Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. No online show tonight. And greta goes on the record right now. This is a fox news alert. Nurse number two amber is struck with ebola being rushed from dallas texas to Emory University hospital in atlanta. The private secure plane is expected to land in atlanta any minute now. Also today the draw dropping news that the infected nurse had flown on commercial jess just hours before she went to the hospital with a fever the tell tale sign of ebola. Sending out alert to passengers on that frontier aerials flight with the nurse. Just moments ago president obama announcing a cdc swat team will immediately go to any local hospital where ebola is diagnosed. We have lye team coverage. Ed henry at the white house. We begin with alicia in dallas. Alicia . Hi, greta. Yes, cameras were there and following via helicopter when Amber Vincent left the hospital here dallas and went to the airport to love field to head out toward atlanta. To Emory University hospital. Amber vincent the latest Healthcare Worker from this hospital in dallas to be diagnosed with ebola. She has 75 colleagues here at the hospital who are now being heavily monitored according to those who work here and the cdc, vincent and the others who treated duncan were in a situation in which they were dealing with quite a bit of multiple types of bodily fluids drawing blood, using catheters, wiping saliva from his mouth. Cleaning up vomit and diarrhea all of which are known to transmit the disease. Whats more, the Largest Nurses Union in the country says those on duty for the first two days did not have proper training or
equipment. And things still arent up to par. Nurses complained about necks being he can posed and told to put on medical tape against transmission. The cdc along with dallas city and county hospital officials to acknowledged things could have been better. When Thomas Eric Duncan arrived and they realized that they had an ebola case in their facility, Officials Say they also wanted to calm any sense of panic in the public, reminding people that this virus while incredibly dangerous is infecting two specific populations, Healthcare Workers and those who have been to west africa. You also have to come into close contact with an infect person. Still, hazmat clean up crews went to vincents apartment to seal it off and warn neighbors that she has been diagnosed with ebola. Vincent does not have pets but she was in the midst of planning her wedding with her fiance and mother. The mayor of dallas today warned the public that this is going to get worse before it gets better and that there really shouldnt be
that much surprise should we hear about yet another diagnosis of one of the Healthcare Workers here and we are also, greta, just getting breaking news out of amarillo, texas, there is a hospital there on lockdown because a patient walked into the er with ebolatype symptoms. Now, this person has not been to west africa but visiting with people who have recently been there. Greta . Leisha, thank you. Right now those two selfless nurses fighting for their lives to beat ebola. Meanwhile dozens of Healthcare Workers being hun tored. And now the concern expanded to 100 commercial airline passengers. They are being tracked down so how did this terrifying ebola crisis right here in the u. S. Start . Griff jenkins reports from dallas. Just over two weeks ago Thomas Duncan diagnosed with ebola he brought to the United States. Two American Nurses who tried to save him have contracted the ebola virus. Nina pham and Amber Vincent were part of the team here. Just two of nearly 100 doctors, assistants who tried to save Thomas Duncans life. The dire situation now calling in to question this hospitals ability to contain the deadly disease. Today, 78 hospital employees are being monitored, considered at risk of carrying the virus and they are not alone. 48 others, Community Members who came into contact with duncan before his diagnosis are also under watch. But just how many of them will contract the virus . The answer is unclear. What we do know is that the latest cases have people in dallas very worried. Here at the apartment complex where amber lives, it has been swarming with police, firefighters, and emergency workers in hazmat suits. Much of that taking place at the actual apartment well beyond the medias view. It is 6 15 a. M. City officials began knocking on doors here to inform the neighbors that a resident has ebola. On the record getting access to ambers apartment but
security saying. No. And at this point there is even more cause for concern. After checking herself in at the hospital, amber flew from cleveland back here to dallas on frontier airlines, now officials are reaching out to the passengers on that flight. 132 passengers and Anyone Around them now at risk of getting this deadly disease. And Griff Jenkins joins us live from dallas. Griff . Greta, hi. The airplane is back in service. Those in the Monitoring Group are prohibited from traveling. We learned that from the cdc as we talked to people in dallas and this community. Questions remain what about that Monitoring Group . Can they go to movies and restaurants and Grocery Stores . We north getting any answers so far out of the officials here. Thats certainly a concern of the folks as we hears a alicia reported the mayor said dont be surprised if
beget another case of Healthcare Worker contracting this deadly virus. Greta . Griff, thank you. And right now, nurse number two, Amber Vincent is on her way to atlantas emory hospital. Thats where three ebola patients have been successfully treated. Fox news correspondent Jonathan Serrie is live in atlanta. Jonathan . Hi, greta. Amber vincent is, indeed, on her way to atlanta up in the air on board that medevac jet as we speak. This evening she was seen wearing a yellow protective suit as she was escorted on to that aircraft. The plane should be landing shortly here in atlanta where an ambulance will take vin sent to Emory University hospital for treatment in a special isolation unit. One of only four around the country. This is the same facility that successfully treated medical missionaries kent brantly and Nancy Writebol over the summer. A third unnamed patient who arrived at emory in the late summer is still undergoing
treatment there but expected to be released in the very near future. Amber vincent is one of two dallas Healthcare Workers who became ill after helping in the treatment of Thomas Duncan, an ebola patient who eventually died from the disease. Cdc director tom frieden said vincent should not have taken that commercial flight on october 13 while she was selfmonitoring for possible infections. She apparently had a low grade fever of 99. 5 before boarding the flight, but exhibited no other symptoms. And checked into a hospital for isolation after landing. Trying to contact all passengers on board flight 1143 from cleveland to dallasfort worth on october 13th. Cdc officials here say that the risk of any of other passengers on that flight becoming infectside extremely low but they want to contact each of them to assess the risk and out of an abundance of caution. Greta . Jonathan, thank you. And those two selfless nurses trying to save the life of someone they never met. An ebola patient right now fighting for their own lives. Today an outraged nurses union describing the harrowing conditions those nurses faced as they tried to treat the liberian ebola victim. The union says there was no protocol. There was no system. The nurses were ask asked to call the Infectious Disease department and joining us president of the American Nurses association. Thanks for joining us, pam. Different from the union, right . Yes. Whats your assessment of what happened here with these nurses . It appears that early on that precautions that were being followed were believed to be effective, including the techniques of applying Personal Protective Equipment and taking that off and following all the requirements. I think we have seen now with the unfortunate advent of whatever measures they were using were not effective. Dr. Brantly who got ebola
in liberia, i was listening to a woman on a radio on a foreign radio network, and she said that she was there and the thing that disturbed all the people there in liberia is that he was the most meticulous. He covered himself he was the one who covered himself more than anybody else and he got ebola. So i know while we are quibbling over a lot of this protective gear, im curious whether you can ever be safe. I think weve shown over many years that we have been able to prevent other Infectious Diseases by use of universal precautions. So thats become the effective standard in the u. S. When we have a new pathogen like this that requires a much higher level of paying attention to the actual detailed procedured in the order in which the equipment is used. I think we are seeing there is the potential to have gaps in that process. Knowing that ebola seems to affect individuals where there is any exposure of skin. So thats why now we are really moving to look at using the full protective
equipment really head to toe. Where do you get your directions . That situation is that from the hospital or the cdc . Where should that have originated . We looked at the cdc for the general guidelines. These are in the u. S. And with contacts around the world. And so we have been following those guidelines. We are anxiously awaiting any findings from the investigation in dallas as to whether, again, there is specific equipment or procedure or any additional requirements that need to be put in place in order to protect workers and so we do continue to looked to the cdc to be really vigilant and transparent in sharing their findings and hopefully upgrading or clarifying any additional requirements that are necessary. My colleague alicia acuna just reported there is a lockdown at a hospital in amarillo, i dont know if the person has ebola or not. What does that do i cant imagine being the nurses on the front if you are an emergency room nurse, you are the front line. I would think nurses have been very sense advertised to the fact that we have to
screen every patient that comes. In particularly emergency room or Outpatient Department that has a fever and has any of the other array of symptoms that accompany ebola. But if say somebody has a fever, you just going to put on the hazmat suit and greet every patient who has a pfeiffer in a fever in hazmat suit. There are other questions, have they traveled to western africa. Do they have any other symptoms of pain or abdominal distress. This is beginning to be flu season. Many people showing up with a fever. Up to the team to do a thorough assessment. Any doubt at all put that patient in isolation. To see if a person has a fever. You have got to touch the person or stick a thermometer in the person. Putting yourself at risk while you make a determination is this flu or is this ebola . But it would be unrealistic to care for every person that comes into an emergency room with a full hazmat gear. Totally unrealistic. You are not contagious when you have no symptoms. You tell me thats absolutely true . Thats what we know about
the virus at this time. And why are you not contagious when you are not showing the symptoms . Because right now we do not believe there is airborne contamination or spread of disease so you would have to come in contact with other bodily fluids. Usually as the disease progresses is when you see the vomiting and diarrhea which is the more likely exposure. Thats when you are shedding the virus . Correct. Pam, thank you. Thank you. Now to the white house, president obama canceling a fundraising trip. Yes, you heard right president obama canceling fundraising trip to stay at the white house and discuss the ebola crisis. Ed . Good to he sue. In fact, the president has more fundraising tomorrow. It will be interesting to see whether or not he goes forward with that we are getting very close to the midterm election. You are right. He cancelled fundraising and a campaign event. Knowledge and connecticut today because, look, he wanted to call this cabinet meeting. Show that he is getting on top of this ebola emergency. He has had questions about his leadership and a whole range of crises ranging from
isis, of course, back to ebola. And the bottom line is in recent weeks and months, they have pushed back repeatedly about, you know, were not going to curtail the president s fund funding campaigning because no matter where he goes 24 7 he is the commander and chief. He has secure phone lines e doesnt need to cut short his schedule. In fact, over the summer one of his top aides told the New York Times we might unduly scare people. This was abrupt reversal today because that was because they realized the severity of the situation. One of the remaining questions moving forward is, given the fact that the president is now talking about sending in swat teams within 24 hours, get a lot more cdc pepper nell and others on the ground if god forbid there is another infection somewhere, one thing he is Still Holding back on is not doing a full travel ban from western africa. I pressed josh ernest on that today. He said look we have already
got safeguards in place. Only been one case where somebody slipped on those by lying on the forms. Speaker john boehner is saying he doesnt think thats good enough for him. He wants a full travel ban to make sure we protect the country. Of the reason the white house is pink behind me is for Breast Cancer awareness month, greta. Ed, thank you. Good to see you. Just a few weeks ago, president obama insisted chances of an Ebola Outbreak in america were, quote, extremely low. Now president obama is canceling those fundraisers as ed said to of course to prevent an outbreak. Our Political PanelWeekly Standard steve hayes and chief Political Correspondent byron york and National Review jim garety. Steve, when we had the benghazi crisis back in september is of 2012. The president didnt counsel. He went to vegas. Now we see a different response tonight. Yeah. I think he was smart to cancel the fundraisers. I think he would have been smart to take this more seriously or talk about it in a more serious way a week
ago or weeks ago. Had you not only the reversal by the president who said there wasnt going to be outbreak and gave reassuring words in september and canceling fundraisers. You have also had the abrupt shift in tone from dr. Frieden who was saying a week ago he we will stop ebola in its tracks. Offering as many reassuring words as he possibly could. And then said over the weekend, you know, we have got to rethink the way we are addressing ebola in this country. Thats the kind of shift, those are the kind of changes and language that i think are going to ultimately be unsettling and these early words that were meant to reassure will have people understanding and noticing the changes and language. Byron, i guess they are all walking a fine line. We are walking a fine line. On the one hand we dont want to send everybody into a panic. But this is a fatal disease if you get it and untreated. Even if its treated it might be fatal. On the other hand, you dont want people to be so relaxed that they are not responding to a real danger. I mean, the president , you know, steve says the president should talk about it more seriously, would he have put it in a worse panic
or maybe we need to be in a panic. I dont know. Look, people are already very worried about this. This new fox poll shows deep concern about this. The president was trying to catch up, again, with Public Opinion here try to appear to be in control. When the facts are saying otherwise. The cdc is not inspiring any confidence in people. Very unlikely for ebola to show up in the United States, he also said in the unlikely event that it does happen, we are very prepared. And the events in dallas have shown that to be completely wrong. Jim, this whole thing that they are now casting peoples fever coming in from a couple poor cities in the United States airports. But if you get ebola on day one, and you are not going to show symptoms for 21 days, if you fly on day 10, you are not going to have a fever and that fever test is ridiculous. This system has already failed once with mr. Duncan. I have got i guess we are hoping no one has taken a
tylenol to naturally suppress the elevated temperature they would have couple weeks ago the cdc director said we are going to stop it in its tracks. They couldnt stop it round trip flight to cleveland. Dont worry its not as bad as it looks. I suspect that they dont want to start a panic. I think thats such a tough line to call. You know, i dont know where that line is. Even if you think that thats true. I think that was probably the primary concern. I think the way that dr. Frieden was talking about this a week ago, the way the president was talking about it three weeks ago, you can understand that their primary concern was avoiding a panic. Im just questioning what their primary concern should have been. Its one thing to want to avoid a panic. I think we all recognize this is a very tough balance. Its another thing to put at risk Public Health