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Oscar Pistorius Sentencing Hearing Begins; Texas Nurse Becomes First Case Of Confirmed Ebola Transmission in U.S.; South Korea Suspects Health Issues Keeping Kim Jong un Out Of Limelight; ISIS Revives Slavery; Clashes Between Hong Kong Protesters, Anti-Occupy Groups Begin After Police Remove Barricades
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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 Oscar Pistorius waits to hear his fate. Will he be locked up for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp? We'll take you live to the court
in Pretoria.
Plus, fears of Ebola deepen in the United States after a nurse becomes the first person to contract the virus inside the country.
And things get heated on the streets of Hong Kong. Some say it's time for the protesters to go home.
Oscar Pistorius is back in a Pretoria courtroom today to face sentencing for culpable homicide. Now the Olympic sprinter has been
cleared of murder, but the judge did find him guilty of the unlawful killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Now both the prosecution and the defense now have one last opportunity to put evidence before the judge.
Now the hearing is expected to take several days before the judge determines whether Pistorius is going to prison. The defense put the
athletes personal psychologist on the stand first. And here is part of her testimony about his mental state.
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DR. LORE HARTZENBERG, PSYCHOLOGIST: In the 18 months that I was involved with him, he did not show any inclination or intent to continue
with any type of career.
GERRIE NEL, PROSECUTOR: Are you telling me that in your counseling of this accuse, he never discussed what will happen after the trial, how he'll
continue being an athlete, not at all?
HARTZENBERG: The severity and the degree of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by Mr. Pistorius, we took one day at a time.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
LU STOUT: That was the first witness for the defense heard earlier today.
Now remember, Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of two of the four charges in his trial. He was convicted of culpable homicide. It is the
South African term for unintentionally, but unlawfully killing a person.
Now there is no minimum sentence, so it'll be up to the judge to decide the length of his sentence.
Now he was found not guilty of recklessly firing a gun out of the sunroof of a car last year, but he was convicted of another shooting
involving firing a gun at a restaurant. Now the maximum penalty for that is five years.
He was also found not guilty of a final charge: unlawful possession of ammunition.
Now let's go straight to Pretoria where CNN's Robyn Curnow is standing by. She's been tracking the latest developments and she joins us now. And
Robyn, tell us more about what the court and what the judge heard today.
ROBYN CURNOW, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi there.
Well, the third witness is on the stand. The court was just resumed after the lunch break. And that courtroom, again, very much the focus on
Oscar Pistorius and of course on the judge who is listening to character evidence is less about law, it's less about facts, more about what kind of
a person he is, has he shown remorse.
And his psychologist said absolutely, that he felt utterly worthless, devastated and guilt-ridden.
But the big question is how does that impact on how the judge will sentence him.
Now also what's important about this, the man who is on the stand now he's from correctional services. He's talking about the options that are
being laid before the judge in terms of sentencing.
I want to bring in Kelly Phelps, our legal analyst to talk about that.
What do we know so far that came out in court today?
KELLY PHELPS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Well, it very interesting to hear the recommendation from the department of correctional services. That is
the standard part of the sentencing hearing to hear their suggestion. But it was perhaps surprising to some people to hear that they suggested three
years of community supervision, which may be perceived as lenient. Certainly the three years would be quite lenient.
But they were at pains to point out that prison isn't the only option and that alternative sentences also have a manner of being harsh and
punitive in terms of the conditions that can be attached to that.
But that prison is a very expensive option to the state and the state needs to start exploring alternatives to imprisonment, which can be less
than half of the cost per person per month than prison can be.
CURNOW: This has been such a high profile case, the first case in South Africa to be broadcast. People have a vested interest in the
outcome. There was a lot of, I think, disappointment by some that Oscar Pistorius wasn't convicted of murder.
Do you think there will be a very big public outcry if he's given a sentence that's perceived to be lenient.
PHELPS: I think there will be. And I think, quite frankly that whatever sentence he's given will be perceived to be lenient. And that is
quite common. There's often a disconnect between what laypeople consider to be a severe sentence and what criminal justice practitioners understand
to be a severe sentence. So it's very common, not just in this case, that people often feel that sentences aren't harsh enough.
But alternative sentences can also have very harsh conditions attached to them that can significantly impact a person's freedom of movement and
liberty.
CURNOW: OK. Kelly Phelps there, our legal analyst from the University of Cape Town, thanks for that.
So, we're going to back into court for the afternoon session now. This could take a few more days. The judge could -- might give her
sentencing verdicts in the next few days, perhaps by Friday, or maybe not.
And then there's the issue of if it's perceived by the state to be too lenient, they'll appeal, if it's perceived by the defense to be too harsh
they'll appeal.
So, you know, there's still a lot to talk about. And Oscar Pistorius is certainly a little bit closer to knowing his fate, but you know there's
still a lot at play here.
LU STOUT: Yeah, and thank you for walking us through all the legal factors at play here. A very, very high profile case. Robyn Curnow
reporting live from Pretoria with Kelly Phelps, thank you very much indeed for that.
Now meanwhile here in Hong Kong, pro-democracy protesters, they promised to stay put despite growing pressure for them to leave the
streets.
Now earlier on Monday, hundreds of people stormed the main protest site accusing protesters of affecting business and destroying their
livelihood.
Now these scuffles broke out as they try to tear down protest barricades.
Now police also removed some barricades from two protest sites. And they say the aim was to relieve traffic, not to end the protests.
Now on Twitter, the group leader Joshua Wong noted that the anti- Occupy camp showed up just hours after the police cleared the barricades. He called the double-whammy, quote, "a real coincidence."
Now his group has been asking protesters to stay up tonight to defend the barricades.
And for more on the very latest, our Ivan Watson is there in the main protest site on the ground. He joins us now. And Ivan, some very angry and
chaotic scenes earlier today. What's happening now?
IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they seem to have triggered this flurry of barricade construction that's been underway not
only here, but in a number of different locations around a street called Queens' Way, which hasn't been really an important site of the sit-in
movement over the course of the past two weeks, but suddenly, as you can see, these improvised barricades being thrown together, in some cases where
the demonstrators are using Saran wrap, you know, plastic wrap and the huge long bamboo poles that are often used in construction here in Hong Kong.
And this seems to be a response to not so much the police who made some minor incursions that were peaceful in the morning where they pulled
down some barricades and there really wasn't much of a response then, it was more to the anti-Occupy groups that came in and that's where we saw the
really chaotic scenes, Kristie, where people were scuffling and they were kind of hurling abuse back and forth and the police were actually involved
in protecting the demonstrators and their barricades from crowds of people who were saying you've got to get rid of this, you've got to move this out
of the way.
One of the groups that came out against the pro-democracy demonstrators were members of what they describe themselves as the taxi
driver's union. They came with dozens of taxis. And some of those drivers telling me, listen, enough is enough. This is hurting my business. It's
hurting revenues. These kids have made their voices heard, now it's time for them to go.
And of course, many of the demonstrators would argue the opposite, that these are sacrifices they have to make for a more democratic Hong Kong
in the future -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: So, Ivan, you're saying this new barricade building taking place around you by these pro-democracy demonstrators in response to this
angry anti-Occupy came that stormed the protest earlier today. You mentioned the taxi drivers. Who else is part of this anti-Occupy camp?
Who are they?
WATSON: Well, the police said they made a few arrests. There are rumors that Triads, that organized crime in Hong Kong were involved with
this. We can't confirm that, of course.
And there are also some groups that appear to be pro-Beijing, some demonstrators with kind of mainland Chinese flags and maps on their shirts
and so on. You can see how this road, which is usually deserted for the most part at this time of night is now just full of not only demonstrators,
but an awful lot of people just coming out of work and kind of gawking, just taking photos, tourists that are looking at the unusual scene here.
But the basic crux of the dispute is still the same. It is that the demonstrators are insisting that Hong Kong's top official step down for
what they say was unfair excessive use of police force two weeks ago with tear gas, with pepper spray. The police, the government are saying that
these demonstrators have to clear out of here. But they're clearly aware that if they use force, it often results in an outcry of opposition from
many residents of Hong Kong.
So that's perhaps left some of these other groups to step in to try to clear the demonstrators out of the way. They still don't want to go yet.
And there is a real dilemma here, what do the Hong Kong authorities do with these very young demonstrators mostly between the ages of 18 and 22
who were toddlers when Hong Kong was handed over from Britain to Chinese rule -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: It looks like this political crisis is far from over as new barricades rise in the streets of Hong Kong. Ivan Watson reporting live
from the scene for us. Thank you, Ivan.
Now you're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, a frightening first: a nurse in the United States contracts Ebola from a
patient. We'll go live to Texas for the latest.
And fears of an imminent massacre as ISIS looks set to conquer a Kurdish town in Syria and grabs more territory in Iraq.
And there's terrible damage in India from the latest cyclone to hit its east coast, but it could have been a lot worse if not for lessons
learned from past tragedies.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back.
You're watching News Stream and you're looking at a visual version of all the stories we've got in the show today.
Now we are watching the sentencing hearing for Oscar Pistorius. We'll bring you more from the court as it unfolds.
And in a little while, we'll look at the mystery of the missing leader. Just where is North Korea's Kim Jong un?
But first a deadly cyclone hit India over the weekend, but now that assessment after the devastation, it could have been a lot worse. Now
CNN's Sumnima Udas reports from New Delhi.
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SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Those living near the coast in two eastern Indian states asked to evacuate. Villages carry as
much of their belongings as they can. Who knows what will be left when the cyclone unleashes its fury. Some 500,000 people are moved to makeshift
shelters.
When Cyclone Hudhud made landfall, the wind speed at 205 kilometers per hour caused extensive damage, tide surge as high as two meters,
thousands of trees uprooted, communications lines down.
Thanks to the early warnings and mass evacuations, though, there were few deaths.
Cyclones are common in India's coastal states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. More than 10,000 people were killed 15 years ago in the same area
after a powerful cyclone. Local authorities now adept at moving masses.
Before Super Cyclone Phailin hit last October, almost a million people were evacuated. A month later, the same evacuation procedure for Cyclone
Lehar.
India has had to learn how it responds to cyclones and appears to have mastered it.
Sumnima Udas, CNN, New Delhi.
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LU SOTUT: Now you saw just then extensive damage from that deadly cyclone. So let's get more now on conditions there in India. CNN's Mari
Ramos joins us from the World Weather Center. She has that and more -- Mari.
MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kristie, yeah, let's go ahead and start looking at these three Indian cyclones. Sumnima mentioned
the 1999 Odisha cyclone. It was a monster storm. You can see that picture right over here. We had Super Cyclone Phailin, she mentioned that one as
well, another monster storm that we can just before making landfall. And then there is Hudhud, which made landfall just over the weekend.
When we talk about these three storms, the timing of the Phailin and Hudhud, almost to the day here in October, but look at the difference in
winds -- 260 kilometer per hour winds, 260 kilometer per hour winds, and then here 215, that made a huge difference.
Fatalities, also a huge, huge difference compared to what happened in 1999 where an estimated 10,000 people died. With Phailin, amazingly 46
relatively low death toll considering the densely populated area. And now with Hudhud, we're looking at six fatalities. That number may go up as
authorities get in there and really are able to analyze everything that happened.
And this is what the storm looked like at landfall. Pretty impressive looking with estimated winds close to 215 kilometers per hour. The eye
itself was about 24 kilometers wide at landfall and that's the eye that you see right there.
The storm continues to weaken as it moves inland.
So what's going to happen now. Those areas worst affected by the storm are looking at generally clear weather. Temperatures are on the
rise, but just maybe a few scattered showers not associated with the cyclone anymore.
It's going to be areas inland that even though the winds are of course dying down as the cyclone loses its tropical characteristics, we're looking
at some very heavy rain continuing to spread north. Some of this rain is going to cause flooding. Remember, we're at the end of the monsoon here.
It's still raining in some areas. But the rivers are completely full and it doesn't take much rain to cause flooding. So this is going to be the
next area of concern there across India.
There's India over there; here is Japan. And this is what's left now of that monster storm, remember Vongfong was a super typhoon in the middle
of the Pacific. It moved across the Ryukyu Islands. Now we're starting to see it just sweep across from west to east across Japan.
There are still some warnings due to landslides across this area. We have some video to show you from this region, just some of the damage that
happened -- downed trees, downed power lines, hanging wires, some damages to buildings.
We're going to see the storm continue to weaken as it moves across Japan, but the threat for rain remains. In some cases, some of you --
Nagano, for example, could see maybe up to 80 millimeters of rainfall in the next 24 hours.
And one more thing I want to tell you, take you to the Caribbean very quickly, Gonzalo is a tropical storm here. There's Don Juan, there's the
Dominican Republic, there's the Bahamas right here and the Leeward Islands, Kristie. This has the potential of causing some damage, flooding mainly,
but this is the first tropical system that we have that is directly affecting land significantly. There's even hurricane watches posted for
Puerto Rico, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, because this storm is expected to become a hurricane just north of these islands and we're
watching it closely. Back to you.
LU STOUT: All right, Mari Ramos there tracking all the storm action for us. Thank you, Mari.
You're watching News Stream. And still to come, North Korea's supreme leader usually isn't one to shy away from the limelight, which is why the
world is now wondering where has the head of the hermit kingdom gone? Details next.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back. Coming to you live from Hong Kong. You're back watching News Stream.
Now speculation is rife over the whereabouts of the North Korean leader Kim Jong un, last seen in public over a month ago. Now this is
Kim's longest public absence since it became North Korea's supreme leader. Now the 31-year-old, he was last seen on September 3 when he attended a
music concert with his wife in Pyongyang.
Now he was also absent from an important anniversary ceremony on Friday.
Now analysts, they are puzzled about why Kim has been out of the public eye. And there have been many theories put forward. And for more
on that let's go live to Paula Hancocks. She joins us live from Seoul.
And Paula, what is the latest thinking about why Kim Jong un has been out of public view?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, from the South Korean government's point of view they believe that he is ill.
He has health issues at this point. And this is something that's -- that's confirmed by many analysts as well, those people who have been watching
North Korea for many years, in some cases decades. They all believe that there has been no coup, he has not been deposed from power, they believe
there has been some kind of health issue that's kept him out of the public view.
Now he's still very much center and front with the North Korean news. He's still being talked about an awful lot on North Korean news. Just over
an hour ago on the evening bulletin we heard the news announcer talking about when he went to the water park a year ago, so talking about an
anniversary of a visit that he made. So he's still in the news, he's just not freshly in the news. They're reminiscing about the leader.
So certainly many experts saying that they wouldn't still be talking about him for such an extent if, in fact, he had been deposed from power.
So of course the assumption is he has health issues. The South Korean defense ministry saying on Friday they believe that he was staying near the
Pongwa (ph) hospital, a very exclusive hospital in the north of Pyongyang and believed he was there with his wife and his sister, a hospital where
his father and his grandfather had been treated before -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: And, Paula, just how unusual is it for North Korean leader to fall out of public view for this long, for over a month?
HANCOCKS: Well, for a previous North Korean leader to fall out of view for a month it was not that unusual. Kim Jong-il, his father, did
this fairly often. And of course the founder, his grandfather, Kim il-Song was leader at a time when the news and television cameras in North Korea
were not following the leader on a daily basis.
But for this leader it's unusual. He is not camera shy. He is -- has been on the news every single evening. He is constantly seen giving field
guidance to his military men standing around him with their notebooks, taking notes on everything that Kim Jong un is saying.
So certainly for this particular leader, it is very unusual.
He did disappear from view back in 2012 just a year after he took power. This was for three weeks. And then he suddenly turned up at a
dolphin park and there was no mention made of where he had been.
But this time, we're talking about five weeks. And of course we know that he was seen on state run media with a limp. And we know that state
run media admitted that he has some discomfort. So unprecedented admission, really, of the fallibility of a North Korean leader. So the
assumption is that there is a health issue. Of course, no one knows how serious it is -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: All right, CNN's Paula Hancocks reporting live from Seoul. Thank you, Paula.
You're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, ISIS militants closing in on Iraqi targets. And now the country's forces are
threatening to flee if the U.S. military does not intervene.
Also ahead, new fears about the spread of Ebola outside of West Africa. A nurse has become the first person to contract the deadly disease
in the United States. We've got the details ahead.
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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 the first day of the sentencing phase of the Oscar Pistorius case has concluded in Pretoria. Now the hearing is set to last for several days
before the judge decides whether the athlete will go to prison. Last month, Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of culpable homicide, killing his
girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Now the first person to contract Ebola inside the U.S. is a nurse in Dallas, Texas. She treated Thomas Duncan, a Liberian who died of the
disease. Now the nurse wore protective gear, but the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control says he believes there was a breach in
protocol.
At Hong Kong's main pro-democracy protest site. Scuffles broke out after hundreds of anti-Occupy activists charged at protest barricades. Now
police removed some roadblocks from two of the protest sites to ease the traffic. And protesters have since reinforced their barricades.
Now ISIS fighters are making big gains in Syria and in Iraq with local forces seemingly powerless to stop them. In Iraq, sources tell CNN the
Iraqi military abandoned a strategically important base in western Anbar Province after heavy fighting there.
Now the base was one of the few remaining outposts held by government forces.
And the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani near the Turkish border is also under severe threat. A CNN team reporting form the border captured these
images of a large explosion in Kobani.
A UN envoy is warning that there could be a massacre in this town.
Now as ISIS conquers more territory, it has brought back brutal practices from ancient times, among them officially sanctioned slavery.
Now Ben Wedeman is in Baghdad. He joins me now live. And Ben, how has ISIS announced and justified this revival of slavery?
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, it's interesting, Krsitie. Oftentimes when accusations of slavery and rape come
out, organizations no matter how distasteful they might be are quick to deny them. But ISIS has come out and almost proudly crowed that they have
revived slavery.
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WEDEMAN: ISIS's rampage through Syria and Iraq, slaughtering prisoners, beheading hostages, destroying religious shrines of those they
call heretics and infidels and have now with typical brazenness resurrected slavery.
A new addition of ISIS's online English-language magazine Dabiq, announcing seemingly with pride the revival of slavery before the hour, the
hour being judgment day. "One should remember," the article says, "that enslaving the families of the kuffar, the infidels, and taking their women as concubines is a
firmly established aspect of the Shariah," or Islamic law.
And this is not a theoretically proposition. As a report from Human Rights watch underscores, slavery under the Islamic State has become an
institution.
The report documents that capture and forced marriage of women from Iraq's Yazidi minority, and the forced conversion, or murder of the men.
SEVE, 19-YEAR-OLD ESCAPEE (through translator): They killed my husband in front of me as well as my brother-in-law and my father-in-law
within minutes. Now my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law are under their grip. The Islamic State were looking for women and they took them for
themselves. There were around 40 women with me, some of them were already married. The fighters were tossing sweets at us, shooting guns in the air
and dancing with their weapons.
WEDEMAN: Another woman recounted her ordeal to Human Rights Watch.
ALDEE, 17-YEAR-OLD ESCAPEE (through translator0; They took all the girls with them, killed the men and left the women. They beat us to make
us submit to them. As much as we could, we didn't let them touch our bodies.
WEDEMAN: ISIS makes no attempt to deny the claims, but rather confirms them in the magazine.
After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who
participated in the Sinjar operations after one-fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State's authority."
For Yazidi men who weren't murdered, the choice was stark, convert of die.
KHIDER, ESCAPEE (through translator): They asked us if there's anyone who didn't want to convert to Islam. Of course, anyone who said no would
be killed. No one dared to refuse.
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WEDEMAN: And certainly if you look at the catalogue of ISIS's achievements -- reviving slavery, mass murder, destroying religious shrines
of those who they consider infidels and heretics, one has to wonder what could they do next -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: You know, it's just horrifying to hear from these teenaged girls who managed to escape what they went through, what they witnessed,
one could only wonder who will be the next victims here. I mean, is sexual slavery waiting, the women and girls of Anbar Province, of Kobani, as ISIS
threatens to take over those areas?
WEDEMAN: Well, they do make a distinction between those who they consider following the correct path of Islam, their rather twisted version
of it, and those who they consider Kuffar's who are infidels -- that would be the Yazidis, for instance, and others for instance heretics like the
Shia who they don't particularly like. But they consider Christians and Jews to be Ahl al-Kitab, "the people of the book."
So they have different ways of dealing with people. But as far as the infidels go, really the choice is convert or die and of course enslavement
for the women. So, not a very nice picture.
LU STOUT: Yeah, and twisted logic at play here.
Ben Wedeman reporting live from Baghdad. Thank you.
Now you're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, a nurse has become the first person to contract Ebola in the United States.
And now the question is, can the American health care system cope with this deadly disease.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back. You're watching News Stream.
And let's turn to the first known transmission of Ebola in the United States.
Now a nurse in the U.S. State of Texas who treated an Ebola patient who died has tested positive for the disease. As Elizabeth Cohen now
reports, the case has heightened concerns about how prepared American health workers and hospitals are to deal with the disease.
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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This morning, hazmat crews continue to decontaminate the Dallas apartment of the first
person to contract Ebola in the U.S. A female nurse tested positive for the disease Saturday night after officials say she had extensive contact with
the now deceased Ebola patient, Thomas Duncan.
FRIEDEN: There was a breach in protocol.
COHEN: The CDC says the nurse was wearing protective gear, gloves, gown, and mask, and the infection could have resulted when she took her
contaminated gear off.
FRIEDEN: The care of Ebola can be done safely, but it's hard to do it safely.
COHEN: The CDC also says two procedures performed on Duncan at the very end of his life, intubation to help him breathe and kidney dialysis
are unusual, both putting health care workers at high risk of exposure to his bodily fluids.
FRIEDEN: I am not familiar with any prior patient with Ebola who is undergoing either intubation or dialysis.
COHEN: And as the crisis continues, health care workers across the U.S. say nurses haven't been adequately trained.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We hear they have not been following proper protocol when we have been is asking the hospitals around the country to
provide us with training.
COHEN: This as another possible Ebola patient, who recently traveled to Liberia, is being isolated in a Boston hospital complaining of aches and
headaches. The medical center currently treating the man is awaiting his results. But a spokesman says the chances he has Ebola are extremely low.
Meanwhile, more Ebola scares over the weekend. On Sunday, a passenger who recently traveled to Africa became ill on the United Airlines flight
from New York to Los Angeles. But Ebola was quickly ruled out.
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LU STOUT: That was Elizabeth Cohen reporting there.
Now meanwhile, Spain's Ebola patient is stable, that's according to a government spokesman. Now the nurse's assistant was the first person to
contract Ebola outside Africa. But on the African continent the situation there continues to worsen. Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
all have confirmed probable or suspected cases.
The death toll from Ebola stands at 4,033, that's according to the World Health Organization.
Now officials say that this is the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. And if you want to help health workers battled it, you could
start by visiting our website. We have more information about all the groups working on the ground in West Africa. You can find that and more at
CNN.com/impact.
And finally, the Nobel committee has announced this year's winner of the prestigious economic sciences prize. Now just a short time ago in
Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences revealed that French professor Jean Tirole has been awarded the distinction. And we'll show you
some pictures of the Nobel event shortly.
The academy says it is in recognition of his analysis of market power, or, quote, "how to understand and regulate industries with a few powerful
firms."
And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere, because World Sport is up next. And Formula 1, it makes its
debut in Russia, but is Sochi's Olympic legacy still intact? All that and more after this short break.
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