On everything from new products to potential acquisitions at his companys annual meeting. Well talk to a big investor who was there. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for friday, february 28th. Good evening, everyone. From the white house to wall street today, growing concerns about a possible showdown between ukraine and russia. Late today, president obama had strong words about whats at stake. Any violation of ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity would be deeply destabilizing. The United States will stand with the International Community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in ukraine. Earlier today on wall street, investors and traders were spooked on unsettling reports that russias foreign minister confirmed that thousands of heavily Armed Russian troops moved into ukraines crimea region, ramping up tensions between moscow and the interim government in kiev. Within minutes, a 126point gain in the dow vanished. But nearly a
Russian military convoy. It is causing a major move in the 10year which hit lowest yield since june of last year. Look at that uranium president claiming his forces attacked Armed Russian vehicles that moved across the border. Nato is stopping short of calling it an invasion but confirming that there was a breach into ukraine. Here now to discuss all of this, veronica daguerre with the wall street journal we have larry shover of fsg alternatives. Liza benson from star vest partners. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Liza, what do you think of the markets reaction . I think type of instability will affect the markets. Anytime you have this type of military action going on you will see the markets react. Melissa especially when we have so little clarity on this we dont know if this is big convoy of white trucks we saw go in. It is totally separate from that or related to it. This is what was feared, it would get reaction. There is a lot of fears here. We dont know how far it is going
Punish russia for occupying crimea. Some are calling it the worst eastwest crisis since the cold war. Well host a roundtable discussion. Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro cuts off ties with panama. Be quiet, sir, and do not meddle with someone who did not call you. Venezuela is not going to have a debate about its internal situation. Debate on the unrest in venezuela, who is protesting. All of that and more. To democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Russian president Vladimir Putin is rebuffing warnings from the u. S. And European Union as the crisis in ukraine threatens one of the worst eastwest standoffs since the cold war. Putin held a onehour phone call with president obama on thursday but continued to reject calls to withdraw his forces from crimea. On thursday, the prorussian Crimean Parliament voted to hold a referendum on splitting off from ukraine and joining russia. But the votes legitimacy has been called into question after the install
Im janelle wang. And im raj mathai. The rain has been active and damaging. The next question, how will this impact our weekend . We have a team of reporters and meteorologists across the bay area. Lets begin with our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri who is tracking our late night conditions. Jeff . Were seeing the next wave just as forecasted beginning to move in from the south. More of that coming up, but i want to look at these storm reports. We have one of about everything today. Flooding, flash flooding at that, trees down, winds that topped 60 miles per hour. One of the top reports coming in northwest of sacramento and woodland. Thats where we had that funnel cloud report. The storm spotter said the funnel was about 800 feet off the ground. Some folks are debating whether this touched the ground or not. But a funnel cloud. This was pretty well designed, not very destructive. There was not any damage reported with this. But certainly a very severe look here at some california weath
Life scandal behind one of the oscar nominated movies but a quiz we can guarantee you have never seen before. Our way in joining in the excitement for the biggest award show, today, saturday, march 1st 2014. From nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome back to today. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome to the today show. Im lester holt. Youre lester holt. And erica hill along side jenna wolf and dylan dreyer and its march 1st. Youre having a hard time wrapping your head around this all morning. Have you heard its march 1st . All morning its been going on. I thought winter was over. Thats march, april, may, thats what we call spring. Wave your magic wand and make it happen. That would be amazing. Its nice to have the group back together. Missed you guys. Lets get to the top story. Another day of misery for residents in Southern California. The latest winter storm drenched the state that needs relief from a