And historic night. Fort bragg host the First Major League baseball game ever played on an active military base. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this fourth of july monday morning. Im willie geist. As you look at the brass theyll perform for us later in the show. Im natalie morales. Matt and savannah have the day off. Talk about a field of dreams. If you build it, they will come. How symbolic and what great showing of support for our troops. What great idea by Major League Baseball around this Holiday Weekend. We saw basketball games on aircraft carriers and now baseball at bases. Well get to that. Our top story, an investigation into a bizarre explosion in central park that seriously injured a young man from virginia. Reporter good morning. That young man is listed in stable condition this morning after what was a frightening incident in a city thats on heightened alert this holid
A failure dr. Anthony fauci calls disappointing. Futile effort by some republican lawmakers to overturn the election is gaining steam. Republican source told me a short time ago that at least a handful of gop senators are expected to join the election challenge next week when the electoral votes come before congress. Two House Republicans are telling cnn they expect at least 140 House Republicans to vote against counting those votes in that chamber. And well begin with more of the breaking pandemic news. Cnns sara murray joins us with the latest. Sara, its the end of the year thats brought so much pain and suffering to so many americans, and the new year will not get off to a good start. 2021 is going to feel a lot like 2020. Thats right, jim. I wish i could say its going to look better as we flip the page on our calendar. Theres really no sign of that as this virus continues to spread all over the country and, of course, as you point out, as vaccines have been very slow to catch up. I
Its not just people in stores buying. Investors seem to be buying. This is the first black friday rally on friday in four years. This is the last hour of trading right now. Were on a halfday schedule because of the how days, so if you have any trades to get in before the closing bell today, this is the hour to do that. Its been a really mode from the getgo. Were off the highs right now right now were 102 at 12,939. We were knocking on 13,000s door earlier, pulling back from that right now. The nasdaq is up a person or 31 points, and the s p at this hour is up 11 points, almost a percent at 1402. A shortened trading day. If anyone was shorting the market today, they did take a beating. So why dont we take a closer look at todays move. Steve liesman and rick santelli. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us. How is the American Consumer . We would have stampeded out to like walmart or something. See what the bargains are. Thats the question, right . The consumer is certainly in better shape