surveillance. i am francine lacqua in london and these are your markets. it is all about treasuries today. off seven-yeart highs, adding two pressures on risk assets. stocks mixed, stoxx 600 pretty flat. the finance minister of italy is starting to speak in parliament and a second. the italian 10 year yield is at 3.57. he did here on bloomberg surveillance. in 20 minutes, we talked outlook for oil. first, straight to the bloomberg first word news with taylor riggs. taylor: italy s deputy prime minister says britain s real enemy is jean-claude juncker and the brussels bureaucracy that pushes open borders. bonds and stocks tumbled as salvini attacked the eu. he said next year s election will be between austerity and those who want to create jobs. in the u.s., the trump administration has called on saudi arabia to for answers in the disappearance at a reporter, of a saudi journalist and a critic of the royal family, last seen entering the kingdom s consulate in a stumble. s
been cutting the mustard for four generations. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. half the country tonight staring down some of winter s worst in all its forms as we head into the weekend. from close to a foot of snow predicted in the northern plains and the midwest, these pictures from iowa where several inches are already on the ground with more to come the carolinas bracing for ice and even high wind and fire warnings across texas to eastern new mexico in all 64 million of us are under winter alerts from a system spreading from the middle of the country into the southeast and then up the i95 corridor where big cities like washington and philadelphia could also get snowed on while the northeast and new england face another round of brutal cold. our dasha burns has the very latest. reporter: tonight the monster winter storm already hitting north dakota drivers battling near white-out conditions in minnesota, cars getting off icy roads. the cedar