Recep. A double play ends the game and sends the orioles to the next round. And a ground ball to third. Flaherty, second base. The turn. In time. The Baltimore Orioles sweep the tigers. The os next stop, baltimore. The royals will play in the American League championship series. All right. Mika, your dance worked. It did. This is my daughters team. The orioles. She goes to hopkins. Its baltimore. Thats the royals. Oh. The orioles. But your dance but willie geist, the kansas city royals, they are an extraordinary story. Unbelievable. And the fact that they swept the angels is just kind of mind blowing. Angels had the best record in baseball this year, dominated their division, dominated the American League. The royals had to fight in, won a onegame playoff in extra innings to get in and sweep the best team in baseball, perhaps, in los angeles and move on. How cool is this alcs. Feels like its 1985 when you have the orioles and royals, going to be playing in baltimore on friday. Im going to baltimore friday. The game there is. Thomas. I usually hate him for giving the cookies. Hate him for a lot of reasons. Youre just a hater. But im so excited. The dance worked. The dance whats the dance. Would you like to recreate the dance. Only when thomas starts singing magic magic magic. Its a very dance. Worst dancer ive seen in my life. My teenagers will never be the same. It worked. The tigers getting swept. I hated to see that. We have a put that back up there. So weve got a quite a lineup. Oh, yes. So the nationals, willie, a lot of weeping and nashing of teeth in washington, d. C. , sunday morning, over the longest game in playoff history. 16 innings was it or 18 innings . 18 innings. Six hours and change. Theyre in trouble now. They have to go to San Francisco and play there. Theyre in big trouble. Looks like the series to be watching right now is going to be the dodgers and the
cardinals. Its monday, october 6th. A lot to talk about beyond baseball. Political right Nick Confessore with us. And we will start on the set with the Ebola Outbreak and just a few hours, another american who tested positive for ebola will arrive at Nebraska Medical Center in omaha. Ashoka mukpo the nbc free lance cameraman working with dr. Nancy snyderman in africa will be treated by dozens of specialist. The fifth american to be diagnosed with the virus. In dallas the man who the cdc says slipped by screeners into the u. S. Is fighting for his life. Eric Thomas Duncan is in Critical Condition and family members say he is on a respirator. Reporters on the ground following both caseses. John yang live at the Nebraska Medical Center and mark potter outside the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. Well start with john, ashoka mukpo is set to arrive today. What can you tell us about how the hospital is getting ready
and what his condition is . They are ready, mika. There is is a biocontainment unit, one of the biggest Isolation Unit in america, ten beds awaiting him, about 40 medical personnel will be treating him. Hes on his final leg here after a brief stop in bangor, maine, to repul and go through the formality of u. S. Customs. Once he lands at omaha, he will land at the main airport here, eply field. The plane will taxi off to a remote part of the airport. Hell be loaded into an ambulance for the quick 15minute drive here. This is a part of the airport where hell encounter no public. Its not a part of the airport where the general public would be. Hell be wearing a protective suit covered head to toe. No part of his body exposed so that hell be completely covered and then once he gets here they will be evaluating him here at the hospital in the
biocontainment unit. About 40 medical personnel, people actually volunteering to treat him for ebolap. Mika . All right. Thanks very much for that. Well get to mark potter in a minute for the apparently worsening condition of the other patient. Meanwhile the outbreak in africa is getting worse by the day. According to the latest statistics by the World Health Organization the death toll stands at over 3400 with over 7,000 recorded cases, but the actual number is likely to be worse. The country of sierra leone had its worst day since the outbreak began, recording 121 deaths in a single day. And the growing crisis is bringing attention to the initial response by the international community. A top official at the World Health Organization tells the Washington Post the group may have waited too long to respond to the outbreak. It took the who 4. 5 months to declare a Global Health emergency and by that time it was too late. Joining us from london, professor of Infectious Diseaseat the London School of hygiene and tropical med crin dr. David heymann, who is a former World Health Organization official who investigated the first Ebola Outbreak back in 1976. Its good to have you this morning. Dr. Hayman, obviously a blistering report in the Washington Post yesterday about a lot of missed signals starting last spring, a moment at the end of july where the head of Doctors Without Borders was begging the World Health Organization to step up and declare this an international emergency. And she was called overly pessimist pessimistic. Why so many missed signals in this outbreak . Its really not clear why this outbreak wasnt dealt with earlier, but its also clear that if it is dealt with in a rural area where theres Better Community organization, village chiefs, village elders, they can help with the response. It got out of a rural area, unlike the 25 previous outbreaks that were stopped in rural areas, and now its in an urban
area. So what can what should the United States be doing . What should the World Community be doing right now to slow the rapid spread of this disease down in west africa . And are they doing it . Most important is the three principles that have stopped outbreaks in the past. Thats finding an and a isolating patients and when theyre isolated Health Workers dont get infected. Tracing contacts with those that have been in contact with the patient. Checking their temperature twice daily for three weeks. If they get sick, diagnosing if its ebola, putting them in the hospital. The third is making sure that the community understands how to prevent infection and that there are ways to bury dead bodies and take care of those that are sick. This is whats required. I guess i want to know what your concern level is about whether or not that can happen in africa and as it per tape ta
the u. S. Weve been hearing medical Officials Say theres a certain drug to treat ebola and its very limited in supply and im confused as to how we can be so sure it can be contained and that we have the ability and that everything is going to be okay if there arent enough drugs to treat it . Well, there certainly arent any drugs to treat it. Thats clear. The outbreak must be stopped by the traditional means that we just spoke about. Isolating patients, tracing contacts, making sure that people with fever are diagnosed and community understanding. Very, very difficult in urban areas in africa. But there are some hopes. There are some remedies that could be tried which might be sustainable. For example, the blood of people who have survived from ebola contains antibodies. If those antibodies can be collected and provided to patients who are still sick, it may be that it can decrease the virus in their blood and
actually make them better. Hopefully thats what will happen and these are some of the things that need to be studied. Antiviral drugs are present, but theyre not in such a supply that they could be tried at present. Dr. David heymann, thank you very much. A couple Unanswered Questions about how its being dealt with here in the u. S. That dont add up in terms of the drugs there are to treat it and how people are getting it. We had a fascinating discussion yesterday on meet the press. I saw that. Fantastic. You had David Axelrod and gen eiffel on the side of im sorry, ill say it, theyre like the cop in the simpsons. Whos the cop . Come on. David will be here. Chief wigham. Pretty good. Things will be blowing up. Everything is flooding. He goes, nothing to see here. That is not. But there are so many Unanswered Questions. Yeah. You had yesterday, david
jumped me because i simply quoted the doctor that got ebola and came back to the United States who talked about what a horrible situation it was and right now youve got the government saying dont worry about it. Nothing to dont panic. If you ask any tough questions, suddenly youre panicking. Chuck todd brought up a great point yesterday, you look at all the scandals over the past 18 months, willie, whens the government says dont worry about it, we have it taken care of. Forget about barack obama, go back to impeachment, the 2000, iraq, abu ghraib, the housing bubble generated by government policy, the irs, va, nsa wire tapping, james rosen, the federal government telling us to not ask tough questions and not to worry about it is a problem. If you read the washington
post, it is very clear theyve been downplaying this from the very beginning. I dont think americans are going to sit back and go, its cool. The governments got it taken care of. I dont believe the government has it taken care of. Why trust the government on something this important . I think they have to prove to us they have it taken care of. The problem is they may be right in this case theres nothing to panic about but because of all the things youve listed over the two decades or so people dont instinctively trust what they hear from the government anymore. I think its true that United States is different from west africa. I think we have better implements in place to help contain this. As you say no one is going to take anything at face value. Its smart not to panic right now because listen, the way we handle things is very different from the way theyre capable of handling things in west africa. Do we, by raising questions, this is what bothered me yesterday, simply raising the questions that the Washington Post raised, about how the World Health Organization last
spring said this is small, dont worry about it. This is small, and then the head of the World Health Organization, when this had already exploded, had the head of Doctors Without Borders coming saying pay more attention of this. The white house this is the one thing, i will tell you, you cant argue, they were completely on top of and sent assistance to africa because they saw it coming. Theyre talking about it. The only problem is, though they acted too. Nick, from all reports, the response right now, is too slow. We were talking about boots on the ground but its the same people, same governments that were saying about the africa crisis, dont worry about it, its going to be fine, right, and they were wrong then. Right. Are the same ones saying about the u. S. Version, dont worry, its going to be pine. As you were saying, willie, we have a Huge Public Health infrastructure here. By the way, can we add the World Health Organization and United Nations all government
entities have failed us thus far. Why should we be confident theyve underestimated this. Why should we sit back and go, its cool. We need to be asking tough questions. No question about that. Right now in the u. S. You have a greater chance of being shot in the head than getting this ri sflus ebola. Theres some element of like do you want to create a panic, do you want people, you know, if they see someone sneezing in their Office Running home and going crazy. No, but we want to deal with flights coming in. That is important. By the way, most americans dont understand, i know all the smart guys, the smart women understand, why we continue to allow flights coming from west africa. I can tell you, im a regular guy. Im a simply country lawyer, willie. Youve seen me in court. You know. Very good. The whole bit. Most of us simple folk, we dont understand why you keep letting flights come into the United States unabated. They go, oh, it will stop the
relief efforts. Really . Is there not a better way to make sure we can screen to make sure flights going over to west africa with relief workers are able to come back . I want us to declare war on ebola. I really do. Im not saying here like a lot of stooges that ive been reading, its their problem. No. Its our problem. Its the worlds problem. I dont understand why we cant take a tougher line on people flying into this country. Well, i think one of the other Health Stories that were going to get to in morning papers is on ep ter row virus 68, a child that died over the weekend . In new jersey. This story is creeping in under the radar compared to ebola. He went to sleep with mi a mika, he went to sleep without any symptoms at all. We will talk about that coming up. Still ahead on morning joe, a nation under medical alert. Not just ebola as i mentioned, the dangerous enterovirus has
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all right. Time to take a look at the morning papers. The new jersey star ledger. The cdc has confirmed a 4yearold preschooler from new jersey is the first child to die after contracting the d68 strain of enterovirus. Eli wallers parents say other than having pink eye, their son appeared to be in good health before he passed away. Eli was the youngest of three
triplets leaving behind two sisters. His father describes him as, quote, as a shy puppy who was full of love. The cdc says as of friday there are 543 reported cases of enterovirus d68 as cross 43 states. Eli went to sleep, perfectly fine. And didnt wake up from this virus. This, as weve been talking about it some time, everybody talking about ebola, this is certainly frightening. Weve got the head of the cdc coming on. We have a lot of questions for him about this as well as the ebola spread. The San Francisco chronicle one of silicon valleys Largest Companies will split into two. Hewlettpackard will reportedly divide its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware business. The company is trying to stay relevant as the pc market continues to change. Hp currently has more than 300,000 employees. Its on track to hit 112 billion in revenue this year. The San Diego Union tribune
california voters will decide how to scale back prison population in the face of rising population and costs. A new measure would transform multpy nonviolent crimes punishable by brief jail time rather than long stays in a state prison. The measure entitled proposition 47 would apply retroactively lowering the penalties for thousands serving time. Voters will decide on the measure on november 4th. Willie, i think youre going to see this in one state after another, states, voters will look at criminalization of not just marijuana but other substances. Yeah. And possession itself of drugs that 20 years ago would have put you in jail for 20 years, i just think their xway going to say come on, enough is enough. If people want to do that to themselves let them but why should we pay for prison for 20 years. Look at the overcrowding and some of the sentences, if you are found and pulled over in
your car in some states with marijuana you can go to jail for five or six years. I dont think most Common People or people of good sense think thats a good idea for anybody. Its insanity. The dale mail, japanese zoo knows why its attempt to get two high yeen nas to mate were males. This happened to me in high school and i couldnt figure it out. What are you talking about . I thoug