Afternoon live from oxford, mississippi, this is a live look, dallas, where were waiting for a News Conference about the ebola patient. Well take you there when it starts. New today, state officials put four people under quarantine in their apartment, the partner and her child and two nephews. Theyre all locked inside their home after having direct contact with duncan while sick with ebola. The quarantine is legally bipdinbipd i binding. Family members can Face Criminal Charges if they do not comply. But the kids had been in school earlier this week and now locked inside the apartment with officials monitoring them. More on those kids later. Officials so are far say the relatives have not shown any simp symptoms. They say at first the family was not cooperating and thats why they needed the legal order. Theyre looking for about 100 people who may have had contact with duncan. And there is word duncan lied at the airport in liberia before he made his way to the United States. According
Their chance to get him off the street two days earlier. How prepared are other hospitals as ebola threatens to become one of our Biggest Health concerns in years. Our chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta is at cnn head quarters. Rene marsh at Dulles Airport outside washington. Sanjay, these four close family members of mr. Duncan who were ordered the stain side their home, and if they leave before october 19th, they could be placed under arrest. Why would authorities require this . Well, they want to keep a close eye on them. The concern is that they had direct contact with mr. Duncan, could they develop symptoms themselves. At first they said, look, its okay, go about your business. We just want to make sure you take your temperature twice a day. We have to be able to monitor you that way. For whatever reason, either because they werent complying or were not able to reliably get those temperatures, they say well put you in a location where we can find you. They went through s