Over President Trumps reported vulgar language describing some chris. The president denies using an expletive but people in the room say the reports are true. Weijia jiang has the latest. Reaction to alleged comments made by President Trump were swift and strong from democrats and republicans. The statements of the president are reprehensible, racist, they are totally incorrect. This remark by the president of the United States is blatant racism. During a meeting in the oval office on thursday senator dick durbin proposed restoring the immigration package. The president interrupted him and said why do we want all these people from expletive hole countries here . We should bring in for people from places like norway. I cant defend it. I dont think anybody can. I dw where he wanted to go with it. The president denied reports on twitter. He wrote the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the out landish proposal mad
A powerful storm takes aim at the east coast this morning with snow, ice, freezing rain and high winds. Double check your paycheck. Why new irs guidelines can cause confusion. Shell the movie about patty hearst. A major afloumt from facebook overnight. The big changes coming. Its friday, january 12, 2018. Are from nbc, this is today from ved with Savannah Guthrie and hoeta kotb from rockefeller plaza. Gorpg, everybody. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Gone and happy friday. Its been a busy morning. Our top story with new 2kw0789s. It is lots to keep up with. The fire storms sparked here at home and around the world over reports that the president made a vulgar remark about haiti and some african nations. The president himself directly addressing controversy this morning in a series of tweets. Theres already a back and forth. Our correspondent is live with the latest. Bring us up to dates. Reporter a big back and forth. That deal being negotiation on clip may have bee
Frankly, earnings season has been good maybe better than in the last couple of years, so to blame it on earnings is looking for a scapegoat. I think most, if not all this move to the downside, has to do with the rhetoric were hearing and pete and dan can speak to this a lot better than i can when you see the vix up 44 and for the first time in a long time, not giving any back during the day, that leads me to believe that people are more concerned about geo Political Risk they are about earnings risk so, you have a vix up 44 and it hasnt happened a lot the fact that the s p was only down 1. 5 was a little curious it also speaks to what you just said the way lot of funds have been b trading volatility. Helping fund other bets hee, so this is a bit of an unwind and investors caught off guard the s p 500 three days ago was making new all time highs. Its down about 2 from those levels obviously, theres things that guy has been watching. Small caps, russell is down about 5. 5 transports roll
Day. You can see the hang seng was down by 2 the kospi in south korea, where the closest to these concerns is located, is down by 1. 7 in europe there are also concerns playing out there the dax down by 0. 4 all the other averages down by 1 or greater. Biggest declines in spain, the market there down by 1. 4 . If you check out crude oil prices, the iea releasing a new report saying that Global Oil Demand will grow more quickly than expected this year. Thats not helping prices which are still down by 37 cents. Here are the big stories were watching shares of snap are sliding after the social Media Company reported a bigger than expected loss snap lost 16 cents a share last quarter. Revenue coming in at a lighter than expected 1 181 million the company added fewer daily active users than anticipated. Ceo evan spiegel addressed concerns on the Conference Call. We have always been last to market, competing against giant companies, weve been able to grow our business in markets that are hig
Cooler than yesterday. Right now i want to start you off with satellite radar composite looping over the next two hour and nothing has changed with clear skies in central North Carolina. 47. 46 clayton. 40 henderson, 41 rocks poor oh, continuing to drop around south hill to 38 degrees and in the sandhills with 50s, not as were pinehurst. Expecting clear skies all across the day today, 48 and will be cool. 60 at lunchtime and high of 65, cooler than yesterday and five degrees below where we should be and we should be around 60 by 6 00. Ill let you know if Cool Temperatures will hang around in Johnston County after a large police presence. It began te last night near clayton. Lauren haviland is live at the Sheriffs Office and has been following the story. Whats the latest . Reporter Law Enforcement officer try to pull a car in the clayton area. The driver took off and may vended up government roads. Authors were searching in vehicles coming into the area. The intersection has reopened bu