Patient is isolated and receiving further assessment and care. In new york, a 5yearold boy who visited west africa and developed a fever tested negative for ebola. He will remain in isolation for now, at least. Also in new york, dr. Craig spencer is now in serious but stable condition. He tested positive for ebola last week. Well, the epicenter of the epidemic is west africa. The World Health Organization counts more than 10,000 confirmed or suspected cases of ebola there. More than 4900 of them have been fatal. The vast majority of those are in liberia, sierra leone and guinea. Well, the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention has issued revised guidelines. They include Health Care Workers who suffer a needle stick while caring for an ebola patient or who treated someone while not in protective gear. But the cdc says most Health Care Workers, including most returning from west africa should need only daily monitoring, not isolation. Three u. S. States, new jersey, new york an
Introduce you to the men and women confronting the militant threat. Thanks for joining us. It looked like a perfect launch initially on a picture perfect aukt evening. But then an unmanned rocket exploded just seconds after liftoff. We want to show you how it happened in realtime tuesday night on the virginia coast. Watch this. And we have liftoff of the antares, on this is Third Mission to the iss. Main engine at 108 launch team, launch team, be advised, stay at your consoles. Maintain your positions in your consoles. In the lcc, maintain position just stunning to watch that. Unbelievable. And you also saw the explosion and heard it there. Bit of a delay on the video shortly after. The fire was raging after that rocket fell back to earth. It did seem to heavily damage the launch pad. Its 3 00 a. M. On the east coast in the u. S. Soon as daylight comes, theyll be spending a special team to investigate what happened. That rocket was carrying food and supplies and classified equipment as
Biggest musicians come together and sing for a good cause. Ill make you so all right. Lets first begin with the latest developments on the ongoing Ebola Outbreak and we can report on the death of the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the United States. Thomas eric duncan died wednesday in the dallas hospital where he was being treated. Later wednesday, a texas Health Official said a sheriffs deputy hospitalized with ebolalike symptoms is at no risk of the virus. Meantime, over in spain, six people there are now under observation in a ma did hospital including a nurses assistant who is the first person to contract ebola outside the african continent. And theres anger over Health Officials decisions to euthanize that womans dog excaliber. Youve heard about this in the past day. Some 400,000 people signed an on line petition asking to spare the dogs life. It was eventually euthanized. Now Thomas Duncan came to the u. S. From liberia to be with his partner. His diagnosis and subsequent
The pope with the peoples touch announces plans for a visit to the city of brotherly love in 2015. All of that coming up right now. We want to begin this hour in jerusalem. Theres been a deadly attack inside a sin going synagogue. Come coming after tensions between israelis and palestinians. We have more from ben wedeman on the latest. I know this is still a breaking story. What is the latest information . Reporter yeah, we understand that this attack took place at about 7 00 in the morning. That was two hours ago. Two trackers, apparently two attackers, apparently both from East Jerusalem, came to this synagogue here. They were armed apparently with a handgun, as well as axes and knives, according to police spokesmen. They went inside the synagogue, killed four of the worshipper, sick others are wounded. They Police Quickly came to the scene, killed the two attackers. Two policemen were wounded, as well. Of course, the Israeli Police are describing this as a terror incident. Of course
Contracting ebola in the u. S. Is prompting a call from the president for swift action. Barack obama received two calls. Mr. Obama ordereded the centers for Disease Control and prevention to quickly determine what caused her to get sick. He is urging federal officials to take extra steps to make sure Health Workers follow protocols for treating ebola patients. The nurse cared for Thomas Duncan before he died from ebola on wednesday. A Hazardous Materials team is decontaminating her apartment and authorities are trying to track everyone who came in contact with her. Mary reports this latest infection happened despite all of the precautions. Reporter cdc tests confirm a dallas nurse is the first patient to have contracted ebola in the United States. There was a breach in protocol and that resulted in this infection. Reporter Health Care Officials announced sunday that a female nurse who had extensive contact with Thomas Duncan has tested positive for the disease. The doctor said it could