Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am Jose Diazbalart. We begin this hour with Breaking News. New York Prosecutors are expected to hold a Press Conference this hour after combs was arrested last night by federal authorities on three counts, Racketeering Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Prosecutors write, quote, for decades sean combs, the defendant, abused and threatened and coerced women around him to fulfill his sexual desires and protect his reputation and conceal his conduct. Before the indictment was unsealed, an attorney for combs said hes innocent and plans on pleading not guilty. Lisa ruben, msnbc legal correspondent, with us as well. Chloe, you are down at the courthouse. What are we expecting to learn about the Charges Today . Reporter hey, there, jose. In about 30 minutes we will hear from the u. S. Attorneys office. They will be holding a Press Conference down The Street. According to mark, one of the attorneys
Im Peter Alexander here in for Andrea Mitchell. We are following that Breaking News from georgia where we are monitoring an incident. Its 40 miles outside of atlanta. As you just heard, the Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is directing all available resources to that Schools Campus right now. You can see the pictures we are getting. The Chopper View from above. A lot of Police Presence and other Emergency Vehicles on scene right now. We want to get to nbc News Correspondent Anne Thompson joining us alongside Jim Kavanaugh and former Fbi Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi right now. Anne, acknowledging we are learning little bits of information, trying to get a better understanding, whats the best information you have been able to gather at this point . Reporter right now, we know that the High School has about 1,900 students. They are from grades 9 through 12. We have seen many of them come out of that building, the building is said to be on a hard lockdown. The governor put out this statem
Im Chris Jansing live at Msnbc Headquarters live. We start with the unfolding news. The details on this Breaking Story at another School Shooting. It happened in east of atlanta, georgia, where Law Enforcement sources tell Nbc News they believe two people are dead. Four injured. A suspect is in custody at Apalachee High School in Barrow County. Ambulances raced to the scene as students were scene heading out of the building into the stadium. On a campus of about 1,900 students. Im joined by Msnbcs Tom Winter and special agent jim cavanagh. Tom, get us up to speed. What do we know right now . Sure, chris. A couple of things. The information is coming from a variety of briefing thats were getting and people were talking to are getting. This information is subject to change, of course, as the investigation unfolds. The initial indications are that there are two dead. That number could change. It could go up from there. As a result of this School Shooting in at least four injured as well.
At the Capital Exchange event this morning making a ton of news. Closing the deal. Ibms 34 billion acquisition of red hat has closed both ceos will be with us in just a moment. As we said, pepsi beats the street, strong snack and beverage sales backs the 2019 forecast Hugh Johnston will join us straight ahead. Futures lower ahead of tomorrows capitol hill testimony by fed chair powell. Moments ago at the Capital Exchange event in washington, larry kudlow offered his views on the fed to our kelly evans. Take a listen. Price signals suggest as they have all year going back to last autumn that last policy move in december was unnecessary and i think they could take it back. Price level stability, steady dollar, is what the fed should aim for in my view among the things he said, defended a rate cut this month, said no effort to remove powell at the president time. Mnuchin, lighthizer may go to china. Larry is the happy warrior in this era everything he said made me feel better, made the ma
And we are grieving with them. We are live with the latest on the deadliest attack on u. S. Law enforcement since 9 11. Today, friday, july 8th, 2016. This is special edition of today. Tragedy in dallas with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its friday morning. We have willie in for matt. We are waking up to a shock, 11 officers shot in dallas, five of them have been killed. Lets get right to this breaking news. Heres what we know. It started before 9 00 local time in dallas, a march protesting this weeks officerinvolved shootings just wrapped up. As we were killed and four from the Dallas Police department and the fifth was a dallas area Rapid Transit officer. President obama spoke earlier this morning and said he was horrified by the attack, and called it vicious, calculated and despicable. Lets start with Gabe Gutierrez at the scene. Reporter it was a protest against Police Vi