On today when he reported fever he contacted the Health Department. and he was brought to bellevue hospit hospital. The test for ebola conducted and conducted at our public healo lab. I think that i shoulde÷n turn to dr. 6zypher to talk about prospect of his transfer. Kzn confident that alln are. Kzn of the protocols that weve worked so hard to put in place for communications with all levels of our Public Health system, with our emergency medical system, with our Public Health system have worked as well as we expected0c n them to work. And were glad that the patient is safely here at Bellevue Hospital. Over to you, doctor. And Governor Cuomo and mayor de blasio. Firstly, our wishes and prayers go out to this doctor, his family and friends for a speedyw recovery. Ast;bj÷ youve heard the timeli what weve heard about this f; z patient, as bellevue has been preparing for this and we as a city and state have been preparing about this for a while, all the processes making sure taking care of here at the hospital ill mention in a minute but more importantly get into the hospital. The ems brought him in with proper protective gear. He was immediately brought to the isolation area that Bellevue Hospital has established for patients who could have ebola. He has been taken care of by an excellent team. And all8 being addressed. As you know ebola patients have a lot of different problems and these are all being watched for closely. I think its also important to just reiterate that you can only get ebola by being exposedn bodily fluids. And thats a very important point to make. He has been in the hospital as we know. His symptoms began with he had a fever that symptom began thi. And some of the other symptoms as well this morning. I think that its important to just reiterate that the management of all the issues come forth with ebola have come together nicely with this patient and we look forward to a quick recovery for him. Thank you. Once again, wed like to thank our federal partner who is have really been extraordinary. And the ebola czar who just started the job, ron klain, Sylvia Burwell that was a press conference with the new york city5mn mayor blasio. That was of course andrew cuomo the governor of new york. Joining us outside of Bellevue Hospital dr. Mark siegel. Dr. Siegel, whats the latest from there . Sean, this is the situation here. The dr. Spencer came into the United States it looks like about six days ago. And he was feeling okay until about two days ago. Then he started feeling lethargic and he stayed in his apartment. He developed a fever this morning to 103. He called 911. The Fire Department has these hazard technical units that can actually be test ed. And they will not let them be used for these possible ebola patients unless theyve had 80 hours of this training. They came and brought him down to Bellevue Hospital. He was whisked into an Isolation Unit in the same area where bellevue treats tuberculosis patients. Bellevue has a long history of treating tuberculosis, hiv aids, so this is a very good place for this. Lets hope we see a better outcome here than we saw in dallas. Unfortunately, sean, he exposed many people over the past several days although when he was not symptomatic the chances of there being a problem or somebody getting sick is a lot o less. But still thenj Contact Tracing thats going to have to go on here with the of the new York City Health department combined with the cdc track him down and all his contacts down is going to be very cuc extensive. We were listening during the press conference they talked the only way to contract the disease is to come into direct contact with bodily fluids. But the cdc itself had contradicted itself by saying then you need to be three feet away and you would be in danger. Now we know that there are 233 Health Care Workers that contracted the disease, Doctors Without Borders, they had 16 infected, nine have since died. What about this guy in the contact that he had at a Bowling Alley and the fact he was using a car service in new york . Ev concerned about . Well, i would say we need to be concerned until proven otherwise. Until all the people he contacted are tracked down and be sure theyre negative before were sure of anything. But as far as we know its an issue of how many secretions you have. The sicker you are, the more youre shedding this virus. The more you shed this virus, the higher chance somebody gets it. Health care workers are most in contact with this virus. But, sean, to your point, we cant be sure until everybody is tracked down. Yeah. Thats8 why i think everybody coming from west africa thats treating ebola patients should automatically be isolated. Yeah. All right. Thank you, dr. Siegel. We now head to ed henry in washington at the white house to get reaction on this latest ebola case. Ed henry, whats going on. Sean, good to see you. Im here in washington. Bottom line is im told by Senior Administration official the president was just a short time ago briefed on this ebola case in new york city. His Homeland Security official, shes been fronto s÷ and center reacting to this crisis. Im told were not to expect any sort of formal statement from the president. You can see from that News Conference theyre letting local and state officials take the lead on this. This senior official in the administration is telling me theyre fairly confident that theyve got the protocols in place. You heard dr. Siegel talking about that to make sure that Health Care Workers that may have had contact with this doctor do not get make sure they do not get exposed to ebola now. But obviously that happened in dallas. And thats why this senior official i just got off the phone with was telling me they understand theyve made mistakes before. They believe and underscore believe that theyve learned from those mistakes in the past with the Health Care Workers and want to make sure that other Health Care Workers do not get it as well as of course the general public as well. This official acknowledged to me this is a pretty significant challenge for the administration. Theyve been feeling positive in the last couple of days. They were starting to turn the corner on this. Official telling me significant challenge but were confident we can get through it, sean. Ed henry at the white house. Ed, thank you. Standing by is our own john roberts and he has cdc reaction to this latest case breaking out in new york city at Bellevue Hospital at this hour. John, whats the cdc reaction tonight . Cdcs setting a team up, sean. On an aircraft making its way to new york city, a team that specializes in contactp÷ yx tra. Bellevue doesnt need help in treating the patient. They know what theyre doing up there. Theyve certainly had lots of practice. But what they will need a lot of help doing is dr. Siegel was alluding to was tracking down the people who may have been in proximity to this doctor during the time that he was in new york up to the time when he became very symptomatic. Now, if this report in the New York Times is correct that he took a subway from manhattan to brooklyn and then was at a Bowling Alley on wednesday night, the night before he got sick and i was hoping to hear that either confirmed or knocked down in this press conference, we havent gotten there yet. Thats going to make Contact Tracing that much more difficult because people who have ridden the subway and new york city know in the evening it can be veryf4 crowded. A number of people on the train. And who he were onbeen in if that subway heading to brooklyn. You know, they say you have to be within proximity of the patient within three feet, the patient you have to come in contact with bodily fluids. But sweat is a bodily fluid. Almost to a person, sean, and this is whats very important to remember in all of 02djqthis, e person who has been infected by ebola, every american whos been infected with ebola in west africa cannot point to the moment when they were infected. They cant remember what they did incorrectly that got them infected. So i think we need to take these assurances from government officials with vx a grain of that, okay, you have to be in contact with bodily fluids. But what exactly does contact with bodily fluids constitute . And would sweat do it . Saliva perhaps not because the virus did not survive well in k sweat, obviously if someone were to vomit on you that would be a serious problem, but whats the degree of contact you have to have in a crowded city like new york city particularly in the subway might it make that type of contact easier . John, thats a great point you make here. We appreciate it. John roberts reporting for us tonight. Joining us in studio with more reaction to the nights breaking news is dr. Richard furshine, pathologist dr. Michael baden. Did change they originally said you have to have direct contact with bodily fluids. That evolved into you might be able to get it if youre three feet away. As john roberts reports, nobody can pinpoint the exact moment that they got this disease. Do we really have a full complete answer . No. I dont think we have a full complete answer, but we have some answers. And i think thatj has among the best Infectious Disease doctors in the country in the world. And theyre working on k and i think that theyre casting out a big net to cover everybody. I would suspect over the weeks and months ahead that this infection will run a course, as they have always done in tnp in africa since 1976 theyve ha ebola. But wrong time and time again. Dr. Frieden said you a special room, all you need is a private room and private bathroom. The president said in the event weve taken necessary precautions working withf afrn countries to make sure someone4c to the u. S. In the unlikely event that it makes it here, its here, theyve gotten things wrong, two no its in new york city. Right. But so far the precautions have kept those numbers of people who have gotten ebola in this country quite low. What about the 233 Health Care Work nerswet africa . I would assume these are people that understand the nature of this virus. Wnn unbelievable. Rgp÷ these decisions obviously have to be political, not historical or medical. We know that nobody knows when they get the flu virus, who gets it in the room, who gets it in an office. Its impossible when youre dealing with 82day incubations and semen and other fluids. He could have had sex with five women or five men and nobody knows that. The first rule has always been quarantine and stop the fight flights in whether its an ellis island type quarantine where a worker comes in and has to go to a special location and watched for three weeks or four weeks or longer. You have to do that. Its obvious. Or youre going to have it spread all over the place. Talk about the quarantine period. That was originally 21 days. The World Health Organization changed it to 42 days. If you look at these numbers, they were predicting at the w. H. O. 10,000 cases per week. They said about ten or 12 days ago that we had 60 days to control this disease. They raised the death rate from 50 to 70 . The fact that they keep changing makes people nervous. Should it not . I think, you know, people should be concerned. I think one of the factors here is where we are and the best place for dealing with a problem like this, new york city does have some of the finest doctors in the world. I think what were all asking here is what happenedut9 with t particular individual whos clearly in contact with ebola, came down with the virus and he was allowed to move t freely within new york city for a period that wasnt within the constrained period. This guy is a hero. He went out and did an amazing thing. He obviously didnt think he contracted the disease. I agree. All of these Health Workers deserve to be commended. But he did go to a Bowling Alley. He did use a car service. Why if we know that someone has come in contact with ebola and we know that these workers are coming in contact, why are we allowing them to move freely when they return back to the United States . Thats a serious question. Unbelievable. Hes a doctor. He knowsh jc better than the average. So if an average individual is going to figure this out, theyre not going to figure it out. Theyre not going to do it because a doctor d it. We need our subways with purel, hygiene everywhere, airplanes hygiene, hygiene hand washing, an entire nation is not prepared for what happened in 1919 where flu killed as many people, almost as world war i. Dr. Iy9x baden, you seem les pessimistic. Do you see any scenario under which you think this might spin out of control . I dont think its going to spin out of control. I think were going to get more cases. We are going to get more cases. Were going to get deaths also. But thats the nature ofuk g epidemics. And they run so far all our epidemics and the ebola epidemics in africa have run a course. People have contracted it, many people have, and then it runs out. And i trust that with all the precautions that the cdc is taking, which may be to much rather than too little theres an ongoing press conference in new york city. It consistents of the new york city mayor de blasio, new york state Governor Andrew Cuomo and other Health Officials. Well dip back jn into this conference. A friend said that they felt he and the patient as ive said did not report any fever. Although he did report that he felt tired. Well, he did a really he did attempt to selfisolate. And were still gettingvooxu cl the amount of time that he spent outside of his apartmentfb butr impression is he spent most of his time in the apartment and took his temperature twice a day. He was being mindful about contacts with people. Hes a medical doctor, asv8 all said. So he was very alert to signs and symptoms of ebola coming from a place where ebola is truly ravaging the do npopulati the waste . We have contracts in place for the removal of medical waste. The patient really only displayed symptoms today. And i see no reason for the building to be concerned. I want to make the point he left the key in his apartment and locked the door. Very meticulous individual recognized that if the key was floating around, somebody pick it up dr. Basset wants to add. I just wanted to add or to point out that the state Health Department announced just lastk week that eight hospitals in this state would be as settings where ebola patients could be cared for. We are the first state to identify a limited number of hospitals of which this hospital is one, Bellevue Hospital is one of the five hospitals in new york city. And as youve all been hearing theyve been working. They were ready. Today they showed how ready they were to0yhun let the governor go. Just to clarify, there are about 200 hospitals in the state. They are all prepare d if someoe walks into the hospital andj2h presents themselves and suggests they might have the illn o c but to get all 200 hospitals ready for intensive treatment obviously would have been very difficult. So the decision was made to take eight hospitals, oneeo6t of the bellevue, and really focus and concentrate intensive efforts. And that5h turns out thats b wise we interrupt that press conference. This is yet another fox news alert. The nypd at this very hour is investigating a possible terror connection to an axe attack that targeted Police Officers in new york city earlier today. The vicious assault happened in broad daylight around 2 00 this afternoon. You had a hatchet wielding assailant struck one officer in the arm before landing a severe blow to anothers head. At that point other officers on the scene opened fire and killed the man. Here with the very latest on this terrorrelated attack is foxs own Trace Gallagher standing by. Trace. Sean, fox news has confirmed that the new York Police Department is considering a possible terror connection in this attack. And the Fbis Joint Terrorism Task force is now involved. This happened in a very busy commercial district of queens. A freelance photographer actually asked the four rookie Police Officers to pose for a picture. And thats when a man pulled an n backpack. And without saying anything, didnt utter a word, he9eg the officers. He hit one officer in the ;f . M another was struck in the back of the head. crj the officer who is now listed as critical but stable. Now, the other two officers pulled out their weapons. They shot and killed the suspect. They also hit a woman who was walking by. Her injury is not thought to be life threatening. Now, police tell fox news senior correspond, thatuspects Facebook Page has some very concerning content and im quoting here, the solution is to fight. Armed struggle. Simple. Then another statement that seems to support home grown attacks saying, again quoting, helicopters, big military will be useless on their own soil. They will not be able to defeat our people if we use guerilla warfare. Attack their weak flanks. If you get wounded, who cares. If you die, who cares. U 2n eventually theyzrm÷ will surre and then the war will be over. Now, the nypd wont release the suspects name because his family has not yet been notified. But new york police have issued a patrol bulletin. Thats a bulletin alerting Police Officers to be in a state of heightened awareness. isi and there of course ar