Oh, theyre still running and still shooting. Sandy hook school. Please. The family fought to keep the 911 tapes sealed. The father of one says theres value in letting them hear now. I think there will be less confusion. There will be less people making up stories about what happened. The audio files just released online a short time ago. Were going through them and will have the latest on a live report a 5 00. For now at the live desk. Im Scott Macfarlane. We are tracking a strange incident at the white house today. Uniformed secret Service Officers cleared the north lawn, closed the guard shock, evacuated the park and shut down pennsylvania avenue. The secret service says the man was arrested for throwing a package to the north end squad. Right now two lanes are blocked by crews working on a water main break. This problem is near the intersection with gorman street. Crews are installing valves of an 8inch main so waterservice can be restored to customers. Right now we are ready for bi
Two new Walmart Stores have officially opened for business in the district. The first location is at 1st and h streets near union station. The other at georgia and missouri avenues northwest. Surae chinn was there at the grand opening on Georgia Avenue. Three, two, one. Reporter they get pumped up as alicia waits outside for the doors to open at 8 00. To get my son a play diss station. I cant playstation. I cant find one nowhere. Reporter shoppers rushed in like a scene from black friday. Totally better than black friday, even though they had a 50inch for 200 something but this 40inch for 478 is excellent. This is a wonderful opportunity to shop and the jobs that have been created. Were pleased well have more Shopping Opportunities in the district so people can stop going to maryland to spend all of their money. Reporter combining the two new stores, walmart has added at least 600 jobs to the area but some are concerned about the mom and pop Stores Across the street and wonder if theyl
Hours away, horse racing fans watching to see if he can take the next step to the elusive triple crown. Today, saturday, may 17th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe, dylan dreyer and all eyes on the horses today. Did i just say horse facing fans a moment ago . I think you might have said horse facing. I love horse faces. Big fan. I often dont listen to the words coming out of my mouth but i thought i said horse facing. Horse walks into a bar. Why the long face . There we go. Ill be here all morning. Anyway, weve got on that note, should we get to the top story of the day . Lets get to the news of the day. Lets do that. On a more serious note, nonstop efforts to get the upper hand on those Southern California wildfires, firefighters continuing to attack them from the sky and also on the groun
Volatile day. The s p 500 currently sits down 1. 75 . Nasdaq touching correction territory earli earlier before bouncing a bit. S p 500 is not quite there yet. But were on that watch over the next 60 minutes as well. A couple other gauges to watch, the vix jumping to 31 even. We have the ten year which this morning that was the big headline. The key benchmark u. S. Interest rate falling below 2 for the First Time Since 2013. Oil falling briefly or flirting with 80 level before closing at 81. And gas prices are in free fall. The key question snou whether all of this will ultimately be supportive for the u. S. Consumer or signals more trouble ahead . The biggest outperformer, the vix. Ripping to day. The socalled fear gauge on wall street gives you an idea of where the sentiment is within this market. Its up 20 . That is quite a move. And thats not even at the highest levels of the day. The vix got above 30, a place it hasnt been in an awful long time. All of that helps to tell the story
This afternoons of the plant sparked sharp backlash on social media, including from the former paypal president , david marcus and elon musk. Heres former teal capital president and Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters with me yesterday on sunday morning futures oh, its so crazy it is just so crazy. You know, as soon as i saw that, maria i sent out a tweet. And i said, i will be putting a stop to this very soon and then a papal reversed course four or five hours later. So look at that. Look how effective im being already. And im not even in the u. S senate during the conversation all morning long this morning, dagen mcdowell, adam johnson and charles hurt digging. That was that was crazy of papal. What were they thinking to come up with 2500 fine, and whos going to decide if its misinformation . Paypal. Right . Um i appreciate that. They fouled up and revealed who they really are. And you have to, you know, believe them the first time i had it kind of goes to the way that these liber