5 Things to Know This Morning
5 Things to Know This Morning
— -- Your look at the five biggest and most buzz-worthy stories of the morning.
1. What Missing Girl Sabrina Allen's Life Was Like in Mexico
After 12 grueling years of searching for Sabrina Allen, authorities found the missing girl in a town southeast of Mexico City, where she was "not living a regular life."
The blond girl from Austin, Texas, whose face was plastered on missing persons posters now has chestnut brown hair and goes by another name: Fair. She was with her noncustodial mother.
"She's in pretty bad shape," Greg Allen said of his 17-year-old daughter who went missing at age 4. "Sabrina has been under an intense campaign to hate me for 12 years. She's currently under the care of a therapist that specializes in cases like this."
2. Doctors 'Optimistic' About Prognosis for American Journalist With Ebola, Family Says
An American freelance journalist working in Monrovia, Liberia, has tested positive for Ebola, his father said in a statement.
Ashoka Mukpo, who had been doing human rights work in West Africa, returned to Liberia when the Ebola outbreak began, his father, Mitchell Levy, told ABC News.
"Having lived there for the last several years, Ashoka was well aware of the risks but felt strongly about trying to help provide honest perspective from the ground level," his father said in a statement. "Ashoka is being evacuated to the USA where he will receive the best possible treatment. The doctors are optimistic about his prognosis.”
3. Texas Hospital Blames Records Flaw as Reason Ebola Patient was First Released
The Dallas hospital treating a patient with Ebola blamed a flaw in its electronic health records as the reason he was first released despite telling a nurse he had come from West Africa.
Thomas Eric Duncan is currently confined to an isolation unit at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He first went there last Thursday but was allowed to leave the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Duncan returned to the hospital by ambulance three days later. He is listed in serious condition.
The hospital said in a statement that the physician and the nurses followed protocol, but his travel history didn't automatically appear in the physician's standard workflow.
4. Ailments You Didn't Know Yoga Could Treat
Downward dog devotees swear that yoga helps them tone up and chill out—and certainly, the mind-body benefits of a regular practice have been well documented. But the ancient art of breathing paired with movement can also be a treatment for very specific health problems, both physical and emotional.
“Yoga enhances human health,” says Loren Fishman, M.D., a rehabilitation specialist and assistant clinical professor at Columbia University Medical Center, who studied yoga in India under world-famous yogi B.K.S. Iyengar and prescribes Iyengar yoga regularly to his patients. “Combinations and adaptations of poses bring different ways to confront different problems.”
5. Escaped Crabs Delay U.S. Airways Flight
A U.S. Airways flight from New York to Charlotte was delayed after a shipment of crabs escaped in the plane’s cargo area, an airline spokesman confirmed to ABC News.
Flight 890 was scheduled to leave LaGuardia Airport at 6:59 p.m. Thursday, but instead left at 7:25 p.m. due to “some seafood cargo problems,” the spokesman said.
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