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ISIS Pushed Back To Perimeter Of Kobani; Cuba's Contribution To Fight Against Ebola; Ada Lovelace And the Digital Age; Spanish Health Officials Quarantine Three People, Including Nurse's Assistant's Husband; Beijing's Strategy To End Demonstrations In Hong Kong; Super Typhoon Bears Down On Japan

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet. Now the World

Health Organization tries to calm fears of Ebola spreading in Europe as angry health workers in Spain demand better safety measures.

Plus, take a close look at this video. The FBI is asking for the public's help in identifying this English-speaking ISIS militant.

And she says it's not a scandal, it's a sex crime: Jennifer Lawrence does not hold back in his first interview since those hacked nude photos

were posted online.

Now the Ebola virus continues to spread, and those we depend on to help fight it are at risk. Now the United Nation's mission in Liberia says

a second medical worker on the team has just tested positive for the virus, the first died just over a week ago.

Now the World Health Organization says the threat to Europe is very low, but that may not be enough to reassure the people of Spain.

Now health officials there have quarantined three people and 50 others are being monitored for any sign of the virus. That, after a nurse's

assistant became the first person to contract Ebola outside of Africa.

Now, her case has prompted fear and anger among Spanish healthcare workers who say that they have not received enough training on how to deal

with Ebola patients.

Now for more on the story, Al Goodman joins us now live from Madrid, Spain. And Al, more patients are being monitored for Ebola there in Spain.

AL GOODMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Kristie.

Well, the key patients in this Ebola crisis are here in this hospital, the hospital Carlos III here. That includes the nurse's assistant who is

the only confirmed case, her husband who is being monitored as a suspicious potentially developing it and two other people, two other medical workers

who are also being monitored.

Now two other people have been monitored, but authorities say that they have tested negative and they will be released at this hour. We are

waiting, as you can see here, the massive media interest for a couple of hospital officials to walk out, this has been promised here for the last

couple of hours and you can see how everyone is waiting to get official information.

Also this day, a few hours ago, for the first time since the crisis broke, the prime minister spoke about it in parliament urging calm, saying

the government would be transparent and they will get to the bottom of this.

But critics are saying the government has been less than transparent and has not been up to the task and that's why you've seen growing concern

and protests -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, growing concern and fear and anger, that's why we see the media scrum behind you. And Al, Spanish unions, they're blaming the

government for poor medical protective equipment, tell us more about what they're saying and how the government is responding in kind.

GOODDMAN: Well, the government has said that the line since the very tense press conference a couple of nights ago at the health ministry when

this crisis broke, has been that all the procedures and all the protocols were followed and they'll look into this, but nothing is to blame so far.

But the unions have got a different line, they say the health care worker's unions they say we the unions have been advising the government

here for weeks now, ever since a couple of missionaries, Spanish missionaries in Africa who came down with the Ebola virus were flown back

here where they died, one in August, one in September. After that, this nurse's assistant who worked on that medical team, she got the virus.

And the government has said that they are doing everything they can, but the unions are saying you have not really prepared for this in terms of

the training for the workers or the equipment. It's not up to the same high standards -- the suits, the gloves -- that they're getting in the

United States and elsewhere in Europe.

And one other note, Kristie, the key couple in this, the nurse's assistant and her husband, she with the virus, he under observation --

close observation quarantine -- they have a dog and at their home officials are planning to set the dog down, to put the dog to sleep on fears that it

might spread the virus. And that has sparked protests spurred by the couple trying to save their dog.

So there's a lot of angles to this very complicated and tense story -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And a number of individuals being monitored, this is also extending to the family pet as well. Al Goodman on the story for us live

from Madrid, thank you.

Now last month the United Nations said that it would need nearly $1 billion to fight the virus. And as those funds trickle in, let's look at

what some countries are doing to help in West Africa.

Now Cuba has sent 165 health care workers to Sierra Leone to help train the local staff. Now close to 300 more will soon follow. We'll have

more on that a little bit later in the program.

Now Britain is planning to build and to operate hundreds of new Ebola clinics in Sierra Leone.

China has also promised to send a mobile lab to Sierra Leone with a team of 59 doctors and health care workers.

And the United States is sending more than 3,000 troops to Liberia where they will help infected physicians and health care workers.

Now, those U.S. troops have opened mobile labs to test for Ebola in Liberia. Now CNN's Nima Elgabir shows us how they are saving lives.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is what we do in our day job I guess you could say. ??

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The U.S. naval personnel deployed to Liberia the day job has become testing for the Ebola virus.

Their lab just minutes from International Medical Corps Ebola care center. The U.S. has funded four such labs in the fight against the virus. ?

SEAN CASEY, INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EBOLA TEAM DIRECTOR: It's a complete game changer. I mean it -- patients were afraid at one point of

coming to an Ebola treatment unit because they are afraid of becoming infected. Some patients have only minor symptoms and they're not convinced

that they have Ebola and so they might avoid coming because they're afraid that they'll become infected here. And now that we have the lab, patients

can get the results back within hours. ??

ELBAGIR: Perched on top of a hillside, the IMC treatment facility feels very far away from the crowded beds and dinghy hallways of the

Liberian government centers. This 19-year-old waited a week for an ambulance. He was carried here bleeding by his father. Today he's recovered

enough to tell us he thinks he's going home. ??For the naval scientists stationed here, it's hot and difficult work, but it's worth it. ??

LT. COL. BENJAMIN ESPINOSA, TEAM LEAD: In one aspect, we're all humans, you know. This is the humanitarian crisis that we want to help

with. But this isn't just a regional threat. Really this is a continental and a global threat if this were allowed to continue to propagate.??

ELBAGIR: But there will always be those they couldn't save. The IMC treatment center opened less than a month ago and already a line of graves

has snaked through this clearing in the jungle. And more are being dug. ??

President Obama has authorized up to 4,000 troops. Two hundred have arrived in country, 600 are expected before the end of the month. But will

it be enough? ??

COL. JIM CZAMIK, COMMAND SURGEON, JOINT FORCES COMMAND: There is no question in my mind that we are making an impact. There is no better fight

worth fighting than the one in Liberia right now. Soldiers are used to moving toward the sounds of the guns. These are the loudest guns that the

world has heard in a long time. ??

ELBAGIR: How quickly they can translate the gains here across the country will go some way to silencing the guns for good. ??

Nima Elbagir, CNN, Bong County, Liberia.??

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LU STOUT: In Syria, a Kurdish fighter inside the Syrian city of Kobani says ISIS has been pushed back to the perimeter of the city.

Now a CNN team on the ground reports hearing planes and seeing at least one large explosion consistent with an airstrike.

But even with these gains, U.S. officials say that the city will soon fall into the hands of the terror group. And since launching an offensive

in June, the Sunni militants have captured dozens of cities in northeast Syria as well as northern Iraq.

Now the U.S.-led coalition is not just fighting ISIS from the sky, the FBI is appealing to the American public for help in identifying an English-

speaking ISIS militant shown in one of the group's recruitment videos, because he speaks with a North American accent. The FBI posted part of the

video on its website asking people know who he is.

CNN's Pamela Brown reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: While the brothers from the mujahedeen (inaudible) that captured them.

BROWN (voice-over): The FBI is asking for the public's help identifying this jihadi speaking in what sounds like an American accent in

an ISIS propaganda video. ??

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The flames of war are only beginning. ??

BROWN: For weeks the FBI has been using facial recognition and voice analysis trying to trace his accent and comparing what they find to other

Americans the intelligence community has been watching. ??

FBI director James Comey told "60 Minutes" there are about a dozen Americans currently fighting in Syria but he's even more worried about the

Americans not currently on his radar. ??

JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: I don't know what I don't know. ??

BROWN: The effort is part of a broader public appeal by the FBI to identify Americans seeking to join jihadist groups fighting overseas. It

comes on the heels of a 19-year-old Chicago man arrested Saturday. CNN has learned that Mohammed Khan wasn't on the FBI's radar until very recently.

??

CULLY STIMSON, NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: Without this digital footprint, I don't think this young man would have

come on our radar screen at all. ??

BROWN: The FBI says Khan was in contact with someone online who was allegedly trying to help him get into Syria to fight with ISIS. When police

arrested Khan at Chicago O'Hare's international airport, FBI agents were simultaneously searching house but Khan's family members refused to talk to

reporters. ??

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: What should we know about your son? ??

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Please, we want privacy. ??

BROWN: Notebooks found inside Khan's home also indicated he paid $4,000 for a round trip ticket flying from Chicago to Vienna, Austria, then

into Istanbul, Turkey. ??

STIMSON: It tells me probably that he was trying to evade being caught by purchasing a round trip ticket versus a single one-way ticket, by

spending more than the el cheapo ticket you could get and also by not going direct so that he is more likely than not, not raising a red flag for

intelligence services.

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LU STOUT: Now, the 19-year-old faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Now meanwhile, British intelligence agencies may have broken up a terror plot in its early stages. Four men in their early 20s were arrested

in London on Tuesday morning. Now details are thin at the moment, but we do know that this is part of an ongoing investigation into Islamist related

terrorism.

Now police say the arrested men have ties to Iraq and Syria.

Now you're watching CNN News Stream. And still to come, as patience for Hong Kong's protesters runs out, so do the crowds. We go live onto the

streets.

Also ahead in China, thousands are fighting Dengue fever in the country's worst outbreak in more than 20 years.

And, in a sky near you, blood moon: the sequel. We'll explain why a total lunar eclipse turns the moon red.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now health officials are speaking at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid on the ongoing Ebola crisis. Let's listen in now.

(COVERAGE OF SPAIN'S EBOLA RESPONSE)

LU STOUT: And you've been listening to health care officials surrounded by quite a media pack there speaking outside the Carlos III

hospital in Madrid, Spain. They have been addressing the way Ebola, the deadly virus, is being handled in the country after a nurse's assistant

became the first person to contract Ebola outside of Africa.

Now the officials just then, they said that they are still trying to determine how the nurse's assistant contracted Ebola.

Now health officials there in Spain, they have quarantined three people and then a number of others, some 50 others are being monitored for

any signs of the deadly virus.

Now meanwhile, here in Hong Kong, student protest leaders and the city's chief secretary have a date to meet. After more than a week of a

stalemate, talks have been scheduled for Friday afternoon.

Now out on the streets, only a few hundred pro-democracy protesters remain, but have more gathered outside this evening? Andrew Stevens is

there. He joins us now. And Andrew, are more demonstrators returning to the streets there?

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There certainly seem to be, Kristie. This is the biggest crowd we've seen here for the last

couple of nights. And it's also quite a vocal crowd as well. There are hundreds, if not thousands now of people down here and there's sort of

competing open mics going on. You'll see straight down the road, there's one of the protesters speaking to quite a big crowd just to the left there

is another crowd of people gathering listening. And actually behind this camera position a third speaker is also talking to a significant crowd as

well.

So there is a lot of people here, obviously there's quite a few just come down to see what the scene is. But compare this scene with just a few

hours ago, and definitely more and more people are coming out.

Now the question, obviously, is just how long will they stay here, how long will they be allowed to stay here. Those talks, as you say, they

start tomorrow. They are expected to go to several rounds. The question is, will these protesters be allowed to stay here while that happens?

I spoke to one China expert today. And he gave me his views on what's likely to happen here and what Beijing is doing to try to bring this to an

end.

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STEVENS: Michael Degolia (ph) has been watching Hong Kong's transition back to China since the 1980s. As head of the Hong Kong

Transition Project, he spent 30 years tracking this reunion. And he now says that Hong Kong's strategy for dealing with this protest is straight

out of Beijing's playbook.

MICHAEL DEGOLIA (ph), CHINA EXPERT: It's called the anaconda scenario, which is after the snake that, you know, doesn't kill with

poison, what it does is it constricts and then if things continue you, then it crushes.

STEVENS: A strategy to slowly squeeze the life out of these protests by turning Hong Kong against the movement using economic, and not martial,

force.

DEGOLIA (ph): Really, what they're using is economic pressure.

The first move in this anaconda scenario was a tap that the Mainland totally controlled, which was Mainland tourism. It's only about 4 percent

of Hong Kong's GDP.

STEVENS: So they've turned that tap off.

DEGOLIA (ph): It's 9 percent of their halfway off -- it's 9 percent of employment. They've turned it halfway off. The first thing was, and it

will start biting end of this week, is the group tours.

STEVENS: So what does China see as the end game? What -- how do they see this constricting process ending this standoff?

DEGOLIA (ph): All the passion, the real passion about politics in Hong Kong has been on the pro-democracy pose up to now. I mean, if you

look at the so-called pro-Beijing group, they're opportunist. They're interested parties. They have deep beliefs, but there's not passion there.

We're starting to see passion rise. And it's not just passion of some of the old Red Guards that remember the 1960s here, we're seeing passion in

younger people and in these taxi drivers and in house wives, people getting very upset about what's happening. And that's what they're waiting for is

to build up, put pressure on the government to act, turn public opinion, keep tightening.

So this is -- this is the least damage it can make with the most impact on employment, and that's what China is counting on -- Mainland

China is counting.

STEVENS: So, during that process, the police stay off the streets, the protesters are allowed to stay here. Give me a timeframe, do you

think?

DEGOLIA (ph): Probably by the end of this week and next weekend and certainly by early next week we're going to be starting to get instead of

murmurings and groans and complaints, it's going to start escalating to screams and people being very upset about this.

You're going to start seeing a number of the restaurants and so forth, which are pretty marginal in the first place, in terms of their turnover,

suddenly shutting. And some of the big restaurants may employ 200, 300, 400 people, OK. Once you start throwing those people onto the street in

increasing numbers you're going to begin to get a real shift in public opinion.

STEVENS: And backing up their words with deeds, more and more of these tents are appearing at the main protest site, which has blocked the

main artery into the financial district. Well into the second week of protests, the organizational structure continues to grow, showing there's

plenty of life left and plenty of commitment left on these streets.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: So, it sounds like, Kristie, a waiting game here. As Michael Degolia (ph) is saying this is something out of Beijing's playbook.

They have a lot of experience in dealing with labor unrest in Mainland China and he says it's quite clear now that they are -- it's their strategy

that's being employed on the streets here in Hong Kong. But it does sound like it's going to be an attritional thing, which means that this scene

could go on for, you know, as he says at least several more days.

LU STOUT: Yeah, interesting there from Michael Degolia (ph) using economic pressure that is China using economic pressure to squeeze and

bring Hong Kong more into line. Andrew Stevens reporting live from Admiralty where he's also reporting more protesters out and about tonight

compared to recent days. Andrew, thank you.

You're watching CNN News Stream. We'll be back right after the break.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream and these are your world headlines.

Now a Kurdish fighter inside the embattled Syrian city of Kobani says ISIS has been pushed back to the eastern edge of the town. And as a CNN

team reports, new airstrikes have been launched over the city.

But even with these apparent gains, the U.S. says Kobani will soon fall to the militants.

Now Kenya's president is at The Hague to face charges of crime's against humanity. He is accused of driving Ethnic killings after the

disputed 2007 presidential election. Now he handed power to his vice president to avoid being the first standing head of state to appear before

the international criminal court.

A UN medical official working in Liberia has contracted Ebola. This is the second member of the UN mission in the country to be infected with

the virus, the first died last month.

Now meanwhile in Spain, two people who were being monitored for Ebola have tested negative and three other people remain under quarantine. Some

50 more are under observation after a nurse in Madrid came down with Ebola.

Now the Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa, countries including the United States, Britain and China have all

pledged to help by sending personnel or setting up facilities.

But one of the biggest commitments made so far is coming from Cuba. Now for a look at this small country is helping, Patrick Oppmann joins me

live from Havana.

And Patrick, Cuba has been very instrumental providing medical talent to fight the outbreak in Africa.

PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's absolutely right, Kristie. Cuba, of course, is a small financial strapped country,

but as CNN was shown exclusively, Cuba is now playing a big role in the global fight against Ebola.

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OPPMANN: Cuba health workers suit up to fight Ebola.

Right now, it's just practice, but soon they will be facing the real thing.

This medical institute in Havana is the island's Ebola boot camp, providing a grueling two week training course before workers head to the

front lines of the epidemic in Africa.

This is where the Cuban doctors and nurses practice treating patients infected with Ebola. They have to repeat these procedures again and again,

because the slightest mistake in the field could have fatal consequences.

Already, 165 health workers from the island have been sent to West Africa with close to another 300 soon to join them. All are volunteers,

officials say. For at least six months, they plan to treat people infected with Ebola.

Before they go, they learn how to put on and take off seven different pieces of protective equipment, leaving no gaps where Ebola could enter.

Despite the training, officials say, they will be in constant danger.

"We've instructed them so that they will not get sick, but they are at great risk," he says. "It is our hope that none of them do get sick. We

have the conviction that perhaps a few will fall ill but the majority will not."

The peril they face, Dr. Osmany Rodriguez says, will force them to stay focused.

DR. OSMANY RODRIGUEZ, TRAINING TO FIGHT EBOLA: To be afraid is not a big problem. I think that being afraid will help us to protect even more

against that viral disease, because if we feel that we are so sure about everything we're going to do every day, it may be more dangerous than being

afraid of the disease.

OPPMANN: Cuba is by its own government's admission, a poor and small country, but is has taken the lead in fighting Ebola.

DR. JOSE LUIS DI FABIO, PAN-AMERICAN HELATH ORGANIZATION: We hope that Cuba example will probably take the scare that's behind going to work

in West Africa, probably people with -- be a little bit less scary and accept this health challenge to go and provide assistance to the African

population.

OPPMANN: Cuban officials say they are doing what they can, but to stop the epidemic from spreading further, the fight against Ebola needs to

become over a wide effort.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

OPPMANN: And Kristie, of course, Cuba has a long history of responding to natural disasters around the world, but health officials tell

us that this is perhaps the most dangerous mission their doctors have ever embarked on. All the same, though, some 15,000 Cuban health workers have

volunteered to go to Africa to fight Ebola -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And quite a contribution is that.

Patrick Oppmann joining us live from Havana, thank you, Patrick.

Now, a lot of activity going on at the world weather center. Folks there are tracking a typhoon, also collecting the best images of the so-

called blood moon. Mari Ramos joins us with that and more from the World Weather Center. Hey, Mari.

MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kristie, we do have a lot to get to, but let's go ahead and start with the serious stuff, a beautiful

images in itself, but very scary when you look at Super Typhoon Vongfong. It is out to sea, no threat to land right now, no immediate threat to land

anyway. And you can see why this storm is so impressive.

Maximum sustained winds close to 270 kilometers per hour. Yeah, it is the strongest storm so far this entire year in the entire planet. So this

is pretty impressive already.

Winds are gusting to more than 300 kilometers per hour near that center of circulation that you see so well defined right here on this

satellite image. It is a very large weather system also. You know, this is second to the last one that we had was this intense was Super Typhoon

Haiyan that hit the Philippines last year. I want to be almost 11 months ago.

So it's pretty impressive there when you see it.

The forecast for this storm looks like it's going to continue heading toward Japan. However, even though we think it already has reached peak

intensity, we may see a little bit of fluctuation, maybe get a little more intense, maybe weaken a little bit. But long-term we're expecting the

storm to continue weakening at it heads in the general direction of the southern and western portions of Japan.

So, these big super typhoons can't maintain that intensity for a very long time. So we're going to see the storm still as a typhoon moving

closer and closer to Japan. So definitely something to monitor.

Now, you'll see it right here three days from now reaching the Ryukyu Islands, fairly close to Okinawa, still as a powerful storm, close to 200

kilometer per hour winds and then continuing to move closer to maybe that margin of error takes you to the southern tip of the Korean peninsula,

maybe western Japan, the key will be how quickly it begins to make that turn to the north and then to the east, pretty much what we saw with the

last storm system, timing is going to be everything.

For you guys watching from the Philippines, yeah I know it's really close, but the storm is forecast to move away from you in the next couple

of days, so no direct impact expected here, except from the moisture associated with this weather system that will continue to bring you some

problems there.

Very quickly, we do have another tropical cyclone, this one in the Bay of Bengal, also dangerous. Not as intense, but it could have winds close

to 180 kilometers per hour by the time it gets closer to the coastline here of India and the Bay of Bengal, so keep an eye out for this storm as well.

And now, with my last 30 seconds, the pretty pictures. Let's go ahead and talk about something pretty now. And that's the lunar eclipse.

These are pictures that were from earlier today. These are not live anymore, but those are from NASA. The lunar eclipse was visible in the

Americas, in most of Asia, Australia, New Zealand, even parts of India.

And we did get some pictures. I want to show you this one. Come back over to the weather map over here. This one right here. It's from New

York City. Our CNNi reporters have been very busy, Kristie, bringing us a lot of these images.

This one is, like I said, from New York City. So you could get away from the city lights, you could probably see it pretty good. And this one

from California. So, from Van Nuys.

This pattern will not repeat itself for 20 years where you get four total lunar eclipses in the next, what, two years or so. Back to you.

LU SOTUT: Beautiful images for something that has frankly a pretty spooky gothic name. Blood moon.

Mari Ramos there. Thank you.

You're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, actress Jennifer Lawrence breaks her silence. She says hackers who made her

private nude photos public are guilty of a sex crime. Details next.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now on Tuesday, we invited you to join a Twitter chat on October 9 on how to get more girls into STEM, that's professions in science, technology,

engineering and math.

Now I want to tell you about an original STEM pioneer, Ada Lovelace. She was born in 1815, the daughter of poet Lord Byron. But she became a

mathematician and is often called the world's first computer programmer.

Now let's talk more about her legacy with our regular tech contributor New Yorker.com editor Nicholas Thompson.

Nick, good to see you, thank you for joining us especially on this topic.

Ada Lovelace, she is a tech icon, but how did she come to define the digital age when she worked way back in the 1840s?

NICHOLAS THOMPSON, NEW YORKER.COM: Well, she has a couple of major contributions. So she works with a guy named Charles Babbage who is one of

the people who is considered to have built and constructed the first I guess you can call it computer, so the first was something called -- well,

something called the analytical engine was what Ada Lovelace worked on.

And what they were trying to do is to create a machine that couldn't just add, but that could actually do all kinds of other things, that could

take commands. It was hit huge, complicated -- looks like your furnace, something that would move levers up and down and little things move here

and move there.

And he originally had built it in order to do math problems, do complex math problems, not three plus three, but to do sines and cosines.

And then she and he worked together to try to turn it into something that's like what it could be considered now a modern computer where you input

questions that are translated into numbers and out come answers.

So, her contribution was recognizing that this process, this mathematical process could actually be used for all kinds of complex things

like the billions of things we use it for today. So that's she's most known for.

LU STOUT: You know, and her work not quite honored in the history books, and Ada Lovelace back in the day was sidelined as a technologist in

the 1800s.

But what is the situation for women today working in science and technology?

THOMPSON: Well, it's sidelined still. I mean, this is one of the -- this is actually -- it's a huge problem for a lot of reasons. So recently

all of the major tech companies came out and they sort of looked at themselves and they said what percent of our engineers are women? And, you

know, on the high end it's Google at 17 percent, which is not good. It means that half the world doesn't have the same opportunities in this

exciting field. That's a problem. That's sort of a moral problem for society.

But then there's also the problem that these are the companies that are shaping the world, that are shaping the way we communicate, that are

shaping the way we think, that are shaping our future and they're all run by men and 83 percent of the people building them are men, so that's not

good for anyone. You really want the most diverse set of minds and interesting kinds of imagination to build these things.

So, it's a problem that needs to be resolved and fixed and made better.

LU STOUT: Yeah, it's a problem that needs to be resolved. The gender gap needs to be addressed. And it will be addressed next Tuesday, which

will be Ada Lovelace Day.

Unfortunately, we're going to have to leave it at that, but Nicholas Thompson as always, thank you and take care.

THOMPSON: Thank you, Kristie.

LU STOUT; And now an update on the hack attack that targeted celebrities and placed their personal nude photos online. Now actress

Jennifer Lawrence, she is finally breaking her silence. In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, the Hunger Games star says the photos, they were

private. They were meant for her long distance boyfriend.

Now as for people who took a look online, she says this, quote, "it is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It's

disgusting. Anybody who looked at those pictures, you are perpetuating a sexual offense." And Lawrence says that laws need to change to hold

websites responsible.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere. We've got World Sport up next with the latest fallout of a

cricketing expose.

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