Americans flooded the C-SPAN phone lines Wednesday with questions for Colonel John Petkosek, commander of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, on a multitude of issues including the facility’s resemblance to the United States and gun confiscation by military soldiers during Hurricane Katrina. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhn2WY_RsrY

Stories covered on this October 2, 2014 edition of the Nightly World News: • The number of Ebola cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone could rise to between 550,000 and 1.4 million by January if there are no "additional interventions or changes in community behavior," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Tuesday. The estimate was derived from a new forecasting tool developed by the CDC. • President Obama, addressing the ebola outbreak September 16, 2014 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said that "Chances of an Ebola outbreak here...extremely low." • FLASHBACK, September 15, 2014: The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread of a virus that has already claimed an unprecedented number of lives. • On MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews tussled with Obamacare architect Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel over the how serious a threat Ebola is to Americans. Matthews and Emanuel also spar over President Obama saying it was "unlikely" that an Ebola case would strike the U.S. • White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters today that, after the Ebola case in Dallas, the Obama administration reminded border law enforcment agencies of "protocol" to deal with people that appear to have symptoms of Ebola. Earnest also said that there "are screening procedures in place at our border." • A Missouri doctor Thursday morning showed up at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in protective gear to protest what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. • Roughly 13,500 people from the Ebola-stricken countries of Sierra Leon, Guinea and Liberia have visas to visit the United States, according to federal data. • Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has sounded the alarm on the Ebola virus reaching the US, urging that not enough is being done to educate on the seriousness of the outbreak. Speaking on The Laura Ingraham Show (audio here), Paul noted that “It’s a big mistake to underestimate the potential for problems worldwide,” pointing to a lax attitude toward the outbreak by the CDC and the government. “I really think that it is being dominated by political correctness and I think because of political correctness we’re not really making sound, rational, scientific decisions on this.” Paul said referring to statements issued by the CDC last week that assured there was little risk of an outbreak occurring in the US. • Professors at the University of Illinois in Chicago assert that the Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via “infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients,” suggesting that the current understanding of Ebola only being communicable via direct contact is inaccurate. • House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took issue with the term “illegal aliens” during a Wednesday press conference. Advocates have pushed back in recent years against the term “illegal alien,” despite its common use in law enforcement — particularly by immigration enforcement agencies like Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. • Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – a newspaper that endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as "adept at detail and vision" – complained on both Facebook and Twitter that aides to Michelle Obama and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke told her she could not talk to the crowd at a Burke event in Milwaukee. • Federal officials are planning to sharply increase production of ZMapp, which is viewed by many experts as the most promising experimental drug for treating people infected with Ebola in West Africa. • Did ZMapp save Kent Brantly, or was it a blood transfusion from a unit of blood donated by an Ebola victim that survived? • A former Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy and Precinct 1 constable candidate laundered $40 million worth of drug money, prosecutors said Wednesday. • People serving draconian drug sentences thanks to mandatory minimum laws: John Horner had no record of drug-dealing when he was sentenced to a 25-year mandatory minimum prison term for selling some of his own pain pills to an undercover informant. Also, Chris Williams was running a Montana medical marijuana dispensary that was considered a model of compliance with state law when his dispensary was raided by federal agents. Unlike his fellow dispensary owners, Williams did not take a plea deal, determined to take his case to trial. The very lowest mandatory minimum drug sentence was five years in jail. • A special report on security breaches revolving around President Obama and the Secret Service. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMmmjXj_Fk

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Stories covered on this November 14, 2014 edition of the Nightly World News: -The Obama administration has officially conceded the military effort in Syria is not about attacking the Islamic State. It is about removing Bashar al-Assad from power. The new strategy formed by Obama’s national security team ignores the fact al-Assad and the Syrian military represent the only tenable opposition to the Islamic State and other Islamist groups funded and trained by the United States and its partners, most notably Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. -On Thursday, the House Armed Services Committee met to discuss the war against ISIS. “This was no minor congressional hearing involving witnesses from various and obscure think tanks,” the Washington Examiner‘s T. Becket Adams said of the hearing. “Both Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made appearances to testify on U.S. military action against the Islamic State.” Despite that, many representatives did not stay for the entire hearing. -Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News that amnesty via executive order is an “impeachable offense.” -On June 13, 2012, Obamacare's Jonathan Gruber was interviewed by Frontline. He told them that the Cadillac tax issue was addressed in 2009. Obama knew it was going to be a problem, and they all agreed to lie about it. What Jonathan Gruber is taking heat for right now, was planned out specifically with Barack Obama. It wasn’t just him. It was all of them, with Obama in the room taking part. -The announcement of an attempt to speed through so called NSA reform legislation in the Senate came as a surprise to many this week. While some rights groups are applauding the effort, Senator Rand Paul says he will not support the bill because it doesn’t go far enough. The bill, written by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and supported by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), purports to reign in NSA’s ability to monitor the communications of Americans. However, Paul says it is too weak and notes that it will in fact extend the sunset clause on the Patriot Act, the very legislation under which the NSA has justified mass domestic spying. -Obama’s Justice Department is conducting a Fourth Amendment busting surveillance dragnet using fake cell phone towers in Cessna aircraft. -Los Angeles police are increasingly relying on technology that not only tells patrol officers where crime is most likely to occur but also identifies and keeps track of ex-cons and other bad guys they believe are most likely to commit them. -Immigrants and their U.S.-born children make up more than 40 percent of new Medicaid recipients at a cost of $4.6 billion, according to an analysis of government data. -Protesters in Clayton, Missouri are training to “shut down” the town in the aftermath of the Grand Jury decision on the shooting death of Michael Brown by engaging in acts of civil disobedience. -Members of a Missouri-based Ku Klux Klan chapter sent a chilling message in Ferguson claiming they will use “lethal force” to defend themselves from “terrorists masquerading as ‘peaceful protesters.’” ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfgAx-fEmNU