With men while walking through new york city. The same scene playing out over 100 times in ten hours. The message behind the video that has people talking today, wednesday, october 29th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer along side hoda kotb, al roker and josh elliott. Savannah is back monday. Natalie is on assignment. People talking about that video we just showed. What was your thought when you saw it . My thought was first of all, it seemed threatening what she was going through. There are times i have to admit i walk down a street past construction guy they dont say one thing i have to think my outfit is off. But what happened here was strange. Yes. Definitely. Weve all asked does that ever work for any of these guys . Does it turn out well . Were going to show you more of that later on. Lets start on a wednesday morning with our top story, that dramatic sight in the sky over the virginia coast. Nasa investigators are working to figure out what caused an unmanned rocket bound for the International Space station to explode . Nbcs tom costello has more on that. Good morning. Reporter hi, matt. This was run by orbital science, one of two companies that nasa turned to to resupply the space station. Now that we have daylight nasa says crews will be out looking for any evidence and debris cataloging it, looking at the launch pad, on the ground and in the water and try to figure out what happened. Five, four, three, two, one. It was just after sunset when the launch of an antares unmanned rocket destin forward the space station lit up the early evening sky. Everything seemed normal until six seconds after liftoff. A massive fireball involving fuel tore through the rocket and lit up the night sky. As the rocket started to come apart nasa controllers decided the safest option was use the Self Destruct option. The explosion visible across a huge area of coastal virginia, from the press site to a nearby beach. To a plane flying high above. This was to be a resupply mission carrying 5,000 pounds of cargo including food, clothing, spare parts and science experiments. Despite the loss nasa insists the six crew members on the space station are in no danger. The station is in great shape t crews in good shape. We have plenty of work for them to do and plenty of supplies to keep them going for quite some time. Reporter while the explosion was massive nasa report nos one was injured but there was extensive damage to the launch pad and surrounding areas. Expensive lesson but it only cost us time and cost us metal and money. It didnt cost us as happens too often, lives. Reporter thats a very important point. Also we should mention that already this morning out of kazakhstan another russian resupply mission that be launched to the space station. There are many ships that are ferrying supplies to the station. One other point. The engines that were used on this rocket were actually soviet made, not russian, sov quaet yet made. They have been refurbished. The question is going to be did in any way that contribute to this accident. Thats going to take a long time to figure out. We were talking, we were watching this live. It started off joyful. Doing the countdown. You saw the explosion it took a second to register what was going on. Now on to the relentless march of that lava flow on hawaiis big island. The first building in a village under siege has been destroyed. Hally jackson is at the kilauea volcano, the original source of this disaster. Good morning. Reporter the boiling hot lava that originates at this volcano is moving fast underground. Its slowing but its not stopping. Now just a couple hundred yards from a road many called home. The lavas leading edge took months to arrive and just minutes to destroy its first building in pahoa. A dramatic view of the path of destruction. Black crust covering the red hot river underneath. Right now it feels like were in a furnace. Were close to the lava and you can see some of the breakout, about 40 to 50 homes are in danger. People in this community are starting to pack up and leave. On the flows front lines a house disintegrated, nothing left. The first major casualty in pahoa. Not the last as it sets off fires triggering black smoke, burning everything from tires to utility poles. Close to the local elementary school. Literally means were shutting down. Reporter the source, this crater, a massive tub full of molten rock. The lava emerged from the strenlt on the side of the kilauea volcano on june 27, slowly advancing more than 13 miles downhill. The town of pahoa now directly in its path. Its the first time in years lava has threatened a community here after it destroyed a family home in 1991. Now his home is under fire again. Came into this world naked. Im going out naked. I aint taking this with me. The memories i can take. Thats whats the most precious. Reporter this is devastating to people here but the attitude among the community is one of acceptance. They understand they live on an island with an active volcano. Sometimes this is the price you pay. The lava is traveling about 30 to 45 feet every hour, and if it keeps up that rate, a big if, given how unpredictable lava flow can be it could cross the main highway as early as friday. Matt, hoda. Thank you. Lets turn to the ebola crisis. A new battle for the nurse held at a medical tent in new jersey. Despite testing negative for the virus. Kaci hickox is challenging a quarantine in maine. Well talk to her. First nbc National Correspondent kate snow has the latest. Reporter good morning. At the white house president obama has plans to meet with Health Care Workers who have been in africa or about to head there this as nurse kaci hickox fights against another quarantine. Out of new jersey, but not home free. The state of maine now wants nurse kaci hickox to stay home for 21 days but her lawyers say shell fight that. Health officials in maine wouldnt comment specifically on her case, but said they could order a quarantine if it came to that. We will pursue the necessary Legal Authority to enforce the quarantine. Reporter overnight hickox and her boyfriend returned to fort kent mere the border. Some neighbors concerned about having them there. Coincidentally look who else was in maine tuesday night, new jersey governor chris christie, campaigning for maines republican governor. Christie, whose rule sent hickox to the a tent isnt packing down. Looks like you have to defend this in court. Get in line. Reporter without mentioning christie by name president obama says states imposing strict quarantines could discourage doctors and nurses going to the front lines. I want to make sure every policy is supported their efforts. If they are successful then were not going to have to worry about ebola at home. Reporter earlier tuesday the president spoke with nurse turned patient amber vinson who is back home in dallas now after hugging the team who nursed her back to health. She of course was the one who traveled on two airplanes, boarding a flight with a fever of 99. 3. Of the 163 people she came into contact with 2 1 2 weeks ago no one has gotten sick. Which is part of why most of the medical establishment say strict quarantines are unnecessary. Ebola is hard to transmit early on. Doctors say addai goes by the amount of virus gross leading to symptoms like vomiting and diarrh diarrhea. As you get sicker you are more and more contagious. President obama urged americans to keep perspective on all of this, of the seven americans treated all survived and one is being treated, dr. Craig spencer is in serious but stable condition. Matt. Kate, thank you. Kaci hickox is with us via skype. Her attorney is joining us as well. Good morning to both of you. Good morning. In the basic terms, have you been adhering to voluntary isolation conditions since youve been back in maine . I have the other location i was in i stayed in the house, i didnt have contact with people. Obviously i have been doing selfmonitoring and i plan to do the same today in my home in fort kent. Its my understanding that your 21day isolation period would be up november 10. Will you stick to the same guidelines until then . You know, i dont plan on sticking to the guidelines. I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me. Even though i am in perfectly good health. And feeling strong and have been this entire time completely symptomfree. Let me read you something that mary mayhue said, the commissioner of health and Human Services in maine. She says quote were confident that selfless Health Workers brave enough to care for ebola patients 18 foreign country will be willing to take reasonable steps to protect residents of their own country, however, we are willing to pursue Legal Authority if necessary to ensure risk is minimized for mainers. I guess the debatable term then is reasonable steps. Whats reasonable to you . Organizations like mine, doctors without borders, have for a long time had reasonable steps in process which is really self monitoring, taking your temperature twice a day, understanding that if you develop symptoms you know, you need to be tested, specifically a fever and some of the more general symptoms. And these policies have worked in the past. Weve got six states that basically are going along with the guidelines put in place in new york and new jersey. You have the joint chiefs of staff recommending to the department of defense that troops, u. S. Troops coming home from ebola fighting missions in west africa be quarantined for 21 days. Why is it so abhorrent to you to put yourself in that very same position . You know, i truly believe that this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just. And so i am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when i am not a risk to the american public. When you arrived at liberty or Newark Liberty international airport, and told people you had just been in sierra lae yon and treating ebola parents and used that thermal scanner and it registered you at 101, you have to remember that just a couple days earlier dr. Craig spencer returned from guinea where he was treating ebola parentings, he moved freely about the new york area, then developed symptoms and diagnosed with ebola. Do you understand what that did to the psyche of Public Officials in what is a metropolis of 9 Million People . Of course. I do understand that it has created a lot of fear. But we still have to make policies based on evidence and you know, the issue at Newark Airport is sort of a different issue. I saw complete disorganization, i saw no leadership. Are you prepared to take legal action, not only against the state of new jersey but now the state of maine if they decide to enforce this quarantine period . If the restrictions placed on me by the state of maine are not lifted by thursday morning, i will go to court to fight for my freedom. Whats the legal grounds, norm . Well, to use a Sports Metaphor the balls in the court of maine. If they decide to go to court to get a court order, and physically apprehend her to quarantine her, we will go to court to challenge it. Governor christie was on this show yesterday and said he is confident when all is said and done he will be judged that he was on the right side of both science and public opinion. Is there a compromise here . I hope so. You know, i think we need a couple of things. I think we need more education about the disease, and i think we need to not be taking these mixed messages from politicians. But i do think theres a compromise. I dont think its being met right now because currently im the one thats suffering. Kaci hickox, thank you very much. Norm siegel, thank you. To josh elliott. He has the other top stories. Security is tightened at hundreds of federal Office Buildings and court houses nationwide. Federal officials insist this is not in response to a new threat, instead they say its from the steady drum beat from isis, urging attacks on police and Government Officials and reaction to last weeks shooting in canadas capital city. In some federal buildings that will be closer inspections of briefcases and purses, in others more armed officers on duty. The white house has been hacked. This morning Officials Say they have taken steps to address suspicious activity detected on the white houses unclassified computer network. The network is regularly hit by Cyber Attacks but this strike was said to be much more significant, disrupting the system for several days. And tough luck in las vegas for jose canseco. According to police he accidentally shot himself in his left hand while cleaning his handgun at home. He was rushed to a hospital where he underwent surgery. He is a sixtime all star, a polarizing figure, would later become the face of baseballs steroid era after writing a tellall book. Transition to his sport of record. It will all come down to one game. A world series champion will be crowned tonight in kansas city. The royals host the giants, in a game seven. Kansas city faced elimination tuesday night. The royals fans were put at ees. For those of us whose sleep is at a premium we hit the pillows early. The team broke it open in the second inning, they would go on to hold San Francisco scoreless. Im told it would end 100. Sources can confirm here at nbc news. 100. Game seven. This is all we really ask for in october. Every person on those two teams has dreamed of being in game seven of the world series. It comes down to that. Thanks, josh. You know what else we ask for . Halloween snowstorm. There may be a noreaster. Im not smiling. Im not im not smiling. Heres what we are looking at. Weve got this area of energy up in canada. Its going to be dropping down, plus weve got a strengthening jet stream and were going to look at this noreaster developing. Heres what we look for. For today on into tomorrow, and friday. System makes its way to the east, it brings great lakes snow and friday transfers energy along the coast and makes its way into new england. Right now the path of the storm looks like its going to be bringing the heavier snow up in new england. But we could be looking at more moderate snow around the mountains of West Virginia into tennessee. But up in down east maine we could be talking about some heavier snow, a real noreaster. Were going to continue to track this for you. Thats going to be your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Arrrrrrrghh laughing we all have a disney side. Who wants ice cream . And the best place to show it is disney parks. So come to the place where the entire family can laugh, let loose and play together. Disney parks. Come on. Its time to show your disney side. Im meteorologist christina loren. This is beautiful downtown san jose, hayes out there moisture in the atmosphere. Clear i can. Thats the general description for the bay area. 55 in San Francisco right now. You are on your way to 76 degrees. A big temperature spread between what were starting out and where well end up, almost 40degree jump in the north bay. 80s, this is it when it comes to warm days. Notice thursday, temperatures drop off, cloudy. By friday we bring in rain, 12 00 to 5 00. Halloween, talk of ghosts and goblins, now do you think they exist is the question . Tamron is a look at the orange room. Mr. Roker, who you going to call . Ghost busters. We called jeff rossen. Because we have a very interesting story coming up from jeff rossen, one of his investigations so jeff set up a hidden camera to talk with people who make house calls as ghost busters. They actually are hired to come to your home and cleanse the place of bad spirits. Take a look at jeffs report. Im jeff rossen, were in a house in the suburbs. Come with me inside of our hidden camera control room. Did you know you can hire ghost busters to come over to your house and see if there are bad spirits . Were doing just that getting it all on tape. What they say is going on and what they are going to charge us. Its all coming up. So we took to facebook and asked do you believe in ghosts . Its simple yes or no. Use the orangeroom. Once someone offered to come in and cleanse my home and i debated it. I didnt do it but i debated it. Do you believe in ghosts . I kind of am. We had one of those people in 1a and she sniffed around and said there may have been a couple of ghosts here. You think . What do you think . I dont believe in the slimy kind of ghost but i believe in spirits. Thats the one that got me. Occasional spirit, sure. Im with you. Yeah. All right. Tamron, thanks very much. Ahead mystery solved. 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