Terrorists gain crucial ground in syria. We are live near the battlefield. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. We have new fears about ebola as several people, including School Children in dallas, are being watched closely by medical officials. We have new details about the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the United States. He is thomas eric duncan. A 42yearold liberian citizen, duncan assisted a pregnant woman who later died of ebola. Four days later, you flew to dallas to visit family and friends. The cdc says four or five days after that, he developed symptom, but turned away from a dallas hospital. On september 28th, his nephew was frustrated he was not getting care, he called the cdc. He was admitted to the hospital and now family members are awaiting to hear word of his condition. This is very stressful. We just want we appreciate as much help as we can get. We still will not sleep just like you. We feel the pain. We hope and pray
Portico doors of the white house. Then opened the doors and went inside the building and was not apprehended until he was already inside the white house. If you really want to parse it, technically you could say what i said there was accurate, but honestly, what i just described there is not at all what really happened in that incident in the news. Late this afternoon, early this evening, there was just a Stunning Development in what was already a pretty shocking story. I know the word shocking is overused in the news business. There is something shocking about this. Particularly what we learned about it today. Its one thing when you see the president of the United States out working a line or doing an event in front of a large crowd. The president may be taking a little risk in terms of his safety to be out among the people. Its another thing to realize when the president is at home in what is supposedly the most secure building in the country, hes not actually being well protected. N
Until today, he was director of corporate security for comcast. The Parent Company of msnbc. Lets go live to nbc senior White House Correspondent Chris Jansing. What is the president s reaction . Reporter the official statement is that the president accepted julia piersons resignation, this is their wording. Recent and accumulating reports about the performance of the Agency Required new leadership. But once it was clear that in a series of cases, the president and members of his family were in danger, the situation had really become untenable. And the most recent example, press secretary josh earnest acknowledging that the white house was informed of a breach on september 16th. An armed man with a questionable history on the elevator with the president in atlanta when he went to the cdc. Only yesterday they found out about it just before published reports came out. Only yesterday is when the president reporter only yesterday. Wow. And i pressed him. What is the Standard Operating Proc
That was scud udden if not surprising. Met with director pierson and accepted her resignation. With two Security Breaches, one with president obama at the cdc with an Armed Security guard and a fence jumpera got deep into the white house. We have seen recent and accumulating reports raising questions of the performance of the agency and the president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required. But this morning the president saying he fully supported her. He fully has confidence in the leadership of the secret service to protect himself and his family. I think its time that she be fired by the president of the yooil United States or that she resign. As the hours went by, more and more lawmakers called for a change. Joseph clancy, a former special agent in charge of the protective division would return as acting director. A former president ial prosecutor turned South Carolina republican congressman says secret service must be held to a higher standard. I do not enjoy crit
Liberia the first time he went to the hospital. Thats according to the mans sister. He says the patients name is thomas eric duncan. Hes now in isolation at a hospital in dallas. According to the reporting of this centers for Disease Control and prevention a team of Senior Health experts is looking for anybody who came in contact with that man. In other words, a sort of manhunt for ebola. Officials say the patient flew from liberia to dallas nearly two weeks ago. There are no direct flights between the u. S. And africa. The Reuters News Agency reports the liberian government claims the guy traveled through brussels, belgium. The cdc reports it has not confirmed that. Back at the news desk in new york, what can you shows us . This started about two weeks ago, friday. The patient departed from liberia. The next day on the 20th arrived in texas. It wasnt until a few days later on that wednesday, the 24th, that he started to show symptoms. Then a couple days later the friday, the 26th, he