eating candy. it's monday, october 27th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> all right. good morning. i'm tai hernandez. >> i'm t.j. holmes. good to have you back. just last week. you couldn't wait to be here. >> felt like a heartbeat. a lot happened over the weekend. we have to start with this growing controversy over whether people possibly exposed to ebola should be quarantined here. >> a federal civil rights lawsuit is expected to be filed an behalf of the nurse being held in new jersey. new york's governor has loosened the state's rules on quarantine. cecilia vega has the latest. >> reporter: the plight of kaci hickox is coming under intense scrutiny. she's the first traveler to be automatically detained under tough new ebola quarantine rules imposed by four states. hickox is facing 21 days of quarantine in an isolation tent at a new jersey hospital after returning from treating ebola patients in sierra leone. the 33-year-old nurse telling