Jake Rosmarin, a travel influencer who was on the M/V Hondius as it suffered a hantavirus outbreak, is one of 16 Americans quarantining at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Rosmarin spoke with CBS News about how a five-week trip is now stretching into 12 weeks away from home.

Video released Sunday by airport officials shows the moment a Frontier passenger jet struck a person on a Denver International Airport runway.

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The black-and-white security video shows a figure approaching a runway and starting to cross it, seemingly at walking pace, when the aircraft streaks into view. The narrow-body Airbus A321 sweeps in from the left as the person vanishes and one of the plane’s engines catches fire.

The collision happened at 11:19 p.m. Friday local time as the Frontier aircraft appeared to be moving rapidly down the runway en route to takeoff for a scheduled flight to Los Angeles International Airport, Denver International Airport said.

The city and county of Denver’s Aviation Department released the video upon a public records request.

Frontier said smoke entered the aircraft’s cabin as the flight was aborted. The plane was carrying 224 passengers and seven crewmembers.

Passenger Nikil Thalanki told NBC affiliate KUSA of Denver that he felt the aircraft begin to lift for takeoff when the collision took place.

“We immediately came back down, and there was fire on the engine,” he said. “Smoke filled the cabin, completely. It was super hard to breathe.”

Those on board were evacuated on inflatable evacuation slides, Thalanki said. The airport said 12 people reported minor injuries, with five ending up at hospitals.

The airport said it will review security along its roughly 36 miles of perimeter fencing.

In a statement Sunday, airport CEO Phil Washington characterized the person who was killed as a trespasser. Airport officials said the person did not appear to be an employee of the facility.

Ryann Money, a spokesperson for the Denver Medical Examiner’s Office, said by email that the person’s name, as well as the cause and manner of death, will be released to the public “once our investigation is complete and next of kin have been notified.”

A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said it was gathering information about the collision. The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating.

A Sri Lankan passenger has been arrested today (06) by officials of the Sri Lanka Customs Narcotics Control Division at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) for smuggling a large consignment of Kush cannabis estimated to be worth around Rs. 113.4 million. 

The suspect has been identified as a 45-year-old resident of Kompannavidiya, Colombo, Ada Derana reporter said.  

He had arrived at the BIA at 6:50 a.m. today on Air India flight AI-277 from New Delhi, India.  

Upon inspection, officials had discovered a total of 11 kilograms and 340 grams of Kush cannabis concealed inside chocolate packages in his luggage.

For further investigation, the suspect and the seized narcotics have been handed over to the Katunayake Airport Police Narcotics Division.

A 58-year-old man has been arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) for attempting to smuggle a stock of foreign cigarettes into the country.

The suspect was arrested earlier this morning (17) during an inspection conducted at the airport’s arrivals terminal based on a tip-off received by officers of the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB), the police said.

Upon inspection, the officers had discovered 12,000 sticks of foreign cigarettes in possession of the suspect.

The arrested suspect has been identified as a 58-year-old resident of Gampola, police said. 

The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) is conducting further investigations into the incident.

HONG KONG — Police in Hong Kong arrested a passenger on Thursday for allegedly attempting to open the door of a plane during a flight from Boston to the Chinese territory.

The 20-year-old male suspect, a Chinese passport holder with the last name Zhang, attempted the act on a Cathay Pacific flight early Thursday and was reported to police, a Hong Kong Police Force spokesperson told NBC News by phone on Friday.

“Our cabin crew immediately attended to the situation, inspected the door to ensure it was securely closed, and reported the incident to the relevant authorities and the police,” Cathay Pacific, which is Hong Kong’s flagship airline, said in an emailed statement to NBC News.

No crew members or passengers were injured, and the flight landed safely, the airline said. “The case has been handed over to the police for investigation,” it added.

The CX811 flight landed at Hong Kong International Airport at 4:32 a.m. local time, nearly 30 minutes earlier than its estimated arrival time, according to Flightradar24.

It’s an offence for any person on board an aircraft to willfully tamper or interfere with any component, apparatus, equipment, or system of the aircraft under Hong Kong’s Aviation Security Ordinance.

In September, a Hong Kong Airlines flight to Osaka had an emergency exit accidentally opened after landing, with no injuries reported, according to public broadcaster RTHK.

A cruise ship passenger is facing a federal charge after jumping overboard with thousands in cash on him this past weekend in Puerto Rico, after allegedly incurring about $16,000 in gambling losses on the high seas, federal prosecutors said.

Jey Xander Omar Gonzalez-Diaz was arrested on Sunday after allegedly jumping off Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas when it docked in San Juan, according to a criminal complaint by Homeland Security Investigation special agent Gabriel Santiago.

The passenger has been charged with allegedly failing to report the transport of monetary instruments over $10,000 from outside the United States. The complaint did not explicitly link Gonzalez-Diaz’s decision to jump overboard with his alleged debt.

Gonzalez-Diaz was fished out of the water by passersby on jet skis and brought to shore, where Customs and Border Patrol officers found $14,600 cash on him, the complaint said.

The criminal complaint states that Gonzalez-Diaz left the ship, allegedly owing Royal Caribbean $16,710.24 in debts that were “almost exclusively associated with Casino and Gaming expenses.”

When Gonzalez-Diaz was asked to explain the jump, the traveler allegedly told investigators in Spanish that “he did not want to report the currency on his possession because he thought he was going to be taxed duties for bringing in the currency,” according to the complaint.

A Royal Caribbean Group spokesperson declined comment, stating that “as this is an ongoing investigation, we are working with authorities and don’t have any more information to share.”

A lawyer for Gonzalez-Diaz couldn’t be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday.

A passenger bus attached to Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) traveling from Nikaweratiya to Colombo has met with an accident in the Baththuluoya area of the Arachchikattuwa police division this morning (17). 

The bus has veered off the road colliding with a tree, a shop, and a house, leaving at least 21 passengers injured and hospitalized.

Meanwhile, an infant who was sleeping inside the house in question has also been injured when a cupboard fell onto the bed he was sleeping on following the accident. 

The injured individuals have been admitted to Chilaw and Mundalama hospitals for treatment. 

Meanwhile, Arachchikattuwa police have launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.

A passenger aboard the Delta flight that flipped upside down in a crash-landing in Toronto on Monday recalled how within seconds of the wheels touching down, his body was turned fully sideways and he and other passengers were left dangling by their seat belts.

Pete Koukov recorded video of the moment he and other passengers were shuffled out through the emergency exit of the flipped plane onto the tarmac covered in patches of snow at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

“I didn’t really notice anything wrong until the moment we hit the ground,” Koukov said on the “TODAY” show Tuesday morning. “The wheels touched down … I was in the window seat on the lookers left side, and then all of a sudden, I just remember being fully sideways.”

“I was looking down and just seeing like sparks and flames and whatever was grinding against the ground. It happened pretty dang quick and we were just upside down, hanging from our seat belts,” he recalled. 

Delta Air Lines said 21 injured passengers were initially transported to local hospitals, and as of Tuesday morning 19 have been released. There were no fatalities in the landing of Flight 4819, that carried 80 people 76 passengers and four crew members, Delta said. 

Some of the common reported injuries responding paramedics encountered included back sprains, head injuries, anxiety, nausea and vomiting due to fuel exposure, Cory Thatch, commander of operations with Peel Regional Paramedic Services said in a Tuesday news conference. 

The flight was operated by Endeavor Air and had arrived from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport when it crashed upon landing in Toronto around 2:15 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. Endeavor is a “wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines headquartered in Minneapolis,” according to Delta.

Koukov said that he and the other passengers on board were hanging upside down, secured only by their seat belts.

“Obviously we ended up upside down, and everyone was wearing their seat belts as they should have been, including myself,” Koukov said. 

“I remember just hanging there and me and the lady next to me, we got out pretty quick. We were kind of able to just like, unclip, like you would, and then just kind of lower ourselves to be on the ground, which was the roof, I guess,” he added. “We did it really quickly, like, within stopping we both immediately kind of got our bearings, unclipped, got down.”

Passengers were only hanging for about a minute before they were told they could dismount.

“At that point, people were feeling pretty frantic, but everyone was obviously able to get down. Most people needed help, I think, from someone who had already got down, and then we kind of just slowly moved off the plane.”

He commended the flight attendants for a “pretty organized” evacuation of the plane.

“Everyone got off in a pretty orderly fashion. It didn’t seem too insane once the plane had stopped and everyone realized, for the most part, they were OK because no one was seriously injured,” Koukov said.

It’s not clear what caused the crash, but at the time wind gusts reached close to 40 mph amid blowing snow and minus 2 degrees wind chill. While lake-effect snow impacted the area earlier in the day, no snow was reported on radars at the time of the accident. 

From last Thursday to Sunday, Toronto Pearson saw extreme conditions with two separate snowstorms and saw more than 20 inches of accumulated snow, Deborah Flint, the president and CEO of Toronto Pearson Airport, said Tuesday. She called that amount “not typical” and more than received all of last winter.

Flint said teams from Delta and Mitsubishi, the maker of the CRJ-900 aircraft, were on site along with investigators from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada will investigate the crash with assistance from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

Flint said investigators are expected to review the aircraft in its current configuration on the runway for the next 48 hours, after which it’ll be removed and the runways reopened. 

Johannesburg — After the world was caught largely unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists warned that lessons must be learned. Now, two more viral outbreaks are giving health officials sleepless nights.

Rwanda is still grappling with its first outbreak of Marburg virus. A cousin to the Ebola virus, Marburg is one of the deadliest viruses known to science, with a fatality rate of about 88%. According to Rwandan Health Minister Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, there have been 62 cases of Marburg confirmed in Rwanda, with 38 recoveries and 15 deaths.

“Nine people remain in treatment, with most of them improving,” Nsanzimana said during a virtual media briefing on Thursday.

The outbreak was declared on Sept. 27, after health officials realized the treatment they were administering to people with suspected malaria cases wasn’t working. By then, some health officials had been infected, Nsanzimana said.

Nsanzimana said Thursday that Rwanda’s Marburg response had improved. 

“We are seeing a positive trend. This is the 3rd week new infections have reduced by more than 50% compared to the first two weeks, and in consecutive days this week we have had no new detections,” he said, adding: “In the past seven days, people recovering from treatment centers are now outnumbering people who die from the virus.” 

There are currently no licensed vaccines or treatments for Marburg, but several vaccines are in early-stage clinical trials. The Washington D.C.-based, non-profit Sabin Vaccine Institute has delivered 1,800 doses of its single-dose clinical trial vaccine to Rwanda.  

To date, 856 people in high-risk groups, including close contacts of known cases and health care workers, have been given one of those doses.

U.S. enhanced screening measures take effect

Under new measures announced last week, all travelers due to arrive in the U.S. from Oct. 15 onward, within 21 days of being in Rwanda, must ensure they fly directly into New York’s John F. Kennedy, Chicago O’Hare or Washington-Dulles International airports for immediate enhanced health screening.

“The risk of Marburg in the U.S. remains low, however, these measures are being taken out of an abundance of caution given the ongoing outbreak in Rwanda,” CDC spokesperson David Daigle said as the measures were announced on Oct. 7.

Passengers with recent travel history to Rwanda will have their temperatures checked upon arrival at one of the three designated U.S. airports and should expect to answer questions about symptoms and potential exposure to the virus in areas set aside for the screenings. 

The CDC said passengers who clear the checks but then experience fever, chills, headaches or other symptoms commonly associated with the disease should immediately isolate themselves from others and seek medical attention, ideally advising the health care facility in advance of their circumstances.

The Rwandan Health Minister said teams were working to trace the routes of infection in the country and that health workers had implemented “testing for all travelers both at Kigali International Airport and all land borders to make sure we protect everyone in Rwanda and beyond, as this virus has to be contained quickly to avoid going out of control.”

Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever is spread through contact with body fluids — saliva, semen, urine and sweat. The fact that it requires that close proximity to spread does make it easier to contain once detected. The virus is not airborne. Initially, it presents like many other viruses, with common symptoms including headache and fever. If untreated, that can turn into nausea, diarrhea and bleeding from their gums, nose and other orifices.

The Marburg and Ebola viruses are typically found in fruit bats. They can be passed on to humans by a bite, or by people eating infected bats.

Nsanzimana said once Rwanda had cleared its current cases and seen no deaths for several days, it would be able to take a step back and help with research to avoid future outbreaks. 

“We won’t drop our weapons as this is an alert,” he said. “What happened with Marburg in Rwanda, can happen anytime to anywhere in the world.”

Why deadly outbreaks are becoming more common

CBS News traveled with researchers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo just before the COVID outbreak, and the scientists said deforestation and climate change were increasing the amount of human-to-animal contact, which was in turn increasing the number of deadly virus outbreaks in human populations.  

Marburg and Ebola used to pop up rarely, with outbreaks occurring about once per decade. Last year alone, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania both dealt with Marburg outbreaks, as well as Ghana in 2022.

A Marburg outbreak can be declared over if there are no new cases reported for a period of at least 21 days — the incubation period of the virus, according to Africa CDC Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya.

In addition to the vaccines undergoing trials, Rwandan doctors have also been testing the antiviral drug Remdesivir, to see if it works as a treatment for Marburg. 

Mpox continues spreading in Africa

While Marburg is certainly the most concerning virus facing African health officials at the moment, another disease has continued spreading quietly on the continent.

Over the past week, both Zambia and Zimbabwe reported their first cases of the mpox virus, previously known as monkeypox. 

The World Health Organization declared mpox a global public health emergency in August for the second time in two years.

Health officials in the 17 countries where cases had already been confirmed are increasingly concerned about a new variant called Clade 1b, which is believed to spread more easily through close personal contact than previous strains.

“Mpox is going out of control,” Kaseya of the Africa CDC warned Thursday. “If we don’t act, a lot more than the current 1,100 people who have died, will be dead.”

So far, more than 900 African people, mainly children, have died of mpox this year, with the Democratic Republic of Congo being the current epicenter of the outbreak. Mpox has plagued Congo and its neighboring countries for several decades, but Kaseye said the overall caseload was up 380% compared to 2023, “which is huge.”

Scientists say the precipitous rise in cases is due largely to the new variant. That strain has not yet appeared in the U.S., but experts say it’s likely just a matter of time.

Kaseya said the Africa CDC needed roughly 10 million doses and $600 million to contain the outbreak, but African officials say a surge in the price of mpox vaccine and hoarding by rich, developed nations has delayed the response and allowed the virus to spread.  

“We are still talking about pledges made [by the international community], and we hope to finalize pledges into concrete money, tools and vaccines for our countries,” Kaseya said during the briefing with Nsanzimana and other officials.

Health officials in Congo also delayed asking for help as the vaccine had not undergone African trials or been endorsed, at the time, by the WHO. 

Kaseya said there were 42,238 reported mpox cases across the continent, 8,113 of which had been confirmed. Over the last week alone, 50 deaths and 3,051 new cases were reported.

Mpox is related to smallpox, and long-approved smallpox vaccines could have provided some protection to children, had their administration not been halted after the WHO deemed the disease to no longer pose a public health threat in the late 1970s. 

DR Congo and other countries stopped administering the vaccines early in the following decade. Scientists believe the lack of built up immunity is one of the main reasons the current outbreak is hitting children so hard, with the most cases and the highest numbers of deaths.

With Zambia and Zimbabwe reporting their first cases in recent days, 18 countries now have mpox outbreaks. 

Uganda reported two new cases, meanwhile, in a prison where staff initially thought inmates had chicken pox, until tests confirmed it was mpox. That has made all 1,874 inmates at the facility possible close contacts.

“Prisons, and IDP [internally displaced people] camps in eastern DRC, present a major challenge”, said Kaseya, warning that “countries need a vaccination plan immediately.”

DR Congo and Rwanda have already begun administering vaccines, and Nigeria plans to start on October 22.

“We don’t want to see all African countries being affected,” said Kaseya, calling on the world to “intensify its efforts.”

Is turbulence increasing or does it just seem that way?

A Connecticut woman is suing JetBlue for $1.5 million after she allegedly suffered extreme burns from hot tea she claims was spilled on her chest and lap during a turbulent flight. 

On May 15, Tahjana Lewis was traveling with her 5-year-old daughter on a JetBlue flight from Orlando, Florida, to Hartford, Connecticut, when flight attendants started beverage service during a bout of turbulence, according to the lawsuit filed in June. In her suit, Lewis claims that a passenger seated in the row in front of her requested a cup of hot tea, the contents of  which spilled onto Lewis as it was being served by the flight attendant, resulting in severe burns. 

Lewis is suing the New York-based carrier for negligence, arguing that JetBlue’s flight staff served water for tea and other beverages at an unreasonably hot temperature that was beyond food service standards. The flight staff also failed to properly administer first aid to Lewis after the incident happened, according to the lawsuit. 

“They did basically nothing to dissuade her pain,” Lewis’ attorney Edward Jazlowiecki told CBS MoneyWatch. 

Lewis claims she suffered severe burns on her upper chest, legs, buttocks and right arm as a result of the spill, and that some of burns will be permanently disabling and involve a great deal of pain and medical expenses.

JetBlue didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. 

Turbulence

The lawsuit serves as an example of how airlines are not doing enough to keep customers safe in the air, specifically during turbulence, Lewis’ attorney Edward Jazlowiecki told CBS MoneyWatch. 

“There’s a lot of turbulence out there and the airlines really don’t care about the comfort of the passengers or their safety,” Jazlowiecki said. 

Lewis’ case comes just weeks after flight turbulence led to a 73-year-old British man dying while on board a Singapore Airlines flight to Bangkok. At least 20 other passengers on that flight were treated in an intensive care unit after the flight landed. In May, a dozen people were injured during a Qatar Airways flight hit by turbulence while en route from Doha, Qatar, to Dublin, Ireland. 

Aircraft turbulence, which can range from mild bumps and jolts to dramatic changes in altitude, is caused by “atmospheric pressure, jet streams, air around mountains, cold or warm weather fronts, or thunderstorms,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and is considered a normal occurrence in the airline industry. According to a 2021 National Transportation Safety Board report, deaths and serious injuries caused by turbulence are rare.