Fight Over Quarantine for U.S. Ebola Workers; Will Jed Bush Run in 2016?
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Living in isolation in a tent in New Jersey. The U.S. nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa is furious that she is placed in a mandatory quarantine. The White House now butting heads with governors over what precautions are really needed. Some of these governors are backing off. This is all in a fight to prevent Ebola from spreading in the United States.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news this morning: a second shoot shot Friday in the high school cafeteria in Washington dies overnight, as the community tries to make sense of the tragedy.</s>BERMAN: Could there be another Bush in a White House run? That one. Jeb Bush, his son raising the possibility, raising speculation over his father's plans for 2016. Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. I'm John Berman.</s>ROMANS: I'm Christine Romans. It's 30 minutes past the hour. It is Monday morning. And there is major controversy this morning and some confusion over ever changing policies on how medical personnel returning from the Ebola outbreak zone of West Africa should be treated once when they arrive back in the United States. Now, New York state is backing off its mandatory 21-day hospital stay. It is allowing patients to be quarantined at home. Patients, we should say, returning medical workers who show know signs of any of the disease. New Jersey also clarifying its quarantine, allowing people to be confined at home if possible. But a nurse quarantined in a hospital tent blasting Chris Christie for diagnosing her as sick, even though he is, quote, "not a doctor", as she says. Meanwhile, the symptoms of the doctor being treated for the disease in a New York hospital -- those symptoms have progressed. Officials at Bellevue Hospital say Dr. Craig Spencer looked better Sunday than on Saturday, declaring his condition serious, but stable. A lot going on this morning. CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has more from Bellevue.</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: John, Christine, here at Bellevue, Dr. Craig Spencer is now in serious condition, doctors say. He has moved into the next phase of his illness. He now has gastrointestinal symptoms. He is getting a blood transfusion, a plasma transfusion actually from Nancy Writebol. She's an Ebola survivor who is treated at Emory University. He is also getting an anti-viral medication. His doctors aren't saying exactly what, but likely is experimental medication. It may be Brincidofovir, which is a medicine that's been given to other Ebola patients. And here in New York and New Jersey, the quarantine controversy rages on. At the center of it, a nurse named Kaci Hickox. She flew from Sierra Leone into Newark airport on Friday. She wasn't sick, she was feeling fine, but she was sent to the hospital where she is remained in isolation. She doesn't have a temperature. She's tested negative for Ebola twice. She says she's feeling her fine but her spirit is sometimes low.</s>KACI HICKOX, QUARANTINED NURSE: Everyone keeps asking, how are you feeling physically? I feel fine physically. But I don't think most people understand what it's like to be alone in a tent and to know there's nothing wrong with you and decisions are being made that don't make sense and show no compassion.</s>COHEN: After I spoke with Hickox, I spoke with Dr. Rick Sacra. He's a health care worker who's worked in West Africa and an Ebola survivor. He says he doesn't understand why Hickox is being quarantined. She doesn't have Ebola, she is not sick, so how could she possible give the disease to anyone? But Governor Chris Christie says he's protecting the public health -- Christine, John.</s>BERMAN: All right. Our thanks to Elizabeth Cohen at Bellevue. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo are standing by their decision to call for quarantines for anyone arriving in those states from West African countries when they had direct contact with Ebola patients, even though these governors have now clarified that the stay can be at home if possible. But the Obama administration pushing back, arguing back with unnecessary quarantines will discourage health care workers from fighting Ebola at the source.</s>GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: I'm sorry if any way she was inconvenienced. But the inconvenience that could occur from having folks who are symptomatic and ill out amongst the public is a much, much greater concern of mine.</s>GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D), NEW JERSEY: We are staying one step ahead. We are doing everything possible. Some people will say we're being too cautious. I'll take that criticism because that's better than the alternative.</s>SAMANTHA POWER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES: We need to find a way when they come home that they are treated like conquering heroes and not stigmatized for the tremendous work that they had done.</s>ROMANS: The Texas nurses who cared for the first U.S. Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, those nurses say they confronted obstacles, including inadequate protection guidelines from the CDC and lies from Duncan. The nurses told CBS that Duncan said he came from Africa and only later specifying Liberia. They say he misled officials about other possible sources of exposure.</s>SCOTT PELLEY, CBS NEWS: What information was it that he denied to the health officials?</s>SIDIA ROSE, TEXAS HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN NURSE: About his travels, about his -- him burying his pregnant daughter who died in child birth. He denied that. He said that's not true.</s>PELLEY: So, he wasn't honest with them?</s>ROSE: Yes.</s>ROMANS: Meanwhile, Thomas Eric Duncan's fiancee is struggling to put her life back together with the help of her church. More than a week after passing the 21-day isolation period, Louise Troh, her son and nephews are looking for a place to live. Troh's pastor tells "The Dallas Morning News" landlords are reluctant to rent to them and nearly all of the belongings were destroyed in the decontamination process. It's pretty clear there is no reason not to rent to them. I mean, they passed the period. That is where the Ebola has become fear-bola. And you don't like to see anybody put in that position. All right. Right now, there is no cure for Ebola, but governments and pharmaceutical companies are working together, committing millions of dollars to change that. The two leading vaccines to protect the virus, both are being funded by a public and private money. One was developed by the U.S. National Institute of Health and GlaxoSmithKline. The other was initially developed by the public health agency of Canada. It's now owned by a small U.S. drugmaker. It's unclear who will pay for the drugs, but pharma companies are betting on high demands from government and aid groups. Time for an early start on your money. European stocks higher. U.S. stock futures are up this Monday morning. Guess what? All this volatility was the best week of the year for stocks last week. Just when you wanted to go hide, then suddenly, it is the best week.</s>BERMAN: You were on assignment for much of that week. You were not doing the money reporting for much of that week.</s>ROMANS: That's right.</s>BERMAN: I don't think it's a coincidence.</s>ROMANS: Benign neglect.</s>BERMAN: This morning, we are learning details about the deadly attack at Canada's War Memorial and the parliament there. Police say the government prepared a video -- the gunman prepared a video of himself they say shows that he was driven by ideological and political motives. Officials say they investigating Michael Zehaf-Bibeau's interaction with numerous people in the days leading up to the shooting. They're trying to determine whether those individuals had anything to do with the attack.</s>ROMANS: A changing of the guard in Afghanistan. U.S. Marines and British troops officially ending their combat operations, transferring Camps Leatherneck and Bastion to Afghan control in ceremonies on Sunday, those two locations. The flags were lowered there for the last time, marking the military milestone, every combat marine and British soldier will soon be coming home.</s>BERMAN: There was a warm welcome home for Jeff Fowle. The Ohio man detained in North Korea for nearly six months. Fowle and his family attended church services at Urbancrest Baptist church on Sunday. The churchgoers applauded the family as they took the stage and participated in a moment of prayer. Fowle was arrested and detained in North Korea for leaving a bible at a sailors club.</s>ROMANS: Could we see bush and Clinton in 2016? This time it would be Jeb facing Hillary. Plenty of speculation about both potential candidates. On Sunday, Jeb's son, George P. Bush in an ABC interview, he gave the clearest sign yet of what his father might be thinking.</s>INTERVIEWER: Is your dad going to run for president?</s>GEORGE P. BUSH, SON OF JEB BUSH: I think he's still assessing it.</s>INTERVIEWER: Do you think it is more than 50 percent or less than 50 percent?</s>BUSH: I think it's more than likely that he is giving this a serious thought in moving forward.</s>INTERVIEWER: More than likely that he'll run?</s>BUSH: That he'll run.</s>ROMANS: Jeb's oldest son is involved in a campaign of his own this year. He's running for Texas land commissioner. That would certainly make it a very interesting race.</s>BERMAN: Oh, yes.</s>ROMANS: All right. Thirty-eight minutes past the hour. Death toll rising in the war waged by ISIS in a key Syrian city. We're live with what's being done to stop the terrorists from taking over the town.</s>BERMAN: Plus, another victim in Friday's school shooting died overnight. We're learning some new information about the tragedy as well. We will tell you all about it, next.