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About safety at the center for disease control and how to fight ebola. this happened after a mistake may have exposed a technician to ebola. joe johns reports, it is the latest development in the struggle to handle and study lethal viruses and bacteria while fighting them at the same time. >> reporter: a potentially deadly mistake at the u.s. institution that handles some of the most dangerous biological materials. the center for disease and control says the ebola virus was transferred from a secure lab to a lab not equipped to handle the virus. so far, no symptoms of the virus. the lab tech w...

Is something congress has been very opposed to. >> yeah, for years now. barbara starr, thank you so much from the pentagon for us today. and american veterinarian got the best present she could ask for this christmas, her freedom. stacy addison arrested in east timor after police found drugs in the cab she was in. the 41-year-old maintained her innocence throughout her detention. she will remain in east timor until she gets a new passport and after that she says, without a doubt, she is going straight back home to portland, oregon. just moments ago, the state department issued a statement sayi...

Joe, tell me what happened here. >> reporter: this apparently happened on monday and was discovered on tuesday. cdc said a small amount of material from an experiment was mistakenly transferred from one lab to another and it may have contained live ebola virus. material was in a sealed plate and cdc says it should not have been moved from point a to point b. cdc says we're talking about one individual who is being monitored and that technician has no symptoms of the illness. >> you say one individual is being monitored. are there concerns that the exposure could be wider than this one lab tech...

With us. can you stick around? >> of course. >> lovely. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. ahead "@this hour," the united states says it was not isis, the group that shot down a coalition plane, no. but that terror group is claiming they did that and also holding a jordanian pilot captive. we're going to settle the score on this story and the rumors. latest from the region in a moment. it's another uh-oh at the centers for disease control. this time a lab tech may have been exposed to ebola. is there an internal safety problem going on there? because once you hear the list of what's been...

The cdc says there's no danger to the public but the incident raises concerns and we have joe johns with us to talk about the details. i mean, how is a lab tech exposed to ebola. >> i know, think about it, this is probably a lot about procedures and we might not even know about this but for all the other things that have happened over the last year. this apparently happened on monday, discovered on tuesday, the cdc said a small amount of material from an experiment was mistakenly transferred from one lab to another, might have contained live ebola virus, cdc says we're talking about one indivi...