What theyre calling a careless stunt. And all dogs go to heaven. What pope francis said that has all tails wagging today, friday, december 12th, 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 friday morning. Our tails are wagging because of this story out of st. Peters square where the pope had an encounter with a young boy who was heartbroken over the loss of his dog. He kind of reversed catholic dogma when he said, in fact, all gods creatures can go to heaven. This is Dylan Dreyers dog, boscoe, in the orange room. Very happy about this. Survey says yes. Real good one to start this morning. Lets start with our top story out west, fierce storm leading to deaths and this mudslide that triggered evacuations in camarillo overnight. Miguel almaguer has been tracking this story. Good morning to you. Reporter very dicey and fluid situation outside los angeles. Sbrok mudslide
A blowout session in shanghai overnight. Best single day gain in more than three years on a pretty decent pmi. Europe has also been a blend of red and green as the ft names ecb chief the person of the year. Were going to kick off with breaking news. For that would, we go to david faber. News on best buy, in the news yesterday. The stock up sharply. What we can tell you right now is the board of directors of best buy, and its founder, richard schultz, has been trying to put together a group to essentially buy the company in a go private transaction, have extended the deadline in which he would need to come with a bid for best buy and created a window in fact that will begin on february 1st next year and end with the end of that month on february the 28th. Giving schultz the opportunity to look at not Just Christmas sales, but the end of their fiscal year, which will end at best buy on the 31st of january. And that window, again, will be 28 days long giving him an opportunity to continue
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To long border delays. We we re we were not expecting her yet. Here she is we were not expecting her yet. Here she is a and coming up, the surprise that took nine months in the making, and thats despite a stay in hospital with covid. Good evening. Nearly four and half Million People in england were waiting to start hospital treatment last november thats a record and yet another shocking indicator of the cost of the pandemic on the nhs and its patients. Behind the numbers are stories of operations postponed and cancer treatments delayed. The Royal College of surgeons described the situation as calamitous. A further 48,682 new cases of coronavirus have been announced today across the uk. A delay in processing data means the daily death figures havent yet been published. Heres our Health Editor hugh pym on how coping with the surge in Covid Patients has affected the health service. The consequences of coronavirus are becoming clearer. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in birmingham temporarily hal
The virus from spreading. Good evening, im gwen ifill. And im judy woodruff. Also ahead this thursday, hbo decides to cut the cord and let consumers pay for streaming content without a cable subscription. Ifill with record numbers of homeless teens enrolled in americas Public Schools, one student defies the odds to become High School Valedictorian and enroll at tone of the most prestigious universities in the country. I still see that picture in my head of me having my own house and you know having my degrees on the wall, having a job to go to from 9 00 to 5 00, having a consistent paycheck, paying my own bills and just being the woman that i always wanted to be. Woodruff plus, fifty years after the Free Speech Movement began in berkeley, california, activists and students try to keep the past alive and relate it to the present. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d.