Some of them turned out to be malaria, but now ebola is in the United States. What do we know about the patient . Hes a liberian who arrived in the u. S. On the 20th. Was said to be asymptom attic. It is highly unlikely he came in contact with someone at the point to transmit the infection to them. However, once he got here to the United States and he was staying with relatives in dallas, he began to fall ill on about the 24th. He was so ill that on the 26th he went to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in the northern part of dallas to seek treatment. Two days later he was admitted to the hospital based on his symptoms and the fact that he was traveling from western africa, placed into strict isolation. Now heres where things get worrisome, because, greta, he was in contact with a number of people between the 24th when he fell ill and the 28th when he was allowed into the hospital before he was placed in strict isolation. Dr. Tom friedman held a lengthy president conference just a whi
Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. Well begin with the world lead. Can to not dare call us ukranians. We swear allegiance to mother russia now. The parliament voted to separate from ukraine and join the Russian Federation accelerating an already rapidly developing conflict. Crimea will hold a refer rep dumb vote in ten days to ratify its decision, but president obama says the world will not stand for that after the white house announced new sanctions and visa restrictions on certain russians. We do not know yet which ones. The president russia that they have already gone too far. Since the russian intervention, weve been possible l mobil mobilimobile liding the International Community. The proposed referendum would violate the ukranian constitution and violate international law. Any discussion about the future of ukraine must include the legitimate government of ukraine. Except of course russia does not recognize ukraines interim government as legitimate the
Ebola and where we are in the fight against the frightening disease. And now dangerous lightning. That is dangerous hail and we yet. And welcome to this second hour of happening now. I am jon scott. I am marcel nevil in for jenna lee. A truck carrying alqaeda fighters and six militants killed. We are waiting to hear if the leader was among them. He has been responsible for a wave of attacks in somalia and including a Shopping Mall siege that killed people. Jennifer griffin has the latest. The pentagon cannot confirm that the u. S. Strike in somalia killed a mad and head in somalia. In 2012. The u. S. Put a 7 million bounty on information leading to arrest. He trained them in training bases inside of somalia. And the u. S. Airport fired missiles as he reportedly left a meeting. He is known as the mastermind of the kenyan mall bombing that left 67 people dead and terrorized the east africa nation. No special operations teams were sent to carry out the attack. No american boots on the gro
An interview sunday, the president said american Ground Troops are still not in the cards. This will not be announcement about u. S. Ground troops. This is not the equivalent of iraq war. Jon john huddy, live in your middle east bureau with more. John. Reporter well, jon, while the president as you just heard said this will not be a new iraq war, he did say airstrikes in iraq will continue calling on International Coalition of u. S. Allies to battle isis and this is now, jon, the arab league is pledging its help. Now on sunday the leagues 22 memberstates issued a resolution to challenge isis by combating its military and Financial Resources and extremist ideology. It doesnt explicitly back American Military action and airstrikes against isis but it really seems to reflect a new sense of urgency, challenging the militant group, and this as the u. N. Human rights commissioner is calling on World Leaders to make stopping isis a priority saying that the militants have shown an absolute dis
Some of them turned out to be malaria, but now ebola is in the United States. What do we know about the patient . Hes a liberian who arrived in the u. S. On the 20th. Was said to be asymptom attic. It is highly unlikely he came in contact with someone at the point to transmit the infection to them. However, once he got here to the United States and he was staying with relatives in dallas, he began to fall ill on about the 24th. He was so ill that on the 26th he went to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in the northern part of dallas to seek treatment. Two days later he was admitted to the hospital based on his symptoms and the fact that he was traveling from western africa, placed into strict isolation. Now heres where things get worrisome, because, greta, he was in contact with a number of people between the 24th when he fell ill and the 28th when he was allowed into the hospital before he was placed in strict isolation. Dr. Tom friedman held a lengthy president conference just a whi