Reporting from washington. Firefighters hope weather conditions today will help them get ahead of numerous wildfires burning in and around san diego. This is how it looks from space. Santa ana winds pushing smoke far out over the pacific. Heres how it looks to terrified residents. Twisting pillars of fire consume everything in their past. As of right now, seven major fires are still burning. Including two near the Camp Pendleton marine base. 17 square miles of bone dry terrain have been scorched since tuesday. Fire crews are waging heroic battles to save homes. Thousands and thousands of people remain at risk. Our ted rowlands is joining us from san more s coumorecos, rig thick of it all. The firefighters are getting help from above. Absolutely, wolf, you see the guys on the ground here, theyre doing a lot the work obviously. Mopup right now where we are because this house is demolished. Theyre getting help from in the air. Weve been seeing air drops, helicopters, fixed ring aircraft.
The Electronic Medical record system is what fsz flawed. Theyre saying the nurse did ask the patient about the travel history and the patient volunteered that information, yes, they were from liberia. Were told, though, the nurses work flow were separate to the medical work flow that the physician had access to. Thats why that information was not relaid to the entire medical team. No Health Care Worker should be relying on someone else to take a history and the physicians should be taking a travel history, especially now when the cdc has offered guidance saying the travel history is a crucial question to be asking at this time. A lot of people would find that alarming, even if you just go in feeling ill, you assume the Nurse Practitioner when they put those notes in, those notes eventually go to the doctor. In this case was tla failure of those two systems to connect or are those two systems always this separate . Theyre not always this separate. Weve talked to many local hospitals say
Pieces of information. Here is that information. We know this individual is in stable condition in this hospital behind me and we know that she caught it early. Identifying symptoms on friday after being out of work for two days and immediately beginning a cdc advised protocol for monitoring such symptoms, reportedly checking herself in the hospital within 90 minutes of the first symptoms him there are signs of hoerngs since we know that catching it is everything in treating the virus. Weve just heard a country him other comments from the cdc. Take a listen to what Thomas Frieden said a few minutes ago. Shes been extremely helpful and we have identified one and only one contact who had contact with her during a period when she was potentially, although likely not infection. It was at the very onset of her symptoms. That individual is also being monitored and as of now has no symptoms suggestive of ebola. Reporter so clearly, a lot of focus right now on identifying and monitoring any in
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the national lead. A warning from those who have seen the worst of it up close. On behalf of 34 global aid organizations fighting ebola in west africa, the emergency field director of the International Rescue Committee Says the number of patients infected by ebola is doubling every three weeks and that the world has less than a month, until about october 30th, the stop the spread of the virus before it gets out of control. Its a frightening prediction, especially when you consider how many times u. S. Health officials have tripped over themselves dealing with just one ebola case. Right here on u. S. Soil. In just a few minutes, were expecting an update from the white house on the nations Ebola Response. More than 24 hours after the news broke on cnn that possibly contaminated sheets and towels from the first ebola patient diagnosed in the u. S. , Thomas Duncan, remained in the apartment where his girlfriend an
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