Confirmed the first case of ebola has appeared in the united states. The patient is in the dallas, texas, area. Confirming just moments ago that the man traveled to liberia in west after but was considered healthy when he returned to the u. S. More than a week ago. He returned on the 19th of the september, and arrived on the 20th of september. Had no symptoms when departing liberia or entering this country, but four or five days later around the 24th of september began to deaf symptoms. I have no doubt that we will control this case so it does not spread widely in this country. This case of ebola will be isolated and treated and wont have lasting effects anywhere in the u. S. He does appear confident. In a has been his m. O. Over the past few months as he has come out and talked regularly to the country in the world about ebola. But you know what, after listening to that, i think there are a lot of questions. A significant amount of number one, we did hear that this patient did not come down with symptoms until he arrived in the united states. But that leaves several days of venttive work. Where has this individual been . Where has he slept . Where has he spent his time . Who has he come in contact with. All of that is very important. This is not an airborn virus. This is spread from bodily fluids. But of course as you know if he wipes his nose, touches a door handle, someone could be in jeopardy of getting the ebola infection. Thats the important thing going forward. The other thing that is important to consider is that hospital is a certified ebola hospital. When dr. Kent bradley and his aid worker, her name escapes me, i apologize, but when they arrived in the u. S. There were only four. Theyll keep flowing with electrolytes to support his organs, but where has he been the last four days and that should be taken very seriously. But for the lab in austin, from the texan department of state health who were able to test samples as the cdc both confir confirming that this patient did have ebola, so the timing of these facilities being up to speed for ebola could not have been better for cdc or this gentleman who has ebola now. Exactly. Just on the 22nd they game certificated. Can you imagine if there was not a certified hospital in texas. The first case. Ebola diagnosed in the u. S. In the texas area. Heidi joe castro, youve been watching this story from the local stand point of dallas. Robert there are four critical days where the healthcare and cdc will reconstruct persons they may have come in contact with. Officially there are immediate families, perhaps coworkers, grocery store. Anyone he may have come in contact with. As you know ebola is con stay justice once symptoms develop. We know this man felt symptoms on the 24th. He felt sick enough to go to a hospital here in dallas but for some reason was not admitted. Thats another big question we hope to have answers promptly. It was not until two days after that, michael, that this man was admitted to the hospital. Of course, where there is a lot of anxiety in dallas, as there would be in any local community where ebola has had a presence, people are worried about this man was out in the public, sick, at home, those are all questions that we dont have answers yet. The other questions, too, during his travels when he was at liberia, and he arrived on the 20th. There are no direct flights between those two destinations. He must have transported somewhere. And that is another question that cdc is looking at at this moment. Who he came in contact with during th his travels. He did not develop symptoms until he got here but there is no stone that will be left unturned. The symptoms are not specific. It could be associated to a common cold. But work and travel, putting those two things together, recognized he could b have contracted ebola, and tested him. Now we go to one of the elite agencies the way they protect the president. Secret service Julia Pearson in a conference today. Its clear that our security plan was not properly executed. This is unacceptable and i take full responsibility, and i will make sure that it does not happen again. Mikmike viqueira is live, they also took heat how they handled the investigation and from her standpoint what does she have to say in her own defense . Well, director pierson insisted at the hearing that the president is safe. But thats after a series of slipups and breakdowns and they are asking for a serious reassessment of the secret service. An intruder walked into the front door of the white house. That is unacceptable. The outrage came from all sides and facing a house plan Julia Pierson did not try to deny. Its obvious. It is obvious that mistakes were made. Its self evidence that mistakes were made. Reporter the latest breach follows a serious of lapses, and the Service Director once more avow to go clean house. This is unacceptable, and i will take full responsibility, and ill make sure that it does not happen again. Reporter it comes the day after new revelations of an intrusion by Omar Gonzalez when we learned that he made it further than we thought. Going through an unlocked door, over the staircase to the first familys living corders before being stopped. Despite all that pierson tried to reassure the public. Is the president safe . The president is safe. That was not good enough for many at the hear approximating. I believe that you have done a disservice to the president of the united states. I wish to god you protected the white house like youre protecting your reputation today. Pierson became 18 months ago after a serious of scandals, personnel found personnel passed out drunk and a 2011 driveby shooting directed at the white house. It was four days before house keepers saw bullet holes and other damage to the white house exterior. Only then did the secret Service Launch an investigation. Im asking why a house keep who are doesnt spend 14 weeks in training and 18 weeks of training there after found glass and your agents did not. The housekeeper was able to locate fragments of glass on the truman balcony which is an area not frequented by security. A makeshift measure made while inside a spokesman president obama stands behind pierson. She is someone who took responsibility for the incident that occurred four days ago. She also took responsibility to ensure that the necessary reforms were implemented to ensure that it never happens again. We learned today on that september 19th isnt Omar Gonzalez, we were led to believe that he was stopped at the entry, but he ran towards the green room. He was not stopped by an uniformed officer. Instead the Washington Post reported that it was an agent off duty who just happened to be walking by. Good thing he was there. Mike viqueira reporting live from the white house. Indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is in washington for an official visit with president obama. They met to talk about closer collaboration. India and the adjustment have the two largest democracies. He appeared with Vice President joe biden and secretary of state john kerry. He met with speakers john boehner and nancy pelosi as well. Youre now looking at live pictures of hong kong. Its 6 00 in the morning. People are protesting the new election rule that requires a beijing committee to approve candidates. Protesters want to elect their own candidates. Weve seen another massive demonstration, a massive demonstration of tens of thousands of people defying orders to leave the streets. They are out here despite horrific rain storms. The umbrellas out and an iconic image of this movement. If protects from pepper spray and sun during the day and rain storms during the night. Many people are still supporting this. Theyre looking at their options. There are possibly the option of directing their attention to the buildings and occupying those, maybe calling for strikes and workplaces that would hurt this businessoriented city very hard. Also people are looking ahead more immediately to a national day. First of october. The national holiday. Chinas national day. There are going to be various ceremonies here in the next few hours. We understand various demonstrators will make their voices heard at those demonstrations, which is quite inflammatory being seen as an unpatriotic act by people here and what is still technically a chinese city. Rob mcbride in hong kong. Protesters are turning to a new app called fire chat that allows people to communicate without cell or internet service. Fascinating. Reporter it is fascinating. The company told me only a few hundred people in hong kong had downloaded this app but in the last few days that number has jumped to 200,000. Wow. Reporter the app keepers say that it works even when Cellular Networks or internet have stopped working or have been blocked. Reporter in iran or egypt, protesters relied on twitter to keep them connected. But twitter relies on an Internet Connection which governments can block. Its a free application. Its called fire chat. If you dont have any Internet Access you can keep messaging people. It allows people to send and receive messages using bluetooth technology. This is how fire chat works. Users can link to users nearby. This is one of the 97,000 fire chats that have popped up in hong kong in the last few days. Once connected in this Exchange Users discuss what to bring to a protest. Human righted a row says say the apps protect protesters by letting them sign up anonymously. By securing identity, taking precautions without having to go through a Telecommunication Network like fire chat enabled you to do means you will avoid surveillance. But neck monitor othe mondaybut they can monitor other users. The ceo of the company that made the app told me he attended the protest in hong kong on tuesday. He said in the heart, both the internet cel and Cell Phone Services were down. He wasnt sure if there were a lot of people using them but protesters did turn to fire ch chat. It is certainly a weapon, an arsenal, if you will, to organize. Reporter it could empower protesters. Thank you. Iraqi and Kurdish Forces put up a new offensive against isil fighters. Government forces took 16 villages east of baghdad, and we have this report from just outside erbil. This is a major operation by the peshmerga. To essentially retake territory that isil fighters have taken from them months before. Now, the town of bashir, were told it is strategically very important because isil fighters were using it as a launch pad to take kirkuk, which has many oil wells. Before the offense, they bombed the areas to soften up target there is. There are two towns where they were also targeted. These are important because theyre in the middle of the route between the sirrou serious strongholds. And its called aimed of disrupting the strongholds of isil in iraq. Turkeys parliament will decide whether to extent the military mandate, which would allow soldiers to depend all types of threats, including ill. Turkey has been absent from the strikes in syria. Coalition forces want to prevent isil from taking kobane, but it may be too late. There is hardly anyone left in kobane as isil fighters get closer to the border town. The few residents who are here are packing up. We are the last people left in the city. Where do you expect us to go . We have already been humiliated enough. This town and surrounding villages have doubled in size to 400 people in the past few years. It has become a refuge for people fleeing fighting in syria. Those refugees are now running for their lives. With much of kobane surrounded, food is becoming scarce. Most of the people here are ethnic kurds. The kurdish fighters trying to hold off the isil advance say they need more supports. Those that are left in kobane may soon find themselves with little choice but to join them with 160,000 people who have already left for turkey. Approving government proposals to allow the Turkish Military to take part of military operations. Kobane is just over there. The turkish government realizes it must get more involved to stop the tread of isils extreme ideology. The first criminal case overspyware, an app that monitors calls, texts and locations as well as other information. Details next on al jazeera america. The News Department said its the first of its kind. The ceo of a mobile spyware app arrested over the weekend for allegedly marketing an app for stalkers. Jake ward is in san francisco. Jake, people need to know more about this app. Especially if were saying that stalkers could use it to stalk people. Yes, sure, absolutely. I mean its a very, very creepy creation. Seattle genie was devised to remotely monitor the activity going on on a particular phone. Basically if you download the app and put it on to a phone. To do it the person youre trying to stalk, you would need to get their phone, have it in your possession for a few minutes, download the app on to it, and settled inadvicely and undetectedly monitor and pass along all information that is downloaded to that phone. Videos, calls, texts, all of it. The prosecutors are charging the creators of the perfect way of monitoring someone and advertising it for checking on a cheating spouse. This could be used for very dangerous purposes. Anyone who would hear the specifics of this app that you just outlined for us would have reservations of it being available to people. How did it even make it to the market . Thats really the question here. Its not so surprising that this would be out on the android platform. Googles platform there is no filtration system for the google play store. They dont have much of a Monitoring System in the spirit of being an open provider information. But this app was able on the apple iphone. Apple has a very stringent policy of review as the app gets up there, and they make sure that its not too derivative of another app or ripping off copyright material. Its amazing that it made through the process even though there is so much filtration. With so many apps being developed every day maybe they need more eyeballs to make sure this doesnt happen again. Jake ward from san francisco. More than a decade after a huge corporate marriage, ebay and pay pal are splitting up. Ebay bought pay pal for 1. 3 billion in 2002. Ali velshi join us now with more on this split. What led up to these two Companies Leading up to this new arrangement. Do you remember in ebay there were different ways to pay for things. It was a brilliant move for ebay to pay for pay pal. It was the default way to pay for your purchases. But you remember back in the day ebay was about selling your stuff to other people and getting a national and even global market. What a great creation of value to anyone selling their stuff. It was a great creation of value for anyone buying stuff. It was a great creation of value to the company and the shareholders. Well, ebay has been for a while. Nowadays when go on ebay its less about buying somebodys used stuff as a marketplace for people selling things. The ebay part of the business is growing at a much slower rate than the pay pal part of the business. Pay pal is part of mobile payments and transfer business, which is huge. It is exploding. We pay for everything now using our phones. The idea was the billionaire investor, he owns 2. 5 of the company. He had been pushing ebay to push the Payment Service off. Ebay said it was stronger with pay pal as a subsidiary. They said let ebay grow at the slower pace that its growing and ebay accounts for 30 of pay pals transactions. Pay pal can go another way and be part of a much more exciting part of business. You mentioned pay pal and there are other places you can us pay for stuff other than ebail. You can send you money by pay pal. We can talk about that off line. But apple go is getting payment system. Google wants in on this business. And youve got certain banks that allow you to have banking system. Carl icon and others and analysts say eventually were going to consolidate. Its not going to be advantageous if you use chase and i use a alibaba, and we know its going to consolidate into one or two major players, and everyone will use them and we wont carry cash any more. Pay pal should just take that next step. It will probably be in place. Apple will look at them. Google will look at them. Alibaba will look at them and youll get into a world where all money gets transferred on your phone. Thats the exciting thing to watch for pay pal. You have my email. Any time you want to send me money through pay pal, feel free. Well, the first confirmed case of ebola in the u. S. Were expecting to hear from the hospital in dallas treating that patient. Well bring it to you live. Plus our look at the North Carolina senate race. And its crucial to retaking control of the senate. Were back right after this. Welcome back to al jazeera america. Im michael yves. The center for Disease Control has confirmed the first case of ebola technologied here in united states. The first case is a a lie bear liberian national. 100 of people getting on planes, if they have a fever, theyre pulled out of the line assessed for ebola and dont fly unless ebola is ruled out. This is one way to make sure that airplanes themselves are safe during transit and airlines are willing to keep flying. But that does not rule out a situation like this one where someonewell was exposed, and then came in while they were incubating the disease but not infectious with it. Ebola is a virus. It is a virus that is easy to kill by washing your hands. Its easy to stop by using gloves and barrier precautions. The issue is not that ebola is highly infectious. The issue with ebola is that the stakes are so high. This patient left liberia on september 19th and arrived on the 20th. He began showing symptoms last wednesday, the 24th. He began to see doctors at the hospital in texas two days later, and admitted on sunday. The cdc as well as the hospital confirmed that diagnos diagnosis of ebola today. We spoke to the doctors at the hospital treating him. The senior fellow at the÷