Later this morning, the king of comedy, judge apitow. Our sitdown with the onetime comic who has been a standup since the last decade. I always wanted to be a standup. I just made movies so i could get a better seat. Lets go back to President Trump who is back with the task of filling out his key staff. He talked to supporters in what some called a peace rally. There were reminders of why he became president in the first place. Kelly kel Kelly Mcdonald is live for us in west palm beach, or have job interviews for at least four candidates to become National Security adviser. The president will go into that from the energy boost he got to be able to prove even with no election in sight, thousands of his supporters would wait hours in line to see him. A campaign sequel. A movie soundtrack burglarying on the lo blaring on the loudspeakers. As air force i pulled up to melbourne on saturday. Donald trump returned to a revved up rally mode, this time as president. Even as Melania Trump pulled
Big day for retail. Walmart announcing the best quarter in more than four years. Home depot beating estimates. Kraft drops its 134 billion takeover bid. Irene rosenfeld will join us later. New records. The dow up more than 4 since Inauguration Day. How long can the trump rally last . First up, walmart reporting a better than expected quarterly profit. Revenue just shy of consensus. Online sales up 29. Home depot beat its Quarterly Results. Boost the dividend. Macys posting a revenue miss earlier on squawk today. The ceo addressed speculation the company is up for sale. First of all, youve heard it talked about, rumors of the Company Buying us. Yes. Youve also probably heard the rumors that were buying them. Yeah. So what i can tell you is this, that were going to do the right thing for our shareholders and were not going to be a highly leveraged retailer. Those movies never turn out well, and weve seen that before. A lot to chew on here. A lot of discussion as far as macys goes as far
Melissa on fast money. The question is do you keep buying stocks while they are at record highs and how far can this epic rally really can . Some good questions. Lets get answers. Thank you for being here. Melissa, feel better. Please. To answer the question, yes, buy stocks now. The market is overbought and i probably would agree with that. But this feels as if it will continue to go higher. Every piece of bad news that i can think of thrown at this market and it shags it off. Goldman sachs all time high. Even health care name. You saw the bristol news earlier this afternoon. Thats back in play again. As long as the russell remains above 130. They are now both healthfully above, this rally is intact. When you think about whats going on, expectations for a fed, march rate like about 30 . Theyve gone up. The concept of a fed liking is a positive concept. Then throw the data around the world has been so much higher. The european highs, were at 69 highs on manufacturing in germany. Across
Passengers at jfk airport caught on camera, walking right through a security lane without being screened. Some setting off metal detectors. Why did tsa fail to notify police for two hours . An investigation is now underway. And emotional announcement. Former teen star, David Cassidy, reveals he is battling dementia. This, a day after he forgets his lyrics and falling off stage. What he says about his struggle and how hes coping. Today, tuesday, february 21st, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. As my kids would say. Wait, what . Im matt lauer. Alongside Bryant Gumbel, who is filling in while savannah continues on maternity leave. Pal, great to have you. Thanks for having me. Thanks for not changing the locks. I was able to get in this morning. Thats right. Its like riding a bike. Keep saying that. Were going to have fun with you this morning. Busy morning
Minutes. We have so much rain that there is flooding for the area. East bay and the creek overflowing their banks. Niles canyon. You cannot make that shortcut. Central Santa Cruz County has more problems and we do have a Flood Warning in effect for central sonoma county. Many creeks have flooding occurring. Cloudy skies and rain showers and temperatures in the 50s. It will be a cool day in the 50s. The full forecast in the storm watch at 5 18. Michelle. Right now and mass transit. Theres no hk Train Service today no age to no h Train Service, but bart is moving. There is a Traffic Alert in los gatos. 17 is closed due to debris at highway nine. We are going to get a closer look at the impact of the recent storms. At kpix viewer sent this of a branch that fell onto an suv and novato. And south bay, evacuations are in place because of the rising coyote creek. We are live in san jose. It is expected to get higher through the morning. Take a look at the raging creek behind me. There is a Fl