Morning, still below 2. 5 . As for europe, so much discussion over the weekend with what is happening in portugal. Markets responding generally positively that portugal will use some of the leftover rescue funds to try to recapitalize a new bank there and were seeing some credit spreads on the back of that as well. Half an hour away from the market open. Lets begin with the road map today. We take a look at markets with u. S. Futures looking for a comeback, International Tensions temper positive earnings news. Investors continually reinterpret the current take on its consumer. And in an interview with the economist, president obama telling ceos they should quit complaining. So before we get to all of that, lets start here with the market, according to a higher open, selloff with the worst s p since june 21st, in fact. Data showing growth in china sector but the shanghai market is at an eightmonth high overnight. So jim, are you bidding up portuguese paper here . So many things went wro
Liner for more than three months . A japanese paper out reporting cold winter temperatures were a factor in the meltdown of the lithium ion batteries which caused at least one of the boeing 737 dream liners to make an Emergency Landing in japan. Meantime, in alternatings news out of japan, it was a big quarter for toyota has the highlander is hot. Toyota posted a better than expected 3. 4 increase in quarterly profits and the automaker raising the outlook for the year. Can we move back to the battery . The battery thing, people dont have battery hybrid cars and things like that in cold places simple will ily because of the weather. Batteries dont do well in cold. Thats the whole thing. We had a guy the guy from toyota who lives in michigan who wont have a hybrid car in michigan because its too cold for the battery to actually do its thing. I would think this the plane is going its freezing up there every day. Im not a is that good news for boeing . Does it signal simply just a battery
Obliterated. As for the air power being used it is big. A mix of u. S. Fighters and tomahawk missiles all launched from air ships. Firing tomahawk land attack missiles from the red sea. And one of the most crucial equations in the air strikes, the arab allies who helped. Saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, bahrain, jordan and qatar. Were covering every angle this morning. We have nbcs jim maceda standing by in london. But we start with nbcs brian mooar from washington on the first wave of strikes. Reporter the pentagon confirms that president obama gave the green light for this attack, allowing his centcom commanders to put together the fine details which involved fighter jets, bombers and missiles. All of them aimed at raqqa, syria, the selfdeclared capital of isis and the terrorist army there. U. S. Officials say the targets hit about 20 of them included had headquarters areas, fuel and weapons depots, training sites, and the United States it is said did not carry out the attacks
World cup but can they go all the way without their superstar . And, a fabulous fourth. Hurricane arthur couldnt dampen all the celebrations as americans nationwide celebrated our countrys independence. Well have a starspangled highlights, today, saturday, july 5th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a saturday morning. Hope youre having a good weekend. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside d l dyl dylan. Did you watch fireworks last night . No. You worked. I worked, i slept and then i worked again. I have been up all night. Isnt it funny when you watch the fireworks, you naturally go oooh, aaah. Its fun. Youve seen the movie before but it still works every time. We want to get right to todays top story for a lot of people to focus on fireworks and arthur on the fourth of july. This morning, arthur was downgraded to a Tropical Storm but not before leaving a big mark on ca
On to the semifinals of the world cup. Can they go all the way without their superstar . And a fabulous fourth. Hurricane arthur couldnt dampen s all the celebrations as americans nationwide celebrated our countrys independence. Well have the highlights today, july 5, 2014. Cal freeonpsrnvewillketaspur 5fu opti9 cal freeonpsrnvewillketaspur 5fu announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt plusup j. 440. 8 and erica hill. Anntraiothatdy. 0. 04 a ada tor live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Hope you are having a good weekend. Im lester holt. Seopldakewe a im erica hill. Ma rro r we are still celebrating. Not at all planned. G ignygam come on, we planned this week tise oou together. Did you watch fireworks last night . No. No . I worked, then i slept, and yi l worked again. I have been up all night. Isnt that funny when you ulrt watch the fireworks, you still ha ica naturally go ooh, ahh. Its fun. An lot of we have seen