Among them sarah palin, who says she is ready to throw her hat in the ring. And remembering mr. Cub. Baseball fans in mourning with the death of ernie banks. We will look back at his life today, saturday january 24th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Tough news overnight. You spent a long time in chicago. He is mr. Cub. Ernie banks. We woke up to the news overnight. What an incredible optimistic guy. I had a chance to meet him. He had the enthusiasm. The Chicago Sun Times with lets play two. That got the fans to go to the wrigley field. I was rushing around and started reading articles about him. Every word approachable and optimistic and all the positive words. He got the medal of freedom from president obama. Lets get to the top story. The huge storm making a big mess on the
76 by the bay. All one of into fantastic potential or to try to answer it in update on rise. Heres a quick marriage and for use in transit delays and and a metro this morning carried the j. Charge on and around their orlando had the trackway blocked in there with some equipment. They were running a bus shuttles to geneva to church in, but i just got a note from anny and they tell me that they have corrected the problem of so they are going to start restoring is what transforms the will of the shuttles of their and our are born to be running and then there was and what delays and back to our top storyfirefighters in Southern California are desperately trying to get multiple wildfires under control. Here you can see a map of the many wildfires currently burning in the area. Flames have already devoured 10thousand acres of land in the area since the first fire popped up tuesday. Firefighters are hoping lower temperatures and decreasing wind speeds will help them catch a break today take a
Cte programs are typically located. Theyre Career Center far away from the Traditional High School unless row have a fabulous Technical High School, which i love that concept. But not every child is going to choose that. As theyre exploring careers and ideas, if they leave and go off campus for the half of a day. For the programs, they are missing the other college prep and advance placementtype of courses they need to go to college. I think we have a big disconnect between our academic programs and these academic programs, which people dont call them academic programs. But actually they should be. I think we have huge branding issues, as you have said, cte. We also have the access issues for students who might cant go and explore it. Theyre getting off the college track. Im curious what your thoughts are. If you understand what my frustration is about Career Program being located far away from our high school in separate centers. And what should we be doing in the perkins act to fix t
And circumstances continue to move and in undesirable direction. I want to tell you it is because the japanese side denied the existence of such an agreement or understanding, which was reached 40 years ago, and certainly this is an acceptable , ashe chinese side, because i said before, this is a historical fact. In spite of this, we are still ready to sit down and have dialogues with the japanese side to find jointly away to control, manage the current situation. But the japanese said to us there is no such dispute the between china and japan, and that has made it impossible for dialogues to happen. China and japan are perpetual neighbors. The two countries have very close business ties. Sit downill ready to and have dialogue with the japanese side, but first the japanese side needs to recognize there is such a dispute. Of the whole world knows there is a dispute here. I believe there will be a day when the japanese come back to this table and dialogue. So, how things will go next is
Why we have not anticipated the relatively slow growth. Its important to recognize that what Monetary Policy affects is not the potential rate of growth, long run. Rather, the cyclical part, the deviation of output and employment from its normal level. In predicting the amount of slack in the economy, so to speak, we have done a little better. Our predictions of unemployment, for example, have been better than our predictions of growth and, in particular, one thing has been quite striking is that unemployment we were too pessimistic on unemployment for this year. Unemployment has fallen faster than we anticipated. In that respect, we were too pessimistic rather than optimistic. We will continue to do the best we can. We are looking again to see confirmation of our broader scenario which basically is that we will continue to see progress in the labor market and growth will be sufficient to support that progress and inflation will move back toward target and thats what weve what will det