reporter: controversy phil the philly air waves today about blaine from swedesboro. a frequent caller to 97.5 the phanatic but the african-american man from new jersey is actually ryan egan a white radio producer for the mike missanelli show. missanelli apologized to listeners saying he had no idea his own producer had been making the fake calls for two years. blaine what s going on man. how you doing man. calls and tweets that included stereotypes of african americans. i apologize if that went over the line, and it won t happen again. reporter: kyle scott who runs the sports blog crossing broad uncovered the hoax. to find out that some of is maybe staged and then when you add in the angle there was a slight race component to this and it was offensive to some people, i think that makes it a little bit disappointing. reporter: now, we tried to can t tact the phanatic self times for comment on this story and to find out if there are any other fake callers on the
brian boyles talks about the days following the 2013 new orleans saints super bowl victory. we will have mr. brian boyles and he ll be reading from his work new orleans boom & blackout: one hundred days in america s coolest hot spot mr. boyles is the vice president for content at the louisiana endowment for the humanities. his work has been featured in oxford american, vice.com, the classical, offbeat magazine, lens, the brooklyn rail, slam, and louisiana culture business. is the author of ne track and co-author of new orleans, the underground guide. so without further ado, mr. brian boyles spewing thick as much and thank you all for coming out on this lovely day in baton rouge and thank you to the book festival. this really is one of the great events we have in laveen, arizona, in louisiana. this deliberate of louisiana deserves a great credit for what they put in for this festival. i want to talk today in overview of the book which was published in january and was nam
dominated the market so far in 2016 was back again today. the slide steepened late this afternoon, despite earlier gains, gains that the market just really couldn t hold on to. all three major indices falling 2% or more, now in correction territory. the dow jones industrial average plunged 364 points to 16,151. the nasdaq dropped 159, nearly 3.5%, and the s&p 500 lost 48, trading below 1900 for the first time since september. and the selling occurred despite a modest rise in the price of domestic crude, very modest. for the year, the blue chip index is off about 7%, the nasdaq down more than 9%, and the s&p 500 is also off 7%. bob pisani explains why this market just can t seem to catch a break. reporter: it was another day where traders just wanted to take down their exposure to the overall market. everything was down 2% to 3% from auto stocks to financials to health care to technology stocks, virtually everything. there s a similar pattern in the trading activity in the p
dominated the market so far in 2016 was back again today. the slide steepened late this afternoon, despite earlier gains, gains that the market just really couldn t hold on to. all three major indices falling 2% or more, now in correction territory. the dow jones industrial average plunged 364 points to 16,151. the nasdaq dropped 159, nearly 3.5%, and the s&p 500 lost 48, trading below 1900 for the first time since september. and the selling occurred despite a modest rise in the price of domestic crude, very modest. for the year, the blue chip index is off about 7%, the nasdaq down more than 9%, and the s&p 500 is also off 7%. bob pisani explains why this market just can t seem to catch a break. reporter: it was another day where traders just wanted to take down their exposure to the overall market. everything was down 2% to 3% from auto stocks to financials to health care to technology stocks, virtually everything. there s a similar pattern in the trading activity in the p
among them sarah palin, who says she is ready to throw her hat in the ring. and remembering mr. cub. baseball fans in mourning with the death of ernie banks. we will look back at his life today, saturday january 24th 2015. announcer: from nbc news this is today with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill alongside sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer. tough news overnight. you spent a long time in chicago. he is mr. cub. ernie banks. we woke up to the news overnight. what an incredible optimistic guy. i had a chance to meet him. he had the enthusiasm. the chicago sun times with let s play two. that got the fans to go to the wrigley field. i was rushing around and started reading articles about him. every word approachable and optimistic and all the positive words. he got the medal of freedom from president obama. let s get to the top story. the