Hes here to show off his new figure. Today, sunday march 15th 2015. From nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin. Sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer. 80 of his body weight. 56 pounds. Much happier dog. Much healthier. Does he get a tummy tuck now . So much to get to. Right to our top story, the extreme flooding across much of the midwest this morning. All the snow and ice from the relentless winter storm is now melting, causing waters to dangerously rise to record levels. Were joined from the ohio river in cincinnati. Kevin, good morning. Reporter its getting warmer which is good news. As you mentioned, all the snow is and ice is melting and its got people in the ohio valley and elsewhere bracing for flooding. A wintry mix of rain and melting ice is causing lots of problems across the country. In the ohio river valley its a troubling scene. So much water and
Pam. The true scale of the damage still isnt clear. Hamilton with help from Arnold Schwarzenegger sends out an ominous warning to his formula one rivals. When it comes to the next race ill be back ok . Defending World Champion starts the new season with victory in australia. Taliban fighters in pakistan have claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches packed with sunday worshipers. At least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded in lahore. Victoria gatenb. Reports. The Pakistani Taliban timed attacks for maximum devastation the two churches packed with those attending sunday services. There were chaos in the moments after the bombs exploded within minutes of each other. I was on guard inside, a small gate was open. Suddenly, there was the sound of a blast and the gate was blown away. I turned around and all these splashes of blood fell on my clothes. We got busy with the rescuest. It was the biggest attack since the bombing in practice shore in 2013. We demand protection
Upbeat on business activity. Recent data pointed to signs of a slow down. Meantime chinese stocks jumped to more than a fiveyear high overnight. Suggesting more government stimulus was ahead. And the New York Times reporting that the federal authorities investigating the october data preach at jpmorgan they are confident that a criminal case will be filed against the hackers. It means several of the suspects live in a country with which the u. S. Has a extradition treaty. The u. S. Is hitting the debt limit again. Jack louew will have to take extraordinary measures from defaulting on the debt. Well talk about that with ben white who is going to join us in a bit. And a few stocks to watch. Ge selling the Consumer Lending business of ge capital to an investor group. It carries an surprise value which includes debt of about 6. 3 billion. An a Clinical Trial shows that the heart drug can cut the risk of death another heart attack or stroke in patients that had a history of heart attacks cu
Forth. Look at oil, brent down and look at west texas, down. Major historic lows on a 2 slide in oil. Theres the euro dollar trade. The euro and the dollar inching ever closer though the year row is euro rowe is up. Sara iverson is in. Hi sara. Hi. The british, german and french markets all up nicely. Lets bring in bob pisani. Whats up . Normally we have that kneejerk reaction. Thats not happening today. Lets take a look at the s p 500. This is pretty strong rally that weve seen. It helps to have euro weaker euro strongering dollar weaker. This is one of the rare days. Thats helping here in the United States. We take a look at europe though. That kneejerk reaction. Youd think theyd sell off europe. Another high for germany. That didnt really happen. Obviously when you have q. E. Occurring that trumps everything. As for the stocks here in the United States, look at the dow movers slightly the expensive tone. Youve got United Health and stocks leading overall. Still pretty good. Far more
Live doppler 7hd. Despite the clouds we head record warmth in many locations including san jose. The sun is still out but is having a tough time through a veil of cloud cover, but nonetheless record warmth, san jose, high of 89, beating the record of 81 set in 2004. Livermore, the high 85. Tying a record. Oakland, 79. Two degrees better than the record. And San Francisco downtown, a record high of 84. Besting the old record of 81 set back in 2007. So if your out on the town temperatures in the 7s so by 9 00 in the evening. Well lack, if sunday as equally warm as today was when i see the full forecast in just a little bit. Very good. You can track the high temperatures anytime with the abc7 news weather app. You can get it free on the app store or google play and we have more energies at abc7news. Com app. Developing news out of livermore, crash involving a dozen vehicles has blocked several lanes on i580 in livermore. I happened an hour east of north flynn road. At least one person was