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
Guest to the state of the union . Every single one can. Ted nugent will be the guest tonight of republican congressman steve stockton, on outspoken proponent of gun rights and former congresswoman gabrielle giffords, she will be in attendance, her husband mark kelly and as the with parents of hadiya pendleton. And tony bennett will be there at the invitation of nancy pelosi. Bennett is an outspoken proponent of gun control. Im brook baldwin, thank you so much for being with me here, lets go to wolf blitzer in washington. Hey, wolf. Happening now, a stricken ship plagued by raw sewage, some 4,000 passengers and crew describe conditions on the carnival try turn to be disgusting. And north koreas young leader defies the world with an underground nuclear test and now the world is responding. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. A picture of nightmare at sea. These passengers on the carnival triumph arent on deck to soak up the sun, theyre trying to escape the unbearable stench of
a picture of nightmare at sea. these passengers on the carnival triumph aren t on deck to soak up the sun, they re trying to escape the unbearable stench of raw sewage reportedly dripping down walls in long hallways. the national transportation safety board just announced they will join after two days the triumph is now being towed to mobile, alabama, with more than 23,000 passengers whose vacation stories have turned into horror stories. another 1,000 crewmembers are aboard. reporter: wolf, the carnival cr cruise ship triumph will dock behind me. when it gets here it will be greeted by members of the u.s. coast guard and the nationshtio transportation safety board. it s no exaggeration to say this cruise to paradise has turned into a cruise through hell. raw sewage, pretty bad. when you walk in the hallways, you have to cover your face, we don t have any masks for breathing. it s just disgusting. reporter: sunday s fire which disabled the cruise ship s engines, disab