Zach galifianakis welcomes brad pitt to between two ferns. Is it hard for you to maintain why . Because you live in your wifes shadow. In a bit for the ages, presses all the superstars buttons today, friday, october 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb, al roker, tamron hall. Natalie is off and savannah is on maternity leave. I dont know if i would rather host on between two ferns or be a guest on between two ferns. The best video youll see, perfect for friday. Well get to that a little later on. Obviously, theres a lot to talk about this morning. Our top story, new concerns over ebola after a new york city doctor tested positive. The 33yearold is in isolation at Bellevue Hospital this morning, but his neighbors in upper manhattan have a lot of questions about where that doctor went and what he did in the days leading up to his diagnosis. Were going to talk to new yorks governor, andrew cuomo and dr. Natalie azar in just a moment. First we e. R. Doctor just back from treating ebola patients in west africa, and now he, his fiancee and two friends are in isolation. Overnight, the new York Health Department confirmed the first case of ebola in americas largest city. There is no reason for new yorkers to be alarmed. Reporter new york city mayor bill de blasio urged public calm. 3 fever and gastrointestinal problems consistent with ebola. Spencer has been back in the u. S. For about a week after working directly with ebola patients in guinea as part of the Doctors Without Borders program. Health Officials Say spencer selfisolated after returning but also stated he rode three different subway lines, jogged, destination. City sources say dr. Spencer did not feel well for a couple of days, but did not fully selfquarantine until thursday morning. However, they stress that during that time, he was in extremely low risk for being contagious to others. Health Department Sources also say his fiancee is being quarantined as a high risk, as are two others close to him. In harlem, dr. Spencers apartment is sealed off and his neighbors put on alert. It makes sense to me, if youve been in west africa treating, you know, valiantly treating patients with ebola, if you come back into the country, lets take the appropriate precautions and say we should isolate you for 21 days. Reporter now, his two friends and fiancee are okay as of now. Officials say that so far, they are not symptomatic. They do want to stress that this doctor does know about the disease and that he was selfmonitoring and called the Health Department as soon as he felt feverish. They say that they do not believe that he is a risk to Public Health here in new york city. Public. Matt . . Katy all right, katy tur on the s you very story. Katy, thank you very much. Andrew cuomo is the governor o new york. Overnor of Governor Cuomo, its good to ser you. Us. Good to see thank you for joining us. Good to see you, matt. Any i dont think anybody should be shocked that a case of ebolaa has now been diagnosed in new has now york city. Its a major port of entry in t. Its a this country. F entry in so, the question then becomes,. On once dr. Spencer identified penr himself, did officials here do himself, did what they needed to do in a he what they timely fashion and exercising a the proper protocols . . Timely fashion and exercising the proper protocols . Are you confident are you confident in that . As confident as one can be, as confident as one can matt. Matt. You you know, youre right, this is this a situation that we hoped i we wouldnt happen, but we expected that it would. But we expected that it it is new york. It is new york. People come through here. Throu. We also have we also have the advantage heree of notice. Here dallas really had no notice. Dallas really had no we all watched what happened inl dallas. Happened in so, we have been preparing dallas. We have been preparing literally for weeks literally for weeks on a coordinated effort plan. Inated effort plan, between new york between new york city, new yorki state, federal government, cdc. Government, weve just done a training with we had just 5,000 Health Care Workers. Traih 5,000 health care our Health Care Union has been Health Care Union has been fantastic. Fantastic. And this was a doctor and this was a doctor, as you hi heard in this setup piece. N pie. So, the doctor was so, the doctor was familiar with the the disease. And, again, this is and again, this is not like the flu. U. Its not airborne. Its not airborne. From people its not from people sneezing. Z. The person has to be the person has to be symptomatic, and its basically symptomatic. Transferred through bodily tra through bodily fluid you say it was a doc but you say that this doctor who was familiar with the disease ng. You say it was a is not systemic i apologize for interrupting. You say the doctor was familiard with the disease. Yet, you heard that gentleman at the end of katie turs piece, e saying if youre so familiar e g with the disease, youve been treating ebola patients in guinea, you come back to this country. Patients do you ride the subways . Do you take an uber car . Nuinea,e do you go to a Bowling Alley . Suo do you think dr. Spencer acted Bowling Alley . Do you think responsibly . Ncer acted look, im not a doctor, matt but the flip side of what you d. The flip side of what you just said is, if youre a oure, doctor, you know youre not youre not contagious until youre symptomatic. Ptomatic. This is a doctor who is t this is a doctor whos taking , his temperature twice a day. Y, t and obviously, concluded that ha was not symptomatic, and thats. Why he went out, still in a ina limited way. Way. He went bowling with two he went bowling with two friend. He was with his friends. He was with his fiancee. E took and he took the subway. Subway. He obviously but he obviously felt he wasnt symptomatic. He knew that wa symptomatic. S only he knew that was the only time it was contagious. Time as soon as he had a fever, he he w presented himself to the as soon as he had a fever, he hospital. Presented himself to the hosp all the procedures thereon weren exactly according to the book. O the First Responders did a boo. Magnificent job. Responder the Health Care Workers did a magnificent job. Magnificent job. So, everything has happened thed way it should happen. Id since then. Job. So, everything has weve been in contact with the e federal officials. Way it shouldp president obama called last pet. Weve been in night. Contact with the federal offi ron klain, the new ebola czar, i sylvia burwell, head of health and human services. Night, ron so, everything worked the way it klain, the should. Czar, and our hope and our belief is that the doctor who was familiaf wasnt symptomatic. D health ser. Thats why he left the house and wasnt contagious when hes not. Symptomatic. The doctor wasnt symptomatic. Thats why he new yorks governor, andrew cuomo. Governor, nice to have you herew i appreciate your time this morning. Cuomo, thank you for be thank you. Here. Apprec wish it was under different a thank you. Wish it wa circumstances, but always good circumstances but alw to talk to you, matt. Ayaytalk thank you very much. Glets o lets go over to hoda. Ie matt, thanks. Lets turn to dr. Nattie azar, with medicine at nyus medical r center. Is a good morning. Good morning. Medical profest Governor Cuomo just said im not a doctor, so he couldnt answer the question of did he medical act responsibly, did the doctor act responsibly. Center. Good morning. As a doctor, do you think that cuomo said hes not a he acted responsibly . He couldnh well, in this scenario, i etn think we have to deal with the facts, and the facts that we si . Understand about the virus, and were going to say this thnd thw repeatedly, that youre not eiae contagious when youre s. Youre not asymptomatic. C youre and as you get sicker and you e sicker, you become more and mor you become contagious as the viral load m contagious as the v increases. Increases. So the so, the likelihood of this of particular patient being able to transmit this virus via casual contact and use of public viru, transportation, we never want t contact in use of public say zero, but as close to zero r as possible. Say zero, lets talk about casual clor contact, because people do worro lets talk about these kinds of things. Sure. There were people on the act. Subway with him, im sure, people who rode in that uber ca afterwards. There we yes. The what is the possibility . Peopo because we just heard Governor Cuomo say a sneeze, you cant ar afterwards. Catch it that way, but if i wera this close to you and i sneezedh on you, could it happen . Way but i here again is the issue that the amount of virus in your bodily fluids increases the f you and i sicker that you are. Sneezed on you get it . In , of catching ebola in a subway would require that a endw patient infected with ebola is. A patient so sick that theyre actually s vomiting, bleeding, having diarrhea and that youre t vomiting, standing next to the person, yog touch their bodily fluid and yo then have a portal of entry in to the person and your own body. Touch the bo just quickly, for doctors fu coming from west africa, do you portal of think its a good idea for themr to be quarantined, not voluntarily, but a mandatory way . Body. Do you think that but have that enforced. Coming from west so, this is what i would say in my honest opinion, there vot should perhaps be a discussion e about those Health Care Workers who are clearly at the greatest who are clearly at the greatest risk of acquiring ebola, should, there be a mandatory quarantinem for them. For them. I th i think that the cdc, first of all, has been incredibly responsive all, has been incredibly commu with h responsive and communicative hot with Health Care Systems hee se very fluid as well throughout the country, and weve seen that theyve been their recommendations h very fluid as well and that their recommendations have beene evolving. Naand decide whether oo they can look at this scenario t and decide whether or not shou Something Like that should be be implemented. In particular docto for the time being, this rr or particular doctor followed exact orders from Doctors Without Borders. Ders fazar, thanks so dr. Azar, thanks so much. Cia of course. We appreciate it. And dr. Azars all right, and dr. Azars goingr your questions to stick around a little later. N shes going to answer your questions online. R orange r you can send them to us in our r orange room with orangeroom. Matt, back to you. Oom. Ma hoda, thank you very much. Ho. Dr. Kent dr. Kent brantly, who recovered, from his own battle with ebola,e is speaking out about this case. Here in new york city. Inment to nbc news, d in this exclusive statement to nbc news, dr. Brantly tells us, from everything ive read and heard about his heard about his circumstances, w it sounds like new york has done everything right to contain this everything right to contain thie case. New york can likewise set a i hope the people of new york tc can likewise set an example for the rest of the country by ou b handling this handling this event with reason and calm instead of panic. And calm instead of panic. Now to that deadly terror a attack in canada. R attack in canada. This morning were learning a e little bit more about the gunman gunman behind behind it, as chilling, new chw Surveillance Video surfaces of the shooting spree. Shooting s. Nbcs Kevin Tibbles is in ottaws once again. Kevin, good morning to you. Reporter matt, canadian officials now say the killer came to ottawa in hopes of obtaining a passport and that he wanted to travel to syria, presumably trying to hook up with isis. We have learned through the current investigation that this individual has been in ottawa since at least october 2nd, 2014, that he was in town to deal with a passport issue, but then he was also hoping to leave for syria. Reporter that man, Officials Say, is michael zehafbibeau, a recent convert to islam with plans to travel to syria, a hotbed of isis terror activity. Officials believe the delay in his passport due to a background check may have prompted the tragic shooting wednesday. The gunman is seen here just minutes after killing a canadian soldier with a hunting rifle. He hijacks a car. And in newly released video, hes seen heading for the canadian parliament. People scatter as he gets out, runs, and then at gunpoint commandeers a second car heading for the front door. Once inside, he continues firing until being killed in a shootout with security. Credited with stopping the shooter, the sergeantatarms, kevin vickers, a former police officer, seen here, gun in hand, just as the incident ended. [ applause ] the canadian government saying it refused to allow a terrorist to interrupt its work, reconvened, celebrating vickers as a hero. When the nation needed him yesterday, he was there and he did what he needed to do, and were just tremendously relieved that hes fine. Zehafbibeau had a criminal record, and some say he once asked to be sent to jail to overcome an addiction to crackcocaine. He had been living in a homeless shelter. His conversion to islam took place on the other side of the country, at this British Columbia mosque. His mother, who had not seen him in years, denounced his actions, saying i am mad at my son. I dont understand and part of me wants to hate him at this time. At canadas war memorial, where Army CorporalNathan Cirillo was killed in cold blood, they came to lay flowers and pay tribute. And at a makeshift memorial outside cirillos home, two friends waited for their master to come home. It is now also known that zehafbibeau held both canadian and libyan citizenship. The young soldier that he killed, shot him in the back, will be buried next week. Matt . Hoda . Such a sad story. Kevin tibbles, thank you so much. Tamrons in for natalie wito another disturbing attack, this one here in new york city. Week it is. Disturbing attack, good morning, everyone. In new a frightening scene played out. On a new york city street a frightening scene pla thursday when a man with a ye ak hatchet attacked a group of c c thursday when a m Uniformed Police officers in an broad daylight, wounding t a hatche them. Ed nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the af story. Uniformed Police Officers woundi reporter security video ngt. Records the moment a man in a ae hooded coat charges across the reporter sidewalk raising a hatchet in ey his hand. Records the moment a four rookie Police Officers wer across a sidewalk with hatchet standing just out of frame. In hand. The male then swung at one om the officers with the hatchet, e striking his right arm. The officers with after striking that officer, the suspect continues swinging the. Hatchet, striking a second he continues swinging officer in the head, causing hi hatchet, striking to fall to the sidewalk. Officer in the head, reporter according to c c to fall to the police, the uninjured officers opened fire on the suspect, unc suspect, killing killing him, and accidentally accidentally shooting a 29yearold female 29y bystander a half a block away ea from the crime scene. Half a bloe scene. Police sources have identified identified the suspect as 32yearold the suspect as 32yearold Zale Thompson and saying this thompson and say this Facebook Page showing muslim prayers andg an armed fighter belongs to him. Investigators are searching the suspects hard drive for clues about what may have motivated the attack, but authorities have not found any hate literature o. Hard links to any jihadist as y have groups at this time. Triggered theyve not after the shooting in canada one from hate groups at this time. 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