Puerto rico and the virgin islands. And phoenix slammed with high winds. Oh, my god this morning dramatic images from the storm. And fast food friends . Burger king trying to make nice with arch rival mcdonalds by offering to come up with the ultimate burger together. Are you ready for the mcwhopper today . Wednesday, august 26, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Now you can really have it your way. A combination of the ultimate burgers. I would try that. You can have it your mcway. Exactly. Well see if the two fast food enemies can be friends, peace restored to the fast food galaxy. Lets start with todays top story. Politics. Donald trumps newest clash with a member of the media. A prominent Spanish Language anchor jorge ramos. Well talk to donald trump and also a possible run by joe biden. Is that why Hillary Clinton cut her vacation short .
Youre a part of the lawsuit. How much am i suing univision for . 500 million. I have a bigger heart than you do. Hes an honest guy. Now i like him. Reporter but trump isnt backing down from the fight with fox news, ven after the chief called for trump to apologize for his latest twitter tirade against me gyn kelly tweeting he liked er show better when she was on vacation and retweeting a comment that dismissed her as a bim bo. Ales called it an attack. It is a small element in my life. I dont care about me gyn kelly. No i wont apologize. She sh ould apologize to me ut i dont care. Reporter then he added to his philosophy on firingaback. When people treat me unfairly i dont let them forget. Reporter including jeb bush, tuesday blasting trumps plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants as unrealistic. Trump promised to hold back. The second place was so far back we wont talk about it. I want to betnice tonight. He was nice for a while. To be fair donald trump picked upo rick perr
More from captain aimer who explains sfos landing system and why it may have added to the confusion for the pilot. Air Traffic Control said were not sure this runway is clear, but the pilot is looking out. He lands the plane safely the everybody is okay. Were those passengers ever really in any danger . Reporter according to the faa, no. They watched a radar replay its called and they saw that the flight that had landed just before that air canada jet had cleared the runway, so that means all was clear for flight 781. Back to you. All right. Jackie ward at sfo, thank you. Air canada was under investigation back in july for a close call if youll remember. In that case an air canada pilot almost landed on the adjacent taxiway coming within 50 feet of crashing into two other planes waiting to take off. After that incident the faa changed its requirements for night landings at sfo. The tubbs fire now ranks as the most destructive wildfire in california history. It tops even the Oakland Hil
S p 500 having their worst day since may 17th. So youve got to go back weeks just for even modest declines like that. This morning dow futures indicated up by 15 points. S p futures up by 2 and nasdaq up close to 10. Overnight you did see gains in the chinese markets. Japanese nikkei was flat as well. In europe this morning in some of the early trading there. Lets get a look at whats happening in the u. K. Ahead of the elections tomorrow. Stocks are slightly higher. Up by just under. 2 of a percent. The cac is up. Take a look at the treasury market. This is the one thats been causing so much consternation. The ten year note sitting just above 2. 15 but hovering around this level even though we do expect the fed is likely to raise Interest Rates next week. A lot of people wondering whats going on. Some of the weaker Economic Data including the jobs report leading market watchers to assume that the fed, even if it does raise next week, that it wont do it again in the near future. Lets ta
Happens when america retreats from the region and we dont play of the role of posing a balance of power and when we let the countrys fight it out between themselves. It is not just our interest in allies and our interest in allies like jordan and israel but it is because this is throughout syria and turkey, and isis is trying to aggressively recruit United States citizens to join. It is believed that the weapons came from the turkish government. Senator cotton again, i have not seen other reports, so i cant comment on that. I did ask about if there was a mistake if we had a residual force agreement, and there was the agreement on blaming maliki on that. Why couldnt we have forced an agreement, why was that completely squandered . What was your view on that and could we have done something differently in 2011 and how do you feel as someone who served in iraq or someone who has finger on the pulse of how the military feels . Senator cotton i put responsibility chiefly with barack obama a