Attacks as president obama convinces turkey to allow its long time enemy to battle the enemy in syria. A sinkhole in hawaii. Some say a Tropical Storm is to blame. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. This morning, Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in prison. He was taken from a holding cell and transferred to a pretoria prison. The olympian was convicted of killing his girlfriend, model reef stein. The prosecution called for a minimum 10 year sentence while it is defense wanted Community Service and house arrest. We are joined live from pretoria, south africa. There are questions regarding how long he is going to serve in prison. What can you tell us . There are absolutely. In fact, his lawyer commented to journalists and the awaiting crowd that he may be out in 10 months. Under South African law, the minimum of the sentence you have to serve for culpable homicide is sixth which that sentence. Its possible also that he could be placed under house arrest for all or a portion of his remaining five year term. What about his family . How often they responded to the sentencing . Immediately after the sentencing, i have to say the court was hushed, no big reaction from either family, nor from Oscar Pistorius himself. Reeva steenkamps mother was heard saying thats right, in terms of the prison sentence pistorius has received. His uncle Arnold Pistorius spoke a short time ago to journalists. This has been an incredibly hard painful process for everyone involved. The steenkamp family, our family, and oscar. The court has now handed down judgment and sentence and we accept the judgment. Oscar will embrace this opportunity to pay back to society. Although Oscar Pistorius family saying there that they didnt want, you know, before the sentencing was delivered for him to receive a custodial sentence, the fact that he has now and they accepted it points to the fact that they wont push for an appeal. Oscar was looking forward to helping other inmates with their reading skills and any other way he could in order to give back to society. This trial has captured the attention of the entire nation, describe to us the mood where you are and what youre hearing on the streets there. Absolutely. Its captured the attention of everyone, because its been broadcast live every moment of it, so people at home, at work, on the radio and their cars have been able to follow every detail. Its created a lot of arm cheer legal experts. People i think have been captivated by the fact that hes been given a prison sentence. The judge could have fined him, he could have received a suspended sentence. A facetoface meeting in hong kong between student leaders and government representatives. The student protestors are demonstrating will elections with candidates only approved by beijing. Are the students optimistic about this meeting . The students are coming to this meeting to hear what the government has to say. This is just a forum to open talks so both sides can have their say. The students here, ive been watching very intensely, they are squeezed in all the protest sites here and youll hear them cheer or boo according to what they like to hear, often cheering whether they are representatives are up and booing when their representatives are talking, particularly when they make the point that hong kong has tomorrow they are part of china and they are not independent. Yet we kept hearing during the handover, one country, two systems. Hong kong and chinese officials have repeatedly said they are not giving into these demands so what are the protestors hoping to accomplish. Thats right. Very early from the start of this, and the run up to this, both sides clearly stated their position and as you said, Hong Kong Government said they are not going to get what they want particularly with regard to universal suffering by 2015. Thats what started the protests. The students hope this will open a dialogue. They do understand there will be no resolution or solution just yet but they want the government to take responsibility and make decisions for hong kong and those decisions should not be coming from beijing. Thank you. A phone call from president obama sparking a major shift in turkeys Foreign Policy concerning the fight against isil. The turkey president now agreeing to help turkish fighters in kobane after a series of simultaneous attacks in iraq. Aljazeera sources say that president obama described the situation in kobane as desperate and that phone call, what is turkey now going to do to help . Turkish foreign minister said the country is willing to assist the peshmerga, the kurdish fighters cross the border in the battle for kobane. Turkey is ready to help kurds fighting isil in kobane, enlisting an iraq ally also fighting the group. We are facilitating the passage of peshmerga fighters. The reversal marks a major change for turkey. The major turning point is the turks overcoming historical concerns about the kurds and allowing not kurdish kurds, but iraq kurds to come through, cross their borders and join the fight. For weeks, turkey refused to allow even forcements, weapons and equipment to reach the kurds to kurds fighting the turkish government for 30 years. Turkey becoming more involved in the fight, assessing the Syrian Rebels is absolutely historic. Its going to be hard for turkey to go back now and turkey really matters. The turning point for turkey came hours after the u. S. Air dropped much ohneeded weapons to kurds fighting isil in kobane. Every indication we have this morning is that the bundles made it to the hands we want them to make it to. Were trying to shore up their ability to defend that town. Secretary of state john kerry in jakarta gatheringation support for the fight against isil said the u. S. Shares turkeys concerns. Both countries consider it a terrorist group but with kobane in danger of falling, the u. S. Urged turkey to allow the peshmerga in. It is a crisis moment and emergency where we clearly do not want to see kobane become a horrible example of the unwillingness of people failing to help those fighting isil. This is a shift in tone by the Obama Administration about the significance of kobane. Frankly, dell, u. S. Officials say they hope to do do this isil. Perk megacommanders are stretched thin battling isil. Is turkey actually making much of a difference or is this just a gesture and far too little too late . Libby, thank you very much. Also ahead of next months deadline, reuters is reporting on the sanctions. New measures for ebola will be going into effect right away. They include full body garb so no skin is exposed, include a face shield, they include dozen effect after a Health Care Worker comes in contact with someone infected with ebola. They provide an increased margin of safety. They provide a consensus on better protecting Health Care Workers. Trained monitoring means that someone will be watching what this Health Care Worker will be doing when they put on the garb and take off the garb and very intense repeated training is what the c. D. C. And officials are looking for for Health Care Workers. That buddy system that we know Doctors Without Borders is implementing, are these recommendations for hospitals currently treating patients or all hospitals nationwide . Everyone. Everyone across the country nationwide, hospitals and even urgent care centers, were told. The urgent care centers, that maybe a problem going forward. Sometimes its just two people in one of those places and how equipped they are well have to see but they are going to have to step up their game with these new rules. Emery hospital released an unnamed ebola patient that had been treated on monday. What more do we know about this person . The patient left the hospital and we know that he is doing well. He is supposedly going to put out a statement at some point, but right now we know he came in september 9th. Hes the longest patient to be here quarantined, he is released ebola free. Of course he has the right to be anonymous. Thousands of home medical kits have arrived in liberia including buckets, chlorine, soap, gloves and instructions on how to take care of infected family members. The kit offer a stop gap solution for sick liberians waiting to receive treatment. Well focus on criticism facing president obamas new ebola czar. Del. Nigerian officials hope those 276 Abducted School girls will be released today. A truce with boko haram that would set them free is still uncertain. Boko haram carried out multiple attacks. The girls abduction in april sparked International Outrage and a massive social Media Campaign calling for their release. Mexicos government offering a 100,000 reward concerning the disappearance of dozens of College Students there. A new mass grave has been discovered in the Southern State where the group vanished, d. N. A. Tests now being done on the remains of that grave, but prior mass graves turned out to be other victims of mexicos violent gangs. The suspect in the abduction of an university of virginia student has been indicted on charges in another case. Jesse matthews is held in the disappearance of hanna graham. Monday, a virginia grand jury charged him with raping a woman in 2005. The victim is grateful to the lead detective who stayed in touch with her regularly over the course of nine years and promised her hed never give up and he never did. I wouldnt expect less from him. Matthews was the last person seen with graham on surveillance cameras the night she vanished. Police in hammond indiana have arrested a man they believe may be a serial killer responsible for up to season deaths. The events began with the murder of one young woman. Hammond police say the 43yearold was spiced that police were able to catch him after two days after the murder of this woman. The victim is 19yearold Afrikka Hardy, a known escort. Another woman who set up the woman became alarmed by a text she received from hardies phone and called police. They found her dead in the bathtub and Police Tracked down the man who was very willing to talk. He admitted his involvement in the hammond interest and notified police of other criminal incidents he was involved with. This included describing and helping Police Located three other victims in the city of gary. Three other female 60s have been located in the city of gary with the assistance of mr. Van, bringing the total number of victims to seven. The suspect had been hiding bodies in abandoned houses in hammond and nearby gary, indiana. Gary, indiana has by itself 10,000 abandoned homes. Van is a convicted sex offender in the state of texas. One Police Official said van could be responsible for many more murders dating back as far as 20 years. Security tighter this morning at a school in pennsylvania after a suspected cop killer was spotted nearby. Officials on monday say that eric frein was spotted near a post office in the pocono mountains. Authorities have been searching for him around his parents home, just north of the current search area. He has been on the run since september 12 when he shot and killed a trooper and wounded another. Oscar dela renta the Fashion Designer who shamed fashion for more than 40 years died. He died from complications of cancer. His career took off when Jackie Kennedy started wearing his designs. Most recently, he designed the Wedding Dress for George Clooneys wife. Well have more on this later in this hour. A Tropical Storm missed hawaii, but residents say the wet weather that hit the side caused a sinkhole. It swallowed up a three story tree and b. M. W. Nearby. That one didnt go all the way in, but fell inside. A major storm headed for the northeast. A look at how much rain it will bring. A lot of rain is headed here and it will stay for a while, so really not starting to clear out for a few days. This is just the beginning. This is the storm developing, an area of low pressure will slowly drift south, reself on that off the coast and quickly intensify. Now were talking about a slow just off the coast. This is where you get the term noreaster, look at the rain wrapping around the low. Wind from the south, moisture being pulled in and going right over new england. Where this low sets up will determine how much heavy rainfall over which area, but certainly a lot of moisture being pulled in. Theres that strong wind out of the northeast. Now as far as the rain goes, here it comes over the next three days. Were talking about three to six inches of rain. This will be the coastal flooding, inland flooding and that wind making it a lot cooler. Well watch how this low develops, where it develops, still early in the season. Hope the gales of november dont come early. The Ebola Outbreak is not just costing a texas hospital its reputation, but well tell you why it could cost a lot of money in lost business. Dealing with the ebola response. A Missouri State senator arrested protesting the Ferguson Police shooting. Why she had to spend the night in jail. An Unusual Police chase caught on camera. Its a runaway horse in manhattan. 775 million is the big number of the day. It was given to Government Employees accused of being bad. Todays big number 775 million, thats the amount of money the government paid out to workers on leave because they behaved badly on their jobs. It landed three fiscal years. The report showed 53,000 civilian employees were serving pay while at home for one to three months. Another 4,000 workers were islandle four months to a year, several hundred on paid leave from one to three years. Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in dallas under fire for its response to the ebola crisis. Its not only lost some of its reputation, but is losing business, too. Erin dell hunter is eight months pregnant and due to deliver her son at whats been considered one of the most trusted hospitals in dallas. Shes not so sure about it anymore. We were scared at first. When we heard about the first case, obviously, we were concerned about the person and we are also concerned about our situation with our baby. After learning more about the ebola virus, the couple will likely stick with their hospital and their plan. Youre not going to, you know, contract it unless you go around presbyterian maybe licking door knobs at i. C. U. Unit. The hunters are leaning in one direction but other expectant parents might take another. Texas Health Presbyterian hospital generates 600 million in annual revenue. Now moodys has downgraded its long term deteriorating outlook of its Parent Company from positive to developing. Patients have postponed appointments. A Breast Cancer colleague had a patient schedule for surgery cancel her surgery. How silly is that . Shes going to continue having her cancer because shes afraid of having ebola. Now the hospital and city are working to remain public trust. Im presbyterian strong and also presbyterian strong. We are doing our best. I had a good friend that had a baby in this hospital last week. Ok . People are still coming, but this is going to impact it. It will likely take time to see the number of patients it used to serve. Theres not a lot of people anymore. People have been holding back about going there. We kind of think its a ghost town. Melissa chan, aljazeera, dallas. Nurses at Texas Health Hospital speaking out saying their hospital is safe. They hope they can regain the publics trust. Steven morrison is the Senior Vice President and director for Global Health policy for the center for strategic and National Studies in washington. He joins us now to talk about the point person president obama has chosen to deal with the ebola response. Thanks for your time. The socalled ebola czar has no Public Health or medical experience. What can he do to make sure the mistakes made with ebola arent repeated . He comes to the post as a senior staff member from the white house. Hes not bringing any expertise in terms of Public Health. Hes bringing political expertise. We have a very fragmented Health System in our country. We have a continued threat of importation of ebola cases. Weve had this recent series of mishappens in dallas that have raised public fear dramatically and his role is to allay fears and rebuild confidence in the american public. Criticism has been aimed in the last few days at c. D. C. Director tom frieden who is a friend of yours. Is any of the criticism fair . I think certainly mistakes were made by many of the actors and as ive argued, that adjustments and improvements also followed those mistakes. My own feeling is that Thomas Friedman is extremely valuable in the response. Hes very lucid in his communications. Hes acknowledged errors and radar them. Thats very important that we have leadership at c. D. C. Prepared to mobilize that agency, over 1,000 employees of c. D. C. Work today on ebola. You point out in your blog that the mistakes are rooted in the fragmentation of the u. S. Health system and that sharp funding cuts in the Health System at call levels also contributed to this response. How does the company even begin to ad