Welcome to today on a friday morning. Its a busy one. Matt has the day off. Carson daly is here. 48 hours after that terror attack in paris, there is a massive operation under way to capture the brothers involved in that massacre. In a small town northeast of paris, very near charles de gualle airport as well. We have two reports to get to Nbcs Lester Holt in paris. We want to start with nbcs bill neely at the scene. Bill what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, savannah. After the massacre and the manhunt now, the siege about five hours ago, the two suspects in that massacre the kouachi brothers were chased to an Industrial Area a few hundred yards from here. They are holding one hostage and totally surrounded by literally hundreds of french antiterrorist police and s. W. A. T. Teams who are moving closer and closer to that building. There is a Hostage Negotiator who has made contact with the two brothers and a french lawmaker says they told police we want to Police Moving around
Winning streak. Catalyst seems to be more news that chinese brokerages have tighter marginal rules raising concerns about regulators having other things up their sleeves. Things to slow down the massive growth weve seen over the last year. Well have a live report in a moment. In the meantime if youre watching the u. S. Equity futures markets were higher yesterday. There is a slight pull back this morning. Dow futures down by 18 points. Apartment Building Futures down by 2 and the nasdaq down by over 8. San francisco fed president jon williams says the central bank likely to start raising Interest Rates later this year. Told a group in singapore that he expects Economic Growth in the u. S. After a weak First Quarter. Also the head of japans central bank telling cnbc he doesnt think a bubble is brewing nor is he worried about where the yen is heading. One says the yen might appreciate but in his words it should move in line with economic fundamentals. Another deal in the works. Avago tec
Joe biden is edging closer to the white house with just a handful of states still counting votes in the president ial election in georgia, one of the key states, mr biden isjust ahead but President Trump remains adamant the democrats are stealing victory. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. Each ballot must be counted. We have no doubt that when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winners. The president has launched legal battles but hasnt presented
any evidence of fraud. Well have the latest live from georgia and washington. Also this lunchtime. Mass covid testing begins across liverpool the army is helping with a Pilot Project to try to find out how far the virus has spread. If it helps get us back to a normal life. Then im happy for anything like that, really. I think its quite pointless because you can invalidate the test ten minutes later. Depending on where you go and
With clinton while she led the state department donated to her Family Charity or pledged to its programs. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as 156 million. At least 40 donated more than 100,000 each and 20 gave more than 1 million each. Today, trumps running mate called it quote, further evidence of pay to play politics. Clintons spokesman responded to the a. P. Report late today. Brian falin said this story relies on utterly flawed data, cherry picked a limited subject subset to give a portrayal of how often she crossed paths with individuals connected to charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation. The data does not account for more than half her tenure as secretary and omitted meetings she took with World Leaders, let alone countless others she took with countless government officials. Thats an interesting comment but it doesnt challenge the actual numbers. We will get to that. Anyway, yesterday trump called for a special prosecutor to look into her actions. No issue be
Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for being with me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin in Southern France where right now the leaders of the g7 summit have gathered now for an official dinner. This is just moments ago. They were gathering outside before going in. See nice friendly kisses there with President Trump and Angela Merkel of germany. This is a rather unique moment of this threeday event when all seven of the leaders of the worlds Major Economies seen together, looks like an image of unity, right . This coming as President Trump sends rather mixed messages over his growing trade war with china. Initially, the president saying he has second thoughts about the escalating standoff with beijing and then later, the white house reversed course saying the president s only regret was not raising tariffs even higher on the chinese. Adding intrigue and confusion amid the global tensions, irans Foreign Ministers surprise arrival at the summit to meet on the sidelines w