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Friday Flashback: Ebola, elections and what you might have missed
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Oct 17, 2014
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Friday Flashback: Ebola, elections and what you might have missed
Take Two takes a look at this week in news for Friday Flashback.
LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 12: Senior Matron Breda Athan demonstrates the procedure when preparing to treat potential patients with Ebola on August 12, 2014 in London, England. The Royal Free Hospital houses two High Level Isolation Units at their High Secure Infectious Disease Unit. The Ebola virus has already killed more than 1000 people in Africa. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 12: Senior Matron Breda Athan demonstrates the procedure when preparing to treat potential patients with Ebola on August 12, 2014 in London, England. The Royal Free Hospital houses two High Level Isolation Units at their High Secure Infectious Disease Unit.
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Take Two takes a look at this week in news for Friday Flashback.

Ebola Ebola Ebola.

It's grabbed all the headlines this week and the topic has become a political football in Washington DC.

And speaking of politics, we are now just two and a half weeks away from the midterm elections.

Host Alex Cohen will talk with Flashback contributors Jim Rainey of the LA Times and Emily Schultheis of the National Journal and then drill down two important news stories we likely missed.