dow up, and lost some ground after the past three days of gains and the 10-year yield hovering at 1.5, and the global trading is around the end of the quarter and the last half of the year to look at what 2013 could bring for your investments. a black eye for blackberry this morning, and the shares are down 20% after the company s quarterly report. how can the smartphone recover or can it? and expectations of weakness in china, and we will break down the numbers for you. and jim cramer talked to some of the top ceos in the country as part of the investment series, and we will get a sneak peek of what is coming up tonight on mad money. and the bulls and each average posting double-digit percentage gains and meanwhile the nasdaq and the s a&p has no had a down month since october, and the dow since november, but those streaks are in jeopardy. the s&p needs to go 17 more to break even for the month, and the nasdaq 54 points which is a decline of 1.5%, and the dow 91%.
requires the phone company verizon to turn over phone records on an ongoing daily basis to the national security agency. we re talking about the private calls of americans whether they ve been suspected of a crime or not. the phone record data not the content of the call. we want to get right to chuck todd. chuck, good morning to you. good morning, savannah. this is part of a secret surveillance, domestic surveillance program that was first launched during the bush administration. and in order to do this court order, the obama administration is essentially exploiting a part of the highly controversial patriot act. of course, all of this became public when the actual court order itself that allowed that forced verizon to turn over those records was turned over to the british newspaper the guardian. the document shows for the first time that under the obama administration, the communication records of millions of u.s. citizens are being collected in bulk regardless of whe
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 thursday morning, i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer along with al roker and natalie morales. this breaking news out of washington will outrage a lot of customers, at least for now, of one of the country s largest communication companies. according to britain s guardian newspaper, a court order dating back to april requires the phone company verizon to turn over phone records on an ongoing daily basis to the national security agency. we re talking about the private calls of americans whether they ve been suspected of a crime or not. the phone record data not the content of the call. we want to get right to chuck todd. chuck, good morning to you. good morning, savannah. this is part of a secret surveillance, domestic surveillance program that was first launched during the bush administration. and
i wonder what she says. good morning, everyone, on this friday eve. lara is off today. good to have paula faris here with us and as always we have a lot to get to including that exclusive report overnight that the national security agency has been collecting customer phone records for millions of americans. a record of every single verizon phone call. we ll talk to jonathan karl about that. first to sam in clearwater. so much of the state bracing for tropical storm andrea and, sam, you ve already had tornado warnings this morning. we ve had tornado warnings all around us this morning. it s exactly what you expect when these feeder bands of the storm tart to work off the gulf and onshore through southern and central florida. now, let s get adjusted to where the storm is, the first named storm of this season came before we got a week into the season. this is the radar, 200 miles off the shore where we are right now and look at these enormous bands of 240r78s, the first on
to an 84-year-old mom of four. now $370 million richer. we want you to meet the woman who let the winner go ahead of her in line and score the golden ticket. i wonder what she says. good morning, everyone, on this friday eve. lara is off today. good to have paula faris here with us, and as always we have a lot to get to including that explosive report overnight that the national security agency has been collecting customer phone records for millions of americans. a record of every single verizon phone call. we ll talk to jonathan karl about that. first let s get to sam in clear water, florida. so much of the state bracing for tropical storm andrea and, sam, you ve already had tornado warnings this morning. we ve had tornado warnings all around us this morning. it s exactly what you expect when these feeder bands of the storm start to work off the gulf and onshore through southern and central florida. now, let s get adjusted to where the storm is. the first named storm