This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Lab workers are getting ready to receive preventative treatment for exposure to anthrax. More than two dozen were exposed when live samples were accidentally shipped. It went to labs in as many as nine states and the u. S. Air base in south korea. John henry smith is here with more. This is trouble. It is so troubling because it can be fatal. The centers for Disease Control estimates inhaled anthrax leads to death in 85 of cases if not treated immediately and aggressively. Authorities are not taking chances with the people who came in contact with the cargo. A frightening mistake was made at doug way proving ground in utah when anthrax samples were supposed to be rendered inactive before sent to academic and research labs. Some of them were live. By that time, a sample had already been sent to a research lab in maryland and the maryland lab in turn sent parts that have sample to labs in eight other s
Opening glitch. The producers have a sense of humor. As we welcome a host of team usa Medal Winners back home to our plaza today, monday, february 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im jet lagged. And im Savannah Guthrie alongside al roker and Natalie Morales. Are you sure its monday and not yesterday or tomorrow . A ninehour time change is not an easy one. How are you feeling . Im not used to wearing matching pants and a suit. And im surprised you had that vodka shot with your cereal this morning. Habits are hard to break. We are all home and happy to be back in new york after a fun time in sochi. Absolutely. We have a lot coming up. Including our special series coming up called love your selfie. Most subjects we hear about are the unreal expectations we have when it comes to body image. Were accepting and embracing ourselves. And as a
Star causes a social media stir. Announcing something no one expected. Saying its gonna be all right good morning to you all. Im t. J. Holmes. And im tai hernandez. We begin with a nurses quarantine brewing a new debate about how to handle Health Care Workers returning from west africa. Lets show you now kaci hickox, third day in a mandatory quarantine. No heat, no toilet. Shes saying her personal rights are being violated. Tahman bradley has the details. Reporter inside this hospital tent, kaci hickox remains under mandatory quarantine, despite testing negative for ebola. The 33yearold nurse is the first traveler automatically detained under new rules imposed by four states. Hickox told cnn her treatment has been inhumane. And i feel like my basic human rights have been violated. Reporter shes hired an attorney. To work for her release. Theres no reason for the state of new jersey to keep her quarantined. Reporter but governor Chris Christie is defending his 21day mandatory quarantine
Slowing your commute down. We show a yellow alert when were going to have nuisance, inconvenient weather with showers stretching from southern ohio toward the atlantic right now. In our neck of the woods, were seeing less activity north and west when you get in toward areas of north and west of route 15 out toward western maryland, West Virginia there. However, we still have quite a few showers south and east of town. Montgomery county looking relatively quiet now with a light sprinkle coming out of arlington in toward the district. Up 270 a light little shower west of mount airy. We saw more activity about 90 minutes ago. Down 95, dale city lighter rains there. Breaks up as you head toward quantico. In Southern Maryland youll notice into Charles County now and over toward areas of calvert and saint marys, still light to moderate rain showers. Theres saint marys and going back into virginia, this is tracking toward leonardtown in another 30 minute. Temperatures in the 70s now. Theyll b
Signals and i will return to the podium. And i learned i had an incredible video and interesting video which we were panning the globe and you will not see those tonight. This tavern dates to 1719 and they didnt have powerpoint in 1719 so we will see stills which i hope keep your attention. We are going to talk about 1776 and this was a trying year for the revolutionaries in the 13 call olon colonys. The success was shortlived at the time. An invasion in canada ended disastrous because of the small pox that crossed the continent. They were chased south through new jersey and just missed destroying it for good and ending the revolutionary cause. Washington had 7,000 troops against 32,000 british troops. On christmas, we turned back into new jersey and crossed the delawa Delaware River and they converged on trinton, new jersey the next morning. After a brief incident, the army captured the entire regimine. You know the story already. You learned it in school. I bet most of you have read