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Strong Jobs Report for September; Doctors Answer Ebola Questions; Interview with Anthony Bourdain

Aired October 03, 2014 - 08:30   ET

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back, everyone. Time now for the five things you need to know for your NEW DAY.

Number one, breaking moments ago, the Pentagon will announce today an additional 600 troops will be sent to West Africa for engineering and logistics support in the fight against Ebola. Now that's on top of the 3,000 troops already headed there.

Computer hackers targeting JP Morgan Chase in one of the biggest security breaches ever. The information of more than 80 million American households and small businesses was compromised.

ISIS is now pushed into the key city of Kobani, on the border between Syria and Turkey. The terror group now controls the southwest corner of the city but Kurdish fighters are trying to push them back.

Clashes have erupted in Hong Kong between pro-democracy demonstrators and people who do not support the week-long protests. This comes after Hong Kong's chief executive said his deputy would meet with the protesters but would not resign.

President Obama will wait for a review of the embattled Secret Service to be completed before choosing a successor to Julia Pierson, who resigned this week after a series of troubling security lapses.

We're always updating the five things to know, so go to newdaycnn.com for the very latest.

Chris.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, my friend.

We do have breaking news. The September jobs report has just been released by the Labor Department. Chief business correspondent Christine Romans is here.

What do you got?

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: I got a strong report for you. I got a strong jobs report for the month of September. When you take a look at here at the number of jobs added, Chris, if you hit that yellow bar right there, you'll see the forecast was for 215,000, but 248,000 jobs created. We were concerned, remember, in August about only 142.

CUOMO: Yes.

ROMANS: Look back at this trend, Chris. We love these numbers above 200. We want to see that continue here.

Here's another really interesting part of this report. I want you to take a look at how the jobless rate has been declining and then I want you to hit that little red button right there and it will show you that the jobless rate was 5.9 percent. That's the lowest since July of 2008. You now have a jobless rate below 6 percent. That's really important progress for the labor market.

It's been slow and steady, the recovery has been. Some people would say too slow and not - too steady and too slow. But this is what it looks like, that jobless rate, coming down here. That's what you want to see continuing.

When I look within the numbers, Chris, I see professional business services. Those are higher paid jobs. Those are lawyers. Those are architects. Those are I.T. specialists. Retail jobs as well. Health jobs, no surprise there. But you want to see that broad based jobs growth.

Digging further in the numbers, still have an underemployment rate that's too high, still have too many people sidelined by the recovery. But these headline numbers do show a resumption of that strength we saw in the labor market in the summer.

CUOMO: You're OK with the yo-yoing. Like one month it doesn't meet expectations, the next one it does? Is that relevant?

ROMANS: You know, I -- you want to see a trend, right? And I see here a trend. I see a pullback in August, but I do see a trend that is above 200,000 that you want to see continue.

CUOMO: Two hundred thousand is somewhat of an important number? A benchmark?

ROMANS: Yes, 200, 250. You want to be able to at least get new people in the economy, people graduating from college, people -- immigrants who want to get at least population growth jobs added and that's what you do when you get above 200,000.

CUOMO: Christine Romans bringing positive news. I like it.

ROMANS: Happy Friday.

CUOMO: Thank you for bringing that to us.

All right, so a lot of questions out there about Ebola and now we get to the most important ones, yours. We have a panel of experts answering your Ebola questions next.

Plus, he's crisscrossed the globe, had unforgettable culinary adventures and he's taken all of us along the way. Anthony Bourdain joins us to talk about the most exciting season yet of "Parts Unknown."

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MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back.

The Ebola diagnosis in Texas has prompted so many questions. We have tried to answer some. But we've got some great medical minds that are lined up that can help with -- providing more insight. We pulled your questions from social media. Here to answer them, here's my panel, look at them they're good looking. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent, Dr. Seema Yasmin, former - listen to this career - former CDC disease detective and professor of public health at the University of Dallas, Texas, and retired Lieutenant General Russel Honore, who helped organize the military response, of course, to Hurricane Katrina.

Team, here we go. Are you ready for some questions?

Dr. Yasmin, I'll start with you. A question from Twitter. Can an anti- piretic (ph), like aspirin, mask a fever and enable a symptomatic Ebola individual to board a plane? Very good question.

DR. SEEMA YASMIN, FORMER CDC DISEASE DETECTIVE: And I've been asking the same question to my friends who are experts in infectious diseases. The consensus seems to be that firstly you would not want to give aspirin to a patient with Ebola because of that risk of bleeding.

PEREIRA: Oh.

YASMIN: But potentially or theoretically it could mask some of those symptoms. Of course, there are many other symptoms of Ebola disease, such as a rash, vomiting and diarrhea that could be a lot harder to conceal.

PEREIRA: Isn't that interesting. Fascinating.

All right, next question, doctor - I almost made you a doctor, general. If it's found that Duncan did indeed lie to get into the United States, could he face prosecution? Does it change the game if he intentionally traveled here in case he got sick?

LT. GEN. RUSSEL L. HONORE, U.S. ARMY (RET.): Yes, I think whether they will enforce that law, we've already seen statements from his own country and they intend to prosecute him if it's proven. But if he intentionally did this, then that could be under some form of bioterrorism if the country decides to prosecute that. I'm pretty much sure - I doubt it will happen, but let's hope that right now he'll live and the incident is contained in Dallas.

PEREIRA: Yes, first thing's first, right.

All right, a question from Twitter for you, Dr. Gupta. We have a situation in Dallas very well that we know. Four people contained in this apartment that was shared by Mr. Duncan. This person wants to know, what becomes of the personal effects? What happens to their home? Is -- are all of those personal items destroyed or are they decontaminated somehow?

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you can decontaminate some things, certainly. And keep in mind that the virus, you know, does - it can live outside the body, but for a few days. If it's exposed to heat or cleaning solutions, it will become deactivated. But keep in mind like his bed sheets, the towels, things that he was using when he was very sick, it sounds like, in that apartment, still in that apartment kind of remarkably. But I imagine is that you'll take that out, put it in a biocontainment bag and some of that stuff will be burned. That's certainly what they do at the hospitals when patients are being cared for there.

PEREIRA: That brings me to my next request, which I'll give you to just tee off of that. A lot of people online wondering about the E.R., especially if they're saying, if you feel sick, head to an E.R. What about those surfaces? Can they become infected and what do they do then?

GUPTA: Yes, I mean, it's the same sort of situation there. You know, obviously, they can be decontaminated. And as far as the safety of the people in the E.R., I mean I know E.R.s can be very crowded. I, you know, spent a lot of time in them. But, still, it's a question of getting bodily fluids from someone who is sick with Ebola onto your skin, onto somebody else.

PEREIRA: Right.

GUPTA: If there's a suspicion of Ebola, if someone comes in and they meet the criteria, there's a suspicion, even during the testing, what the protocol is, that person should be separated from other patients so that scenario doesn't help.

PEREIRA: General Honore, you're up next. This question comes from FaceBook. How can you control a U.S. citizen traveling to France, coming into contact with a French citizen who's been to Liberia in the past two weeks? This guy is actually bringing up a really good question. Are international countries and international hospitals, are they following the same kind of guidelines and following the same procedures we are here in the U.S.?

HONORE: Well, and the only ones we can control is what we do here in the United States as far as entry into our country based on where people have come through. But the potential of people going from one country to the next will continue to exist, but right now the protocol will be followed with the United States immigration service say based on the guidance from the CDC on whether we continue to allow people to enter through that way of conveyance, then to get them screened when they arrive, or isolated because people can be put in waiting rooms or held for days if need to if it's suspected.

PEREIRA: Well, that's a question of what the airport guidance will be at these international facilities. All right, Dr. Yasmin, here's a question from you that was e-mailed in. Something that we wondered about. In fact, Sanjay will remember this when we first saw Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly coming back to the states. If you have had Ebola, can you get it again? Is it like say the chicken pox or the flu?

YASMIN: So when we have those cases with Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly, who were treated, the infectious diseases doctors who saw to them said, look, these guys survived Ebola infection. It means they're now immune to Ebola. But only the particular strain of the virus that they were infected with. There are five strains. You can get immunity to the specific strain that you were infected with.

PEREIRA: Well, and then the question becomes, how do we know how this virus will behave? Will it, you know, change and will it morph and will it become something more lethal, less lethal, these - less lethal. Those are the questions we don't know.

Sanjay, one for you, why not since we've got time. And I think this is what a lot of people are thinking about as we head into the holiday season here in a couple months. This person wants to know, they're traveling abroad in December, wants to know the best way to take care of himself in the air and in those international airports.

GUPTA: Well, you know, I mean, I think some of the basic advice that we talk about in general for infectious disease does apply here, you know, and you want to, obviously, wash your hands, things like that, very often. The good news about Ebola, if that's the particular concern, is that it's not airborne, so there's less of a concern in that regard.

You also want to avoid sick people. I mean it sounds very obvious, very basic, you want to avoid sick people. And if you are sick, you should stay home. One thing again about Ebola is, when people become symptomatic and start to be able to shed the virus, they're pretty sick and they don't want to usually get up. They're usually in bed or in a hospital.

PEREIRA: Right.

GUPTA: So hopefully, as whoever wrote that question that's traveling, they won't come in contact with somebody.

PEREIRA: Contact. Contact. Yes.

GUPTA: Yes.

PEREIRA: What a great panel we've had. Some great questions from you at home. Thank you so much for participation. A big thank you to Lieutenant General Russel Honore, to Dr. Seema Yasmin, and, of course, our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Always a pleasure. Thank you, guys.

GUPTA: Thanks.

YASMIN: Thank you.

PEREIRA: Chris.

CUOMO: From their heroic efforts to CNN's heroes. We here at CNN are so proud to be honoring our CNN heroes every year, certainly this one. As you know, the top 10 get revealed. Anderson Cooper did it yesterday here on our show. And Anderson has more on how you can decide who takes the top prize as CNN Hero of the Year. And, remember, that comes with a $100,000 prize for their cause.

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ANDERSON COOPER, ANCHOR, CNN'S "AC 360": Now that we've announced the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2014, I want to show you how you can choose who should be CNN Hero of the Year and receive $100,000 for their cause.

Take a look. This is the main page from cnnheroes.com where you'll see all the top 10 and you can learn more about each one of them. Here's how you can vote for your favorite.

Once you've decided who inspires you the most, click down here on "vote" and then a new page comes up. It shows you all of the top 10 heroes. Now, choose the person to vote for.

I'm going to randomly select say Ned Norton over here, again just an example. His photo will show up down here under your selection. Then, just enter your e-mail address, type in the security code and click on the vote button right down there.

It's even easier to vote on Facebook. Just make your selection and click over here. You can vote once a day, every day through Sunday, November 16th with your e-mail address and through Facebook. Just go to CNNhee heroes.com. Then rally your friends by sharing your choice on Facebook or on Twitter. We'll reveal your 2014 Hero of the Year during "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute." A CNN tradition that promises to inspire.

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CUOMO: I don't know why we wouldn't be allowed to vote.

PEREIRA: I want to vote.

CUOMO: Remember, the rule there is you vote only once a day, but you can vote every day and you can do it at CNNheroes.com, and then one will be named Hero of the Year at "CNN Heroes." Its an all-star tribute, of course hosted by Anderson Cooper, airing on December 7th. Remember, you can vote every day, once a day.

Anthony Bourdain and his crew up the stakes in the new season of "PARTS UNKNOWN." He's going to be here with us, telling us about the new season and the boogie down Bronx. Stay with us.

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ANTHONY BOURDAIN, HOST "PARTS UNKNOWN" (voice-over): The South Bronx sounds familiar as a bad thing, and the Bronx at one time was said to be burning, wasn't it? For the most part, the Bronx is overlooked, the never visited borough in New York City, which is a shame, because the Bronx is a magical place with its own energy, its own food, vibe, and rhythm. You've been to Brooklyn. Maybe it's time you took a look at the Bronx.

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CUOMO: You know that voice and now he's in the boogie down Bronx.

PEREIRA: Boogie down.

CUOMO: Just one of the unique locations visited by our resident food connoisseur, Mr. Anthony Bourdain, for the fourth season of "PARTS UNKNOWN." The show returns Sunday, taking viewers into the culinary landscapes of locations including Tanzania, Jamaica, Iran, so who better to help us preview the new season than the man himself?

How'd you find yourself in the Bronx, brother? Did you get lazy and you didn't want to travel?

BOURDAIN (on camera): I know so little about it, I mean, shamefully little about it. It's right next door. I could see it from my window. You know, hipsters have been rushing to Brooklyn and they're all over Queens. Why not the Bronx? I sort of confront my own ignorance of this very important borough, you watch me learn a little bit about a massive and awesome part of our city.

BERMAN: What does Bronx culture mean?

BOURDAIN: Well, in this case we were looking at the soundtrack to the entire world hip-hop now. Whether it's commercials, films, children's shows, it's fully penetrated every aspect of just about everywhere we go on earth. Hip-hop can be traced right back to, essentially, three people in one housing project in the Bronx, and it came from no place else and we go back and meet with all three of them, none of whom really got paid.

PEREIRA: And you explored Jamaican food. You explored what else, Puerto Rican food?

BOURDAIN: Bangladesh.

PEREIRA: Oh.

BOURDAIN: The food is great. It's a wonderland of communities from all over the world who brought their food and drinking practices with them.

PEREIRA: Oh really, did we experience a little bit of that as well?

BOURDAIN: Yes, there's -- breakfast with the Jamaican community can get interesting.

PEREIRA: Do you understand me better now?

CUOMO: She's got some of that going on.

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CUOMO: So, you know what's interesting to me watching this, is that when I've seen you in really far out places that would be mind blowing to people, you seem to take it in stride. And yet, this episode at least, when you're in the Bronx you do seem a little wowed, but what does it just take you by surprise because you figure you know your own backyard?

BOURDAIN: I think I like it when I'm made to feel stupid on camera, in the sense that --

CUOMO: Welcome to my world.

BOURDAIN: This was here all along, I mean, I'm 20 minutes from this all my life and I didn't know. So, I think you see that on my face.

PEREIRA: But then you also - - coming up in this season are going to go to far flung places.

BOURDAIN: Yes.

PEREIRA: Not so much in our back door. I don't want to give it away, but I do want you to talk about the people that you toured Iran, or parts of Iran, with.

BOURDAIN: Right.

PEREIRA: Very significant.

BOURDAIN: The correspondent for "The Washington Post" and his wife who showed us around, a dual citizen in one case, a full citizen in the other. Lovely people who were sort of a sidekick guide, showed me around Tehran, were arrested and detained and have really not been heard from since the show, and for no reason that can be possibly discerned.

They were lovely people, very supportive of better understanding of their country, felt very close, they identified with and proud of Iran. And I think people are going to be stunned and confused, as I was, to see the difference between the Iran we know from outside looking in, and from a foreign policy, military aspect, and what it's like just walking down the street and talking to ordinary people in Iran, which is as far from that experience as could be imaginable.

BERMAN: But it does show you the dichotomy there, that these people who showed you that different world, opened up that world, have since been closed off and shut down completely.

BOURDAIN: I think we felt when we were there that a window was opening, and that it was going to open possibly for good, and there was a sense of real optimism and a yearning that you could really feel. It appears that maybe that window closed and that we were there for just sort of a blip.

CUOMO: We look forward to all the places that you'll take us, where many of us will never be able to go. And, if you're starting in the Bronx for the New Yorkers, a place they would never though to go. In fact, maybe give us a nice lunch recommendation for a little field trip. PEREIRA: Oh, good idea.

CUOMO: We'll do a little NEW DAY- -You don't have to come, don't worry Tony. You just have to give us the recommendation. Be sure to watch "ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN" airing this Sunday on CNN at 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. Thanks for being with us.

BOURDAIN: Thank you.

CUOMO: We'll be right back.

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CUOMO: While we wish you a good weekend, your day is far from over. There's a lot of news, so let's get you to the "NEWSROOM" and Ms. Carol Costello.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Happy Friday, and that includes good economic news. What could be better than that?

PEREIRA: I know, right?

COSTELLO: Yea. Have a great weekend.

NEWSROOM starts now.