Elon musk set to launch the worlds most powerful rocket into space today. Im feeling really excited. This is the moment ive been waiting for for a long time. Wait until you here what he put inside it and why this could be a key step in the race to mars. All that and new questions police have for Robert Wagner nearly 40 years after the death of natalie wood. We would love to hear his version of events. Could the brutal flu epidemic stretch all the way to may. And lady doritos . Is a quieter, cleaner snack for women in the works . Today, tuesday, february 6th, 2018. From nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today. Thanks for joining us on this tuesday morning. I dont know a woman alive that doesnt like to tilt back that empty doritos bag to get the crumbs. A quieter doritos . Maybe thats why the markets dropped yesterday. Were talking about fear and concern, stretching from wall street to main street, in the markets nose dive. All of the markets are down and we could be in for a roller rollercoaster ride today. We have two reports, starting with jo ling kent at the new york stock exchange. Reporter good morning to you. The markets and investors are bracing for a thirdstraight day of losses, as the Global Markets continue to plunge. Yesterday, the dow closed as a record low. It was the biggest percentage drop since 2011. Wall street is being forced to wonder if that longanticipated correction is now around the corner. Breaking news. Market selloff. Reporter this morning, many investors are nervously watching the market. This is one for the record books. The dow down 1175 points. Reporter following the biggest oneday point drop ever. We moved almost the whole year in an afternoon. Reporter the dows drop was eyedevelop eyepopping. But it was 4. 6 . Stomachchurning but not in the top20 of alltime daily losses. Now, some are worried about what comes next and how it may impact them financially. Its not something right now. But when youre trying to put money away. Im going to head to the gym. Ill look next week and see how it goes. Reporter right now, experts say the economy is doing well. 200,000 jobs were added last month. Unemployment is at a 17year low. Hourly wages are up nearly 3 . Some on wall street worry that to keep inflation in check, the fed will raise Interest Rates again, meaning home mortgages and car loans will be more expensive. No one knows how fast Jerome Powell will raise rates makes many investors nervous. Your taxes will go way down. Reporter President Trump was in ohio touting the economy and his tax cuts. He has repeatedly taken credit when the stocks rally. You look at the stock market at an alltime high. Reporter economists urged patience. If youre a longterm investor investor you have to bet in the longterm. Reporter stocks have plunged in asia and europe overnight. Were bracing for another rocky day here at the new york stock exchange. So far this morning, President Trump, who has always celebrated the rally in the markets throughout his complain and his presidency has not commented on this threeday drop. Guys . Jo thank you so much. Lets bring in ali velshi who covers business for us. See the images of the stockbrokers looking stricken. Whats going on here . This market, normally a market goes up goes down a little. We havent gone down a little for a long time. When you see 8. 5 and 2. 5 today, all happening within a week the big numbers scare people. But a market is supposed to do that over time. This market has been doing that. When it corrects it comes this way. A lot of people say this is a good thing. Its an opportunity for a little bit of a breather. Its probably going to be lower today. Right now, were looking at a dow open 2. 5 or 600 points. Youll see investors getting in at that point, saying the market is take the breather it was supposed to take. If youre mary smith and youre looking at these numbers and your retirement is there, your 401 k give some advice. What should you do . You would be worried. Its not time for panic yet. This market will go lower than it is right now. At some point, it will turn around. This is because int rates are going up. People have other places to put the adve give peoplew 4 know how to log theou need to tdo makes a lot of sense because you dont know when to get back in. When markets go back up, take your winnings and put them aside. Anybody who has cash may, in a little while, decide they want to get into this market as it settles and starts to go back up again. Panic is not your friend in the stock market. A quick Public Service announcement. If you take credit for the upside you have to take credit for the downside. Does the dow have anything to do with anyone in office . Right now, this doesnt have anything to do with politics. In 2008 when markets started to go down it helped that the president and the fed chair were out there helping people feel more secure. This president only likes to talk about up markets. Ali velshi, thank you very much. Will President Trump sit down for an interview with special Counsel Robert Mueller . This morning, we may be one step closer to an answer. Peter alexander is at the white house with the latest. Good morning. Reporter hoda good morning to you. The president s lawyers say there are active discussions whether President Trump will agree to an interview with robert mueller. But even though the president has said 100 he would be up for it his lawyers are now reportedly counseling him against it. President trump hasnt shied away from saying he would sit down with an interview with robert mueller. Im looking forward to it. Reporter his lawyers are advising him to refuse a facetoface meeting with the special counsel. Four people familiar with the matter say the president s lawyers are concerned mr. Trump, who has a history of making false and conflicting statements could be charged with lying to investigators. If the president takes his lawyers advice it might be a legal showdown that could go all the way to the supreme court, if mueller decides to subpoena President Trump to testify before a grand jury. The president s lawyers telling nbc news the discussions with the special counsel are understandably private. The president on the road in cincinnati touting his new tax law and mocking democrats for their stonefaced reaction during his state of the union, when he highlighted low unemployment numbers. They were like death and unamerican. Unamerican. Somebody said treasonous. Yeah i guess. Why not . Can we call that treason . Why not . Reporter this morning, the white house is reviewing the democratic rebuttal to that disputed republican memo that alleges the fbi and Justice Department abused their powers to spy on a former Trump Campaign adviser. The House Intelligence Committee voting to release the classified memo. We want to make sure that the white house does not redact our memo for political purposes. And thats a deep concern. Reporter adam schiff the committees top democrat sparring with the president on twitter. Mr. Trump lashing out first, accuseing the california congressman of illegally leaking confidential information. Warning, he must be stopped. Schiffs dismissive reply instead of tweeting false smears the American People would appreciate if you turn off the tv and help solve the Funding Crisis protect the dreamers or anything else. Despite several members of the president s own party, that the gop does not vindicate him in the russia inquiry, President Trump claims otherwise. We caught them. Its so much fun. Like the great sleuth. Reporter the president notably effusively praised the Committee Chair that spearheaded that memo, calling devonin nunes a Great American hero. This morning, a white house official tells me it was tongue and check that the president was trying to make the point that there are positive things going on that all americans should celebrate, regardless of party. Savannah and hoda . Peter alexander thanks. Theres a lot more including our countdown to the Winter Olympics. Our athletes are arriving in pyeongchang, with the first events getting under way in two short days from now. Keir simmons is in a cold pyeongchang for us this morning. Good morning. Reporter hey, savannah. Hey, hoda good morning. Evening here in south korea, where were days away from the Opening Ceremony. And all the talk is of the temperature. It is 20 degrees here right now. With the windchill, they say it is more like 10 degrees. But that is nothing. Head up the mountain and it is cold. Team usa, raising the flag on the 23rd Winter Olympics today. Athletes including snowboarder and meddle hopeful, chloe kim, already getting in the olympic spirit. Go team usa. Reporter dangerously cold expected for fridays Opening Ceremony. The venue has an open roof. Team usa will have heated jackets. This is a step colder than were normally used to skiing. We ski in conditions that are this cold of course. Generally, its a little warmer than this. Reporter with olympic skiers reaching high speeds the cold will be punishing. But not just competitors, too. The temperatures right now, 8 degrees. But this says it feels like 6 below. And just the u. S. Winter flu is a concern here. Another illness causing big problems an outbreak of norovirus has meant 1,200have been pulled from duty. The massive operation to protect the games being boosted by the south korean military. The threat from north korea reduced. Some of its athletes will be participating here. In womens hockey north and south koreans will compete on a single unified team. Warming relations at freezing games. This never happened before. So itopportunity. Reporter and this morning, advice from two team usa competitors from north dakota, used to the cold. Gloves hats and use layers. Lots of layers. Reporter lots of layers. One record they think may be set here is the coldest Winter Olympics in history, guys. But at least in a few days time at least for a few days they think it will warm up just in time for you to arrive. Im going to say, were going to give you a big hug. Well see you in a couple days. Well have a lot more on the olympics of course throughout the morning. We certainly will. Elon musk the founder of spacex and tesla, is set to launch the biggest rocket in the world today. It has 27 engines, thats a thrust equal to 18 747 jets. It could be a big step carrying people to the moon or even mars. Tom cass tellostello is at the Kennedy Space center. A lot of people are excited about this one. Including me. This is one of the coolest assignments of the day. This is an unmanned test mission. Elon musk calls this rocket falcon heavy. It is the biggest rocket to take off from here since the apollo moon missions. The giant on the pad this morning in florida is set to lift off with the kind of explosive power not seen here in 45 years. The mission, break through earths gravitational pull and head for a solar orbit, including mars. This reportededly 90 million mission, paid for by elon musk who admits hes a little giddy. How are you feeling . Im feeling really excited. This is the moment ive been waiting for for a long time. Reporter it was from this very pad, 39a, that nasas apollo and Shuttle Missions were launched. But msays amid all of the engineering and tests, theres a decent chance his rocket can blow up today. I hope it goes right. I give it maybe, a half to twothirds chance of working. Reporter thats it . Yeah. Actually i feel like twothirds. But i think realistically half. Reporter falcon heavy is 29 feet call. It can generate an astonishing 5 Million Pounds of trust. Carrying the equipment weight of a fullyloaded 737 aircraft. While previous rockets fell back into the ocean, spacex wants to all three are programmed to cy to earth platform in the ocean. If it goes well it could be used to launch satellites more cheaply. And perhaps, one day, a bigger version will lead a manned mission to the moon or even mars. I think it will mean that the united largest rocket on planet earth right now to take payloads up into orbit. Reporter there is precious cargo aboard. Elon musks own roadster with a dummy behind the wheel. And a looped recording of david bowies space odyssey. Ground control to maj im hopeful that humanity will have a base on the moon and a city on mars in our lifetimes. Reporter in our lifetimes . Yes. Yes. A city a village. Depends on what you call a city. Serious lunar base. That would be amazing. And the beginnings of a city on mars. Reporter Todays Mission is also all about the mantra go big or go home. Thats what its all about here. 1 30 p. M. Is when the launch window opens up. The window looks really good today to take elon musks car into a termpermanent orbit around the sun. A long way to go for a parking space. Mr. Roker, what do yout . We have some snow to talk about. For a second day in another major pileup. This iowa. One person was killed. This was anywhere from 50 to 70 vehicles involved in this. As you look on the radar this, is what came through very quickly. It pushes on through, moves through chicago. Through update new york. E another system coming in. And that one has Million People at risk for some sort of Winter Weather advisory winter storm watch. Especially vermont and Northern New York between noon and 7 00 tomorrow we could look at conditions. They need the rain through the south. Weve had some drought conditions. Locally, four inches or more from texas, louisiana, into mississippi. M the way up into new england, anywhere from a tenth after on inch to a quarter of an inch of ice and snow tomorrow from iowa allay into western new upstate new york and parts of talking anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of snow. Were going to be watching this. Again, the snow line comes down fairly close to new york and boston. So were going to be watching that closely, as well. phone line ringing lieutenant ray speaking. woman my name is cedricka. Yartment buildingand you were the firs who was able to pull me up out of it. lt. Ray oh my god. You kinda caught me off guard here. cedricka i could se like he is not giving up for me. crying he is and. I appreciate that. Good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Im tracking very light snow in the Lehigh Valley and pocono mountains. Well get sunshine and warm into valley. The rest of the area seeing clouds and sunshine. Well break and 40s for delaware. Up to 41 degrees in new jersey and 40 degrees. And well see sunshine this afternoon. Sune this afternoon. New jersey at the shore, sunshine 44 for the afternoon. Have a great day. Thank you. Straight ahead new developments in the natalie wood investigation. Why police are saying Robert Wagners story about the night of her death does not add up. Then an nbc news investigation on the Winter Olympics glamour event. Were talking figure skating and questions over how the sport is judged. First, this is today on nbc. 5 coming up here we go. A new round of bad news about the flu season. Could this nasty virus still be with us in may . Whats figure vo this building season has been jimmys longest. Jimmy shouting james hes survived record rain and a supplier that went belly up. So while hes proud to have helped put a roof over the heads of hundreds of families, hes most proud of the one hes kept over his own. 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