Democratic president ial candidates is set to step out of the race rapper jay z getsils of his relationship with the nfl and roger georgia tell are revealed. Texting and driving just dont mix. Early today starts right now good thursday morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Breaking news this morning, a suspect has been taken into custody after philadelphia was kept on edge for nearly eight hours. Police say that it all started with an attempt to serve a narcotics warrant. A gunman opened fire and six officers were shot overnight, the suspect identified as maurice hill surrendered to authorities hes coming out hes coming out. Police on the ground say he was then taken to the hospital nbcs Craig Boswell joining us craig, good morning. This was a very tense situation for police at one point they had two officers trapped inside . Reporter yes, phillip. Good morning good morning, everyone there were two Police Officers trapped inside this north philadelphia home. There were also t
Started to stack up in the cash lanes. There was no problem there. The should be on in the next 15 minutes or so. The san mateo bridge is a little bit fuzzy. You can see pretty easily defective in this love going in the westbound direction. No problems to report at all. The emergency construction in place with lane closures as a result of that. That should be clearing up within the next hour or so. Not causing any delays. Overall your main traffic is in the green with the exception of the past. That is a 34 minute ride. There was an accident right there. Seventh street. One lane blocked on that one. This is the Traffic Alert we have been talking about. Our very reporter is there. Good news for drivers. The tell us this will actually be back open within about 30 minutes. Right now only one lane is open. Three other lanes remain closed. That is one of the cars that were involved. That is the one that the big rig driver tried to avoid hitting. It turns out there is a drunk driver reportin
The president relishes the democrats debate divide in a latenight rally, while on the 2020 trail, the candidates split over the obama legacy. I was a little surprised at how much there was about barack. The latest on the race just ahead. Those stories, plus, we have a problem. The nations top navy s. E. A. L. Writes a blistering letter to his officers why he is demanding immediate change inside the s. E. A. L. S. Summer scare a sudden increase in shark sightings and attacks leads to popular beaches being shut down heading into the weekend catching up with hoda. Well check in with her live to talk about life as a mom with two and the new project she hopes will inspire today, frida augt 2nd, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza hi, everybody. Good morning welcome to friday. Im glad he mentioned hoda kotb, because she is going to be a sight for sore eyes. Well check in with her later. Im happy to be here
Anywhere in the bond market. Crudear yield totally bucking its train from yesterday. Were selloff in over four years. The worst selloff in over four years. We are going to kick things off , the morningtters news that is moving the world. We are going to kick it off with china responding to the trade escalation. Ministrygn spokesperson saying china will have to take necessary countermeasures. We took now to bloombergs chief is a correspondent chief asia correspondent enda curran. Enda a pretty robust response, as you would expect. They said they will retaliate if the u. S. Goes ahead with these tariffs. They stop short on specific details, but the thinking is that china could respond by making life much more difficult for u. S. Companies operating within china that could divert purchases of agricultural goods away from the u. S. And scrapped those promises to buy more u. S. And they could let the yuan soften against the dollar. They probably have some restrictions on what they can do in
Sheer Saoirse Kennedy was found annispsa. He Kennedy Compound at hill was just 22 years old. Marc liverman is in new york. Good morning, marc. Good morning, wendy. Theres still a lot of questione loss of another kennedy. Robert f. Kennedys granddaughter died thursday afternoon at the familys compound in hyannis port, massachusetts. Emergency responders rushed to the estate of nantucket sound. Her family released a statement saying our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved saoirse. She was the daughter of robert f. Kennedys fifth daughter courtney. She was due to graduate from Boston College next year. The sixacre estate is best known for being the summer white house for president john f. Kennedy. The death is the latest in a long line of tragedy in the political dynasty. President kennedy and his Brother Robert were each assassinated in the 1960s. John kennedy jr. And his wife died in a private plane crash in 1999, not far from hyannis port includmichael kennedvid kennedyr or