Headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im meg oliver in for annemarie green. President trump plans to wall off the border of mexico. And whos paying for it has grown into a flap and a trade war. The meeting has been canceled. The souring of u. S. mexican relations has other countries taking notes. Roxana saberi is here in new york. Roxana, good morning. Good morning, meg. President trump will meet with british Prime Minister theresa may at the white house. This comes day after mexicos president scrapped plans to meet President Trump. Hes keeping his campaign promises. Some people have come in with evil intentions and, you know, most havent, i guess, but we cant take chances. In an interview with fox news, the president also talked about building a wall on the southern border. Look. The wall is necessary. Thats not just politics, and yet it is good for the heart of the nation because people want protection. The comments come amid escalating tensions between u. S. And mexico over
Im meg oliver in for annemarie green. President trump plans to wall off the border of mexico. And whos paying for it has grown into a flap and a trade war. The meeting has been canceled. The souring of u. S. mexican relations has other countries taking notes. Roxana saberi is here in new york. Roxana, good morning. Good morning, meg. President trump will meet with british Prime Minister theresa may at the white house. This comes day after mexicos president scrapped plans to meet President Trump. Hes keeping his campaign promises. Some people have come in with evil intentions and, you know, most havent, i guess, but we cant take news, the president also talked about building a wall on the southern border. Look. The wall is necessary. Thats not just politics, and yet it is good for the heart of the nation because people want protection. The comments come amid escalating tensions between u. S. And mexico over the wall. Yesterday the plans were scrapped to visit mr. Trump p next week outra
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Serious charges. And not so far, far away the opening of star wars the force Awakens Opens just hours from now. And one member of our team may be too excited. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on this thursday morning. Spoiler alert. Okay, the Storm Trooper its not the Storm Trooper we were looking for . No. Welcome back, buddy. You want to take that helmet off . Hello, everybody. Its carson boy, i could use a nice, hot cup of coffee. Excited for star wars. Great to be back. The revelation that defense secretary ashe carter used his personal email for work related matters and he was doing that after Hillary Clinton came under while she was secretary of state. Lets go to Jim Miklaszewski at the point gone. Reporter given the uproar, its hard to imagine secretary carter would use personal email for government business but thats exactly what he did. Senior defense
It is also very windy. Drivers reminded to keep both hands on the whole and 10 and 2 double fisting driving as ive heard it referred to. Thats happening on san mateo bridge, the Richmond Bridge and the bay bridge, very wet and very, very windy. Good morning and welcome back to mornings on 2. Im gasia mikaelian. Good morning, everybody. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Weather and traffic, steve is here. Pretty windy. 40 to 46 miles an hour. Its a windy, wet morning. Looks like the rain is decreasing ever so slowly. This low level stuff can go on and on and on and boy does it add up. Were waning on the rain. It is still there, but much thinner moisture coming out of the north. Matt moore, good morning. The hills picked up pretty good rain. Some of this can be a drizzle that keeps going and going, same for parts of the peninsula. The radar beam misses a lot, so it continues to just go and go up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 28 oakland, 30plus out at fairfield. Sfo had gusts from 40 to 4