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MSNBCW Jose Diaz-Balart October 20, 2014

After completing a 21day quarantine. Another will be cleared later today. Four more in the days to come. Duncans fiance said were so happy its coming to an end. Were grateful that none of have shown any sign of illness. In the meantime the two nurses that contacted ebola continue to fight the disease. Nina pham currently in b curren condition. Now at the same time, the cdc will introduce a new hospital guideline that will require full body coverage for anyone treating an ebola patient and monitoring while taking the protective garments on and off. And after news broke on this broadcast on friday that ron klain will be named ebola czar, the fight continues at the pentagon. Medical support team is being developed for a additional ebola cases in the United States. And joining me now from dallas is nbc sara day lot of. Good morning. Doctor, let me start with you. From a medical perspective, how significant is the clearing of these first 43 contacts . I think its quite significant, actually. On two different levels. I think from a Public Health and epidemiological level. Its nice weve seen the Contact Tracing to the conclusion and secondly on a medical note these were casual contacts of mr. Duncan not in infected. Particularly, you know, the girlfriend and close Family Members or people who dwelled with the indexed patient who did actually get much closer to the patient. Also, were not infected. Of course, the two people in this country who have been infected were the Health Care Workers who were most exposed. Thats in line with our understanding of the transmission of the virus. Weve been following judge clay jenkins. Is the most positive weve seen him . By far, jose. Up until now the news hes had to deliver has been very somber and very negative. Todays news that 43 people have rolled off the monitor list and another is set to join it. These people are considered ebola free was positive news. He really did seem to be in good spirits as he shared that with the community. Like i said, the group is now can ared zero risk. It includes duncans fiance and five children going to return to dallas schools this week. Duncans fiance and her family are preparing to move into a new home being provided by city officials and anonymous donors are working to replace all of those personal belongings and items that had to be destroyed as part of the decontamination process. Duncans fiance said to be jubilant and ready to get back to the normal life. We want to be clear there are approximately 120 others who continue to be monitored who had some contact with duncan or one of the nurses, right . That is correct. Like the mayor of dallas said today, i have cleared one hurdle but there are still hurdle left to jump. Now hempb a chance to enjoy todays news. The focus is shifting to november 7th. All 120 people will hopefully clear that watch list. That Group Includes the Health Care Workers who treated duncan after he was admitted to the hospital. Many Health Care Workers, especially the women who are mothers are opting to sleep in the hospital out of concern if they were to become symptomatic they could expose their children to ebola. One thing stressed is the need to avoid stigmatizing people as they come out of quarantine. Take a listen. The world is watching dallas and dallas must determine if dallas will deal with this with grace and come passion. Dr. , it will be tough for many people to deal with the reality. The fact is once youre cleared youre cleared. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think this sort of speaks to the very fine line that were walking between vigilance and hysteria. You know, a lot of these people were isolated or put into quarantine out of an abundance of caution. And i think that was more sort of to quell the public crisis we were having in the country as opposed to a true Public Health crisis. And, doctor, do you because a lot of people are still thinking oh, my gosh is 21 days enough . In other words has it been proven beyond a doubt that the 21day period once you clear it youre pretty much clear. Thats true. We say that on average its eight, nine, ten days. Extending it to 21 days is conservative. Were doing that to be as thorough as possible. It really is not beyond 21 days. The ebola has not changed. The epidemiology of it and the way its being spread has not theres no mutation. Weve had, you know, concerns or people have suggested these things over the last few weeks. Its 21 days. Were confident that is the limit. Thank you so much for being with me this morning. Appreciate it. And lets go now to the washington aspect of this. What is turned into a political debate around the president s response to the crisis. More specifically the man the president chose to lead the response, ron klain. Seen here with the president in 2009. Some criticizing that pick including republican texas senator ted cruz. We should be less concerned about getting the public the feeling that the government is on top of this and more concerned about the government actually being on top of this. And this is a manifestation we dont need another white house political operative which is mr. What klain has been. What we need is president ial leadership. And joining me is someone else who has been critical of the president s pick. Tennessee congresswoman marcia bla blackburn. You said yesterday we want facts not spin when it comes to the new czar. What did you mean by that . Well, what we need is someone who understands all the aspects of government and understands the delivery of health care in this affected region. Having someone with a broader experience in health care and Emergency Response would be more appropriate, i think, than someone like ron klain who is known for being a spinner. And the American People are just so frustrated they want someone who is the adult in charge. Who can say this is exactly what were dealing with. This is the transmissability of the disease. In is how we should go about it. They feel as if what theyve seen from this administration is indeed a crisis and a lack of ability to appropriately respond. The congressman, you know, the fact is thats why you have the nih and thats why you have the cdc to deal with the medical aspect of it. But doesnt there need to be someone who knows bureaucracy so he can cut through it and it seems as though maybe im just asking, its someone who knows how Government Works to go through it is maybe more important than the medical expert that exists in the administration. You brought up an important difference. Knows government and governmental systems and not the political aspect. And thats the difference. I think an important one right there. How to make how you go about coordinating the delivery of these systems. Someone like general who had helped with katrina. There are others that have been recommended that have that breadth and depth of experience working within that system. I had mentioned former senator bill frist. The former Senate Majority leader who is a physician, who had effectively run the senate also has a delivered mission in the world. Someone like that would bring a view that would be more respectable to the situation. I want to ask you about the travel ban question the cdc is pushing back. They say it could make a crisis worse if you have travel bans. For example, you know, the countries in africa that have been able to successfully beat back ebola didnt have travel bans. Well, indeed. Many of the countries did have travel bans. I think there are 22 african nations that had travel bans with the infected region. When you look at the cdc map of africa and you see the affected region you understand why they put the travel bans up. Let me ask you this, does it make sense to say, were not going have rules and laws and regulations because not everybody is going to abide by them 100 . Absolutely not. I was talking to a group of moms last night and they said, oh, were not going to have a rule therefore not implement a travel ban because not everybody is going to abide by it. If that were the way we worked in this country, we would not be a nation of laws. We would not have rules. Schools wouldnt have rules. Teams wouldnt have rules. Sports wouldnt have rules. It makes no sense. Especially the women. What rules specifically do you think there should be in place . I would prefer a travel ban. For who, how and you mean, like the affected regions. Thats been widely discussed. A travel ban on the affected region. If theyre not going to do that, if someone wants to leave the infected countries like sierra leone should submit themselves for a voluntary quarantine for 21 days before they exit the country. They would be free to fly the country. You would know they were ebola free. Weve been told time and again. If you want to get your arms around this Ebola Outbreak you have to isolate it, over there in west africa and you have to deal with it there. Were doing that. Were going to Great Lengths to do that. I have 1500 constituents who are troops from Fort Campbell who are deploying to do this. God bless them and lets keep them safe. But, jose, youve got to have an isolation period. We need to go about restricting these visas or doing a quarantine there or having some kind of travel ban so we can get our arms around it and coordinate the proper response. Congresswoman, a pleasure to see you. Coming up also developing this morning the First Court Appearance in washington, d. C. , for this man. 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Reaching constantly evolving threats before they reach us. Thats the value of performance. Northrop grumman. Developing this morning in washington, d. C. , a is in court right now. Its First Court Appearance since he was arraigned in june after being snatched by special forces in libya. Taken to a navy ship for interrogation. Four americans were killed in that attack in benghazi. Khattala indicted last week faces a total of 18 charges. If convicted he could face the death penalty. Joining me now is former prosecutor. A man in the know on the details. What a pleasure to see you. Lets talk about this case. It must be lets see, what do you think of the most difficult aspects of this for the prosecution. The government begins with the fact they want to prove hes the leader of the murderous attack. Usually to approve someone is a leader you get the followers to cooperate. How is easy it it going to be libyan militia members, presumably committed to their cause to come here and testify . There are going to be other sources of evidence. Thats a big part of the problem. In the question is what can the defense do in pursuing documents that could include their efforts to get national security, internal state Department Downtown documents. What can they do create many complications. What is the they shall hold of proof here. They chose ton bring to a civilian trial. Not a military tribunal. Just like any other court case with witnesses and as we know this is not like any other court case. Yeah. Another hearing being held is in boston. Thats where the final status conference for accused Boston Marathon bombing is being held. Its important in terms of the defense starting to shape their strategy. They have a very uphill battle. Were thinking increasingly theyre going to focus as much as possible on avoiding the death penalty, which means portraying the younger brother as somebody who is dominated, bullied, almost cohearsed into this and putting as much as they can on the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, as we know was killed in the shootout. Even after the older brother was killed the younger brother kept fighting. He penned a note blaming the u. S. Government for attacks on muslims. That could condemn him. And now to the middle east where were just learning about new air strikes in iraq and syria. Including near the town of kobani. Thats where, for the first time, sunday the u. S. Military dropped weapons, app in addition, and medical supplies provided by kurdish authorities in iraq to help Kurdish Forces in kobani help defend the city. Joining me now vietnam war veteran colonel eric rojo. Good morning. Good morning, jose. Happy to be with you. Thank you. Weve heard that the air strikes have begun to slow isis advances. Now were seeing isis pour more resources into the city. How does the u. S. Keep kobani from falling, you think . . Well, the reason kobani is not falling because theres infantry there. The Kurdish Forces augmented by women who is not a tradition in the middle east. It goes back to the argument we need infan fry in order to make the air strikes effective. Now as isis gained ground. Weve been keeping an eye on baghdad and whether it can be the next city to be in danger of falling to isis. Admiral talked about that on morning joe. We do not assess that baghdad is under imminent threat right now. Theres no masses of fighters around the capitol. And the Iraqi Security forces are doing a good job stiffening their defenses. How big a threat is isis to take baghdad, you think, colonel . I would agree with the admiral. Its a limited threat. They dont have the forces. Baghdad is huge. They may be able to get to the outskirts. Maybe capture a couple of sunni neighborhoods. As long as the citizens and the iraqi army make front supported by air strikes they should not be able to take it. And do you think, colonel, that kobani is now probably on the side of not falling to isis because of all the help that were seeing just in the last 24 hours . Z i would say still 50 50. We have the problem that is in the border with turkey but turkey said they will not fight without somebody else involved. I tend to agree with them. It is in syrian territory. Right now the turks are upset because were helping the kurds but the kuds kurds are the only ones fighting. Eventually the force will have to balance itself out. That will determine the outcome of the city. Colonel eric rojo, thank you so much for being with me this morning. I appreciate your time, sir. Coming up we go to charlottesville, virginia a grizzly discovery was made this weekend. Authorities dont know whether it is missing College Student Hannah Graham. 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Luke russert is live in char loc lotsville. Reporter theres a tweet from the Sheriffs Department where we are now, and they said theyll have an announcement whether there is news. There are no scheduled briefings at this time. We here wait. Im sure the waiting is probably the hardest for the parents of Hannah Graham. The remains found on saturday in a rural area several miles away where from graham was last seen. There are reports that the person searching the area also found a pair of black pants close to the remains. That would add up. Hannah graham was seen wearing black pants. Jesse matthew is charged with attempting to defile and abduct Hannah Graham. Hell be in prison indefinitely until we know more. If therest a positive id more charges could be brought against mr. Matthew. For now we wait. Live in charlottesville. Thank you so much. Coming up exclusive polling data on the latino vote that cou

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