weakness in asia but again it looks like germany and france are turning things around at this point. okay. we ll talk about ebola this morning. the first case of a person contracting ebola on u.s. soil has been confirmed. a health care worker treating thomas eric duncan who died last week contracted the deadly disease. we are joined this morning from dallas by meg tirrell. meg? reporter: that s right. good morning. this health care worker was taking care of thomas eric duncan. on friday she started to feel ill, went to the hospital to be assessed on saturday and tested positive. yesterday the cdc confirmed it was ebola. now we know that as of yesterday her condition was stable. one of her contacts has been proactively placed into isolation. the cdc director tom frieden said it is unknown exactly how the health care worker was exposed. we don t know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. but at some point there was a breach of pro