+ $ 1 / FINAL EDITION F R I D AY, O C TO B E R 17, 2 0 1 4 A F F I L I AT E D W I T H Jets fall to Patriots in hard-fought game at Foxborough. IN SPORTS IN TODAY Cosby still reigns as the master of laughs At 77, Bill Cosby, who has comedy performances coming up in Englewood, Morristown and New York City, has not lost his touch in making the audience laugh. The entertainer also is poised to revisit the sitcom format. What’s the latest on his announced forthcoming NBC series? “This will take a while,” the comedian warns, and he launches into what sounds very much like one of his comedy routines. / Page 20 IN NEW JERSEY FBI investigated late congressman Payne The late U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Sr. was scrutinized but never charged in a federal investigation in 1988 over allegations that he accepted campaign contributions in return for promising to give someone assistance with Newark city government, new FBI records show. The FBI opened a “preliminary investigation” and authorized the use of secret recordings to gather more information, records show, but the matter was closed in 1989. / Page 3 You asked for it. You got it. Don’t miss the TV Grid. PAGE 22 IN BUSINESS Apple unveils new iPads and Macs Just ahead of the holiday shopping seasson, Apple Inc. on Thursday introduced the slimmer iPad Air 2 as well as a iPad Mini 3. The iPads have features including fingerprint security known as touch ID. Apple also unveiled a new 27-inch iMac with a retina display for better imagery. “This is the strongest lineup of products that Apple has ever had,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said. / Page 9 Jeff Hulbert of Annapolis, Md., wears a protective suit and mask as he demonstrates outside the White House on Thursday, demanding a halt of flights from West African nations battling the Ebola virus. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) THE EBOLA CRISIS U.S. airport police: Ban trips from Africa Group says it will ask Congress to restrict commercial flights from the stricken region and require medical personnel and Ebola patients to fly on military planes. Alliance of Airport Police Officers, said it was drafting a letter to members of Congress calling for A national group representing the travel ban, along with a airport police officers, including those at Newark Liberty and John F. requirement that American medical personnel and Ebola Kennedy International, said patients traveling from the three Thursday that it was seeking a ban West African nations — Liberia, on commercial air travel to the Guinea and Sierra Leone — be United States from the three West flown on military aircraft. African nations battling the “We’re calling for a restriction on outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. flights from these afflicted counA spokesman affiliated with the organization, the American tries,” said Bobby Egbert, a By Steve Strunsky NJ Advance Media for The Star-Ledger Inside Rising fears: Health officials try to reassure nation they can head off an outbreak in U.S. / Page 2 Quarantined: N.J. health care union wants any confirmed Ebola patients treated at a designated site. / Page 6 SEE EBOLA, PAGE 6 “ (The) trust and credibility of the administration and government are waning as the American public loses confidence each day.” Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) BUT GOP OPERATIVE SAYS GOVERNOR’S ALL IN Most of Christie’s kids oppose a run for president Inside Radio spat: Christie spars with a retired police officer over pension system for public workers. / Page 15 Losing faith: Poll says barely a fifth of voters trust governor implicitly anymore. / Page 17 Today’s Weather spokesman for the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, a member of the alliance, whose officers patrol Newark Liberty and Kennedy airports. Newark and JFK are among the five airports in the United States singled out by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for enhanced Ebola screening. Federal officials say the five airports are the U.S. points of entry for 94 percent of the travelers — about 150 a day — from the three West African countries where the virus has killed more than 4,000 people. On Thursday, federal health Mostly sunny with a west wind 7 to 10 mph, and some clouds moving in at night. High: 72° Low: 54° / Forecast, Page 2 By Claude Brodesser-Akner and Matt Arco NJ Advance Media for The Star-Ledger Will he or won’t he run for president? On Wednesday night, Gov. Chris Christie cracked the window ever so slightly — providing some insight into his “three factors” decisionmaking process by revealing how his children feel about their father seeking the Republican nomination for president. But while Christie says he has not yet made up his mind about 2016, Steve Schmidt, who was a senior adviser to U.S. Sen. John McCain during Index Advice / 21 Business / 9 Classified / 43 his 2008 presidential campaign, was more sure of himself: The governor will run. “Obviously Chris Christie, the governor of this state, will be a candidate for president,” Schmidt told an audience at Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics. As for Christie, he said in a call-in radio show on New Jersey 101.5 FM that his wife Mary Pat Christie and their four children — Andrew, Sarah, Patrick and Bridget — were “tired of the overall subject, mostly because other people bring it up, not because Mary Pat and I do.” Comics / 23 Editorial / 16 Home / 24 SEE CHRISTIE, PAGE 6 Lottery / 2 New Jersey / 15 Obituaries / 11 Gov. Chris Christie, shown on a 2012 Jerusalem trip with first lady Mary Pat and children Patrick, 11, and Bridget, 8, says three of his four children don’t want him to run for president. He has yet to decide, he says. (FILE PHOTO) Puzzles / 21 Real Estate / 30 Sports / 33 Today / 20 Towns / 18 TV Grid / 22 =4+2+5+b+e