20th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its friday morning. Weve got willie here for matt and a really busy news day. Once again terror is our top story. Theres a hostage situation unfolding right now malis capital. This is after gunmen attacked a Radisson Hotel that is popular with foreigners. We know that president obama who is in malaysia right now on separate travel has been briefed by his National Security adviser on this situation, and, of one week after those attacks in paris. We want to get right to nbcs ron mott following developments. Ron, what can you tell us . Reporter hey, savannah, good morning to you. Details are still thin at this hour but heres what we know. The hotel is on lockdown. Some hostages have reportedly been freed. The malian military is on scene and setting up a security perimeter around the hotel and may have already entered a
Could be inspired to carry out attacks right here in the u. S. And backlash. Republican frontrunner donald trump under fire this morning after voicing support for a controversial plan to require all muslims in america to register on a government database. I would certainly implement, that absolutely. Critics are comparing that idea to what happened in nazi germany as the president threatened a veto of cook tough new measure on Syrian Refugees 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its friday morning. Weve got willie here for matt and a really busy news day. Once again terror is our top story. Theres a hostage situation unfolding right now malis capital. This is after gunmen attacked a Radisson Hotel that is popular with foreigners. We know that president obama who is in malaysia right now on separate travel has been briefed by his National Security adviser on
Just ahead, isis issuing new threats against the white house, and the fbi reveals its tracking dozens of people who could be inspired to carry out attacks right here in the u. S. And backlash. Republican frontrunner donald trump under fire this morning after voicing support for a controversial plan to wequire all muslims in america to register on a government database. I would certainly implement, that absolutely. Critics are comparing that idea to what happened in nazi germany as the president threatened a veto of cook tough new measure on Syrian Refugees today, friday, november 20th, 2015. Annou er fromrebc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from st dio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its friday morning. Weve got willie here for matt and a really busye news day. Once again terror is our top story. Theres a hostage situation unfolding right now malis capital. This is after nmen attacked a Radisson Hotel that is popular th
That . Next on booktv miram powell talks about the cofounder and president cesar chavez. She spoke at the san antonio book festival in texas for 45 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. Today we are very fortunate to have a special guest with us. I am a former book editor in the san Antonio Express news and i work for many years in los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times. Ive written for the los angeles review of books and im on the board of directors of the book critics circle. Im also the author of a book of poetry. Miriam pawal is the public surprise winning attitude that spent 25 years working at news of a and the Los Angeles Times. Her book is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader and shes also written the union of their dreams a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of the united farm workers unit. She recently received a National Endowment for the humanities fellowship to support her work on the biography. Please welcome miriam pa
Happy friday. I am Melissa Frances. A lot of headlines to go up to speed. Do jpmorgan ignore the warnings . After new Senate Report after the huge trading loss. Melissa and other mechanical problem with Carnival Cruise lines the third in a month. Lori what is your vice . All day we look at the business of vice. Melissa we have the brains behind the medical marijuana vending machines is is the future prescription drugs as well . Lori en you may like the wings but we know what you like hooters. [laughter] with the famous american brand going overseas. Melissa lets head to Nicole Petallides at New York Stock Exchange it is down 37 points on the session. Still a winning week with eight consecutive sessions were up 10 Straight Days and today is one where it takes a little breather now where it goes over the line 50 times but has been under pressure for some time. The s p 500 is slightly lower but we have Consumer Sentiment in they are feeling bleak and as were getting get it is quadruple wi