1. EBOLA
First U.S. case: In this age of modern air travel, it was always a matter of when, not if. A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, health officials told us yesterday. The unidentified man left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20. He is in isolation and under intensive care. The crew that transported him to the hospital has also been isolated. The patient is believed to have had a handful of contacts with people after showing symptoms. A CDC team is on its way to Texas to investigate.
2. HONG KONG PROTESTS
The standoff: In China, this is National Day – a day for all Chinese to celebrate the People’s Republic of China. Yes, dignitaries gathered and ceremonies took place to mark the holiday in Hong Kong. But the national pride mixed with profound dissent as pro-democracy protesters occupied parts of the Asian business hub – not to celebrate the central government in Beijing, but to denounce and challenge it. Protesters fear that independence is slipping away. They’re upset about a recent decision allowing national government leaders in Beijing to vet – in other words, decide who is in and who is out – any candidates up for a vote to lead Hong Kong’s government. Hong Kong was supposed to be able to elect their own candidates starting with the 2017 election.
3. ISIS
UK strikes: Fighter jets from the United Kingdom are getting in on the action, conducting their first airstrikes against ISIS forces in Iraq. The air assaults came four days after Parliament voted to approve the country’s involvement. British planes helped Kurdish troops who were fighting ISIS in northwestern Iraq, dropping a bomb on an ISIS heavy weapon position and shooting a missile at an armed pickup truck, the UK’s defense ministry said.
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source: CNN.com
