contracted the ebola virus and will be the fourth american patient flown from liberia back to the united states for treatment tonight. back to the united states for treatment tonight. "first look" is up next. good morning. right now on "first look," ebola hits home as an nbc cameraman contracts the deadly disease and the dallas quarantine grows. >> there's a list of about 100 what we call potential possible contacts and that will be called down to a list that we'll begin the contact tracing on. >> severe weather leaves thousands without power in the texas area causing major damage ahead of the weekend. plus the future now. one step closer to creating a flying car. italians clash with police in heated confrontations. and some of the best photos capturing pure fright on people's faces. good friday morning. i'm angie goff. fast-moving developments in the

the ebola emergency. another american exposed to the virus, and this story hitting close to home for us. ashoka mukpo is a freelance cameraman hired by nbc news this week. nbc's tracie potts is live in washington for us. what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: we can tell you he's a 33-year-old freelance photographer. as you said he's only been working for us for a few days, three days, as of today. but he's been in that region for three years. he is an american. now he's coming home. this is dr. nancy snyder man in liberia. a photographer working with nbc's dr. nancy snyderman in west africa has tested positive for ebola. he was immediately quarantined. >> he is being kept in the clinic there right now. the rest of my team, very healthy. we have been extraordinarily vigilant. >> reporter: 33-year-old ashoka mukpo is being flown back to the

u.s. for treatment. nbc sending a private jet for the rest of the crew. they'll stay in quarantine here for 21 days. >> abundance of caution, we are self-quarantining ourselves, even going beyond the cdc guidelines. we recognize that there is a big story back home. >> reporter: snyderman's team was covering thomas eric duncan, the first ebola case in the u.s. he appears to have caught the disease while helping a pregnant woman in liberia. >> i saw her. she was helpless. she was not able to walk by herself. >> reporter: she later died. in texas, duncan's family's been quarantined. >> worried. we were told to sign a paper that says we can't leave our apartment. >> reporter: the cdc is tracking dozens of people who had contact with duncan after he developed symptoms. >> no one who has been around mr. duncan during the time that he has been symptomatic has shown any indication of having contracted ebola.

>> reporter: back live now, back to that photographer, our nbc photographer. this morning there's a statement from his family, angie, saying that he was well aware of the risks in the region but he wanted to be there on the ground to tell those stories. they also say that the doctors are optimistic about his progress. so that's certainly good news. we await his arrival and the whole team's arrival back here in the u.s. >> definitely great news. tracy potts on capitol hill, we'll definitely keep him and the rest of the team in our thoughts. back to dallas. thomas eric duncan, the nation of liberia now planning to go after him for lying. before leaving the country duncan answered "no" to safety questions at the airport, specifically whether he had contact with anyone possibly exposed to the disease. >> my first concern was, why did he do this? the fact that he knew and he left the country is

approximately inability. >> we want to give you a tutorial on ebola. it's transmitted through direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. the virus enters a healthy body through a cut, eyes or mouth. exposure to contaminated things like needles. ebola can only be transmitted while a person is showing the symptoms. it's not an aaron borne virus. it's harder to catch than the flu. for protection medical teams wear protective suits, equipment is sterilized, and patients as we know are isolated. as for those sim many tos, there are eight. things like fever, weakness, sore muscles, vomiting are among them. if you still have questions today, msnbc will air a special ebola fact versus fiction from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 this afternoon eastern time. strong storms left a big mess in several areas of north texas. thunderstorms with winds up to 90 miles per hour tore buildings

apart in dallas, ft. worth and arlington. brick walls and sheet metal were no watch for the hurricane-force winds. thousands of homeowners were left in the dark because of these fast-moving storms. the university of texas at arlington is closed today because of all the outages. a wild police chase in orange county, california. this finally ended when the suspect flew off the freeway, crashing his truck. the whole thing was caught on camera, take a look. >> this person has failed to pull over, driving erratically. look at him going in and out -- there he goes, intentionally crashed his vehicle, going over the freeway, flying. my goodness that was a horrible accident. it almost appeared that this guy did this intentionally. >> after crashing, the suspect surrendered to police as you can see. he's now behind bars. authorities believe he is responsible for half a dozen bank robberies in san diego and orange counties. it is prison walls for "real housewives of new jersey" star

teresa guidice, sentenced to 15 months behind parse for her part in a million-dollar fraud case. her husband also sentenced to more than three years. he's going to begin his term once she's released. this is an arrangement that will allow one of the parents to care for their four daughters. their ages are between 5 to 13. before the hearing, guidice said she took full responsibility for her actions. the judge said she considered giving her just probation but felt she had to send a strong message. "it isn't who you are, how famous you are. if you do something wrong, there will be consequences to pay." guidice will report to prison january 5th. in response to the sen 10ing andy cohen, the brains behind "the real housewives" franchise, he retweeted this, "regardless of what your opinion is, have respect for teresa guidice and her family." we know the couple will give him their side of the story on bravo's "watch what happens

live" airing this monday. ramped-up efforts this morning to defeat isis. just hours ago, australia became the latest country to authorize air strikes against isis militants in iraq. prime minister tony abbott says they will also send special forces troops to the country as part of the u.s.-led coalition. several days into launching its own air strikes, british prime minister david cameron now saying that they're sending two more fighter jets to iraq. he made the announcement this morning during a surprise visit to afghanistan. cameron's announcement comes a day after visiting british pie lots in cyprus. a unique threat we're hearing about to u.s. military members. the u.s. army now warning military personnel that isis is telling its supporters to use social media to find and kill their relatives. moving on to sports. now to the baseball playoffs and the alds. royals, angels. down 2-1 in the fifth, angels

david freeze rips a solo shot into left to tie the game 2-2. extra innings but not for like. mike mu stack diswith a homer of his own. royals table game one 3-2 baltimore, ear yells start with a two-run blast to the right. tigers tie it up next inning with back-to-back homers. the o's take the 4-2 lead after a solo run homer by j.j. hardy in the seventh. the birds will score eight more to take game one 12-3. to thursday night football. packers hosting the vikings. packers up 7-0, aaron rodgers throwing that 66-yard woman to a wade-open jordy nelson. he'll take that in for six. second quarter. christian ponder looking down the field. but he's pressured and the ball was intercepted by julius peppers. he takes it 49 yards to the house and says, see ya later. the packers dominate this one 42-10. to a thursday night college

thriller. oregon versus arizona. both teams unt s undefeated. that game came down to the final minutes. arizona's quarterback is sacked bun unsportsmanlike conduct by oregon keeps the drive alive. arizona takes advantage and scores right there, defeating second-ranked oregon for the second straight season. final score 31-24. and on "the tonight show," former yankees captain derek jeter was reminiscing with jimmy fallon about his last at-bat at yankee stadium. take a listen. >> they come back and tie the game. so it's a tie game. i go, now we're going into the ninth inning. i go -- i'm looking at the order. derek's there, he's going to get up again, this is just awful. >> you should have heard what i was saying to myself. >> all smiles there on "the tonight show" we're going to get new job numbers. at 8:30 this morning wall street is expecting to announce 215,000 new jobs created for the month

of september. jpmorgan chase says there's no evidence customer accounts were hacked. this followed a breach affecting 76 million u.s. households and 7 million small businesses. two words. flying car. the aeromobile takes regular gasoline, it fits in a normal parking spot, and it can take off and land at any airport in the world. as a car its top speed is 100 miles per hour. as an airplane it can fly 124 miles per hour with a range of about 430 miles carrying two passengers on board. if you've ever been rejected for a loan, don't feel bad because america's former top banker at the federal reserve, ben bernanke, admitted that he was turned down when trying to refinance his mortgage recently. hm. google says it's trying to keep the recently leaked celebrity nude photos from spreading around the internet. the tech giant is responding to the threat of a $100 million lawsuit by a group of female

celebrities. president obama plans to act decisively on immigration. and it got nasty in italy as demonstrators clashed with police. >> this huge storm in the middle of the country is heading east and unfortunately it's going to rain on some of your weekends. i'll tell you who coming up. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. i'm type e.

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. a lot of people will be checking out the peak leaves in the northern half the country and the rockies. how about this picture from aspen, colorado. yesterday the golden aspen leaves with a coating of snow. picturesque as it gets. the timing of the 18 rain for this weekend, this is this morning with rain over chicago, michigan, through kentucky, tennessee. by this evening of course a lot of people with friday night plans, football games across the state of ohio into areas of pennsylvania, west virginia, back down into the atlanta area. that's where the line of storms will be. it will not be a severe or as damaging as yesterday but there

will be lightning. saturday morning it heads for d.c. saturday afternoon and evening, new york city. looks like a rainy saturday afternoon and evening in new england. it clears out for sunday. so that's good. hopefully the leaves will be left on the trees. >> yeah, hopefully. thanks, bill. in the news this morning, hundreds of protesters face to face with riot police in naples, italy. they tried to storm the area where government officials were meeting with executives from the european bank. police tried to force them back with water canyons and protesters fired back with throwing fireworks and rocks. they're angry about job cuts in a city that already has the highest unemployment rates in italy. we heard it from vice president joe biden a couple of weeks ago and now the president is promising to take executive action on immigration before the year is over. >> if congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours. i expect the recommendations before the end of the summer. and i intend to adopt those recommendations without further delay.

a motivational mirror is raising smiles in the the uk. british morale is given a boost with a mirror from ikea that uses next-generation motion sensor technology to give people personalized compliments as they walk by. >> wow, have you been working out? darling, your dress -- >> research shows that half the british population received no compliments in an average week. the goal here is to raise the nation's self-esteem. ever wondered what you look like going through a haunted house? the "fear factor" in canada has a hidden camera that snaps photos. the business claims to be the scariest haunted house in the world and just one look at these pictures and they might just be right. a pennsylvania porn scandal? michele bachmann's anti-hillary campaign, and the real hillary brings her granddaughter up in a political speech. "scrambled politics" is next.

there's only, face it, only one story to talk about tonight and that is ebola. the first thing you have to know, do not touch me. okay? because if you do, if you, do i will cut you. okay? then i will clean up very thoroughly. >> kolber. that leads us into this friday edition of "scrambled politics." in pennsylvania two state officials resign in the wake of what's being called porngate.

last week eight men were identified as send or receiving explicit e-mails from their government accounts. at the time of the exchanges, all of them worked for then-attorney general tom corbett. now governor tom corbett is in the middle of an uphill re-election campaign. from "the daily beast," even local school board members are running against obama. according to the center for public integrity, 1 in 10 election ads for state offices mention the president or the affordable care act. that's 300,000 advertisements in all. next, politico says michele bachmann strives to be the anti-hillary. although she leaves office in january, bachmann is actively trying to boost her foreign policy credentials ahead of the 2016 presidential race. meanwhile the hillary clinton spoke to a group of female real estate professionals yesterday. it was a convention focused on empowering women and she talked about what that meant for her new granddaughter.

>> i think it's a grandmother glow. i mean, i'm very new at it but i highly recommend it. she's doing great. she's the most perfect, most beautiful, smartest 5-day-old you'll ever meet. i think my granddaughter has just as much god-given potential as a boy who was born in that hospital on the same day. i just believe that. >> with that, that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." it is friday which means i'm joined now by kevin cyrilly, reporter for "the hill." >> thank you for having me. >> i want to get to hillary but first immigration. something that you guys are covering right now. we heard from president obama on the topic for the first time since delaying the immigration vote. now you're there in washington. what are you hearing? did he reassure latinos that they have not been forgotten? >> that's a great question and it's really been an interesting

one, especially as we inch closer to the midterms in states like north carolina where there's a contentious senate race as well as colorado, another race that's extremely close. and both states having a hispanic part of the electorate that's really important. and so there was concerns when the administration delayed this immigration action until after the midterms that perhaps it would upset some of the hispanic voters. that has not seemed to be the case. it seems that hispanic groups are sticking with the president. but that could change. i mean, i think that, you know, this is something that has moved extremely slowly, upsetting a lot of folks. and i think that the bottom line is going to be if this passes, what is the end result? and that's when i think some of these groups could get upset is if they don't get what they want. >> on to hillary. we just saw her in that public event. she opened and closed with comments about her granddaughter, saying charlotte has as much god-given potential

as a boy born in the same hospital on the same day. shocker? >> i mean -- no, right? i think the clintons have been talking about the arrival of their grandchild for months. and i think there was a lot of anticipation. so, you know, obviously this is now the newest member of their family, right? and it's going to be like it or not, it's going to be a part of her story if she runs for president. >> yeah, and nothing like driving your point home with a cube baby face. all right. kevin cyrilly with "the hill," thanks so much, happy friday. >> thank you, have a great weekend. an alarming trend in high school sports next. means keeping seven billion ctransactions flowing.g,

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they are frightening. happening too often. playing out on high school football fields. players losing their lives. so what's going on? here's nbc's katy tur. >> reporter: 16-year-old varsity linebacker tom kutenela of long island, new york, was blocking for a teammate in the third quarter when he went down. >> he went down, got up, did a few steps, then went down. >> reporter: he was rushed to the hospital. 45 minutes later, he was pronounced dead. the preliminary cause, a head injury. >> the game involves contact. and it was the result of a freak football play. >> reporter: but it's those incidents that are again raising questions about player safety. this is the third high school football-related death in a week. last friday in north carolina, 17-year-old linebacker isaiah langston collapsed during pregame warmups.

possibly because of a blood clot in his brain, his older brother says. and in alabama on sunday, 17-year-old demario harris jr. also collapsed after a hit ruptured an aneurysm in his brain, according to his coach. gerard freedman is the train foreof the hoboken red wings in no one me w try and teach the correct way of tackle going hitting each other to try and avoid a situation like that. >> reporter: there was outrage last weekend when the university of michigan coach left quarterback shane morris in the game after a big hit left the sophomore struggling to stand up. an average of 12 high school and college players die every year. deaths due to direct hits are rare. deaths from indirect contact such as heat stroke or cardiac failure occur twice as often as blunt force trauma. >> does your heart stop when you're watching them? >> yeah, it does. because like you said, it's nerve-racking, you know. you don't want to see your child get hurt. >> reporter: tonight at a vigil for tom kutenela, a team and

community mourn the loss of yet another son. katy tur, nbc news, hoboken, new jersey. >> i'm angie goff. "way too early" with thomas roberts starts right now. this is a very experienced photo journalist who we hired to augment our team on the field in monrovia. as the day went on he started to feel just tired, a little achy. he signed off early, went home, called me later that evening with an elevated temperature. at that point, i suggested and requested that he self-quarantine himself and monitor his temperature by the hour, which he did, and checked in with me. and this morning he went to the clinic run by doctors without borders and was checked for malaria, which is very common here. and then also tested positive for ebola. >> an nbc news freelance

cameraman working in liberia is diagnosed with ebola, making him the fifth american confirmed to have the virus. our very own dr. nancy snyderman and her crew now placed in cautionary quarantine. with the midterms approaching, president obama makes the case for the improving economy but is anybody listening? then on a completely lighter note -- ♪ magic magic baltimore, the orioles kick off postseason play in a big way. is in "way too early." ♪ make the magic happen the magic of baseball ♪ >> hey everybody, good morning, i'm thomas roberts. it is friday, october the 3rd. welcome to "way too early," aka camden yards north. this is a big morning around here. we are going to get everybody singing the magic song for orioles, a second shot coming up