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Pentagon Creates Ebola Strike Team; Ebola-Linked Cruise Ship Passenger Cleared; Human Remains Found in Hannah Graham Search; Did World Ebola Response Come Late?; Breaking the Language Barrier; CDC Under Fire by Lawmakers Over Ebola; Iraqi Militias Gains over ISIS; Race is On to Find Ebola Vaccine

Aired October 19, 2014 - 15:00   ET

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FEYERICK: All right. Alex, thanks so much. We appreciate that. Thank you.

Well, we are now have much more just ahead in the NEWSROOM. All of it starts right now.

And the Pentagon is stepping in to stop Ebola in America. We're breaking down the rapid response team that the military is now putting together.

And the White House trying to change public perception of its response to the Ebola crisis by appointing a so-called Ebola czar. There's just one problem. He was a no-show at a key meeting last night.

The search for Hannah Graham coming perhaps to a sad end. What police found and why they're now calling this a death investigation.

Hello, everyone. I'm Deborah Feyerick, in for Fredricka Whitfield. We are following a lot of major developments in the fight against Ebola in America.

Just a short time ago, CNN learned that the Pentagon is prepping what it's calling quick strike teams. That team will go anywhere in the United States to help deal with any cases of Ebola that might arise.

Also today, the number of the people who may have had contact with Ebola patient Amber Vinson has now gone up to 153. That is up 116 people from Saturday. Remember she went to the bridal store for bridal dresses for her wedding party. Health officials are monitoring all the people that she may have come in contact with. Amber Vinson is the second nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.

Let's go to CNN's Erin McPike. She is at the White House now.

Erin, these quick strike teams, is this simply to send a powerful message, or do they believe these teams can really be trained and properly a help hospitals?

ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Deb, they are going into training. The Pentagon has approved this. It's a 30-person team. It will be five doctors, 20 nurses and then five trainers specialized in that personal protective training equipment, and what they will do is once they are called on to deploy, if there is a case of Ebola, somewhere within the United States, they will go and help that local hospital train and figure out how they can really deal with this case.

They first have to go to Texas to train and then they will be on call for 30 days. And will be able to deploy anywhere within the United States within 72 hours -- Deb.

FEYERICK: And Erin, last night the president had a key meeting. The vice president was there. Cabinet secretaries were there. His national security adviser was there.

What happened to Ron Klain? Why didn't he show?

MCPIKE: Deb, Ron Klain actually was at the White house yesterday for some meetings of his own. And the White House official tells us that as soon as he begins -- he has not yet started. He hasn't had day one on this job yet, then he will be at all of those meetings. But the vice president was there, as was the secretary of Health and Human Services, the secretary of Homeland Security.

Many others, National Security advisers as well, and they talked about what happened in Dallas, the contact tracing that's going on after the fact, and how they can prevent other cases in the future.

FEYERICK: And Erin, quickly, would Ron Klain essentially serve as the coordinator of all these agencies? He's not even really going to be speaking directly to the president. He's going to be speaking to the people around the president. So what kind of information is he trying to funnel and how?

MCPIKE: Well, really what he is doing is, again, coordinating the response, so he probably will be talking to the public in some sense, but he is also pulling together all the agencies. With this quick strike team, this is a request by the Department of Health and Human Services, and they have asked the Department of Defense to provide this team, so this is a coordination sort of role. He has to pull together all of these agencies -- Deb.

FEYERICK: All right. Erin McPike at the White House for us. Thanks, as always.

And a cruise ship carrying a passenger who may have had contact with Ebola. It is now back in Texas after Belize and Mexico would simply not allow it to dock.

CNN's Alina Machado joins us now from Dallas.

Alina, what is the condition of the passenger, a lab supervisor at the hospital where you are standing?

ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Deb, this lab supervisor is doing very well. Her 21-day monitoring period is expected to come to an end at midnight tonight and she has not shown any symptoms which is obviously very good news.

She is now back in Texas, as you mentioned, because this Carnival Magic Cruise ship made it back here a few hours ago, and, according to Galveston County health officials, the woman and her travel partner were not given any restrictions in terms of when they got off the ship because, again, they are -- she is not showing any symptoms, and also, because of some bloods tests that were conducted by the state.

FEYERICK: And Alina, in terms of the company of this hospital that there's a parent company of Texas Health Resources, they issued an apology in an open letter to the community, but the CEO also said that the two nurses infected with Ebola had complied with the CDC guidelines. Is this sort of a hot potato kind of thing?

MACHADO: It is. And Deb, this is exactly what the CEO said in this open letter that was published here in Dallas today. I want to read to you part of the statement. It says based on what we already know, I can tell you that many of the theories and allegations being presented in the media do not align with facts stated in the medical record and the accounts of caregivers who were present on the scene.

"We have remained committed to complying with CDC guidelines from the start. We believe our procedures complied with the CDC Ebola guidelines and our staff implemented them diligently."

Now this apology comes as 48 people are coming to an end of -- coming to the end of their monitoring period tonight at midnight.

Listen to what Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has to say about that.

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JUDGE CLAY JENKINS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS: Well, they go back out into the community and the community needs to reach out and envelope them in compassion and acceptance because we cannot have the community stigmatizing people, and this is a community that's a great community, and I don't think that will happen, but they really need our love and our support right now.

They've been through a terrible ordeal. You got people who were put in this ordeal through no fault of their own. And we're good at compassionate in North Texas and we need to outpour it for these people.

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MACHADO: So again 48 people will be coming out this 21-day monitoring period tonight at midnight but there are still dozens more who will have to continued to be monitored because they had contact with one of the two nurses who got Ebola after treating Duncan -- Deb.

FEYERICK: All right. Alina, thanks so much. A huge relief, obviously, for some of those folks, as everyone has monitored one by one by one.

All right. Thank you.

And there have been a major turn in the case of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Police have called off the search for the 18-year-old and notified her parents after finding human remains Saturday eight miles from where she vanished five weeks ago. Graham was last seen in downtown Charlottesville after leaving a gathering with friends.

Jean Casarez is following the story for us.

Jean, how were these remains found?

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: It was a routine search yesterday and officials from a neighboring county were searching, and then they went to what is being called an abandoned property, and that is where they found human remains.

They are not talking about these human remains. We know that they are going to or are at the office of the chief medical examiner for autopsy and forensic examination, but there has been a search every single day for five weeks now, and this weekend is the fifth week that Hannah Graham has been missing, and we are waiting on an identification, but I can tell you, this is an active crime scene even today.

We understand there are 25 crime scene investigators or other law enforcement from Virginia State Police, the county police, even Charlottesville Police Department is there combing the area for any potential evidence. And I can also tell you along a main highway, as we've been driving, there are law enforcement and searchers just on the outer borders of this highway. A highway that the perpetrator who left those remains may have driven before those remains were deposited.

Now I want to tell you, we just went to a residential area that's about four miles away from where the crime scene is, where those remains were found. We spoke to neighbors. They told us that Jesse Matthew, who was the chief suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, that he and his mother lived on that street in a particular house up until about 2008, and we had heard that he may be familiar with this area.

Well those neighbors confirmed that he and his mother did live here. They also tell us that his mother wanted to move them out to the county to get her son away from the alleged gangs in Charlottesville, to lead a good life in the county area. But the search continues. We're being told that the search -- the active crime scene will be at least for the next few days, and our photojournalist actually saw a rake being used to try to comb for potential evidence. Meanwhile, identification of those remains will continue in Richmond, Virginia -- Deb.

FEYERICK: All right. Jean Casarez, thanks so much. So troubling to listen to. But thank you. At least some resolution for the parents perhaps.

CASAREZ: Thank you.

FEYERICK: And stick around. Our coverage of the new developments in the Hannah Graham continues. A former FBI profiler weighs in on the new evidence coming up next.

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FEYERICK: We're following a major update in the case of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Police have called off the search and they have notified her mother and father after finding human remains just eight miles from downtown Charlottesville where Hannah was last seen five weeks ago.

Former senior FBI profiler and special agent Mary Ellen O'Toole joins me.

Let's -- look, Jesse Matthew remains the key suspect in all of this. He was seen following Hannah the night she disappeared. Now we are learning that he lived about four miles from the area where those human remains were found. As a profiler, what do you make of this?

MARY ELLEN O'TOOLE, FORMER SENIOR FBI PROFILER: Well, that would suggest to me that he was familiar with the area. He knew that that area would be a good location where he could dispose of the body and delay the body being found. And we look for that in these kinds of cases because it's important to understand why an offender leaves a body in that kind of a location so one of the first things that we would look at is, is this something a location where very few people would be familiar with?

Yet the offender left this person there. That does tell us that he is either traveled there, worked there, and/or has lived in the area.

FEYERICK: It's not clear exactly what -- how she was found, whether whoever -- if it is her, whether they made an attempt to hide those remains, but what do you know? It appears that Jesse Matthews seemed to be very friendly. And again, we have to keep in mind. He has not entered any sort of a guilty plea. He has not been tried. Right now they're doing due diligence, putting the evidence together.

But in terms of him being popular and -- or being well-known in that entire area where he lived and the bar that he attended, what also sort of do you make of that, the fact he was so open about just talking to people that night?

O'TOOLE: One of the traits of people that are serial killers, serial sexual killers, which is likely the case here, is that they tend to be very glib and charming individuals, which is really very contrary to what the general public would think. These are people that are outgoing. They tend to be very engaging. They tend to be very extroverted. And -- other people like them. They come across as just a regular person and it sounds to me like that's exactly how he comes across.

FEYERICK: It's interesting, listening to you talk, I was reminded of Ted Bundy, who did the same thing with a young college co-ed, befriending them, being very popular. If Matthews is responsible for multiple crimes, multiple murders, why is it that he was able to stay free for so long? O'TOOLE: Well, one of the things that is so striking about serial

offenders is that in order to not be apprehended, they understand that they have to blend back into society. So they attempt to live a normal life. They're not out -- if they're successful, they're not out committing other crimes so that they come to the attention of law enforcement. So they're able to blend in very well, which is certainly appears to be the case here.

FEYERICK: You know, it's interesting because one of the crimes that he was involved in involves another young woman, Morgan Harrington, and he at the time was driving a cab, and this was back in 2009. That cab has since been confiscated for evidence. Is there any possibility that detectives, investigators, could find something in that vehicle this many years later linking him or her?

O'TOOLE: I think it's possible, and I think that they will look at that taxi and they'll use every forensic technique that they can, and one thing that I have learned over the years working many serial murder cases, these are not forensically sophisticated individuals. They know enough to get by, but they're not perfect forensically, and so if there's a technique out there, those analysts will use it and hopefully they'll find something. So it's not impossible.

FEYERICK: And although right now police are not confirming that the remains are officially Hannah Graham's.

O'TOOLE: Right.

FEYERICK: They have notified her parents, but when you look at something like Jesse Matthews, does he fit the profile? If you were working this case right now, what would you say?

O'TOOLE: Well, first thing I'd say is contrary to what people think, there is no profile of a specific serial killer. They're very different in so many different ways. But what is interesting and what is similar about him to other serial offenders that they evolve over time. They don't just wake up one morning and become a serial killer.

The evolution -- includes the sexual assault and then they can move on to murder. So what investigators will do, they'll go back to when he's a teenager or even younger.

FEYERICK: All right. Mary Ellen O'Toole, thank you very much.

And again Jesse Matthews has not entered any sort of a plea in terms of this. He does have counsel. We don't know whether he is speaking or not at this point, however.

All right. Thank you so much for joining us.

O'TOOLE: You're welcome.

FEYERICK: And back to our other top story today. The Ebola epidemic as the disease spreads from country to country. CNN teams around the world dig into how the international community is taking heat for its response. NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Nic

Robertson in Madrid, Spain where the first person to get Ebola outside of Africa is still being treated. The question is the international community, is the World Health Organization, the WHO, doing enough to combat this crisis?

More after this break.

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FEYERICK: The World Health Organization is vowing to fully review its global response to the Ebola crisis. The group's decision comes after media reports of an internal WHO document that acknowledges the agency's response to the Ebola outbreak in West African countries was botched.

Back in April the agency said that the outbreak was, quote, "in a limited geographical area with only a few chains of transmission."

As we know now, it's turned out to be far, far worse.

CNN's Nic Robertson is in Spain with that part of our coverage -- Nic.

ROBERTSON: Deb, here in span where the person to get Ebola outside of Africa is being treated and scores of other people are under investigation. There is extreme interest in how this deadly disease is going to be contained.

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ROBERTSON (voice-over): As the Ebola death toll spirals, health officials the world over are speeding their response. At the U.N. in Geneva, the WHO, the World Health Organization, announced their new measure.

DR. ISABELLE NUTTLE, WHO DIRECTOR GLOBAL ALERT AND RESPONSE: Health care workers are on the frontline. We will never say that enough. They need to be protected. They need to be well trained.

ROBERTSON: For health care workers, that can't come fast enough. Frontline medics like MSF, Doctors Without Borders, at breaking point are frustrated with the WHO's slow response.

The first death late December last year in Guinea. It was March 22nd before an Ebola outbreak was confirmed. March 30th, neighbors Liberia and Sierra Leone confirmed their first cases. April 1st MSF announced the situation was unprecedented. The same day a WHO spokesman played down the problem saying --

GREGORY HARTI, WHO SPOKESMAN: What an outbreak is and what we are dealing with is limited foci, limited geographic area, and only a few, let's say, chains of transmission.

ROBERTSON: It was August 8th before the WHO declared an international health emergency.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A public health emergency of international concern.

ROBERTSON: Since then the death toll has climbed fivefold. Skilled health care workers scared off by the risk of infection.

(On camera): What a slow response or the recognition of how serious this is.

NUTTLE: The fear factor. The fear factor. As simple as that. You know, when we said we need foreign medical teams to be deployed.

ROBERTSON (voice-over): At the frontline of health care in Africa, MSF continues to ring the alarm. What they want from WHO now is action.

MARIANO LUIGI, MSF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OPERATIONS: What is written on paper makes sense. How they coordinate themselves to ensure that speed is -- in the right track makes the challenge.

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ROBERTSON: Speeding up the response, that's something everyone here in Spain and capitals around the world, at the U.N. in Geneva, and on the frontlines of combating this disease in Africa agrees upon. Every day critical to combating this crisis -- Deb.

FEYERICK: Thank you, Nic Robertson for us there.

And the Pentagon just confirmed to CNN that they are creating a team to respond to Ebola in America, but should the military really be getting involved?

We ask a former secretary of Human Health and Services coming up next.

But first, time for our weekly series "Tomorrow Transformed" which looks at how technology is changing society. This week Richard Quest shows us a new device that breaks the language barrier.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It wasn't long ago if you wanted to talk to somebody who spoke another language, it required a lot of patience. You painfully looked up those words you couldn't pronounce or didn't understand in multi-language dictionaries like this.

Today, it is adios to the book because there are computer programs and mobile apps that will do all the tricky translation for us.

(Voice-over): Machine translation research began decades ago. Only in the past 10 years has it become mainstream.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All I do is just point it at that sign and it translates the sign.

QUEST: With mobile apps and Web sites, you enter text, such as, "where's the kitchen," and it's translated instantly. (On camera): Good evening, Chris, this is Richard in Madrid.

(Voice-over): This is the future. I'm having a conversation with Chris Wend. He works on translation technology for Microsoft.

Chris speaks German, I speak English. Skype, a division of Microsoft, is doing the translation.

The Skype translator is scheduled to be out in beta at the end of the year. I had an opportunity to demo the new device.

(On camera): It's not just family or friends. This could be used for serious business negotiations.

GURDEEP PALL, CORPORATE VP, SKYPE: The idea that people don't understand each other, and it's just going to be a thing of the past. We never think about, wow, those are the dark ages where you couldn't understand each other. That's where we're headed.

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FEYERICK: Bottom of the hour now. Welcome back. I'm Deborah Feyerick. Here are the top stories we're following this hour.

People in Hawaii are bracing for flash floods and tropical storm conditions as Hurricane Ana gets closer. The worst of the storm is expected to miss Hawaii, but the island could still see strong waves and coastal flooding. Hurricane Gonzalo which left more than 80 percent of Bermuda without power is now moving further north past Canada. No one in Bermuda was seriously hurt.

North and South Korea exchanged gunfire overnight. A South Korean Defense Ministry official says the confrontation started after a group of North Korean soldiers approached the demarcation line along the demilitarized zone. The official says that's when South Korean forces fired warning shots. No one was killed. No damage was reported.

Well, it was like no one wants to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Four cities have now pulled out in the bidding and another decided not even to enter the race. A Norwegian spokesman told CNN Oslo withdrew because of the huge cost involved with hosting the game. In Poland voters decided against a bid. There are now only two cities left in the running, a small city in Kazakhstan and Beijing which hosted the Summer Games six years ago.

In business, tomorrow is the day. That's when Apple rolls out Apple Pay for iPhone 6 users. More than 220,000 retail locations are ready to accept the mobile payment system so you can leave your credit cards and cash at home. Apple is promising that security will be top of the line.

Tears shed for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan. A memorial service was held this weekend for Duncan in Salisbury, North Carolina, where his mother lives. Duncan was the first Ebola case to be diagnosed in the United States.

The 42-year-old Liberian man came to Dallas to visit his fiance. He had helped a young woman in his country who was ill. Well, that fiance -- she and her three relatives have been in quarantine, but the quarantine ends tonight at midnight. None of them has shown any Ebola signs.

Now to the urgent effort to make sure the first cases of Ebola in America are the last. A short time ago we've learned that the Pentagon is forming an Ebola quick strike team. That team is going to include five doctors, 20 nurses, and five trainers who will make sure that there is compliance. An official says that they'll be under orders to deploy within 72 hours at any time over the next month.

This rapid response team will provide direct treatment to Ebola patients inside the United States and support the hospital's efforts.

Joining us now former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.

TOMMY THOMPSON, FORMER HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY: Thank you for being here with us.

Sir, do you think that this 30-person military quick strike team will help contain Ebola cases in the U.S., or is this redundant to what hospitals are expected to do?

THOMPSON: Well, I think it's a little bit of both. I think it certainly -- it certainly is not going to hurt. The problem is they should have been doing this 30 days ago and not 60 days ago. And we got the Public Health Corps and the Department of Health and Human Services which are experts at this. We got CDC which have probably the best epidemiologists in the world and are just trained for this, and so training up 30 more individuals is not going hurt, but it's not going to help that much.

What should have been done is strike forces from CDC and the Public Health Corps should have been sent over to Western Africa immediately when the Ebola breakouts started. That would have been the smart thing to do and we're about $1 short and about five weeks too late.

FEYERICK: Sir, you were HHS secretary after 9/11, and back then the big fear was smallpox coming to the United States.

THOMPSON: Right.

FEYERICK: Hospitals were given millions to invest to protect against a possible outbreak. Are you surprised that the response has seemingly been so wrong?

THOMPSON: I think, yes, I'm very surprised because we've been through this. We had, you know -- we had 9/11. We put in over $15 billion -- not million. $15 billion to improve the public health infrastructure after -- while I was secretary from 2001 to 2005. We completely rebuilt is. We also put tremendous amount of money into research and $1.5 billion a year in order to find remedies and find solutions to these terrorist attacks.

We also found that we had about 84 million doses of smallpox that were put away in a basement of a pharmaceutical company that we're able to use. And we had enough smallpox vaccine that could have vaccinated every man, woman, and child in America because you could have reduced it -- each shot would have been able to go down for four individuals. So we have plenty of that.

But we were able to do this and we also prevented, you know, the anthrax and the SARS.

FEYERICK: Yes.

THOMPSON: We were able to contain that. We have some tremendous expertise in the federal government. And I think it's just surprising that we're looking right now in 2014 trying to figure out what we're going to do.

FEYERICK: Well, then let me ask you about that. You said the CDC should have strike forces. There are so many different agencies within government that are supposed to be equipped to respond.

Why is there an absence of coordination and can one man, a so-called czar, actually get everyone on board to do what needs to be done to stop an illness like this where it starts and then keep it from spreading?

THOMPSON: Well, I really sincerely think putting a czar, and that's a political partisan that doesn't have medical training, it's just the wrong recipe at this particular point in time.

Tom Frieden is an expert in public infections and public health, and he is a wonderful epidemiologist. The smartest and best person in the world, of course, is Dr. Tony Fauci. You put Tony Fauci in charge of this and this would not have happened. You would have had a strike force over in Western Africa immediately after this thing broke out and you wouldn't have the confusion that took place.

Either put Tom Frieden or Tony Fauci in charge and you will get this thing solved very quickly.

FEYERICK: I have to ask you one question, the FDA last week said that, in fact, they were fast-tracking certainly Ebola products.

Do you think that in fact there will be some sort of a vaccine? Are you surprised that with Ebola it wasn't fast-tracked until it came to the United States?

THOMPSON: I am sad. I'm sad and I'm surprised. You know, I know NIH under Tony Fauci was working on it, but I think it's going to be ramped up now, and it should be. We should be putting more infrastructure into finding cures and finding vaccines to these infectious diseases, viruses that could cause, you know, widespread havoc, and Ebola is just one of them.

You know, the mortality rate is 50 percent to 60 percent of those individuals that get the virus. So we need a vaccine, we need it now, and we need to put our efforts on it. It's too bad it hasn't been done before but now let's not wait for the next outbreak. Let's get it done right now.

FEYERICK: All right, Mr. Secretary. Thank you so much. Former Health and Human Services secretary, Tommy Thompson. We appreciate your time.

THOMPSON: Thank you very much.

FEYERICK: And a big Sunday for the NFL, but the fight may not just on the gridiron. They could also be in the stands. We take a look at football fans who are out of control. What is going on?

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FEYERICK: Well, a rowdy crowd scared off families who came to enjoy the annual pumpkin festival in Keene, New Hampshire, last night. In fact, it got so violent that police in riot gear used tear gas to disperse these pumpkin partiers and stop the pandemonium.

CNN's Alexandra Field joins us.

Alex, it's a serious story. I mean, you want to talk about a pumpkin festival that gets out of control, but what happened to these demonstrators? Why were they doing this?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. This is a major event that draws more than 20,000 people, and our understanding is that this happens in Keene, New Hampshire, which is a college town. You've got Keene State College there. We know there was a lot of partying in the build-up to this. It's been going on all week. And you saw something sort of start to get out of hand on Friday night. Forty-two arrests. But it really ramped up just last night.

And that's the video that you're looking at. You can see a fire that was set out there. We know that police had used pepper spray. That they were also reportedly using tear gas to disburse this crowd. And I spoke to a city official in Keene and I asked why these measures were necessary, and they said that it had really become a very violent and a dangerous situation for people in the crowd hurling rocks at each other, throwing bottles at each other. Flipping cars. Uprooting sign posts and light poles. So really a scary situation.

The college is reacting this morning. We've got a statement here from the president of the college saying, "We are actively working to identify the individuals who participated in unlawful behavior, and those who are identified will be held accountable."

So now they're reviewing images. They're looking at videos all that because there are going to be arrests here. There are legal ramifications. And also the school saying if it's their students who were involved that there will be repercussions.

FEYERICK: And clearly, at this point, on the second day, when it crossed over, there were no families around for this pumpkin festival. This is something that it sort of got -- it was taken over control by these protesters.

FIELD: Yes. We don't want to give people the wrong impression here that this is a -- you know, just a family fun sort of thing. This is supposed to be an event that is about family fun, but, again, you saw there's some 20,000 people who come to town.

FEYERICK: Right.

FIELD: A lot of college students. A lot of just outsiders who came. And the school had pointed out that this has come to be an event where people have taken it upon themselves to start to promote this as a place for bad and disruptive behavior. So very separate from the intention.

FEYERICK: Right. So Keene, New Hampshire, may be re-evaluating specifically what happens and whether they continue to do this festival.

All right. Alexandra, thanks so much. We appreciate it.

And for more on the story, you can check out CNN.com.

And you expect to see some hard-hitting when you watch a pro football game. Usually, though, it's on the field, not in the stands. Unfortunately, fists are flying there all too often.

Here's CNN's Dan Simon.

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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The latest brawl in a bathroom. Inside Levi's Stadium just before kickoff at a San Francisco 49ers game. One victim knocked out cold on the floor. Another hit repeatedly in the face. The argument apparently over an available stall.

Two weeks earlier Philadelphia Eagles fans trading punches in their home stadium. At least six fans involved in the scuffle.

The fight examples of increased fan violence captured on video in recent years. They've broken out at many professional sporting events where crowds and passion collide, fueled in some cases by alcohol.

KATHY SIMONE, LAUNCHED FANS AGAINST VIOLENCE: Alcohol is a huge issue. Unfortunately, it's not something that's going to go away.

SIMON: Kathy Simone, a life-long Oakland Raiders fan and mother of two, has become increasingly concerned for parents bringing children to games. So she launched a nonprofit called Fans Against Violence.

(On camera): What are some things that can be done to stop this problem?

SIMONE: A huge part of it is that the fans really need to take responsibility and I've gone up to people who I see acting up and be like, hey, come on, it's a game.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Reach out, shake hands with somebody else that's a fan of another team.

SIMON (voice-over): Among her initiatives, the fan shake. A way to get people to welcome fans from the opposing team.

With the NFL already riddled with off-the-field issues, curbing violence like this can only help the embattled league.

(On camera): Do these incidents have the potential to keep fans from coming to the games?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, I think they should. I am a father of two young boys, and it would make me think twice before going to a place like Levi's Stadium. I trust the NFL fans from a game experience, but leaving the stadium, getting to the stadium, those things need to be safe as well.

SIMON (voice-over): Following that bathroom fight, the 49ers released a statement saying, in part, "Maintaining the safety of all stadium guests is our highest priority. We are dedicated to providing a friendly and welcoming environment for any event held at Levi's Stadium."

As for the victims, a county prosecutor says one of them is partially paralyzed. The accused have been charged with felony assault.

Dan Simon, CNN, San Francisco.

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FEYERICK: And most NFL teams post a phone lines for fans to text stadium personnel with concerns. The league strongly advises each teams to put ejected fans to a four-hour online code of conduct class. That class is mandatory for any fans wanting to return to the stadium.

We'll be right back.

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FEYERICK: And now to the fight against ISIS. The coalition may be having some success pushing back the ISIS onslaught around Kobani with airstrikes. In Iraq the main offensive campaign takes place on the streets.

CNN's Ben Wedeman gets a firsthand look heading out with militias near Baghdad.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello, coach.

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The road is pockmarked from shelling many of the homes scarred by bombs and bullets. Volunteer fighters from the Hashd ash-Shaabi, a consortium of Shia militias, patrol through Qaraghoul, an agricultural community southwest of Baghdad.

They control everything up to the banks of the Euphrates, the bridge over the river has been destroyed. ISIS controls the far bank.

Three and a half weeks ago, these militiamen and the Iraqi army drove ISIS out. Only now are some civilians beginning to return.

"We left before ISIS arrived after we received threats," Abu Sade (ph). Says his neighbor, Abu Firas, "We only left with the clothing we were wearing."

Moments later, we hear gunfire, perhaps just a case of twitchy trigger fingers, perhaps ISIS. Even if people wanted to return, many of the houses are unsafe.

(On camera): OK. So he says that Sappers, the guys who de-mine places, haven't come here yet so they don't want us to go inside because a lot of these houses were booby-trapped.

(Voice-over): Some of the civilians in this predominantly Sunni area fled with ISIS as it retreated. Iraqi Army Colonel Kareem Hassan fought ISIS in this area and says many among the enemy are not from here.

The majority, he says, let's say 60 percent, are Arabs, mostly Saudis, then Tunisians, some Libyans and some Egyptians.

ISIS has pulled out of here, but they're not gone. The army controls this area, says the officer Al-Al-Hakami, but at night DAESH, the Arabic acronym for ISIS, tries to infiltrate.

While Iraqi forces have steadily lost ground elsewhere, here the troops and militiamen are upbeat with time for a bit of humor.

(On camera): All right. So if you look here, they've written on this donkey, this little one, on the other side, it's written, "Abu Bark al-Baghdadi," which is, of course, the name of the Caliph, so-called Caliph, of the Islamic state.

(Voice-over): Speaking of which, militia Colonel Qasim al-Hachami has a message for the leader of ISIS. Bring it on.

From here all the way to Mosul, whatever he wants to send my way, roadside bomb, a sniper, go ahead, he says. That's my message to him.

A bit of territory regained in this small corner of Iraq, but the road ahead is long and dangerous.

Ben Wedeman, CNN, in Qaraghoul, outside Baghdad.

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FEYERICK: Canada says it will ship 800 vials of its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. The first shipment is scheduled to be sent tomorrow.

As CNN's Brian Todd reports the race is on to find a vaccine that works.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We've known about the Ebola virus now for 38 years but up until now no vaccines have been available for public use.

Well, right now at this U.S. Army facility outside Washington, they are frantically testing a vaccine for the first time on humans.

(Voice-over): An urgent need to find a vaccine for Ebola. In this U.S. Army laboratory vials like these contain the ingredients crucial in the race against the deadly virus. It's one of two Ebola vaccines now being tested in the U.S. for the first time on humans.

(On camera): Can the vaccine being tested here stop this outbreak?

DR. SHON REMICH, WALTER REED ARMY INST. OF RESEARCH: Well, it depends on how fast we can get this particular product to the regulatory pathway so that it can be used in efficacy type trials. Right now we have to establish that it's safe.

TODD (voice-over): Vaccine investigator Colonel Shon Remich gave us inside access to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. The VSV Ebola vaccine is being tested here on 39 people. They cannot get Ebola from the vaccine. And officials here said the side effects are minimal.

Expert say when Ebola gets into the body, it often overwhelms the immune system, works too fast for the immune system to combat it. This vaccine is designed to speed up the immune system's ability to fight Ebola.

(On camera): If this vaccine works, could it be used to prevent people from getting the Ebola virus and treat people who already have it?

REMICH: The majority of the studies we're looking at, post-exposure, that means animals that were exposed to the Ebola virus and then treated. We also did some studies that looked at pre-exposure. So we were given the vaccine -- they were given the vaccine and then exposed. Both of those were good results and so we cautiously optimistic.

TODD (voice-over): But will it work in humans?

DR. JESSE GOODMAN, INFECTIONS DISEASE SPECIALIST: To be very realistic most medicines and vaccines even that look great in animals don't pan out in the long run.