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Transcripts For KPIX CBS This Morning Saturday 20141018

Your world in noi seconds. A czar is born. President obama calls on a political specialist to respond the ebola. What we were looking for is not an ebola expert but rather an implementation expert. Officials initially failed to recognize the severity of the outbreak outbreak. Bermuda is taking a hit from hurricane gonzalo. Iraqi air force specialists were i cannot confirm that. A man convicted of killing a teenager over loud music will spend the rest of his life blind behind bars. He was convicted of firstdegree murder. Hong kong flaring up again. Police go head to head. Fortunately no one is in harms way. One golfer has encountered. Owe now how you score that . You score an eagle. A plane lands after two years of circling the earth. Theres nothing more embarrassing. It can happen to anyone even the pretty. On cbs this morning saturday. So far it has triggered nationwide panic. Something that has been labeled pure ebola. Now we have an ebola czar. Hopefully hell be answering turf questions like i have ebola, should i get on a plane . Captioning funded by cbs welcome to the weekend. We have a great lineup of guests including chef world traveller and Andrew Zimmerman. Hes the host and creator of bizarre foods on the food channel. They will play in our saturday session. We begin with this mornings top story. Ebola and the president s plan to contain the virus in this country. With prospects of workers traveling on planes and cruise ships the president has been handling criticism. For more on the increased white house response we turn now to Julianna Goldman who is in our washington bureau. Julianna, good morning. Good morning. After coming under fire for a lax response theyre calling him the Ebola Response reform. Theyll oversee the task of monitoring and identifying everyone whos come into contact with the three people who have come with it. They will bring their expertise. What we were looking for is not an ebola expert but rather an implementation expert and thats exactly what ron clane is. He helped prep the president for election campaigns and was even at one point in line to serve on the president s staff. He was also former Vice President al gores chief of staff. He was a lawyer in a role played by kevin spacey about the dissoluted election. Among many claims on his plate calls on a travel ban from countries to the u. S. Almost 50 laums have uramed the president to limit travel restrictions. Rick perry joined those calls. Air travel is in fact how this disease crosses borders. And its certainly how it got to texas in the first place. The president has said hes not philosophically opposed to a travel ban but is deferring for now to Health Officials who argued it would actually result in more deadly cases of the disease. Meanwhile the administration is pleading with the rest of the world to step up its financial involvement. If we dont adequately address this current outbreak now, then ebola has the potential to become a scourge like hiv or polio, that we will end up fighting all of us, for decades. The administration is really trying to walk a fine line here. They want to show theyre handling the threat with urgency but also dont want to stoke fears, and so president obama used his weekly radio address to try to ease concerns. He emphasized with only three confirminged cases diagnosed in the u. S. There is not an epidemic here at home. Julianna goldman in washington. Thank you, julianna. Dallas is of concern. Two nurses being treated for ebola all worked at the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in dallas. Vicente arenas is there with new concerns about one of the nurses who later got on a flight to cleveland. Good morning. Reporter good morning, anthony. Were hearing the president of Frontier Airlines sent an email that said one of the nurses was a passenger and one of their flights may have been at more of an advanced stage of the illness than previously thought. Meanwhile in dallas theyre asking people to stay away from mass transit. One worker left on a cruise before active monitoring began and this morning is returning on a cruise ship. The carnival magic is returning to galveston and is expected to arrive sunday morning. On board a Lab Supervisor who may have handled samples belonging to Thomas Eric Duncan who died of ebola ten days ago. The worker is in isolation but showing no symptoms. The cruise ship was not allowed to dock in mexico and believed refused to let the passenger off the ship to fly back to the u. S. The Prime Minister of beliz said there were too many Unanswered Questions about how the virus spread. If it had been at all possible to do this thing in a way that could absolutely have eliminated any possibility of any risk to belizelizeanbelizeans, i would have been willing. Reporter two nurses were moved to facilities. On thursday night nina pham was moved to bethis da maryland. They shot this video in her ice lame room before she left. Nih director Anthony Fauci said pham is in fair condition eating and resting comfortably. Its being done with the optimum protection of our Health Care Workers. Reporter the second ebola patient amber vinson was moved from dallas wednesday. The 29yearold was flown to Emory University hospital in atlanta. Her condition is not being released. Vinson flew to cleveland last weekend and this week Frontier Airlines notified hundreds of passengers who flew on her flight and other flights made by the same plane. Presbyterian nurse Brianna Aguirre was part of the team that treated pham and told cbss anna werner the hospital was not prepared to handle an ebola patient. She said her protective suit was of big concern. Right away i said this leaves my neck exposed. They said we know we know. Were having you tape that closed. Reporter tom frieden spoke out immediately after the infections at the texas hospital. But at some point there was a breach in protocol and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection. Reporter during a congressional hearing on thursday Daniel Vargas defended his staff in video testimony. We know theyre both extremely skilled nurses and were using full measures under the cdc protocols, so we dont know yet when or how they were infected but its clear there was an exposure somewhere sometime. Reporter this morning the cdc is telling us theyre releasing new protocols. In the meantime the family of Thomas Eric Duncan will hold a Memorial Service in north carolina. Vinita . Thank you. Now lets get more on the dallas nurse who flew to cleveland and the passenger on the cruise ship. Good morning. Good morning. We heard vicente talking about this. They say the nurse on this airline may have been at a more advanced stage of her illness than previously thought. What does it mean for the airlines . It means theyre essentially flying blind in the wake of not effective screening or widespread screening. So they have to ramp up their outreach to those passengers who are on the planes, and thats what theyre doing. Peter turning to the cruise ship and the unnamed passenger on board who may or may not have been exposed to ebola, what is the latest on that. Well shes still quarantined in her cabin. What the cruise line tried to do is get the helicopter off in belize and get the passenger off. That was denied. They tried the same thing in koze cozumel, mexico, and that was denied. Theres no screening. She continues to be asymptomatic after about the 20th day after her exposure to the disease. What the cruise lines are doing is theyve quietly held some backroom conversations and they decided anybody holding a passpot from any effective country will not be allowed to cruise on any of their ships. They havent announced this but thats a procedure thats going to do go into place right away. When you think about the timeline of this you heard waerningser the ailrlines, now cruise ships, i think anyone taking any form of mass transit are getting concerned. Should they be nervous . Is the threat going to grow . Theyre very nervous. Fear, without sounding pun, has gone viral here. The problem is no cruise line is prepared to deal with this and neither are the ports. However, its got to be effective screening and right now the cruise lines are screening how do they screen the passengers before they come on the ship not when Something Like this happens. To be clear youre saying while it hasnt been announced yet the cruise ships are deciding not to take passengers from where . Any of the affected countries, liberia, sierra leone, any of them with passports from there will not take the trip. I say that because i think a lot of people remember norovirus and how big it was and how rampant it was. It was big, it was rampant, but it was basically gastrointestinal disease and what the cruise lines did is basically increased their vigilance. They put in hand sanitizers in every public area. They were very vigilant about making sure people washed their hands before and after and its decreased remarkably so theyve done a pretty good job in that area. Peter greenberg, thanks for being with us this morning. You got it. Tomorrow morning a special edition of face the nation of ebola in america. Bob schieffers guests will include dr. Anthony fauci, richard undenstock and jean ross, copresident of National Nurses united. In bermuda this morning theyre assessing the damage after hurricane gonzalo battered the island. The category 3 storm is about 200 miles northeast of bermuda. It struck the island during the night with 110mileperhour winds. Tens of thousands of people have no electricity. Flooding is also a major concern. There are no reports of serious injuries. The hurricane is expected to weaken as it moves out across the atlantic. In the Pacific Hawaii is feeling the effects of hurricane ana. The storm is about 150 miles southwest of the big island packing 80mileperhour winds and rough surf. Its hitting the island with heavy rains and high winds. Flood warnings are posted with half a foot of rain expected. Its also expected to weaken into a Tropical Storm by tomorrow. Now to the continuing battle against isis. Iraq has imposed a curfew because of the concerns that the Islamic Group may decide to advance on it. Holly williams reports. Good morning. At least 28 people were killed in three separate car bombings in baghdad yesterday, all of them in busy commercial areas. Isis has not claimed responsibility for the blasts but the group has carried out a string of similar attacks in recent months. West of baghdad, iraqi authorities imposed a curfew in the city of ramadi as the Iraqi Military tries to flush out isis militants who have made gains in and around that city despite u. S. Led air strikes in that area. Ramadi is the capital of Anbar Province, 80 of which is now under the control of isis according to Iraqi Government officials. The provincial police chief was killed in an attack earlier this week. In syria though isis is on the retreat in the town of kobani. The islamic extremists have been battling control for the strategically placed key town on the border for over a month now. Hundreds have been killed and 200,000 have fled across the border to turkey. But unlike in iraqs Anbar Province scores of u. S. Led air strikes have played a decisive role in pushing isis back. Pentagon Officials Say an influx of isis militants into kobani in recent days has made the islamic extremists more vulnerable to attack. Anthony . Holly williams, thanks holly. The government in nigeria has agreed to a ceasefire with boco haram militants. They claim to have over 200 girls kidnapped by the Islamic Group freed by tuesday. They were abducted by the insurgents six months ago. The insur gentlemengy has killed thousands of people and has left hundreds of thousands homeless in the most popular nation. Some of the nigerians are skeptical of the ceasefire. The Canadian Coast Guard has obtained a line. There are concerns about a potential environmental disaster should the ships run aground and cause a sill. The coast guard describing the situation as very difficult. Three more vessels are en route to meet the fleet. One official says the danger has lessened, but it is not over. The u. S. Supreme court is giving texas to roll out its new voter identification law for the november election. They rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department to ban the state from mandating that voters bring voter i. D. S with them to the polls. Advocates argue the measure plans to turn away some 600 latino voters because they lack the documentation. Early voting in texas starts monday. Now the ongoing flight between amazon and a publishing house. They want to hold down the price of ebooks but the push liveblisher is resisting. Jim axelrod reports. Reporter bestselling author doug preston is carefully crafting his work. Its very stressful. Id much rather be writing a book. Reporter instead of a book hes writing a letter to the biggest bookseller on the planet. Amazon. Theres no place in Civil Society where the Largest Corporation attacks the authors who has nothing do with the dispute and harms their livelihood. The dispute is between amazon and hachette. Theyre targeting authors, delaying delivery of their books if not making them completely unavailable. Are you thinking about this dispute now all the time . Reporter preston says his sales on amazon are now down 50 to 90 . What were saying to amazon is go ahead and duke it out with hachette. Dont sanction the books. Reporter nearly 1,100 authors have signed the letter asking amazon to keep the authors out of the fight while the dispute is settled. Some of the biggest names have joined him like stephen king. Youre not aha hachette author. No, im not. Why stick your neck out . Fair is fair. Reporter king say his e can afford to speak out while most of the authors targeted by amazon cannot. We build them and now theyre turning around and saying basically we want to control the pricing of what you write. Thats not write. Reporter amazon has made several authors to cover the writers losses until the dispute is settled. Hachette has rejected them saying a settlement must come first. Preston is sticking with his publisher. Amazon is treating books as if theyre toasters or Wide Screen Television sets but theyre not. Reporter a business that is centuries old fronting a new and very modern problem. For cbs this morning saturday, this is jim axelrod in round pond maine. The New York Times says the Ferguson Missouri Police officer who fatally shot a teenager this summer is breaking his silence. Officer Darren Wilson told investigators he feared for his life when he and Michael Brown struggled inside his police car. Thats when wilson claims brown reached for his gun. The fbi claims the gun was fired twice inside the car striking brown once. The account from the government officials does not explain why wilson then fired rounds six times outside the vehicle. The grand jury is expected to render a decision on probable cause next month. The San Francisco chronicle says a man awaiting trial in california on fraud charges is now facing nine counts of attempted murder. This is after he hatched a plot to murder the nine people who testified against him. The District Attorney says charles waldos plot came to light when one of the witnesses got wind of it. Hes being held without bail. Tmz says the police video showing the dui arrest of the colts owner jim irsay has been released. It shows ir say struggling to walk during his pullover in march. Police say he was taking multiple painkillers at the time. Irsay was sentenced to one year probation after driving a vehicle while intoxicated. The nfl suspended the colts owner for six games and fined him half a million dollar. The New York Times says basketball diplomacy was on display this weekend. Its part of the nbas efforts to extend its brand and expand the fan base. Theyre treated in china like the academy awards. Thats about 3 million more than in the states. As you can imagine, theres a lot of cultural differences but some of the players were saying people in the stands were very polite. It was sort of a golf clap. There wasnt much enthusiasm. Thats a pretty weird atmosphere. The Los Angeles Times says the pentagons secret space plane is back on earth. The robotic plane looks like a miniature shuttle. It spent the last two months orbiting the earth before touching down at the air force base in california on friday. Theyre keeping tightlipped but they believe it was part of a sat lietz operation conducted by the National Reconnaissance office, in other words spying on the enemy. Its kind of cool looking. It is about 22 minutes after the hour and now here is a look at the weather for your weekend. Coming up man wrongly convicted of murder is released after 28 years in prison. Hear his heartbreaking story. And later the rapidly changing way americans shop these days. Driven by the internet and companies such as amazon and google. 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