Ready for big day down broad street. Looking good. Today is sunday january 1st, 2017. Good morning, im rahel solomon, so lets get your day, your week, your year, started with a forecast. Justin drabick joins us now. Yes. I have to rock glasses again for this hit. You guys are with me. I like clear ones better. You cannot have them. But, weather looks quiet. It looks like the week is all over the place. Yes, it is january, we will get no real snow shots though. We will get rain in here. Today all is quiet. Great news for outdoor activity. Cant take you serious. I know. 50 degrees on our way up to this afternoon from philadelphia there we go. Pretty cool, thanks, to our floor director. Having some fun here this morning. It will be a fun day outside heading to the mummers parade. Weather cooperating. Clear skies, were in the sunshine. Live look at center city. 40 degrees at the airport. Dropped a degree. The southeasterly wind keeping temperatures on the milder side. Bringing wind chills
Since january 1987, perhaps maybe we should stop worrying so much about how much this market has already run because if you take a longer term perspective, maybe you havent missed as much as you think. Those are fabulous words to live by, and they come from none other than Warren Buffett, the oracle of omaha, and the greatest investor of my lifetime. Between buffetts annual berk her hathaway letter this weekend and becky quicks amazing interview with him on squawk box this morning, we got more investing wisdom than most people can consume for years to come. While it would be impossible to summarize, i feel compelled to talk about buffetts comments if only because its so imperative that you read and watch this man. Hes too great. Hes too smart, and hes too well informed to ignore. First i want to start out with the bombshell he unloaded right at the very beginning of the interview this morning. The revelation that Berkshire Hathaway now owns 133 million shares of apple, putting the posi
Supreme court neil gorsuch. The first vote set for today. Will republicans be forced to use the socalled Nuclear Option as the president s soninlaw and Senior Adviser makes the surprise trip to iraq overnight. Whats his mission . And Historic South Carolina defeats Mississippi State as the gamecocks first ever Womens Basketball title as North Carolina and gonzaga are set to battle it out for the mens title today april 3rd, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on monday morning. 7 00 out on the west coast. Well have more on march madness, even though were in april in just a second. Were going to start on monday morning with breaking news coming out of russia, deadly explosion on a subway in st. Petersburg. Security now being tightened all across that country as the investigation gets under way. Nbcs Kelly Cobiella is with us. Kelly, what can you tell us . Matt, good morning. T
It will be a pretty bright day with mostly sunny skies. Sitting on 60 degrees which isnt a bad place to be early in the morning, feels pretty comfortable ought there. 58 degrees in wilmington, 56 degrees in allentown. A little cooler but these numbers arent bad particularly when you consider theres not a lot of wind out there. Visibility problems exist in trenton and then starting to sweep down into parts of northeast philadelphia the way this model is showing all of this stuff. Airport in Atlantic City very low and visibility, too, so to the east of philadelphia there is the chance of some fog and some visibility issues. As we go through the day overall though were looking bright. 53 degrees by 7 oclock. 60 by noon. 67 degrees by 7 oclock and your high of seven is going to be late in the day. Well probably hit that at about 5 30 or 6 oclock this afternoon and holding upper 60s in through much of this period so a really pleasant day ahead. Winds on the light side but tomorrow we have a
Committee on the future of the u. S. Armed forces and recommendations to improve the services. Including cost savings and efficiencies, incentivizing and managing the civilian work force. [ gavel ] committee will come to order. This week, the committee will hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years, that includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. If world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of the past will suffice for today and especially for tomo