Its the buzz story of the morning. Heres the question blowing up on social media. Take a look at this dress. What color do you see . Bring that closer. I saw gold and white. What do you see joe. Gold and white, yeah. If you think it is a simple answer just try polling your friends and family though. Some say gold and white. Others say black and blue. This whole thing started yesterday when a scottish musician posted a picture of the 77 dollar off the rack dress on tumblr and then it went viral. It broke the traffic records viewed 21 million times and counting. Celebrities sports stars and many others weighing in on social media as well. Kim kardashian tweeting what color is that dress, i see white and gold. Kanye sees black and blue. Who is color blind. Well tell you what taylor swift and others have to say later. Thats our lead. Thats interesting. Whaen when are we doing the llama story . Both of these stories make me think it scares me. That were talking about this too. Yeah. But fir
Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightlynbc nightly news. Lester holt. A violent collision between a commuter train and a vehicle stopped on the tracks in oxnard california. The metro link train carrying earlymorning l. A. Bound commuters simply couldnt stop in time when a truck wound up in its path. The ntsb is arriving tonight after a rash of similar accidents at rail crossings across the country. Lets get right to the scene in oxnard now. Miguel al maguire is there for us. Reporter lester good evening. The commute into los angeles turned into a fireball on the rails. Tonight, wreckage is strewn all over the rails behind me. Federal investigators are en route here. They say its incredible no one was killed. The fiery moment just after impact sent panicked passengers scrambling for their lives. Bam boom reporter jolting them on the train. Definitely thought we could die. Reporter investigators say a produce driver drove his truck onto the rails just before 6 00 a. M. The metro li
Eastern time. What is going to happen . We tried to do that last time to make people guessing. I guess every time. Not really. Its Business News. And we do our best to try and get something going around it. But the one thing that makes this a little more interesting is some of the whisper numbers. Did you see how high they get . How high are they . The whisper numbers are as high as 300. 300. Do you think people can hear us . Yeah. Why are we whispering . Yeah, 300. Meanwhile, dallas fed president Richard Fisher came from around the world saying the Central Bank Must avoice being locked into calendar based policy commitments. In other words, theyre data dependent. He says Forward Guidance should be flexible enough to allow for changing conditions. He is currently a Voting Member of the federal open market committee. As i said, he made his remarks at an appearance in hong kong. Hes a good friend of the show. And i dont i dont know, are those the two headlines . Neither one of those thin
Field and avoid liability to shift production to thighland and vietnam. Thailand and vietnam. Oh, thighland. Thats homer simpson. The capital of course is wingler. Nothing but chicken wings and chicken thighs. Isnt that from tuscaloosa from your college days . It is. You have your dreamland and then your gillette and then your thighland. I got to tell you, by the time you its not a pub crawl, its a chicken crawl. Touch them all. By the time youre done through that, youre crawling to class. I told you, as you know, i went to the university of alabama and university of florida law school, proud to be an alum of both of them, Great Southern state schools. Theres actually a guy on twitter yesterday with a dartmouth degree that was trying to explain to everybody that elites did not understand that thailand was actually pronounced thighland. Its a moment, a cult, the cult of trump, its that reminds me alex we need this in the rotation. Where mike pence sees donald trump puts the water on the
Pro claimed himself a wartime president and the coronavirus the enemy, the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of korea, vietnam, afghanistan, and iraq combined. That is from the lead story in yesterdays Washington Post on sunday the paper published the results of a monthlong investigation, an account of the governments failure to properly anticipate and respond to the coronavirus crisis. The report retraces the failures of the first 70 days of the outbreak. Quote, from that initial notification for President Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain well under control, but a lethal force that had outflanked americas defenses and was poised to kill tens of thousands of citizens. That more than twomonth stretch now stands as critical time that was squandered. Heres the time line. We start on december 31 white supremacist we start on december 31st, the cdc learns of a case cluster in china. January 3rd, ch