Gone. Flights grounded amid tragedy at the grand canyon. A Birthday Celebration turns deadly. What caused a chopper to suddenly go down . And the american snowboarding phenom going for gold. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, you have just witnessed history. Chloe kim about to take the world by storm. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, from pyeongchang where the mountain winds have given athletes something to contend with. Tonight the wind appears to be at the back of team usa picking up momentum and more medals with a big evening ahead and perhaps more golden reach for the women on the snowboard halfpipe. The first full week of competition underway featuring surprising moments from the american team. Our Stephanie Gosk is covering it all. Reporter for a snowboarder, whipping winds, the worst enemy. Taking a toll on womens slope stipe, first with a delay, followed by a string of blown runs. Of the 25 competitors only 5 completed their first run without falls. But
Surveillance powers. President trump today indicating hes inclined to release it. Its going to be released soon dv. David right now Alan Dershowitz says that the americans deserve transparency. The white house refusing reports that chief john kelly is willing to resign. We take it up with mr. Ed rollins and our top story. The effort to expose corruption in the obama era fbi and Justice Department. Devin nunez is seeking transcript to find out what the fbi said in order to get a surveillance warrant to spy on former trump aide carter page. The house intel mem ro released last friday showed that the discredited trump dossier was used to sur cure the surveillance warrant for page and the government omitted Key Information about its political funding by the dnc and Clinton Campaign. Tonight were waiting for the democratic release of the memo rebutting the allegations. If white house releasing a statement saying that the President Trump met with the fbi director as well as the White House C
Welcome, as tyler set, stocks bouncing back from the work week in two years, the dow up, the action in the bond market yields on the benchmark tenyear coming back to fouryear highs, justened 3 . Perhaps thats spooking investors in consumerrelated stocks, some retailers are sees losses, it is, though, a full steam ahead. That stock is higher after raising the different. No whopper here. Burger kings parent bead the street courtney, welcome. The do you soaring, the s p 500 back above its average. Bob, what is going on here today . Actually its time for the point moves, look at the sectors here, the old growth sectors we used to talk about, reits are down, thats not surprising, but lets look at the markets. Breadth is good. 5 to 20 advancing to declining stocks, the volume, believe it or not, just average weve had enormous volume in the week and a half, volatility has been dropping today, a bits unusual. With the peak gains today, the three major averages have recovered nearly half of the
The economy. We keep edging closer to 3 on the tenyear treasury. 386 as of now. Consider this. More Big Companies are giving bonuses. Uhaul is the latest giving 1,200. Thats stimulus. Paychecks going up. Thats stimulus. Government spending going up. And infrastructure package evolving big spending that looks more and more likely. So what happens to Interest Rates . If they go up sharply, expect a reaction on the stock market. Today, the freeranging immigration debate begins. Well see the infrastructure plan. And just wait until you see how the media fawned over north koreas propaganda chief. And now watch this. The new look Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart i do declare we like it. Look at that. The new look debuts today. I see heavy use of gold. Ashley yes. My only concern is theyve blown the budget for the year, but i do love it. I do love it. Stuart i would like to have been airbrushed a little bit thinner. Liz right . Stuart i like the old. Liz you are smiling. Its sharp and
The debt bomb threat returns. Thats the push and pull for investors good for stocks trillion dollar deficits higher Interest Rates thats bad. Hence, volatility politics u susan rice she of benghazi wrote a memo to herself for the very moment of Trump Inauguration in it she insisted twice that at a secret meeting president obama had had laid down the law to the the fbi. They must investigate russian medaling by the book. He was not asking about initiating or instructing anything. He was completely removed from the fbi probe. His hands were entirely clean. Two republican senators pownsd the memo odd as they call it. Yes, we have a big show for you today stay there please. A terrific olympic story for you. Varney company is about to begin. [laughter] oh, you have to love this. The u. S. Wins another gold at the olympics and this is a really special one. Khloe kim 17 year old a near perfect run in the snowboarding half pipe she was way with out in front of everybody. By the way, she had qu