The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
Goldman says not likely unless something changes in china. A fight against United Airlines as investors push for six new Board Members including Gordon Bethune. Reports of a meeting including elan musk, larry page and top ranking republicans to stop donald trump. Well get details on that. First the fight that broke out this morning between United Airlines and two of its shareholders with a combined 7. 1 in the company, par capital which is a well known airline investor and altimeter, a less well known hedge fund. They have a letter after a long period of negotiations with United Airlines. They filed a 13d some time ago that resulted in nothing that either side was willing to keel with in terms of accepting potential nominees. So we get a letter and a press release this morning saying any number of things including the following. In their view given united Strategic Asset base long term under performance results from what they say is an under qualified and effective come play sent and e
0 with all the challenges they face coming up. there are a lot of challenges. we are also following new developments on the deal with syria. secretary of state john kerry is meeting with his counterpart there. this after working out a deal to destroy syria s chemical weapons. the question of it all, will it work? john mccain will be joining us live in studio coming up. you don t need me to tell you we have two families of football crashing into each other. one manning bowl, with brother eli. we will hear from both of them coming up. get this, super bowl champ joe flacco won yesterday, but he missed the birth of his son in order to make that game. get the reaction from him and his teammates coming up. that one will get a plot of dhaert. up first this morning, we want to tell you about this natural disaster of epic proportions unfolding right now in colorado. take a lock at fees stunning pictures. homes under water. 3,000 damaged or destroyed. roads washed away. six people dead.
we go where the eagles dare. speaking of million dollar babies, i m simon hobbs with sue herera. power lunch begins right now. risk in greece very much in front demand today triggering turmoil in athens and fears they may not get the bailout cash it needs in march. that raises the possibility of a default. and that s where we stand in the united states. the nasdaq down .5%. the s&p 500 is down a similar amount. we have cut our losses, but it s still a triple digit fall for the dow. taking a pulse of the markets as we head over into the weekend. the fear gauge, the vix, is sharply higher as you can see. both copper and oil are lower. here you see copper down. we ve also got crude down $1.40. that s on greece. but also concerns about the strength of chinese demand coming through before the beginning of our session here. midday movers this friday, nuance communications, they make speech recognition software. results missed earnings and you can see it s down 12%. insurer xl
superman, on monday, president obama sits down with matt lauer with a live one-on-one interview that will air uninterrupted for an entire half hour. that s starting at 8:00 eastern on nbc and msnbc. and, of course, join andrea mitchell live on the plaza in new york. they re going to include education secretary arnie duncan, randy wynne guarden and the mayor of boston and two journalists featured in waiting for superman, jonathan alter and jay matthews. that s next monday, september 27th only here on msnbc. now to politics because fresh off of a trip to iowa, sarah palin is now saying for the first time that she may run for president. unless someone with the conservative credentials she thinks are right with america gets into the game. if nobody else wanted to step up, i would offer myself up in the name of service to the public, but, i also know anybody, anybody can make a huge difference in this country without a title, without an office, just being out there as a