Today at 57. Woodruff in philadelphia, the overwhelming impact on students of massive budget cuts. You know, were hoping that money will be coming, but i dont know. We dont have enough to even carry us through the end of this month, actually. And its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the weeks news. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the Obama Administration stepped up its response to ebola today, hoping to ease concerns about it spreading in the United States. That came with one case diagnosed in dallas and a confirmed death toll in west africa that now tops 3,400. Woodruff president obamas team came to the White House Briefing room after a week of growing questions about whether and how ebola can be stopped. Lisa monaco is assistant to the president for Homeland Security and counterterrorism every Ebola Outbreak over the past 40 years has been stopped. We know how to do this and we will do it again with americas leadership, i am confident and president obama is confident that this epidemic will also be stopped. Woodruff Anthony Fauci, the nations top epidemiologist, acknowledged there may be more cases in the United States, but he said its not a cause for panic. Were having the press conference because we need to get information out because there is a lot of fear, and the reason theres a lot of fear is that there are many things, when you have outbreaks, its the unknown, its the cataclysmic nature of it namely, its acute, it kills in a High Percentage and it kills quickly. That in and of itself almost intintuitively makes people frightened. The other thing that makes people frightened, can this happen to me without my evening knowing it . Without my having any behavioral change at all . Thats the kind of thing we have to keep over and over again emphasizing, we respect your concern, we understand your concern, but the Evidence Base tells us that that is not going to happen. Woodruff the officials played down any need for a complete ban on travelers from affected nations in west africa. They said screening efforts there are working. As measures being taken to screen individuals departing, cdc has provided assistance, training and advice to officials in liberia, guinea and sierra leone, and as a results ofsteps undertaken, many, many people have been stopped from traveling. We see those steps actually being effective woodruff also today, the pentagon upped the number of u. S. Troops its sending to west africa, to as many as 4,000. Woodruff well return to the case of the liberian man hospitalized in dallas and fears of additional cases, after the news summary. Islamic state militants claimed late today they have carried out yet another beheading, of a fourth western hostage. They released a video today, apparently showing the murder of alan henning, a british aid worker who was taken captive last december in syria. He would be the second british hostage killed, along with two american reporters. Job creation in the u. S. Jumped in september, making the employment picture the brightest its been in six years. The Labor Department reported today that employers added a net 248,000 workers. And the jobless rate dropped below 6 for the First Time Since mid2008. President obama welcomed the news this afternoon at a steel plant in princeton, indiana. This progress that weve been making, its been hard, it goes in fits and starts. Its not always been perfectly smooth or as fast as we want, but it is real and it is steady and it is happening. And its making difference in economies all across country. Woodruff our paul solman explores what these numbers reveal about the true health of our economy, later in the program. The jobs numbers went down well on wall street. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 208 points to close at 17,009. The nasdaq rose 45 points to close at 4,475. And the sandp 500 added 21, to finish near 1,968. For the week, all three indexes lost a fraction of 1 . Violence erupted today in hong kong, where protesters demanding more democracy have taken to the streets and tied up parts of the city since sunday. Lucy watson, of independent television news, reports again from hong kong. Reporter it was a tinderbox in the heart of the hong kong shopping area. shouting the youth who crave democracy are confronted with fury. Others want their streets back. Our cops are world class but when they fired tear gas at students, they didnt use enough. Clear out clear out yelled the people against the pro democracy movement, as they tore down and one by one disappeared. This is the people against the people, face to face. While police tried to maintain order. We were hoping they would calm down. Reporter the media of hong kong described this as anarchy, but they nervously held their line all day and night. shouting reporter hold the fort, students shout, hold the fort, because they believe violence is engineered by the president and should be held responsible. Is revolution is under pressure. Woodruff a main Student Group behind the protest movement said later its pulling out of planned talks with hong kongs government. Back in this country, an update on a story we brought you last night students and parents in suburban denver say theyll resume protests against new standards for some u. S. History classes. Conservatives on the Jefferson County school board refused last night to cancel plans to review the curriculum. They want the material to promote patriotism and respect for authority. Students said it amounts to censorship. We came to these conclusions on our own and we have 40,000 people across the country who sided with us in saying that this is wrong for Jefferson County. This wrong for us as students, this is wrong for american history. Woodruff the boards conservatives denied its about censorship. And, they said theyre looking for compromise. I have great hope that our conversation this evening will bring this board together and have us work on a great proposal that assures our community that all classes are taught with balance, that we oppose all censorship. We want increased transparency, increased accountability, and increased community engagement. Woodruff the board compromised somewhat and voted to add students and parents to the review committees. Its supposed to be fall, but you wouldnt know it in southern california. A heat wave kicked regional temperatures near or above 100 degrees again today. Los angeles county has opened dozens of cooling centers. And, some School Districts also sent students home early to beat the heat. Woodruff still to come on the newshour how are Health Officials handling ebola in the u. S. . Islamic state militants fight to control a key city near turkey; why good economic numbers dont add up to americans feeling better about their own pocket books; a prominent doctors controversial stance on living longer; Philadelphia Schools face a crippling budget crisis; and mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff even as Top Administration officials were answering questions at the white house about the federal response to ebola, much of this days attention was focused on the latest developments in texas. Hari sreenivasan has the story. Sreenivasan a Hazardous Materials team arrived this morning at the dallas apartment complex where Thomas Duncan stayed before being hospitalized on sunday. They collected anything contaminated, including a car that they covered with a giant plastic bag. They have been quarantined under armed guard after they refused to remain inside voluntarily. Nobody is supposed to go inside the apartment. They are in the apartment. They cannot come out, they are not even allowed to come on the porch. Woodruff Dallas County judge clay jenkins, the countys top administrator, voiced concern for the familys plight and apologized for the delay in removing the soiled items. Meanwhile, texas Health Officials said theyve narrowed the group being monitored to 50 people who had direct or indirect contact with duncan. Crews have also cleaned schools attended by five students who were exposed to duncan. But some parents say theyre far from reassured. And then we just got letters in the kids backpack yesterday saying they had it under control. I feel otherwise. If you had it under control the kids wouldnt have come to school in the first place, but youll never know. Woodruff questions continue as well about the handling of duncan himself. He managed to fly out of liberia last month after having contact with an ebola patient. He showed no symptoms at the time. After falling ill in dallas, he was initially turned away by Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, which now blames a flaw in its electronic records system. Duncan was admitted on sunday, but even then, his nephew complained he was mishandled. Woodruff at the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases, dr. Anthony fauci says he agrees. The idea that this person went to an emergency room and they did not flag that he had recently been in liberia and thus immediately put him in isolation was unfortunately missed. That happens. I think the important thing is to have that as a Lesson Learned to look forward. Sreenivasan infected hospital waste has also become an issue. Dallas officials announced today a Disposal Company is now in place. Sreenivasan this was a day when even one of the governments top Health Officials said, there were things that did not go the way they should have. We look at those concerns and other moves by the government with stephen morrison, the director of the Global Health policy center at the center for strategic and international studies. Mr. Morrison, lets talk a little bit about the Lessons LearnedAnthony Fauci was talking about. We dont know everything yet about whats happened in dallas, but what can we take away from the way that the hospital and the region and the local authorities handled this . Well, we know from what youve just reported that there were mishaps in the systems at various points, and theres a need for a much higher vigilance and training and awareness. I dont think, in retrospect, that this is all that surprising that you have a sudden introduction as something as lethal and dangerous as this into an unexpected environment and then that you have mishaps that happen along the reporting at the desk when he first reports to the Presbyterian Hospital that theres mishandling of the waste material later when he shows up, that theres clumsiness in the way the family is that had been exposed is handled. I think these are serious lessons, and the systems will have to improve as we get additional cases, which are quite probable. Sreenivasan the government says they have been trying to prepare people for months, but what does this say about the state of hospital readiness around the United States, until we had this situation happening in dallas, and now were hearing about not quite confirmed cases in other cities . I would not draw the conclusion that presbyterian was not well prepared. They had themselves, just a week ago, gone through an extensive internal training. They had created an Isolation Unit within their i. C. U. They had the systems in place. I dont this this was a catastrophic failure. I think there were mishaps along the way, and anxieties at the public level were so high because of the lethal tye ofitys and because its such an alien and frightening event that these mishaps became quite magnified and will have to be handled differently and better in the future. Sreenivasan partly because to have the fear youre referencing and the concern that the people in the region or the area have, is containment or isolation even possible . Because one can understand the families concerns saying youre quarantining me inside an apartment that apparently has a deadly virus the whole world is concerned about and no ones even come and changed the sheets yet . Well, theyve relocated the family members who were exposed and quarantined and the county judge, mr. Jenkins, apologized for the way that was handled. As we get into cases where there has been an importation of someone contagious with ebola who exposes others, i would expect youre going to see a much more rapid and humane procedure in place. This was a moment of pretty intensive learning this week. Sreenivasan one of the things people are also talking about is trying to contain it at the source. The pentagon is going to increase the number of troops going there, but, of course, we have politicians and others saying lets try to figure out how to change the policy on changing the flight ban. Is that a policy that should be looked at again . This is a very difficult issue. What we saw with duncan coming here was that the screening procedures are not all that effective if you were unsymptomatic and you dont personally and voluntarily disclose. So what do you do under those instances . You cannot insist on prior vaccination because there is novak seen, there is no rapid test. The only thing you can begin to consider is a 21day quarantine period for people coming out of the worst affected areas, and how you would implement that has yet to be really considered. But that, really, i think is the only option at this moment that could be considered. And i want to add here, the humanitarian workers who are coming in, both those that are nationals and getting trained up and providing care and treatment in exile, the external ex patriot folks, when they are removed because of exposure, they go through a 21day quarantine period coming out of the region. Theres already practices in place around that. Sreenivasan stephen morrison, thanks so much for your time. Thank you. Woodruff we reported earlier on todays reported beheading of another hostage by the Islamic State group, this comes as its terrorists continued to advance on and shell the beseiged kurdish town of kobani, along syrias border with turkey. The militants push is happening despite continued airstrikes by the u. S. And other anti i. S. Coalition members. For more, we are joined by our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent margaret warner. Margaret, well come. We did report on this another terrible murder of a hostage, and just now received a statement by the president condemning whats happened but hes also saying these airstrikes will continue. Are they doing any good if these beheadings are also continuing . Looking on the situation on the ground in iraq and syria, they have started to stop the i. S. I. S. Advance but not rolled them back, and syria obviously from the beheading video, the i. S. I. S. People arent deferred. The kurdish militiamen are begging for help on the ground but the white house remains focused on longrange training of the moderate syrian antii. S. I. S. Fighters. They announced australia and denmark were going to send fighter planes. The missing piece remains turkey, the key n. A. T. O. Ally on the boarder. Despite a personal phone call from president obama, they remain reluctant to get engaged. Woodruff why . Its complicated. President he president of turkeys government has allowed safe passage and safe haven to all kind of fighters starting with the moderate ones up to the i. S. Types and a lot of the neighbors are furious about this and say they helped create the mess. The president of turkey believes if they weigh in against i. S. I. S. , it will help assad and president obama is not going there. They have a complicated relationship with the kurds. They have a long running civil war with the p. K. K. Just yesterday the jailed leader of the p. K. K. Threatened if you dont save kobani, were going to cut off peace talks with you. The Prime Minister today promised they would do what they could to save kobani but are keeping p. K. K. Fighters from crossing into turkey and stopping with Water Cannons and tear gas. Woodruff no indication this is going to change . Not for now. They are absolutely app p appapc about their situation with the kurds. They straddle four countries and the more these kurdish fighters Work Together and are embolden, it will increase pro sentiment for an independent kurdistan. Woodruff a bigger concern than i. S. I. S. Apparently. Its always a moving target, but, yes, for now. Woodruff margaret warner, thank you as always. Woodruff for the First Time Since 2008, the jobless rate has fallen below 6 . That fact was part of a jobs report out today that showed a better rebound in the labor market than had been expected even a month ago. Economics correspondent paul solman went to the heart of bostons financial district to discuss the numbers with economist barry bluestone, as part of pauls ongoing reporting making sense of financial news. So were in bostons financial district and todays job report is really good news to the economy at long last. Absolutely. We had almost a quarter of a million jobs created in september alone. We have more jobs coming for the last 12 months. As a result, we have no longer the kind of jobless recovery we had in years past. Thats real good news. Reporter and financial services, for example, 81,000 jobs, i read this morning, were added just last month. As a matter of fact, we had growth in almost all sectors information services, healthcare, education, co