With a promise, to give away 99 of his facebook fortune. The 45 million going to make the world a better place for his baby and other children. And let there be light. The worlds most famous Christmas Tree just hours away from lighting up Rockefeller Center today, wednesday, december 2nd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, 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 wednesday morning. Big day here in Rockefeller Center. Going to be an even bigger night when about 300,000 people pack the streets behind us. They are all counting on one thing. Thats al rokers forecast for tonight, hoping there wont be rain when that Beautiful Tree gets all lit up. Al . Going to be nice. Were hoping that it is. You know what happens if that switch gets wet. Yeah, a lot of disappointed folks. Well check in with al to get the forecast in a little while. Lets start with our top story on a wednesday morning. Days aft
Assistant direct i know one of the Big Questions that will come up repeatedly is is this terrorism . And i am still not willing to say that we know that for sure. We are definitely making some movements that it is a possibility. We are making some adjustments to our investigation. It is a possibility. But we dont know that yet. And were not willing to go down that road yet. David, the relationship between the two dead suspects . Unknown at this point. How old approximately are they . I do not even know that. This is what about the third suspect . There was talk of a third suspect. There is a third suspect. And i dont know the disposition of that suspect. I would defer that question to the chief. What i will tell you on any indications of terrorism are this investigation, and i told a few of you already, we will go where the evidence takes us. Its possible it goes down that road. Its also possible it does not. Were just not sure yet. And when we are fairly sure we will let you know. Dav
Restrictions. Its up to each state to decide when and how to lift any restrictions. President trump says he wants it to start happening two weeks from now, may 1st, even sooner in some places. Well talk to dr. Birx about that, as well as whether the federal government is able to provide tools with widespread testing to do it safely without risk a second wave of the outbreak. Also tonight democratic president ial front runner and former Vice President joe biden. Plus were going to talk with facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg along with his wife, debra chan, and how facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative are working to combat the virus. At the bottom of our screen, you can tweet us your questions with cnntownhall. You can leave a comment on the cnn facebook page. A lot of you have written in questions. Well try to get to as microphone othose as we can. Were going to start right where the country is now, as new cases are plateauing, even going down in some spots. But at the same time t
Safely. Former Vice President joe biden and we will talk with Mark Zucker Berg along with his wife and how the zuckerbergs and chance are working to help fight coronavirus. A lot of you have sent in video questions and we will try to get to as many of those as we can. We have reports from around the country and world on the fight of the virus and the effort to get back to business. We are going to start where the country is now as new cases are plateauing, even going down in some key hot spots. But the death toll keeps climbing. It is doubling since our last meeting. We are getting new details on what life will look like when things begin to reopen. The president continues to suggest may 1, just a few weeks from now. The cdc director warns we should expect a second wave of Coronavirus Infections in the fall. There are now more than 650,000 cases of coronavirus in the United States, more than 32,000 people have died in less than two months since the first death. There are signs the case
But, several governors are joining Business Leaders and Public Health experts in making it clear none of this can happen before there is widespread testing. Thats exactly right. And that seems to be having an impression on the president. They say the only way they can get their employees back to work is to know who is safe from the virus and who is not. The most difficult thing we face is the testing kit supplies for the testing. And this is a huge frustration for all of us. The more testing, the more open the economy. But there is not enough National Capacity to do this. When have we heard that before, right . It is a huge issue, in response the white house often promotes the overall number of tests done, 3. 3 million given so far in the u. S. Health experts say we need to know something different. We need to see that kind of number each week, maybe even each day. So were nowhere close. Until then, without a vaccine, there will be no grand reopening, no quote unquote back to normal. T