Well. Your open after the long Holiday Weekend. Free markets also opening in the green. Asia overnight markets mixed through the shanghai down nearly 1 print the rest of the indices actually higher. Bitcoin bouncing back to the crypto currency was sent cramming for the First Time Since the massive selloff. Investors to question will will be asking this morning. Digging out from the snow is serving in the new year bringing up to four feet of snow. They finally let out the hard. A harrowing journey from lax. Model chrissie tighes life treats her eight hour flight to nowhere. The nonauthorized passenger boards the wrong flight pay with me this morning, democratic strategist and Fox News Contributor jess guitar log. James freeman and chief strategist michael fox. Good morning. Weve all had our coffee, right . I could use the diet coke. I think youre pretty jazzed up about the stories this morning. I love infrastructure. [laughter] cheryl i could feel the excitement about infrastructure. Ch
Theyd won the lottery until they were told about the error that meant they might not get paid. And a new view of what the office of the future might look like with a keyboard and some goggles you interact with holograms. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im craig melvin in for lester. In late december its supposed to be cold, but tonight its downright ridiculous. Now the swath of subzero temperatures stretching across much of this country could even affect your new years eve plans. In many areas, though, the story continues to be the relentless snow. In erie, pennsylvania, nearly 5 1 2 feet has fallen in just four days. Its so bad there the airport was shut down, the National Guard called up and the mail even stopped. Thats where we start tonight with nbcs ron allen. Reporter more snow fell on erie, pennsylvania, again all hands on deck at the Emergency Center struggling to clear roads and keep residents safe. Ever seen anything like this . Not really. Reporter c
Also on the calendar, this years state of the Union Address from President Trump before a joint session of congress. As always, you can watch the house live on cspan and see the senate on our companion network cspan 2. Next testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. And updating the criminal background check system. The measure proposed banning bump stock and similar devices. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee. She introduced the legislation. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by an evil man in las vegas and southern springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in t
Provider. Next, testimony from officials with the atf and the air force on proposed firearm regulations. And updating the criminal background check system. The measure proposes banning bump stocks and similar devices that enable guns to fire as fast as an automatic weapon. Senator Dianne Feinstein is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee. She introduced the legislatio and thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts of an evil man in las vegas and Sutherland Springs and those two places get all the attention, but theres lesser numbers of people who have died other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1st, 2017, few americans knew what a bump stock was. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1,100 rounds into a crowd attending a
Good morning everybody. And thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil men in las vegas and southern springs, and those two places get all the attention, but there is lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1st, 2017, few americans new whatknew what a b stock was. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only ten minutes. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire oammunition as i he had used an automatic weapon. 58 people died. 500 wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in our history. Our laws prohibit the manufacturer of machine guns, for decades and decades thats been the case, and greatly restrict their sale.