assuming things go as scheduled. mark. reporter: neil, good afternoon. as you mentioned, the food and drug administration continuing to evaluate pfizer s vaccine. all indications are that we should get a final green light within hours, if not by the end of this weekend after that advisory committee had a chance to consider it on thursday. pfizer, as you know, has been producing its vaccines ahead of approval so that it could be distributed as quickly as possible. the trump administration is saying that it believers by the end of february believes by the end of february 100 million advantage i city nations could be underway. other cups including canada and the u.k. have already signed off, and alex azar says the fda will soon follow. at this point it s really a matter of dotting the is, crossing the ts, getting the fact sheets for the doctors. really within the next couple of days it ought to come out, and we ll start having pfizer ship that vaccine to where the governor
coming up, in a few moments, global investor mark mobius will join us. chinese equities see a big week of gains they slipped a bit this morning. shares of carnival jumping after they gave an update on the state of its business. we ll speak with the ceo arnold donald in a cnbc exclusive and major league season starting the season in florida. we ll speak with the league s commissioner about the risks and reward of taking to the field. we look forward to all that. sara, up 0.7% on the s&p 500 let s start right there with the markets. the we have seen a big swing intraday futures starting off in the red. hopeful signals then coming from gilead about the coronavirus treatment. helping turn things around early. the company saying it was associated with an improvement in clinical recovery and 62% reduction in the risk of mortality compared with the standard care. let s get to mike santoli tracking the moves in the names and sectors today. yeah. sturdy performance today solid wee
consumer product stocks, and travel, and a number of industries, the only competition is from each other and investigators are giving them the benefit of the doubt for now. as far as the comparisons to 1973, the nifty fifty stocks, when i say when it comes to the tech stocks, it s not even 1970. varney & company, we ve got a lot to do. we re about to begin. . when you look at paris, you know, what s right about this issue is making sure that we have international discussion with respect to how good a job we re doing across the globe with respecting our co footprint. and what is wrong is a bad business deal for this company. it causes a contraction to our economy when we re leading already in reducing our co 2 footprint. he says that the paris deal is bad for the u.s. and they ll be meeting with the ite house and ivanka trump and she s made it one of her signature issues. you re a donald trump guy. the president s base won t be happy, obviously, if he doesn t pull th
latched on her leg opening up about her ordeal. i started punching its forehead. it still wouldn t let go. how she use ad a trick she learned on a field trip to save her life. kicking it off in style. one of the biggest pop stars in the world harry styles takes over our plaza for our first summer concert of the season. the crowd is massive, today, tuesday, may 9, 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 on a tuesday morning. we re going to need more adjectives to describe that crowd, massive, huge, spectacular. harry styles has a new album coming out. it s his first solo album. maybe a little jitters about the reception. things are going to be fine. we have six city blocks of crowd for him. we will get out there in a moment. first to our top story. the possible expansion of the u.s. military effort against the taliban in afghanista
we begin with today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. former acting attorney general sally yates testifies on michael flynn. i can t believe the trump administration let general flynn in the white house, let alone in the situation room. this man put our national security at risk and i think there should be be some consequences. there s two battlefields here. what the trump people may have done with the russians and what did the obama administration do when it comes to unmasking for intelligence gathering purposes. a suspect is under arrest in a serial killing spree that haunted phoenix. we hope that our officers will get more sleep knowing that the wheels of justice are finally in motion. chaos at fort lauderdale s airport. passengers planning to catch a spirit airline flights find the flights are canceled. decision d