That russia is attempting to interfere in the 2020 election . Royal compromise. New details on the queens decision to allow prince harry and Meghan Markle to go their own way. This morning, harrys private moments with the queen. What happened inside the familys emergency summit. And why meghan did not take part. Were live at Buckingham Palace. All that plus baseball bombshell. The Houston Astros manager, and general manager, fired after baseball confirms they cheated on the way to the world series. We cleaned house. Were going to make this right. Storm alert. Al is tracking a powerful system set to spread snow, ice and rain from coasttocoast. And go, tigers. Launching for the end zone. Touchdown. Lsu rolls past clemson to cap off a perfect season. And win College Footballs National Championship, setting off a massive street party in new orleans. Were psyched. As you can see, were psyched. Today, tuesday, january 14th, 2020. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda k
A good thursday morning to you. Craig melvin here. Just this morning new weekly unemployment numbers are out and theyre terrible. More than 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits just last week. So to give you perspective here, thats more than the entire population of missouri. It also doubles the previous weeks 3. 3 million jobless claims, and that was considered a record at the time. It shows just how quickly things are moving. This morning were also watching this, the surge in coronavirus cases here in the United States. Right now more than 217,000 known cases. Thats almost 2,800 more cases than the same time yesterday. So far, the virus has killed more than 4,800 of our fellow americans. Health care workers continue to give us a sobering reality check as our hospitals are slammed with new patients. We are scared of becoming exposed to covid19 and transmitting to other patients and to our families. We see other nurses and doctors dying and people not taking it seriou
Secretary Steve Mnuchin and fed chair Jerome Powell. Before we do that, lets get you caught up on the facts with this pandemic right now. More than 1. 5 million known cases of coronavirus in our country right now so far. Weve lost more than 91,000 americans to the virus. Roughly an hour from now President Trump will be meeting with republicans on capitol hill. He will head to the hill for lunch with republicans. Were watching for that. The president is now also saying that he is taking hydroxychloroquine. Health experts continue that warn that the drug is an unproven form of treatment for covid19. The president says he does not believe he has coronavirus and hes taking the drug after consulting with the white house physician. Were going to dig into that part of the story and more with our doctor on duty who is with us for the hour. Well do that in just a moment. We start today with the hearing that is happening right now, another remote hearing. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, chair
On capitol hill, a live look here as lawmakers are grilling acting dhs secretary kevin mca lienny about the conditions inside those migrant detention facilities and the separation of families. Weve got it all covered, but we start on capitol hill where House Democrats just drew a big line in the sand. You see the speaker there, the podium, microphone, but no reference to the president s continued attacks on four female representatives of color. No questions from reporters, and no mention of the president s rally wednesday night saying this. She looks down with contempt on the hardworking americans saying that ignorance is pervasive in many parts of this country. [ send her back ]. And obviously and importantly, omar has a history of launching vicious antisemit antisemit antisemit antisemit antisemit antisemitic scenes. Screeds. We break this all down. Anna palm he, he politicos senior washington correspondent. Together they are the playbook team. Also with me, former democratic congret