"Testing confirmed that a patient here in New York City had tested positive for Ebola. The patient is now here in Bellevue Hospital."

At the same time the mayor also sought to reassure jittering New Yorkers that the virus is difficult to catch. 

" Ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract. It's transmitted only through direct contact with the blood or other bodily fluids, not through casual contacts."

Doctor in emergency room physician was reportedly returned from Guinea more than a week ago. New York Times reported the doctor travelled from Manhattan to Brooklyn by subway last night. The CDC is dispatching Ebola team to New York and it's already looking at who the doctor may have been contacted with. 

 

Police in Canada are giving more details about the gunman who killed a Canadian solider Wednesday and stormed the parliament building. As NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Ottawa, police said the gunman acted alone. 

Canadian police say Michael Zehaf-Bibeau had been lived in at a shelter here in Ottawa since early October. The 32-year-old has come to Ottawa to apply for a passport. His part of background check he has exposed had come under investigation. He was recent converted to Islam. Canadian Security Services though he was hoping to leave for Libya. In fact his mother told police after the shooting that her son was planning to go to Syria. Police say Zehaf-Bibeau was not among a group of roughly 90 people on a high risk watch list. The police say he has exposed motives were largely linked to his radicalization. Jackie Northam, NPR News, Ottawa. 

 

More to be done on talks with Iran. That's according to a US negotiator. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports negotiators are facing November 21 deadline to deal with the countries' nuclear program. 

Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman says all the components of the plan that should be acceptable on the table, and she told the Washington think-tank get time to finish the job. While Sherman says it's a complex puzzle trying to block Iran from all potential paths to nuclear weapon. 

"Given the states, it should be no surprise that our talks have moved forward a deliberate path, which is deposed for not so fast."

Skeptical US lawmakers want to step up the pressure on Iran. Sherman says the US and its partners will only suspend or lift sanctions when Iran takes convincing steps to show its nuclear program is peaceful. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington. 

 

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A 23-year-old Maryland man who jumped the White House fence last night and was taken down by a dog has been ordered held without bond, after appearing today before a federal magistrate. Dominic Adesanya, resisting it's he who is being taken away, and talking the 2 of the court officers remove them from the courtroom. Adesanya is charged with misdemeanor for assaulting the 2 police dogs and for unlawfully entering White House ground. White House press secretary Josh Earnest before the latest incident, told the reporters the option is being considered a heighten security in the White House. 

 

China launched a new spacecraft to the moon. As NPR's Jeff Brownfield reports it would test technology for future landing on the lunar surface. 

The new mission which launch to dispatch Long March-3C rocket, according to Chinese official news agency Xinhua. This spacecraft will travel near the moon before returning to earth and land in Mongolia. The mission is a practice for the next mission in 2017 which will land on the lunar surface and send moon rock back to earth. Last December China made headline with an unmanned lander and robotic rover generally touched down on the moon and drove around. Jeff Brownfield. NPR News. 

 

It appears after a great deal of back and forth, the body of native American sports legend Jim Thorpe would remain in Pennsylvania, where he was late to rest 6 decades ago. Some relatives had sought have remains rebury on Travelliance, Oklahoma where he was born. Thorpe was a football, basketball and track star, who won the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. He died in 1963. 

 

Once again recap this hour top story: health officials in New York now confirmed a physician working with the group Doctor without Borders says has tested positive for Ebola. He has been isolated in a unit in Bellevue Hospital on that city.