Retailers and the Small Businesses fighting to survive. How to find a deal and support your community. Shocking death the founder of zappos, the revolutionary shoe company, dies after a house fire keeping it real. The sudden run on Real Christmas trees. Why are so Many Americans dumping the fake one and kicking into history. I just want to tell like all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to. Like you really can. The first woman ever to play in a Major College Football Game this is Nbc Nightly News with jose diazbalart good evening. The message from Public Health officials remains the same socially distance. Wear a mask. But the numbers keep changing this weekend we surpassed 13 million covid cases in the u. S. We now have more people hospitalized for the virus than ever before. And tomorrow the number of people traveling is set to hit its highest number since the pandemic began. In one city the number of cases quadrupled in a month. Theyre now taking extreme
Undemocratic, what some Top Republicans are saying about the president s latest efforts to sow doubt about the election. This wild press appearance from Rudy Giuliani. And crimes you dont have to smell, and you cant smell this one. And a week long recount by hand. And ready, set, shop. A surprising plus of the pandemic just ahead and why the thanksgiving meal will cost less this year, and the holiday deals are starting today, a full week ahead of black friday. And plus a we love a parade like none other, and what is being done to pull off the beloved macys day parade unlike no other. Today, friday, november 20th, 2020. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. From studio 1a in rockefeller pla plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning. Happy friday and glad you are with us, and hoda is off and we have a lot of news. And potentially significant news. It is just breaking surrounding the vaccine and the coronavirus, and key step forward this morning. The Pfizer Company is
Georgia says they may be done counting today. Trump is ahead by 16,000 votes there. If biden wins there, he would still be one Electoral College vote short based on the nbcs call of the election. Were watching pennsylvania, obviously. Lets take a look at the map there. Its worth 20 electoral votes. 92 of those votes are in. President trump holds a slight lead there as well. There was a demonstration in philadelphia as Trump Supporters demanded observers be allowed to be as close as 6 away from election workers as they counted votes. A judge said that was too close but a Court Reversed that this morning. They will allow candidate observers to watch. Here is Trump Campaigns corey lewandowski. Well go in, watch whats going on, not from 30 feet away, 100 feet away, from 6 feet away. Now, to be clear, observers will not be allowed to interfere with vote counting and secretaries of state say regardless of protests all legal and legitimate votes will be counted. Taking a look at nevada, offic
Right now were bringing in Lawrence Karnow laurent, yeah guys were defeat now of fire season kind of a scary weekend ahead were going to see these winds. Come and go several times throughout the week so the National Weather service has already issued redflag warning that begins at 11 oclock tonight in the north bay mountains you can see areas in brown these where theyve issued some watches beginning on wednesday. Thats because were likely going to see these turn red flag warnings as we get the middle of this week because well see some very gusty winds around the entire bay area so Santa Cruz Mountains 25 to 35 mile an hour winds. This will be fine tuned over the next couple of days, humidity 15 to about 20 that as you make your way in the east bay also gusty winds again these are but a 1000 feet so gusting over the mountain tops 20 to 30 miles an hour. Maybe some 4050 plus mile an hour gusts over diablo and you can see the humidity down to 10 to 15 smaller county youre split here. Youv
Thats been going on for a long time that was going on in fact in january and february, then the plunge and the ricochet. Lets look at a few slides to try to prove it, so to speak the precondition of excess you see these bullet points here basically, s p 500 before this selloff this week at an alltime high we know the price to sales, a fundamental on measuring the valuation, at an alltime high the s p 500 is up 42 and the nasdaq up some 57 the precondition of excess, and then the next slide, divergence. As the market is making alltime highs, only 16 of the s p constituents were making alltime highs index doing it the average stock in the s p is 28 below its alltime high. Thats not now thats on monday before we sold off. And then, finally, 46 of all stocks in the s p 500 have no gains for two years. This is the precondition of die divergence and the precondition of excess. So the next slide, what we know is we have a very rare circumstance where the nasdaq 100 drops 10 in a twoday period