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Washington d. C. What do we know about these high risk individuals . We really dont know much. The information came to us while we were on a call for centers for Disease Control and prevention. I think its probably safe to say out of those ten, four would be the family members who are under quarantine as we speak at that dallas apartment complex. They likely have the closest contact with this patient. The other six unleer. The other big update we got out of this Conference Call out of the 100 people, the state identified as to have had some sort of contact with Thomas Duncan either direct or indirect here in texas. 50 of those people now require daily checkups. That means that medical teams will be taking their temperature twice a day to make sure that they are not coming down with fever. One of the first ebola symptoms. In the same breath as all of this alarming news, they say that, again, no one here in this area is showing any signs of the deadly virus other than the man in the hospital behind me, gretchen. Right. Thats a big dot, dot, dot, yet. Thomas duncans family, the man in the hospital, they are now talking . They have. In fact, the cdc has confirmed to Fox News Channel that the family contacted them in the very early stages of all of this, claiming that they didnt really feel Texas Health Presbyterian hospital was taking this seriously enough. Remember, duncan came here to the e. R. Last thursday. The nurse had apparently been told by duncans family that he had traveled back from liberia. Listen. They kept him right there. They go to more investigation before sending him back home, but they sent him home, and the man went home to his family. That man is the patients half brother. He happens to live in the phoenix area, and his 21yearold son also happens to be one of the four under quarantine right now here in dallas, gretchen. Very interesting. All right. Casey, thank you for the update. United airlines alerting passengers how to get in touch with Health Officials after that liberian man got past security checks and took the threeleg trip to dallas after he was in contact with somebody with the disease. While flights continue to fly in and out of west africa daily, airlines are taking some precautions to keep the virus from spreading to passengers. Will it be enough . Should we be putting that responsibility on our Flight Attendants . Vicky jergins, chair of safety, health, and security United Association of Flight Attendants and a United Airlines Flight Attendant. Thanks for being on the real story. My pleasure. Im going to pose that question to you. Should we be putting this responsibility of safety and health on our Flight Attendants . Actually, that already occurs on a daily basis regardless if theres an event like this. Flight attendants are always assessing passengers. When were standing there greeting you as you board the aircraft, were actually assessing is there something with this passenger that we need to bring forward . We actually have processes within our the way within our airline where if we see a passenger who is ill, we have access to resources. The resource that we actually have access to is medical emergency room doctors that we can contact, and we can actually explain to them what were seeing in the passenger. We have resources on board where were able to take temperatures. Its totally different from somebody maybe just having, you know, a cold and opposed to that having ebola. The stakes are rising at an alarming rate right now. You have playbook . Is that what you just described . What you do do . Wear gloves . Lets say somebody gets sick on the airplane. Regardless what the situation is, Flight Attendants are taught to assess passengers at all times. When were in a situation like this, were going to be assessing, but were also going to be using those resources. I as a Flight Attendant will not be assessing the passenger by myself. I have a medical emergency room doctors that we have access to, so what i would do is we have a stat kit, an emergency kit. We can do temperature. We actually will do temperature because fever is actually one of the first symptoms. You dont have doctors on the flight necessarily. Sometimes people are lucky enough to have doctors on the flight if theyre having an emergency, but i guess heres my question. The cdc says no one is in danger that was on that were on those flights, the united flights, the three of them, that that passenger took who now has ebola full blown. Do you agree with that statement . We will make a call to the emergency room doctors that we were just talking bshgs and we will relay the information from the aircraft to them. We do have the ability to do you agree with the cdc saying that nobody on those flights is in danger right now . I believe that is true. The passengers that do not show any symptoms are not able to theyre not contagious at that point in time. He didnt become contagious until two days after he was on the aircrafts. I know thousands and more than that watching right now are hoping thats the case, but it sounds like a lot of responsibility to put on Flight Attendants, but its great to hear from you, vicky. Thank you for your time. Thanks. Lets move on to another huge story because a new round of air strikes against isis in syria. U. S. Targeting a weapons facility in the east. Meantime, the Islamic State militants closing in on a key town near the turkey border. Turkeys parliament has given a green light to a ground fight in syria. Its unclear if the border town can really be saved. Greg palcott live from turkey near the syrian border. Suddenly turkey is on board because isis is getting close to them. Its very close indeed, gretchen. There is heavy nonstop fighting that continued throughout the day in this syrian town, and it has a big implication for the u. S. Led fight against isis. Again, we watch as isis mortars, artillery and tanks pounded away at that town, and the brave but outmanned and outgunned kurdish fighters just tried to hold them back, and that included fighting very close fighting we witnessed right on the edge of the town. Now, while there have been some u. S. Air strikes in the area in the past week, there have been none in the past two days, and, again, we watched isis tanks and isis armed vehicles freely roll across the desert towards that town. We also watched as that Turkish Military staged a big buildup on their side of the border while they claim they dont want kobani to fall. Its also been claimed by analysts they dont want to anger the very dangerous isis group, and they dont want to seem to be helping the kurds who sometimes they have their own fights with. Finally, one note to remember, gretchen. If kobani falls, if isis takes it, then that means, according to the people that weve been speebing to here on the ground, isis will control on the syrian side of the border 100 miles of that border. Thats how important this town is, and how crucial the fight is. Back to you. Greg, live for us in that area. Thank you. Zirjs were a month out, and according to politico with the balance of power at stake in the senate, there are troubling new signs for democrats in at least three big races. Lets look atlas lass. Conservative base now rallying behind republican challenger dan sullivan after a tough august primary as senator mark bagic phase an attack ad he had to pull. Down in louisiana senator Mary Landrieu in the fight of her political life against republican congressman bill cassidy as landrieu struggles with refrlations she improperly charged taxpayers for charter flights. In arkansas republican congressman tom cotton gaining ground in the polls on democratic senator mike pryor. Its time for real talk with allison barber, writer for the Washington Free beacon. Those are three of the really important races, and its been interesting to watch the polls shift over the last couple of weeks, right, allison . Right. It really has been. I think you go through and you look at all these different ones, and you see that these candidates have had a consistent lead in almost all of these races. Louisiana is a little bit unique because they have an open primary, and when you look at polls where they have three candidates, the Tea Party Candidate as well, landrieu is only a point hfd the field. When you look at potentially for a runoff in december, which most people think will likely happen in louisiana, then landrieu is behind her republican counterpart, bill cassidy, by three and four points. You are seeing a lot of these race, whether its alaska or arkansas. Youre seeing a lot of different polls come out that show consistently and for the past month that republicans are leading ahead. Then i think you have democrats making a couple of gaffs like the ones that you mentioned that also helps to put republicans in a bit of a better position. Lets remind folks that the gop needs six seats to seize the majority in the senate so, we talked about three of those races. There are other ones like mcincome with kay haagan, right . Right. North carolina is interesting because that was a race that when it started out, you probably would talk to anyone, and they would tell you that kay haagan was the most vulnerable democrat up in this election cycle, and that was kind of the one that everybody thought they were going to flip. Whats interesting, if you look at all the polls of the past month, kay haagan is actually doing much better there. Shes been leading in the past eight polls that i have seen come out of the state. Interesting. Thats where republicans actually did think they were going to flip that pretty easily, and now she seems like that might hold on. Theyre turning their attention, i think, in some circles focussing more on areas like alaska or colorado and other places where they can pick up, but North Carolina was definitely expected to be the one that was going to be an easy flip. Clearly, its not. Theres still enough time for any of these to change, but right now North Carolina has been a surprise. All right. So according to audio obtained by your website, senator mark pryor of arkansas reportedly said in response to a donors question at a private fundraiser that the best thing that could happen to the senate would be if Mitch Mcconnell gets beat and harry reid gets replaced. What the heck is going on with that because he is talking ill about somebody in his own party, harry reid. Right. That was a really interesting article that Elana Goodman had. I do think that mike pryor looked at that, and i think its an election tactic. Whether or not he means that i couldnt know for sure, but you look at the president s Approval Rating in his state, and right now pryor is only four points ahead of him there. Like, pryors Approval Rating is 38 , and obamas is 34 . Thats a state where its very much they pride themselves on being this independent state, and a big part of his candidate is also disassociating himself from the Democratic Party and anybody that is going to be too blue because theyre kind of running theyre running in a red state. Arkansas is one that is trending red. We know it has been for a while. I think on his part pushing back on that more than anything might be something that just could benefit him in that state and probably amongst his donors. Sfli hope he doesnt run into harry reid in the elevator. It would be awkward. A little awkward. Have a good weekend. Thank you so much. Lots of news today. And were going to ask bill oreilly all about it. From leon panetta calling out his old boss to the Ebola Outbreak and the mounting pressure to keep flights out of west africa from coming to the u. S. Bill will join me in just a bit. Speaking of ebola, how safe are you really . Were going to look at whether the government is doing enough to keep an outbreak from happening and if there really is a threat to americans at all. A colorado district trying to hash out differences over proposed changes to their history curriculum. What they finally agreed to do to get the kids back in classes after nearly two weeks of protest. The real story on that and an exclusive interview coming up. o with the American Peoples distaste for washington, seemingly growing by the day, can the federal deposit be trusted to control the Ebola Outbreak . Some politicians are, of course, already weighing in. Among them tom tillis, republican candidate for the senate in North Carolina has come out saying, keeping the American People safe must be our nations top priority, and the white house should immediately ban travel from liberia, sierra leon, and guinea to contain the spread of ebola. And louisiana governor bobby somewhere indal within the hour saying how exactly would stopping the entry of people potentially carrying the ebola virus be counter productive . This seems to be an obvious step to protect Public Health in the United States. Time for real talk now. Alan combs, host of the alan combs show and a Fox News Contributor and lisa booth. Should politics come into the middle in the fight against ebola . I dont think they should come into the middle of the fight against ebola, but i think lets look at the facts here. So president obama just two weeks ago had said that the likelihood of ebola coming to the United States was very slim, and look where we are, right . We just had the first case in the United States history of ebola with Thomas Duncan in dallas. I think what this comes down to is trust in government, and according to gallop 60 of americans do not trust the federal government, with good reason. So does she have a point . Should we trust the government to fix elbowl right now . We dont automatically trust the government, but certainly trust the people of the cdc who are supposed to know what they are doing when centers for Disease Control, and, by the way, Anthony Foucci has pointed out that one of the reasons were having a problem fighting this is because of defunding. Thats hard to say. Sequestration. Thank you for correcting me. It is very hard for me to say because i the other day i couldnt say secret service. Because of sequestration its hard for them to have the funds they need for they. Its defunding, which has caused a problem. I dont know. I want to ask you the same question. You trust the cdc right now . Do you think were getting the whole story . No, i dont trust the cdc at all. The federal government has already failed. Theres been numerous reports of mishandling of this situation from Thomas Duncan being able to go to two different airports into the United States, from failure with the quarantining of the family, and also children that he came in contact with who were allowed to go back to their school. Should the United States stop the flights . Yes, absolutely, 100 . Once again, experts have said this is going to stop the indepress and e greg of people. Its going to hurt the problem even more by stopping people from going back and forth. When you need to get help there, you need to get people in and out of those countries in order to get them the help they need. Absolutely not. Your approach would be lets just send 3,000 more troops to west africa right now when were dealing west africa. Lets send them to syria or iraq. A much better use of troops. Sfroo we are going to talk about this more with bill oreilly in a couple of minutes because he had some very passionate talking points on this very issue. Have a great weekend to the both of you. Time for my take. Please, please, lets not have politics fwet in the way of a deadly disease. Is there anything we can try to tackle any more that doesnt become who we might offend or who may not lose votes depending on what they say . Shouldnt all americans and all american pole tig tigss be concerned about ebola and whatever we can to make sure it doesnt become a huge problem here in the United States . Shouldnt we all come together finally to figure out how to combat it . Sure, people will say the government isnt good at fixing problems, and they may be right, but on this issue seems to me everyone for once could agree that we dont want ebola getting any worse here at home. So lets all work together. Wow. Imagine that. To make sure that doesnt happen. 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