Approve her confirmation. Weve also learned votes to confirm the secretaries of health and Human Services and treasury have been postponed indefinitely after democrats staged a walkout. Later tonight, President Trump will name his nominee for Supreme Court justice in a prime time speech at the white house. As weijia jiang reports, the announcement comes as the president s pick for attorney general senator Jeff Sessions, moves closer to confirmation. Reporter senators in the Judiciary Committee are debating whether to move forward with senator Jeff Sessions nomination to be the next attorney general. He will follow the law. Reporter if the full senate approves, sessions will take over a department of justice that has been shaken up after the late night firing of sally yates. The acting head of the department. The white house claimed yates an obama appointee betrayed the department of justice when she refused to enforce President Trumps travel ban for citizens from seven countries. Uatee
James comey is set to testify tomorrow about a possible investigation of russian ties in the Trump Campaign. Air bnb. The home sharing company is changing the way we stay. Our sunday sitdown with cofinder brian chesky with a big idea that started with three air mattresses on the floor of his apartment. We said, what if you could go somewhere and feel like you lived there . Well talk with brian a little later on in the show. Lets begin with a heightened alert at the white house after two security scares there. They did come with the president not in town this weekend. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is in West Palm Beach near his maralago estate. Good morning, kelly. Whats the latest . Reporter good morning, willie. The coming days will be high risk, high reward for President Trump, but the news this morning is something of which he had no control. Another test for the secret service. Sources close to the investigation said a man was arrested and detained after he claimed that he had a bomb in his
8th. What a day it is shaping up to be. Im brian duffy. Tia im tia ewing. Make sure and vote. The weather should cooperate, too, for the voters for most of the day. Meteorologist sam roberts is tracking some rain thats going to come a little later this afternoon. Sam. Samantha my afternoon voters will have to deal with a little rain. This is like Late Afternoon closer to the evening commute time frame. Polls open at 6 30, and if youre headed out to vote early this morning, you can expect a little bit of a chill in the air. It in shaker heights. Its just a little bit warmer farther to the north. 52 in lakewood, good morning in strongsville. We are in the middle 40s right now. A decent warmup in place. We have a southwest wind and that means that temperatures will once again be above average today. Not quite as warm as yesterday but still warmer than what you expect for election day. 53 at 9 00 in the morning. Through about 3 00. Then once the rain starts this evening, we will begin to c
The tvs are inexpensive right now and we are trying to get one of those. Thats why. My friend wants a ps4. That is why we are here. Tom video games. How much do you think you will save . 250 on tvs and 250 on the ps4, too. Tom worth it . Yes. Yes, it is. Tom all right. This is like a tradition for him like turkey. He com richmond, visits family and they come here on thanksgiving. He is not the only one. We have a line of folks who have come out early on thanksgiving. Have you eaten yet or are you eating later . Later . When did you eat . Yesterday. Tom so you could be here today . Yes. Tom what time did you get here . 1 00. Tom what brought you out . The tv at first but i switched to the xbox. They are giving one out for 299. Tom what would it normally be . 350. My family just got in. Im not eating until 6 00, 7 00. Tom that gives you time. The doors open at 5 00. I have seen bigger lines in years past. But the folks here now are hardcore and ready to go in when it opens in less than a
Out, you can see that japan, the nikkei was flat, too. The hang seng and shanghai deposit down, too. Japan, the flat market there, japan avoiding a recession in the First Quarter gdp expanding by an annualized 1. 7 . Much more than a 0. 2 increase forecasters had predicted. Take a look at whats happening in european equities, the modest dines for the dax, cac, ftse. Down by 0. 25 . Take a look at crude oil price this morning, kruld is unchanged got all the way up to 48. 31. Brent crude is down six cents to 41. 42. Finally check out currency, across the board after comments from fed officials making it sound like june is actually a live meeting. Well debate this. The euro is at 1. 1266. The yen at 109. 41. Weve got top stories including political news, Bernie Sanders winning the oregon prime but nbc news is reporting that Hillary Clinton is the winner in kentucky. 99 tallied. Shes now within 100 of the delegates needed to clinch the democratic nomination. Goldman sachs downgraded its eq