Face heavy rain, hail, and possible tornadoes. And that brutal heat wave not over. Well have the latest forecast. All that, plus, survival story. A plane crash off the california coast, and the couple films the whole thing. There she goes. A rare, up close look at a remarkable rescue. Summer of sharks. How a string of sightings in one of the most popular beach spots in the nation is taking a serious bite out of business. And hot and bothered. The major coffee chain rolling out Pumpkin Spice coffee drinks in the heat of summer. It is so good. Im sweating my face off, and i dont want Pumpkin Spice. Leaving a nation divided. Today, wednesday, august 21st, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. At the top for us this morning, we have the story of the president deciding not to go to denmark after all. He called off his state visit
Opec meeting, psych cyber monday today. The benchmark yield around 2. 33. Our road map begins with the holiday return of the consumer black friday sales topped 5 billion. Cyber monday expected to set online records. Retailers are in the spotlight. Futures flat ahead of the first full trading day ahead of thanksgiving. And the Koch Brothers making a big bet on magazines, backing a meredith bid to buy time inc. Adob bee analysts expects consumers to spend 6. 6 billion this cyber monday. That would be up more than 16 from a year ago and bigger number than the 5 billion adobe says was spent online on friday. We talked about colder weather, and lean er inconvenienventorie reports that in store traffic was down maybe a percent, maybe a little more, but not dramatically. Thats a good test of exactly how low expectations had been for basically physical scores. They dont look like they will broadly give back the pop they had on friday. So many things working in the background in favor of having
Taxes, why do we lower tax rates for everybody and pay yearround but we are working with our high tax lawmakers to make sure they are real relief. The latest for tax reform this morning. Take a look, dow industrial opening up 30 points. Fraction points. Fractional mode as the nasdaq and s p 500 on the green. In europe, major averages also higher. Cac in paris at the corner of a percent as is the dex in germany this morning. A shadow over across the board. 1. 5 . Crisis in bali. Residents were told to flee erupting volcano ash into the sky. Flights have been canceled in the country expands the socalled danger zone. Meredith has acquired time, owner of Better Homes Gardens reaching a deal to acquire the for 2 billion. We break down the deal backed by the alien or Koch Brothers coming up. Bitcoin shining cover prices surging 9000 over the weekend, nearly 1000 gain this year alone. How high can this currency climbed . Taking a look this morning. Buckingham palace announcing the heartthrob
Has been paying too much attention to military you know solutions but i hope the us will pay more attention to the peaceful solution to the north Korean Nuclear problem. In america a College Degree requires a great deal. Paying a decades on debt. And studying so hard it requires trust just. Going through humiliation to enter an elite society. And paci into debt sometimes quite literally. Wants other true colors of universities in the us. To politicking im talking with lanny davis the former white House Counsel of president bill clinton and the author of the new book the unmaking of the president twenty sixteen how f. B. I. Director james comey caused Hillary Clinton the presidency he joins me from new york gave this good in the title basically how did he cost her the presidency when everyone thinks its wisconsin and pennsylvania that cost of the presidency well what cost her pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin and a number of other states i dont make an argument i dont use adjectives o
Military doc i dont think i dont. Ok listen i like the doctrine im not convinced however that it would always guide russian behavior i want to get back to the world youre describing where the United States and russia are both very clear that they dont feel each other as adversaries and they dont envision needing these weapons against believing that thats the world we should be reading that report is very adversarial i mean almost every few paragraphs its very adversarial i mean im sorry michael but it was directed against the United States in china ok ten seconds before we go to the break go ahead michael. It was directed against russia and china youre right and i agree that its a unfortunate state but i think it was brought about brought upon largely by perceived russian aggressiveness in this domain whether you agree with that perception or not thats what ok well so were going to go to a break here but i want to point out to our viewers that it was in russia that overthrew the legiti