another hack attack. the hunt for the armed gang behind this brazen heist. and the video that will have you laughing until it hurts today thursday, august 17, 2017. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everybody, welcome to today, nice to have you with us on thursday morning and a lot to get to including that powerful display of unity in the wake of that violence in virginia. overnight in charlottesville, thousands took part in a powerful candlelight vigil marching along the same path used by torch-carrying white nationalists just days earlier. we have complete coverage and we ll start in charlottesville with nbc s gabe gutierrez who was there. gabe, good morning to you. savannah, good morning. the vigil was not widely publicized so as not to attract unwanted attention from white nationalist groups but word spread and the response was overwhelming the honor heather h
headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. late today the stock market crossed over something of a mythic mark of the modern era and the dow jones industrials closed above 14,000 for the first time since 2007. and we all remember what happened back then. the stock market has been on a tear of late, gaining almost 7% so far this year. s&p and nasdaq also up. we started the day by learning the unemployment rate had inched up to 7.9% again, while the economy actually added 157,000 jobs, not as many as hoped for or expected. nbc s tom costello starts us off in our washington newsroom tonight with what all of this might mean. tom, good evening. hi, brian. the good news, anyone with retirement money invested in stocks has made back much of what they lost during the great recession and the wall street selloff, about $8 trillion. a big rally on wall street today, with the dow back over 14,000. a lot has changed since the last time it c
bowl on sunday. nightly news begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. late today the stock market crossed over something of a mythic mark of the modern era and the dow jones industrials closed above 14,000 for the first time since 2007. and we all remember what happened back then. the stock market has been on a tear of late, gaining almost 7% so far this year. s&p and nasdaq also up. we started the day by learning the unemployment rate had inched up to 7.9% again, while the economy actually added 157,000 jobs, not as many as hoped for or expected. nbc s tom costello starts us off in our washington newsroom tonight with what all of this mighmean. tom, good evening. hi, brian. the good news, anyone with retirement money invested in stocks has made back much of what they lost during the great recession and the wall street selloff, about $8 trillion. a big rally on wall street today, with the d
160 new jobs at two new hardware stores. 80% of the people we saw were had been out of work for three months to up to two years. reporter: julie ober has been out of work for 16 months. my last job was front desk at a pain management company. and just i actually got sick. and couldn t be there any longer. reporter: nationwide, some 12 million americans are still out of work. 7.9% unemployment simply not good enough. with that, wages don t rise. older folks don t see enough stock market gains to retire. and there s not enough new jobs for young people leaving school. reporter: while the jobs picture has been slowly improving, it s been a different story on wall street. after bottoming out four years ago, the dow has since climbed 111%. cnbc s bob pisani has seen a mood shift on wall street. the economy is slowly improving. it s not fast enough for a lot of people, unemployment is too high. but some of the key economic indicators are definitely getting better.