An ecigarette explodes in the pocket of a california man whos riding a bus. Once again calling the safety of those devices into question today, thursday, december 22nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im matt lauer, alongside hoda kotb here while savannah continues on maternity leave. If i were an ecigarette user, i might be considering a new years resolution. No kidding. Those are the ones that are caught on tape. We were talking about how many happened that have not been captured on tape. El wwell tell you more aboue circumstances surrounding that little bit. But breaking news, overnight raids tied to the International Manhunt for a suspect in that truck attack in berlin. Nbcs Anne Thompson has been covering this story. Anne, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. German authorities find themselves playing offense a
Coming on it hundred 12 million less than the 859 million estimate by analysts. The senate has confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general after more than a day of contentious debates. Democrats at the alabama senator was too close to President Trump and would not protect voting and several rights. Global news. 24 hours a day. Powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Lets not get a check of the markets. Hang seng index up. 04 . Coming up, intel places at 7 billion chip. Why the president ial bid in arizona is not as fresh as it may seem. Plus, apple hits refresh on its television dreams as the tech giant poaches the head of amazon fire tv. And akamai takes a tumble despite solid Revenue Growth. Why investors are looking beyond the latest earnings reports. First, intel says it will spend 7 billion on a Production Facility in arizona. The announcement came amid a meeting between the intel ceo and President Trump at the white house. It will expand int
To fight on for his temporary travel ban, and he now says we can expect more actions on Border Security to come. At what might be coming from the white house next week, the legal road ahead. And education secretary betsy devos blocked by protesters as she made her way or tried to. Why is the left unwilling to give up this fight . Melissa closing just shy of 100 points. Another record high. Stocks jump again when President Trump announced a big announcement on taxes is on the way. This is what we care about. This is what the market is focused on. You can see the spike after he made these remarks after about 1 30 eastern this afternoon. Weve had a tremendous number of announcements. Weve had ford and General Motors and many, many others. Intel yesterday made a major announcement, and they did that because of what is happening with our tax structure, which is going along very well, and well be having some very big news over the next short period of time. Melissa see . There you go. Blah,
Chip. We take a look at why the president ial bet on arizona is not as fresh as it may seem. But first, to the lead. The epicenter for the International Debate on Donald Trumps immigration policy is here in San Francisco. The case took on increased business importance as 120 Companies Including Tech Companies from apple, facebook, google filed a legal brief condemning it. Leaders from the tech sector were among the first and most outspoken critics on the executive order on immigration. Why . Perhaps it is because many of the companies that define tech today would not exist without immigrants . Here is a quick recap. Caroline now my colleague cory johnson caught up with the founder of joyus and former advisor to twitter. If you look at the history of some of the most famous Tech Companies we just saw it and there is a lot in terms of the data historically, but today in Silicon Valley over 58 of the highly skilled workers here are immigrants. When you step back and look at our labor pool
Chip. We take a look at why the president ial bet on arizona is not as fresh as it may seem. But first, to the lead. The epicenter for the International Debate on Donald Trumps immigration policy is here in San Francisco. The case took on increased business importance as 120 Companies Including Tech Companies from apple, facebook, google filed a legal brief condemning it. Leaders from the tech sector were among the first and most outspoken critics on the executive order on immigration. Why . Perhaps it is because many of the companies that define tech today would not exist without immigrants . Here is a quick recap. Caroline now my colleague cory johnson caught up with the founder of joyus and former advisor to twitter. If you look at the history of some of the most famous Tech Companies we just saw it and there is a lot in terms of the data historically, but today in Silicon Valley over 58 of the highly skilled workers here are immigrants. When you step back and look at our labor pool