Virginia student to another student five years ago. Could police have a serial killer on their hands . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The centers for Disease Control and prevention has Just Announced the first case of ebola. First case has been diagnosed in the United States. Its a troubling milestone in the spread of the disease which has now killed thousands of people in west africa. Were standing by for a News Conference by the cdc, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Thats coming up in about half an hour. Well have live coverage. We have correspondents, our guests, including president obamas senior adviser, dan pfeiffer, here in the situation room with me. First, lets bring in dr. Sanjay gupta. What do we know about the first confirmed case of ebola in the United States . What we know is that this is a person who they had some suspicion, given where the person had recently traveled, west africa, and this person was having symptoms, high fever and symptoms consistent with ebola but also could be a lot of other things. What they did in this case and theyve done in several cases in the past, they simply test the persons blood, sent the specimens over to the centers for Disease Control and waited till they got the results. This has happened in the past but all of the previous times the tests have subsequently come back negative or without any evidence of the ebola virus. Within half an hour youll hear from the cdc themselves but they are talking about the fact that this particular specimen did come back positive. So while we have had other people in the United States who have had ebola, keep in mind, they were diagnosed with ebola elsewhere and flown to the United States for treatment. This is the first payment who was, in fact, diagnosed here in the United States. As you said, wolf, this is a its historic in some ways. Its a milestone but not unexpected, i think, given how much weve seen it spread over the last several months. And its spreading by enormous rates in west africa. Theres alarm going on. Right now thousands and thousands of people have been affected and thousands have died. It could go up and up and up. The question everyone is asking in the United States, hearing you, sanjay, how concerned should we be in this country that ebola could come here . Ebola is here. I think thats its one of those things that is startling to here and now weve seen someone diagnosed here having travelinged from a place known to have ebola and then traveling to the United States. The question that people have is, is it going to start spreading within the United States . Thats the big concern. The same thing weve been saying for months, the likelihood of that happening is still very, very low. This is not a particularly contagious disease despite the numbers and obviously some of what youve seen in west africa. This does not spread easily from person to person. Typically people will spread this when they are very sick and their body starts to spread the virus. Typically when someone is sick, they are not up and about, they are in a hospital. Its certainly concerning, not unexpected. But this idea that were going to start to see these outbreaks in the United States, i still maintain, i think, is relatively low, wolf. Sanjay, stand by. At the bottom of the hour, well have live coverage from the cdc. The first confirmed ebola case now in the United States, first case confirmed in the United States. Sanjay, thanks very much. Theres other breaking news were following, including breaking news about the man who barrelled deep inside the white house carrying a knife. He has now been indicted on three charges just hours after outraged lawmakers grilled the secret Service Director. Lets go to our justice correspondent pamela braun. She has more on the breaking news. Whats the latest, pamela . Wolf, tonight the grand jury indicted Omar Gonzalez on unlawfully entering a restricted building while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon as well as two law violations. Julia pierson apologized today for the botched security breach, this as we learn more details about the role that an offduty officer played in the apprehending of gonzalez. Reporter the intruder seen here bolting across the white house lawn was stopped by just one onduty secret Service Police officer and two offduty agents who were on the lower level of the building and heard the commotion. One of the agents had been guarding the obama daughters four minutes earlier before they left with the president on marine one. We are all outraged with how this incident came to pass. That is why i have asked for a full review. Its obvious t. Is obvious that mistakes were made. For nearly four hours today, the director of the secret service, Julia Pierson, was grilled on how Omar Gonzalez, was able to get inside. Dont let somebody get close to the president and his family. I wish to god you protected the white house like youre protecting your reputation here today. I dont want anyone to imagine, imagine, imagining that they can pierce to protect the veil of the secret service. Piersonned admitted that two secret Service Agents noticed him for some time before jumping the fence. He was not acting inappropriately or violating any laws. But they did not approach that and they did not report that . Reporter gonzalez dashed 70 yards across the iconic front lawn and went through the unlocked front door. Inside, he overpowered an agent and made a left turn past the stairwell that leads to the first familys private residence before briefly running into the east room and finally being arrested. Committee members pressed the director on why the secret service didnt disclose the struggle or lengthy choice and told the public gonzalez was unarmed. I know when mr. Gonzalez was placed into custody he was found to have a folded knife in his right front pants pocket. Do you consider that a weapon . That is a weapon. Why would a press release be put out to the associated press, did you ever correct them and call them back and say, youve got that wrong . I have no knowledge of that. Reporter through the contentious hearing, members of congress laid out a laundry list of secret service failures, including lack of training, failure to lock the front door and a decision not to use more force to get gonzalez. We could be easily sitting here today why an iraq veteran suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder armed with only a pocket knife was shot dead on the north lawn. And today the white house came to her defense saying that she put new security rules in place to make sure it didnt happen again and one of those changes is a system that would automatically lock the white house front door. Wolf . That sort of makes sense right now. Thanks, pamela. Lets move on to other breaking news were following. This time involving isis. Its forces are now making some significant advances, despite weeks of air strikes by the u. S. And a growing coalition. Jim sciutto is, working this story for us. Whats the latest, jim . Wolf, the u. S. Led coalition is now 53 days into the campaign in iraq and eight days into syria and yet isis still holds the same amount of territory it did when the campaign began. No one was expecting a sudden victory but as isis continues to advance, the challenge and timeline of this war is becoming clearer. Reporter u. S. And Coalition Warplanes ruled the skies. But on the ground, isis remains on the offensive. In syria, Kurdish Forces are locked in a fight for their lives. Surrounded by isis militants in a town of kobani on the turkish border. More than half of Coalition Air strikes in syria overnight targeted this area. But isis Relentless Assault continues there. The Second Military base to fall since the start of the u. S. Air campaign. Dozens of isis militants overwhelming 180 iraqi soldiers, most of whom fled before the base was overrun. Now a large cache of u. S. Weapons are in the hands of isis. This is going to be a long struggle. This group will adapt and were going to have to adapt right along with them. Air strikes alone, you are not going to bomb them away. Reporter the warplane could include requests for u. S. Ground troops. A point reiterated at the council on four ren relations today by robert work. Was the pentagon keeping that option on the table . When and if general dempsey and chairman austin believe, hey, theres a point in which we might need to have troops, it will be up to the president to decide britain carries out its first air strikes in iraq today. But the u. S. Remains in the lead and its getting expensive. The first wave of u. S. Military action against isis has cost nearly 1 billi 1 billion, accor one study. It will grow at 320 million per month amounting to 4 billion a year. The mounting costs come while the pentagon is still battling with sequestration, the obje obligatory tightening and he called sequestration ugly, stupid, and totally irresponsible. I guess he was blunt in telling us how he really feels about those mandatory spending. Jim, thanks very. We have a lot to talk about with dan pfeiffer who is here in the situation room. Thanks very much for coming in. Certainly, wolf. On this ebola incident, the president was in atlanta at the cdc. I assume hes been briefed by the director of the cdc. What are you hearing about the first confirmed case in the United States . Well, wolf, i think ill let the cdc talk about this specific case and what it means. But what i will say is weve been preparing for this possibility for a long time. America has the best doctors and Public Health in the world so were ready to deal with it but the cdc will have more to say shortly. And the plan is to dispatch troops to west africa and spend whatever it will cost to deal with it there, thats still the works and ongoing . Absolutely. As the president announced at the cdc a few weeks ago, were stepping up to the unique and unprecedented ability to the military in terms of command and control and logistics to help coordinate the response in africa and get this under control as we have in the past. This is a big issue for the president . Absolutely. Its a threat to regional security. Its a Public Health threat. As we see here, it can have threats in america. Lets talk about the secret service, this subject that is close to the president s heart. His family has to be protected. This is shocking, these developments. Youve spent every day for the last six years, youve been Walking Around can you believe somebody jumped over the fence that happens all the time but then ran all the way to the north portico, not only got inside but roamed around in the foyer and made his way to the east room where the president hosts east dinners. You must have been shocked . Well, as someone who has traveled with the president a lot, im incredibly grateful for the work they do to protect the first family. All of us are grateful to the secret service personnel. This is obviously very concerning to the president , as it would be to any parent if Something Like this were to happen in their home. The director has initiated a full review to figure out what went wrong and make sure it will never happen again. When was the president told the extent of what happened . I dont want to get into specific conversations between the president and secret service. Rest assured, the secret service has been in contact with the president and white house staff essentially since right after this happened on a regular basis over the last week or so. Because im sure the first lady and im sure both daughters, they must have been alarmed when they heard that someone actually penetrated the white house and got into the east room. Well, im not going to get into the reaction of the first family but the president is very concerned about this and appreciates the efforts that the secret service has done to innegotiai initiate this review. Does he feel safe . Absolutely. Does he still have confidence in Julia Pierson . He does. They are going to figure out what went wrong and theyve taken steps in the short term to determine what happened on that evening. When we get to that review, im confident that they will implement measures so it never happens again. Any thought to maybe build a bigger fence . Ill leave that to the security of the white house. And then i want to move on to other subs. In 2011, shots were fired at the white house penetrating a window but it took four days. Secret service thought it was something else. It was a housekeeper who found these shots in the window in the white house residence. After that happened, the secret service did a review of that. What we know is what happened a week ago is not acceptable. The president still has confidence in the secret Service Director . Yes, wolf. Because some members of the committee today suggested that they will call for her resignation. I saw that in the testimony. He still has confidence in her. Stand by. 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Air strikes and the strikes of the Broad International coalition that the president has built, its about building up the Iraqi Security forces, behind them being an inclusive government led by the Prime Minister. Its going to take some time. The u. S. Spent ten years building up that Iraqi Security force, spending hundreds of billions of dollars, supplying them with