And piers morgan live. For the First Time Since his cable news show was canceled, piers is back on tv and has a lot to say today, monday, october 6th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer along with tamron hall, who is in while savannah continues on Maternity Leave with baby vale. We have Natalie Morales and al roker back from afghanistan. How was your trip . It was humbling and you cannot give a great enough thank you to the men and women over there, protecting our freedom. We will have a big thank you to the folks who took part in our uso tour. And well see the video on tuesday . Look forward to that. Well start on a monday morning with our top story, concerns of ebola in america. A refueling stop in maine this morning. He will be treated for ebola at a hospital. Dr. Nancy snyderman and her team are feeling fine and their return
Well, security seemed to find its way under the Christmas Trees across the country in the form of firearms. Handguns designed for women were hot items. Especially at the louisiana gun shop. One Industry Group says 61 of the nations gun shops saw sales increase 61 this year. We sell a lot of girlier guns than we do to men. This team of year. I think it is people wanting their wives to be protected. Women aguns are designed for smaller hands. Brighter colored guns were the hottest selling. Okay. Some families opted out of Holiday Shopping completely this year. No presents exchanged or purchased. Theyre part of the buy nothing movement. 80,000 people are members. Matt markovic of our seattle station has it all. Reporter stuff that lauren didnt buy for her kids. Saddled with medical debt. We didnt have money for christmas this year. Reporter there are presents under the tree. Nice, new handbag. Reporter molly hodges was short of cash. Pretty amethyst earrings. Reporter no shortage of gifts
Knelt. Walking down the aisle could mean walking away with bigger tax bill. Clark howard with the traps they need to watch out. Does the highpriced hardware live up to the hype . All that and more coming up on the willis report where consumers are our business. Gerri bill clinton, on the defense says he has no regrets for taking millions of dollars from foreign donors for the clintons charitable foundation. The former president telling nbcs cynthia mcfaden, quote, there is no doubt in my mind we never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of American Government policy that just hasnt happened. Here to weigh in our political panel. National review editor rich lowery townhall. Com he had toward katie pavlich, a fox news contributor. Rich, i have to get your reaction to this comment. I found it so delicious and clintonian. You look at that sentence you really want to parse every single word. Gerri bring in the lawyers. What does he mean by kn
Street smart starts now. There are the top stories ahead of the closing bell. Mylan made a hostile bid the perrigo deal would be my lens biggest yet mylans biggest yet. The real fraud and markets can be found in the pool of debt from europe to japan. The bubble is not sustainable. The statue of liberty on Liberty Island evacuated this afternoon after police receiver sports reports of a suspicious package. Police patrolling picked up the scent of a suspicious package charlie before 1 00 p. M. Lets go to the breaking news desk. After a 15 year drought, the nasdaq closed at a record high yesterday. Clearly the performer among these three major indexes. Volume and nasdaq stocks is 15 above the 10 day average. Google, microsoft and amazon those earnings those come from three Nasdaq Companies that Strategic Research group calls tax staples. They have matured into these cash generating behemoths with all of the above strategy for growth. That is helping to propel the nasdaq and leading to wha
A percent. Lets get straight to kayla at the apple event in San Francisco. Kayla, tell us what you know. Center for the arts which you see behind me. Also showcasing a picture of empty seats inside the theater with the quote full of anticipation. Of course, thats an understatement as we are awaiting apples first new Product Launch in five years. Since the ipad in 2010. This is apples tenth first generation generation. It helps the player into this luxury market. Unclear which executives beside tim cook we will hear from today. That will be top of mind. Exactly how many details we get, but lest we think this is just about the apple watch. Much of the focus has been about that. Apple observers say we could get an announcement of a new macbook today, and that that could be the reason why the apple store has been done as of this morning. Typically that happens on the day of an apple Product Launch, and they say that could be the reason the macbook ready to go on sale once that site come ba