and welcome to power lunch. i m contessa brewer. stocks down across the board, sitting near session lows. the dow posting its biggest drop since early august the s&p 500 and the nasdaq both lower for a second straight day. oil rallying brent breaking above 80 bucks. hitting its highest level since 2014 news on an $18 billion merger. shares down 30% since last wednesday. but check out amarin, reducing heart attacks and strokes. the ceo joins us later in the show, tyler. thank you very much, contessa i m tyler mathisen welcome. we begin this hour with breaking news apparently deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will meet with president trump on thursday, apparently forestalling a resignation or a firing for now this is a perfect day to have eamon javers in the news room, and here he is eamon, what is the latest? tyler, we don t flow what the latest is in terms of rod rosenstein s future, but we did get a new statement from sarah sanders, explaining the logistics going o
egregious but not criminal conduct. i m disappointed in the depave your behavior of these officers. it underminds public trust. it is important in community policing. i hop this action helps restore confidence in the richmond police department. reporter: in a statement the richmond police officers association says it is hopefully any member who receives discipline will be judged under the scope of misconduct. i learned two other oakland police officers could be formally charged in this wide- spread case this week. we have not seen jasmine since she returned from florida several weeks ago. do we know where she is or anything at all about her? she is undergoing treatment in north carolina. john boris is representing her. she is trying to do the best she can while he tries to manage the legal claims. we heard at some point she might testify. is that still the case? reporter: we are a long ways to go. we have to go through a preliminary hearing and see if the judge
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on this sunday morning. i m erica hill. i m lester holt alongside dylan dreyer and tom llamas in for jenna. one of the things about going to bed early and waking up and everybody says did you see the game last night? dylan, you said your husban woke you up at the end of the game to let you know. whenever he comes to bed, i m like who won? he said you don t even understand what happened. this call was insane. i still don t quite understand. you see where middlebrooks falls and it trip it is base runner. they re calling it an obstruction call. he gets the base and the next base happens to be home. you re an adopted new englander, was it a good call? as a baseball/softball fan, i think it was the right call. we ll have more on that coming up. we want to get right to today s top story. a fair employee accused of tampering
tuesday, october 28th. good evening, everyone, policymakers at the federal reserve kicked off a two-day meeting in washington on enter rates. and on wall street, the investors launched a rally, powering the dow over a 17,000 threshold. today s gains were fouelled by the confidence at the super levels, also reassuring investors about the health of corporate america. and it was small tech corporations, not the big blue chips that helped the beaten down russell 2,000 index post a gain of nearly 3%, here is what happens, the dow up 187, the dow jumped 78 points and the s&p 500 added 23 points, steve liesman takes a look at tomorrow and what may be next at the central banks. reporter: two years and $1.6 trillion later, the federal reserve is set to end the bond program known as qe 3, or the third round of quantatite easing, the fed has seen the rates since 2014, and hiking them gradualing up 3% by the fourth quarter of 2017. that would be the longest, mildest rate hike cycle e
tuesday, october 28th. good evening, everyone, policymakers at the federal reserve kicked off a two-day meeting in washington on enter rates. and on wall street, the investors launched a rally, powering the dow over a 17,000 threshold. today s gains were fouelled by the confidence at the super levels, also reassuring investors about the health of corporate america. and it was small tech corporations, not the big blue chips that helped the beaten down russell 2,000 index post a gain of nearly 3%, here is what happens, the dow up 187, the dow jumped 78 points and the s&p 500 added 23 points, steve liesman takes a look at tomorrow and what may be next at the central banks. reporter: two years and $1.6 trillion later, the federal reserve is set to end the bond program known as qe 3, or the third round of quantatite easing, the fed has seen the rates since 2014, and hiking them gradualing up 3% by the fourth quarter of 2017. that would be the longest, mildest rate hike cycle e