Mayor Holding Emergency Meeting On Ebola

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Mayor Emanuel has called an emergency meeting to discuss the city's readiness to handle the Ebola virus in event people become ill here.

The meeting will include hospital and health department officials.

The city council's Health and Environmental Committee chairman is also gearing up to hold a hearing on the same issue.

On Thursday, nurses and doctors at Rush University Medical Center trained on a simulated Ebola patients.

At O'Hare, Ebola screenings continue.

When passengers from west Africa land, they immediately have their temperatures taken and are quizzed about possible contact with Ebola patients.

"It's quickly getting out of Africa," said Ald George Cardenas of the 12th Ward. "It is now; it's landed in the U.S., and the question is are we prepared