It isnt just isis. Were dealing with north korea. Were dealing with iran. Were dealing with russia, were dealing with cyberattacks. It is an unprecedented set of threats that are out there. This not a time to kind of get in the trenches and not say anything. Ifill plus, combating Climate Change by transforming ponds once caked with salt into vibrant marshes teaming with wildlife. This pond in particular has been called a disneyland for birds. Were really trying to maximize the amount of habitat thats available to them in a novel way. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by c c supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill 100 u. S. Marines and more military aid arrived inc liberia today to battle ebola. At the same time, leaders from liberia and neighboring countries pleaded for the outside world to make good on pledges to help. c appeals from west African Leaders dominated a World Bank Meeting in washington today. On video link, the president s of sierra leone and liberia pressed for action not just talk. The General International response has up to this moment been slower than the rate of transmission of the disease. This slower than the virus response need to change. This means the construction of treatment jd testing and bearing centers within a timeframe of one month, by mid november, all such facilities functioning with staff healthworkers, both local and expatriate. Ifill the president of guinea appeared in person, adding his own request for money and facilities. c together their three countries account for virtually all of the nearly 4,000 ebola deaths so far. The disease claimed its first victim in the u. S. Yesterday, Thomas Eric Duncan contracted the disease in liberia before flying to texas. And in spain, officials announced the condition of Teresa Romero has declined. Shes a nurse who treated an ebola patient and was diagnosed herself this week. translated the patient has expressly forbidden us to give information about her health and clinical condition. Ive only come here to confirm that her clinical condition has worsened. c ifill four more people who had contact with romero were placed in isolation units for monitoring. They included a doctor who said he cared for the nurse withoutc being told she was infected. The case has prompted protests by Health Workers and others in madrid and questions about how the nurse was infected in the first place. translated we have followed all the necessary precautions they have told us to follow. Are those rules incorrect . That, we dont know. Ifill the European Commission joined today in demanding that spain give full explanations of exactly what happened. Meanwhile, a United Nations employee infected in liberia arrived for treatment in leipzig, germany today. And International Airports in new york, newark, washington, chicago and dallas prepared new screening for travelers fromc west africa including fever checks and other measures. Those measures do not apply at new yorks la guardia airport, and 200 airplane cabin cleanersc staged a 24hour strike there today citing health and safety concerns. And in washington, a mostly Republican Group of 26 lawmakers sent president obama a letter calling for even more stringent restrictions including visa bans and quarantines. At the same time, u. S. Troops at fort hood, texas, stepped up safety training. Ahead of being deployed to west africa. Ifill well hear from one of the medical groups struggling to corral the outbreak, after the news summary. Woodruff american and Coalition Planes stepped up their aerial assault in syria today, but Islamic State forces syrian activists said the militants now control more than a third of kobani, a key town on the border with turkey. As the air strikes continued, turkish tanks again looked on without intervening. c but the Turkish Foreign minister called for a comprehensive plan before turkey launches an attack. translated its not realistic to expect turkey to carry out a ground operation on its own. Our negotiations are continuing about all our suggestions. Negotiations with our allies are continuing. Turkey will not hesitate to do its part when a common decision is reached. Woodruff later, secretary of state john kerry called the militants advance on kobani a tragedy. But he said it will not alter the Obama Administrations long term strategy. c ifill the rapidly deteriorating situation in yemen took a turn for the worse today. Nearly 70 people were killed inc a pair of suicide bombings. The attacks bore the hallmarks of sunni militants linked to al qaeda. One of the bombers targeted a large group of shiite rebels who now control the capital city, sanaa. Blood stains and debris littered the streets in the aftermath. Woodruff a total of 19 people are now dead in the worst fighting between india and pakistan in more than a decade. Heavy shelling erupted more than a week ago in kashmir, a mostly muslim region claimed by both sides. The two sides traded warnings today to stand down, but the fighting continued. c thats word from mexico that authorities have captured the reputed leader of the juarez drug cartel. Mexicanc officials said he was taken in the Northern City of it, oraon. The u. S. Had offered 5 million for his arrest. Woodruff black leaders in st. Louis called today for the Justice Department to investigate the latest Fatal Shooting of a black teenager. Police said an offduty officer killed 18yearold Vonderrit Myers last night after the teen fired first. The shooting sparked protests, 11 miles from ferguson, where another officer killed Michael Brown in august. St. Louis police chief sam dotson called for calm. Im being as open and transparent as the department can be and i hope the public appreciates that. I know emotions are high and i know tensions are high, but thec reality is, what weve seen or what the evidence tells me right now is an individual pointed a gun at a police officer, fired at least three rounds and continued to pull the trigger. c woodruff the teenagers relatives disputed the police account, and insisted he was not armed. Police did not identify the officer, or give his race. Ifill french author Patrick Modiano has won the nobel prize for literature. He was honored today for decades of work that focus on the nazi occupation of france during world war two. The 69yearold writer has published more than 40 books, but hes relatively unknown in the englishspeaking world. Woodruff this was another wild day on wall street. Jitters over Global Growth sent Energy Stocks plunging, and triggered a broad selloff. The Dow Jones Industrial average had its biggest loss of the year, nearly 335 points, one day after its biggest gain of the year, it finished at 16,659; thc nasdaq dropped 90 points to close at 4,378; and the s p 500 slipped 40 to finish at 1,928. Woodruff still to come on fur. Containing ebola at its epicenter in west africa. U. S. Efforts to stop the surge of Migrant Children illegally crossing the border. Leon panetta doesnt hold back in his new memoir. Creating vibrant marshes to combat Climate Change. Why arkansas republicans are supporting an initiative to raise the minimum wage. Plus, a new book explores the importance of living and dying, well. Ifill despite new pledges of aid, International Leaders provided downbeat assessments of the current battle againstc ebola. The head of the world bank said the International Community had failed miserably in its initial response. c the director of the c. D. C. Said the situation reminded him of the early days of the aids epidemic. We get our own assessment from one of the few nongovernment groups treating patients in west africa. International medical corps has built a treatment clinic in liberia and is constructing other facilities in liveria and sierra leone. Its president , nancy aossey, joins me now. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, gwen. Ifill how many bed, how many facilities, how many people would you say that youre engaged in treating now . Another so in liberia,c International Medical corps, opened up a 70bed hospital actually we call it a treatment unit. We opened that up in midseptember. We are scaling up and will be midseptember. We are scaling up and will be opening up another treatment in liberia we have about 200 people working in this treatment unit trying to contain it, as well as treating people who have ebola with the hopes that they will recover, and they are recovering when they receive treatment. Ifill do you have any sense that the progress of this disease is being slowing . Well, let me say that its clear that efforts, like ours and other organizations, are working. When there are treatment efforts, when there are Health Care Workers to treat patientsc as they come in, i mean, our first patients that arrived to our treatment unit, they died at the doorstep. But now we see that patients are recovering, and theyre returning back to their familiws. So any efforts around treatment and containment are working. The problem and the challenge is that there are just not enough operational efforts on the ground. Thats the challenge. Ifill is that because a lack of International Action or nongovernmental action, or is it because the infrastructure in these communities is so difficult that even if you sent them 10 collapsible hospitals, popup hospitals, they couldnt build them . Another well, its a number of factors. One, certainly the health care infrastructures are very weak in west africa, underresourced. They dont have enough Health Workers. Thats one thing. The second thing is the spread was not contained more quicklyc some months ago. International donors are stepping up. In fact, our treatment unit in liberia was made possible from a grant from u. S. A. I. D. s officec of foreign disaster assistance. It took 5 million to open it up and about 1 million a month. Part of it is the resources need to be there. But also, people are really afraid. Theyre afraid to provide treatment because they also need to keep their own Health Workers safe. So one of the things weve done is we have said to other Community Health people, as well as other international n. G. O. S, we will provide Case Management protocol training. Well train their workers so that they can open up more treatment facilities. The problem we have now is that the disease and the outbreak is being is outpacing the operational efforts on ground. There are a lot of plans in place, by the way, to change that, and were still withinc that window. Ifill well, this part about how you keep Health Workers safe was something raised in a piece we had on the news here last night about c. D. C. Workers preparing to go abroad. It takesc 20 minutes to get ino one of those suits, as long to get out of the suits. Are you suffering from a lack of willing fns volunteers to take all that on . The suits, its very exwhricted. You can only stay them in about two hours in africa. Its that hot. We have a buddy system because people make mistakes. We have someone watching the other health workery soy they dont infect themselves through a basic mistake. What we are finding is when people are properly equip asked they have the proper protocolses in place, they can successfully treat patients and it can be contained. But that training, that knowledge is very important. So what weve done is we have said, you know, when organizations come to, say, liberia, wec will provide seven to 10 days of training, and as well, the u. S. Military is putting together a 25bed hospital inc liberia specificay to take care of Health Workers because one of the challenges around you know, they call it the nurse killer in liberia. One of the challenges around ebola is Health Workers are willing to steped for and help, and theyre very heroic, but our recruitment efforts are helped greatly by the fact that we can treat them if they catch ebola. Ifill an organization like yours, ebola is not your only goal. You are also working in the Central African republic or syria among refugees. How do you stop resources being stretched too thin to handle all these crisis . Were in unprecedented times. We have sixc categorythree emergencies. Ifill six . That is the highest emergency. Never in our history have we had that. One of the toughest years would have been two a year. And we have six now in the last six months alone. So, you know, its all hands on deck. Were hopeful that supporters both Government Agencies and private sector the private sector is starting to step in to the ebola fight, the refugee crises. Theyre an important part of these efforts. But the fact is, its like we have to do it on all fronts, frankly. Its impossible to pick among these because theyre all at the highest level they can be. Ifill there is some place wheres theyve been able to stop the spread and some places where they havent. We heard the head of the world bank today say nothing less than the future of africa is at stake right now. Do you see that . This can be stopped and it can be contained, but it has to be. It absolutely h7uz be stopped. Because the fact of the matter is, we have here we have two countries, sierra leone, and liberia, who are coming back from the brink of civil war. I mean, they have done so much to come back from where they were, and for them toc be now deal with ebola on top of it, this this crise is a global crisis. Its a world problem. Its not just west africa. We are all in it together and we have to take the view that it is everyones problem, and whatever resources it takes, we have to be there because its going to continue to spread if were not there, and it has to be stopped and contained at the source. . Rief nancy aossey, president and c. E. O. Of the International Medical corps, thank you very much. Thank you, gwen, thanks. Woodruff earlier this year, a Record Number of unaccompanied children from honduras, guatemala and el salvador arrived in the united states. c sparking a crisis and political backlash on our southern border. As part of its response, the white house announced tens of millions of dollars in newc spending in those countries, aimed at stopping the flow of unaccompanied kids, and the crime driving them from home. Newshours p. J. Tobia takes a look at those u. S. Funded programs and the children they are supposed to be helping. Reporter in central america, this is the front line of the Obama Administrations fight to keep children from joining gangs or making the dangerous journey to the united states. Its the opening of a new Community Center in a violent el salvador an city controlled by a gang. 140 of these u. S. Governmentfunded centers are spread between honduras, guatemala, and elc salvador. There are plans to double that number. They offer sports, skills training, and computer literacy. Its a response to the flood of children trying to make their way to the u. S. Border. Onec of them is 10yearold brando. The newshour has agreed to conceal his and his grandmothers faces for their safety. Brandos grandmother was desperate to get him out of the country after a violent drug gang tried to extort the family. translated things here are awful. They take kids and they return them in pieces. Reporter she sent brando north over land with an uncle. It was grueling journey. translated we slept where the cows are. translated in a barn. There were days they slept in a barn. When they left here, they went to guatemala. When they crossed, mexican immigration caught them. Reporter after that,c brando was brought back to el salvador. Like most people here, he and his grandmother dont leave the house after 6 00 p. M. For fear of the gangs. translated i cant sleep. When im able to sleep, ic wake up. I only sleep one or two hours when i hear the gunshots during the night. It will be some time before i can send the child to school. Reporter brando says hed still like to try and make it to the u. S. , but, his grandmother says, they cant afford another attempt. Elizabeth kennedy has spent last year in el salvador on a fulbright scholarship. Shes interviewed more than 300 children like brando who have tried and failed to make it to the united states. In june, there was one day we got 300 kids deported from mexico in one day. Reporter in mexico, the detained children are sent to a facility in tapachula, then theyre sent back home. cp3 we had one 12yearold boy who came here who had been robbed and beaten in the Detention Center inc tapachiewl pap he didnt have any shoes. He was crying. Theres no followup services at the moment for those who are afraid for their lives, theyre probably going to try again within two months. Reporter thats where these u. S. Governmentfunded Childrens Centers come in. This center, just outside of san salvador, provides a place for children to play and learn computers. For older children, this