Liberia the first time he went to the hospital. Thats according to the mans sister. He says the patients name is thomas eric duncan. Hes now in isolation at a hospital in dallas. According to the reporting of this centers for Disease Control and prevention a team of Senior Health experts is looking for anybody who came in contact with that man. In other words, a sort of manhunt for ebola. Officials say the patient flew from liberia to dallas nearly two weeks ago. There are no direct flights between the u. S. And africa. The Reuters News Agency reports the liberian government claims the guy traveled through brussels, belgium. The cdc reports it has not confirmed that. Back at the news desk in new york, what can you shows us . This started about two weeks ago, friday. The patient departed from liberia. The next day on the 20th arrived in texas. It wasnt until a few days later on that wednesday, the 24th, that he started to show symptoms. Then a couple days later the friday, the 26th, he went and sought treatment and sent home the same day. Again a couple days later on monday, the 28th, put in isolation and, of course, it wasnt until yesterday that the cdc confirmed the first case of ebola diagnosed ebola here in the u. S. All right. Ryan, thanks. Hospitals today confirmed that when the guy first sought treatment, the patient did not tell or did tell a nurse that he had traveled from africa but for some reason the nurse failed to pass along that information. Just sort of slipped the nurses mind. They say doctors found out he had a lowgrade fever and gave him antibiotics and sent him home. Of course he had ebola. The head of the cdc says it is not impossible that other people in the u. S. May have gotten the disease. School officials in texas say at least five students went to classes after possibly having contact with the man. Officials say theyre monitoring those kids at their homes but the head of the cdc tells fox news, dont freak out. Dont suggest anybody get all nervous about this. Officials are working quickly to find anybody who could have gotten the disease. We have a nineperson team in dallas working with the hospital, with the Health Department and the family to identify every possible contact and well be monitoring every one of those individuals for 21 days. Thats the tried and true Public Health means of stopping an ebola outbreak. Hes also reiterated ebola is not an airborne disease. You cant get it through the air. It spreads through bodily fluids only. The World Health Organization reports there have been more than 6500 cases of ebola, at least reported cases in africa during this outbreak. More than 3,000 people have now confirmed to have died. Analysts say the numbers are probably pretty low because there arent enough labs over there to test everybody. John roberts works atlanta for us live at the centers for Disease Control and prevention. What more are we learning today, john . Were learning a little more about the condition of thomas duncan. Were told by hospital officials he is in serious but stable condition. Getting some kind of some conflicting reports as well as to how sick he is. Hospital officials were saying he was talkative, asking for food, but i understand from other sour sources his organ system is coming under a lot of spres from the virus, considering how sick he was. A couple troubling developments. The idea that five children were among the close contacts that he had after coming down with symptoms of ebola and the fact that they went to four schools in the dallas area. Of course those kids are now out of school. They are being kept in isolation and, in fact, the public Health Department has said if the family contacts do not stay selfisolated they may have to try to take stricter measures to keep them isolated. They are not looking at people he might have flown over with on the aircraft. They are only looking at people after he got sick. Heres what dr. Frieden of the centers for Disease Control told me earlier today. The stop watch begins on the 24th, wednesday, when he gets the symptoms. The real important thing is to make sure that we identify every possible contact from that moment on and trace them very carefully. Thats tried and true Public Health. Reporter of course another troubling development, you mentioned it at the top, when this guy came in on the 26th he was asked if he traveled anywhere and he said yes, i came from liberia. That information was not passed along to the team. It is sometimes contentious press conference rick perry put on today, a hospital official explained what happened. Heres dr. Mark lester. Regretfully that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. And as a result, the full import of that information wasnt factored in to the clinical decision making. So that is a serious ball that was dropped according to dr. Fouchy the head of the National Institutes on allergies and infectious disease. That should raise a very big red flag among Health Providers across the country when you ask somebody where theyre from you need to take it seriously. Whats interesting, too, about that case, shep, is when he came in when he came in, doctors thought he had a lowgrade virus, yet they prescribed him antibiotics which have no effect against viruses. That made absolutely no sense. Down in dallas, though, i guess officials are working to reassure people . Yeah. Theyre trying to keep a lid on this, governor rick perry said believe me, we got the team in place to be able to do this and rather sometimes bombastic mayor of dallas mike rollins said there is zero chance if someone is not showing symptoms they cannot infect anyone. Its not a min my skull but zero chance. The message was aimed at the parents of the children these kids might have gone to school with a couple days this week after they had been exposed to the ebola virus. John roberts keeping us updated from the cdc. Turn to dr. Shafner president of the National Foundation for infectious diseases. Hes also a member of a Cdc Advisory Committee and joins us live. Nice to see you again. Thank you. Hello, shep. Good to be with you. I feel like lost in some of our coverages has been an important aspect that this is very difficult to contract. Thank you for saying so. Thats the important thing. When youre still healthy, you cannot transmit this virus. Thats very important. You only start to be able to transmit it when you become sick and then only if the other person has contact with your body fluids. Blood, vomit, diarrhea, saliva or the like. Its not easily transmitted at all. Its a matter of concern, but its not easily transmitted. And the Public Health investigation, plus good Clinical Care of this patient, we should be proud of that. This is going to be contain this virus. Its not going to spread. Well thats great to hear. Im glad to hear you say it. Initially there were questions he wasnt feeling well when he was on the plane, but youre sitting a row away from this guy on the plane, you cant get it . Thats correct. Thats absolutely correct. Now, whats more troubling is what youve just reported, namely, that when he did become sick and reported that he had come from liberia, that information was not passed on and appreciated. That seems strange and troubling. Theres a lesson for us all because weve been telling every doctor, any patient who comes with a fever, ask two questions, have you been outside of the United States and if so where. When he went in to get that first treatment, he went to the doctor, he was misdiagnosed and sent home, when you stick out your tongue and say ah and they put a tongue depressor there, that nurse must be on some level of, i dont know, could be she could get it, right . So its not that easy because she wasnt directly exposed to his saliva, but nonetheless, we would consider her a contact. Educate her. Make sure that shes taking her temperature daily and we would be checking in with her or him on a very regular basis, on a daily basis. All right. Dr. Shafner good to talk to you. Always, shep. Bottom line, no panicking. Not anywhere near you most likely. U. S. Airlines are keeping in touch with the cdc about how to prevent more ebola cases in this country according to a spokesperson for jet blue. Airline stocks believe it or not, dropped 3 earlier to you. And the analysts say thats one reason the dow plunged 200 points a couple hours ago. The Fox Business Networks gerri willis is live on the news desk. The Airline Stocks didnt drop because of this ebola scare. If so they are more rons. Theyre not more rons. The sars virus robbed airlines of a lot of revenue and thats the fear that this could happen again, but as youve been pointing out intelligently its unlikely this ises going to spread in this in country, right. Senator rob portman of ohio calling for screening of passengers. Airlines, tends not to be u. S. , but European Airlines flying out of west africa are screening people for fevers if people are getting on the airplanes with fevers. Thats one of the first symptoms that presents itself. Also, were hearing that all those direct flights into the u. S. , big calls for possibly quarantines of people coming in from africa. The detail here, though, a lot of people are missing is this. Most of the flights out of west africa are not coming directly into the u. S. What tends to happen is these folks disembark somewhere else in europe, possibly paris, london, somewhere else and then come to the u. S. So the whole idea of tracking these people is more difficult than you may think. Theres a Business Opportunity here. Some Companies Working on vaccines, right . Thats absolutely right and theyre up today. Techmera is a company that made the vaccine that helped the two folks who came in from west africa back early in august. That stock is up 26 today. Another company up 4 . Serebta up 6 . New link genetics up almost 9 today. So were seeing a cluster of companies here trying to come up with a solution of this problem, working hard at it and hopefully well see it all soon. Well look for you this afternoon on the biz. Thanks. Thank you. An armed former convict in the same elevator with the president of the United States. What we know about how that happened. And the new calls for the head of the secret service to go away. Step down before she, as one person put it, embarrasses herself further. Thats coming up. Fox news desk in oxford, mississippi, this afternoon. Glad to have you with us. We know were not the center of your life, but well do our best to help you connect to what is. A fox urgent now. The man accused of chopping off his coworkers head has left the hospital and set to see a judge in minutes. We have a quick video of the suspect arriving at the jail inside that white van there. Officials say that hell see the judge over a video conference. Wont actually go into the courtroom. The suspect, a man named alton nolen, he could get the death penalty. Prosecutors say hes had some infatuation with beheadings and thats a quote. His bosses had just suspended him from a job at a Food Processing plant outside Oklahoma City when he walked into work and cut off a womans head. Investigators say he then cut the neck and face of another woman before a Company Executive shot him. Prosecutors say that suspension is was the likely reason why he attacked, despite the reports that he he tried to convert his coworkers to islam. The fbi reports its still on the case. Lawmakers are hashing out and lashing out now at the secret service yet again. Man, theyre giving pe ing it. Another Security Breach with a man with a gun and three convictions for assault and battery, rode in an elevator with the president of the United States. Sources tell fox news it just happened, two weeks ago, at cdc headquarters in atlanta where president obama talked about the u. S. Response to the ebola crisis. Sources tell fox news the man in the elevator was an Armed Security contractor. Despite those assault convictions. They say that the secret Service Agent did not know he was carrying a gun while on the elevator, even after they talked to him about recording the president on his phone. In fact, sources say the secret service finally found out that the gun was there when the cdc fired him and he agreed to hand over his weapon. Secret Service DirectorJulia Pierson said she did not speaks to the president about this. She told lawmakers yesterday shes briefed president obama only once this year and that buzz about the man who jumped the white house fence and bolted in the executive mansion three days after the incident at the cdc. Theyre on quite a run at the secret service. Now democrats and republicans in congress say theyve lost trust in the head of the secret service. I think its time that she be fired by the president of the United States or she resign. She either did not tell the president , which she should have done, or did tell the president and lied to congress. My confidence and my trust in this director, miss pierson, has eroded and i do not feel comfortable with her in that position. To be frank with you, it was very difficult for me to sleep last night. But they used remarkable restraint. Anyway, that was the top democrat on the House Oversight committee. Elijah cummings of maryland. He later seemed to backtrack a little bit when he sent out this tweet, im quoting i have not decided about pierson but im not comfortable about the safety of the president of the United States of america. Seems nobody is. Mike emanuel live in d. C. Another democrat has called for the secret Service Director to step down. Head on. Well, thats right. New york senator Chuck Schumer is expect examine ese expected. Top lawmakers are calling for a top to bottom review of the secret service not as a got you but to fix it. I think we need an overhaul, both policy wise and culturally, as well, but i would prefer to have experts review this and report to congress, rather than specific certain members of congress telling secret service what the policy should be. I do think that the challenge may be more than one person. I would like to see an investigation of the culture and the procedure and the accountability in the secret service. Speaker john boehner fully supports mccauls plan for a top to bottom independent review of the agency. That kind of big picture look at the secret service appears to be gaining in support. The fence jumper in court. What happened . White house fence jumper Omar Gonzalez was in federal court in washington this afternoon. Gonzalez pled not guilty to three counts. He faces a federal charge of unlawfully entering a restricted building, without, on september 19th. If convicted the charge carries a maximum of ten years in prison. Gonzalez faces two local charges, carrying a dangerous weapon, a knife, and Unlawful Possession of ammunition. Mike emanuel on capitol hill, thank you. The secret service develops its own culture with each president and that can affect how it treats potential threats to the commander in chief. According to our own judge. Hell join us to explain, next. There is breaking news now on fox news channel. The head of the secret service just resigned. Weve now just received a statement by secretary jonathan. Today Julia Pierson the director of the United States secret service, offered her resignation and i accept it, he writes. I salute her 30 years of distinguished service to the secret service and the nation. Mike emanuel with pus. That didnt take long. No, shep. You got a sense when you heard bipartisan calls for her to go as early as last night and followed up this morning and then some other leading lawmakers expected to examine out. We expected Chuck Schumer to come out at the top of the neck hour. South carolinas Lindsey Graham to call for her resignation and realized she was losing confidence of a lot of key people here in washington. We dont know at this point about whether there are conversations with the president directly or with senior members at the white house, but at that point when youre a washington official and you hear calls for you to go, and theres a big fix ahead of the agency youre leading, quite often the thing to do is turn in your resignation and then if the president or the secretary of Homeland Security accepts it, obviously, you go and its time for new leadership. Yep. And thats just happened. Mike emanuel on the hill. Ed henry at the white house. The white house which yesterday said the president has complete confidence in the director and now all of a sudden 24 hours later, i guess the confidence is something less than complete . Thats right, shep. Look these things move quickly. Remember when the white house was standing behind general shinseki and allegations continued to mount, the investigations coming in, look, give us time, hes rig to fix it. Shinseki the day he stepped down gave a speech . Washington saying he wanted to stick it out and clean this up but by the end of the day, the president had accepted his resignation. We see the same with Julia Pierson. The question here at the white house is whether well see the president himself come out and talk about this or whether josh earnest scheduled to have been out here about 20 minutes ago, will just come out and address the media about this. Obviously yesterday there