Hello, everyone, you are watching cnn. Im rosemary church. Good to have you here. Hello, everyone, im errol barnett. Lets begin with ebola. Scientists are fast tracking trials of experimental vaccines as the number of cases just continues to climb. The Worlds Largest vaccine trial for the virus is set to begin on friday in switzerland. About 120 people will participate, most of them are medical students. Liberia is reporting some encouraging numbers. The rate of infection there appears to be slowing, but the World Health Organization warns the crisis is far from over. Im terrified. That the information will be misinterpreted and people will think oh, great, this is under control. You know, ebola thats like saying your pet tiger is under control. This is a very, very dangerous disease. Any transitimission chains can result in many more cases. The w. H. O. Reports more than 13,700 cases at this point. About 5,000 people have died. Right now a debate is raging over quarantine policies for
In years. The flu epidemic sweeping the nation, already claiming the lives of some o of its youngest victims. Well it is good to see you on this saturday morning. 10 00 right now. Hope you are happy and healthy this morning. Im Victor Blackwell can christy paul. Searchers may be zeroing in on missing airasia flight 8501. Major developments. Just a short time ago we learned that teams have recovered four large objects in the java sea. The objects are very close together. The largest is nearly 60 feet long. Two of the objects are metal. All this seems to make it more and more likely that they are from that doomed plane. Indonesias government meanwhile wants to know why airasia flight 85 01 was even applying last sunday. They say the airline did not request and did not have permission to fry to singapore on sundays. But that is precisely the route the plane was taking when it went down six days ago. We want to start with cnns david malco live from surbaya indonesia this morning. David, do
Lets begin with politics and two of the top president ial contenders, republican contenders, holding duelling town hall events. Jeb bush and donald trump in the state of New Hampshire. Each getting the fair share of tough questions and both taking the chance at taking shots at each other. Did either do anything to improve standing in the republican polls . We have political reporter sara murray with the latest. Reporter good morning. Donald trump had the First Official town hall in derry, New Hampshire. It drew a big crowd. 900 people packed in the venue to pepper him with questions. Hundreds of others in an overflow room. The questions from immigration to illegal gun use and if he has too much huburus to be be president. Trump went after bush for having a small crowd at a town hall. Have i gotten under jeb bushs skin . I dont know. You mention the word skin and he said the other day one of the dumber thing i heard in politics when talking about iraq. That we, the United States, he sai
Im john berman. Im christine romans. We know who is on the main stage for the first republican president ial debate at 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Based on five recent mainstream polls, fox news has selected donald trump, Jeb Bush Scott walker to take center stage. With other top pollers flanking them. That leaves seven republican hopefuls sharing i guess the consolation prize of 500 p. M. Debate will draw far fewer tv viewers. The latest on the debate from dana bash in washington. Reporter this is the biggest republican field in modern history. 17 candidates. So its really not easy for the gop or the networks to navigate such a crowded debate stage. Never mind. Candidates who have to face a frontrunner reality tv star and that is why they sdied to have just ten people max on the stage and fox news announced which are going to make the cut and they determine that by the way, based on national polling. Here they are. Donald trump, hes going to be in the middle. Next to him, former governor jeb
Shots at each other. Did they do anything to gain support in their Republican Party . We have cnns sara murray with more. Reporter good morning, christine. Donald trump had the first town hall in derry, New Hampshire since becoming a candidate. Hundreds of others in an overflow room. The questions ran the gamut. From illegal gun use and immigration. On top of Donald Trumps agenda was slamming his rival jeb bush. He went after him for being a low energy candidate and on common core. Have i gotten under jeb bushs skin . I tell you this, he said the other day one of the dumber things i heard in politics when talking about iraq. That we, the United States, he said, have to show them that we have skin in the game in order to go into iraq. We lost 2 trillion, thousands of lives and Wounded Warriors and he is talking about we have to show them that we have skin in the game. Youre talking about trump, right . You can mention his name. Hes the current frontrunner. Were a conservative party. Rep