Lets give a welcome to mr. Jay leno. Former tonight show host returns to the show he hosted for decades. A look at the laughs for saturday, november 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside sheinelle jones. We are missing one at the desk. That is because dylan dreyer is over at citifield. Also in new york city in the borough of queens. She has a sneak peek at the macys thanksgiving day parade. We will check in with her for a little inside scoop. I cannot stand it all. The tree going up. Its time. Lets get to the top stories. This Winter Holiday related. Cold weather. This is dangerously cold weather getting set to grip the country in the coming week. It is due to the storm pounding alaska today that is changing the course of the jet stream. The weather channels mike seidel is in minneapolis with more. Mike, good morni
Lets give a welcome to mr. Jay leno. Former tonight show host returns to the show he hosted for decades. A look at the laughs for saturday, november 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside sheinelle jones. We are missing one at the desk. That is because dylan dreyer is over at citifield. Also in new york city in the borough of queens. She has a sneak peek at the macys thanksgiving day parade. We will check in with her for a little inside scoop. I cannot stand it all. The tree going up. Its time. Lets get to the top stories. This Winter Holiday related. Cold weather. This is dangerously cold weather getting set to grip the country in the coming week. It is due to the storm pounding alaska today that is changing the course of the jet stream. The weather channels mike seidel is in minneapolis with more. Mike, good morni
The russell 2000 is now in correction territory down 10 from the july high down about 1. 1 on the trading session. That sent money down in the bond market but it is significant to note the yield is 2. 41 . Transportation average down almost 200 points to the down side. A bit of a bounce in the crude market perhaps not a surprise how it was crushed yesterday. Up about half a percent on brent. And if you were ahead of the drop today and you bought inverse etfs you are doing pretty darn well. Lets take a look at that board. Psq is inverse of the nasdaq 100 and shorting mid caps you buy myy. It sounds like morse code. It is another language for a lot of investors. When you talk about the inverse etfs these outperform because they give positive returns when the market goes down. It is a vehicle for traders. When you talk about right now if you look at the overall picture for stocks those etfs are on the upside. This trade today you noted about the dow industrials. We are at session lows dow
And margin calls are triggered over secession plans in the country. And japans Prime Minister hailed this weekends vote as an indication for economics. And paris taxi drivers stage a citywide protest against uber. Youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Lets get straight to our top story this morning. The ongoing hostage situation unfolding in sydney. These pictures recorded earlier show armed officers outside a cafe in the Business District. A lone gunman is holding an undisclosed number of people but local media says about a dozen hostages are held captive. Within the last few hours, the number of people seen running out of the building. Earlier the hostages were also seen holding a flag against the shop window. Tony abbott said the governments allegations are known but well see if this is politically driven. This is a very disturbing incident. And i can understand the concerns and anxieties of the australian people at a time like this. Ou
One of the worse catastrophes in living memory, the massive indian ocean tsunami that hit the region a decade ago. 230,000 people were killed when a powerful earthquake at sea triggered a freak wave on december 26, 2004. Sri lanka, thailand and indonesia were among the hardest hit countries in the region. The wave devastated lives, coastlines, entire communities. In dozens of countries, people are remembering those who passed away. People of all faiths are remembering the victims today. At this mosque in indonesia, muslims offered special prayers to commemorate the dead. At the sacred heart church, christians filled the pews for a special christmas mass. Almost everyone here lost a loved one in the disaster. Today i especially pray for our brothers and sisters who died in the synonymy 10 years ago tsunami 10 years ago. It was actually only the bodies of the victims that died. Their spirits are still alive. We believe our brothers and sisters who died in the synonymy tsunami are now at