01/10/2014 ABC World News Tonight with David Muir

Time now for a look at the news as seen across the United States a

couple of hours ago in ABC World News with David Muir.

Welcome. Breaking out, the first confirmed the case of Ebola in the

US. The American who had been to Africa, home for some time and then

the symptoms. How many people did he come in contact with? The widening

Secret Service scandal at the White House. How far did the intruder

get? The development, the person who stopped him. The major break,

following a shooting at this American high school. The real

scare, what happened and what authorities have revealed.

Good evening. We begin with breaking news, the deadly Ebola outbreak in

Africa and the first confirmed case here in America. The patient

diagnosed in the US. A team from the CDC rushed to the scene to this

hospital in Dallas where he is in isolation. He has been infectious

for several days. Test results confirm it is Ebola. President Obama

has been briefed and now the push to track down anyone who may have been

in contact with him. Our correspondent with what he is

learning from sources at the CDC. He spent many years there and has

access exclusively. The case at home and the questions. What about the

plane this man took to America and the community where he stayed?

The CDC confirms what doctors in this hospital fear, that the patient

who walked into the emergency room on Sunday with high fever and other

symptoms is sick with Ebola, the first case diagnosed in this

country. I have no doubt that we will control this importation of

Ebola. So that it doesn't spread widely. Health officials try to calm

fears. We identified all people who might have contacted the patient

while he could have been infectious. Remember, Ebola doesn't spread from

someone who isn't infectious. The doctors and nurses isolated the

patient. He left Liberia on the 19th, arrived on the 20th, developed

symptoms on the 26th and checked into the hospital on the 28th.

Health officials wouldn't share the patient flight schedule, saying he

wasn't contentious and Tilly showed symptoms. Compare this story to the

hospitalisations of the American patients diagnosed in Africa ``

until he showed. They were flown in specially outfitted planes and

walked to hospital in protective suits. Doctors who treated them say

this patient's chances of beating the disease improve with a

round`the`clock care. Authorities and sharing too many details but

said the patient was the leading family. Those relatives are being

monitored. I wanted to get to our chief medical

editor who is in Liberia. Exclusive access to a Ebola ward and images of

him suited up, walking through. He spent many years at the CDC in

America and joins me the night. The headline, you have been in touch

with sources at the CDC. The patient had been home for seven days, now

positive with Ebola. Is there a concern about who the patient might

have come in contact with? There is and the hospital will take care of

the patient by the key is finding every person the patient came in

contact with during the period they had symptoms. They will track and

follow them for 21 days. If they developed a fever they will go in

for isolation. Every person this person came in contact with they

will follow for 21 days. This patient had gone to the hospital,

was sent home and then went to another hospital. Does that concern

you that the signs were missed? That is concerning. Every hospital in

America has been asked to be on high alert and ask everyone who has been

sick if they have travelled. If they travel to West Africa and have

symptoms they are to be tested. People will think about the flights

that this person took back to America. Is there reason for

concern? The good news for those passengers is that you can't

transmit Ebola without symptoms. They didn't develop until he

arrived. With symptoms, it has to be contact with body fluids. There is

not a lot of concern. Just a few moments. You spent years controlling

infectious diseases at how much does this concern you now that we have a

confirmed case in the US? It is concerning. We have to work together

with everyone to stop this happening. We will have much more

first thing in the morning. We turn to the other breaking

story, stunning revelations about story, stunning revelations

across the White House lawn armed with a knife. Getting through the

front door and we now know getting further than we knew. Only tackled

once he reached the east room. We learn he was brought down by an off

duty agent who wasn't on the clock. The new details and questions, did

the Secret Service mislead the President? How much did the

President noted? `` know?

Criticism about how this man defeated the Secret Service security

machine. This was a stunning, disgraceful breach. Bipartisan.

Don't let someone get into the White House. This came as damning details

became known. Gonzalez pushed through the front door as a female

Secret Service officer tried to lock it. After a struggle, he ran past

the unguarded staircase leading to the living quarters. The intrusion

didn't end until he made his way to the east room and was tackled by an

off duty agent who happened to be leaving for the night. To the

public, that would be half of White House to. Gonzalez pierced five

layers of security, jumping the fence without being stopped by

patrol officers, no agents close enough to tackle him as he ran to

the White House, no at tax dogs released, sport and sniper teams not

engaged and finally an unlocked front door `` attacks. We are

shocked about how this came to pass. More questions about why the Secret

Service misled the public, suggesting he was unarmed and court

immediately upon entering the White House. I wish to God you protected

the White House like you are protecting your reputation here

today! That reputation has been suffering. Soliciting prostitutes,

allowing a phone translator near the President during Nelson Mandela's

Funeral. Taking four days to discover the White House was hit by

gunfire. Ridiculed for the, with critics suggesting they should hire

a home security service. Have you ever heard of these guys? More

revelations to come. The Secret Service is investigating whether a

security guard in the elevator with President Obama on a trip to at

ladder had a criminal record. The Secret Service is looking into

reports that the security guard had a gun and wasn't properly vetted.

Our correspondent has been on this from the start asking the president

if he still believed in his security team. The Secret Service does a

great job and I'm grateful for the sacrifices they make on my behalf.

He is with us now live from the White House. The president told you

he was confident with his Secret Service agents but you are learning

that there is a second briefing that has taken place. We now know the

president felt the need to call the director of the Secret Service,

Julia Pierson, into the White House three days after he told me they

were doing a great job to get the full story. This was an

extraordinary briefing and the first time all year that he has met

directly with her. The question is now whether the Secret Service was

misleading the president to way they misled the public. The president

will not say that the White House will also not say whether he was

told the full story about this. The last time we heard directly from the

president about any of this was when I asked him that question in the

Oval Office last week. We're going to turn to this frightening headline

or parents across America. Two high school shootings in one day. In

North Carolina, one student was injured when an argument erupted in

gunfire before the start of class and then this disturbingly familiar

issue in Kentucky. Students filing out with their hands on their heads

after another opened fired. What we have learned tonight. Another school

looking more like a battlefield. Police moving in after teenaged

shooter opened fire at a high school in Kentucky. Kids leaving school in

fear. This is senseless and unacceptable and cannot happen. But

it did and four hours the shooter was on the loose. One student was

injured in the shooting and wheeled out on a stretcher. Hundreds of

parents rushed to the school with their children describing the

scene. I was shaking. He was making a lot of noise so I looked back and

teachers were trying to calm him down and then the next thing you

know, a gun went off and I looked and he had one. The doors were

locked and the students went for cover inside the building and to

stay there until the all clear was given. Late this afternoon, word

that the shooter was caught. Reportedly another student, a

teenager with a gun. Where told the injured student is recovering at the

hospital and is expected to be OK as the FBI releases a report on mass

shootings for the first time. An average of 16 shootings per year in

the last six years. Turning to the nationwide manhunt under way for a

suspect accused of ambushing state troopers and killing a young father.

The man has been spotted in the last one to four hours. Officials have

also spotted a pipe`bomb left as a possible trap for search teams. Now

we go to our correspondent. Tonight, law enforcement revealing

new evidence in their hunt for this fugitive. We located pipe bombs

which were fully functional and capable of being deployed.

Authorities say they were found in a place the survivalist had been using

to sleep and and left behind apparently in a hurry as he runs

from the more than 1000 officers searching for him. There is a core

that can be stretched out and used as a tripwire. Officials say he has

spotted in the last 24 hours, appearing just out of range and then

vanishing. I am calling on you to surrender. You are clearly stressed

and are making significant mistakes. For more than two weeks, this quiet

part of northeastern Pennsylvania has been under siege, the manhunt

bringing SWAT teams into backyards. Just guys everywhere, it was like a

war zone. Law enforcement also scouring vacant cabins and places he

has visited before like this 900 square`foot abandoned resort. The

discovery of those pipe bombs taunting another warning for

residents inside the search zone. Stay out of the woods. Are you

looking forward to this being over with? I will be very happy. Going

back to our quiet and peaceful life. We are following severe

weather in the heartland this evening. Powerful winds and

ferocious hail. Just listen to this. The incredible view from one

family's front porch in Colorado. Also a view from the school pelted

by hail in the last one to four hours as this system is expected to

do more damage across the Midwest. Our meteorologist is with us. Look

at the satellite and you can see the storm swirling over. The cold front

is going to kick off through Wednesday and Thursday with all the

area highlighted in orange. They could see more hail and should be on

alert. As far south as Louisiana. That low slides to the east and our

first concern is severe weather and flash flooding. It was last night

here that we told you about Walmart firing back at comedian Tracy Morgan

recovering from that deadly crash. The retailer is faulting him and his

passengers for not wearing seatbelts. Tracy Morgan answer back

tonight and said the following. Much more ahead on ABC World News

tonight. Chilling news about the missing real estate agent. What we

have now learned. The biggest dangers facing real estate agents

letting strangers into homes across America.

We are going to turn to the real dangers many real estate agents

based across this country. A real estate Rocher kidnapped and killed

on the way to meet a potential buyer. `` broker. Why did this

accused killer targeted alleged victim? A real estate agent from

Arkansas? His answer was astonishing. 833 `year`old with a

lengthy rap sheet has pleaded not and denies killing the mother and

grandmother `` the 33`year`old. Authorities say he posed as a

buyer. We believe the person responsible for taking her and for

her murder is in custody. Allegedly at the hands of a complete stranger,

her murder has shaken realtors in this city who spent many days

searching for her before her body was found in a shallow grave

overnight. Nothing she did is something we have not done in the

past. Her boss at this real estate office said no more meeting

strangers at their homes. I hope they will realise that we can't just

drop everything and go show them a house. Showing their drivers license

is just one safety measure recommended by the international

Association of realtors. Her boss estimates that 80% of the agents in

that office were women and says only one or two carry guns when they show

a house. She suspects that by the a house. She suspects that by the

end of the week, they all will. One on one with Bill Gates. We did the

math and it was staggering. How much he gives away every day and his

newest gift comes with great urgency. The richest man in America

once again topping the list of the wealthiest men in America. Do you

check to see if your name is still on the top? I'm sure someone would

tell me if it wasn't. I'm not giving it away fast enough is the problem.

Bill Gates is now worth $81 billion with 9 million added over the last

year `` billion. He and his wife give away 35 billion and have done

since 1994. He talks about his biggest emergency grant ever. $50

million to fight Ebola. How important is it that the world get

involved? The disease is out of control in three countries for

about. We saw exclusive pictures earlier. Beds filled with the sick.

What concerns you the most? The horrific fact of people dying of

Ebola but also the shutting down of the whole health system. When he and

his wife are intending to build. He grew up in Seattle and grew up

playing a lot of board games. Any favourites? Cards and monopoly. It

is safe to say that he won. But it was something else that caught his

eye. You were 13 when he started showing an interest in computers. I

was very lucky to get a chance to use one when I was 13. And that was

the moment? I got addicted. And it paid off. The founder of Microsoft.

The old video and then you. This one on his deck at his home in Seattle

proving even the richest man in Seattle isn't even afraid to take

the plunge. Who came up with the contraption? A friend of mine said

they would all look the same. But not Bill Gates. Tonight his focus is

Ebola and he has hope that we can contain it. Over the next 60 days we

will get on top of it. I hope to see you right back here tomorrow. From

all of us, good night. Once again, a cloudy start to the

new day on Wednesday for many parts of the British Isles and as a

consequence it won't be a very cold start. Temperatures locked into the

teens in a number of