Accommodation. The road map begins with the third best quarter ever for starbucks, and chairman and Ceo Howard Schultz will join us. We will break down the numbers and see what is brewing for the future. And amazons negative surprise as they have a quarterly loss loss hit by big spending at the company. And plus, we are an hour away for the arraignment of Steven Cohens sac capital and we will take you live to the courthouse when that happens. First up, starbucks up sharply, and the coffee chain says it earned 55 cents a share in the fiscal third. And same sales remained the same as the expanded menu offerings drove traffic and rose the year guidance and we will have an exclusive interview with the starbucks Ceo Howard Schultz, and jim, the metric of the day, 9 comps in the u. S. People it is hard to get your head around that. Well, these guys have 19,000 stores. I know, 19,000 stores, and glob globally they did fantastic and the operating margins up 25 income points and 13 increase in
Mark. Reporter good evening President Trump is at camp daiftd this weekend hes due back in washington tomorrow only hours before the senate is expected to get back to work as well. The house has postponed its planls to return at least for right now citing Health Concern and last night human and Health Services offered to deploy Rapid Testing kits to hill but now this is rare both parties are say thanks but no thanks we have with a joint statement from leader mcconnell and House Speaker nancy pelosi showing testing capacities scale up nationwide and Congress Want toes direct resources to frontline facilities where they can do most good the most quickly. Now white house spokesperson said today thats fine the administration trying to help and administration defending its decision not to sending dr. Anthony fauci up to capitol hill to testify before the house. Fauci no surprise is has become a household name since the pandemic began, House Democrats say they invited him to testify before a
Government silencing doctors and refusing to provide samples to scientists working a vaccine. The president has traveled to camp david. Its his first time leaving the white house in a month. We begin with Mark Meredith. Mark . Reporter President Trump spent saturday on the phone with World Leaders including those from pan ma and paraguay. The investigation how the pandemic started is a focus. The majority of u. S. Intelligence agencies believe the virus did begin in a lab in china, wuhan. But Officials Say they are still compiling the information and there is no smoking gun just yet. President trump a lot of things are happening with respect to china. This is a bad situation. All over the world 182 countries. But well be having a lot the lot to say about that. Reporter we are expecting to get later this week the jobs report for april. It comes out in early may. There are some predictions from the white house suggesting the Unemployment Rate could jump from 16 to 19 percent. You will se
Are allowing some businesses to reopen this weekend, it is the biggest push so far to try and get our economy back on track. The move comes amid rising tensions over the stay at home orders that have been leading to protests across the country even though some states notably florida, mississippi and texas, they saw their highest oneday totals and deaths from coronavirus this week and gallup, new mexico remains shut off because of the virus. White house economic adviser warning that the financial fallout will still be felt for some time even as the u. S. Economy slowly turns back to life. You are going see a very big increase in the unemployment rate, very big decline as larry kudlow mentioned, Second Quarter gdp but most forecasters expect the second half to rebound from that and the sooner we get going, the more likely that that the true. Eric Steve Harrigan with the very latest from the cdc, hi, steve. Steve eric, a rare bright spot. Fda on friday gave rapid emergency approval to rem
Most sensitive personal information. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west. True to predictions its getting nasty on the campaign trail in south carolina. As donald trump lobbed another socalled birther attack today, threatening to sue ted cruz for, quote, not being a natural born citizen if cruz doesnt, as trump puts it, clean up his act. As that battle is just one of several fronts opening up as the gop candidates sharpen their attacks on each other. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is on the trail in greenville, south carolina. Reporter republican frontrunner donald trump is now leaving a new signature on this race, threatening to sue his closest rival, ted cruz, for not being a natural born citizen. On twitter, the billionaire calling the texas senator a liar for running negative ads against him. Theres more than a little irony in donald accusing anyone of being na