LABroadsheet_ 10-14-2014_ A_ 1_ A1_ WEST_ 1_C K Y M TSet: 10-13-2014 23:01 $1.50 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER 44 PAGES latimes.com TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 © 2014 WST Ebola case puts focus on hospital An error in protocol in caring for patient who died may mean more were exposed, CDC chief says. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Tina Susman Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press GOV. JERRY BROWN and Neel Kashkari meet in their only debate Sept. 4 in Sacramento. Kashkari has ridiculed Brown for being born into power, while Brown has criticized his rival’s work on Wall Street. RAGGING ON EACH OTHER’S RICHES ‘There’s just the absurdity and the hypocrisy of this Wall Street multimillionaire who’s throwing stones from inside his … beach house.’ By Michael Finnegan Neel Kashkari is unsparing in his portrayal of Jerry Brown as an out-of-touch governor who inherited millions of dollars from his father, who was also a California governor. “He’s been handed everything … on a silver platter,” Brown’s Republican challenger told a radio audience recently. “I look at Jerry Brown as daddy’s little boy.” The Democratic governor is equally merciless. His campaign mocks Kashkari for renting a house on the Laguna Beach oceanfront — last advertised at $15,000 a month — while lamenting the plight of the poor. In their sole debate, Brown ridiculed his rival’s career path from investment banking at Goldman Sachs to leadership of the federal bailout of Wall Street. “It’s kind of like the arsonist putting out the fire,” Brown quipped. The exchanges show the enduring potency of a “Wall Street scoundrel” attack in politics — and the trouble that a banker seeking public office can face even six years after the global economic meltdown. For a year, Brown’s reelection team has used Kashkari’s riches as a weapon to impugn the first-time candi[See Campaign, A11] — D AN N EWMAN Gov. Jerry Brown’s campaign spokesman ‘I grew up middle-class, mowing lawns and bagging groceries.… (Gov. Brown) is completely out of touch with the struggles of working families.’ — N EEL K ASHKARI in a recent radio interview DALLAS — The misstep that allowed a Texas nurse to contract Ebola while treating a patient may have exposed others to the virus, the nation’s leading healthcare official said Monday as experts stepped up scrutiny of medical workers at the hospital where the breach occurred. The second case of Ebola diagnosed in this country came after American officials had insisted for weeks there was a minuscule chance of the virus penetrating the U.S. healthcare system. The case raised questions on several fronts: the preparedness of medical facilities to handle Ebola patients properly; the funding available for hospitals to ready themselves for pandemics; the policy of allowing people from the hardesthit African nations to enter the United States. In Dallas, officials were even faced with how to handle the ill nurse’s pet dog. Texas Health Commissioner David Lakey said officials had decontaminated the patient’s apartment and were looking for a location that would allow “proper monitoring” of the dog, a 1year-old King Charles spaniel she referred to online as Bentley. “One and only one” person is known to have had direct contact with the nurse, Nina Pham, said Thomas THE ABORTION WARS Doctor goes to great lengths to do her work By Maria L. La Ganga SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Dr. Carol Ball was twothirds of the way through her morning commute when she heard the news. The first leg of her journey, a scooter ride to the Twin Cities airport, had been uneventful. Not so for the second leg — a 200-mile flight to Sioux Falls — as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law keeping protesters at least 35 feet from abortion clinics. The loss of any kind of protection is a blow in Ball’s line of work, and the Massachusetts case had been widely watched. But the ruling will have no direct effect on the doctor in running shoes and khakis who performs abortions far from home. Because losing protection means you have some to begin with. “We don’t have a buffer zone,” Ball, 62, said, as she got off the plane. “We wanted one, talked for years about trying to get one.” Several times every month, Ball jets into South Dakota to perform abortions at the only clinic in the Mt. Rushmore State — a Planned Parenthood facility that for the last decade has been unable to find a local doctor willing to perform the procedure. During that time, South Dakota legislators passed some of the most restrictive laws in America governing women’s access to the procedure, including a 72-hour waiting period that does not [See Abortion, A10] Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times CAMERON WEISS, who dropped out of USC to make watches, works in his Beverly Hills apartment. Each watch is made up of about 150 components. COLUMN ONE Time is money for an old-school watchmaker Cameron Weiss produces mechnical timepieces that sell for $950 a pop. By Daniel Miller A Katie Falkenberg Los Angeles Times DR. CAROL BALL prepares to see one of 17 patients who had abortions in one day at Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls, the only such clinic in South Dakota. fter hand-finishing the stainless-steel case of one of his timepieces in a whirring industrial polisher, watchmaker Cameron Weiss carefully submerged it in an ultrasonic cleaning tank. When all of the impurities had been blasted off the case, Weiss removed it from the machine — and knocked his head on a frying pan suspended from a hanging pot rack. His cramped kitchen filled with a shrill metal clang. These aren’t the tradition-bound halls of a Swiss watchmaking facility, and Weiss doesn’t have a graying beard, continental accent and loupe affixed to his eye. His floppy hair, stubbled jaw and surfer’s cadence seem more frat boy than fussy craftsman. But for the last year, the 27-year-old USC dropout has been producing the only mechanical timepiece with “Los Angeles” on its dial (a detail not every watch enthusiast appreciates). And he’s doing it from his modest one-bedroom Beverly Hills apartment, where the dining room table has given way to a workbench and the espresso machine shares kitchen countertop space with the tools of Weiss’ decidedly anachronistic trade. The San Diego native has entered a business that clings to conventions upheld by old-school firms like Rolex and Patek Philippe, whose hand-assembled timepieces are coveted for their intricacy and beauty. And now this upstart says he’s trying to restore American watchmaking to a place of prominence? Weiss’ love for horology — the science of measuring time — runs deep. When he was 4, he tried to fix his brother’s broken Swatch. [See Weiss, A8] Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Neither that person, who is being monitored, nor the dog has shown symptoms of illness. But Frieden said a “large number” of medical workers who worked with Pham while she was treating a Liberian man for Ebola could have been exposed to the deadly virus if they were affected by the same protocol breach that led to her illness. Pham became sick after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who was hospitalized at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Sept. 28. He died Wednesday. [See Ebola, A9] Hong Kong parents sit out protests Many older residents who saw Tiananmen tragedy unfold don’t believe their children can sway China. By David Pierson HONG KONG — Every time Kelvin Chan returns home around midnight from the daily pro-democracy rallies here, he finds his father fuming silently in the living room. “He says nothing when I come in,” said Chan, 23. “He just gets up and goes to his bedroom.” When Chan tries to broach the subject of freer elections, the patriarch is intractable, convinced his son is jeopardizing the young man’s future and meddling futilely in Chinese politics. “It’s tearing apart our relationship,” the recent college graduate said. Like many young protesters who have taken to the streets, Chan is struggling to bridge a generational divide freshly exposed by more than two weeks of polarizing demonstrations. On one side are students and recent graduates whose democratic aspirations are seasoned by the growing competition for university placements, jobs and evermore expensive apartments because of the influx of mainland Chinese. On the other side are parents, often pragmatic firstor second-generation immigrants from the mainland who prize stability above all and see little hope, let alone use, in challenging Beijing’s authoritarian rule. “This group in their late 40s or 50s witnessed the [See Hong Kong, A4] Oil price plunge hits Iran, Russia The decline is bringing growing political and economic pressure on the leaders of both countries. WORLD, A5 Weather Cooling trend begins. L.A. Basin: 77/63. AA6 Complete Index ... AA2 Printed with soy inks on partially recycled paper. 7 85944 00150 3