On a popular creditmonitoring service. This morning, how to know if youre a victim, and what to do about it. Those stories, plus the pursesnatching victim that wouldnt let go. Venus williams upset at the u. S. Open. And tom brady upset on his home tu turf. Today, friday, september 8th. This is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. We sound like a broken record, but theres a lot to get to. There really is, including that powerful earthquake in mexico, and tsunami warning overnight. Lets start with Hurricane Irma. And where things stand right now with this monster storm. All of south florida is now under a hurricane warning with the region set to begin feeling the effects of this storm sometime tomorrow. Mass evacuations labeled unprecedented by miamis mayor are ramping up. Were seeing long traffic delays on the two major highways that head north out of florida. And check ou
Get shot, people still die, and it is something that i wish could stop. Reporter Police Sources say the victim, 29yearold julio lebron had come to the salon earlier in the day demanding money from the owner. The two even exchanged blows. The victim left promising to return. When he did, he brought two men, again demanding money. But with the owner nowhere in sight, someone its unclear who opened fire, striking that victim multiple times. Its very sad that people have to die or just because of a their life. Reporter a former employee at the salon told us she quit because of the fighting she says regularly broke out there. But she never imagined someone would be killed on the salon floor. No one else was hurt in this shooting, and police say no arrests have been made at this point as the investigation continues. Were live in the west farm section. Checkey beckford, news 4 new york. We are also following breaking news out of queens, a market in white stone. That fire broke out around 9 30
Jim and his home, Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side calling for higher salaries and more benefits and claim the mayor has a less than stellar work ethic. Good morning, i am juliet huddy. I am robert moses, 6 00 on the second day of august. Juliet will we see another birthday it was great. Robert mike is here with a check of the forecast. Meteorologist we have a few showers out there but a little rain never hurt anybody. Here we go. It is looking fairly warm. Temperatures came down over the weekend, temperatures cooler warm in memphis, new orleans, 83 . , but we are going to see temperatures just above what we typically see, showers and storms worth keeping an eye on. A little disturbance in that area, a few showers go to the south. Will it make it here, doubtful, they will hang where they are and try to drop to the south but usually run up against the green layer which eats up the energy. Some morning showers up the lower hudson vall. The weather so that gives you fair sky, not muc
Thats largely on the back of currency moves. Shanghai is roughly flat. Hong kong is up. 5 . European equities. The ftse 100 is the only major average that is in positive territory. We did see a better than expected q2 gdp number for the Second Quarter. That was up. 6 from the last quarter. 2. 2 from the last year. Thats going into the brexit vote. Take a look where we are on crude. Brent still below 50 a barrel. Wti about 47 47. 18. We are getting job onning from opec numbers. Nothing is too certain. Couple big stories were watching this morning. Apple is issuing a security update from infecting your ipad or iphone. Devices can be affected by clicking a web link and hackers take over using the camera and microphone and tracking information on apps like facebook and gmail. Advising customers to update to the newest version as soon as possible. Inning im going to do that on the show. Mylan announcing yesterday its going to be reducing the outofpocket cost of the emergency epipen allergy
Kerry mets ace matt harvey trying to put the controversy surrounding his pitching plans to bed. He fully intentd to play through the playoff. Ben a lot of guests coming up this morning on this labor day. We have best selling art rush, a new book. Kerry talking to him in the 9 00 hour. Also were celebrating west indian day parade all morning long. We have music, dj throughout the 9 00 hour that should be a lot of fun. Ben folking paying attention to this final barbecue day picnic, beach day. Mike whatever it is. Get out there and enjoy and weather worked out pretty well for the most part. Kerry beautiful weekend. Mike temperatures were actually pretty cooperative not too hot or cool. Cool in beach leekses im understanding in the morning. Throughout the weekend hot yesterday. Made it up to 87 degrees for a high central park. Looks like that general trend is beginning to continue on this well. Good morning everyone heres what we have if youre up and early heading out the door maybe into t