I call it transition to greatness. Mothers day weekend mess. Bitter cold and wintry weather, even snow this morning for the plains, to the east coast. More than 125 Million People feeling the chill with some places even colder than they were on Christmas Day. Will it warm up by tomorrow for mom . Dylan is back with your forecast. All that, plus remembering the real tiger king. Roy horn after the legendary duo Siegfried Roy dead at the age of 75 after contracting coronavirus. From his vegas stage show, the tiger attack he survived, well look back at his imagine al life today, saturday, may 9, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. We thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. It is a big saturday morning because we could not be happier to welcome back our friend dylan from maternity leave. Welcome back and just in time for mothers day. Just in time for mothers day. Just in time for cold weather. I did
From our archives, with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Mccullough. He has appeared on booktv more than 50 times. All of the programs youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org, using the search function at the top of the page. First, in 1992 on the book notes Program David mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The attempted assassination, a number of president s of been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . Guest just wasnt. Why would there be a pension . Pension for everybody else but opens and for president , he had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly, which dean addison cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown it doesnt mean he didnt have any money, he did have money but needed some ca
Still hovering at just 16 a barrel in the futures market the ceo of the oil and gas Drilling Company pattersonuti energy will be here. That as another 4. 4 million of americans file for jobless claims in just one more week bringing the total to more than 26 million in the past five weeks. Its a stunning number well dig into it. Kelly, over to you tyler, thanks its been a volatile day in the market after the gilead report hit the requires about an hour ago. Lets get to bob for more. Kelly, i want to show you the s p 500. There may be conflicting reports about what it said the market viewed it as disappointing. T there was a very sharp drop in the s p 500. We lost about 35 points. Were now below 3,000. Thats a significant drop. Reports that the remdesivir trials were not good look at this exxon and chevron just keep chugging along although pretty low levels for them. I want to remind everybody how Many Companies withdrawing guidance theres many, many every day now. Today, we saw pulte, U
Why wouldnt the government have protections . It just wasnt done why wouldnt the government have a pension for officers and everybody else and not the president in fact he had very little money he had to borrow money quite secretly to pay for the move back home. This is not well known a doesnt mean he didnt have money but he needed cash to cover all of the expenses to move out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide income he undertook the writing of his by autobiography in memoirs which no other president had ever done except for Herbert Hoover but his time was much briefer than trumans and his covered far more tumultuous history. So to undertake the twovolume that more was a major and ambitious task. And then he built his library. Now it was a previous president ial library but it was established after he died in officer truman was the first one to officiate over the president ial library and again he was beginning something one of the things i try to emphasize in t
Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t