He was arrested for shoplifting. This couple brought their bay while they stole video games. Was that worth it . We hope you have a great weekend. Fox friends starts now. Hi everyone. Good morning. Today is friday, the 17th of october, 2014. Im anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. We begin with a fox news alert. The ebola scare spreads nationwide. How one case in texas has quickly spread into a multistate nightmare shutting down schools and forcing businesses to close. The first person to ever catch ebola in the United States, that nurse who tried to help, now speaking from her hospital bed. That is her. Her message to doctors and people all across the United States and around the world, youll see it here first. A heart stopping moment caught on camera. A u. S. Marines close call with a taliban sniper. Get back how that helmet saved his h. I. V. Meanwhile how that helmet saved his life. Meanwhile mornings are better with friends. Hi. This is alan alda, youre watching fox friends and sometimes me too. Im a friend. We havent seen him for awhile. Hes probably in the hamptons hanging out with billy joel. It is friday and great to have you. It just takes one. Thomas duncan lied on that declaration and got into the United States. He had ebola at the time. And then he went to that hospital in texas where he eventually died. The Ripple Effect of his single ebola case is a fox news alert because thrj morning there is a cruise ship that has been trying to dock in belize but they wont let it in because a
texas Health Care Worker who may have handled one of his blood specimens has selfquarantined herself in the cruise ship. It is believed to be that ship, the carnival magic which can hold up to 5,000 people. The Health Care Worker is not exhibiting signs and is part of that selfMonitoring Program and isnt showing symptoms or feeling achey but is so scared that decided to quarantine themselves and the United States government has asked belize please help us in this situation to get this passenger off of the cruise ship, and they say no way. Were about 19 days in now since that Health Care Worker might have been in contact with duncan who sadly has passed away. Then you wonder about the other Ripple Effect. Two of the nurses that came in contact with duncan, at least two, that tested positive for ebola and are being treated are now retracing their steps and
who they were in contact with. For example, when amber was able to whom on a flight after able to hop on a flight after going to c. D. C. And getting the goahead even though the head of c. D. C. Said she shouldnt have been cleared and go to ohio to get ready for her wedding, retracing her steps, first off the plane she was on. That plane had her, she disembarked. She goes about her business, frontier goes on these other flights so every one of those passengers on those seven nights is being contacted by frontier, told they could have been contacted with ebola. Sounds like the airline is doing more than the c. D. C. Wants them to. Now they are notifying people on seven other naits. The cleveland plain dearly has this jawdropping fact. That is that airplane made 26 flights before the c. D. C. Said that she may have been on it. Right now frontier is reaching out to 700 or 800 people saying they could be
at risk. And taking out the carpet and seat covers on the plane. That is what Frontier Airlines is faced with. The schools in ohio, there are thee of three of them that have closed yesterday and today. Also three employees at Kent State University related to amber vinson have been asked to stay off campus. Vinson never went to Kent State University but you see how this web is getting bigger. Amber went to more stops, had a lot to do including the wedding place to look at bridal gowns. She also went to the p. N. C. Bank. She went over there and the branch closed. Everyone has been told to work from home. A p. N. C. Employee was on the same night she took and that is why they have closed the facility until monday. Also the reason they closed the schools in ohio is because one of the kids and
their parent were on one of the flights, and just as a precaution, because the flight was, i believe, on monday, the kid went to school on tuesday, they started freakin out on wednesday, they closed the school on thursday and its going to be closed again today as well. Think about all the people that have been affected, how all these businesses are going to be affected, schools. Its been unbleefnl unbelievable because thankfully were getting up for the past two days and not talking about another positive case of ebola. Both nurses have been transferred to different facilities. Nurse amber vinson now at atlantas emory hospital and nurse nina pham has been sent to the National Institutes of health in maryland. Casey steegal is live. Reporter brandnew video coming in to us from inside nina phams hospital room here in dallas. She was the first nurse to
be diagnosed with ebola. Watch. [inaudible] an emotional goodbye. Right after that the 26yearold was suited up in beau hazard gear biohazard gear and flown to the university of maryland for further treatment. Her colleague, 29yearold amber vinson transferred to Emory University hospital the day before. She is the one who flew on two Frontier Airlines planes, who went to ohio to visit her family, plan her wedding and flew back to dallas there cleveland. She claimed that the c. D. C. Cleared her for travel. Now the c. D. C. Says that she is not entirely truthful in terms of how she was feeling when she went on that trip. Now Health Officials are reaching out to as many as 800 Frontier Airlines passengers who were on both flights with her and also the other flights that you mentioned on those same aircraft as the plane continued on to other cities before it was clear what was going on and the airline pulled them from service for sanitizing. All of this happening as the 75 other medical Staff Members here at texas Health PresidentPresbyterian Hospital had contact with Thomas Duncan forced to sign legal papers, we are told, legal papers that say they will stay in their homes and they will abide by this selfquarantine for 21 days. A judge here in texas saying that those documents are legally binding. All right. Thank you very much. Casey saying essentially what the daily news is saying on the cover keep
calm and carry on. These Health Care Workers are being asked to sign these legal documents and part of it says they need to stay calm. The white house was saying keep calm and carry on and now theyre doing the drop everything approach. Yesterday among the people asked to testify in front of a House Committee was Thomas Frieden. The big question was, i feel almost relieved because as great as Thomas Frieden is as a person and as accomplished he is, he is frustrating to talk to because he talks in rhetoric, talks in generalities. And were trying to get to the bottom of why the president and why Thomas Frieden are so against a travel ban. Listen. You were involved in conversations with the white house about a travel ban. Did they rule it out . Are they still considering it . From the c. D. C. s perspective we will consider anything that will are you going to answer the question about your conversations with the white house . We is the white house
considering a travel ban . I cant speak for the white house. Do you know if they ruled out a travel ban . I cant speak for the travel ban. Have you had conversations with them about it . We discussed the issue of travel. ni you see finger pointing there. Is it frieden or is it president obama who is against imposing this sort of travel ban . One of the reasons the white house is giving for not putting it in place is it will make us less safe to have this because people will be less likely to be honest about where they have been traveling from. There you see the president of the United States. He spoke from the oval room. That is burwell, director of health and human services. On his left is Thomas Frieden. As it turned out earlier in the day the White House Press secretary josh earnest said that frieden for the most part is responsible for the problems weve had. Weve seen this with other stories. We messed up, somebody
dropped the ball, we fumbled and the person is not held accountable. Who is responsible for these shortcomings . Youve seen in a couple of instances dr. Frieden take responsibility for the c. D. C. Not performing up to expectations. At the same time the c. D. C. Has been focused on the situation since march. Maybe that is why the president yesterday said hes considering putting someone in charge, an ebola czar. The president has canceled more appearances, is focusing on this singlehandedly. It is a very unique thing to see him change gears, not since the texas oil disaster in the gulf of mexico. That was going on inside the white house. Outside the white house there were protesters. Look at that guy in the ebola containment suit. Stop the flights. Whats curious is i was reading yesterday, you know how the president doesnt want to do the travel ban, but how are they able to contain ebola just in west africa . You know how . Because the other countries in africa closed their
borders. And the ivory coast, guinea bisseau and other countries ravaged by it closed their borders. Its working in africa. Heather, youve got other news. Weve been following these stories for you this morning. The meteoric rise of isis, gulf war 3, some of the topics in the newly released video featuring a british hostage. It is the fifth and a series of videos. The hostage journalist is reading the message like any other news anchor. This time he speaks of how quickly isis has grown in size and scope, and the United States he says is just in the early steps of what will undoubtedly become an allout war. This latest propaganda video comes as isis claims responsibility for a wave of attacks in baghdad, the
most recent one a series of car bombs leaving 14 civilians dead. A raleigh man facing up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to help terrorists. Jordan was planning on giving Material Support to terrorists in syria or yemen. The 22yearold arrested after speaking with an f. B. I. Informant about his terrorist desires. Law enforcement later finding weapons and ammo in his apartment. New fallout from the botched fast and furious operation. A new Judicial Watch report revealing a gun used in a 2013 shooting in arizona came from that gun running operation which the Justice Department createed to track illegal traffickers in mexico. Back in 2010 the operation led to the death of Border Patrol agent brian terry. Finally on a lighter note, what a cone head . People living in brooklyn, new york, in a neighborhood there theyre furious a guy
keeps reserving his parking spots with an orange cone. He doesnt even live this saying he has a maintenance job in the area. The car has a sticker on the front shield that reads drive it like you stole it. The man says he does this with every new car he tbies to protect it new car he buys to protect it. Almost looks like a dukes of hazard car. All hes doing is putting a cone out. Being a cone head. Weve got a new show. How prepared are our nations hospitals to handle ebola . The doctor that says dont bring them to my state; we arent qualified. Does this look like a lunch to you . Because of the new government guidelines, this is exactly whats being served to children. Nice for an appetizer. Wheres the rest of it . [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ]
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patients. If this one individual was infected and we dont know how, within the isolation unit, then it is possible that other individuals could have been infected as welling. Of course. But dr. Richard ridge says ebola patients should be sent to the specific facilities trained to take care of people with ebola and things like that. Good morning to you. Well talk about that in a moment but i was thinking about people in your business because youre the head of the states nurses association. How did you feel a couple of days ago when frieden threw the nurses down in texas under the bus by saying if they would have followed the rules, they wouldnt be sick. They followed the rules. My phone started ringing saturday morning, nurses very upset in reaction to what the c. D. C. Director said. He later backpedaled but the initial charge that some breach must occurred. Unfortunately, blame the nurses was the first approach. We feel it was unjustified. We feel that is sometimes what happens. We dont really know all the facts yet but they were using protective equipment, they got infected and he later retracted that initial statement. When it comes to the nurses what are the main concerns when handling somebody who has ebola. Today the main concern probably is getting the right history because patients present every day with the same symptoms. Fever, general muscle weakness. Those symptoms characterize many illnesses and so you have to screen them out and get the history. Especially during the cold and flu season. There was a quote flying out there, if somebody has ebola, put them in an ambulance and ship them where they need to go. Totally mischaracterized. That was attributed to me. What i have said
specifically what we do in new jersey today, you get medevacked to a specialized burn center if you have burns. This is no different. We would medevac that patient appropriately as we saw later on in the week the c. D. C. Finally sent those patients to, one to atlanta and one to maryland. There are four hospitals that have biocon taibbiment centers but dr. Frieden first said any hospital in america would be fine, any hospital can handle it. Do you agree . Hes partially correct in the sense that any hospital is prepared to handle the initial phase of screening patients, identifying the patient, isolating the patients and then testing them. Once theyre tested, however, i would disagree with him, and they need to be sent them to the place thats got the right facilities. Which they have started doing as of thursday. Its about time. Doctor, thank you very much for joining us. Straight ahead, a young marine killed in cold blood by one of his socalled allies. His family now seeing the government saying they have been covering up the truth. That marines father here next. A massive fireball lightened up the sky. What caused that frightening sight . We think we know. Snows your customers, our financing. Your aspirations, our analytics. Your goals, our technology. Introducing synchrony financial, bringing new meaning to the word partnership. Banking. Loyalty. Analytics. Synchrony financial. Enagage with us. Feet. Tiptoeing. Better things than the pain, stiffness, and joint damage of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. Before you and your rheumatologist decide on a biologic, ask if xeljanz is right for you. Xeljanz tofacitinib is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. Xeljanz can relieve ra symptoms, and help stop further joint damage. Xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. Dont start xeljanz if you have any infection, unless ok with your doctor. Tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. Your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz
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