Liberia the first time he went to the hospital. Thats according to the mans sister. He says the patients name is thomas eric duncan. Hes now in isolation at a hospital in dallas. According to the reporting of this centers for Disease Control and prevention a team of Senior Health experts is looking for anybody who came in contact with that man. In other words, a sort of manhunt for ebola. Officials say the patient flew from liberia to dallas nearly two weeks ago. There are no direct flights between the u. S. And africa. The Reuters News Agency reports the liberian government claims the guy traveled through brussels, belgium. The cdc reports it has not confirmed that. Back at the news desk in new york, what can you shows us . This started about two weeks ago, friday. The patient departed from liberia. The next day on the 20th arrived in texas. It wasnt until a few days later on that wednesday, the 24th, that he started to show symptoms. Then a couple days later the friday, the 26th, he
Top of the hour. Youre watching cnn. A new concern this afternoon after the first case of ebola is diagnosed here in the United States. Heres what we learned a short time ago. That ebola patient, this unidentified man, has been around five children, School Aged Children since arriving in this country. The kids attend four different schools in dallas, texas, and they were in school earlier this week. I know that parents are being extremely concerned about that development but let me assure these children have been identified and they are being monitored and the disease cannot be transmitted before having any symptoms. Search is now under way for anyone and everyone who has been in contact with this unidentified man. This patient ever since he arrived in the United States from liberia a week and a half ago. He wasnt showing symptoms for the first four days and then he goes into this emergency room a week ago today but was sent home. He then took a turn for the worst on friday and was tak
Gotten sick. Its not just talking with someone. It has to be physical contact and thats one thing that reduces the people we have to identify and monitor. Today president obama has been receiving updates from the cdc director, White House Press secretary josh earnest will speak today. Well bring you that when it happens. There are also questions now about why this patient was sent home from the hospital when he first tried to get treatment two days before he was finally admitted and then put into isolation. The protocol is to ask someone about their recent travel. A checklist was in place for ebola in this hospital for several weeks. That checklist was utilized by the nurse who did ask that question. That nurse was part of a care team, a complex care team, taking care of him in the emergency department. Regretfully that information was not fully communicated throughout the full time. As a result, the full import of that information wasnt factored into the clinical decision making. The
Known price was known to make stocks go up. It is legal if you are a member of congress but it is unethical, to have inside information, to speak directly to the companies, influence ledgelati legislation and own or trade the stocks. You or i would be jailed, but members of congress are allowed to do it. Jailed. Hallie jackson is traveling with the president and joins us now live from manila. Hallie, have you had a chance to talk to anybody or figure out what is behind this appointment . Reporter its roughly midnight here in manila, so the parking light tweeting this out just about an hour ago. Interesting he did on an overseas trip. Announcing this new, potential cabinet secretary. Alex azar, former bush era deputy in the hhs agency. Also involved in the fa pharmaceutical company. This is an interesting moment in time for the president to be naming him as the pick. Hes now talking about President Trump that is in the recent tweets, clearly looking ahead to getting back home, which he
Strictly in the mold of donald trump. Joining me now for his First National tv interview since his concession is tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. Mayor gillum, good morning. Good morning, joy. I hope youre doing well this morning. I am. Thank you very much. The video you and your wife put out started circulated around. I started getting Text Messages about it from friends in florida. A lot of people, i have to say, were really, truly heart broken by the results of your race. You, indeed, had coat tails that helped a lot of democrats win in the state of florida. A lot of people cannot understand how, with a consistent polling lead, you still didnt win. One of the things that people are, of course, speculating on is whether it was race. Whether it was people lying to pollsters and saying they would vote for you when they ultimately didnt. What is your take on what happened . Yeah. Well, i mean, obviously, were still trying to assess what all of that meant. But one of the things that i th