Decisions on how to handle the epidemic. What every family needs to know. Those stories, plus asleep at the wheel. Shocking new numbers on the growing dangers of drowsy driving. Philly fanatics. Millions of eagles fans set to flood the streets in a super bowl victory parade for the ages. And let the games begin. The Winter Olympics get under way overnight as the flag bearer for team usa is revealed. To actually be that person is insane. From the Opening Ceremony to the athletes to watch, weve got it all covered for you, today, thursday, february 8, 2018. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today. Thank you for joining us this thursday morning. The olympics. Todays the day. Today is the day. You know when you have a date circled on your calendar for years, this is it. February 8, the olympics start. Well be heading there later. We will. Well catch up on all of it in a bit. Lets start with th
Center, making landfall saturday morning, category 2 winds of 105 Miles Per Hour. And then it heads to the north and east. Just south of the delaware and new jersey coastline by sunday morning, winds of 90 Miles Per Hour, we have to remember this area in red is the cone of uncertainty, it could go far left or far right in this area. There are a couple of ingredients that have to come together. When we decide where matthew is going to head we have to look at the 500 millibar charts. This is what is going on the in the atmosphere 18,000 feet. It works from the top down and this is matthew, its working up the coast and there is High Pressure off to the east a strong ridge that is pushing matthew towards the east coast and at the same time this is the cold front a trough, how they interact will depend or decide where matthew heads. If this trough is strong it can kick the storm out to sea and well miss out on the major effects of the storm. And there are models that show this trough is wea
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Morgan brennan. Good morning. Good morning. Great to be back here at this early hour with you. It is lovely to have you with us. Well get straight to the markets. This morning after a week we saw gains, quite a lot of movement in volatility. Of course, that fed meeting in the middle of the week where we didnt see the hike in Interest Rates did leave markets to move around in various directions over the course of the week, but we did have about 1 of gains for the week as a whole by fridays close. As you can see, were expected to open down to the tune of 80 points for the dow. 10 points for the s p. And 27 for the nasdaq this morning around half a percent of declines expected. We look at the tenyear treasury note, which of course had paused its rise recently and now is closer to the 1. 6 handle up near 1. 7 a couple weeks ago. And taking a look at european equities this morning, those are tracking lower. The german dax is down 1. 5 . The french cac is down 1. 7 . The ftse 100 down over 1
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