Face heavy rain, hail, and possible tornadoes. And that brutal heat wave not over. Well have the latest forecast. All that, plus, survival story. A plane crash off the california coast, and the couple films the whole thing. There she goes. A rare, up close look at a remarkable rescue. Summer of sharks. How a string of sightings in one of the most popular beach spots in the nation is taking a serious bite out of business. And hot and bothered. The major coffee chain rolling out Pumpkin Spice coffee drinks in the heat of summer. It is so good. Im sweating my face off, and i dont want Pumpkin Spice. Leaving a nation divided. Today, wednesday, august 21st, 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. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. At the top for us this morning, we have the story of the president deciding not to go to denmark after all. He called off his state visit
With these escalations. Bigpresident throws a threat out there. The chinese respondent they will not take it lying down. Then we go into the mystery of when they will respond. Will the president follow through on his threat . Weve had a string fromesting rhetoric coming the white house. Larry kudlow is trying to softpedal this a little bit. On tariffs will go in september 1. They are raising china raising agricultural purchases. In talking to the white house yesterday and people close to the talks, you get a sense there is a bigger breakdown in terms of mistrust with the chinese. You heard it there from the president. Byfears he is getting played his friend who doesnt want to do a deal at the speed the president wants. Kevin how much of this is about the issue of intellectual property and forced transfers . It seems like the breakdown has more to do with the trust on ip. Its really interesting. The dispute is about intellectual property, what the white house says is the longstanding th
The real surprise was the pathetic action in the slowdown stock. We got powerful evidence the Global Economy is deteriorating and the stocks that should be rallying, they rolled over let me walk you through this one. Last time we got devastating news from basf its a german enterprise thats the Largest Companies on earth they make pesticides, consumer products, practically everything it was a very, very big deal when this Gigantic Company said they might need to slash the fouryear earnings forecast by 30 . Ouch what did they site for the outlook . Weak car sales and crop sales and our trade war with china it was a truck back and also a powerful reminder the trade conflict hurts more than american and Chinese Companies the damage is spilling all over the rest of the world. Now we got real concern, real reason to be worried while the Federal Reserve believes business is strong, something that chief powell might opine upon, the weak forecast from chemical giant basf suggestions that the Gl
Can start gaining access to them ballots, which weve done. But Super Tuesday was yesterday. Im sure enough. It is trump and biden. So were at The Moment Of Truth and were ready for it. Were right on schedule. Were going to ask the delegates on friday, you want us to go forward . To do some final surveying of Public Opinion because weve said were not going to do this unless we have a chance to win. Were not going to be spoilers. And then we will make a recommendation to these same delegates if we decide to go forward are really unique by partisan unity Ticket Thinking Trump in rfk junior, pardon all with us jill stein. And i totally different bipartisan ticket and i was about to mention all those other names because those are really going to matter in a lot of states, at least at this point that seems very clear. Rfk junior polls steadily and strongly nationally nikki haley has said that she would not run on your ticket, but shes shes been very clear about that. Heres a couple of her su
Thats tomorrow right here on the source. Thank you for joining us tonight. King charles starts now thank, you. Okay. Mr. Barak a cnn studio in New York City. Its king charles. Were not going to waste your time. No. Gayle king. And say, but you can call me gail and Charles Barkley. I probably the night cnns own van jones author and Podcaster Coleman Hughes and from the New York Times, Wesley Morris, in j work them king charles starts now let. Me go and rainy night in New York City but we dont let the rain stopped was do we turn ill pop the be here tonight that if this morning i said, i wonder what charles is going to where you were grayson, look, charles in our 20 tonight. Oh, you look right, gail. You look great deal. I dont know if you know, normally, you know, were sitting here and we dont make the news, but this past week, charles, i dont know. But youve been in the news for some comments you made on our last show. Do you remember do your which he said, i do remember what i said. Ok