Matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on friday morning. 7 00 on the west coast. We hate to say it but another week, another tragic shooting in louisiana. Were getting more information as we speak. Authorities have just released this new information about the gunman. His name, john houser, a 59yearold from alabama. Authorities describing him as kind of a drifter. We know that disguises including wigs and glasses were found in the search of his hotel room. Were going to get more on that in a live interview with Louisiana State police in just a moment. But lets start on this friday morning with nbcs john yang. John, what can you tell us . Matt, right now investigators are processing this crime scene. They say the theater is littered with personal belongings, shoes, purses, keys, cell phones, things people dropped and ran whether the shooting started. Were learning more about the shooter, more about the victim, and mor
Rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this friday morning. It seems another week another tragic mass shooting this time in louisiana. Well is have more on this in a second. We are following another big story. The administrations high stakes Nuclear Agreement with iran. In studio exclusively secretary of state john kerry. He was in washington yesterday selling the deal. Hell sit down with matt in a few minutes. Back to louisiana. The gunman identified as a 58yearold white male with a criminal history. Witnesses say he stood up about 20 minutes into a showing of the movie trainwreck, pulled out a handgun and started firing. Two people were killeded. At least nine others wounded. Their ages from the late teens to 60s. Overnight the investigation had to be put on hold briefly. The bomb squad was called this in when an officer saw something suspicious inside the gunmans car. Well talk to the police and two people who were at the theater complex in a moment. Lets beg
We had a message from the captain he one person who was claiming to have a suicide belt and climbing to stop in istanbul. The plane was diverted to larneca airport, where the high jacking resulted in release of most of the passengers. The motive wasnt clear. The spokesman for the ministry of transport said it was related to an issue the suspect had with his exwife. He was talking about having a baby and wife that he wanted to talk to. Reed binnion reporting. All right. More on that to come throughout the morning. In the meantime were tracking the weather this morning as we take a live look from our embarcardero camera. Well talk about the forecast today, and you mentioned there was a chance of some rain yesterday. I know i got some out of my house. It was very brief but it was pretty nice. We had some pop up showers and also a little bit of hail for parts of the north bay and east bay yesterday. It may trigger should showers south and east. The bay brim, were starting off with Clear Co
Decelerating while a seemingly endless stream of Federal Reserve officials keep talking about the opportunity to raise rates. Why . So the f f can lower them agaiai when the slowdown at cisco ceo Chuck Roberts is predicting hits home . Could they really be that obtuse . All this came on the back of another pounding of the oil futures which in a bizarre twist is now regarded as awful news for the economy. Ththbears thesis is simime, the money saved at the gas tank means nothing. At the same time, the decline in oil is taking away one of the great growth stories of the u. S. For this era. Its a double whammy of bearishness. We know about the tragedy that unfolded friday night in paris, one that put the market selloff in p pspective. However, the fact is pain bebets gloom. Pain is the most salient emotion weelt about those horrdous events as we learned about them. On sunday evening i sat down with the charts to take a look at how bad things really were out there. Something that had a spec
Gains. Dow only closing up slightly, dow dropping, nasdaq risg. I know. I know i felt the gloom. It was palpable. All last week as retailer after retailer disappointed, and the oil and Technology Stocks were pounded mercilessly, i w blown away by how genuinely weak the market had totally become. I was on the rope friday. I was following the market best as i could. You should h he seen me. I sneak it in everywhere, look at this, thats whats great about this thing, look at that. There was madness everywhere i looked. The night before we got that nightmare report from nordstrom, the one that pretty much indicated the consumer had simply stopped shoppppg, this is such a good retailer dont just say maybe people stopped shopping at nordstrom. No way. You assume people decided they already had everything they needed. When you combine nordstroms ugly comments with the hideous numbers from macys during the week, that incredibly glum the closets had no more room. The bureaus stuffed. Women didnt