Disease. Here in the us, Health Officials say theyre doing all they can to keep you safe. Stopping ebola is hard. Were working together to make it safer and easier. We continue to believe that the risk of an Ebola Outbreak here in the United States is exceedingly low. There is good news. Nina ph a. M. Fighting ebola in dallas reportedly doing well. Shes one of seven hospital staffers who look after Thomas Eric Duncan and he died from e bella last week. One community is looking to get ahead of the spread of the deadly disease. They are forming an ebola task force. Chris oconnell is life and what is the plan here . Reporter lucy i just stepped out of a Meeting Minutes ago. Its the very first meeting of the Delaware County ebola and Infectious Diseases task force. Basically a task force that got together trying to wrap their heads around how Delaware County can respond if we were to be presented with a patient with ebola. Its 29 Member Task Force made up of fire, police, ems, Health Offic
Could be 10,000 new cases a week within the next two months. Closer to home a dallas texas nurse continues to recover after treating the liberian man who died from the illness last week. And right here a local Pennsylvania Community is taking steps for prevention and awareness. Our Chris Oconnell is live in darby outside mercy fitzgerald hospital. Chris wawa are they doing to prepare. Reporter first of all, guys, right now in Delaware County, if you call 911 for a medical emergency, you will now be screened over the phone for ebola. Health officials here in the county say it is just the first step in trying to stop this deadly virus they say is just a plane ride away. Viruses do not have borders or boundaries. Reporter in whats believed to be the areas first coordinated response to the ebola crisis, hell officials in Delaware County are not panicking but preparing. Contagious virus is only a plane ride away. We dont want to create a panic here but we do want to create a healthy awarene
Fitzgerald hospital. Chris wawa are they doing to prepare. Reporter first of all, guys, right now in Delaware County, if you call 911 for a medical emergency, you will now be screened over the phone for ebola. Health officials here in the county say it is just the first step in trying to stop this deadly virus they say is just a plane ride away. Viruses do not have borders or boundaries. Reporter in whats believed to be the areas first coordinated response to the ebola crisis, hell officials in Delaware County are not panicking but preparing. Contagious virus is only a plane ride away. We dont want to create a panic here but we do want to create a healthy awareness. Reporter new ebola and infectious Task Force Made up of 29 people on the front lines of possible exposure. Those who can identify the risks and provide treatment like police, fire and ems crews. Any incident whether its infectious, biological or chemical, theres always a potential that something could happen. The task force
Ones. Weather on the ones. Actually just 62nd from now. Good day everybody, it is cents wednesday, october 15th, 2014. Hi, sue. 1,005, 1,006, okay, here we are, and in fact it is a six as our number of the day today. We still have the warm temperatures. We will have some strong thunderstorms later on, so bus stop buddy is in the hawaiian shirt for warm temperatures, gave him umbrella not storms later on, very mild to start, most of the temperatures in the 70s this morning, but there is cents a look at the showers and thunderstorms that are on the way, not here yet. 68 degrees, our current temperature, many of our temperatures as we said are in the 70s this morning, we got to 80 before the showers and thunderstorms roll in. And it could get pretty noisy tonight with thunderstorms and heavy downpours, and low of 62. So thats your Weather Authority forecast, at a minute after 6 00. It is traffic time and our biggest problem this morning so far has been in oxford, down in chester county, p