Higher risk of catching it. The group had some sort of contact with this lie beern liberian man in dallas who has ebola. Thomas duncan is in serious condition at a dallas hospital at this hour. The first person diagnosed with ebola in the United States. Hazmat crews are cleaning the apartment he stayed in while he was sick. Its his girlfriends apartment. She and her family has been quarantined there with his contaminated clothes and sheets for days. Officials moved the family to an undisclosed yesterday. Meanwhile the u. S. Would move 4,000 troops to liberia. Liberia is one of three nations that is battling the virus its killed more than 3,000 people. Ahead this hour dr. Marcia lion will answer your questions. Tweet them to us using the ebola q and a. And well get as many questions possible posed to the doctor as we can. Now, where the ebola victim is being treated in dallas, we havent seen them publicly come it and even give details of his condition or how hes being treated. What are
Forced to defend the mission. Hello. Im fredericka whitfield. Welcome to the cnn newsroom. We begin this hour with a violent turn to those protests playing out across the country. Demonstrations in berkeley, california, getting out of control. It happened four days after a new york grand jury decision and 3,000 miles away from the place where eric garner died in a police choke hold. Here now is dan simon. Reporter chaos on the streets of berkeley, california. Protesters demanding to be heard after a grand jury decision not to indict police in ferguson, missouri, and new york turned violent. There were hundreds of local police that donned full riot gear. Police used tear gas to disburse the crowd. Berkeley is mn for protests and the first amendment, and we do everything we can to insure that people can peacefully exercise their freedom to express themselves. In this case our response occurred because, you know, the group they did start throwing rocks and bricks and bottles. Also small p
James mattis. In a speech earlier today pence made clear that the u. S. Will continue to back nato and stand firm against moscow. Know this. The United States will continue to hold russia accountable. Even as we search for new Common Ground which as you know President Trump believes can be found. For more on this im joined by Cnn International diplomat editor nic robertson. Nick, you first. How is pence trying to calm fears there . What hes doing is talking about the shared common history. He brought up it was 100 years ago the United States came into the First World War to fight shoulder to shoulder alongside the european nations to bring democracy to europe. He talked about a shared future, shared struggles, shared identity. You keep faith in us, well keep faith in you. Really wanting to sort of build on those bonds of commonality. This is something that the europeans want to hear. Theyve been very unsettled by what theyve heard from President Trump over the past month. Very unsettle
inside stuff, kristen ludlow and grant hill. we talked about the all-star excitement to their thoughts about players taking a stand on cultural and political issues. so what do you look forward in an all-star weekend? oh, man. a lot. there is a lot to look forward to in an all-star weekend. the game itself. we ve got the rookies going at it. we ve got the three-point contest, the dunk contest. i mean, there s a lot to look forward to zblmt it s. it s a lot of fun tch. it s great to see players do their stuff but we re also seeing on display many of the players who are finding it part of their responsibility, not necessarily a risk to be outspoken about very serious issues. i think it s interesting how many people tell these guys to stick to sports when the reality is they have a platform. there are thousands if not millions of people listening to
with a college football playoffs selection committee. they made its decision today. six teams definitely worthy. only four could be invited, and now we know the teams. let the second guessing begin. here s kristen ludlow. after months of debate and arguments we finally know which four teams will make up the inaugural college football playoff field. in one of the semifinals alabama will be the top seed playing number four ohio state in the sugar bowl. the criminalson tooird locked april spot in the playoffs after cruising past missouri in the s.e.c. title game. that s alabama s third conference crown under head coach nick saban. ohio state moved up the rankings to fourth after dismantling wisconsin 59-0 in the big ten title game. the buckeyes have won 11 games in a row and keep on winning despite having lost two star quarterbacks to injury this season.