How Clean are Hotel Rooms? What to Know Before Checking in

A hotel room may appear to be squeaky clean but harmful germs could be lurking in places you might not expect. Plush carpets could inhabit E. coli and staph that can hitch a ride on shoes and wheeling suitcases. Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Vicky Nguyen teams up with an environmental testing lab and books two room in New York City to swab for bacteria and viruses.