The impact for the entire planet and the bitter dispute over who is to blame. All that, plus, elevator tragedy. A horrifying accident kills a man in his new york city highrise. Boycott . Controversy over sean spicer joining dancing with the stars. What hes saying to his critics. And lining up. Our biggest crowd of the year has tu name in music right now. Lizzo is here to do her thing. Today, friday, august 23rd, 2019 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza hi, everybody. Good morning welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a friday morning that is a crowd. To steal a line you used earlier, it is going to be lit it is the crowd has been lined up around 6th avenue and 52nd street theres lizzo. Lizzo doing her sound check right now. Hair toss, check your nails the concert will start in a few minutes. Shes a phenomenon in music right now. I think we were a little surprised. We were. People wrapped around the
Contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ago, janetw days yellen held her First Press Conference telling us how she plans to guide the nations fiscal future. Joining us now for an assessment is former labor secretary robert reich who is now a professor of Public Policy at uc berkeley and author of aftershock. , good to haveh you back on this program. What did you make of Janet Yellens First Press Conference . What did you make of the aftershocks that hit wall street . There is not that much that the fed can do to stimulate the economy. The fed under ben bernanke has done a great deal, just about all he can do to bring longterm Interest Rates down, keep shortterm Interest Rates down. Janet yellen delivered the news that wall street was afraid of hearing. ,ventually, that bolstering keeping Interest Rates down, cannot continue infinitely. She is going to allow Interest Rates to rise. That is what ben bernanke was doing at the end of his tenure. She is going to