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>> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good friday morning to you. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm devin dwyer. great to have you with us. welcome to august. >> yeah. we are going to begin with one of our top stories. one of two americans now battling the ebola virus in africa will soon be getting treatment at an atlanta hospital. >> the hospital has a special isolation unit built in collaboration with the cdc. abc's dr. richard besser has been following the latest. >> reporter: a u.s. medevac team is racing to liberia to start evacuating american missionaries stricken with ebola, on...

>> today another day of success. four more boys have been freed. that's eight in all leaving underground roughly beneath me now five people still to be saved. we assume four boys and their assistant coach. >> we just had some ambulances go by behind us on their way to the hospital where all of the boys as they're brought out of the cave are being taken to a special isolation unit. they're going to be medically assessed. >> one of the divers, you've been in that cave. you have such a unique perspective. can you tell us what it is like down there? >> the major challenge is to make sure each of t...

Very good news to report. walk us through those boys and those still inside. >> well, we just had some ambulances go by behind us on their way to the hospital where all of the boys, as they're brought out of the cave, are being taken to a special isolation unit. they're going to be medically assessed. they're not even allowed physical contact with their parents yet. there's the risk of infection that doctors want to look at. and then of course just this harrowing ordeal that these boys have been through in trying to ease them back into the simple things like steady breathing, drinking water an...

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