Hospital director at the epicenter of the outbreak in china dies from the virus. Hes in. Michael bloomberg makes the cut to join his democratic rivals in wednesdays night debate. The new poll out this morning that has the former new york city mayor ahead of joe biden. And frontrunner Bernie Sanders surging. Those stories plus chapter 11, the boy scouts of america file for bankruptcy overnight amid a wave of sexual abuse lawsuits from coast to coast. I want my childhood back. I want my adulthood back. Could this mark the beginning of the end for an American Institution . Hanging in the balance, Harvey Weinsteins fate in the hands of a jury as they get the case against the disgraced movie mogul today. And the Leaning Tower of dallas. A demolition gone wrong in texas has residents saying who needs to go to pisa . Announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome everybody to today. Thank you for joining us on this
Public. Bottoms way up. In our rising costs series we take you from barley farms to bars to find out why alcohol prices have drinkers o over a barrel. All of this for a penny of beer . A penny of beer. Its tuesday, february 18th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener. Boy scouts of america is facing mounting legal costs from defending itself agaist lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. The boy scouts of america files for bankruptcy. We know there are thousands of perpetrators in scouts. The enormity of the problem is finally coming to light. [ cheers ] Michael Bloomberg will appear on tomorrows debate stage in nevada. Hes just been doing events and avoiding the press. Tomorrow nights going to be exciting now. Reporter it will be another two weeks of fear for more than 300 quarantined americans possibly infected with coronavirus. We have had no food this morning. Were starting to get cranky. Reporter mississippi flooding forced hundreds of people to flee their homes. More rain is in the forecast, and
Coronavirus methodology. Reporter when chinas lack of transparency may have cost lives. She says that example is shaping how officials are sharing information about the coronavirus. One of the most important lessons in any Public Health situation is communicate. People crave information. It, someone else will. Reporter dr. Gerberding, who now works at pharmaceutical giant merck says while Public Health experts look to Hightech Solutions in the lab to fight the coronavirus, theyve also learned that protecting the public starts with a low tech approach. We have disease detectives who are going out and interviewing patients, interviewing their contacts, really trying to tease out clue by clue how do they get exposed and how fast is it spreading. And there have been a lot of lessons learned, right, from sars and zika andh1n1. Each time hi, im jonathan, a manager here at Colonial Penn Life Insurance company. And with Coverage Options starting at just 9. 95 a month, you can get a whole Life
Even, this was hovering a little north of 1200. Through crises and noncrises alike gold continued to steady climb you really cant ignore. What is interesting this is spread across a lot of the commodities. Look at silver front, up an additional 2 3s of a percent. Here is eyepopping. Palladium, so crucial in manufacturing processes, futures market close up to 5 . That is alltime high for palladium prices at 2442 an ounce. Well get into that in more detail. One thing for investors to hedge their bets, go into bonds and all, this Development Goes on regardless of crisis mentality of coronavirus virus. Particularly when it comes to gold. Now to pa late yum. Well get into that in a second. As we rifle through big numbers. Susan li on i latest trend producing them. Susan neil, shock across markets. Floodgates according to one analyst because of impact of coronavirus. Apple warning they will not meet sales targets because factories are closed in china because of the coronavirus. Workers are s
On the frontline of chinas coronavirus battle im in london with the top stories from europe including some of the most intense fighting in ukraine since the peak of the conflict means one soldier on the Peace Process race. And im far a smile after all the days sport including a reality check for the new Australian Open champion american 50 a candidate loses her 1st deputy to one match following her triumph in melbourne. But when talks resumes in geneva earlier to get a lasting cease fire in the bia the un envoy said he was feeling some mystic but 2200 kilometers away smoke has been rising above libyas capital further threatening the existing truce thats on most accounts is hanging by a thread diplomat scared sir james bays begins our coverage. The ports in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general have to us forces carried out the indiscriminate strikes about the same time that 5 of his representatives sat down at the u. N. In geneva for talks with 5 from the g. N. A. T. The inte