Toxic chemical. What you need to watch out for just ahead. Breaking overnight. Federal agents use tear gas on protesters in portland, oregon. Among them, the citys own mayor. While the president announces federal forces are being sent to other cities, like chicago, to deal with the surge in violence. Well have the very latest. Wild weather. Damaging wind and rain up and down the east coast. Thousands without power. The statue of liberty struck by lightning. This morning, a Tropical Storm watch for the texas coast, with another storm in the atlantic poised to become a hurricane today. All that, plus, the boys of summer are back. Didnt miss that one. Watched that one sail over the fence. Baseball fans coast to coast getting set to celebrate opening day. Today, thursday, july 23rd, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody. Welcome to today. So happy that youre joining us on this thursday morning.
Thanks so much for joining me yeah thanks for having me so youre doing excellent journalism and one of the topics that i think youre one of the best on is julian assigns so i wanted to start off with talking about him obviously theres always developments in whats going on with him the continued persecution of joined us on recently they added extra indictments more indictments they added on a few weeks ago i mean there were already 17 indictments 17 or 18 by the Justice Department against him what the hell are they adding on to and whats the point of. Theyre just window dressing theyre trying to make their case look better but it really rests upon this Conspiracy Theory that theyve never been able to prove that julian assad and recruited Chelsea Manning to work for wiki leaks and she was inside the pentagon systems acting as some kind of spy and truly wasnt a military whistleblower and in effect the reason why we saw this superseding indictment where theyre now criminalizing not just ju
Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im
Asked for clarification after your announces a controversial dam on the blue nile is being filled. By major hack of twitter fake messages appear on some of the most followed accounts including bill gates barack obama and a long mass. So the Coronavirus Crisis in the United States is growing worse as the man leading the fight faces political pressure over his warnings the u. S. Set another record on tuesday with 67000. 00 new infections top Infectious Disease expert dr anthony is urging the white house to stop trying to discredit him and focus on tackling the pandemic in latin america brazils president giant also are he says hes tested positive for a 2nd time as the country nears a 2000000 cases and 75000 deaths because certain about the wider effects of the pandemic are easing in china its economy grew 3. 2 percent in the last quarter after shrinking the most in nearly 50 years in the 1st 3 months of the year or my kind of begins our coverage from washington d. C. With more on dr phil
Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off again we are about 111 points up now s p 500 looking to open about 11 points higher. Flip is around and show you we are at. 952. Still under the six handle i always wonder what the bond vigilantes are thinking now relative to our little equity world. Worth noting we are still 3 well away from the february record highs some highlights. The ceo of Tractor Supply, auto nation venture capitalist, treasury secretary mnuchin, house leader and twitter ceo. A huge lineup straight ahead thats a big show yeah. You guys always have a big show but this is particularly large. For you because you are here people said, melissa will be on book her i think they wanted to do it for you but i think they were scared if they didnt do it of me thats the feeling they got they didnt want to disappoint you. I doubt it thats nice to say but i doubt it im not a scarey person. Im not. Maybe to you nows this morning out of washington. Reaching Comm