Alarming new numbers showing covid rates rising faster in kids this summer. Overnight President Trump once again taking aim at the nations top Infectious Disease doctor. Is morning sex scdafa a wideranging independent investigation into ousted president Jerry Falwell jr. , a week after he was forced out at the nations most famous evangelical university. Major flash flooding. Overnight dramatic rescues in North Carolina. Houses underwater. Roads turned into rivers and now the new threat this morning. Three states on alert for dangerous new flash floods. Secret struggle. Wda fore the new details about Chadwick Bosemans extremely private battle with cancer all while filming several movies. Overnight black panther costar michael b. Jordan sharing a powerful message honoring his greatness and this morning how the superstar is still potentially saving lives. Scare in the sky. We just passed a guy on a jetpack. Dont hear that every day. The mysterious close call after multiple pilots reported
General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait
And the u. S. Keep talking trade, we dont know when this thing ends or how much further it goes. Sit back and enjoy the ride, today is august 25, the dow of 378, yesterday up another 150th opening bell today, the s p record high close up some more this morning. The nasdaq looks like its going to be down a few points. Were going to show you apple, premarket trading worth 2. 15 trillion and there is speculation that there is iphone production to mexico, more of that in a moment. At the convention the republicans attacked the biden harris ticket as a looming disaster. Dynamic speeches from tim scott and nikki haley and the president as surprise appearance and a vocal audience preview will see it. Day two, melania speaks tonight, rand paul, eric and tiffany trump, you will see that too. I gotta say this, our heart goes out to louisiana, mississippi, texas and neighboring states. Marco faded but here comes laura. Landfall probably tomorrow, could be a cat two or three storm the people of ga
Has, like many women and men of color, done very well in america through a mixture of talent, hard work and an iron determination to seize opportunity when it comes knocking. Instead of spending time obsessing about races and identity, what we should be doing is examining senator harris for what she is. Someone who could very well be the next president of the united states. In very short order. Finish and what her selection might mean for a possible biden administration. Well, the media, of course, have have already decided, surprisingly enough, that senator harris is some kind of save your come down among us. Savior. Political warrior, screamed one of the headlines on on the front page of the New York Times. Safe but energizing was another. The leaders all said that she is a, quoteunquote, pragmatic e moderate, she will reassure voters that the Democratic Party is not hostage to all those radical extremists who are supposedly peacefully protesting. But a closer look at the senators re
For splits and which Companies Might be next. Also robin hood finish not the guy in tights, the free stocktrading t. A. R. P. Why its outgrowing the competition. And as investors wait for a covid19 vaccine, powerful new treatments could soon make a difference. We look at the companies racing to test them. On the barrons roundtable, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and al root. Ben, let me start with you about stock splits. They used to be common. Weve been through kind of a drought. All of a sudden there are a couple of high profile ones. They dont change the value of a company, its like me giving you a 10 for two 5s, but investors are responding. What do you think is going on . The first thing is we actually are some high profile stock splits. We havent had these in years. Companies have been letting their stock prices just rise well into the thousands in the way they never have before, so now all of a sudden you yet two high you get two high profile companies, supposedly