Char charges, the season canceled. Officials speak out in a live interview. Its happened again. First, celebrities were targeted. Now the private photos as many as 200,000 users in the popular app snap chat may have been stolen. Why the company is saying dont blame us today, monday, october 13th, 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 monday morning. Im matt lauer, along with natalie morales, tamron hall and dyl dylan dreyer. Savannah remains on maternity leave. Columbus day, a lot of kids out there. Football fan. A lot of canadians as well. A parade in new york in a few hours. If youre in the area, be careful of that. Lets get to todays top story. This is the concern over ebola. After the infectionative woman who was treating dallas victim Thomas Eric Duncan. Nbc National Correspondent kate know is here with the latest on that. Kate, good morning to you. Good morning to you, matt. Screening began this weekend at jfk airport in new york. With so much concern about ebola all over the country, there are scares, at least three of them in the past 24 hours in los angeles, boston and you mentioned overnight, a flight that originated in dallas and flew to nashville. The hospital worker, meantime, who is infected, is in dallas. The apartment of a Dallas Health care worker now on full lockdown after she tested positive for the ebola virus over the weekend. Other residents in the building have returned home after hazmat teams decontaminated common areas in the complex. The worker is being treated in an isolation yount at tunit whe works. There were those in contact with mr. Duncan before he pass add way last week. Reporter going door to door, passing out fliers. And trying to answer questions. Can i talk to you. Reporter the hospital worker did come in contact with one person when she was exhibiting symptoms. That person is also in quarantine. The cdc says the worker had extensive contact with duncan and blames a breach of protocol for this infection. The two areas where we will be looking particularly closely is the performance of kidney dialysis and respiratory intubation. Both of those procedures may spread contaminated materials and are considered highrisk procedures. Reporter a nurses union voiced their concerns. Hospitals are not providing the training we need, nor are they providing the personal protection we need to keep our patients, ourselves, our families and our communities safe. The texas hospital worker is the owner of a dog. Authorities say they plan to eventually reunite the dog with its owner. Meantime in nebraska, the family of ashoka mukpo got some good news over the weekend. Doctors say their son is turning a corner. The family deeply relieved. Matt . Dr. Ezekiel emmanuel is the chair of medical Health Ethics and policy at the university of pennsylvania, and served as a special adviser to the white house for Health Policy under president obama. Dr. Emmanuel, good morning. Good to see you. Here is the part that have that jumps out to me. Our hospitals are not providing the training that we need, nor are they providing the personal protection that we need to keep our patients, ourselves, our families and our communities safe. Weve been talking about this ebola virus for months now. How could that be . Well, i think there is a lot of training needed and, you know, the case obviously focuses a lot of attention especially on the degowning and other highrisk procedures. And we do have to step up training. This is one of those things where you need constant attention and people need to go to the next level here. Do we have the right facilities . When dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol were brought to this country, they were brought to one of four special units in this country. Mr. Duncan did not go to one of those special units. Im not trying to cast aspergss on that facility but he pass add way and a worker now contracted the virus. Does the facility matter . Its not the facility. Its the training. Theres nothing special about the rooms. But if you have a special Isolation Center its really about its really about how the Health Care Workers gown, degown. Its about the standard processes of care. And i do think youre pointing out to the issue of training and the standard processes of care and thats what we need to focus on. And, remember, the two workers who went to nebraska and emery were identified in west africa, sent there. He showed up in dallas. Moving him around was probably not on the top of the list. We do know that that hospital has had other mistakes in the management of that patient. Would you like to see regional facilities set up right now to deal with wherever this virus goes . Given the fact that we arent going to have a big outbreak, the idea of specializing it in a few places is right. The moment you specialize and focus a few workers on a few patients, you do increase their risk. As a medical ethicist, volunteers were treating those patients at Emory University hospital. They said if you dont want to be here, you dont have to do this. Correct. Is that the way to go in the future . Only the people who volunteer for the assignments should be given the assignments . That depends on the issue. If you have very few patients, you can do it with volunteers. That is preferable, that people consent to it. Everyone in the medical profession knows you have to treat patients and the system has the responsibility to keep the risk to those Health Care Workers as low as possible, equipment and procedures. But doctors and nurses have the responsibility to take care of sick people. Thats why we signed up for the job. Weve been told time and time again the only way to transmit the ebola virus is persontoperson contact with body fluids. Here is a scene outside the Health Care Workers home in dallas. And they seem to be disinfecting a sidewalk. Why would they need to be doing that if the only way you can get ebola is persontoperson transfer of bodily fluids . I cant exactly answer that. In the case of this nurse, it looks like they were removing gear that got in contact with bodily fluid. The sidewalk does not seem to be the right place. But im not an expert. Decontamination. Maybe to rest the fears of people. And, again, a lot of that is about fears, checking temperatures when people come into the country is probably not going to be our best use but it does reassure people. Panic is something we cant afford in this. That also can lead to a lot of mistakes of people. And we do have to keep people more rational about this. Weve had two cases in this country. We have not had a big outbreak and we need to be very clear about that. Keeping it in perspective. Zeke emmanuel, thank you very much. Thanks for having me. Lets go over to natalie. Millions of americans are being threatened by a massive storm system slowly moving east. Dylan is in for al. What are we looking at . The Severe Weather started last night and will become a really bad outbreak as we go through the day today for Straight Line wind damage in excess of 70 Miles Per Hour. That causes a lot of damage. Warm, moist air from the south. Temperatures running in the mid 80s. Cool, dry air back behind this front. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Its that clash of air mass that will cause this Severe Weather to break out. Weve seen it back through dallas. Weve had tornado warnings in the dallas area overnight. You can see still some pockets of heavier rain. Going through texarkana and the midwest, thats where were starting to see our torrential downpours. This is our tornado watch. It includes shreveport, louisiana. We have severe thunderstorm warnings. And thats going to be the setup as we go through the day today. This area in red will see strong storms. Were looking at our best chance of wind gusts in excess of 80 Miles Per Hour and also perhaps hail as large as two inches in diameter. We have to watch it today. It will continue into tomorrow, too. Dylan, thank you very much. Turkey is now granting Coalition Jets access to its air bases. This, as the parents of an american aid worker being held by the terror group make an emotional new plea for their sons safe return. Nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander sat down with them. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, as you can imagine, ed and paula kassig are heart broken, desperate. Their son was kidnapped one month ago. When his picture surfaced on tv days ago they decided to speak out in hopes that he will hear their words. We havent forgotten, we havent abandoned him and we certainly do love him. Reporter he changed his name to abdul rahman. He was taken with the religion as he was with the people. Reporter his extraordinary selflessness that inspired the former u. S. Army ranger to go to syria to aid that countrys refugees. Isis released this clip of kassig days ago, the first time his parents had seen their son since he left home and was kidnapped. Can you describe that feeling when you found out that your son had been taken . Tell the people watching right now to ask that question and theyll have all the answer they need. Reporter a recording from their son, the last time they heard from him. He described that his time is running out and he was made to tell what he was supposed to tell. Reporter they also shared portions of a handwritten letter from abdul rahman. If i go down, i wont go down thinking anything but what i know to be true, that you and mom love me more than the moon. He knows this is bigger than being just about him. And we do, too. Terribly difficult time for that family. The kassigs tell me theyve had very little contact with Abdul Rahmans captors, only some demands and every demand has been unmeetable. Oscar pistorius could be sent to prison for up to 15 years at the sentencing phase of his trial is under way in south africa. He was convicted of culpable homicide last month. The double amputee admitted firing shots into the bathroom of his home, killing his girlfriend in february 2013. Protests boiled over in st. Louis again sunday night. 17 people were arrested in a Convenience Store parking lot amid a fourday summit to protest the august Police Shooting death of 18yearold michael brown. St. Louis police said the chief actually said on twitter that protesters were attempting to storm the business. Those protests reignited this weekend after the shooting death of another black teenager by a white Police Officer last week. And in hong kong today, hundreds of young men, some wearing masks, attacked protesters. Earlier in the day, Hong Kong Police began removing barricade that is protesters had erected over the past two weeks. They said they want to relieve Traffic Congestion in the Central Business district. They began occupying hong kong streets last month after beijing said it would choose candidates for hong kongs top leadership position in the next election. Today the faa reopens that control center severely damaged by an intentionally set fire. The facility in aurora, illinois, was closed for two weeks. A contract employee cut cables and set fire to a basement telecommunications room. That disruption forced the cancellation of thousands of flight. The contract worker, brian howard, is facing numerous charges. Two young boys were injured, one critically, when the bouncy house they were in went airborne. We reported on thing like this before. It happened at a fundraising event in New Hampshire. The 2 and 4yearold boys were playing in that bouncy house when a gust of wind picked it up and carried it 50 feet before it crashed to the ground. The 2yearold was air lifted to the hospital. The 4yearold was taken by ambulance. The nature of their injuries is not known. Its 7 15. Weve talked about this. And the association theres an association that oversees these bouncy houses. When these incidents have happened in the past, make sure youre tethering them down properly and pivoted to the responsibility of those operating the bouncy houses. Its scary. Its scary. Tamron, thank you so much. We should mention, al is off today. Thats why were thats why im here. Happy to have dylan here. Whats going on . Midwest, stretching down into eastern texas, including the western panhandle of florida. That will be over the course of the day today. Its in red, right across arkansas, into western tennessee, into northern mississippi and alabama. Thats where we could see wind gusts up to 70 to 80 miles an hour. Also flash flooding is possible with two to three inches of rain falling in a short period of time. Thats a look at the weather time. Thats a look at the weather across thmaking coffee . Yeah, enough for two. Gosh. Try four, buddy. Hmm, ill take a dark roast. Chai tea, please. Honey, text the man what you want. French vanilla, make it strong the all new keurig 2. 0 is here. Brew for one, brew for all. Good morning. Im meteorologist bill henley. Clouds have moved in and will be with us most of the day. A few breaks of sunshine, but spotty light showers. Highs in the upper 60s, typical for this time of year, but more summerlike starting tomorrow. Partly sunny skies. 82 degrees after a morning low of 60 and back up to 80 again on wednesday. Theres a chance of showers later wednesday, possibly some early storms on thursday. And we will be clearing out as we go towards the weekend. Have a great day. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you very much. If you use snap chat to share photos, listen up. Carson is here with another problem that hundreds or thousands apparently may be at risk now. Weve been hearing a lot about the hacking of the celebrity nude photos online. Now thats reaching the noncelebrity field called snappening. 200,000 videos and images have been leaked and here is what snap chat is saying, we can confirm that snap chats servers were never breached and were not the source of the leaks. 60 million users, 400 millions snaps per day is the volume. A lot of those users are under the age of 18. The irony of the fact that snap chat has been developed so that things can disappear online is not lost on social media. The snappening, there is no internet privacy. This is a big story, guys. They dont just disappear then. I never thought they did, though. They had to go somewhere, right . Was it an isolated incident . Rally held for the victims of alleged hazing at the hands of High School Football players. Seven students now arrested. Where is Hannah Graham . Police are now changing their strategy. What investigators are focusing on now. First this is today on nbc. Just ahead on trending, a must see. A guy who attempts to base jump from a 212foot tower into a Swimming Pool. Crazy. Neil Patrick Harris on why hes giving you control ted what are you doing . I was trying to get these skittles, but i got stuck. [ crickets chirping ] maybe i should try. [ spider ] i say go for it. 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In fact, were watching showers move through delaware, delaware bay, headed for cape may right now. Temperatures are headed for the 60s, but right now 58 degrees in philadelphia. And its been an active morning on the roads with several accidents. Lets get an update with katy zachry now. Well get to one of our biggest accidents in a minute, but first, the volume thats building on 95 right at cottman avenue. This is the northbound lane. A penndot truck just pulled up with an accident involving two vehicles. Its been in the righthand lane. There is no shoulder because of longterm construction projects. So, you can see cars are trying to snake around that. And for drivers in new jersey on the new jersey turnpike southbound, theres still an issue between exits 4 and exits 2 because of an overturned truck. Those lanes are off limits. Heres what else were following. A firefighter was hurt while battling a fire at a dance studio in bensalem early this morning. The fire broke out around 4 30 a. M. At the Bucks County Dance Center on street road in bensal bensalem. Officials tell us that firefighters injury was minor. No one else was injured. No one was inside the building at the time the fire started. No w