I was better when i got there. The hong kong leader is going nowhere. Protesters are standing their ground. Police are restocking riot gear tear gas, rubber bullets. We have to make the economy work for every working american. President obama talking about the economy in illinois. Ballot. Another High School Football player died during a game, the third in the past week. Shock. An ohio woman suing a sperm bank. They mixed up a sample. It wasnt as if she was calling in october 2011 ordering a pizza. The latest on the ebola scare in dallas, as many as 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with thomas eric duncan. The Liberian National is in serious continue at texas presbyterian hospital. The number of elementy students that may have had contact issate. That had some parents taking their kids out of class. Four of duncans relatives, exposed to him while he was showing symptoms of the disease home. No one is supposed to go inside the apartment. They are in the apartment. They cannot come out or allowed to come on the porch. Lets go dallas, and Al Jazeera America correspondent heidi zhoucastro. Good of you to join us, you were at the apartment complex on thursday, where duncan had been staying in dallas. Are people concerned. What are they telling you . They certainly. Understandably so. Its noticeable that this district is three miles, covering 24 different nationalities. Why . This is where a lot of immigrant refugees are resettled. Its this apartment complex, seven or eight languages were covered. The people i spoke to said they were concerned, of course, about this happening. The few i spoke to were friendly, trusting and didnt know much about the case. There was a gentleman who understands english and received a flyer from the department management, listing the symptoms of ebola. And when he received that, he was concerned. He is hoping to be tested along possible. Duncans nephew had to call the c. D. C. To get attention paid to his uncles condition. His girlfriend said the sheets were in the apartment early op thursday, days after he was diagnosed. What happened with all that . Thats right. In fact, Health Officials confirmed his girlfriends statement today. Saying the reason that waste left by it patient in the apartment stayed there for two days is because they could not find a Waste Disposal company locally here willing to take that, until today. So because of that there were sheets, a mattress, clothing, riddled with sweat, in a sealed bag, inside a unit where four people were forced to stay because of legal threats. The texas House Department gave an order today saying that they cannot come out else they may go to court. The reason the county judge told us they resorted to this was because for some reason he had concern of the individuals may not comply with the orders. He wouldnt share details as to what led to the concern. As a result the order was in place, and Police Officers have been embedded inside the complex to ensure that no unauthorised entries and exits happen. Police are making sure they dont leave. What is being done to help them and feed them and make sure they are okay in there . Well the c. D. C. Says that that responsibility is falling squarely on their shoulders, they are organising food deliveries. The food bank here in dallas jumped off food delivers today. We do have a Waste Company that was contracted, and this afternoon was taking out some of the waste finally. Al Jazeera America correspondent heidi zhoucastro its great to have you with us. Thank you. For more on the people that may have this direct or indirect contact with Thomas Duncan, im joined by the professor, the senior associate, for a think tank that studies health threats. Aimish, good to have you with us. Based on the time that Thomas Duncan was exposed to people while he had symptoms of ebola, do you share confidence that the illness can be contained possibly to duncan himself . I do share that confidence. Ebola is a deadly disease, a scary disease, but is not containingous. We saw imported cases in other countries, nigeria and senna gal, where the chain of transmission can be broken. If they can do it surely the United States can. Now we have the number of people that duncan is linked to, jumping to 100. Many are not believed to be direct contacts. Right. Some of the contacts havent had high risk contact with blood or body floouds. Theres a circle of individuals under quarantine at the highest risks. There are other contacts, in order to capture contact, but we dont suspect those people are at high risk. Why do we care about anyone that he didnt have direct contact with. If anyone can transmit the disease, people he wasnt exposed to shouldnt have an issue. Is this an excess of caution . I believe it is what is going on. What people are doing is going above and beyond. Thats what we see when we saw dr brattly and nancy writebol. A lot of people are nervous about ebola, and theres public concern. People are going above and beyond to ensure the publics safety with a case. One student that may have this contact with thomas went to school. Because that student was not simply attic, no one is is symptomatic. Parents at the schools shouldnt be concerned. Right. You cant spread ebola unless you have symptoms. All the individuals, including those under quarpt each, none quarantine, none have exhibited symptoms. Theres no reason to be panicked. People need to be aware of what is going on, but theres no reason to have panic or frightening thoughts. How about the apartment where duncan stayed. As i mentioned it hasnt been cleaned, it has dirty linen. Does that mean that anybody who risk . Depends upon what their contact was, ebola is not a hardy virus, and it cant survive outside a human o animal body. They have to be taken care of in the way you would with soiled material. They have to wash and take care of them. Theres a problem when people dont want to haul trash from ebola patients, and houses that may have ebola patient. That has to do with how what the departments transportation regulations are. Its all worked out now. I heap to see this situation not occur in the future if we have more ebola patients. Lets listen to what dallas mayor Mike Rawlings had to say. This business is local. When i say local, i dont mean dallas, but a specific neighbourhood in the northeast of dallas. That may be true as far as the apartment complex where he stayed is concerned. Presumably he was in an emergency room at hospital, he wasnt admitted. Could the circle of contacts be wider than wed like . Its definitely wider than we like, stemming from the fact that this individual present to a hospital once and was not diagnosed with ebola, and its a flaw because that gave this person more opportunity to increase the contact circle. We have less contacts to trace if he had been admitted. I encourage doctors to be vigilant, and be extra careful about travel history. That should be emphasised. Just like we ask about allergies, they need to think of travel history, with cases of m. E. R. S. , and a chicken disease in the caribbean. Government Health Officials are telling people that everything is undercontrol, then we see this information coming out. The c. D. C. Had to be called to get more attention, once the hospital didnt admit him. Duggans girlfriend told him Hospital Personnel told him twice when he came from liberia. Trust. Its a floor. People should recognise when he presented the first time, that this person had ebola, and should have been admitted and isolated. The investigation should have targeted a couple of days earlier. Its not a flaw of the c. D. C. , but it happened in one hospital. At the hospital that i work at at pittsburgh, we worked to make a protocol that is successful to all the hospitals and is easily successful and plies gives specific recommendations to isolate the patient, screen them and notify the appropriate authorities. I cant speak for the other hospitals. Doing. Important information. Dr aimish, pleasure to have you with us again. Thank you. Turning to turkey, which is a member of the coalition to fight i. S. I. L. In iraq and syria. The parliament authorised the government to authorise military action. The move could allow n. A. T. O. Allies to use the u. S. Airbase and incirlik to launch attacks. I. S. I. L. Fighters captured more territory in syria, despite repeated air strikes, almost surrounding the city of kobani. The fighting sending more refugees fleeing to turkey, adding to a crisis there. No troops are yet to fight the battle on the border. There are doubts about the one group willing to fight in syria, the moderate syrian rebels. Joining us in new york is joshua herch, a contributor to the boest. His peace the daily beast, his peace entitled a last goodbye to the good guys, you are focussing on the moderates that we are arming and equipping and training, and the hope is that they will carry out the fighting in syria. What you are saying is most of those good guys, activists, humanitarians are gone. Basically chased away by i. S. I. L. And bashar alassad. Thats right. One of the things that we are seeing is this embraced by the white house, the moderates, the search for the moderate rebel. What i was looking at is do the moderate rebels exist, which is a question we are asking and who are the moderates, and moderate is a relative term, how you and i might define it, people in the audience might define it, a lot are the people we imagine at the beginning of the uprising. Ideologists, doctors that gave up their practices, helping in any way they could. What we have seen has been 3. 5 years, and increasingly the people fled the country, they are silenced and are not there. When i. S. I. L. Takes over the territory, they end up taking over the guys. You are seeing a certain amount was pushed out by the regime. Thats something that happened. Over the n year or so, some fell off, some whom we may call moderates fell off, some said thats enough for me. This whole group of people dedicated activists who risked their lives living in idlib and aleppo, and hama in the north, they held out and did their best to advance the revolution. I. S. I. S. Comes along, attacks them, forces them out. You had journalists who couldnt do their jobs, and this happened over a year ago this happened. What is going on in washington. Is it wishful thinking, denial to what we saw with i. S. I. L. Back in january when i. S. I. L. Had tape over a couple of major iraqi cities. The president called it is jv team, and we are doing the same thing, thinking that theres enough of a moderate fighting force there that theyll be able to take on i. S. I. L. I think anyone that supports the ideals of the opposition would love to see the moderate group grow. Anything could happen in i. S. I. S. And i. S. I. L. Its a push back. You may see that that creates more room and space for people to return. Now we are not seeing the space for them to exist, prosper and do what they were trying to do, the things we associate with the uprising. Was the president more realistic in august, when he talked about arming the moderates, being a fantasy, and we couldnt just arm pharmacists, farmers and things like that . I think it was a dark potentially situation there. You are overly dismissive to the president , to say because they were farmers once, they cant learn to fight or be trained. A lot of the small brigades that represent the moderate opposition are led by former syrian army commanders. They are smart and talented people. They are marginalized and a part of the opposition. The question is can they be wrangled together and coordinated in a way where they can present a genuine on the ground counterforce to i. S. I. S. Some american politicians believe we can. John mccain is among the more vocal ones saying we need to arm the moderates. There are reports of some brigades, especially smears aleppo, who are legitimate fighting forces. Its true. They exist. I have met some of them. A lot of staging for the stuff takes place. You can meet wonderful people. Whether they can be coordinated in such a way as to collectively do the things we would like to see them do, thick on the groups wed like to take on and not do some thinks that alienate them from the population, i think well have a lot of questions. Coordination is an important point. There has been discord among the moderates, about what the u. S. Should do, if we should bomb i. S. I. L. , as well, but as to how much they can help us, if we do have them on the ground. Why are they not helping us tart the right locations, because there has been complaints that we havent been doing that either. We saw a lot of moderates upset with the attacking and choices made. I think it will be a tough rode ahead. What i sort of want to look at in the piece was who do they represent at this point. Who do they represent beyond people with guns and in the beginning they represent groups of civilians and activists who had the ideals, close to what we imagined the uprising to be. A lot of civil activists are gone. The question is do the fighting forces have a constituency that will hold them accountable and push them in a direction we want to see them going or are they fighters, people with guns. A lot to be concerned about in syria and iraq. Thank you for being was. We talk to a chinese american journalist who says hong kong and china may be on an explosive collision course. President obama tries to shift the focus to the economy. Is that a Winning Strategy for democrats. Our social media producer harmeli aregawi is tracking stories on the web. What is tracking . This is a story getting a lot of attention online. An ohio woman is suing a sperm bank for mixing up her owner. If you missed an episode of consider this, check out of the show. Hong kong protesters that commanded chief executive leung resign got a flat no. He offered to have his second in command meet with the protesters to discuss the political process, but only in accordance with the ruling that launched the protests. Police carried boxes appearing to hold rubber bullets and tear gas into the headquarters, and warned protesters not to charge the buildings as some threatened to do. For more on the situation in hong kong, tensions between the mainland and hong kong and the protest movement, im joined in new york by alan chin, reuterss contributor, and wrote a piece are hong kong people still chinese depend how you define chinese. You are chinese american, you are over there a lot. Covering china, going back to tiananmen square, you were there for the british handover the hong kong in 1997. You know what you are talking about. In your peace you argue that before. Yes, the Hong Kong University does an opinion poll asking people how to define themselves. More people call themselves hong konger rather than chinese. Why is it happening. One thing you describe is how different hong kong remains. Everything from different currencies to language. Do they drive on different parts of the streets. The hong kong following the british model. Do you see them on what you describe as an explosive collision course. The chinese want to excert control and the exert control and the hong kongers less. Its supposes to be one kupt which, two citizens, the people of hong kong were promised that theyd have more and more democracy and freedom. Going directly in terms of beijings central governance desire to have conformity and etch having more of the same. Specifically with the new have. Direct elections. Direct elections and they could choose the chief executive, and now beijing is deciding who the candidates will be and control what happens. Basically what they are saying instead of having a primary where anyone can run for office, and the winners end up on election day, beijing is basically saying well have this committee, which is definitely stacked to be probeijing. And only the people that this committee lets through can run. So its kind of like saying instead of a primary you get to choose the two guys that we choose for you. You quote the human rights watch. You point to the profound sense of betrayal. Do you think we are seeing a fundamental split. What could the consequences be. I think the longer the protesters on the street, the less concessions that the government is willing to make. The more dangerous. Not only in terms of violence but in sense of how is the city and the entire country going to be run. Will it continue in a slowly modernizing freedom. As opposed to less. As opposed to hong kong that has a lot of freedom, has internet action. Not blocked. Not as censored the mainland. And so under those circumstances, though, what kind of compromise do you see in the long run that is possible. Philosophies. That is the 64 billion question, and i think the Chinese Government must have struggled to find some kind of facesaving solution where they may be can give a small concession, but keep real power. How afraid are you that this will go out of control. It seems like the Chinese Government makes threats and backs off the threats, makes new threats, and the protesters are making noises and threatening to charge into some of these government buildings. I have coped with a lot of different situations in the middle east and asia. It comes down to what one or two people on the spot. Whether they are wearing a uniform or in a youed. If one Police Captain gives the order to beat the kids up, that will happen, if one of the group of kids says well storm the building, you cant tell ahead of time. One little thing could be a tipping point. It wasnt a little thing it tiananmen square, it was a big thing, and i know you hope that doesnt get repeated here. I absolutely hope that is not repeated here. Thats what people across the world are hoping as we see the streets of hong kong. Turning to the Midterm Elections, consider this is highlighting an issue every week. Today president obama addressed the biggest one, the economy, in a speech at university. American economic greatness never trickled down from the top. It grows from a rising, thriving middle class. Theres two different visions for the country, im not on the ballot this fall. Make no mistake, the pot sis are on policies are on the ballot. Every one. Its the beginning of a campaign to convince voters that the referendum should be on the economy. A theme highlighted. Ronald reagan used to ask the question are you better off than you are were four years ago, better off than you were in sixth the the answer is definitely better off than we were when i came into office. We are shined by bill schneider, senior nel fellow and he is an al jazeera co