The lowest since october of 15. The road map begins with a rough week for retail. Nordstrom and penney are down this morning. Nbcs lester holt sat down with President Trump and well bring you the highlights on russia and more and plus the tweet storm this morning, threatening former fbi director comey. Apple is taking aim at another all time high today and two analysts raising the price target. First up though, Government Data showing retail sales up 0. 4 in april. The strongest gain in four months and nordstrom beat on revenue and comps are down 0. 8. Penneys swinging to the surprise profit, but Revenue Misses on a 3. 5 decline in comps. Jc penney is going to give its all time low run for the money today. What can i say . Minus 3. 5 comps. They did talk about how march and april improved from february. Now, kohls said the same thing. There was a lot of etf selling yesterday. Really came off of macys. Ebitda, here 40 million down from 176 last year. Theres no growth and its really hard
Midatlantic to massachusetts, brace for a noreaster. And leave me be. Steve harvey defends the controversial letter he sent to staffers, warning them not to approach him on the set of his talk show. I just didnt want to be in this prison anymore. Why he is saying he has nothing to apologize for. Today, friday, may 12th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Busy friday morning. Talking a lot of politics today. Lester holt sitting town with the president at a key moment in his presidency. It is our top story, lesters exclusive interview with the president. Were going to have new portions of it. All this raising questions about the firing of fbi director james comey. Some of what the president is now saying comes in direct contrast to what weve been hearing from the white house during the week. And during that interview, President Trump said he had d
Threatening injuries. And that is the concern of those First Responders and family this morning. And the thing that stands tout me, nora, kept hearing reports of children left by themselves. Many times parents will let your kids go to your concert. Leave you here and pick you up here. Were returning around screaming just very, very afraid. And it took place at the exit knowing that they would kill more people there. They could cause damage. We of course will have much more on the Manchester Concert attack ahead on cbs this morning. That starts at 7 00. Well hear from bombing survivors and eyewitnesss. Our National Security contributors Fran Townsend and michael morel will join us, plus in israel with President Trump, he just spoke be Prime Minister may this morning. And well see how u. S. Authorities are responding to the attack. This has been a cbs news special report, im charlie rose with gayle king and nora odonnell, cbs news, new york. For news 24 hours a h ,,,. This is the new fro
Escalating public frenzy against him. The lawyers say that he will invoke his fifth amendment privilege and will not provide documents to the committee. Separately, the top democrat on the House Oversight committee, Elijah Cummings released a letter who said that flynn who had access to the nations top secrets appeared to have lied to the security clearance renewal. Flynn was an early supporter of candidate trump and was fired in february as the president S National Security adviser after lying to the Vice President about his contacts with Russian Ambassador sergei kislyak. Today new Jersey Governor Chris Christie who originally ran the trump transition said that he warned the president to steer clear of flynn. If i were president of the United States i wouldnt let flynn in the white house. Let alone give him a job. Reporter roger stone is also under scrutiny by the fbi and congress for their ties to russia. Manafort and stone today said they have complied with congressional requests f