New york and new jersey responding to backlash on their ebola policies with reports that the white house has urged them to reverse those policies just days after ordering mandatory quarantines. Case in point, kaci hickox, the nurse who was held in quarantine after returning from west africa is now on her way home to maine. And she talked exclusively to us here at cnn about what she went through. The first thing i would say to governor christie is i wish he would be more careful about his statements relative to my medical question. I am not as he said quoteunquote obviously ill. I ham completely healthy and with no symptoms. If he knew anything about ebola he would know asymptomatic people are not infectious. I understand that people feel like they have a risk and i think we can have a conversation about what further measures might look like. But i think this is an extreme that is really unacceptable and i feel like my basic human rights have been violated. As for new Jersey Governor Chris Christie he said he was just looking out for the public. Meanwhile family of a 5yearold boy in new york is waiting to find out whether he has ebola. He has been tested. Officials are trying to find out whether the child who recently returned with his family from guinea there in west africa came into contact with anyone who has ebola. We cannot forget ebola has claimed 49 pun lives in west africa and federal Health Officials insist the best way combat the virus is to send more Health Workers to that region. Let me bring in assistant professor at uc berkeley and San Francisco. Doctor, nice to have you on. Thank you, brooke. I want to speak to you with your m. D. Hat on. First i know youre shortly on your way and we are grateful you are headed that way to west africa but you have little kiddies at home and im curious how are you wife reacted when you said honey im going to west africa . Well it wasnt a spur of the moment decision by any means. My wife has stuck with me for the past 11 years with trips to haiti and rwanda and she was okay with me going to treat cholera in 2010 in haiti. This is very different because we understand ebola is an extremely deadly disease. But she also understands that this is what im trained to do. I am a physician with Public Health background and training in Infectious Disease and tropical medicine. I had training at the cdc. Ive done everything i can to reduce my risk of contracting ebola myself. And despite the fact that she still is very worried and, in fact, just a couple of days ago was tearing up to me and saying that, you know, its hard but shes keeping strong for the sake of our daughter. But also she really believes in the mission that im trying to carry out. Sure. Is there a teeny worry just from your own self . Not teeny at all. My family is the most precious thing to me and i have a 2 1 2yearold at home. I hope in the future she will forget i was gone for two months and that she will forgive me for not being there for two months of her life. But i think she will. I think she will especially when she realizes how you can help so many different people. So on that and by the way we should be getting news according to the white house the cdc will be updating protocols for folks such as yourself when you return home to the states from west africa so those guidelines could be changing. Once you do come home, given what you know whats happened with this nurse that we now know will be heading home to selfquarantine in maine, how do you want to be treated . How do you think you should stay home for 21 days and not work for fear of potentially infecting anyone if you are asymptomatic . What do you think . Well, i think i as a Health Care Professional and Public Health expert i understand the risks and the risks are that there is almost no chance of me infecting anybody unless i had symptoms. But i also understand this requested of an abundance of caution. Abundance of caution can be misinterpreted and could lead to very grave consequences. Just yesterday my wife told me that a very dear and close Family Member in ohio of ours who is elderly and has a heart condition that requires her to have blood clotting or blood thinning medications every day, shes considering not going to get her blood checked because of fear of ebola. That fear clearly is unfounded, but that fear is real out there and i think when it hits home to people like myself, i cannot blame our leadership for taking extreme measures in this case. So, if you were to have to stay put, doc, for 21 days at home, if somebody, you know, way higher above you and i says you need to, youre telling me you will . I would do so for the sake of the masses, the sake of the public and their reassurance. I also want to point out that, you know, i would stay home but i have to feed my family somehow. And so i would urge hospitals and employers and even the government to step in and say hey look, youve gone out, there youve done the work, now youre back, lets treat you with some dignity and, of course, lets provide for your family during those 21 days when you cant work. Im not allowed to work. So, for example at uc San Francisco where im a physician, theres a policy that employees who are not going to go to west africa can actually donate Vacation Days how about that . That money could come to support the salary that i would lose and so far 500 hours have been donated which is a tremendous amount of generosity of my colleagues and friends at ucsf. Thats awesome. Ucsf shout out to them. Doctor, thank you so much. We appreciate your time and taking the risk to help so many people who are so in need. Best of luck to you. Well check up with you if we can in the future. Today the white house as i mention ad moment ago is responding to the decision to release that nurse kaci hickox from confinement. Take a listen. We want to make sure that whatever policies are put in place in this country to protect the american public, do not serve as a disincentive to doctors and nurses from this country volunteering to travel to west africa to treat ebola patients. As i mentioned the white house also saying today the cdc will announce these new guidelines on Ebola Response in about half an hour from now. Lets go the white house to our cnn Senior Correspondent there, jim acosta. Do we know anything with what they may announce . Reporter well have to wait and find out and hear. We expect the cdc director tom frieden to have a Conference Call starting at 3 30 this afternoon. The white house said at that briefing a clip of it you just played there the cdc is expected to announce these guidelines that they want to put out to the states as to what to do with thats Health Care Workers, how to treat these Health Care Workers once they return from west africa. Brooke what well end up with is a hodgepodge system where different states will have different ebola quarantine policies and we saw a sneak preview of that over the weekend when new york and new jersey stepped out on their own to issue this mandatory quarantine policy that resulted in the confinement of kaci hickox in that tent, in that hospital in new jersey which caused a lot of controversy. She said it violated her reits. And i asked josh earnest during the briefing whether or not the Obama Administration got a heads up from new york and new jersey that they were even doing this and this is what josh earnest had to say. Was it a surprise to this administration when new york and new jersey came out with their policies on these quarantines . Is that a yes or a no in terms of whether or not the administration was told in advance . What im telling you im not in a position to detail all of the phone calls, but Administration Officials and a variety of agencies and the white house have been in regular touch with officials in newark, new jersey and elsewhere. No clear answer from the white house as to whether or not they got a heads up from new york or new jersey that they were doing this. Knowing from talking to governor Christies Office the governor never talked to the president over the weekend and the white house wouldnt acknowledge if that occurred. A lot of questions being raised. Theres the case of kaci hickox. We asked josh earnest during that briefing if the white house agrees with her confinement in a tent, whether or not it violated her rights, the white house did not offer an opinion on that. Josh earnest only said that her service should be respected and putting her in a tent does not do that. Well stand by if, in fact, they will be announcing this hodgepodge policy. Jim acosta well be looking for that reporting at the white house in a bit. At the same time all of this happening today, the family of this 5yearold child is anxiously awaiting to see if their little boy will be the next ebola patient here in the United States. Were live for you this afternoon at Bellevue Hospital where doctors are treating the boy and hoping this is a false alarm, that this is not the fifth case of ebola weve stein u. S. Were learning about they aroic actions of a young teacher in Washington State. What she did when she heard those gun shots ring out in that cafeteria that could have saved students in marriesville in Washington State this past friday. Her story coming up. But it wont last long, so hurry in today. And sea food differently. Maestro of project management. Baron of the buildout. 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Let me give the timeline. What youre looking at is video from sunday night that we believe the ambulance bringing this 5yearold boy and his mother here to Bellevue Hospital. The reason he was transported here is because he got a very high fever on sunday. Saturday night he and his family landed at jfk airport after spending a month in guinea as you mentioned part of the hot zone in west africa. Out of an abundance of caution they brought him here because a High Temperature is one of the symptoms that can come with ebola. His most recent temperature reading is at 102 degrees. Thats very, very high. But it is still unclear to all the doctors and authorities here whether or not this is a case of ebola. They have to wait for those initial test results. I want you to listen to mayor de blasio of new york city who spoke about this boy and what new york city is doing at this point. Listen. The child was having some difficulties but its not clear they were the kinds of symptoms that would be related to ebola. So, again, this is the abundance of caution dynamic. Very recently the child was showing some signs of an illness not clear what the illness was. We did the cautious thing and brought the child in under the full protocol. Reporter also, brooke, what they have done since sunday night, since the child came here to bellevue is officials in new york city have been tracking the movement of both the child and his mother, his family, all those who returned with him from guinea on saturday night. Mayor debassde blasio said itsy easy. As for the doctor who was treated here, he was here for ten days before this ebola test came back positive. They are taking steps in advance to trace whoever else this child may have come in contact with just in case the test comes back positive. Lets hope it does not. Well know sometime tonight and bring that live on cnn. Hopefully its a negative. Poppy harlow, thank you very much. Coming up, politics creeping into the fight against ebola. Could the cases in the u. S. Actually impact the midterm elections. Were learning new details of about this heroic teacher who acted when shots rang out at a Washington State high school. What she did that could have saved a lot of students. Next. I thought itd be bigger. dad theres nothing i cant reach in my subaru. vo introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru,a subaru. But parallel parking isnt one you do a lof them. Ings great. Youre either too far from the curb. Or too close to other cars. Its just a matter of time until you rip some guys bumper off. So, here are your choices take the bus. Or get Liberty Mutual insurance. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Call Liberty Mutual insurance. A Washington StateSchool Teacher is being hailed a hero today because of the bravery she exhibited during last fridays Deadly School shooting. There may have been more young victims but for the bold actions of this young teacher, megan silberberger. Witnesses say she ran towards the gunman. She like grabbed his arm, got a hand on him. It happened in seconds. Cnn correspondent don simon is live in marysville in Washington State with more on her bravery. Dan what can you tell us . Reporter hi, brooke. Well talk about her in a minute. First i want to show you this extraordinary scene here in front of the school. Look at these expressions of goodwill. I would say about 100 yards this fence has been turned into a makeshift memorial. So many people dropping off flowers and balloons. Its been growing by anyone. A lot of goodwill bestowed on this teacher, megan silberberger. You mentioned her name. She was in a room near the cafeteria, heard the gun shots and then ran towards the gunfire. 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Governor of new jersey, Chris Christie took a hard line friday when state officials put nurse kaci hickox under quarantine. She had just treated ebola victims in sierra leone and governor christie said he needed to protect Public Health. So did the governor walk it back when kaci hickox was discharged today . Depends on who you ask. Some say absolutely. But when you ask the governor, this is how he explained it. Im glad shes getting to go back home and hopefully her health will remain good. It is its good for her, her family and everybody else. We wont take any wrisks Public Health of new jersey. I didnt reverse any decision. Why your saying i reversed a decision. [ inaudible ] if she was continuing to be ill she would have to stay. If she had no symptoms for 24 hours. The reason she was put in the hospital in the first place is because she was running a high fever. Heres what this nurse would say. That she never had a high fever, that a thermometer misread her temp