that s a good and fair question. i steve to be neutral. this is neutral inquiry. i m not for obama, i m not against him. that s why i m able to do this kind of work, i think. i m not for or against the war. i m trying to present what carl bernstein and i back in the watergate days used to call the best obtainable version of the truth. host: the book obama s war. if you are a reader, it s available anywhere that you guy books. : abolitionist intellectual life and recalls the several other additions of douglas memoir. angela davis is joined in conversation by nobel and pulitzer prize-winning author toni morrison at the new york public library in new york city. the program is just under two hours. the evening. hi angela. [laughter] i m sorry about that entrance to but i wasn t doing it for theatrics but i do have a brand new spanking hip. [laughter] i love it, i love it, i love it. but the rest of the body hasn t caught up yet. [laughter] so nobody s moderating? we a
preparations are under way for the macy s thanksgiving day today, thursday, november 25th, the macy s thanksgiving day today, thursday, november 25th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to a special edition of today on this thanksgiving morning. i m natalie morales here in new york and lester holt is in afghanistan doing a great job. meanwhile, he s got matt and meredith down at macy s and al on the upper west side, all ready to bring you complete coverage of this morning s pair rad. we ll talk to all of them in a moment. first, let s go to lester in afghanistan. you ve been there for nine or ten days. you are doing an amazing job. i know those troops really appreciate you being there. reporter: oh, natalie, thank you so much. it s been so inspiring to be here. these troops are lined up for chow. it s dinnertime here. they re lined up for the turkey and trimmings outside the dining hall. we have a great audience and they have a message for y
gain control. there s no doubt about that. well, i don t think there s much likelihood of any kind has to lower expectations, that s ok. so you re talking about her job. that s the issue. it s like ok, we might lose the house. excuse me, i might lose all my power. i might lose all my influence and i ll be stuck with my small constituency in san francisco seems to like me, really, really like me and if you factor that in along with harry reid saying last week, barack obama is not tough enough a lot of the time. he should be a little bit stronger. you wonder if there s a lot of daylight between the hierarchy in the democratic party. no kidding. as gretchen mentioned, this was this high level meeting with nancy pelosi and company and over the corner was a fella from the white house. a fella by the name of dave turten, a senior legislative affairs staffer and she turned and said do you guys know what you re doing up there? because you re talking about this. this is not very
the markets remain bolick tile as greece s debt crisis continues to remain nonvolatilvolatile as greekce ss continues to expand. the euro is at its lowest level in six months. banks in athens closed today in memory of those killed in the riots. the government is expanding its restriction on fishing in the gulf until the oil which is controlled. the restriction covers about 5% of the gulf. two survivors of the oil rig explosion say the alarm is meant to signal a problem never went off that day. everybody was scared to death. nothing went as planned like it was supposed to. there were people screaming and hollering, people jumping off the side. i ve never seen anything like that, never. crews are now putting the huge dome in place to funnel oil out. it is a way to slow down the lake but will not stop it altogether. it is still a few days away from starting to work. another scare in times square. there is no information about the terror suspect. hundreds of nypd on
5th. we have glad you re with us early on this monday morning. hi, steve. nice to see you. let s head up to newark airport taking a look at jet blue airplane that took off and some parts fell out of the engine. never a good thing. we were able to get turned around and back down on the ground safely. no reports of any injuries and that plane was able to make it back to the gate this morning. so we ll have more on that coming up as well as other big stories we re continuing to follow. a lot of breaking news. i was out at a family affair when the mcnabb news broke and everybody was talking about it. and it was a nice weekend. tony, nice to see you. nice to see you, allison. more nice weather on tap. temperatures well above normal. right now it s 57 degrees at reagan national. and ocean city at 49 and in winchester, 53. here is a look at satellite radar composite for the region. we re looking at clouds move across the area so we have fairly over cast skies but still a d