nashville plane was temporarily quarantined due to a sick passenger. at lax emergency vehicles and hazmat teams surrounded a team after a passenger showed ebola-like symptoms on a flight from jfk. and near boston, dozen of patients and hospital workers were quarantined for four hours after a man who recently travelled to liberia was admitted with symptoms similar to ebola. another false alarm. we are live outside texas health presbyterian hospital. good morning. how is the nurse doing? >> reporter: at last update she was in stable condition. she has not been able to identify or pinpoint where the specific breach in safety protocol occurred. officials are looking closely at a couple of things including how workers were moving their protective gear and the procedures of dieial sis. those were two procedures done on duncan both voiding bodily fluids. she was part of the group asked to self-monitor. she immediately put into place the patrol cots set up in a situation like this. driving herself here to the hospital within the time of that call to her being in the hospital and in isolation, only about 90 minutes elapsed cdc confirming her positive ebola test on sunday. her apartment is located about 15 minutes from here. it's going through the decontamination process. the public areas in the area have been decontaminated. officials went door to door to inform them what was going on. reverse 9-1-1 calls went out so people would not panic and feel informed and not in the dark when they woke up to find the crews outside their homes. we'll get an update on the situation from the cdc coming up about noon today eastern time, jose. >> sara, just seems to unusual with all of the information and the knowledge there is about this patient that was brought into that texas hospital that a nurse would, you know, wearing all the protective gear would get ebola from duncan. >> yeah. that's a very good point. especially when you look at the fact that duncan's fiancé around him without the protective gear. she herself so far hasn't contracted ebola. they say the sicker a person is, the sicker they get, the more virus there is in their body greatly increasing the chances for anyone around them. especially if there's a breach in protocol for someone wearing the protective gear and following the procedures. initially when he would have been around his fiancè and her family, the virus levels, presumably, would have been lower with a less chance of an infection rate. that being said, that fiancè, her family and 48 people total who had contact with duncan before he checked into the hospital they're still being monitored. they're not out of the woods yesterday, jose. not done with the 21-day waiting period. >> you were saying the nurse caught herself in the early stages. do we know about her condition this hour? >> we're going to get an update hopefully at noon eastern. at last update she was in stable condition. they say the virus levels in her body were quite low. always better to catch it early and to begin the treatment whether it's supportive care or whether it's an experimental drug. something like duncan was given or any of the other therapies or things being looked at now. >> thank you so much for being with me this morning. i appreciate your time. i want to bring in infectious disease expert from columbia university school of health. >> glad to join you. >> the cdc said a breach in protocol laead to the latest cae of ebola. how concerned should we be? what could the breach have been? >> we don't know yet, of course, until the informativestigation complete. the common esther ror is usually in taking off the personal protective equipment. all of that gear. people often will accidentally touch their faces before their gloves are fully decontaminated. things like that. because we're eager to get out of the uncomfortable equipment. there are other places where lapses could have occurred. >> the nation's largest nurses union said hospitals are not prepared and more training is needed to prevent another infection like the one in dallas. can more be done? >> i agree that more training is essential, and even just to increase people's awareness. we saw in dallas that when eric duncan -- when thomas duncan first came to the emergency department, there really wasn't much recognition that he could possibly have ebola. they really didn't question where he was coming from or any of the other things. i think that even that education is essential as well for those who may be taking care of actual ebola patients. >> now meanwhile this weekend jfk airport became the first to conduct enhanced screenings of passengers of flying in from west africa. four airports will begin the new procedure. how effective do you think it should be? is there more we should be doing? >> it may catch a few other patients who slipped through the first time or get sick while they're on the plane. obviously in duncan's case, for example, he didn't get sick until after he arrived at his destination. so having ways to follow up or at least make sure that hospitals where he might -- where a patient might go know what to expect and are educated would be necessary. and i think really would make a big difference. >> you know and, doctor, let me switch to another virus concern here in the united states. over the weekend we saw another second child who died from enterovirus 68. it's infected more than 500 people across the nation. is there more we can be doing to address this problem? >> well, that's something also something we've seen in years before but never one this large. i think in general the awareness and treating symptomatically in the past people didn't look specifically for this virus. so, you know, we're only beginning to understand now what this virus is doing. why we're having such large outbreaks. in the meantime i think awareness, the doctors, obviously being careful to treat the patients for the symptoms and keep a gad eye on them as this progresses. >> doctor morris, thank you for your time. the doctor is on call to take questions about ebola. just tweet us using t the #ebolaanswers and the doctor will get back to you. as we continue to monitor the latest on the new ebola case here. the u.s. military is already on the ground in monrovia for operation united assistance to help stop the disease in its tracks. a range of 3200 military personnel are ultimately expected there. a price tag of about $750 million over the next six months. chief pentagon correspondent jim mic mic jochef sky. i think the question on so people's minds is what is not u.s. military personnel infected with ebola. >> they've kicked the number of potential military on the ground this there in liberia up to nearly 4,000. that's the number they're talking about now. but u.s. military officials here at the pentagon said they're going it take every precaution to make sure all the service-members are on guard. are well protected against the threat from ebola. the vast majority of those soldiers and marines are on the ground to provide lo jigices, transportation, and construction help to the liberians to get them so to improve their ability to fight ebola. they will be in coming can minimal contact with the liberia people. the threat against them is considered to be low. they'll be on guard against it. there are already two labs that have been put on the ground there in liberia where u.s. military personnel will be testing blood and specimen samples of potential victims. they will not be seeing any ebola patients themselves. but never the less, each lab will be manned with three military personnel all very highly trained in handling toxic and contaminated material such as an ebola virus. that's what they do. that's all they do. they're well trained. so u.s. officials are fairly confident they'll be able to keep the threat to a minimum to all the american military personnel. now ultimately by the end of this week, one 125-bed hospital will be constructed that. one is for caretakers only and care givers. but ultimately there will be 17 100-bed hospitals constructed by u.s. military personnel who are expected to be on the ground for some time. >> and turning to totally different kind of war on another front against a different enemy. isis and some developing news we're just learn about there. the u.s.-led coalition striking ire syria and iraq with 23 new are strikes. is it enough to save kobani. >> the chairman of the joint chief of staff warned all along that air strikes alone will not defeat or even degrade isis to the point where anybody can claim any kind of significant progress or victory. it will ultimately take troops on the ground. there have been some 51 air strikes conducted against isis targets around kobani on the turkish border over the last week. even there the problem is, again, with no boots on the ground so many isis fighters are inside the city. it's impossible to strike them from the air. number one, it's difficult to find them. two, they may be mingled among innocent civilians. not only the kurdish fighters but among civilian population. that's one of thinge ing aggrav factors to the u.s. military in attempting to curb the isis events on kobani. >> and jim, now we understand turkey is letting the u.s. use its own bases in turkey. is that important? 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you know, that the fight for an bargains in syria and all the conversation going on is about iraq. i think you see the conflict between a political coalition building and the military time table which is not going to wait for anything. >> is there something that could be done to get the differing situations closer together? >> i think the administration is wrestling with this. they are saying that, you know, we are looking at this in the medium and long-term but playing down expectations for anything quickly to happen. i think you saw secretary kerry, general dempsey, secretary hagel they have been clear about the fact it's a long-term fight. by the way, whoever is the next president will inherit this conflict in some shape or form. the question is what it's going to look like by then. and i think that is the real challenge, you know, there are people on the ground who say they are ready to fight they just need more ammunition. has the u.s. fully vetted them. i don't think we know the answer to that. but largely been no so far. >> and the pentagon quick to put out air strike numbers in the region but this was senator mccain's assessment that is making some headlines today. >> they're winning and we're not. and the iraqis are not winning. the peshmerga, the kurds are not winning, and there's a lot of aspects of this but there has to be a fundamental reevaluation of what we're doing because we're not degrading and ultimately destroying isis. >> i don't know if it's maybe even too early to come to that conclusion, but i think, you know, what strategy do you think would work if the current one isn't? >> this is exactly the debate that has been going on inside the administration. i've covered it for 18 months. it's been going on for longer than that. it's just finally spilled out into the open as things have gotten worse and worse on the ground. the question has been what is the price of inaction in syria in and i think now you're seeing that clear question play out in iraq. there are people inside the administration who went go as far as senator mccain but do agree that the celebrate is a real challenge as folks told me the cancer is in damascus. the cancer is in syria and we're treating symptoms in iraq. but the political reality is such that you aren't going to put american boots on the kbround. everyone on all sides of the ail have been clear about that. who are the ground forces and how do you make a deeper penetration into the strategy work without that? and that question, i think, is the central one you're going it see being wrestled with in the next months. >> yeah. and, you know, you focus so much of your work on women. as isis makes women the target of so much of their terror, there are kurdish women fighting against isis now. what impact does the fight have on the global empowering these women against the enemy and how we perceive things there. >> yeah, i mean, you have two incredibly powerful images. one of kurdish women taking up arms 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northern louisiana, eastern sections of arkansas, and western mississippi. i should say western mississippi and western tennessee could see flooding downpours. places could pick up 1 to 3 inches of rainfall in a matter of hours. now we're keeping very close tabs on tropical storm gonzalo. the system is heading for sections of puerto rico. it's currently pushing across northern portions of the islands. it's a tropical storm moving to the west at 10 miles per hour packing maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour. the system is expected to head farther to the west northwest but eastern sections of puerto rico, jose, could see 4 to 8 inches of rainfall. localized amounts up to 12 inches. >> and how quickly or when do we know puerto rico will be seeing the brunt of this? >> well, right now the outer rain bands of gonzalo is producing rainfall across eastern sections of puerto rico. i believe by tonight and early tuesday that's when we expect to see the heaviest rain and the strongest 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how is she doing? what is her status? >> what we're hearing from health officials now. she's stable being held in the same isolation chamber she treated in duncan in days earlier. we're facing a the a lot of questions about how she contracted the ebola virus at this point. but all we know about her condition is stable. the good news is that she caught it early by all accounts. she had been monitoring herself. she was out of work for two days. on friday when she began to show symptoms she instigated a cdc recommending monitoring protocol. within 90 minutes of doing that making the initial call she had driven herself to the hospital and placed in the isolation unit. we know from past cases catching it everything is everything, jose. >> i'm wondering and i know you have been wondering the same thing. how does someone prepared, knows they're going to be dealing with an ebola patient, and has all of the gear to protect herself can somehow get this, do you know? >> that's the question of the day. the president has called for an investigation into exactly that point. there are at lot of unknowns here to be completely honest. the nurse herself apparently said she doesn't know when a beach might have occurred. cdc officials are saying it cannot be transmitted without a breach of protocol. protocol is difficult to follow in the cases. we're dealing with complex protective gear that needs to be put on taken off. there are three particular points of vulnerable. during the removal of the gear. that's one area where a breach might have occurred. there's supposed to be people monitoring the removal. there's question about the possibility of transmission during dieial sis. actually putting the breathing tube into him in the first place. they're going to be looking at the option. there's an update come up at 12 eastern. we should have more information then. >> thank you. i appreciate your time. in addition, to covering the cdc news conference at noon. andrea mitchell will speak with nancy writebol coming up at noon eastern time on andrea mitchell reports. at 1:00 p.m. ronan will have more from dallas on ronan farrow daily. to ferguson, missouri in just under 30 minutes protesters will march to the police department. today's asians are -- actions are modelled after moral monday. they follow a weekend in activities with protesters coming to missouri from pretty much across the country. including this scene overnight. mostly peaceful protests on the campus of st. louis university. the goal not only supporting michael brown but stop police violence against young black men around the country. joining me now umar lee and maria chappell-in danadal. what do people hope to accomplish by committing these acts of civil disobedience today? >> well, you know, hit a home run to win for the cardinals last night and we're trying to hit a home run for justice in st. louis. through act of civil disobedience. there is no business as usual until we get justice. until we get a change of laws. until we get a change of police culture. until we get substantiative change we'll be out here in the streets. sit in at st. louis university right now. all kind of civil disobedience for the day. monday march to the population. this is an eventful monday. >> senator, are people happy with how things have been going? >> i have to tell you, there's a brand new awakening after this weekend. a lot of soul searching. people are ready for change and they're committed to this movement. this michael brown movement the gift in which he gave all of us here in st. louis. but across america we get to make a difference. by being outside every day and demonstrating what peace and justice should look like. people are ready for change. they want clarity and transparency in that action. >> and let's talk tack tics thi morning. is the group unified across all in this cause? 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>> the polling shows there's a bit of buyers remorse on the 2012 results in iowa. barack obama won iowa. he is not very popular here. if you look at public opinion surveys right now. so this is an appeal to the base of the party to get them energized and to get them to vote for ernst. >> and, dave, same poll they talk about early in shows ernst up by one against braley is showing romney up by one against hillary clinton. what is going on there? >> buyers remorse that kate just referenced there. mitt romney is one of the biggest stars on the 2014 campaign trail for republicans. he's going all over the country and he's banging out obama because in iowa obama is just down 39%. we're getting at that point in the election where if you're probably not paying attention and still at undecided batch you're probably not going turn out to vote. what it is is motivating the bases. make shooiing sure you get out. ernst had a bigger lead in the des moines register poll a few weeks ago. there has been tightening. it's democrats getting out the early vote. you heard mitt romney and ernst talking last night saying get out and vote early. because, you know, you're more likely to have the vote counted and you don't have to worry about the people that may be on the fence and may sit out the midterm as so many people do. >> yeah. and speaking of hillary, she'll be campaigning in kentucky on wednesday. a debate there between allison lundgren-grimes and mitch mcconnell takes place tonight. what are the stakes tonight? >> well, one of the bigge applae lines ernst got when she declared that harry reid would no longer be the leader of the united states senate after she won her race. so curiously the name is banded about with great frequency here in iowa. most republicans know who he is and know the stakings in the election. so when you look at the kentucky race, people are watching it. because, of course, the republican leader who might be the next harry reid, if you will, is in a tight race there. so the insiders here are watching it. one other thing i might say about the romney and ernst push for early votes what has happened to republicans in the past is they have pushed for early votes from people who were already going to vote for the republican candidate. the test for this year's early voting on the ground here in iowa is if republicans are able to find unlikely voters and bring them in. that's what democrats did in 2012 for the obama campaign. they went out and found unlikely voters to vote for the democratic nominee. >> and, david, here in south florida we're getting a visit from vice president biden. he's campaigning for charlie crist. >> democrats are falling back to biden because they're really not sure about bringing barack obama on the trail. crist campaign said this week they weren't sure if they're going to invite president obama down for rally before the vote on november 4th. you don't see obama really anywhere. he may go to wisconsin for mary burke up there to do a rally in madison to get the base out, but, look, is there a biden bump? biden will probably make a case that michelle obama is making saying, look, you've got to get the democrats out to vote. young people, minorities, women, and if they come out we win. because right now the enthusiasm there is down compared to the republican side. >> thank you so much for being with me this morning. i appreciate your time. and folks, identify got one more thing this morning. an update on the protests out of hong kong. new clashes as barricades are being torn down. we'll explain what it could mean for the democracy movement coming up. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it's a masterpiece. thanks. clearly you are type e. you made it phil. welcome home. now what's our strategy with the fondue? diversifying your portfolio? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*? 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