Authorities are questioning as many as 100 people in the dallas, texas, area who may have had contact with a patient 42yearold Thomas Eric Duncan. The official says more than a dozen people had direct contact with duncan and they are now being closely monitored. In addition, four of his family members have been ordered to stay inside their home for the next 17s days to make sure they havent been infected. Duncan is from liberia. He went to dallas to visit his girlfriend. The New York Times says a few days leaving monroe va, he had direct contact with a pregnant woman in liberia, a pregnant woman with ebola. Duncan took a Brussels Airlines flight from monrovia to brussels and after a sevenhour layover in the belgium capital he boarded 951 to here, to washingtons dulles airport. After a threehour layover in the washington, d. C. , area, he took united 822 to dallas, texas. Were covering the story from all the angles. Dr. Sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent, at the cdc headquarters, the centers for Disease Control in atlanta, and joining us from new york, dr. Alexander vantullcan, Infectious Disease specialist. Sanjay, i want to first play for you and our viewers, what Anderson Cooper told us a little while ago about the girlfriend of this individual Thomas Eric Duncan, because its pretty shocking to hear had her story. Listen to anderson. Once he started antibiotics he started having a lot of diarrh diarrhea, making a lot of trips to the bathroom. He was not vomiting according to louise. But he was, you know, sweating a lot during the night in her bed. The sheets are still on the bed, she told me. In the apartment where she called from. In the apartment. The sheets he sweated on still on the bed, the pillows, the towels she has put into a plastic bag, still in the apartment. Shes not clear what to do with them. The cdc has visited her apartment, she tells me, have told her not to go outside, that shes quarantined. She has to stay inside for 21 days. Shes taking her own temperature every hour. She says shes taking the temperature of the young people in the apartment with her. But shes clearly very concerned. Obviously concerned, indeed. Sanjay, thats very, very worrisome. The material this woman has told anderson. Yeah. I mean look, some of this is pretty troubling, wolf. I think not the least of which is the idea that, you know, essentially for four days, it sounds like roughly, mr. Duncan was living out of this apartment, he was quite sick it sounds like, and just the towels and the bed sheets, these things that could potentially have some of the ebola virus on them, have not been cleaned. It doesnt sound like at least shes received instruction or understood the instructions clearly in terms of what to do with that. I can tell you just down the street here from the cdc is emory where the first two patients came from, and we got an idea of how they handle the waste from the rooms where these patients were cared for. Its, you know, involves a pretty strict procedure. Bring in biocontainment bags, special bags, all the materials go in there and then eventually the stuff is incinerated. They take no chances. States have different regulations on this sort of thing, but in this case sounds like shes simply not going in that room. The sheets are still on the bed, the towels still there. From a humanity standpoint that shouldnt be the case. I will tell you, wolf, even since anderson first reported that and weve been talking about it, the cdc has commented that medical contractors are going on their way to the apartment to address this very issue and to make sure theres better communication with her as well. But, you know, its obviously a frightening situation for her. Theres nothing to suggest that she is sick or the other people in the apartment are sick, but it is, obviously, troubling. Dr. Van tullcan, why havent they been there the past several days taking away the sheets, pillow cases . She says he was sweating profusely throughout the night, before he went to the hospital. She says he was suffering from diarrhea. This is before he went to the hospital. He went to the hospital. He was vomiting. Yet they sent him back home with some antibiotics. This is a horrible blunder i see unfolding here, doctor. I agree, wolf. I think this is absolutely extraordinary. Hes now been in hospital for a few days, theyve had a long time to get on top of this. As sanjay says it doesnt sound like theyre treating her in a humane way. Not only given her instructions how to deal with a set of items none of the rest of us would want to handle without a hazmat suit on, doesnt sound like they made it easy to leave the house. She should be brought food, book, clean linen because she needs clean linen. The kids need video games, a tv, phones, whatever to keep them in the house. You can do that well. You dont need legal orders if they educate people. Doesnt sound like thats happening here. Sanjay, youve been all over this horrible situation. Explain why only now medical contractors from the cdc, theyre going over there to clean up this place, to deal with this situation. Hes been in the hospital a few days. Hes been diagnosed the firsts case in the United States with ebola. And now here in the United States of america, this kind of situation is unfolding. Seems like its so its hard to believe this could be happening . It is hard to believe and there arent good explanations here. Weve asked for some response and what we heard back is, were going to take care of it. Were sending these medical contractors out to clean up this waste and to help provide guidance to louise, this woman, who anderson spoke to, but as far as why it hadnt already happened, what the thinking was, was there any rationale explanation, we didnt hear that part of it. I would be curious, we know that cdc employees my understanding have been going to the house, if for no other reason than to help monitor, check the temperature, body temperatures of the individuals under quarantine, but what else have they been telling her . Has there been a miscommunication or is this a dropped ball . Again, we dont know. We do know in the other situation that you brought up, wolf, where mr. Duncan was initially sent home, that sounds like it was a drop the ball completely. A clear red flag in terms of his travel history and that wasnt acted upon. Is this another dropped ball . If so, very unfortunate. Theyve been planning for months. What is transpiring here, as historic as it is, the first patient diagnosed with ebola in this country, it was not unexpected. Theyve had months to sort of plan for this and go through the various scenarios and two big ones here, seem to have had some real trouble, the idea of his duncan knows sis early enough and the diagnosis early enough and the contacts of the People Living in the apartment and how theyre being treated. And what makes me especially concerned also is the information were getting, it keeps changing all the time. Initially dr. Thomas friedan, head of the cdc, maybe a handful of people were contacted by this individual from liberia. Then it went up yesterday to 18 or 20, now were hearing as many as 100 people were contacted, were in direct contact with this individual. I want both of you to stand by. Were not going away from this story. There are major, major ramifications going on right now. Stay with us. More of the breaking news right after this. Ugh. Heartburn. 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Were following the breaking news out of dallas, texas, someone diagnosed with ebola in the United States, individual from liberia, getting shocking new information from this individual, Thomas Eric Duncans girlfriend, in dallas, that her apartment where he suffered, where he was sweating, hasnt been cleaned up and only now medical authorities for the centers for Disease Control and prevention are going over there to deal with potentially Significant Developments. Dr. Sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent, is with us, as is dr. Alexander van tulleken, a medical doctor as well who specializes in Infectious Diseases. Sanjay, this notion that originally a handful of people were being scrutinized and then 18 or 20, now maybe he was in contact with as many as 100 people, it sounds pretty shocking. What concerns me is the story the official story from government officials, keeps changing . It does. It does keep changing, and part of that is not entirely unexpected in the sense that as you get more information about his whereabouts, where he was moving during those four days, you may add more people to the list of people that you want to talk to. It doesnt mean that theyre going to be listed as contact, doesnt mean that theyre going to need to be monitored. My understanding the number of people being monitored because theres confirmed contact with mr. Duncan is still around 12. But think of this, wolf, as throwing out a pretty wide net. Anybody that could have possibly come in contact with him during those four days, they want to be talking to them. Ultimately, many of those people may be found to be not at all at risk, not at all at worry, but that number 12 may go up somewhat. Not going to go up to 100 is my guess but going to go up somewhat. Thats a wide net sort of philosophy when it comes to contact tracing. Its something that should be done, hasnt been done well in west africa part of the reason the numbers keep increasing. They miss people and they dont want to miss people here, wolf. In this apartment that is now about to be cleaned up, dr. Van tulleken, only now, and these are days later, the same sheets where he was sweating, where he was suffering from diarrhea, over hours before he even went to the hospital and then astonishingly he was sent out of the hospital, gave him antibiotics and said you got minor little problem which, obviously, was not the case, im worried about the people who have been in that apartment, not only the girlfriend but four or five children were basically spending some important time in that apartment as well and they were going to four or five different schools if that area. How worried should we be . I mean i think youre right to be worried. I have a 5yearold son and i wouldnt want him in that apartment. None of us would. Its not just ability containing this disease. Weve also got to treat those people really well. Look after them. It doesnt sound like theyre being looked after at the moment. The really worrying thing about this is, this isnt just doing the job. This is also a drill. This is definitely going to happen again. We dont know if this man deliberately came from liberia to seek help because he knew he was exposed. It does sound like he knew he had been exposed. What you have to think if i was exposed in liberia i would want to come on a plane and get treated in dallas. Were going to see more of this whether deliberate or not. So far we dont seem to be reacting as well as we could. This should all be protocols. Sanjay, if you saw the pictures, and its pretty scary all the parents of the other kids and these four other schools where these little children were attending those schools, theyre obviously very, very concerned. Should they be as worried as they clearly are . Well, one of the basic principles weve been talking about is unless you come in contact with someone who is sick with an ebola infection your chance of getting an infection yourself is basically zero, next to nothing. The people that go to school with some of these kids that were talking about, i think that the chance for them having any kind of problem is really, really remote. The kids who were directly in contact with mr. Duncan, thats obviously of more concern and thats why they are being monitored. Theyre going to have their temperature taken for 21 days. If it goes up thats going to be a first sign maybe something is wrong. Doesnt mean they have ebola but may warrant testing at that point to see whats going on. Thats something thats, you know, ongoing. I will Say Something else, that Alexander Just brought up, that is that so you have a situation now were learning mr. Duncan certainly knew it sounds like he had had contact with someone sick with ebola and then within a short time after that he got on a plane. What the screening typically does, and i went through this when i left guinea a couple months ago, they take your temperature, and then youre also asked a series of questions. Had he answered he had just been literally carrying a woman dying of ebola, he wouldnt have been able to get on the plane. Youre seeing part of the problem here, wolf, it does count on selfreporting and if people arent completely honest the system does start to fall apart a little bit. The shocking thing is, sanjay, very quickly, you can answer this, were stancing by also, theres a teleconference going on from the cdc, the director briefing reporters, we want to stand by for that, but if he knew he was in direct contact with a pregnant woman in monrovia before boarding that flight for brussels and then washington and dallas, it if he was on that if he knew that woman eventually died from ebola, then he got out of liberia, thats obviously a Significant Development in this investigation . Yeah. I mean, you know, the screening, you know, protocols would pick that up if he had been honest in talking about that and asked basically not that he cant ever leave the country, but what would likely have happened he would be told he has to monitor himself for 21 days in liberia, not getting on a plane. That did not happen here at the time he got on a plane. He wasnt sick but he had been exposed. And seems like he knew he had been exposed and still got on the plane anyway. So that is an important detail i think in all this as well, wolf. And so dr. Van tulleken, your suspicions is, he suspected he might have been exposed to ebola so he wanted to get out of liberia, and get to the United States, is that your suspicion . I think we may never know. We dont know what his decisionmaking process was. What i can tell you any reasonable person would want to seek help in the u. S. Rather than liberia and there are lots of liberians that have been exposed and can afford to get on a plane. The lesson is not that we should close the airports, not we have to do blood testing in the airports, the only way to prevent this happening again is to roll back this disease ins west africa. So far over the last few months, basically one private medical charity, doctors without borders, has been doing all the work. Theyve done everything basically, and now one country in the world has stepped up properly, the u. S. We need a massive response to deal with this ins west africa. Otherwise its not just going to be happening here. Its going to be happening all over the world. Dr. Van tulleken, stand by. Sanjay, stand by as well. Were going to get back to the story and get back to the briefing thats going on, but theres breaking news right now that were following. The Turkish Parliament overwhelmingly has voted in favor of au authorize rising military force against isis fighters in syria and iraq. Ben wedeman joinings us from baghdad. Give us the information, ben, what have you learned . We understand the Turkish Parliament has voted as you said in overwhelming majority, almost 400 votes, to just over 90 in favor of Turkish Military intervention in syria. Now the turks have long talked, wolf, about setting up some sort of buffer zone with along the border in northern syria. Now obviously they would like to create a situation where all these kurdish refugees who flowed over the border almost 200,000, would be able to go back home and relieve some pressure on turkey itself which is already hosting a Huge Population of syrian refugees. Its somewhat problematic, however, because they could be going into areas that are currently partially under the control of kurdish militias aligned with the pkk, the kurdish workers party, which was engaged in a decades long war against the turkish state. So were dealing with a very complicated situation in a sense its a war within a war itself. Now we dont know at this point exactly what the turkish government is going to do now that they have the green light for parliament, but it certainly changes the equation on the ground and well see how it sort of turns out in the coming days. Wolf . I just want to be precise, ben, has the Turkish Parliament voted to authorize military force against isis in syria as well as in iraq . No. This is specifically in syria. Not in iraq. Wolf . I just wanted to be precise on that and clarify. Thats important development. A