Sanjay gupta has the latest from cdc headquarters in atlanta. Its interesting to see how the map is now spreading, sanjay. No question and its a real medical investigation, they have to find these people. Thats absolutely the key. We hoped ebola wouldnt come to the United States, but in some ways it wasnt unexpected. Now the focus is on that dallas hospital. In this hospital, thomas eric duncan, the first patient diagnosed with ebola in the United States, is fighting for his life. We just hoping and praying that eric survives the night. In an exclusive interview with cnn affiliate wccb in charlotte, north carolina, duncans nephew speaks out for the first time. I want to let you know that we still here, were not sleeping, just like you, feeling the pain, were feeling the pain here, too. Doctors say hes in serious, but stable condition. Duncan is a Liberian National and he traveled for the First Time Ever to the United States to visit his family in dallas. The New York Times reports that he may have become infected on september 15th, when he helped care ray pregnant woman who died from ebola to the hospital. September 19th, duncan flies from liberia to brussels, belgium. Showing no obvious ebola symptoms or fever during airport screening. From there, he boards United Airlines flight 951, en route to washingtondulles, connecting to another united flight, 822 to dallas. September 20th, he arrives in dallas and heads to this apartment complex to visit family. Four days later he develops symptoms. He walks into this dallas emergency room on the 25th of september, vomiting with a fever. He tells the nurse he had traveled from africa, but is sent home with antibiotics and does not undergo an ebola screening. September 28th, his condition worsen, he returns to the hospital by ambulance. And is placed in isolation. The next day, a family friend calls the cdc complaining that the hospital isnt moving quickly enough with his test results. By tuesday, the 30th, the lab results confirm, the patient has ebola. The hospital admits it was a failure to communicate among hospital staff that led to the patients release after his initial visit. He volunteered that he had traveled from africa in response to the nurse operating the checklist and asking that question. Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. Investigators are now monitoring up to 20 people who are his contacts for symptoms. From paramedic who is transpo transported him to doctors and nurses in the hospital, to his family. Girlfriend, and her five schoolage children. But so far, none has been confirmed to be infected. I want to talk about those plane flights for a second as well, three of them, from liberia and to brussels, to dulles and to dallas. They talk about the fact that when he got on the plane, he had no symptoms, was not sick at all. He passed the checks, at that point, no fever. When he got off the plane, he said he wasnt sick, either. What the cdc director told me yesterday, is theres a zero, zero percent chance of transmission. That any of the other passengers on the plane would have become sick as a result. So strong words, he was not equivocal about this at all. Zero chance of transmission. Theyre not even going to track those airplane passengers. Go well, that im sure is concerning to anybody that was on a plane with him. Yet hopefully that will provide a measure of comfort. Given all of this, that were seeing this case and how it was hanseled. There are concerns this morning about the potential for a case in hawaii. What have you learned about this . Well, this is one of those situations where you seem to have some of the criteria that might start to raise some concerns. A patient who has fever, may have recently traveled in that part of the world. But that sort of you know with these things, they are medical investigations, you start collecting more and more data. Those are two important pieces of data. Theyre not, its not all the data. You want to know, did this person have any contact with patients with ebola. Had he attended funerals . There are a list of questions. At some point the evidence would be enough to say lets go ahead and test this person. It doesnt mean that everyone that comes back with a fever from west africa should get tested. Ive been there, cholera, typhoid, malaria, you can name a lot of things that would cause fever much more likely than ebola. But still obviously they want to investigate that. And theyre going to do some testing today. But this case and how it was handled in dallas, points of failure were picked up, balls dropped, mistakes made. So it brings about the question, sanjay, about the preparedness of our hospitals, our clinics, our medical staff all across america. Is there a sense that new guidelines are going to be sent out imminently . I think that they probably wish they could have done that over in terms of how they handled that this dallas. Because that wasnt some the guidelines were there. These guidelines that i was just rattling off to you about the hawaii patient, they are already out there, they just werent implemented. This seems to be more of a failure of execution. They still call them interim guidelines. To your question they may change. But what we really need to make sure, what i think youre hearing from the cdc as well is that the simple things cannot be missed. This is lowhanging fruit. Simply doing what we should have done, that patient should have been tested. The cdc director said so, the nih Infectious Diseases doctor says so. What you andvying a conversation, people in the Emergency Rooms and Public Health departments, it will be an added reminder. Well keep having this conversation. This travel history is so very vital to get from the patient. Sanjay, we know you have a busy day ahead of you, well be talking to you throughout the course of the day. Thanks so much. Chris . The big issue becomes our preparedness for a situation like this lets get perspective on this and bring in republican congressman jack kingston. Who chairs the subcommittee that oversees the cdc and the governments response to ebola. The proposition is simple is the u. S. Set up for what to do if Something Like ebola comes here . Are we ready . We think we are, weaver taking this very seriously. Were concerned about the numbers as you know, about 6500 people worldwide. Are infected, some of the projections are is that that number could go to over a million by january. So we have worked very closely with the cdc, with the nih, with the biorda. And with the medical authority and the department of defense, to make sure that whatever theyre asking for, we in congress are giving to them. Just recently, 30 million to the cdc, 58 million to barda to try to develop vaccines. The scientists are driving this right now, not the politicians, were following their guidance, we want to make sure that they have the resources. But also, i think what youre underscoring here is the protocols in so many cases are in place, but they werent followed, clearly at this hospital. We want to make sure Everybody Knows about the protocols. What to do if somebody is exhibiting symptoms and how to deal with it. The guy told them he was from liberia. You know that he had just traveled there. I mean what else do you need . You dont need a protocol right now if youre paying any attention to the world around you. If Somebody Just says, i just came back from liberia, i dont feel so good, shouldnt that be the first thing that pops up in your head . Absolutely. I dont understand why the nurse didnt notify other people in the hospital. Why the hospital didnt react. You can be infected and not show symptoms for as long as 21 days, during that time youre okay. Once youre showing the symptoms and particularly if you say i came from africa, thats no question what to do next. That takes you to the second little of what checks confidence in the u. S. Right now. Mixed messages either ebola is difficult to transmit because its not airborne and you need exposure to fluids. Or it is easy to transmit. And what were seeing in the response by the government sends a mixed message. Were being told, to not worry because its hard to transmit and then youre searching and quarantining for anybody near the sick guy. You dont understand why that sends a mixed message . You know, i do. One of the difficulties about this is again you can be infected, but youre not contagious so to speak until the symptoms are out there. And even then, it is the contact with bodily fluids that would make the difference. You know, in this case, we felt the first information was that this man, mr. Duncan, was on his own. Now were talking about the five children and the people he has contacted. Since the symptoms came out. That would be the fault of the hospital for not immediately following protocol, putting him in isolation. Rushing his test results through so that they could know if theyre dealing with it or not. I think thats where, the battle right now is to make sure everybody is on the same page. As you pointed out, if youre coming in from liberia, that alone should make people concerned. You dont have to be a Health Expert to know that. Senator rand paul. Granted people are paying extra attention to him right now. He did voice a common sentiment, which believes that maybe officials are downplaying the ebola threat. And maybe we should be canceling flights from these places, where the outbreak is in west africa. What do you think of that . Well, i think he might be moving a little too quickly. Ive worked vr closely with the cdc on this and dr. Friedan. And we do not believe that is the case. If you remember a couple of years ago when we had the sars outbreak, that was an airborne illness, it was just a different matter and were not facing that right now. So i do not agree with that. But i think in terms of exhibiting caution, making sure were doing everything we can, we need to be. The cdc said on september 23rd in a worstcase scenario, cases could reach 1. 4 million in four months in the u. S. Given that people here, it creates panic, no matter how the media qualifies it. What do you want the American People to know . Well we want them to know that were doing everything we can to make sure that this does stay in fact in africa. We also want people to know that the chance of getting infected, is very low, to zero, unless youre in contact with somebody who is infected and their bodily fluids. And i think people need to know about that. Also we have completely different sanitation and protocols here. For an example, one of the problems they have in africa in many cases, they dont use traditional funeral homes. Dont have undertakers, its the family themselves who are preparing the body after the death from ebola. And thats where theyve been getting infected. We dont have anything like that in the United States of america. Thats just one example. Congressman, thank you for joining us, please keep the pressure on the companies and symptoms helping come up with antidotes, scenes for this as well. The best longterm cure for the situation. Thank you very much for joining us on new day, well be in touch about this. Well turn to a big story weve been following, secret Service DirectorJulia Pierson is out of a a job, resigning after intense pressure for her to step down. Any support she had seemingly evaporated when the white house realized she failed to inform them about an embarrassing security lapse just last month in atlanta. The white house only learning of it minutes before the media reported it. Lets get more from White House Correspondent michelle kosinski, questions remain, even though shes out, will the substance of changes that are needed within the agency, will they happen . This bears so many echoes of the va scandal, the whistle blowers, the bipartisan outrage, the entrenched culture within a Government Agency and now the resignation. Julia pierson was appointed by the president to turn the secret services reputation around. And here we are after a year and a half and it needs another go. While white house fence jumper Omar Gonzales was pleading not guilty to federal crimes for storming the mansion, armed with a knife, its not clear if hes even aware of the fallout he leaves behind. Stop, please. Julia pierson, now resigned as director of the secret service. Her terse and answerless answers to an angry House Committee only rild Congress Even more. Is the president of the United States informed . I would assume that the president of the United States is informed. I dont know. Details came from whistle blowers that she didnt even mention and now we know one of those newly revealed incidents, a Security Guard with a gun in an elevator with the president , two weeks ago, in atlanta, a situation that hadnt been cleared by secret service and violated protocol, the white house wasnt even told about. Until just before it became unpleasantly public yesterday. Director pierson offered her resignation because she believed it was in the best interests of the agency to which she has dedicated her career. Pierson called it painful to leave. I Julie Pierson after three decades with the secret service, now the interim director, Joseph Clancy is, a longtimer who headed the president ial Protection Division and retired three years ago. Its the culture within the agency that seems stubborn to change. One former secret Service Agent told us things like the front door alarm being turned off because white house ushers didnt like the occasional loud noise points to what he calls a dangerous acquiescence at the upper levels of the service, a desire to please the boss. He said few supervisors were willing to insist on things being tougher when they should have been and it infuriated officers below them. Leaving some to turn whistleblowers, finding willing ears in congress. Agents in this agency said they were hesitant to raise security concerns with their supervisors. Ladies and gentlemen, something is awfully wrong with that picture. We heard pierson repeatedly detail the prong she felt she made at the agency, videoing to stay on and lead and fix the problems. Suddenly she resigned as more details kept coming out. Among those problems that her successor will face are staffing issues and low morale. Michaela . Certainly big challenges hes facing and there will be extra scrutiny on him while hes doing that michelle kosinski, thanks so much. I want to turn to the fight against isis. Theres big news this morning, turkey, with one of the biggest armies in the world says it will join the u. S. Led coalition. Turkish lawmakers are expected to vote today on deploying troops to iraq and syria. Now meanwhile, air strikes against isis in syria are intensifying near the border with turkey. Where isis is still advancing, driving hundreds of thousands of refugees over the border. Cnns arwa damon is there. Arwa . Weve been seeing some of the artillery that isis is firing, landing on the hillside right behind us. Targeting those Kurdish Fighting positions, this resolution that you are speaking about, this is actually a combination of two resolutions. One that was created back in 2007, authorizing the Turkish Military to enter into Northern Iraq to go after the pkk, a kurdish separatist group that the turks considering to a terrorist organization. The other resolution passed in 2012 this time with regards to syria, authorizing the military to go after terror targets just across the border. This resolution being put forward today combines those two. But also, gives the government sweeping authorities when it comes to a wide range of military options. For example, should that buffer zone be established that turkey has been calling for . Turkey could become a base for any Foreign Forces that would be brought in to enforce that. Or if turkey does in fact decide to join the coalition, which it has the authority to do so under this resolution, then we could possibly be seeing turkey also being used as a base for those ongoing air strikes. However, even if the resolution does pass, that is not necessarily mean that were going to see immediate turkish action or boots on the ground. Chris . But you said that last phrase, arwa, thats the key here, boots on the ground. If turkey with the huge and Formidable Force does enter on the ground there, that could be the best basis for the United States to maintain its position that it wont put its own troops in. So its a big development. Arwa, thanks for being there and please be safe. Theres a lot of other news so lets get to john bermen. Iraqi Police Say Three mortar rounds landed inside the heavily fortified green zone in central baghdad. Theres been no word on possible casualties. The green zone is home to iraqs Government Offices as well as the u. S. And british embassies. Overnight at least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a car bombing on a busy street in iraqs capital. So far, no claim of responsibility. In hong kong, tensions are econgratulating as protesters demand the citys chief executive step down immediately. Its a live look at the city right now. Activators are giving the chief executive to the end of the day to give up his leadership position or they say theyll seize government buildings. Overnight protesters staged a sitin outside the Government Office gates. They say the next step could be occupying government build fgs their demands for full democratic rights are not met. Florida man now faces life in prison after being convicted of murder for killing a teen in an suv. Jurors decided that michael dunn was the aggressor when he shot and killed 17yearold jorda