Survived a fall from an aircraft plus a year in the wilderness. And meet the teacher who went above and beyond the call to include all of his students on a class hiking trip. Early today starts right now good thursday morning. Im phillip mena good to be with you im Frances Rivera an explosive new phasee impeachment inquiry into President Trump gets underway this morning nbc news learned overnight the whistleblower complaint that set all of this in motion is now declassified and is expected to go public this morning with minimal redactions and in just hours, the acting director of National Intelligence, Joseph Mcguire, will appear before congress. He will testify at an open hearing before the House Intel Committee at 9 00 a. M. Eastern and then speak to the senate Intel Committee behind closed doors this afternoon well have more on what to expect from capitol hill in a few minutes. But first, nbcs susan mcinhe is has new details on the call between the president and ukraines leader repo
Are slowing down, the Manufacturing Sector in this Country Contracting a little bit. To the wall street journals Jillian Melchior who follows this very closely. Our own susan li as well. Susan, one thing surprised folks with the china data, this was not something to be expected and were seeing more and more data like that, less ominous than thought. Now stronger than thought. Reflation as well in the month of august. I love to remind people that china is no longer just a manufacturing hub. Services like here in the u. S. Account for more than 50 of the economy now. So it is not cheap factory floors. If you go to shanghai, beautiful skyscrapers, really fast train this is very positive, especially for an economy that saw the weakest growth in 2years. Neil one of the reasons why the futures was up. Hang seng was up 4 . It owed itself as well to the talk that they will meet some of the protesters demands. Well get into that in a second. Couldnt you flip it around, say Better Things look fo
Ambassador to mexico and el salvador. Ester george joining us on the company with another inversion to talk about. Former economic senator United Nuclear iran chairman joe linerman, kyle beth, great insights there on markets and china he will be here onset. Dont miss a moment of it, we have a big show this morning, futures are down, we know why, markets are lower right now by about 60 points, down 7 on s p and nasdaq down 32 after yesterdays big rally boosted by positive retail earnings and stimulus hopes, china issued trade warning increased tariffs could escalate tensions and they are urging washington to meet beijing halfway, President Trump spoke about it yesterday. We are winning against china, they lost 2 and a half Million Dollars in a short period of time, has to be a deal fit for the United States, they want to make a deal, probably we will make a deal, somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one, somebody had to do it and im taking on china. Maria have to admit, the president
What he said and well its all wrong and elon muck is taking on ford he say test it is la pickup truck is coming soon and bigger and better than f150 varnmy and company starts right now. Charles all right take a look at that, that baby is cold outside and by the way it is getting colder and were togs windchill numbers frigid weather the midwest i lived there for a year and a half i bet you it is like minus 20 below but kansas city can boast about being a balmy 2 degrees. With a rally hit dow 25,000 in 2017, and, of course, now that the tax deal is done a lot of focus on what is next on the the trump agenda for his administration and a pouked on trillion dollar infrastructure that package is on the docket now remember when Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said he would work with President Trump on Infrastructure Spending you dont remember roll that tape. To join us we expwrea democrats are talking about this and a bill long before donald trump was campaigning for the president. Now w
The city but also Delaware County. We can tell you this officer is 25 years old. He was shot three times and he was taken by Police Vehicle initially for treatment. Sources tell us that military units have been called into multiple units have been called into the area. K9 assistance has been pulled in. This was a call on a Drug Enforcement case and theyre assisting. A number of police units are sending hem to folcroft and a number of officers are responding here to penn Presbyterian Hospital. There is no word on his condition. Weve been told he is a Folcroft Police officer, the town is confirming that and the Fire Department confirming that Police Officers put him in a vehicle to get him to the hospital. We are awaiting Additional Information on his condition but again, we can tell you that he was shot at least three times and is now getting medical treatment. As the search continues for the suspects behind this, multiple Police Departments in Delaware County responding to that scene i