Lindseys out, whos in . The u. S. Skiers set to shine in sochi today, wednesday, january 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 wednesday morning, 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im matt lauer. And im Natalie Morales along with al roker and willie geist. Thats right. Savannah is on assignment this morning. A stunning update to a story we have been following for several years now. We will fill you in on that in a little while. It will. Meanwhile, did you notice something on the shot as we swept in from outside. Yeah. No trees. Goodbye, old friend. The Rockefeller Christmas tree gone overnight. I saw some guys during the blistering cold yesterday starting to dismantle it. Feel sorry for them. Yeah, the tree, hijacked the car and somewhere down in florida. Exactly. Obviously the cold is our top story again today. The death toll from the weather has climbed to 2
Anticipated. It sparked a buying stock spree by investors. While commodities sold ff. Gold lost 5 dollars and oil almost 2. 12 large banks are sued by investors. They claims the banks conspired to rig prices in the Foreign Exchange market. No comment from the banks. Wells fargo is naming John Shrewsberry as its new cfo. Larry shover of sfg alternatives is here to get our day started. Hes watching the market for us. Good morning larry. Good morning. Well the fed will keep interest rates. Theres some strength coming into the economy from manufacturing. Is there any reason not to buy stocks right now . Well, not really because look at the alternatives right nowtheres not a whole lot out there that could give you the dividend yield that stocks could right now. That doesnt mean we cant have a pullback but when you think about it, our economy is growing and stocks the number one beneficiary of that. But there are some people who believe we could be headed for bubble trouble with the stock ma
Cannot get into specific takeaways. But what have you learned about of v. A. Over that period time not down to the specifics . Referring to the 93 other facilities . Have some initial reporting on those as of yesterday. We have given the department 12 individual reports for them to examine and determine what action would be appropriate in view of the specifics of each of those reports. 93 are stillur very much active. At 42can tell you that different facilities of those 93 we found the practice of using the next available date as the desired date. It was something that was reported on in the interim and final reports. Where her facilities an appointment was canceled and rescheduled on the same day, for the same appointment time, for the sole purpose of giving the appearance of a shorter waiting time. We have had 16 facilities that have paper weight lists as opposed to being on an ewell. We have 13 facilities concludenvestigators that all these individuals came up with these deceptive p
cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report. Welcome to the report. Thank you for joining us. Stephen Stephen Stephen stephen thank you. Stephen thank you, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. cheers and applause thanks so much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us. And, folks, i especially want to thank all the black people joining us tonight. The i will get to my coverage of black History Month in just a moment. But im sorry, apparently all straight people are now legally required to make wedding cakes for gay people. Because last night, Arizona Governor and diner waitress working a 60hour shift, jan brewer, vetoed sb1062, a bill protecting my religious right to deny sodomites pastry. And just listen why. Senate bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in arizona. I have not heard one example in arizona where a Business Owners religious liberty has been violated. Stephen excuse me, governor. Just because you dont see religious
Target to the federal funds rate will be data dependal. All right. Seems confusing enough. But the bulls do seem happy enough with the fed at least for now. The dow closing at another record. You can see up by about 25 points. The s p rallying back above 2,000. If you take a look at whats happening with the futures this morning, you will see at this point the green arrows continue. About 57 points above fair value. S p futures up about 8 points. Appeared rue, over to you. Thank you, becky. Were going to talk today because it is what were calling alibaba day. The chinese ecommerce giant said to price the ipo after the bell this afternoon. The range has been listed to between 66 and 68 a share. Due to strong investor demand. Stocks then expect to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow with the Ticker Symbol baba. And not a bad symbol. If you havent gotten your shares, call your broker if youre going to get them at all. Anyway, the other big news happened late in the day. T