Police now saying david ortiz was the target of an 800 hit. This morning the video of the shooting and the overnight arrest connected to the case. And a stanford coach avoids prison time in the collegeio admissns scam. My actions were wrong. I see that now. Will it iact the case of lo Lori Loughlin. A knox back t, ama in italy. Why she returned to the place she vowed the never woulsp and the irit of st. Louis. The st. Louis blues win stanley cup. The first team in history. And it sets off one of the biggest parties that city has seen. 2019. Y, june 13th, announcer this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a thursday morning. Its a first fort. Louis bringing home the stanley cup. They are bleeding blue down in st. Louis this morning. Again, halfway through theas se, the blues last in their division. Cinderella story, indeed. More on that in a bit. Hats history now. Lets get to this breaking
And we are just going to bring you to the europe sentiment data. The number was previously at 103. 2. Its coming at 104 for november. The expectation index has come in at sorry, im just going to get that one. Its come in at 99. 7 against a previous index of 111. 0. We are going to bring in the chief economist here to show us this is a pretty big surprise. This is a very important data point for two reasons. First of all, the economic weakness in europe over the last six, seven months has been largely germany. Positive germans are the turnaround we need. And the german weakness itself was focused on business investment. Investment is driven by expectations. And now that we have our sixth month of decline, it does show that business can start to go up begin at the end of this year and in the First Quarter next year. So these data suggest the worst could be over. Of course, its just one month. We have to wait for confirmation, but it is a very positive sign. Does this also indicate that i