Are on their way back. The mets beat the cubs to advance to the world series for the first time in 15 years, giving new shine to the big apple, but theres no joy in cubsville today, thursday, october 22nd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I was on a half second delay because of whats happening in new york city. Everyones so excited about the new york mets. Its a tale of two cities. New york happy. The mets going back to the world series. Not good morning for chicago. They get swept out of the National League series. Why cant everyone win . No ties in baseball. No crying in baseball either. May have been tears in chicago. Lets go to the top story. One day after the Vice President said he is not running, Hillary Committee on benghazi. This all stems from september 11th, 2012, when the u. S. Diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, was
Authorities closer to their man . And clean sweep. They havent been to the world series since 2000, and the mets are on their way back. The mets beat the cubs to advance to the world series for the first time in 15 years. Giving new shine to the big apple. But theres no joy in cubville 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lawyer lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I was on a half second delay because of whats happening in new york city. Everybody is excited about the mets. Tale of two cities. New york happy. The mets going back to the world series. Not good morning for chicago. The cubs get swept. Why cant everyone win . No ties in baseball. No crying in baseball either. May have been tears in chicago. Lets go to the top story. One day after the Vice President said he is not running, Hillary Clinton now set to testify before the House Select Committee on benghazi. This
Will those arrests bring authorities closer to their man . And clean sweep. They havent been to the world series since 2000, and the mets are on their way back. The mets beat the cubs to advance to the world series for the first time in 15 years. Giving new shine to the big apple. But theres no joy in cubville today, thursday, october 22nd, 15. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lawyer lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I was on a half second delay because of whats happening in new york city. Everybody is excited about the mets. Tale of two cities. New york happy. The mets going back to the world series. Not good morning for chicago. The cubs get swept. Why cant everyone win . No ties in baseball. No crying in baseball either. May have been tears in chicago. Lets go to the top story. One day after the Vice President said he is not running, Hillary Clinton now set to testif
Schedules too but paid for leave benefits. Is this a trend that will grow . Thats our cover story today. Ne baby, new rules. Juggling family demands never easy but a recent study found 75 of Millennials Want Flexible Work hours and on track for a promotion. May be hard to have both because the Labor Department said 13 of u. S. Workers have access to paid family leave. The u. S. Is the only developed nation that doesnt require paid parental leave for mothers or fathers. That may be changing, at least in the tech world. We were noticing that most of our new moms were going off and ththey were takingta, if they c, they would take five to six months and they were stitching together personal time off. So we decided that given the average amount of time was five or six months, we would provide 26 weeks of fully paid benefits. Thats a half a year off. Netflix doubled that. A full year of paid leave for new moms and dads. Microsoft expanded its policy to give 20 weeks for mothers and 20 for fa
Playing at the semifinals. This was on her request for the calendar year grand slam. Only one year left to go. There was a lot of excitement last night. Much of it happened off the court. Although what happened on the court was good too. Check that out. Jimmy fallon and Justin Timberlake watching federer play. First the market news of the morning. The u. S. Equity futures. Yesterday it was a huge sell off. It was a decline of over 400 points. From the highs to the lows of the day. The dows closing at the lows. Things are already turning up. Nasdaq up by 49. We also have a news maker for you this morning. David tepper is going to be joining us for a squawk box exclusive. This is the guy that called for the federally. The fed put. Were going to see what he thinks right now a week before the fed makes his next decision coming up at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. Lets tell you about the other big stories were watching this morning. Economic worries coming from asia. Japans machinery orders falli