Preliminary tests have come back negative. Health Officials Say shes been symptomfree for the last 24 hours. She says she felt like a criminal and called her isolation, quote, inhumane. But governor chris tooe defended the states decision saying val voluntary quarantine is necessary. We want to take every precaution. New york and illinois have also enacted mandatory quarantine rules for people returning from west africa who had contact with ebola patients. And three travelers have being monitored who have been to west africa recently. The local Health Department has to followup with them. They are asking travelers to take their temperature twice a day and stay in contact with the Health Department every day. So far they have been cooperative. I think they understand why we are doing this, why it is so important. The Health Department has said where these people have gone locally since they are back, but they are being monitored for 21 days. Dr. Craig spencer received a plasma transfusi
President s inner circle big time with Kayleigh Mcenany and two top aides testing positive for cody as this crisis inside the white house grows and grows. All of this as the u. S. Death toll from coronavirus has just surpassed 210,000 people and nearly 7. 5 known coronavirus cases. Our Jeremy Diamond is standing by over in Walter Reed Hospital. Well get to him shortly but fist to jim acosta over at the white house. Jim, the president tweeted, hes planning to leave the Walter Reed Hospital very soon. Reporter thats right, wolf. Preparing to leave Walter Reed Medical Center this evening after being hospitalized with the coronavirus for about 72 hours. He tweeted hes been feeling better than in decades and intense medications for days. Medical experts feel the president is making a rash decision but the president s doctors claim hes made enough progress over the last couple of days to return to the white house while conceding, as you said, hes not out of the woods yet. One worrying sign t
The Fire Department tells us its fully prepared if this comes to into our area, they have protective personal gowns to wear. Boot covers, hand sanitizer, also masks that you can wear. It says its compliance the with cdc regulations. Live in the Digital Operations Center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. Thanks to are that information, keith. Today, the World Health Organization is admitting that it made mistakes while handling the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Among other things, the organization blames incompetent staff and a lack of information. Also today, president obama named a former white house adviser to the position of ebola czar. Ron klain is a former chief of staff to Vice President biden. He will be the point person on the response to the virus. Hell coordinate Health Security in our country and work with Government Agencies to stop the spread of ebola in west africa. Meanwhile, a Texas Health Care worker on board a carnival magic cruise ship and was involuntary quarantine is off
The uss Teddy Roosevelt with a bunch of iranian cargo ships and other ships heading that way. We learned in that iranian convoy of nine ships there are warships as well. Theyre not just cargo ships. The u. S. Is concerned about what the cargo is does it carry weapons. The public message is different from the private message. Publicly the white house, state department and others are saying were there to protect navigation shipping lanes et cetera but military officials telling me privately, that watching that iranian convoy is certainly part of this. Thats why you have f18 hornets flying Recon Missions off the Teddy Roosevelt, by watching sending a message to iran they are watching. Were keeping an eye on you, are you sending arms in. You will not see the Teddy Roosevelt pull in front of an iranian warship and put sailors on that that would be an extraordinary step but the hope is sending this physical message of the u. S. Aircraft carrier is enough to cause the iranians to pull back. T
Government wanted to get them off the streets to keep them from asking questions because the Mining Company admitted yesterday that there was no escape chamber and there wasnt even an alarm when the fire broke out. In virginia two coal miners were killed in boone county. The politics of coal are now at the center of the senate race in West Virginia. We learned this week in tuesdays primary there will be two women facing off many the fight for the seat. Only three people have won elections from the state of West Virginia since 1959 in the last 55 years and all of them are democrats. Rockefeller is one of them. And current senator joe mansion. The democratic tradition in West Virginia is seriously threatened as the state moves closer and closer to the National Republican party. Its a move thats only accelerated many the obama era. Now with controls on the line, its up to the democratic nominee in West Virginia natalie tenant to fight that trend and keep that seat in her partys column. Sh