Cheryl lets take a look at asian markets. The green arrows on the screen. The nikkei in japan, the hang seng strongest morning. Cvs has a warning for cosmetics companies. It is time to get real. Fbn am starts right now. Cheryl 5 01 a. M. New york said good morning and cheryl casone. Lauren good morning. Im lauren simonetti. Drink your markets closed in observance of Martin Luther king jr. Holiday but after the threeday weekend investors are ready to do some buying today. Lauren if we getting close to 26,000 from the seven trading days since 25,000. Breaking news this morning. Lawmakers are trying to work with four days left to avoid a government shut down. Drink two more right from her own adam shapiro. Reporter good morning. Intense discussions on capitol hill with members of the administration. They are trying to come up with some kind of deal to pass another continuing resolution, the deal with the issue of immigration and daca. Senator rand paul on fox and friends monday, but he sa
From reform to maybe substantial tax cut in the end that wont be substantial, i dont know. I dont know. Stuart something is better than nothing. Remember Obamacare Repeal and replace. Weve still got obamacare. Neil god bless your optimism. I dont know what youre drinking there but i mean have at it. Stuart dont start with me on that. Neil all right. You know, im looking at bakery products. As long as they keep taxes low on them im fine. Thank you very much, my friend. We are following that, political storms are brewing here over this tax cut but were really following what so going on with irma as well. Just to bring you uptodate, still a category 5 storm. Wind in excess of 185 miles per hour. There is entire visitor evacuation for florida keys. Theyre barry over sea level. Three feet of sea level the surge from this start is expected to be north of seven feet. You can do the math. Better part of valor to get the heck out of there. The president declared a state of emergency not only fl
Members, criminals, drug and human traffickers that threaten our citizens and that threaten our security. [applause] any member of congress who opposes our plans on Border Security and i know these folks didnt is only empowering these deadly and dangerous threats. And we will not put up with it, and the public wont put up with it. This bill also includes Important Health care resources for our great coal miners who have not been treated well. But now theyre being treated very well. And continues to make funding available to inner city children here right in the Nations Capital can go to the school of their choice. [applause] choice is so important. After years of partisan bickering and grid lock, this bill is a clear win for the American People. We brought lawmakers together from both sides of the aisle to deliver a budget that funds the rebuilding of the United States military, makes historic investments in Border Security and provides health care for our miners and School Choice f ou
Looking like a war zone this morning. More violent storms on the way. Stupid human tricks. Guys, weve just made it to the top. This is incredible. Two teens to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge and then dangle by their fingertips. The shocking video part of a dangerous new trend that could land two would be and foolish daredevils behind bars. And extra credit. High School Students in the criminal Technology Class agree to be pepper sprayed by their teacher. Quickly regretting it. [ screaming ] the realize life lesson that may have gotten a little too real. Today, wednesday may 17th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Morning. I would have had to have done pretty poorly on my last the test to get that kind of extra credit. I think thats pushing it a bit far for an a. Well have more on that later. Well go to washington for our top story. The bomb shell memo by then fbi director james comey claim
Unnecessarily. Thank you. [ all talking at once ] thank you. Obviously been been happy to stay up here all day continue to answer all of your questions but one, figure out probably should answer a couple today and also the president has an event here shortly so want to try to work through as many as i can. With that im actually going to start with jeff mason since i believe it is maybe your last day and mikes first, with that, jeff, take it away. Can you talk to us a little bit about how this will affect this change will affect the press office and about shawn and how he took this news and how made decision to resign. Im not going to speak for sean in detail. I can say that he understood that the president wanted to bring in and add new people to the team and sean felt like it would be best for that team to be able to start with a totally clean slate. And i think echo was anthony said, it speaks volumes to who he is to be willing to do that and allow anthony to come in with a brand new