Thats when it felt real to me. They share those stories with you. Its like going back in time. My ancestors were on the wrong side. It was like coming home. Join the faces of cnn as they trace their roots all next week starting sunday on cnn. Top of the hour. Im brooke baldwin. The first person diagnosed with ebola in the United States died and im quoting here, insidious death. This is the statement. These are words from the texas hospital where 42yearold Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian National died this morning from ebola. You know the story. He traveled here to america for the very first time according to relatives from liberia late last month to reunite with his family and fiance who lived in dallas. Once he became ill, duncan ended up at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital where he received this experimental drug currently being used on an american ebola patient in nebraska. But duncan did not receive a blood transfusion according to some may have saved his life. His fiance had this
You know . I was never afraid of him, or i would have. And will he or wont he . Authorities want answers from Jesse Matthew, accused in the disappearance of 18yearold Hannah Graham. Well go live to the scene in just a few minutes. But first, now fully engaged in the fight against isis is the United Kingdom. Two british fighter jets flew a recon and Intelligence Mission over iraq today, just hours after parliament gave the thumbs up for British Forces to fire on isis targets. American forces attacked isis positions today. The pentagon says fighters, bombers, and remotely piloted aircraft launched ten separate air strikes in syria and iraq. Some of those combat missions took off from the deck of the Aircraft Carrier george h. W. Bush in the persian gulf. Cnn has people on the flight deck of the bush. A report from there coming up straight ahead. Isis fighters battled it out with kurdish troops on syrias border with turkey. The fighting sent a couple of hundred of thousands of people runn
Planning something soon, but how is the threat . Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Christine romans is out today. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Health officials are trying to make sure ebola does not get into this country again and does not spread where it has already entered. In dallas, the first patient diagnosed in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan has been downgraded from serious to critical. And in the meantime the journalist is on his way home on a plane. Officials say a child was past the incubation period for ebola and the cdc believes the likelihood of infection is extremely low. Elizabeth cohen is in dallas to track the spread of ebola there and other points in the United States. Reporter john, authorities are following 48 people who may have come into contact with Thomas Eric Duncan. The breakdown is this, they are following seven hospital workers and they are considered in the higher category and three family members in the higher risk category. The rest of the co
Surveillance planes, fake phone towers, how is this legal . And thunder snow, a polar plunge sweeping into the south, recorded in the midwest, lets talk live in cnn newsroom. Good morning, im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. It may be setting up as a steel caged death match of washington politics. President obama may be just days away from announcing a Major Overhaul of the Immigration Law and he plans to bypass congress and use executive authority to sign it into law. Republicans in Congress Just weeks away from their most dominant majority in decades ready to rumble. Their take no prisoner options up to and including another Government Shutdown. In the middle, millions of undocumented immigrants and an American Public thats fed up with the paralysis of brinksmanship and gridlock. Cnns jim acosta is in myanmar traveling with the president. Reporter his escape from washington almost over, president obamas News Conference with myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Things that the new president , barack obama, changed at the white house. Starting a few months after president obama was sworn in, the white house started releasing big batches of the visitors logs for who was visiting the white house. These were huge files that they released. Tens of thousands of people visit every month. They released them in an interesting way. They released them online as a searchable database. So even though they are dumping this data, this huge data dumps, the first one was the first seven months of white house visitors logs. Its this huge amount of data they made public but they made it public in a way that made it easy to slog through. You wanted to get through that information to find newsworthy stuff, just search for peoples individual names to see if they visited thes whvisited thes who. When that first batch of visitors logs was posted, the conservative media ran through the database. The most scandalous names they could think of and some of them popped. T