Significantly. A typical aircraft squadron might have 85 fully operational. More investments are being made and stealthy, longrange aircraft, Unmanned Systems in the air or under sees hypersonic missiles, small satellites and artificial we will be leaving this here and take you to a live discussion on president ial transition and National Security hosted by the university of virginia plus Miller Center. To moderate todays conversation. It is a real pleasure to be with you all and have these terrific guests. The president ial transition act was stopped by congress in 1963 to provide important statutory framework for the peaceful transfer of power. It has been updated several times since then and today we will discuss some of the important issues coming out of that in the current transition and transfer. It has been almost a week since most Major Networks designated joe biden as president elect. The biden team has been moving forward on a transition and selected a new white house chief o
A super spreader of the disease in the senate to suspend its legislative work for 2 weeks. The fight for me going to care about intensifies with both as a by john and i may be accused of targeting civilians. Taking a step towards peace sudans government and great side a deal of sunshine in the agreement. And the world athletics comes to kenya with one of the 1st major sporting events in africa since the outbreak of the content. So the team of doctors treating the u. S. President for covert 900 say they are cautiously optimistic with his progress and have suggested that he began showing signs of the virus on wednesday afternoon which he did then previously disclosed double trump was admitted to the Walter Reed National military Medical Center in maryland on friday hes been. Receiving experimental treatment for the disease i well go to say hes doing very well multiple reports are quoting sources say that some of the trauma so vital signs of the last 24 hours were very concerning and that
Orecast indonesia decides later thursday while the boj starts a meeting. A straily markets have just open. Sophie, what are you seeing . Markets have just opened. Saw steepening for u. S. Bonds, pushing the u. S. 10year yield to a fiveweek high, and the kiwi dollar off about. 1 , reversing the earlier spike we saw on the back of new zealand hosting a faster than forecast gdp report on a quarterly basis, which may provide relief to the rbc. Nikkei Futures Holding steady. Were expecting a mixed session in asia as we have plenty of Rate Decisions on tap from indonesia, taiwan, hong kong, along with the boj meeting under japanese as we see stocks perhaps getting a little more love from investors, but not to be loved just yet. Investor view on japan is improving slightly with net 6 of global investors. Paul thanks for that. Lets check in on the first word news now with ritika gupta. Proposed budget for the next fiscal year will approach the equivalent of 1 trillion for a second straight yea
Announcer this week, on q a, magazinetimes contribute in writer wil hylton. , he talks about his featured story about Breitbart News and the journalists who worked there. Brian wil hylton, i saw a piece in 2015 that said the idea of skipping college might seem outlandish to some, but not to wil hylton. What is that about . Wil i got into this business 26 years ago. It was a quite young introduction to the field. My interest began young. I knew that i wanted it to do this for a living by the age of 12. By the time i was 16 and in the Public High School system in baltimore, there was an internship program, a workstudy program. I do not know who submitted my name for it, i did not apply. I was the editor of the high school newspaper, and i did not think you could do both. But someone applied for me. Someone signed me up to go to the Baltimore Sun and and do this workstudy program. Within three months of getting there, the job is really to touch copy and pick things up on the side. There w
About to debut. We have your fantastic first look thursday, february 16th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with mat lauer and savannah guthrie. Morning. Were happy to have Hallie Jackson up from washington to fill in for savannah. Its like the spy who came in from the cold. Indoors. No scarf. No jacket. A pleasure. Great to have you here. Did you see planet earth . I loved it. Watched the series on dvd. They tell us planet earth 2 has the most incredible scenes. Well have more of that preview coming up. Snakes and lizards. Theres a washington joke there somewhere. But im not going to make it. Lets get right to our top story. The white house, dealing with a series of controversies, Trump Campaigns ties to russia. And the president s cabinet pick whose nomination failed. Our Political Team is at the ready, starting with nbcs peter alexander. Hes at the white house. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Donald trumps xt presidency is not a month old, but it is