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cnn news 2014-10-13

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Hi. I`m Carl Azuz with your commercial-free source for news for the classroom. Welcome to all of our viewers worldwide.

Yesterday, the first person diagnosed in the U.S. with the Ebola virus died at a hospital in Dallas, Texas. 42-year old Thomas Eric Duncan had been

admitted with symptoms just over a week beforehand. The pastor of his family`s church says Duncan`s loved ones are grieving and afraid.

Officials believe Duncan caught the hemorrhagic fever in Liberia, the West African nation hardest hit by the disease. It`s not known yet whether

anyone in the U.S. caught it from him. A person from Frisco, Texas, not far from Dallas was transferred to the hospital yesterday with Ebola-like

symptoms. Health officials said it was a low risk event, but they were taking no chances.

Also, yesterday, the U.S. government announced new screening methods for travelers arriving in the U.S. At five major airports, Atlanta, Chicago,

JFK, Newark and Washington, Dallas, passengers from Ebola-stricken nations could have their temperatures taken and be given questionnaires.

Of course, the U.S. is not the only country taking precautions.

PAULA HANCOCKS, cnn CORRESPONDENT: South Korea`s first line of defense is prevention. Now, even though there are no direct flights from any of the

infected countries arriving here in South Korea, back in August Korean Air decided to indefinitely cancel all of its flights in and out of Kenya.

There hasn`t been a single confirmed case of Ebola in the East African nation, but it is a major transport hubs the Korean Air didn`t want to take

chances.

Now, every single passenger will come through here, even from the United States.

A full body infra-red scanner. It measures passengers` body temperature. Green and yellow is normal, red means there is a hike in temperature.

Anyone with over 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 38 degrees centigrade has to see an onsite doctor. Any flight from Ethiopia, the only African flight still

operating to Seoul has one of this at the gates so passengers can be checked as soon as they step off the plane.

Anyone transferring from or who has visited one of the infected countries, has to see the onsite doctor, whether they have a temperature or not. And

if the doctor`s concerned, the passengers quarantined in a separate medical center right here at the airport. It`s only happened once so far, and it

turned out to be a false alarm. But with an incubation period of up to 21 days, authorities know that this is not a full proof system. So, what they

do is anyone of interest, health officials will call them at every single day after they leave this airport to check that they are not showing any

symptoms.

The strongest storm of the year is brewing in the Pacific Ocean and it hit southern Japan in its sites. As of last night, typhoon Vongfong was over

open water with sustained wind speeds of a 178 miles per hour. That makes it a super typhoon, the equivalent of a category five hurricane in the

Atlantic. And officials expected Vongfong to get even stronger.

If it stays on course to Japan, meteorologists predict it will weaken before making lay in fall, possibly to the equivalent of category three strength, still capable of devastating damage.

This is especially bad timing for Japan because it was just hit by another typhoon, Pangfung (ph) last week. It forced more than a million people to evacuate to shelters.