Let us take you to scarlet fu. Scarlet new home sales was makes up 7 of the Residential Market but it is counted one contracts are signed a being more timelier and they saw a drop of 11. 4 , the first the client in four months that follows three straight months of gains. It is 481,000 on a net basis. Additionally, the february numbers were revised lower as well. Recent home cells have been constructive at the upside potential is limited by a lack of inventory. They were projected to soften but this is a bigger drop than what economists have been looking for. This doesnt seem to have much of an impact on Financial Markets on u. S. Stocks. U. S. Stock indexes are moving higher. The actual change is negligible because the s p 500 has little change. You are seeing the leg higher here for u. S. Stocks. Evidence perhaps that the Housing Market is under pressure. Erik thanks very much. We are waiting for statements from president obama. He will be speaking to reporters in the White House Brie
Citing that as part of the boost. Some of the blue chip peers not getting the same love. Well get to all of it in the premarket. That strong dollar is cutting into pepsicos bottom line. Well speak to the company ceo hugh johnson in a couple of minutes. Facebook has more monthly users than the entire population of china. The mobile ad revenue impressing some on the street. Despite that revenue miss, where will the stock open today . Procter and gamble quarterly profit in line but sales fell for a fifth straight quarter. Currency effects weighing on 3m. Caterpillar beating the street. We saw construction in the u. S. And north america up. Thats the bright spot we have. Its fairly anemic but its growing. Its Getting Better quarter by quarter. We see that. We are happy with that. Everywhere else in the world we are doubledigit decreases in sales year over year regionally. Weve seen a real dichotomy here in the world. They are upping Sales Guidance upping Earnings Guidance as some of these
To have the ultimate elvis wedding, the big day is here complete with a surprise for the bride and groom. You are invited, today, thursday april 23rd 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studioio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to today. We have elvis playing for the wedding a little later. What happened to the passengers on that flight . They say the passengers on that delta flight are happy to be on solid ground. Thats our top story. Lets get to it. For 180 passengers headed to newark new jersey from par frans. At least two people had to be taken to the hospital. Others were sickened after hitting bad weather and severe turbulence. Nbcs tom costello covers aviation for us. Good morning him tell us ability this flight. Reporter good morning, savannah passengers on board this flight describe it as some of the worst turbulence theyve ever experienced. Its so bad the turbulence went and on and it couldnt land.
Stories backed up heading three deputies with the vehicle and also having a patrol car several deputies shot the driver and was taken to hospital it is unclear how serious that persons injuries are were told one deputy was treated for injuries and the hospital to the deputy suffered minor injurieskk reporter the, line protocol Santa Rosa Police is handling this in the station. Al, he was caught in crossfire in a gun fight in vallejo, this shooting happened at 5 30 yesterday, investigators found two dozen shell cases at the intersection of cherry and fifth street. Its unclear who the target was and they were caught in the middle of it. They were in abc7 investigation. Any time we have a shooting victim, its a tragedy. We have a 7yearold child, i can assure you that the Police Department is doing everything it can, and were sparing no resources to determine the cause of this. Multiple guns were fired during this shooting. They have a vague description of the men involved saying they were
Senators about this and i think it is time for us to step up as congress and do something truly bipartisan that the people will applaud. We are going to increase by 5 and were going to do it on a bipartisan basis. I would say for the record if there is going to be some conversation about money going to the pentagon i want to i want to be part of that conversation and i want to stick to the rules that its shared equally. We make sure that there is money coming back into the nondefense side of the equation. I hope the administration will take the same position. If we can find oco money lets not do that at the expense of nondefense. I hope we can come to a conclusion that we are going to make our mark in bipartisanship when it comes to biomedical research. Id like to hear any comments youd like to make. We to believe in terms of the number in investments in the choices we need to make in getting the nation to function right now but also preparing for the future right now. Thats why we mak