Word on the street. Im walking up georgia avenue, there may be an ebola case in my hospital. I appreciate that. Reporter Howard University hospital also says the hospital is working with the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and the d. C. Department of health. At best, what they can do at this stage is monitor the patient. At best, what those who live or regularly visit the campus can do is be vigilant. I think its very important to any faculty of the university to take the right precautions to protect themselves and be knowledgeable about the situation going on today. Reporter and the d. C. Department of health tells us they are indeed aware of this. They are monitoring this, and as we have been stressing, there is nothing wrong with stressing this again, there has been no confirmed case of the ebola virus in the district of columb columbia. Derrick ward, news4. Back to you. The parents of a freelance photographer working for nbc news who tested positive for ebola say their
Protocols, including isolating the patient. The symptoms usually dont present themselves until 2 to 21 days after a person is exposed. And exposure requires a person come into contact with someone who is already infected. Contact with bodily fluids, especially. That can make Health Care Workers among the most susceptible. As for any patient with ebola, there is no cure and only the symptoms can be treated. Some of my best students became physicians and they know what theyre doing. I just wish they would have told us sooner. Reporter the centers for Disease Control says monitoring a patient is vital, especially when you consider that other diseases like malaria can often present some of the same symptoms. I think its very important that any faculty of the University Take the right precautions to protect themselves and be knowledgeable about the situation going on today. Reporter lets put this in perspective. Since late july, there have been 100 consultations. Thats where a local hospita
Political forum supposedly in secret. Again, this was highly informal and informative. So mcconnell first of all said when he became majority leader, he wanted them to know that they would begin by using the budget to take over the government because the budget is the only thing that you cant filibuster. It takes majority vote. So they were going to put an amendment on every budget of every department to get rid of anything that had been done since president obama had been in office or before they didnt like and if he vetoed it they would shut the government down over and over again this. It is not an allegation. He was bragging on this like he was einstein discovering the theory of relativity. He found the secret to permanent gridlock. Oh happy day. What i found even more important and revealing was at the end senator mcconnell said according to the transcript released from the meeting that the worst day in his 30 year political life was the day that the mccain bill was signed into la
Newsroom. Our top story, a diplomatic balt is brewing between turkey and the netherlands. They refused to let the Turkish Foreign ministers plane land for a rally. Protests have broken out and turkey has sealed off dutch diplomatic reasons for what it calls security reasons. Dutch police also blocked turkeys Family Affairs minister from entering the turkish consulate. Reporter the manager of this location has higher orders to ask you to leave holland today. We can escort. Reporter the team is here to escort you on the fastest route to germany by following the team in your own country. I will go to the consulate building. This is my consulates building and i dont agree and i am not leaving. She refuses that. She is a minister. She does not want to go to germany. Then well just discuss. Well discuss. It is possible there will then be other consequences. We have to make a call and other decisions could be made that might not be good for you. There is an example right there of the tension
For daylightsavings time. We are on the cusp of a major week of politics, and we are going to break it all down for you this hour. First, new this morning, the new video in the 2014 Police Shooting of Michael Brown raising important questions, particularly about what happened in the hours before the shooting and his death. Last night at south by southwest the documentary stranger fruit showcased this video of brown, and he gives a small bag of marijuana and receiving the boxes of cigareloos. And this video was not released because they did not believe it was important to the investigation, and so lets talk about this and bring in our panel. We have with us, joey jackson, cnn legal analyst, and simone sanders, a cnn political commentator. Simone, during the campaign and during your work as the spokesperson for Bernie Sanders campaign, and you made a passioned plea about mike brown and what you were seeing in ferguson. Tell us about what your reaction is to what you are seeing here . I a