Good afternoon, glad you could be with us on hour one of power lunch. Im Tyler Mathisen the dow on track for its first fiveday winning streak of 2018 after that historic january. The dow, that index along with the s p on pace for the best weekly gains now best weekly gains since november of 2016. The nasdaq on track for its best weekly gain in nearly three and a half years now Cisco Systems rallying on its earnings beat, teva pharma soaring on news Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway is going to take a stake there and trip advisor is higher. The company be buy back stock and gave an upbeat forecast. And for more on these markets, lets go down to the New York Stock Exchange Bertha Coombs is here today standing by. The dow trading above 25,000, the s p above 2700 the nasdaq recovered three quarters of the losses trading above 7200 the fiveday winning streak is putting these indices on pace for their best weekly gains in forever. Take a look at the mass in dnasq its up over 4. 5 , thats th
Rocked the Afghan Capital of couple. It comes after a Major Taliban attack on a high profile hotel in which more than 20 people died. Three teenage boys have been killed when they broke it by a car in west london. A man has been arrested. Police are investigating links between the incident as an altercation which took place after the collision. Paris is on high alert forflooding. Record rainfall has caused the river sent to banks in one of the wettest january is in paris in more than a century. The release of serial sex attackerjohn worboys has been put on hold. It comes worboys has been put on hold. It co m es after worboys has been put on hold. It comes after two of his victims won the first stage of a legal challenge. It is time now to cross to the bbc sports centre. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me 0lly foster and katherine downes. Will griggs on fire once again for wigan blasting west ham out of the fa cup 11th round. While notts county earn themselves a replay against anot
Next, the organizing director at quentin. Why are these people here . Why arent they deported or why arent they still imprisoned . I am the organizing director. We have been around the past eight years and we came out of a direct response to the contract that sheriff arpaio signed and put into a limitation into implementation. We were born out of the crisis and a few years back, a big piece of the needs of our key minute he beyond community beyond doing the protest and the legal stuff it was essentially on a casebycase basis. Our people were saying they need support. My family, my husband my daughter is in detention and we need you to help us get them out. Jose found out about our work inside the jail and called his wife and said to look for us. We have been becoming experts at understanding the legal system, helping families navigate it and fight to get their loved ones out and in the past two years, we have gotten over 150 people out of detention through this level of advocacy and po
Researchers, not just serves working. I hesitate to do this because he represented the state that is the most affected but i would love to see if someone has the courage to question the scale of money we give the universities for administering this. You look at the percent are part gets percent harvard gets. Come on guys, cant work that go straight into research . Sen. Warren let me ask you the question on the funding part of this. Should we be doing Capital Budgeting as a way to increase the funding substantially for nih . In order to fund nih, do we have to cut shortterm spending . Speaker gingrich we dont have to. I would take it off budget and issue an alzheimers bond. The longterm tidal wave is so enormous the most fiscally prudent thing you can do is to find a way to undercut that wave through research. I and happy to defend that notion anywhere in the country in terms of talking with conservatives. There is no all are other alternative that works. If you look at how the navy bui
Driver of this car as they search for the suspect in the murder of a popular fitness instructor. This morning the latest on that investigation, including what authorities are saying now about the victims family. And the force is with her. Thats not me making that noise, its the mask [ laughter ] the woman who posted that video on facebook showing her laughing hilariously, taking the world by storm. Nearly 100 Million People in less than two days tickled pink by that infectious laughter. If youd like to own a mask of your own, good luck with that. Its sold out today, saturday, may 21st, 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. Love that. Were all smiling talking about it. If you woke up in a bad mood, just watch that video. Infectious laughter, right . We just watched it for the first time about ten minutes ago and weve watched it probably four times since then. I think because