. We begin our reporting once again tonight with our national correspondent, kate snow, in dallas. Reporter the announcement at the white house was unexpected. Ron klain will be the administrations ebola czar, a former chief of staff for two Vice President s, but not a medical expert. What we were looking for is not an ebola expert but rather an implementation expert. And thats exactly what ron klain is. Reporter Texas Governor rick perry cut a trip to europe short. Today he called on the president to enact a ban on air travel to the u. S. For countries infected by the ebola outbreak. Air tr
Its monday, october 20th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Thats how we start. Good morning, everybody, on this monday morning. Im t. J. Holmes. Im reena ninan. Happy monday. It is a happy monday for some, including some family members of thomas eric duncan. He passed. He had ebola. That was unfortunate for the family. A lot of people keeping a close eye on them. Are they in the clear . This morning, they are officially out of danger. Also, a hospital lab worker quarantined on a cruise ship. All of them finally back home. Abcs tom llamas has more. Reporter the woman at the center of the ebola scare on the carnival magic disembarking. The ship and its 3,600 people back in texas after mexico and belize refused to grant her access. She shouldnt have been on board. Cleaning crews preparing to scrub every inch of the ship. This was the view from the deck on saturday. As passengers partied, a coast guard helicopter hovering above on a mission to collect a blood sample from th
After months of campaigning and hundreds of rallies and town halls and debates. The first actual votes will be cast in hours at the Iowa Caucuses. 7 00 p. M. Local time. 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Voters will tawalk in at the caucus site. Im here at the cafe. The city beginning to wake up. They are waking up to tight races on both sides. Democrats and republicans locked in the lastminute battles. Every candidate in each party engaged in a huge turnout. I will make a prediction here. Whoever turns out with the most voters will continue. They say what else will it come down to . Donald trump and ted cruz very tight. Cnns jim acosta with the latest. Reporter trump sounded confident in the caucuses. He was here in sioux city where the chief rival was accused of dishonest attacks. Heres what he had to say. We have to win this election. We have to win in iowa. A lot of people say donald do well in iowa. I say i cant do that. I really want to win. If we do win, we will run the table and make this co