her attorney says school officials ignored. our nbc news reporting. the concerned texts the teacher sent to a loved one just before the shooting. the major winter storm moving into the northeast after a tornado outbreak left a trail of destruction farther south. al roker is here. president biden reversing course, now pledging the u.s. will send 31 abrams tanks to ukraine. so, what changed? just in, two years after he was suspended, facebook lifting its ban on donald trump. the dramatic video, a man with a long gun shooting up at a police helicopter. and the team of 25 performing a medical miracle for two infant twins. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and one of the country s most closely watched criminal cases today south carolina prosecutors began laying out their double murder case against alex murdaugh, prominent attorney and patriarch of a powerful charleston area family accused of murdering his wife and 22-year-old son.
The russia 10year drops after they eased more than people expected and said there could be lower rates, more than people thought asked year. Of we are looking at the home, stock index, that is down 1. 5 . Volatility is the highest in the year. Of this stems from the idea that global banks are going to enter into a tightening cycle. The u. K. 10year is dropping by two basis points. The bank of england is probably not going to raise rates anytime soon, growth is not jumping off in any major way. The brexit negotiations are ongoing and complicated and possibly getting more complicated, if possible. Alix it was steady as she goes, not doing anything to ruffle feathers. Supportive of markets, if anything were to disrupt them, that could equal to a negative yield index. Alix lets talk about what its making headlines. This is emma chandra. Emma brexit talks can enter phase two here and they agreed that the british Prime Minister has complied with their divorce conditions. Now they will discus
Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and jocn have the week off. They will be back though joining us this morning as well, walter isaacson. Nice to have him this morning. And a lot to talk about. More red flags for facebook, twitter and other social flat forms. For example this time for former president barack obama in an interview with prince harry, obama warned against the irresponsible use of social media. Take a listen. The dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases the truth is that on the internet, everything is simplified and when you meet people facetoface, it turns out they are complicated. People are comply it ca llic apparently thats what we hear. Twitter and social media and facebook and Everything Else, the question is about regulatory in particular sort of come to mind, not to mention of course the meddling by the rush shacsin the election in 2016 and
Their head. Out of the game. Parts of new england could see 1. 5 feet of snow and once it falls, its not going anywhere. There are singledigit temperatures sticking around. A slew of canceled flights. More than 4000 Flights Canceled on thousands more delayed in two major new york airports, jfk and laguardia, shut down for the day. We are checking the situation at airports. We are at Reagan National in arlington. Reporter the local airports have a Ripple Effect across the region. Bwi can no longer accept diverted planes from jfk. Instead, those flights are going to Dulles Airport and passengers are told to catch a bus to new york. At Reagan National, canceled flights across the north mean a smaller than normal business day. Im heading back to indianapolis and i hope i make reporter she took her chances, showing up after a canceled flight to indiana university. Originally, i was supposed to leave at 10 00 tonight. I found out it was canceled and they rebooked us for 7 00 p. M. Tomorrow n
Records that were set for all the major averages, as upbeat car sales and expanding growth across the globe helped to lift stocks once again. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose by 84 points, closed at 22,641. Nasdaq added 15. The s p gained five. And the rally isnt just here in the u. S. Its happening pretty much everywhere, as bob pisani explains for us tonight. Reporter stocks remained in record territory today as the socalled reflation trade continues to power the market to new highs. Reflation means expansion of the global economy, a little bit of inflation, not much. Central banks talked about raising rates. In t united states, the prospect of tax cuts boosting corporate profits in 2018. Stocks have been rising in europe and asia as well. Japan hit a twoyear high today and stocks in hong kong were also near a twoyear high. The effect of this reflation trade is that many sectors have been rallying, particularly banks, which do better in a rising rate environment, energy stocks,