Breaking news overnight. 48 people who were quarantined in dallas because they had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan have been declared infection free. Among them duncans fiancee. All of them cleared to end seclusion after 21 days of quarantine. We will have more on that in a moment. On saturday, duncans loved ones remembered him in a service in North Carolina. At the same time, Cruise Ship Passengers who endured an overblown ebola scare disemba disembarked in galveston. The worker who handled the lab samples of duncan was quarantined and her tests came back negative. We have Alina Machado has more from dallas. Reporter christine and john, 48 people in Dallas County breathing a sigh of relief after reaching the end of the 21day monitoring period without symptoms. These are people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan before he died on october 8th. They include duncans fiancee. Listen to what a pastor at her church told us. They feel this is a tremendous miracle that has happened. They
Delusional. Im very nervous. Doctors and nurses volunteering to go to the ebola hot zone show us why it is so difficult to learn the proper safety procedures. And coming up this hour amid ongoing clashes, this hour, in 15 minutes, in fact, well be hearing from the reporter on the scene. Reporter this will be the first time were getting an immediate briefing. Well bring you live updates after that shocking video of alleged Police Brutality. A lot happening there in hong kong. Well get to all those stories for you this hour. First lets begin with the fight against ebola, public concern is intensifying. As a second u. S. Nurse is now diagnosed with the deadly virus. She was part of the team that treated Thomas Duncan before he died at a hospital in dallas. She flew on a commercial airliner shortly before her diagnosis. That has many people concerned. Now, Health Officials are considering putting 76 other workers from her hospital on a u. S. No fly list. They may also change the body tempe
Officials on edge. 1,000 people in the streets overnight and police in riot gear. We are live in st. Louis this morning. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. John berman has the morning off. It is monday, october 13th. Columbus day. Serious jitters as the global death toll from ebola climbs above 4,000. In dallas, officials are baffled by the first case of ebola contracted in the u. S. A nurse who took care of Thomas Eric Duncan. Duncan traveled from liberia to dall dallas. He fell ill and died from the disease last week. Cnns ed lavandera is live in dallas with more on the investigation and how that nurse could have contracted ebola although protective clothing was worn. Reporter the cdc will investigate what they call a breach in protocol. The Health Care Worker, a female nurse, wearing propertective ge despite that, she was infected during the time she was taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan before he died here at Texas Health Presbyterian last wednesday. This He
Deploy within 72 hours. The Brussels Airport will begin screening people arriving from west africa for signs of fever. The airport is a hub for flights from africa. And the nurses aide who contracted ebola in spain is now free of the disease. Though she will probably stay in the hospital for a while to recover. Well, two blood tests show the ebola levels in Teresa Ramirez blood were nearly nil. Thats the third test negative. Shes been in the hospital for two weeks. Nick robertson is tracking her case, joins us now from madrid with the update. And everyone there must be breathing a sigh of relief, nick. Oh, natalie, they really are. This is the news they were hoping for and expecting. Now theyve got it, at least in theory. No one in spain has the virus. Plenty of people under observation. Some of those in contact with Teresa Romero who is still in hospital here. Hell be under observation about another week or so along with the other people. We were at the lab outside of madrid, this is
Should embrace the gay community. Im john berman. Christine romans is off today. It is tuesday, october 14th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. There is clear concern among cdc officials this morning. The fear is there could be more cases of ebola transmission like the dallas nurse who became infected. Others who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan could become infected the same way. That nurse has now been identified as nina pham. Cdc director Thomas Frieden says pham is stable. She has received a blood transfusion from dr. Kent brantly. Now doctors are racing to see how pham became infected. Cnns Victor Blackwell is in dallas with more. Reporter good morning. We learned that nina pham received her certification in Critical Care nursing two months before treating Thomas Eric Duncan at the hospital. A person who knows the family well through the church says pham likely was doing more than she was supposed to have done in treating this patient. That is what the person told the local newspaper and cdc de