Headlined by clinton independent counsel ken starr and famed attorney Allen Dershowitz. Well talk live to another member of the president s team. Mystery virus. New concerns this morning about an unknown illness prompting new screening at u. S. Airports on people coming to the country from china. What the cdc is saying about the deadly disease. All that plus controversial video. Eminem facing backlash after his latest release depicting himself as the las vegas shooter. Scary collapse. A member of the wiggles falls down after having a medical episode during a benefit concert for australia fire relief. How hes doing this morning. And take down, an mma fighter using his training to stop an alleged thief at a drugstore. Today, saturday, january 18th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today and thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. Good to be with you. And wh
Start. Up 15 since the beginning of the year, and it just got a huge upgrade. Its our call of the day netflix, ibm, intel, and more, a ton of big names report earnings next week. Well get you set up the Investment Committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. All right. Good to have you with us on this friday our Investment Committee, jim lebenthal, josh brown, steve weiss, and shannon shikosha. Lets begin with the markets. The s p set another new record high today all three averages in fact doing so word this morning from appalo a appaloosas david tepper saying at some point the market will get to a level that i will slow down that horse and get off. The fed put money into the system, china tensions eased, and the sign seemed clear to him about where the market wasgoin to go whereas there was a lack of clarity in the months before that because of all the noise around china trade it outperformed in december and january. It is a fair bet tepper has been adding to his indiv
And this event excited to see folks here and excited for the last two events. We have stacy chin up next at 5 30. Closing us out for the weekend. But before that, im really excited to welcome Kimberly Dark here. Performer, thinker, critical analyst, and generally essayist. I dont know any other nouns you prefer. So sorry, im algebraic dead, long weekend. But im excited to welcome her here to our stage to talk about her book fat, pretty and soon to be old so join me in giving her a warm round of maas. Ill talk to the three of you sitting in front of me. I want to say thank you to dr. Kennedy diif would be standing there getting a book signed myself if i werent here busy with other things. Im Kimberly Dark and its my pleasure to be here with you. Im also fat, pretty and soon to be old, as the title says, and well talk about appearance privilege and how that works. So if you could just look around you right now and focus on a stranger. Dont stare. That would be weird, but just give a stra
Misread strangers words and actions. Many of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online at booktv. Org. Book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress about their reading list. So senator marsha blackburn, what is on your reading list . Mall come gladwell, and im just i was so jealous last week. My husband and son attended a breakfast where he was speaking, and of course ive Read Everything that he has written and followed his columns for years. So long with blink blink and outliers and the others ive new downlead on my win del, talking to strangers and just a little bit into it, but totally intrigued. Ive also made certain that i have my 2020 farmers almanac downloaded, and im looking at that. You cant beat good reading when it comes the farmers almanac. Its just i love it. And i keep track of it. Im a gardener, and love being outdoors, and so you got to have the farmers almanac. What kind of information do you get from that . Weather. A lot
The end of the decade. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. [ cheers and applause ] mr. Vice president , governor, congressman thomas, senator wiley, congressman miller within mr. Webb, mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen, i appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor. And i will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here and particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. We meet at a college noted for knowledge in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength. And we stand in need of all three. But we meet in an hour of change and challenge in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the striking fact, that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this nations own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 yea