Service. He might have been. You never know. Thanks. Thats it for this special report. Greta goes on the record right now. This is a fox news alert. Right now, gunfire explosions and thick black smoke coming from a key town in syria. Isis is advancing. Greg joins us from the border. Greg . Greta, they said today the Kurdish Militia had the town under control. The view from the ground was different. Take a look at what we saw. This is a look at the kobani battlefield isis in control. The center, quiet. Maybe isis in control. To the west of center, a lot of
smoke, a lot of noise. Kurd defenders fighting isis. To the western side, we are seeing a lot of smoke. We have seen u. S. Coalition air strikes there in the past. We are hearing jets overhead. To the far right, turkish tanks, poised, ready, doing nothing. Just in front of us on the western side of the city, we saw multiple blasts. Huge fire balls, smoke rising in the air and, in fact, in the last couple of minutes, they confirmed in
Theyre following around 80 contacts. 80 contacts of the man who was in the hospital right here who has been diagnosed with ebola. What were told is many of the contacts are contacts of contacts, in other words the patient had contacts around him, mr. Duncan, and some of those contacts then had their contacts and theyre all being monitored, theyre taking their temperature, theyre watching for signs of ebola. Carol . Describe to us how concerned we should be that this number has ratcheted up to 80. Reporter you know, i dont find it too concerning because theyre doing it as that phrase they love to use out of an abundance of caution. The people who really need to be concerned are the ones who had close contact with mr. Duncan who were exposed to his bodily fluids. I this think they are trying to have a wide margin of error and thats why they expanded this list. Something else interesting happened the Texas Department of health told us four close family members have been ordered to stay ho
Attacks in the last 48 hours. And today isis is suspected of staging a bloody series of car bombs inside baghdad including one that nearly killed an iraqi minister. There are serious concerns about what will happen if isis does manage to breach the iraqi capital and whether iraqi fighters have the courage to drive them out. Megyn, nobody is quite sure how far isis fighters are from reaching the capital baghdad but the department of defense is acknowledging that isis could now be within five miles. That means the fight is approaching the baghdad suburbs. The clashes have killed hundreds of iraqi soldiers. Today rear admiral john kirby was asked if iraqi fighters could hold their ground. Listen to him. So i think were i cant predict anything one way or the other other than to tell you what i can predict is were going to continue to work with them in their defenses of it. But those in and around baghdad arent sure the air strikes will be enough. They point out that isis controls a wide sw
Begin this hour with a scathing report from the World Health Organization and how the Ebola Outbreak was handled. An internal document said that the agencys initial response was botched and riddled with incompetence. Nic robertson has more. The World Health Organization says that this was an internal report and had not been fact checked. But the results are like this, ebola had first been discovered in march in guinea, and Doctors Without Borders said this was unprecedented. The same day, the w. H. O. Spokesperson said the numbers were typical of what they had seen before. It was not until the 8th of august that the w. H. O. Announced that this was an international disaster. Now, i spoke with the doctor who is the director of the w. H. O. Of their Global Response unit. And what she told me was that more could have been done. She wished that more had been done because she said more is important. But she also said that in the early stages they didnt have a diagnosis for ebola. That it wa
Back. The Rachel Maddow show starts about. Thanks at home for joining us this hour. Rachel has the night off. Back in the early days of thensenator Barack Obamas president ial candidacy, back when he was just starting to run for the nomination against hillary clinton, go all the way back to then, even then he could still pull in a crowd. Early february 2007, this was just before he even officially announced his campaign for president. A medium sized event at Iowa State University in ames, but it had to be moved because of, quote, larger than expected interest. Organizers thought that about a thousand people would show up at the event, and thats really a good crowd for most politicians. A thousand people if you can draw that, youre doing pretty well usually. But in the days leading up to that event for obama in 2007 the organizers recalculated and found that about five times as many people as that were going to be there or want to be there. They moved it to Iowa State Universitys basket