00:02We begin this morning here in Omaha, where passengers from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly Hantavirus
00:08outbreak have landed, touching down just hours ago and headed into a high security quarantine unit.
00:15You're looking here at video of the plane arriving earlier this morning at Epley Airfield in Omaha, a convoy of
00:21police and medical vehicles then bringing those passengers to Nebraska Medicine.
00:26I headed there yesterday and was able to get video you see right here and pictures of the hospital, where
00:32they will now be monitored and possibly treated.
00:35Things were pretty calm on the hospital campus before the big arrival.
00:39The patients are being taken and watched at the National Quarantine Unit, the only federally funded unit of its kind
00:45in the country.
00:46If anyone develops symptoms of Hantavirus, they can be moved immediately to the biocontainment unit in the same building for
00:53treatment.
00:53This is a look inside at the rooms where they will be staying.
00:57Seventeen Americans and one British national who lives in the United States were evacuated from the MV Hondias, which docked
01:04in the Canary Islands on Sunday.
01:06So far, one American has tested positive.
01:09Another is showing symptoms.
01:10A French passenger from that same cruise ship has also tested positive.
01:15Health officials say the virus is usually linked to rodents, but in this case, the World Health Organization believes it
01:21likely spread person to person on board.
01:24Since the outbreak started in mid-April, three people from the ship have died and several others have been infected.
01:30So far, one American has tested positive.
01:31One American has tested positive.
01:33One American has tested positive.
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