90-Second Read: LIVE AT 9 A.M.: Update on Americans brought to Omaha after Hantavirus exposure

Health officials are set to hold a news conference after 18 Americans exposed to Hantavirus arrived overnight. Gold, MD, and leaders of the National Quarantine Unit and Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, along with federal health officials. The patients were brought to Atlanta as to not overwhelm the system in Omaha. A plane carrying the passengers landed just before 2:30 a.m. 15 are in quarantine at Nebraska Medicine and are not showing any symptoms and have not tested positive.

The one American who tested positive but doesn't have symptoms is expected go straight to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, which is separate from the quarantine unit, where the rest of the exposed passengers will be treated as needed. Two other people from the ship, a couple, were sent to Emory University in Atlanta and are experiencing mild symptoms but have not tested positive, officials say. The passengers were loaded into shuttles out of view of the news media. Jim Pillen, University of Nebraska President Jeffrey P. Those that don't become symptomatic will eventually be permitted to self-quarantine.

They were then taken to the Nebraska Medicine/UNMC campus. Just before 5 a.m., medical vehicles pulled away from the plane and traveled to the Nebraska Medicine campus. First Alert 6 saw three shuttles arrive at Nebraska Medicine at about 5:15 a.m. Download the First Alert 6 streaming app to your TV or find us in your favorite streaming platform.

Medical crews were waiting at the airport and moved close to the plane once it landed Monday, remaining there for more than two hours.