Potential changes in how the church treats gays and lesbians. Hello everyone this is Al Jazeera America, im tony harris in new york city. We begin this hour with the director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. He says today we should brace ourselves for other cases of ebola in the united states. Dozens of people being monitored in dallas right now where Officials Say a breach of protocol is responsible for a Health Care Worker getting ebola there. She treated thomas eric duncan, the index patient last week. Particularly the Healthcare Workers who cared for the index patient when he was so ill. Thats when this Health Care Worker became infected. Would not be surprised if we saw additional cases in the Health Care Workers who also provided care to the index patient. Robert ray is outside the centers for Disease Control and prevention in atlanta and robert some backtracking on the part of the cdc. Reporter definitely some backtracking tony. Dr. Thomas frieden explaining hi
Dependence the functional racism in their state. The director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention says we should brace ourselves for more cases of the ebola virus in the United States. Dozens being monitored in dallas where Officials Say a breach of protocol is responsible for a Health Care Worker catching the ebola virus from Thomas Eric Duncan. Particularly among the Health Care Workers who cared for the index patient when he was so ill. Thats when this Health Care Worker became infected, were concerned and unfortunately would not be surprised if we did see additional cases in the Health Care Workers who also provided care to the index patient. And robert ray is outside the cdc headquarters in atlanta. Robert good to see you. Yesterday many thought the cdc was actually blaming the dallas hospital for the infection of that hearing woul health care wt today there was some backtracking. Tell us about that. Yes, tony, indeed. Dr. Thomas freeden, yesterday when he mentioned
Scrap its entire football season. You are joined in marriage as wife and wife. You may kiss your bride. More same sex couples getting the chance to say i do from coasttocoast. What the Supreme Court didnt do that sparked a wave of marriages nationwide. President obama is implementing increased screenings at airports, but flights to and from west africa will not be blocked. Mike is live in washington. Procedures are stepped up to try to keep the virus out of the country. President obama huddled with officials at the white house, working on a strategy. Ebola is a very serious disease and the ability of people who are infected to carry that across borders is something that we have to take extremely seriously. That includes beefing up screenings at airports both in the u. S. And west africa, where the virus has now claimed more than 3400 lives. While short on details, the president said new procedures would diminish chance for an outbreak. It is important for americans to know the facts, a
Three more shots fired. One witness, who asked not to be identified described the panic. I could see people just hiding under the door everybody hiding just panicking. Total panic. It was like a scary movie. Reporter five people were shot and wounded. We are still investigating this. We do not have any suspects right now or any motive or circumstances identified. Reporter now investigators are looking at how security will be handled at future events. Fiesta nightclub managers did not return our call or answer the door. Who wants to be part of that . Reporter neighbors say they would like to see the place shut down because of lack of security. Ive only seen one or maybe two security guys at the most outside. Reporter the Fire Department says the venue is allowed to have 890 people. On the night of the shooting there were about 700 people inside the club. But people at the club that night say there was not enough security. Some tell us nobody was checking ids. With chris brown scheduled
Environment where gridlock is the watchword and tough political decisions do not come no matter how severe the provocation or how important the need. And that is what challenges American Leadership in the world. The gridlock is the issue, much more than the specifics of any given response, because the world understand how complicated these sorts of issues and responses are. I will wrap up with that. Thank you. Let me ask questions for the panel to pick up on the themes i heard throughout the comments. The first one is a question, a difference reference, the utility of the ambiguity in terms of options and leaving space for yourself as you manage a problem. One of the first things the president did and has repeatedly done was take military force off the table as an option. Andy, you had said before that the use of economic sanctions may be asked to look for in a way we do not anticipate. I assume taking military force off the table was done anyway to try to defuse the crisis a bit. What