Speak the language in a statement and remove a considerable time frame. The statement and an updated forecast is due out at 2 00 p. M. Eastern today. A half hour later, chair janet yellen will field questions from the media. Beyond the fed, the ruble and oil. The russian currency dropping about 60 against the dollar this year. Cnbcs Geoff Cutmore has made its way to moscow and will join us there in just a minute. He is looking at russias move to sell the currency. As for oil, worries about a surprise pressure in prices, france is now down nearly 20 since opec decided to keep rates steady late last month. Add all these stories together and we have a very jittery market. The dow has shouldered triple gains and losses in the session. The blue chip index swinging 700 points yesterday alone. The dow, nasdaq and the s p closing at their lowest levels since the understand of october. Just a little after 6 00 a. M. Is how we stand right now. The futures look like they are headed up. But as we
Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2012 and november. If we voted in president ial elections at the same level, i mean in local elections at the same level that we vote in president ial elections a lot of this stuff that you are fearful of right now will dissipate, go away. Guest we have to do what we can wear began as a professor. I ran the center for the state of democracy and we are organizing a national dialogue. This ear ferguson is on our minds. I think locally it has to be these ferguson problems are local problems. They ar
That is the root and seed bed for black political activism in the United States. He realized if you are going to say you want equal rights and Racial Justice and whether people believe it because of a philosophical reasons or god has led us to this movement he was fine. During freedom summer he is organizing in mississippi and he is with young white organizers who volunteered to come into the deep south. And he said i know some are marxist and some are others but he said if they thing this is a result of god then thank you god. Host do you view this as a Christian Movement . Guest it was a religious movement not christian. There were as many jews involved in the rights as christians. There were other religions. I studied all of the great religions. The first a i got in college was in comparative religion. My father was a minister. I grew up in the fundamentalist church. We believed in dunking and my wifes church believed in sprinkles. All of these are symbolic of how to live and find t
[applause] we are very honor today to have Doris Kearns Goodwin is our special guest. Before i give her background for a moment and start some questions, how many people here have read a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin . Okay, all right. How many people have read two books . Three books . For . Five . Six . All of them. Okay. How many people are going to buy her book today and get it autographed . Okay. So Doris Kearns Goodwin is obviously a leading president ial scholars. She is a person who has written books on some of the most important president and today well talk largely about her new book, the bully pulpit, which is about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft and a bit about the muckrakers. Before we do so, a little more background about her another book shes written. Shes of course written works on lincoln, eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and a book on Lyndon Johnson with whom she worked when she was a white house fellow. She is from brooklyn. [cheers and applause] a big fan of t
At least 14 passengers injured after severe turbulence rocks a flight from seoul to dallas. Tense moments in the cabin caught on camera. And the winner is Craig Wayne Boyd. The country star from team blake crowned the voice and he flew across the country to celebrate with us today, wednesday, december 17th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with matt lauer live from studio 1a and Savannah Guthrie live from washington, d. C. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. 7 00 out on the west coast. Weve got a gang here in new york city, savannah is in washington where we expect to hear from the president on the surprise release of alan gross. Good morning to you. Good morning. This is a big story. Cuba has agreed to the 65yearolds release on what it calls humanitarian grounds. Gross was arrested in 2009, and accused of being a spy. Was sentenced to 15 years in prison three years ago. While he is on a plane home right now as we speak, Andrea Mitche