In the south of baghdad. In iraq, a war of choice, the us expended enormous amounts of blood and treasure and ended up opening the door to wider iranian influence, while causing the American Public to reject a role as the worlds policeman. And for those who yearn for that moment, now we see the consequences. Instead of a monopolar world or a two sided rivalry, like the old cold war, we have one where several large states contest for economic and strategic advantage, and where chaos is increasingly widespread. In ukraine, independent since the soviet collapse, they face an existential struggle. Inter state war has returned to europe. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Russia animated by nationalism, rather than communism gambled on western indifference and weakness. Well, we havent been here long, but were getting a good idea about the constant rockets and defensive fire from the israeli iron dome system. In the middle east, one of the few constants of these past 35 year
Hospital workers in dallas, texas, seem to have missed a glaring red flag in the case of the first person diagnosed with ebola in the United States. But now looking into why the man was not hospitalized the first time he showed up in the emergency room he actually told the nrs he had just come from africa. Dr. Sanjay gupta has our report. Health officials in dallas are working to identify every person whos been in contact with the infected man. Now identified as Thomas Eric Duncan. He had multiple interactions over more than a week. So theyre monitoring more than a dozen people for symptoms, including five School Age Children from four schools. But so far, none has been confirmed to be infected. Every step, every contact where he might have had direct physical contact with somebody. And for each one of those contacts we will monitor them for 21 days after exposure. The patient flew from liberia on september 19 and landed in dallas the following day. It was four days later when he first
First person diagnosed with ebola in the United States. People are wondering how this could happen and theyre wondering why he wasnt admitted the first time he showed up in the emergency room. He told a nurse he had just come from west africa. Reporter healths officials in dallas are working to identify every person whos been in contact with the infected man, now identified as Thomas Eric Duncan. He had multiple interactions over more than a week. Theyre monitoring more than a dozen people for symptoms, including five schoolage children from four schools. But so far, none has been confirmed to be infected. Every step, every contact where he might have had direct niz cal contact with somebody, and for each one of those contacts, we will monitor them for 21 days after exposure. The patient flew from liberia on september 19th and landed in dallas. Four days later he developed symptoms. Went to the dallas emergency room on the 26th. But he was sent home with antibiotics. On sunday the 28th