captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m tamron hall. it s great to be back from london. you look great, by the way. thank you. look very dapper, got the uk flavor going on. i m still waking up at 4:00 in the morning, although it works for me today. oh, right. this wasn t such a shock. how many days have you been back? i got back on monday. how about you? on monday. still got a couple more days, so we re in the game today. we re in the game. nice to be back. i had a great time, but it s great to be home. we ll talk about a big day in the race for the white house. paul ryan is drawing praise as well as fire for his plans to overhaul medicare. he s today going to a florida senior community to face tough questions. how will that he do in that key battleground state? and much more on the massive wildfires burning across the west, stretching firefighters to the
good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m tamron hall. it s great to be back from london. you look great, by the way. thank you. look very dapper, got the uk flavor going on. i m still waking up at 4:00 in the morning, although it works for me today. oh, right. this wasn t such a shock. how many days have you been back? i got back on monday. how about you? on monday. still got a couple more days, so we re in the game today. we re in the game. nice to be back. i had a great time, but it s great to be home. we ll talk about a big day in the race for the white house. paul ryan is drawing praise as well as fire for his plans to overhaul medicare. he s today going to a floda senior community to face tough questions. how will that he do in that key battleground state? and much more on the msive wildfires burning across the west, stretching firefighters to the limit, and unfortunately, they re getting no help f
good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m tamron hall. it s great to be back from london. you look great, by the way. thank you. look very dapper, got the uk flavor going on. i m still waking up at 4:00 in the morning, although it works for me today. oh, right. this wasn t such a shock. how many days have you been back? i got back on monday. how about you? on monday. still got a couple more days, so we re in the game today. we re in the game. nice to be back. i had a great time, but it s great to be home. we ll talk about a big day in the race for the white house. paul ryan is drawing praise as well as fire for his plans to overhaul medicare. he s today going to a florida senior community to face tough questions. how will that he do in that key battleground state? and much more on the massive wildfires burning across the west, stretching firefighters to the limit, and unfortunately, they re getting no he
weaker than usual for this time of year. texas instruments says customers are cautious due to global economic uncertainties. you see it there. shares fall slightly in extended trading. the 2 q results beat the street. they say they re making progress to increase the number. the stock hit an 18-month low last week on worries the weakening chinese economy could hurt it. pfizer s experimental alzheimer s drug failing one of four big trials. it involved patients with mild to moderate forms of disease, it did not improve cognitive and life function. johnson & johnson is partnering with with pfizer on that treatment. they ll continue with three other late trials and you can see it falling on the news. irish drug maker has a long-standing financial interest in the drug and its shares were also hit the hardest. we ve also got a bit of deal news. car law group and bcb parngs joining forces in a bid to bayou nighted technologies industrial business. the transaction could be valued at m
morning. haland saying he knows of no contingency plans regarding a greek exit. it is no surprise that the road map leads to brus sells. europe feeling a 21-month low. former greek prime minister acknowledging that there is a risk that greece could leave the euro. will brussels lead today? needham, $40 target. the cfo gets singled out for blaming the journal. meantime, dallas trying a free market of a 17-month low. results confirm a tech-spending slow down because of european and fiscal uncertainties. we ll start with markets set to open lower with a lead on concerns about a potential greek exit from the euro. lucas tells cnbc there are no preparations under way for greece to leave and that such a move is unlikely to materialize. european leaders will try to craft solutions to the debt crisis as they meet at a brussebru brussels summit. german chancellor miracle opposed but france chancellor supports. maybe settle for some infrastructure bonds or smaller proposals tha