David in 2018, qantas reported a profit of 1. 2 u. S. , its largest ever. Shareholders were awarded with buybacks and dividends of 360 million, while employees were showered with 50 million of bonuses. That was a far cry from the 2. 7 billion loss announced in 2014. There is no doubt. Todays numbers represent the year that has passed that we have now come through the worst. Alan how do you do . Nice to meet you. Welcome to qantas. David tell me about the turnaround. How did the plan evolve . Alan we had probably the perfect storm there around 2013. The conditions are important because we had high oil prices. They reached over 4 billion, the highest we have seen. We have simultaneously tried to take massive market share and being funded by a number of foreign airlines, extensively funded. We also had, because of a very high aussie dollar, a lot of International Carriers flying into australia. It was a perfect storm in all of our businesses. David joyce announced a 2 billion costcutting
everything that has gone wrong in the world. and yet 2020 was also a year the democrats nominated by their free choice an elderly white man from a statehood once eulogized a clan recruiter. so the anti white party picked the white guy. how did that happen? well, it s pretty simple. democrats care about power and power derives from winning . when you lose, you don t have power. and bernie sanders couldn t win . sanders terrified the donor class, so democrats went. joe biden, who loves the donor class and is loved by them and from a fundraising perspective, that turned out to be a wise choice by the end of that cycle, democrats had spent a total of eight point four billion dollars. that includes four hundred million just from mark zuckerberg. and that total does not even include the tens of billions in free media coverage as slick and dishonest as any paid ad. but that unlike paid ads, is not regulated by campaign finance law. so if you add all of that up, the democratic pa
And new this morning. Could fresh prince be getting a major reboot . Turning tv upsidedown, will smith reportedly heading back to bel air. That will wake you up in the morning. Go, ginger. I was singing every lyric right there. Those are sort of involuntary movements, i think. Happy friday as we say good morning, america. David, we made it. Almost. Thank you, thank you. This team is incredible, though, makes it fun. I said this week, you make it fun to get up at 4 00 a. M. I know. All of the way through to jeopardy. Thats right. Is it on yet . We have a lot of news to get to this friday morning. It is an historic day. The secretary of state arriving in cuba. Well have more on that just ahead. Big history to be made. Incredible new images of the moment that explosions rocked that major city in china. And this morning, explosions still happening at that site. Well have the latest in a moment on the search for survivors. First, we want to get to those new reports about a godzilla el nino
Now at 11, admiring his dedication. Reporter how far do you want . About 18 hours. It takes a man about five hours to get to his job in a community is rallying behind him to make sure he does not have to walk again in akron business forced to close after an ebola scare, see who the owners ev was going on and i had clothes that i had smoke billowing out of my closing. Reporter get ready to play more why, prescription drugs could skyrocket next year. This is soaring is the story of a hard working man who walked 18 miles to work in the chain of events that now has an entire Community Rallying e. Good evening i am russ mitchell. I ams earl mitchell. After we told you the story last night many of you were moved to action. Hillary has an update to the story. Reporter this has become the epicenter of goodwill for a man who has become a sort of work ethic hero. Carl coming. Not the goodhearted cop who picked him up and certainly not the good stuff avalanche that has us all renewing our faith i
The u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. That was beautiful thats a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. Announcer this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Welcome to a special split edition of today. Thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. Well talk to her in a one second. You know what we refuse to do back on copacabano beach. What is that . We refuse to do a show look at who we have today. That is Alison Schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in the 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. Congratulations. Also here, theres more, Michael Hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and well ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. The green water in the pool. Its so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. All hanging out ov