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
Morning. The mayor announced it at the City Council Meeting this morning. This is sad news for all involved. Reporter there have been questions surrounding duncans care since he came to texas from liberia in late september. He first went to the emergency room when he became sick and in spite of saying he had been in liberia, he was returned home and once admitted he wt from serious to critical and battled for ten days taking an experimental drug. Tuesday, family members pointed to an encourage iing news of hi fight. His fever is almost gone. Reporter in a written statement, his fiance, louise treo said my family is in grief but we leave him in the hands of god. She is one of 48 people who had contact with duncan and watched for ebola. For the period of time it would likely develop, so far no symptoms. She and her family shared and apartment and were moved for monitoring during the decontamination process and the same measures will be taken for his body. Meanwhile, free land journalism