Plus amber vinson with her Wedding Party as they try on dresses. She was probably here probably about three hours maybe and i had no idea that anything was wrong with her. Reporter new details about what she was doing in ohio before getting back on a plane to dallas. Amber has directly told me is that she felt fine, that she felt well until tuesday morning. And the white house. It may be appropriate for me to appoint an additional person. Reporter warming up to the idea of an ebola czar. Just to make sure that were crossing all the ts and dotting all the is going forward. Reporter lets talk in the cnn newsroom. Hello, im ana gcabrera in for carol. While you were sleeping new developments in the nations fight against ebola. Nina pham wakes up this morning in maryland. Overnight see arrived at the National Institutes of health to be treated by a team of Infectious Disease experts and one of those special biocontainment units, and now for the first time were getting a look at her recovery
Dozens of injuries and arrests. Good morning. Its early start. Im christine romans. It is cold and in the east. 48 people quarantined in dallas have been declared infection free. This is an important milestone. Among the people, duncans fiancee. All cleared to end their differing levels of seclusion after 21 days of quarantine. First, on saturday, duncans loved ones remembered him in North Carolina. At the same time, the cruise ship with the overblown ebola scare disembarked in texas. The lab worker voluntemntarily isolated herself on board and her tests came back negative. The news is better for those with direct contact with duncan. Reporter christine and john, 48 people are breathing a sigh of relief without showing symptoms for 21 days. These are people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan before he died on october 8th. They include duncans fiancee. Listen to what a pastor at her church told us. They feel this is a tremendous miracle that has happened. That they have not come do
Coming up. Meantime the nih reports that nurse nina pham is in fair condition as she sends an Emotional Message from her hospital bed. Well play that later. She was transferred from dallas to the nih overnight. Pham is the first medical worker to come down with ebola in the United States after she cared for Thomas Duncan who died from the disease last week. Jon another Health Care Worker hoe may have handled duncan assessing mens is on a Carnival Cruise at sea. The cries line says the passengers is isolated for the rest of the cruise. Amber vinson the other infected person with ebola, she flew from dallas and back days before her symptoms appeared. She is being treated at emory hospital in atlanta. Our Jonathan Serrie is reporting to outside of the offices at the cdc. Jonathan . Reporter cdc next to Emory University so extremely busy here as the cdc continues to identify and monitor persons with possible exposure to the ebola virus. One of those persons on board a Carnival Cruise ship
Its monday, october 20th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Thats how we start. Good morning, everybody, on this monday morning. Im t. J. Holmes. Im reena ninan. Happy monday. It is a happy monday for some, including some family members of thomas eric duncan. He passed. He had ebola. That was unfortunate for the family. A lot of people keeping a close eye on them. Are they in the clear . This morning, they are officially out of danger. Also, a hospital lab worker quarantined on a cruise ship. All of them finally back home. Abcs tom llamas has more. Reporter the woman at the center of the ebola scare on the carnival magic disembarking. The ship and its 3,600 people back in texas after mexico and belize refused to grant her access. She shouldnt have been on board. Cleaning crews preparing to scrub every inch of the ship. This was the view from the deck on saturday. As passengers partied, a coast guard helicopter hovering above on a mission to collect a blood sample from th
What police found and why theyre now calling this a death investigation. Hello. Im debra in for fred rooik rica whitfield. We are following a lot of major developments in the fight against ebola in america. Cnn learned that the pentagon is prepping what its calling Quick Strike Teams. That team will go anywhere in the United States to help deal with any cases of ebola that might arise. Also today, the number of the people who may have had contact with ebola patients Amber Vincent has now gone up to 153. Amber vincent is the second nurse to be diagnosed with ebola in the United States. Lets go to erin mcpike at the white house now. Erin, these Quick Strike Teams, is this simply to send a powerful message, or do they believe these teams can really be trained and properly a help to hospitals . They are going into training. The pentagon has approved this. Its a 30person team. It will be five doctors, and 20 nurses in the specialized training equipment, and once they are called to deploy, i