The frantic rescue attempt, the failed effort and how the pair was finally freed today tuesday, september 7, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today. On a tuesday morning. Like some of us, our set had a little work. A little face lift. We spruced up a little bit. Take a look around. Some of the spots youll be seeing throughout the day. Theres the orange room where the girls can fix a cracked screen on your iphone. Well show you around as the show progresses. Lets get to our top story. The president ial campaign entering a new postlabor day phase and this morning much of the talk is focused on a guy who isnt even in the race, Vice President joe biden. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander is in washington. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Even more for the Vice President to think about this morning. Consider this. The latest nbc maris poll, trump woul
Sees the annual bellringing ceremony and a step inside carvers new edition. This year 120 seventh and eighth grader begin their year at this s. T. E. M. Magnet. Its a little overwhelming for her. H 60 days and no budget in harrisburg. Philadelphia has not received over 4 million in education funding. Superintendent dr. William hite says schools opened with the same resources as last year. We will get to a point as much of the schools across the commonwealth and run out of cash. Reporter when do you start chewing on your fingernails . Around the end of october. Reporter and just in time for end of year holidays. The superintendent says they may have to look at costcutting measures. Well look at that coming up at 11 30. The First Charter School in Delaware County, William Penns Charter School opened in morning. Vision academy Charter School in lansdowns. Todays the first day of school for thousands of Catholic School students in our area. We were at st. Margaret in arlington this morning
You can see oil prices pulling back about 27 cents, still just about 89 for wti crude. We will have a live report from our nbc colleagues on the ground in the middle east coming up in the next half hour. Lets talk about some of the main market events of the morning. Actually today fed chairman Ben Bernankes speech at the economics sclub of new york is coming up at 12 15 eastern time. Traders will be listening no any comments on the Central Banks operation twist program and discussions about changing how the fed communicates about Interest Rates. Operation twist expires next month. And there is some speculation the fed will continue making asset purchases by expanding the size of its 40 billion a month quantitate of it easing program. Also on the economic agenda today, october Housing Starts released at 8 30 a. M. Analysts looking for a decline in new building despite a steady stream of positive news on housing lately. Yesterday the National Association of Home Builders said the confide
Understand most of the time. Maybe thats true. Most of the time theres someone on the legislators staff who understands it. Thats not necessarily the case with intelligence bill. On the senate side you have one dedicated staffer who is clear, who can talk to their boss about these things. On the house side they are pretty dependent on the committee staff. For example sessen brenner who wrote freedom acts bill is completely cut out of the negotiations with the administration over what to include in the final version of the reform bill. This is nothing i reported, in cq. He didnt have sufficient security clearance. You have a situation where you have some legislators for one reason or another may not be the best prepared to grasp these particular issues, who dont have the necessary staff to help them grasp it. Theres another aspect to this, too. I think its a little harder for the public and for the media to grasp it as well. Its not like health insurance. Health care policies are very c
Im not competing with anyone. Your brain starts to wither away. We have a lot of good experience at that just by taking a look at whats happening in politics. I tell you what, he needs to get out of the basement, mika. Is he okay . I guess they rushed him down to the bunker more than he expected because i was thinking one of these things where it was projection or confession. Looks like confession there. You remember those books about the kids that lived in the attic. I guess we have a president that lives in in the basement and that was a cry for help. My gosh, the mind just yeah, its not doing well. I think he had a very bad day yesterday well talk about things let me ask you this. Okay. Go ahead, ask me. I can always tell okay. Because i try not to watch his press conferences in real time. I do. You turn on all the tvs in the house and you connect it and turn it up to 11. I do not. And i either flee, like put on my headphones and listen to the imperials greatest hits. You have to lo