assembly tomorrow. after slamming the u.n. for years when do yu see the u.n. solving problems? they don t. they cause problems. how will he be perceived by world leaders? and another fraternity pledge killed. suspected hazing. what needs to change. a ferris wheel worker survives a terrifying fall. and must-see tv. all the highlights from the emmys. big winners, the hottest fashions and a spicy surprise. today, monday, september 18th, 2017. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a monday morning. we appreciate you joining us this morning. the expression, it s al s world, we re just living in it. the weather is incredible. al is all over our top story this morning, three powerful storms churning in the atlantic, including hurricane jose. its impact will be felt up and down the east coast. and hurricane maria is taking aim at the caribb
stock exchange. we await for a fed meeting to begin tomorrow. china slips 3.5% overnight. japan leaves policy unchanged. back here, retail sales okay. july revised up. good auto sales offset by lower spending at the gas stations. ahead of the rate decision, former central bankers are out today with more pronouncement force the fed. asia continues to suffer. shanghai down 3% as the bank of japan holds on a rate move. an upgrade forfe fitbit. more data for the fed to digest ahead of the two-day policy meeting set to get underway tomorrow. retail sales up 0.2%. last month stripped out auto sales up 0.1, that marks six consecuticon seco consecutive months without a decline. how does this get digested at the table tomorrow? the areas that are strong in the economy are rate sensitive. autos, housing. i know a lot of people say bring on the rate increase. but you just mentioned where the strength is. that strength can be taken away. it can be taken away by a belief that unle
he was going to traffic, and luckily was able to catch him as he started to fall i just went on him and held him down. reporter: these pictures show the tears from the chiefs shirt. fortunately no other officers were injured. this man hector arius was arrested sunday in mexico wanted for the murder of a 22- year-old man six years ago. his mug shot shows marks not from the scuffle with the chief, but police say he bit to officers and attacked another one in mexico. police say him in handcuffs was able to flip his hands around in front of him escape a lot holding cell and scale a 15- foot high barbed wire fence. i specifically asked the chief how he was able to choose escape cheap custody. we are looking into the incident. in terms of his ability to get out of that secure temporary holding facility. we are looking at that at how that happened. how the door was able to be open. reporter: police aren t conducting an internal investigation. the independent police is looking
been asked to join the disney board. can his perspective bring tech magic to the magic kingdom? and iac had to fire an employee over a racially insensitive tweet over a twitter account that is barely followed. how is social media created the potential risk for modern businesses? we will explore new corporate management over social media. apple s iphone is finally coming. after six years of negotiation, apple and china mobile have announced a deal that will bring the two newest versions of the iphone to china starting next month. china mobile is the country s dominant carrier and apple will gain a subscriber base more than twice the size of the entire u.s. population. but how will this help apple in china as they battle lenovo and samsung? my guest helps google set up chinese operations. good to see both of you. how big a deal is this? good to see you. it is a great deal for apple. finally, they will be able to get access to china mobile s 759 million subscribers. the proble
he released a two and a half minute video, he talked about it as putting america first in terms of job creation and innovation. he laid out snippets of his policy proposals on trade. reiterating his pledge to withdraw from the tpp. talking about national security and ethics reform. he didn t talk about the big pledges he had during his campaign, building that wall. deporting illegal immigrants, he did talk about immigration itself, he talked about the fact that he would direct the department of labor to look into visa programs that in his words were undercutting the american worker. we re getting word tonight that donald trump could start unveiling his economic team as soon as tomorrow. he s narrowing his list for treasury and commerce secretaries. the word we re getting, two names have come to the forefront for treasury secretary. steve manuchin formerly at goldman sachs. the billionaire investor wilbur ross is at the top of the list. donald trump meeting with a multitude of