Isolation unit the n. I. H. It all happened last night. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live for us in bethesda, maryland. Whats the latest . Well, gretchen, what they really emphasize this morning at that News Conference here at the n. I. H. Is that they have no evidence at this time that the ebola virus is airborne, but that said, anyone who is treating nina pham is wearing that full protective gear from head to toe. Were want doing it for that reason that we think its respiratory. We dont. Were doing that for complete covering so there is no part of our doctors, nurses, or technicians bodies that is exposed when they go in and see the patient. The n. I. H. Is also released this photo. This is the special clinical unit almost like a biocontainment unit where nina pham is being treated. Of that 20team strong medical personnel who is treating pham, what we were also told is that every time they put on one of those hazmat style suits or they take it off, there has to be another member of the team in the room to make sure there are breaches in the protocol that might expose them to the ebola virus. We are also told this morning as a secondary precaution anyone who is working with nurse nina pham is on a somewhat limited or truncated shift so they can limit fatigue, and thats when mistakes happen. Very interesting. Okay. So heres a question. Why are they classifying her in fair condition now when just yesterday they were saying that she was in Good Condition . Well, again and again at that News Conference this morning, we asked why it looked like there may have been some kind of downgrade, and they emphasized there had been no downgrade, but it was their assessment here at the n. I. H. That she was simply in fair condition. If you take a look at that Youtube Video again that was released by the hospital in dallas before she made that trip, you can see shes in fairly good spirits. Shes talking to the medical staff, but she does appear to be fairly weak as she lies in that hospital bed, and they emphasized here to reporters today that the threehour trip on the plane and then that significant ambulance ride here to the n. I. H. , this was extremely draining for pham. Well, you have to remember shes been under our care for less than 12 hours, so we are just taking a very conservative assessment at this point. She said if the situation changes or if we have more time to evaluate her, thats a situation that may be upgraded. They couldnt give reporters any time frame on how long nina pham may be here, but they simply said she needs to be clear of the virus, so thats the primary objective, but the secondary because its a clinical unit is to better understand how this virus is behaving, whether it is mutating, and whether theres any change in the way that you can become infected with that virus, gretchen. So many Unanswered Questions still. Catherine, thank you. Planes and now cruise ships. Cardinalal just announcing that one of its ships is heading back to galveston, texas, from the caribbean after a lab worker from dallas has put herself in a selfimposed quarantine aboard that ship. Now, shes believed to have handled samples from Thomas Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. Jonathan serri is live for us outside cdc headquarters in atlanta. What do we know about this cruise ship passenger . Hi, gretchen. Were told she is a Lab Supervisor in dallas. While she apparently had no direct contact with Thomas Duncan, that Liberian National who eventually died from ebola at her hospital, its believed that she may have handled blood samples or other specimens from mr. Duncan. That was 19 days ago. Although Public Health officials here in the u. S. Consider them to be low risk, the couple have agreed to remain isolated in their cabin out of an abundance of caution. Mexican authorities taking no chances refuse to allow the ship to make a scheduled stop today in cozumel. Unbelievable. Mexico doing that as we continue to discuss in the u. S. What we should do. So a lot of people are asking why was she allowed to travel in the first place on that ship . Well, gretchen, she left on october 12th. That was before the cdc began talking about revising its guidelines for medical workers who may have had contact with ebola patients or ebola specimens. At the time they were telling these medical workers just to selfmonitor, and if they were as asymptomat asymptomatic, they were still allowed to travel. At a News Conference heres what Texas Governor rick perry had to say. Listen. It defies commonsense from my perspective that someone who has been in close proximity or have treated these patients that they would go out and expose other people possibly to this, that they would travel out of estate, that they would go on a cruise. Governor perry says he has been in contact with president obama urging the president to place persons who may have been exposed to ebola on the federal no fly list to prevent them from traveling during this 21day incubation period. Very interesting. All right. Jonathan, thank you so much. So the feds expanding their list of ebola contacts. Now searching not only for passengers who flew with nurse Amber Vincent from cleveland to dallas, but also reaching out to anyone on that same plane the next day before we all knew that she actually had ebola and that could be up to 800 passengers. The day after vincents cleveland to dallas flight, that plane flew from dallas to cleveland to hollywood, florida, back to cleveland, over to atlanta. Finally ending up back in cleveland. Now theyre contacting anyone who flew on the first flight with that nurse when she went up to cleveland. That was october 10th. No word on how many passengers were on board that plane. The second plane was temporarily grounded, as you know, for extensive cleaning, including new seat backs and rugs, but that plane is now back in service. Frontier flight 9202 from newark to denver scheduled to land any minute. Get this, the first plane, stay with me here, it never stopped flying. Since last friday its made more than 30 flights, and its also in the air right now. Frontier flight 734 flying from denver to Northern KentuckyInternational Scheduled to arrive later this hour. 21 is the magic number, right . The number of days anyone exposed to the ebola virus should be quarantined to make sure that they dont show signs of symptoms. Now a new study from Drexel University is raising serious questions about the established 21day quarantine is really an effective strategy in the fight against this often deadly disease. Dr. Charles haas, a professor of environmental engineer, specializing in biological Risk Assessment at Drexel University, and he is the author of that stu study. Its great to have you on the show. Why are you concerned about the 21day quarantine . Well, the 21day interval was from the he initial outbreak, and, in fact, the latest case was a 21 days post exposure, but in the outbreaks since then there have been a number of people who have contracted the illness after 21 days. In the Current Study there were people that contracted the illness estimated up until the 35th day after exposure. Its my understanding that during your study, about 5 of those people who actually ended up getting ebola in the west african situation, 5 of them it happened after day 21. Correct. You are saying also that the incubation period could affect anywhere between. 1 of the people who may be exposed up to 12 , so thats an even higher figure of people who may fall out of this one to 21day program meter . Based on the prior outbreaks that have occurred, thats the range. So the reason that you want to make sure that the results of this study are known to the American Public is why . Its against the cost of associating that implemented confinement, and a judgment needs to be made on what the appropriate balancing point is and it doesnt appear that that number has been reconsidered. As long as the people on the cruise ship were not symptomatic during their cruise, im not concerned because theres still a general consensus that contagen is only possible once an individual becomes symptomatic. All right. Before i let you go, what about all those people, some 800 people plus on those airplanes when that other nurse may have been symptomatic . Are you concerned about them . Well, i think there needs to be more detail coming out on whatsoever symptom she was having. At this point the only thing i have been hearing is mild fever. If those are the only symptoms that she was expressing, my concern is mild, but certainly not sfwler. Your study did show that 21 days may not be long enough for the quarantine for ebola. Charles haas, thank you so much. Thats correct. We have an update on a shuttle bus that was carrying a sick passenger near the pentagon today, so the bus reached its destination, and all passengers were let off after being temporarily quarantined. The Defense Department says a woman got off a metro bus at the pentagon and then boarded that shuttle headed to a ceremony in d. C. Before the bus left the parking lot, she got off and became ill. Well, thats when she was taken to the hospital. The passengers were held on the bus. No word yet on the sick passengerss condition. Fox can confirm, though, she is in isolation at a local hospital. President obama appointing a socalled tsar now to lead the u. S. Response to the ebola crisis. It happened earlier today. His pick is a political aide, not a health professional. What will rons role be exactly . Plus, the u. S. Appears to be driving isis out of the Syrian Border town of kobani, but the terrorists may be making gains elsewhere. An update on that when we return. Zirjs welcome back. The pentagon says it cannot confirm reports of isis taking syrian jets and using them on the battlefield. Theres no proof of them using flight. Isis militants appear now this is good news to be retreating from the syrian city of kobani near the turbish border following three days of intensive u. S. Air strikes, but now militants are reaching closer to baghdad after a series of terror attacks inflicting deadly damage. At least 50 People Killed by several car bombs as well as a mortar attack on a residential area there. Time for real talk about president obamas new ebola tsar. When it comes to a health emergency, why hire a doctor when you can get a lawyer . The president naming rob klain, a former chief of staff for Vice President joe biden and a longtime political hand. He is also searched as chief of staff for Vice President al gore and he was chief of staff to attorney general janet reno. He was also part of bill clintons 1992 Campaign Policy and debate prep staff. Time for some real talk with katty pablich, news editor of town hall. Com and a fox news contributor. The white house say they were not looking for an ebola expert in choosing ron to head up, but rather an implementation expert. Your thoughts . Josh ernest was asked spefblgly what he knows about ebola, and the response was, well, we dont necessarily need someone who knows about ebola. We need someone who is going to be implementing what we want for the white house. It looks like he is putting another tsar so they can package up a message thats favorable to the white house when it comes to containing the Public Relations fallout of this crisis. Well, very interesting because when you already look at the people who our taxpayer dollars are already paying actual physicians whose jobs you might think it would be to be the tsar, for example, dr. Luri, shes the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the u. S. Department of health and human services. Also, you have the woman in charge of that whole division, sylvia burwell. Then you have the cdc director tom frieden. I think a lot of people sitting at home today are wondering why would you not have one of those people take charge when were already paying them to do just that . Well, and theyre asking that question for two very good reasons. The first is throwing another bureaucrat who is unaccountable to the American People and only accountable to president obama. We know president obama treats accountability in his administration. The other thing were not mentioning is all the communication staff that every secretary has to communicate what this new czar is supposed to be doing. They have an entire staff paid with taxpayer dollars. While the white house is trying to play this game of showing theyre doing something to help mitigate the disaster and the crisis, what theyre really doing is putting someone in place in order to make the democrats look better when theyre handling this crisis. Its interesting now that were learning josh ernest also said this in his press briefing today, that mr. Klain will report to National Security advisor susan rice, the woman who went on the sunday morning talk shows and talked about a video being the reason why benghazi happened. Shes also the woman who said that bo bergdahl who allegedly deserted his unit and sympathized with the taliban, that he served his country with honor and distinction. That is a person that this new czar will report to. Thats not giving the American People a lot of confidence when it comes to actually how this person is going to give them information thats honest sxes straight forward with the crisis. I also forgot one other person who could have been in charge of it, and that would have been the acting surgeon general, who apparently has a long list of credentials in this very field. Its going to be there are plenty of people. Its going to be ron klain. Have a great weekend. Thank you. Is the world going hell in a hand basket . More americans think so according to the latest fox news poll. What it means for the crucial midterm elections. Powerful hurricane gonzalo bearing down on a tiny slice of paradise that i love. We have more on the dangerous storm going to bermuda. Plus, workers giving one of our greatest National Treasures some tender loving care, and that brings us to our question of the day. What is your favorite National Landmark . We just saw one in st. Louis. Tweet me Gretchen Carlson and use the the real story. We will read your comments coming up at the end of the show. So ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts . Thats right. 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With just 18 days to go until the crucial midterm electrics, a series of crisis are taking center stage as a seemingly endless stream of troubling headlines, shaking up the political landscape. From the u. S. Led war on isis to the ebola crisis, with cratics blasting the Obama Administration tone in reacting to recent developments. As for the jittery economy, the Unemployment Rate actually its at a sixyear low. Wages are flat, and we have the smallest work force in decades. How about the Financial Markets . The dow lawing its way back today after massive selloffs this week. Despite all the recent turbulence, the dow is still on an upward trend. What is this all mean for the midterms and the balance of power in the senate . Time for real talk with alan combs, mike gallagher. Both are fox news contributeors. Do these crisis like isis and ebola, do they help or hurt the democrats in 18 days . Well, they hurt obama because everything that happens is his fault, right, mike . Absolutely. Im glad you got it. Im glad you figured it out finally. Because he could not stop a disease from coming over from another continent. Somehow that becomes his fault. Bad news in general hurts whoever the incumbents on, even if theyre not responsible. Also, in a midterm election, six years of a presidency, the opposite party thats in the white house normally wins. Its going to be a good year for republicans. Well, is it just so easy, mike, to say blame obama. The fact of the matter is that a lot of what is on the policies of the democrats is Big Government, and what were seeing happen right now is Big Government not working at least when were talking about ebola. Gretchen, i hear from a lot of democrats who call my radio show and admit they are absolutely baffled at president obamas tone deafness. This is way beyond just blaming obama for the sake of blaming obama. How do you spell a landslide for republicans in a few weeks . Well, you spell it by an administration that stubbornly refuses to consider a travel ban on this ebola crisis and this ebola scare. You have an administration that appoints a political operative to be the ebola czar. Again, today there were a lot of democrats who called me and said what is up . This is going to be a huge victory for republicans politically speaking. It shubt have to be this way, but i think the handwriting is on the wall. Its going to be ver