brown: the housing market is showing more signs of mending from the depths of the foreclosure crisis. a new report from realty-trac finds banks are repossessing fewer homes than a year ago, and general foreclosure activity has declined for 22 consecutive months. still, there was plenty of sobering news. the number of homes in july that received an initial notice of default, the first step in a foreclosure, was up 6% from a year ago, and nearly 60,000 homes are being repossessed by lenders each month. california has the highest foreclosure rate, with one in every 325 homes receiving a foreclosure notice last month. guy cecala watches all this closely as c.e.o. and publisher of inside mortgage finance, a housing industry research publication. welcome to you. thank you. brown: filings are down. explain that part of the equation. what s going on? filings are down basically means we re seeing less people getting into trouble due to job loss. an improving economy is hel
specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? and now, bbc world news america. egypt strikes back against islamists in sinai. could this volatile region be heading to even greater instability? of political scandal in china moves to the court start with laundering of british businessmen moved to the court. guitarist with laundering of british businessman. charged with laundering a british businessman. welcome to our viewers on pbs america and around the globe. he has only been in office for a month, but egypt s new president faces a major security crisis. after a weekend attack on order please the left 16 guards dead a weekend attack the last 16 guards dead. we have more on the high stakes of this volatile situation. second field army has moved in. the president said he will increase pressure. the army said they killed 20, all of them terrorists. syenite
told egypt to put its house in order rather than take action itself. they have no problem with taking action against those who stood between. this has been a recruiting ground for extremists. jihadists are a great challenge for the egyptian president hu, mohammed mursi. they face criticism in sinai, an ar. a funeral for the soldiers killed in the attack. what is happening is another part of the many layers crisis. the new president is also struggling with the economy, sectarian tension, and faces a power struggle with the army about who runs the country. alleviating poverty could be the long term solution. it will not be easy for a government with so many preoccupations to control the growing insurgents. for more on the rising tensions and the fallout, i am joined by the director of the middle east center. thank you for coming in. how much of a threat are these jihadists in the peninsula? they have become a large threat, and this has been building for some time. it pred
captions paid for by nbc-universal television announcer: this is today with matt lauer and ann curry live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. and i m matt lauer. advocates for and against same-sex marriage have been very quick to weigh in on president obama s new position or newly stated position. this is a first for a sitting american president. that s right. why did he do it now, just as the general election is heating up? did vice president biden s recent support of the issue force the president s hand? we ll get the latest from washington and also talk about this with msnbc s rachel maddow straight ahead. also ahead, prosecutors at the criminal trial of john edwards could rest their case as early as today. this after some extremely tearful testimony on wednesday centering on his late wife s final days. we re going to go live to the courthouse for more on that coming up in a couple of minutes. a
captions paid for by nbc-universal television announcer: this is today with matt lauer and ann curry live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m ann curry. and i m matt lauer. advocates for and against same-sex marriage have been very quick to weigh in on president obama s new position or newly stated position. this is a first for a sitting american president. that s right. why did he do it now, just as the general election is heating up? did vice president biden s recent support of the issue force the president s hand? we ll get the latest from washington and also talk about this with msnbc s rachel maddow straight ahead. also ahead, prosecutors at the criminal trial of john edwards could rest their case as early as today. this after some extremely tearful testimony on wednesday centering on his late wife s final days. we re going to go live to the courthouse for more on that coming up in a couple of minutes. a