Powerball jackpot now worth 700 million. This morning how you can actually improve your chances of winning the big one. And hes back as hollywood gears up for the Golden Globes, we catch up with return host Ricky Gervais. His biting humor has more in hollywood a little bit nervous. Why he says he couldnt resist coming back for more jokes and jabs today, friday, january 8, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer live from los angeles and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer in los angeles. Savannah is back in new york, and savannah, the people in this town are getting ready for the big event this weekend. Yeah, absolutely. I see Ricky Gervais is sharpening his knives. I bet we will gasp as he put it. Exactly. I was not talking about the globes. I was talking about your arrival here. Thats what people are getting excited about. Please have
We catch up with return host Ricky Gervais. His biting humor has more in hollywood a little bit nervous. Why he says he couldnt resist coming back for more jokes and jabs today, friday, january 8, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer live from los angeles and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer in los angeles. Savannah is back in new york, and savannah, the people in this town are getting ready for the big event this weekend. Yeah, absolutely. Hopefully it will be a dry red carpet. I see Ricky Gervais is sharpening his knives. I bet we will gasp as he put it. Exactly. I was not talking about the globes. I was talking about your arrival here. Excited about. Please have the lavender tealights ready for me, matt. We will. Look forward to it. Lots to get to this morning. Lets start with the top story. Two terrorismrelated arrests, one rig
Jokes and jabs today friday, january 8, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer live from los angeles, and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to a split edition of today. Im matt lauer in los angeles, savannah is back in new york and the people in this town are getting ready for the big event this weekend. Yeah, absolutely. Carpet. I see Ricky Gervais is sharpening his knifes. I bet we will gaffe. I was talking about your arrival. Please have the tea lights for me. Lots to get to. Lets start with this top story. Two terrorism related arre two terrorismrelated arrests, one right here in california. Debate going on about refugees from the middle east. Nbcs justice correspondent Pete Williams is looking into that. Pete, what can you tell us . Reporter matt, good morning. Both of these men will appear in court later today to be formally charged. Officials say this is a case about fighting overseas, not about plotti
Whats not. Red meat, eggs, now okay . Not with everyone. And the can opener, a nickname for a bridge thats seen crash after crash caught on camera. An internet sensation. Why arent drivers getting the headsup . Nightly news begins now. Good evening. It is a small world. No one knows that better than knows who watch the value of their savings and retirement accounts take another steep drop today. All because of chinas economic problems. The dows 392point drop today brings losses for the first four trading days of the new year to 911 points or more than 5 . If it has us asking if trigger those kind of losses in this country, what does it say about the health of our economy . Finds out. Reporter another bungee jump for the nations stock market. The dow plummeting more than 300 points at the open, bouncing back in the late morning, only to plunge again by early afternoon. What has traders and investors grabbing fistfuls is the slowing growth in china, the worlds second largest economy. Tod
Good evening. It is a small world. No one knows that better than knows who watch the value of their savings and retirement accounts take another steep drop today. All because of chinas economic problems. The dows 392point drop today brings losses for the first four trading days of the new year to 911 points or more than 5 . If it has us asking if chinas woes can trigger those kind of losses in this country, what does it say about the health of our economy . Nbcs Anne Thompson finds out. Reporter another bungee jump for the nations stock market. The dow plummeting more than 300 points at the open, bouncing back in the late morning, only to plunge again by early afternoon. What has traders and investors grabbing fistfuls is the slowing growth in china, the worlds second largest economy. Today trading on chinas stock market halted for the second time this week after a i think its premature to be overly concerned. Financial markets are fickle. I think in the end, fundamentals are really wh