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"In many ways I think that's a reinforcing to most the Americans the horrific nature of this group in west is so important that the US be dealing² with situations in Iraq and Syria across this group and eliminate the prospect³ of the new groups like it taking their place."

In a statement, president Obama condemned⁴ what he called "the brutal⁵ murder of beheading". British Prime Minister David Cameron said the slay⁶ shows "how barbaric and repulsive⁷ these terrorists are."

 

Texas health officials have narrowed to 15 number of people that following who may have been in a contact with Dallas Ebola patient. Bill Zibble with Number Station KERA in Dallas reports that's half the number they were initially⁸ watching. 

Doctor David Lakey, Commissioner⁹ of State Services, says the idea is to cast a wide net when trying to find out who might have come in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan. Thursday, the number was a hundred. Lakey says most of the 15 being monitored are at low risk. 

"They're about 10 individuals that are at higher risk and so we continue to watch those individuals very carefully."

Among the 10 are family members isolated¹⁰ in an apartment, Doctor will be visiting before going to the hospital. Those individuals get their temperature taken twice a day to see if fever set in. So far, none of them have any symptoms. For NPR News, I'm Bill Zibble in Dallas. 

 

The White House is appointing to a new appointment report that for the further evidence US economy is on demand. NPR's Scott Horsley reports US employers added 248,000 jobs last month while unemployment bottoms the lowest level in 6 years. 

The solid gain in September helped to erase¹¹ so luckless to job report from the previous month. It turns out the hiring in August was also stronger than initially reported. White House economist¹² Jason Forman notes unemployment now stays at just 5.9%. It's lowest rating since July of 2008. 

"Could you ask me a year ago or 2 years ago? I don't think I can see unemployment rate with 5 in front of it during the Obama administration. Forecasts didn't think the unemployment rate getting this low until 2017."

While some to drop the jobless rate stands for workers leaving the labor¹³ force, Forman notes broad measure of unemployment that includes this discouraging workers are also down. Scott Horsley, NPR News, the White House. 

 

The service sector¹⁴ was growing last month. The institute for supply management is keen for purchasing manages groups, says the service sector index was down slightly from August would still formally in the expansion zone. 

 

While the positive economic news played well in Wall Street, the Dow was up 208 points, to 17,009; the NASDAQ grew 45 points. 

 

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A warning from Syria to its neighbor Turkey. Any move by Turkey to appoint troops inside its border would be seen as an act of aggression¹⁵. Turkey also called on international community to place limits on action on the part of Turkey's troops. The statement from Syria's Foreign Ministry¹⁶ came after Turkey's parliament this week gave the government new power to launch military incursion in the either neighboring Syria or Iraq, among them a swath of territory in two countries have been taken by the Islamic militant¹⁷ group calling itself Islamic State. 

 

76 million households whose records were hacked¹⁹ from JP Morgan system could find themselves targets of fishing attack. That's according to security experts. Over NPR's Yuki Noguchi report, US's biggest bank says it will not provide for liquidity²⁰ motoring. 

The E-mail name and address data hacked from the bank system in August contain no financial information according to the bank. But that information could be used to target customers through fishing. That is fraudulent E-mails pretending to be from JP Morgan that designed to fool customers into handing over account information. In a regular trial filling, JP Morgan said customers would not be held liable if they properly report on authorizing²¹ transaction. The FBI's investigating the hack¹⁸ and the bank says it's cooperating with the probe. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington. 

 

Another recall of General Motor, the 71st, so far this year. GM announced today recalling 430,000 of its Cadillac model SRX SUVs as well as Saab 9-4X SUVs which share similar components²². GM says submersed suspension bolts on the model 2011 to 2014 and 2011 to 2012 Saab models could loose because they were not tightened²³ properly. General Motor says it could cause a part to separate the vehicles. 

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