Television worldwide, good morning. 11 days to go on the election. What are we trying to do . We are trying to get through friday. This is a serious time, a serious debate last night. This pandemic has worsened worldwide. The challenge of a 3 trillion deficits. The civility of last night was noted. Jonathan it was civil. It was muted. But stark differences on the outlook, particularly over covid. The president promising a vaccine within weeks, and biden focusing on the failures of the administration and the winter ahead of us. The Vice President talking about winning hope over fear. That really goes to one of the themes this week we havent talked about, which is the partition of economic america. Lisa the idea that the jobless rate perhaps is going down, but stagnant at one rate. We got those initial jobless claims. The number of permanently unemployed americans, frankly those around the world, is increasing. It is going to take a long time to remedy some of the scarring taking place.
Your commute coming in from tracy all looking good. Heres 880, a live picture of it. We also dont see any fog in this picture just yet but well continue to keep an eye out for that. 4 01. Lets go back to the desk. New this morning, a 76year old novato man is now in the hospital. Robert bennetts family called the Sheriffs Office when he did not come home. His car was found near a san rafael trail yesterday. Now thats where rescue teams focused their search. And a k9 team found bennett late last night. Once we determined he was in need of medical care, i dont have the condition on how he was found, but we were able to get medics up to him. There are reports that bennett was found facedown on the trail. They did say that time was quote of the essence in getting more extensive medical treatment for him. Later this morning, another search resumes in marin county. They left behind their phones, their wallets and their car at that rental house and mr. Irwins son is very worried. They wouldnt
Democrats ready to unload on Michael Bloomberg as he takes the debate stage for the first time tonight he doesnt have the right to buy the selection. The latest on the showdown in vegas, including the new poll showing sanders far out in front. Under siege. The south braces for a second round of rain in areas already ravaged by floods. How many people did you have to rescue in this neighborhood six people were evacuated from this neighborhood we have those stories, plus, road to recovery an update on nascar driver ryan newmans condition after that terrifying crash law and order. See how a married couple at dinner, who happened to be offduty cops, sprang into action to take down an armed robber and todays best in show, thousands beat out as finalists to come to our studio for the first canine competition well crown the winner, today, wednesday, february 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza good mor
Damage. China near a takeover of the airline hna, saying it wants to stem the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Cruise passengers return. The first batch of hong kong residents from the diamond princess are due back in the city today, but there is lingering confusion about their arrival. U. S. Attorney general william barr tries to invoke an old law that protected tech companies. Ike google and Facebook Paul nothing has been happening released since you have been gone. Lets check in on futures in asia today. New zealand already trading at the moment. X higher by a quarter of 1 . 1 in by 1 5 of australia. 771 millioned profits. Pretty flat. Qantas seeing an impact from coronavirus. Few catalysts to watch out for. Aussie jobs expected to rise a little and china expected to cut its loan prime rate. We have machine tool orders out of japan as well. Emily i want to look at where u. S. Markets closed today. Lets get to bloombergs taylor riggs in san francisco. Taylor risk on across the
Neil would take a little more than 2 to get to 30,000. It would take 9 to get to 32,000, Peter Navarro, among others saying that is in the equation. A lot depends on key developments. The president is en route to davos, switzerland, but the backdrop of the impeachment trial tomorrow. Blake burman is looking at Administration Legal response to all of this, how it will position itself in the senate. He joins us in the white house. Sir . Reporter neil, if they havent done so already the Trump Legal Team represents the president in the impeachment hearing will file a legal brief today, giving a more fulsome approach, fulsome take as it was described earlier today of the president s Legal Defense heading into the impeachment trial. As you know, the legal team laid out the sixpage answer to the senate over the weekend. Were expecting a much bigger briefing from the president s team here shortly. According to sources that are working with the president s legal team, appears if they will focus