From nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. And im kraig lammas. Lesterin e enjoying a much needed time off. Can you believe those people in that video could not believe their eyes. And also ahead, hes one of the nfls most popular players, but now tim tebows future is in jeopardy. Once again hes out of a job this morning a day after the new England Patriots cut him from the team. They are the third team in about a year and a half to say goodbye to the quarterback. So where does tebow go from here. If anywhere is the question. And also this morning, one of our favorite examples, you may remember the homeless man a few months back found a cherished Engagement Ring in his change cup, returned it to the owner. Weve been following Billy Ray Harris story pretty closely. And this morning we are going to have an update for you. We want to begin with the latest on the president s surprising
Mark meredith is standing by at the white house with more. Mark . Reporter good evening, jon. The white house says its up to americas governors to decide if and when they can reopen, but governors say until more testing is available, that is an extremely difficult decision for them to make. Vice president mike pence, he was on Fox News Sunday today, and he tried to reassure americans that more testing is coming both on a federal and state level. Now weve cleared four million overall. But in 150,000 tests a day, we think we can double that number by working with governors to activate all of the laboratories in their states around the country that can do coronavirus testing. That would put us at roughly 300,000. Reporter but some governors are pushing back including some republican governors saying that their state resources are already exhausted and that they need more help from the federal government. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those criticizing the president over testing. She
Im Jessica Yellin in for erin burnett. Outfront tonight, breaking news, stocks dive as the drumbeat to war with syria gets louder. Wall street suffered its worst day since june as the Obama Administration clearly laid the groundwork for a possible military strike on syria. Theres no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in syria. The Syrian Regime. The president believes and i believe that those who use chemical weapons against defenseless men, women and children should and must be held accountable. Market analyst Todd Schoenberger is outfront with us tonight. Thank you for being here. How much of this market drop had to do with what you heard from the Vice President and the president and the administration about oil in the region . Quite a bit because its a grave concern for everybody at wall street. It was top of mind when we heard about it from biden but now when were hearing about the war drums that are beating today and we can only anticipate that presi
Colin Colin Kaepernick. Pittsburgh but defense is not getting up. Heather a live shot of new york city. A lot of high ground here. You are watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. It is for 01 after the top of the hour in new york city on the east coast, top story a major victory for donald trump as the Supreme Court rules in favor of his travel ban in the white house hopes to use that momentum on tax reform. Griff jenkins with what is up next. Reporter the Supreme Court has given the administration a significant victory allowing them to enforce a travel ban on 6 muslim majority countries while the lower Court Challenge plays out, those countries are chad, libya, somalia, syria and yemen. This indicates the high court does not believe the ban exceeds the president s authority and Immigration Law or discriminate against muslims. Deputy spokesman saying, quote, we are not surprised by the Supreme Court decision for enforcement of the president s proclamation limiting travel fro
Headquarters here in new york. 96th day of the trumps administration. We have breaking news surrounding this president s firing of former fbi james comey, this was may of last year, the report comes from the New York Times. The times tells it this way, fbi director mccabe wrote a confidential memo last spring of the significant behind the scenes details of the firing of mccabe. His content was not reported. In the chaotic days last may after mr. Comeys erupt firing. But in the meeting at the Justice Department, mr. Rosenstein added a new detail. The president asked him to reference russia in his memo. The times adds that mccabe turns his memo to Robert Mueller. Mccabe was fired in march after an internal investigation at the bureau and response to his firing mccabe issued a statement saying in part, quote, i am being singed out and being treated this way because of the role i played and the actions i took. The release of the report accelerated after my testimony of the house and intell