Announcer from nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with david gregory. Good sunday morning. Lets show you a live shot of Emory University hospital in atlanta where dr. Kent brantly is in a special isolation ward this morning. He was flown to the u. S. Yesterday and walked into the hospital of his own accord with the assistance of another medical worker. He arrived on a specially equipped plane after contracting the deadly disease while working in liberia. President obama weighed in on the ebola crisis friday saying the u. S. Is taking the grout break of the disease very seriously. Our chief medical editor dr. Nancy sneiderman has the latest and how the u. S. Government plans to respond. Good morning, david. The cdc is issuing an order for 50 people, disease detectives, if you will, to be deployed to west africa to try to start to get this epidemic, this outbreak of ebola under control. But in the meantime they were also at the epicenter of an extraordinary operation. The req
We have not been in close promise s proximity. No one shakes hands. Theres no hugging. I believe our team while weve been hyper vigilant were at low risk. The patient Thomas Duncan remains in isolation in serious conditions while his family members are kept in mandatory quarantine. We caught a glimpse of the ch d child. Food bank left the boxes outside the door. This morning were hearing knew details about why the texas hospital initially sent the patient back into the public. Lets start in dallas. We are outside the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. Good morning, charles. Good morning, jose. It was a week ago today that patient eric duncan showed up here with a headache and with abdominal pains. He talked to a nurse here. He told the nurse that he had been to africa and that he had not been around people who had been ill. We learned since then he had, in fact, been ebola patients in his home country of liberia. But nevertheless, that information was not passed on to the attending ph
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Harrisperry. The militant extremists known as isis have be headeded a fourth western hostage. Isis released video showing the execution of british aide worker alan henning who was taken hostage in syria in december. Now theyre threatening the life of an american captureded in syria last year. President obama condemned the beheading. The Obama Administration is also taking action on another international crisis. The ebola epidemic. Akorlding to the world health organization, more than 3300 people have died of the disease. Friday the pentagon said its prepared to send 3,600 military personnel to west africa. Five americans have been diagnosed with ebola. White house officials stressed its not easily spread and the current outbreak can be under control. Every Ebola Outbreak over the past 40 years has been stopped. We know how to do this and we will do it again. A freelance photographer for nbc news is the latest american diagnosed with ebola. He was working in liberia with Nancy Sneiderma
Americas understanding of Domestic Violence. This may turn out to be the most important and impactful video of Domestic Violence ever released in this country. Tonight, the nfl finds itself at the center of a firestorm. We came to the decision that we came to to release ray. Contract terminated. The Baltimore Ravens have terminated ray rices contract. Suspended indefinitely by the National Football league. After a video was released by tmz sports showing the football star knocking out his then fiance in february. He was charged with assault back in march. He accepted an Intervention Program in order to avoid jail time. He got a slap on the wrist, a twogame suspension. The punishment was in no way adequate. I apologize to my fans. I failed miserably. They held this press conference with ray rice and his fiance. I do regret the incident that night. Blaming the victim. By doing that, they are revictimizing her. They cared more about race playing on the field than they did about his violen