Snowboarding finals. While the duo of davis and white makes history in sochi. Meryl davis and Charlie White are the first olympic Gold Medalist ice dancers ever from the United States. And were celebrating right along with them in olympic park today, tuesday, february 18th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from olympic park in sochi, russia. And good morning, welcome to today and a rainy sochi on this Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. Take the camera off of us and put it over there. We got meryl davis and Charlie White. First ever olympic ice dancing Gold Medalists for the United States. And were thrilled to have them in our studio. Were thick with Medal Winners this morning. Weve got the two stevens in the studio, as well. Lots to celebrate. Lots to get to this morning. We want to start with todays top story. And that is that weather again. Another winter stor
To an olympic gold medal. And the puck goes down they hit the goal post. Before falling to canada in one of these games most breathtaking finishes. A loss the men of team usa try to avenge today. Friday, february 21st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from olympic park in sochi, russia. Good morning, everyone, im Savannah Guthrie alongside Natalie Morales and al roker and willie geist. We thought wed pay a visit because this is our last day covering the olympics. They head into the final weekend this weekend. And what about a night last night . Willie, al and i were at the hockey final against canada. I dont know what words to use to describe it. 3 30 to go. And we thought, were in. It happened so quickly. It was one opennetter we almost had. We were smiling a lot, maybe too much. Anyway, the entire womens hockey team, the silver medalists will join us in a little while. Natalie and i
Month well below the forecast of 200k and the Unemployment Rate falling threetenths of a point but the decline was largely as a result of people, jim, who are leaving the workforce. Right. You called it an outlier a few moments ago. Outlier, but one thing i learned about the numbers is when you get an outlier, the market still trades off it. We can i say dismiss it and throw it away, bonds are soaring and Interest Rates are down. Maybe were in a bad news is good news moment because Interest Rates will come down. The last few mortgage numbers have been okay. The refis are bad. This is helpful for housing. But if we dismiss this number, then we should dismiss the 300,000 numbers. You cant play that game. You cant decide, you know, this number ill throw away. Its a real number and its a bad number. Well talk to secretary perez later in the area. The Participation Rate and the loafest since 1978 and the seasonal quirks, january, february can be weird. Not to excuse the number. No, no. Abso
V. Iraq ease i think one that as well. They dont like iran. Maybe they would like to move in and help clean some of this up but i dont think that works for either side and i think they want to see if they are to help balance it. We will remind the government that sanctions on iran is still not allowed. Although that 29 billion is like kleenex. Its nothing. But nevertheless the policy on serious supporting asad is not good. As we have the hydrocarbon law between baghdad and kurdistan this will move to maybe the next level over the territories, whatever. I think that is an important thing to do. But we cannot tell them what to do. We cannot have a favorite candidate and we cannot push for that. He publicly is not doing that either. Although privately i think that we have all learned he has mentioned to people that he would like to see an alternative working on that he was told by an official. I pulled but i dont know if it is true or not. I would also remind them that we support the terr
Engaging in war with less than perfect information. Based on what you have researched what is your opinion on your own realization that current military technology in preparation are geared towards specific types of existing military factions and does that tell you anything about the decisions involved in waging future war . Guest i think the idea that people are always training for the last war and preparing for the last four and they get blindsided by the next one is almost true. A failure to understand the best equipment will be. The mrap story and humvees and Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense being lambasted for saying you go to war with the army that you have. He was absolutely right. It sounded callous at the time but would you have to do is remain flexible. One of the things i had run into in researching this story and doing the story was if other opponents know that counterinsurgency is difficult for us and we are moving away from that and not applying mraps mraps will th