Today, saturday february 1st, 2014. 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. And im erica hill along side jenna wolf and dylan dreyer. Big weekend here. Big weekend. We have the super bowl happening. Groundhog day. Thats tomorrow. Keeping us busy. Are you not going . Are you going . Ill be watching. Youll be there. Id rather watch it at home with the food and the commercials . Is that because i said im going . No, sorry. She had no shot at tickets. Or in other words. I couldnt go. Exactly. Were going to talk more about that coming up. Well, speaking of football, could its future be in trouble. More and more parents saying they dont want their kids to play the game at any age. That comes as super bowl great joe nammoth is speaking out about injuries that had lingering effects on his life. Now theyre on administrative leave after claims they refuse
The things we do with the budget resolution, on the bus appropriation bill, separate appropriation bills that follow, sequestration across the board cuts to allow agencies, departments, to allocate their resources. Hopefully that will enable us to look at risks, areas of risk, put more money there and areas of risks put less money there but in terms of what we can do to help you do your work better, give us one good idea. I will start. Having answered my question, you had given my response and it is recognizing that this country there are a number of risks that we face. Is a large country and part of the conversation we have to have, the department of Homeland Security administration and lawmakers and American Public is we cant mitigate every threat so it is understanding those that have the most significant consequences and ensuring we are having a conversation, mitigating them, personnel to go about doing that so having the conversation that we have today over the course of time, wha
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
Doppler radar at our website, cbssf. Com weather. Wait until you see how cold we get tonight. Details in 10 minutes. Thank you. A big day on wall street for google as its stock price set a new record. Google shares were only 85 each when the ipo was issued in 2004. Today google share prices closed above 800 an alltime high. Mark sayre with more on the explosive growth and what it means for the bay area. Reporter elizabeth, according to the wall street journal, google is only the Fourth Company ever to have this 800 stock price but despite that eyepopping number analysts say its the ongoing work that the company is doing thats more important than the actual number. At the google plex at mountain mountain view, they are making big inroads in mobile computing. There are many one of these but theres only one google. Reporter he follows the Tech Industry for Global Equities research and says google has few peers when it comes to innovation. Google has been doing phenomenally well when it co
For morning mass. On the lefthand side, people waiting in philadelphia. On the righthand side, the pope stepping into his fiat. He was driving away from the airport. He spotted somebody in the crowd who he wanted to go and have a moment with. So lets watch that moment as it occurred. I guess that was the moment. He saw somebody in the crowd, went to stop. We are here with Delia Gallagher as well. He had just gotten down from the plane. He was in his small fiat. They were ready to go. He was going. There are always a few people at the airport allowed in, very few. He saw a child in a wheelchair and put his hand out and said, stop. He didnt have much leeway to get out of the car and get out of his popemobile. The pope is heading towards the basilica where he is going to conduct a mass. He is heading from the airport to the basilica. There will be a mass of roughly two hours or so. From there, he is going to head to get some rest for a little while, welldeserved. Delia, why dont you expla