Were live with both races. And direct hit. A massive cyclone hitting the island of fiji today. The top winds hitting over 177 miles per hour. And girls with goals the u. S. Womens National Soccer team easily beating trinidad in tobago in the tournament. That means they have punched their ticket for rio. Today, saturday, february 20th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin. And im Sheinelle Jones alongside dylan dreyer. Erica has the day off. I spent the week crossing the state. And low country in charleston. Few things clear. Few undecided votes left there. And people are sick of the campaign calls. And dylan and i were in las vegas. You cannot watch tv. I was gambling. You were watching television. I did tell her. You can chop it with a knife. You can feel it. Lets get to the top story. Two big votes in the race for president in the president ial primary. Polls in South Caro
Market. Look who is barks guy adammy. Petey is back, too. Two of you. Were back. Different ends of the world. The answer is i dont know if youre betting on the consumer but you can bet on certain stocks. Cocacola is a name we talked about over the last couple of months talking about the potential for there to be no triple tops and now this stock is breaking out. I think it made an alltime high today. I think valuations are reasonable, so you want to call it betting on the consumer, thats fine. Id rather bet on the company. I can bet on the consumer and also the ceo and management teams and when you look at j j and masako, 52week high, not just the consumer, other areas, coke clarks General Mills another one of the names, but i think its really oppressive. People have to understand that were in a different environment and they are spending money differently than they were, and i think thats part of the whole thing with the fed and everybodys concerns about gdp and everything and all the
Obama wraps up a historic visit to cuba. Today he will address the cuban people. Analysts speculate he will discuss human rights and to drive that home, the president is set to meet with distants on the island people on the island. The fbi believes they may not need apples help. It shows the fbi is getting help from an outside party to unlock Syed Rizwan Farooks encrypted phone. And we are waking up to a frost advisory. Temperatures could dip down into the 30s. Lets go to leigh to find out more about this. Leigh, 30s. Yeah, its march, remember . We should be dealing with were getting a quick cool down. The frost advisory is east of 19 in citrus and hernando county. But it goes until 9 00 a. M. Look at this, 39 in inverness and brooksville. 38 in zephyrhills. Theres a good chance you will see frost on the windshield. Not so much farther south but its still chilly. 45 in lakeland. 52 in tampa. These temperatures are colder than yesterday. Anywhere from five to 15 degrees colder. But its
Saunders. She is live outside the jail tonight. And sash shell, you spoke to the victims, whatd they tell you . Yeah, ginger, lisa, they were no doubt on an adrenaline rush. They were fearless in the face of that gun and they dab their superstrength as none other than momma bear instincts. You want to put my family in danger, im going after you. Reporter the robbery plays out like an action movie. The stars, grandmother and best friend macky and lisa perez. Theyre out Grocery Shopping when just before driving off all of a sudden, i feel a gun in my head. Reporter a Man Threatening to shoot yelling for them to hand over their car keys, jewelry and phones. While their twoyearold grandchild screams and cries in the back seat. Fighting instinct immediately kicks in. I punched him in the face and umm, she was hitting him too and right at his nose and pulled the trigger. And it didnt feel like it was clicking because he would have been dead. The women. Reporter the women throwing the keys an
The blast at the subway and airport have stunned the city as rush hour got under way. 34 people reported dead dozens more injured and among them four americans. We have the latest on the story in belgium. The first set of explosions rocked brussels just after 8 00 a. M. At the height of rush hour. Witnesses described this terrifying moment. A big bang. Everybody ran. We saw the smoke you know. Calling it a terrorist attack. At least one of those explosions was carried out by a suicide bomber. Almost an hour later another powerful blast at the subway station close to the headquarters of the European Union and western embassy. We heard a loud muffled thud and more womanpanic set in. Wounded on stretchers. You can see the extent of the explosion, clothes ripped, the world reacting from president obama. We will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally belgium to blinging thosebringing those responsible. It was europe it was aimed at but the whole world is concerned. The atta