Hello, everyone, im john berman. You understand us, or do you. Ive been around some of you. Im michaela pereira. Thanks for joining us at this hour. There is news about brand new steps here in the United States to keep ebola out of the country or try to, at least. Airports will start screening passengers who were entering the u. S. From the ebola zone, those are the west african nations where thousands of people are stricken with the deadly virus. Were getting new information about the plan to protect america. We want to bring in our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. Elizabeth, hot off the presses, tell us how it works and more importantly when it will start. Michaela, we hear this additional screen willing start either this weekend or next week and its likely to be announced today that this is going to happen. So the way that it would work is that passengers who came to the United States and originated in one of the ebola stricken countries would be taken off into a separate screening process. What would happen is is that theyll get their temperatures taken. Not with the a thermometer in the mouth but a device thats pointed at the temple. They used this device when i was in liberia and leaving the monrovia airport on september 26. And so its not painful, it just doesnt take very long at all and so theyll check temperatures, ask folks you were in west africa, did you have any contact with an ebola patient, attend any burials . And also ask them if they are experiencing symptoms of ebola. Even if youre negative on all of these things no temperature, no nothing theyll ask how they can get ahold of you now theyre in the United States just in case they need to get in touch with you later. Michaela, john . Because of the ung Bush Administration patient. And thats the breaking news. And theres interesting news overseas on ebola that got a lot of peoples attention here. Its about the dog in spain. The dog of one of the ebola patients there. Spain says the dog needs to be euthanized because it could be a carrier. Well, 300,000 people have signed an online petition thattosave that dog excalibur. 300,000. Now, 3 4rksz 00 people have died from ebola, the United NationsCharities Say theyre not raising as much as they need to battle ebola, yet in the last 24 hours, 300,000 people are trying to save this dog. I love dogs but elizabeth, youve been to liberia. Are people missing the point here on ebola . Do they not understand whats happening to humans in west africa . You know, i think its very natural. People love their pets and when they hear about a pet being put down for possibly no reason, you have this emotional reaction. I understand that. But, john, you are right. There are so many other things that need to be taken care of that are way more important, really, than this particular dog. People are dying in droves everyday just for some basic reasons. We need more doctors and nurses in countries like liberia. We need more Health Officials in there to trace contacts and tell people that they need to stay at home in thats the case. There are so many other things that need to happen and its very murky as to whether or not this dog even has ebola and if he does could he possibly give it to a human being. So there are a lot of unanswered questions. Remember, this is ebola so this is something we dont know about. Its the kneejerk reaction many are also concerned about. Put the dog down and ask questions later. No, ask questions, isolate the dog, do some tests because this will help us understand things better. Elizabeth, you have been so great for helping us with all of this. Well be turning to you more. Later this hour well be joined by a missionary doctor who has spent plenty of final in liberia. He was there at the start of the ebola outbreak, even testifying before congress about it. We have many questions for him. Ouror big story this morninmorn morning, he appears to be an isis killer but sounds like any kid down the street. Speaking like any american, north american if you want to be specific. And now the fbi is asking for your help to identify this guy. According to authorities, this masked jihadi appears in the recruiting video flames of war released last month. The fbi has posted a portion of this brutal propaganda on its web site and what this man says on the video is quite chilling. Were here in the 17th Division Military base just outside the city of raqqa and were here with the soldiers of assad. You can see them digging their own graves in the very place where they were stationed. The video goes on to show the man and other militants apparently killing those men who then fall into that very grave. Joining us now, peter brooks, he is a former cia agent now a fellow at the heritage foundation. Peter, thank you so much. Im hoping that maybe you can help us understand why the fbi might reach out to people in north america and ask for their help. Im sure their intelligence officials are looking at this, combing over this video, trying to identify this man. Theyve got all that tech and all that intelligence on their side. Yes, of course. And this is a bit troubling because the fbi hasnt been able to identify this person and, of course, just a few days ago the fbi director in a televised interview told us they thought there were about 12 americans that theyre following fighting in syria with isis. Obviously this is 13. He did admit that he doesnt hes not sure what he doesnt know. So we should be pretty disturbed about this. This problem could be a lot bigger than just 12 americans overseas fighting with this terrorist group. Peter, what do you do with this video. Enough video, you hear this voice, you know, do you normally get help from people if youre with the intelligence authorities when you ask america do you know this man . I think so. I think there have been many cases that have been cracked, especially Law Enforcement cases, by reaching out to the public. Whether its a missing child or a fugitive on the run. So if you know something, you see something, say something. I mean, john, weve had 60 terrorist plots foiled in this country since 9 11 and a lot of that comes from people. John q. Public or jane q. Public telling authorities about things theyre concerned about. So besides the bio metrics, looking at this individual, trying to analyze his voice, looking at the distance between his pupils, they didnt have success with that so theyre turning to americans to perhaps identify this individual. Not just americans, it bears repeating that you said north americans because the fact is anecdotally i was visiting family canada last month and i saw a lot of headlines being made in canada about their own concerns about canadians leaving to go to join isis as well. You wrote an interesting oped this morning in the Boston Herald speaking directly to anybody who harbors any doubt about the isis. You write as events unfold it turns out to be worse than originally thought, even for many of us warning about them for a while. The Islamic State isnt just some passing thunderstorm. What do you think what recent developments do you think are underscoring the power of isis . We see these videos, we see the beheadings, they seem brutal. Why is there doubt lickering in peoples minds . Im not sure why there is a doubt. If you look at the facts on the ground, weve had an air Campaign Going back into august if you want to stretch it out and theyre doing pretty well. Theyre holding off the best military in the world. I think theres some problems with our campaign strategy, frankly, but 2 fact of the matter is they are persistent, theyre resistant, theyre still operating. Theyre doing things, theyre media savvy, theyre rich, powerful. The largest terrorist group weve ever faced. Its a terrorist army, mick clael so i think people really have to look at this with a sober eye, putting politics aside. I think we have a major threat to stability in the middle east and im worried about this coming here and i think this video that came out that was made public in the last few days really tells us that. Peter brookes, our thanks to you. A key city in syria is about to fall in isis but the pentagon says, no big deal, really. And shocking news about actor stephen collins, child molestation accusations. Well bring you some of the details and have a discussion ahead. 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Thats why isis wants its black flag flying over kobani. It would give it more than 60 miles of pretty much total control of yarp in syria. You look at it right there from a selfproclaimed capital of raqqa all the way to the turkish border. I want to bring in arwa damon right now. Shes on the border between syria and turkey. Her camera right now is looking at that plane if we can get that picture back up again. Also joining us in studio, retired Lieutenant ColonelRick Francona, our military analyst. Arwa, i want to start with you. As you are looking up, youre seeing these planes circle. I know that must be welcome for people in kobani, welcomed especially give than they probably heard overnight that the United States says its not such a big deal if that city falls. Yeah, and those words do not exactly resonate positivefully this area. Now, we have been watching two fighter jets over kobani for about, say, the last 20 minutes or so and earlier in the day we did see what we believed to be at least three Coalition Air strikes. We believe that they were Coalition Air strikes because the size of the explosion and the sound of it significantly different than the usual artillery barrage that we have been watching. Now, the kurdish fighters are saying that they did ben it from the handful of air strikes that did take place in the last 48 hours. They say that that those air strikes, especially those targeting isis vehicles, forced them, the ie sigs fighters, to advance on foot and than that gave them the advantage that they needed to begin pushing them back. But theyre still calling for many strikes and theyre still calling for a weapons corridor to be opened because they say theyre running low on supplies. Lieutenant colonel Rick Francona is here with us in studio and youre watching this with a keen eye. Tell us what youre seeing. Thats a b1 bomber, commonly called with the the bone. Hes got his swings swept forward, hes going as slow as he can. Hes probably looking for targets because theres nobody on the ground to point those targets out so hes relying on his eyesight to sew see whethers down there. If he can detect and isolate a target, he will take it out. Therein lies the problem, colonel. There are no people on the ground telling him where to drop his bombs so he has to just fly over and look as the city is on the brung of falling . Thats exactly right. This is the problem when you try to conduct air strikes in isolation without known designated targets. Give us specifics. Hes probably low there, hes up about 20,000 feet. Is he vulnerable there . Depends. They have air Defense Systems but probably not in that area. He is not up there alone. There are other aircraft were not seeing that are monitoring whats going on on the ground and any detx of air defense activity like a radar coming up will be met with other aircraft. What does that say to you. Weve been hearing koeb ban sni not a priority yet we also know theres a concern about potentially 10,000 to 12,000 people being civilians in the mix there. I think thats whats driving this is they realize the turks are slowing down the exit of these people out of this town and creating humanitarian disaster and we dont want to abandon these people to their fate at the hands of isis so theyre doing what they can. Its not ideal but eventually this town will fall. But and maybe give them enough time to get the people out. Arwa, you say obviously over the last few days the u. S. And its Coalition Partners have flown missions over kobani, they have dropped bomb there is. What effect has that had on the isis fighters and has it given these kurdish fighters battling them any reason for hope . It has given them a certain amount of momentum, the Kurdish Fighting force, that. Is its forced the isis fighters to advance on foot and the kurds have the advantage of knowing the ins and outs of the streets because it is after all their town and thats why theyre determined to protect it. That rhetoric coming from the uts, that sad reality that people believe kobani is going to fall, it causes anger and frustration here because so many of the kurds were speaking to feel that the coalition should have carried out these air strikes before isis was able to gain a foothold in kobani. They are doing what they can but they are running low on ammunition. They need an addition support. Theres an equal level of anger and frustration being directed towards turkey as well. The kurds have asked the turks to allow weapons to come through. The turks have effectively said no, were not going to do that until you officially join the free syrian army, the rebel fighters. Turkey also saying that at this point it is not considering boots on the ground. It wont be launching a Heroic Mission to save kobani. Rather turkey is saying it has certain conditions that need on met. They include a nofly zone. They include establishing a buffer zone and at that stage they say they will consider joining a broader coalition. They are also open to entertaining the idea of boots on the ground if that particular operation was not just targeting isis but also targeting the regime of Bashar Al Assad which turkey considers to be as big a threat to the stanlt of its syria, to the future of if entire region as isis at this stage so the kurds very angry and frustrated in all of this because they feel like theyre effectively pawns of these overarching politics. Arwa damon, we want you to stand by. We want to say thank you to you and Rick Francona. Right now we have a development in the ebola fight, the war being waged on ebola. Our Elizabeth Cohen has a development for us. Elizabeth, what can you tell us. This is a development i hate to give. Weve been told now by the hospital that Thomas Eric Duncan has passed away and i want to read you the email that we just got from the hospital it is with profound sadness and heart felt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7 51 a. M. Thats dallas time. Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, ebola, he fought courageously in this battle. Our professionals, the doctors and nurses in the unit as well as the entire Texas Health Presbyterian hospital Dallas Community are also grieving his passing. We have offered the family our support and condolences at this difficult time. This is obviously just terrible news. I was just speaking with his nephew this morning. Yesterday afternoon they had so much hope because his Blood Pressure was going up, his temperature was going down, both of those good signs. I think the family will have a lot of questions for this hospital. They want to know why he was sent home when he arrived with a fever and having said that he had been in liberia. They will want to i know theyll want to know why it took nearly a week to get him an experimental medication whereas other patients who have ebola got those medications immediately. Theyll want to know why he didnt get blood products from someone with ebola, other patients have gotten blood products from people with ebola. They will have all of those questions for this hospital. Again, the breaking news, to. Mass eric duncan, the first person diagnosed with ebola in the United States is the first person to die of ebola in the United States. Elizabeth cohen, you have been watching this over the last few days looking at the efforts to save the life of this man. And you have noted that he was given these airport viral drugs but that he was already in such a bad way that the possibility of them making a difference was very, very low. Thats right. He got this antiviral drug called brincidofovir, its an experimental medication, ten days after getting sick. Thats a long time for ebola, which is a quickmoving virus. It is really not clear why it took quite that long. We know it took several days from the beginning because the hospital didnt think he had ebola and they sent him home even though they were told hed been in sleesh ya and had a never. It took nearly a week to get him brincidofovir whereas other patients got a drug or another experimental ebola drug immediately. So, you know, its never theres definitely some questions here. One of those questions as well, we received news that the journal frist nbc, the cameraman, the american cameraman that was transported back to the u. S. To receive treatment was able to get a blood transfusion there ebolasurvivor kent brandtly. Many people were wondering does that mean Thomas Duncan is going to get a blood inpollution frfu survivor and why didnt he . You were talking about the timing of when he got the medication. Do you get a sense