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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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When I walked into the Ebola ward in Mangualu General Hospital, the first thing that struck me was how many people were walking around without any form of protection. A handful of people were wearing rubber gloves. Some of them had pulled a scarf or part of their sweater across their mouths. But for the most part, people were wearing nothing.
And that meant that they were at great risk of catching the virus that causes Ebola themselves.
Declan Walsh is The Times' chief Africa correspondent. He's been on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Ebola outbreak has now ballooned to the third largest on record and where hospitals are struggling to keep up.
The other thing was just how tightly packed the patients were. In that small ward that we visited, we found a five-year-old boy who had just come in the night before with incessant bleeding from his nose. He was lying on the bed with a tissue stuffed into his nose to staunch the bleeding with his dad watching over him.
But just two beds away from that boy lay the body of a 21-year-old woman who had died yesterday. during the night and her remains had still not been removed. Now, the bodies of people who have just died from Ebola are incredibly infectious, yet it was just covered by a thin sheet that had been pulled over. That only added to that sense of danger inside that treatment facility.
And in fact, people were being infected at the hospital because when we went into the next ward, we found the lab technician from the hospital who himself had gotten infected apparently infected with Ebola as part of his job taking samples from other people. And we later learned that seven other staff members from that hospital had already died from the virus.
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Chapter 2: What challenges are faced inside the Ebola ward in Mangualu?
but then abruptly dropped the case as the Justice Department announced the $1.8 billion fund and a provision giving Trump and his family immunity from any ongoing tax audits. Now, though, the judge overseeing the tax return suit has ordered that case reopened, saying she wants to investigate what she called... grievous allegations that the hasty deal was premised on deception.
She said she wanted to look into whether Trump had effectively settled with his own government out of court to, quote, avoid judicial scrutiny.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions from The Times, but a spokeswoman for the Justice Department has defended Trump's original decision to drop the case, calling it a routine move and saying there was, quote, nothing improper about this agreement. Now, a few quick updates on the war in Iran. First, the U.S.
military says it's hit more targets inside Iran, the latest in a series of attacks over the past week. In a statement, U.S. Central Command described the strikes as self-defense and said it was responding to aggressive Iranian actions, including the downing of an American military drone. Shortly after the U.S.
announcement, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had also carried out strikes, targeting a base used by U.S. forces. The fresh exchange comes even as negotiations to end the war are ongoing. On Friday, Trump met with his top aides in the Situation Room for two hours to discuss the peace talks.
And officials say the president has now sent Iran a new set of terms for a potential framework to stop the conflict. And in the Strait of Hormuz, The Times has learned that the U.S. military has been quietly guiding some ships through the waterway. According to an American official, the U.S.
has coordinated the passage of about 70 commercial ships into and out of the strait in the past three weeks. That has allowed some ships which can't or don't want to get Iranian permission or pay an Iranian toll to move through the area. For the most part, the transponders on the ships have been turned off so they can avoid detection while they're in transit.
Still, Iran continues to exert significant control over the strait. Before the war, more than 100 ships a day passed through the waterway. about 10 days ago in Hawaii. And we start tonight with breaking news. A lot of people certainly felt it, a big jolt. A 6.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Big Island rocked residents and has set off what has now become a water crisis.
earthquakes before, but this one in particular really stood out. In the Kona region, many people rely on rainwater for drinking, irrigation, and more. And the quake destroyed hundreds of water tanks where people were holding their supplies. Some residents are now trekking to a local public spigot to fill up five-gallon jugs, and authorities have started trucking in some water to try and help.
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