And, did he leave them laughing . Al takes us behind the scenes of his star studded uso tour for our troops overseas. Wednesday, october 8, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on wednesday morning, im matt lauer along with tamron hall, al roker and natalie morales. Its not often we begin a show by mooning you. Look at the blood moon. That is a picture of the moon from earlier this morning. Coinciding with the hunter moon, this is a full moon in october they call it the hunter moon. Much more coming up but that is our new logo for the day. Lets get to our top story on this wednesday morning. Doctors at the Nebraska Medical Center turning to an american who survived his bot well ebola for help treating a journalist infected with the virus. Kate snow is in omaha with the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you, matt. Brantlys blood is being administered
The big question is will they be around for the morning commute . Ill show you a closer look at the timing on this and into your morning. Cooler temperatures ahead. Thats coming up. Wec continue to follow breaking news from the campus of Widener University. Police have a suspect in custody accused of making an online threat against students. We sent nbc 10s lu ann cahn to the campus as soon as we learned about this arrest. What have you found out about the suspect and the threat. Reporter initially we thought the student was 18 years old. We learned the student who has been arrested is 20 years old. He is a freshman. Hes a criminal justice major from lodi, new jersey. This morning, students saw that he had posted something that was alarming but the scary part for them, they didnt know who had posted it. It was anonymous. They notified administrators right away. We cannot in Law Enforcement take a chance of just overlooking an incident. Reporter we blurred out the offensive language, t
Laughing . Al roker al takes us behind the scene of his starstudded uso tour for our troops overseas, today, wednesday, october 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer, along with tamron hall, al roker and natalie morales, savannah begins on maternity leave. Its not often we begin a show by mooning you. You know what . Its worth it today. Look at the blood moon. That is a live picture from out in california. Its also coinciding with the hunter moon, a full moon in october. Carson will have much more in the orange room. That is our logo. Our top story on this wednesday morning, doctors in oklahoma turning to an american who survived his own battle with ebola to help a photo journalist infected with the illness now. Kate snow is in omaha with more on this. Reporter good morning, matt. Brantlys blood will be administered to ashok
It feels like were just here when it was cold. We were back here in april but it was kind of a failed. There was no one here and nothing to see. But today we have the total Lunar Eclipse. The moon will be completely eclipsed from 5 00. Was happening right now . Its just a moon. This is the beginning. You can see a bit of the earths shadow over the moon. Its called away penumbra. But that up and ticket to the office water cooler. It is getting a little bit dark. A stick look right now. We expect sunshine. Perfect conditions right now. Temperatures are in the upper 40s. But not too bad early on. Todays high in the mid60s. We are expecting sunshine. Not bad compared to last time. Feels pretty good. A boy is out there watching us. We will have more from the planetarium all morning at least until 6 00. Cmon down its a free event. Erin wishes she could do with us. Its like the telethon with the today down there. Will keep checking in with you to see what donations we can get for you. You nev
Reporter the first person to be diagnosed with ebola on u. S. Soil has died. Thomas eric duncan died this morning at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital where hed been in isolation since last week. It under scores why the president has made it a priority to stop the spread of this disease at the source. Reporter duncan originally contracted the virus in liberia. The 42 year old did not show any symptoms when he left for the u. S. , but fell ill several days later. Dozens of people at risk of being infected by duncan are being monitored for 21 days. The Texas Department of health says well continue every effort to contain the spread of the virus and protect people from this threat. Ebola has killed more than 3400 people in west africa. Air travelers there have been checked for fever before depar departing and now an additional screening layer will be put in place at five u. S. Airports. The white house expressing support for the measures being taken. The most effective screening measure