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When things really started getting tough in my unit, it was a sunday. And i was working and we were putting down breathing tube after breathing tube in these patients. We got up to 14 or 15 ventilators in our 18bed icu. And it was just one after the other. And we were all scared. Nobody knows how to navigate this, and were just taking it shift by shift and day by day, trying not to get overwhelmed. One of the things thats really hard for us, as icu nurses, were used to having constant access to ...

Minorities are on the run in the northern part of the country. Christians, shia muslims, others, forced out of their homes, out of their villages, as brutal isis militants, these terrorists, are storming through all of these different towns, and with these people with nowhere to go, theyre fleeing into the mountains, where were told some 40,000 people are now without food and medicine and water. Dozens of children are dying in the sweltering heat. Women being sold into slavery. And now new repor...

Getting grilled by congress over a different security scare. Is the first family really safe. The war on its i. C. E. Intensifies as the terrorists gain new ground, moving closer this morning to crucial cities in syria and iraq. Were live with the latest on the ground. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. A lot of news today. Im Christine Roman s. And im john berman. Its wednesday, october 1st. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. And doctors are scrambling to react tie scenario that they have...

Ground with nbc news chief medical correspondent dr. Nancy schneiderman. She is going to be joining us live from monrovia in just a moment. The camera man was just hired on tuesday. He had been working on the ground in liberia for three years prior to that. Again, he is an american. Hes reported to have come down with symptoms of ebola yesterday on wednesday, at which point nbc news says he immediately quarantined himself and sought medical attention. Earlier this morning, he was given a blood t...

Strate strategy. And gay marriage is legal in a majority of the states. You may kiz the bride. Is it time for conservatives to sur rippeder in the cultural war. Im chuck todd and joining us is tom brokaw and Helene Cooper back from liberia, and the white house director under George Bush Susan Fagan and george bushs first press secretary robert gibbs. Thank you for joining me. This is meet the press. From washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. And welcome and breaking news. A second ...

Called the centers for Disease Control and prevention himself and the texas hospital did not handle the situation very well initially. They could have moved quicker. When they when he first went there. With those symptoms, coming from liberia, they should have done something immediately. They sent him back home. Only to get sick and come back by ambulance. Duncan left liberia after getting screened at the airport for fever. He connected at brussels, transferred at dulles, and then landed in dall...

The Electronic Medical record system is what fsz flawed. Theyre saying the nurse did ask the patient about the travel history and the patient volunteered that information, yes, they were from liberia. Were told, though, the nurses work flow were separate to the medical work flow that the physician had access to. Thats why that information was not relaid to the entire medical team. No Health Care Worker should be relying on someone else to take a history and the physicians should be taking a trav...

The cameraman was just hired on tuesday. He had been working on the ground in liberia for three years prior to that. Again, he is an american. Hes reported to have come down with symptoms of ebola yesterday, on wednesday, at which point nbc news says he immediately quarantined himself and sought medical attention. Earlier this morning, he was given a blood test to test for the presence of the ebola virus. Within less than 12 hours, that blood test came back positive. Nbc news is not disclosing t...

Her apartment and also, the areas where she came into contact with, we are told that within after registering that lowgrade fever friday, that she drove herself here to the hospital and was quarantined within 90 minutes of discovering that she had that fever, but nonetheless, she drove herself here to the hospital. I saw hazmat teams here this morning working in the parking garage and in the buildings where she had been taken in and ironically enough, being kept in the area, the same isolation a...

With susan rice, the president S National Security adviser, and i will ask her if we need a new strate strategy. And gay marriage is legal in a majority of the states. You may kiz the bride. Is it time for conservatives to sur rippeder in the cultural war. Im chuck todd and joining us is tom brokaw and Helene Cooper back from liberia, and the white house director under George Bush Susan Fagan and george bushs first press secretary robert gibbs. Thank you for joining me. This is meet the press. F...