And fangate. We have an extremely peculiar situation right now. Floridas governor refuses to take the stage in a debate because of the electric fan under his opponents podium. An awkward moment thats blowing up online today thursday october 16th, 2014. Good morning, withal come to today on a thursday morning. Savannah remains on maternity leave. Al is on the road and also in a little while well talk to a nurse who works at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital and she is now you could accurately a say whistleblower, talking about the lack of planning there, a lack of training, a lack of protocol and contradictions in procedure procedures that put peoples lives and health at risk. She speaks about the hospital she loves and works so hard for. Really courageous. Lets get the latest develop developments. Amber vinson is being treated at emorry university hospital, that of course is in atlanta. Hearings on capitol hill feature dr. Frieden and anthony fauchie, a lot of questions why the cdc kn
We want to make it clear our crews are not in harms way. You dont get this from casual contact, its not airborne. Our crews are in dallas right now working to get answers to the questions we have all about ebola. Well, today lawmakers on capitol hill held hearings on ebola. Also nbc 10 is there as local First Responders express concern about whether theyre even prepared should an ebola case happen here. And, as we mentioned earlier, Childrens Hospital of philadelphia is readying itself for any potential child ebola patients. And now to dallas, where nbc 7 10s Christine Maddela is monitoring new developments there. Christine, one nurse at that texas hospital not holding back in her criticism of how things have been handled there. Reporter thats exactly right, a nurse who works here at texas health pre presbyterian spoke to the today shows mad lauer. She can no longer defend her hospital. She says they were not prepared for the ebola crisis. People in the Dallas Community here, weve been
Old. The investigation launched. And fangate. We have a peculiar situation right now. Floridas governor refuses to take the stand, because of the podium. An awkward moment blowing up online today. First, october 16ing, 2014. From nbc fuse, this is today with matt lauer sand savanna guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a thursday morning him im live with natalie morales, tamron hall, carson daly. Sal on the road. Well check in with him in a little while. Also if a while, we will talk to a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. She is now i guess you can say a whistleblower. She is talking of a lack of training, a lack of protocol, contradictions and procedures that put peoples lives and health at risk. It takes a lot of courage for the nurse to come forward and speak out r about the hospital she works so hard at. Lets get the latest developments in this ebola crisis. Amber vincent. The second Dallas Church is being treated at emo
Positive for cocaine. He is apologizing but why is it now just coming to light . Decades after earthquake struck San Francisco during the world series, more drama. Ishikawa hits one into right the giants win the pennant. As the giants head back to the fall classic today, friday, october 17th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And the giants win the pennant the giants win the pennant. Welcome back to a friday morning. Im matt lauer, along with natalie morales, al roker and tamron hall. Savannah is on maternity leave. Now the world series is set. Kansas city royals, they havent been there in 29 years, now the giants. All starts tuesday in kansas city. It will be an exciting one. Home field advantage to the kansas city royals. Well have more on that later. Lets get right to the top story on a friday morning, the latest on this ebola crisis. Nina pham, first dallas nurse diagnosed with that virus arr
Nation. Pham will fly in from dallas to the National Institute of health in bethesda, maryland. She contracted ebola while taking care of Thomas Duncan when he was placed in intensive care before his deaths last week. Pham wore directive gear, gowns, gloves, masks, face shields and sometimes body suits but still contra the virus. Similar to what happened in atlanta last night, an ambulance will be here to pick her up when she lands, and a special team will take her to nih. The staff from the special clinical studies trained to stop the spread of Infectious Diseases will put her in isolation. Coming up at 5 00, we will show you how doctors will monitor what they will look for and even talk to some folks who plan on coming out here, because they say they want to witness hist live in frederick, im shomari stone, news4. Shomari, thank you. Staff at the National Institutes of health also preparing for phams arrival later tonight. This facility specializes in this sort of care. But how do re