Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. First question was, what time do you get home for dinner . Second question was, what happens if your child is sick . The third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child . Not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that theyre raising are complaining, and with justification, perhaps, and
And good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist. Al is out in denver on a day football fans waited on. Its tonight the kickoff of the nfl season, a huge game, the super bowl champs come into denver. Thats right. When they knocked them out, the ravens knocked them out. Were here at Sports Authority field at mile high. And they have got the tarp down. If it rain this is is the largest slip and slide. But they are ready for football here. We are going to bring you all of the color, the pageantry. Weve got fans lining up. Its a very, very exciting day here in denver. All right, als going to have a lot more on the game. I think we know where your allegiance lies. I have a parttime job directing traffic after the show. That is the reason for this outfit. Dyed your hair orange too. Were going to start with the news were following. President obamas arrival in saint petersburg, russia, potential strikes on syria are expected to dominate. Chuck todd
Today. Thank you for joining us. Well begin with a devastating setback in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370. The bluefin21 has now rapid up its Search Mission and found no sign of the missing airliner of the 239 people on board. Adding to all the pain, australian officials now say they were likely looking in the wrong place. Earlier on cnn, a partner of philip wood expressed frustration. The people running the investigation are not listening and not thinking clearly. In any normal investigation, you would pursue all reasonable avenues of evidence. In this case its almost like theyve been so fixated on this one directed path that theyve managed all the information so it aligns with that path. And thats just backwards. Thats the tail wagging the dog. Lets go to cnns rene marsh covering the story from washington. Good morning, rene. Good morning, don. Overnight we got a statement from the australians in charge of this search. They say on the record that they are now abl
Lines everywhere. Already this morning, several videos popping up online, allegedly showing chaos in the aisles, as customers battle to save a few bucks. The International Council of Shopping Centers estimates black friday is now such an event in our country, four out of ten american shoppers do their holiday buying today. The question thats on a lot of consumers minds is do you actually go out and buy today or do you maybe play the waiting game. The answers both. You probably do a little bit of shopping today. And then you supplement that in subsequent days. Retailers hope this years falling gas prices will help accelerate sales it its estimated for every one penny drop in the price of gas at the pump, consumers have an additional 1 billion in congressional spending money. The outlook for Holiday Spending is good. Stronger than what weve seen in a number of years. Many folks are forecatting well see holiday sales grow overall more than 4 which is quite strong. For parents my teenage s
Center of city of Christ Church on the south island of new zealand. It went on five minutes. 41 people died. Just one of those mosques. Witnesses describe a heavily armed man dressed in black military style clothing. Police also found two explosive devices fixed to a car and other weapons. Now, the Prime Minister of new zealand has condemned shes shootings as a terrorist attack. This is one of new zealands darkest days. Clearly what has happened here is an extraordinary unprecedented act of violence. Now new Zealand Police detained four suspects right after those shootings. One man has already been charged with murder. He has not been named but an australian man is being linked to the attack after claiming responsibility online. This man also wrote an anti immigration manifesto and apparently posted a violent video of the attack online it is still circulating on social media. At least 20 people were injured in this shooting, too. They were rushed to hospitals for emergency treatment. P