Serious storms, flooding, high winds, possibly tornadoes. Hawk attack, the bird of prey gets a drone in its sights and the rest is history. Welcome to today on this sun morning. Im erica hill. Im lester holt. We work up to some very disturbing news today. Weve been hearing so much about the medical precautions for those who are treating people with ebola and we find out that a Health Care Worker apparently contracted in this country in texas, testing positive in a preliminary test for ebola. Mark potter is outside the hospital where this person was caring for an ebola patient. The announcement came at 4 21 this morning, central time. 5 21 in the east. Officials say a Health Care Worker here at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital has tested positive for ebola in preliminary tests conducted at a state lab in austin. Further testing will be done by the cdc in atlanta. The statement said the Health Care Worker had provided care for Thomas Eric Duncan who was treated here and died on wednesd
Police officer or how many immigrant he may have been victimized. The mission was just one area 35yearold jeffrey guy would often paoltr. Trouble is he wasnt ap cobut he talked like one. Even dressed like one. All in an effort to kidnap and sexually assault new immigrant from central america. Unknown how many victims there are out there. Sf pd says guy drove the same type of car they drive. Crown victory y. He took the victims back to his home where he would handcuff drug them and force them into sexual acts. Not only that suspect threatened the victim with deportation and or Law Enforcement retaliation if the victim reported the incident to police. The intimidation worked. Most victims didnt tell anyone until investigators started asking questions. Thats not right. This woman who did not want to good on camera says she saw him in the neighborhood but knew he went a police officer. If i wouldnt have listened to him because i know theres a lot of fraud around here. On line records show
Bring flooding, high winds and possible tornados. Dylan is tracking those. And hawk attack. The bird of prey gets drones in his its sites and rest is history. Today is october 12, 2014. This is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to kwotoday o this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im lester hill here. We wake up hearing about those treated with ebola and a Health Care Worker contracted it in texas, tested positive in a preliminary test for ebola. Mark joins us now. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you erica. The announcement from the Texas Health Department came at 4 21 central time, 5 21 in the east. Officials say a Health Care Worker here at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital has tested positive for ebola in preliminary tests conducted at a la b in austin. Further testing will be done by cdc in atlanta. The Health Care Worker provided care for R Thomas Eric duncan that was treated here and died on wednesday. The Health Care
Saddened that the house of representatives walked away last night, didnt even touch this after we spent so much time here on the floor doing something to help the beleaguered part of our country. Reporter republican congressman peter king who represents part of long island called it a disgrace and blasted leaders of his own party. We cannot believe that this cruel knife in the back was delivered to our region. Reporter the president called for immediate action saying when tragedy strikes, americans come together to support those in need. I urge republicans in the house of representatives to do the same. House Speaker John Boehner said he will make the sandy aid package a top priority in the new congress, a new Congress Sworn in thursday which means its back to square one when it comes to drafting this Sandy Recovery legislation. Im tory dunnan reporting. Speaker boehner says he will schedule two votes on aid, one for this friday and a second for january 15th. The lack of action on sand
And its you who claimed that White Supremacists are good people. President used the shooting to attack both the mayor and the protesters, or anarchists, as we called them. Supporters that he tweeted war, in his words, great patriots. Meanwhile joe biden is condemning violence across political lines and calling out the president s approach. He said in a statement he pointed to the president s unwillingness to directly call out his supporters, a sign of mr. Trumps weakness. He added that neither president ial leadership or human compassion find value in what we called war in our streets. So who with whose america is this . President ial accountability was one point of debate this morning on meet the press. You want to talk about Donald Trumps america, most of Donald Trumps america is peaceful. It is a democratled city in portland that were talking about this morning who just yesterday denied help once again from the federal government. So he keeps talking about what Bidens America would