Are. Its been a big week for Central Banks well round up the weeks events with our Business Editor simonjack. Spending on halloween is expected to hit a record 9. 1bn in the us this year. Today we want to know is it scary how much people are spending . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Thursday was a huge day for Technology Company results. Four of the big global tech giants reported their latest earnings. Alphabet googles Parent Company, microsoft and twitter all posted their key numbers. But lets start with a look at amazon. The retailer reported revenues of almost 41 billion in the three months between july and september. Thats a jump of 34 over the same period last year. But profits were virtually unchanged since last year. Thats because this is often the quarter when amazon chooses to pile a bunch of money into its own projects like tech gadgets, streaming video and warehouses. The company has operated on this model for years and it seems to have
Police are saying that one slide been hospitalized with life threat tension injuries. Another in the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. But Warren Street here in roxbury is still blocked off because of the accident. Im byron barnett, 7news. Making news on a deadly crash in wilmington. Witnesses are saying a driver hit and killed a pedestrian before plowing into two more cars in a parking lot. For this, lets go to 7s kimberlykm kim, Police Telling us the victim was a 52yearold wop, standing right at the entrance of the rite aid right there. Its at the intersection of route 38 and route 129 when witnesses say a female driver blew through a red light and hit her. Police say the vehicle struck two other cars. No one was in either of those cars. Police say the pedestrian who was hit was taken by an ambulance to lehi hospital where the driver of the car that hit her was also taken for medical treatment. The rite aid is right next door to a mcdonalds where an employee manning the driv
Kate middleton arrive in new york city. After a chilly night on the town they are going their separate ways today monday, december 8, 2014. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on monday. Weve got a lot of royal action going on. The royals arrived. William is going to washington, d. C. Today. Kate will be here in new york city and then they convene tonight at a basketball game where they see king james. Lebron james, cavaliers playing the nets. They are going to sit next to jayz and beyonce. Will lord be the singing royals. All comes together. First we want to get to our top story. An intense fire in los angeles thats created huge problems for commuters. The flames so intense they could be seen for miles away. Look at the live scene now where the debris is smoldering. Hallie jackson is there, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. T
After a chilly night on the town theyre going their separate ways today, monday, december 8th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Hi, gang. Hi. How are you doing . Hi. You make it sound so ominous, theyre going their separate ways, will and kate. No, because theyre off to do separate things. Theyre going to see lebron james play at the Barclay Center and sitting next to jayz and beyonce. Shall we call him king james . And queen bee. Its like willy wonkas Golden Ticket everywhere they go. First to todays top story. Thats right, thats the imminent release of a damning report in the wake of 9 11. One official warning it will lead to violence and death in troubled spots around the world. Andrea mitchell is nbcs chief foreign correspondent. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. Embassies and military posts around the world are, indeed, on high a
Plus it has been 50 years since the british invasion. If you want to know what it was really like, who better to talk to than one of the fab four. The one and only ringo starr tells us all about it tonight. But first i need to show you something that is causing a whole lot of controversy. Ready for it . Here it is. The newspaperaine. And it simply reads, the [ bleep ] in the white house. If you have watched me over the past couple years, the past few years, you know how i feel about this. Although i think this word is toxic and used gratuitously at a often by far too many people of all different ethnic backgrounds, i do think it should be used if it is pertinent to a news story or the conversation. We cant talk about it without actually saying the word. Was it appropriate to be used in this way in a headline . Did this newspaper go too far . The writer of this article had a by the way is white and insisted on this headline, he will join me alive to defend himself. And then there are th