Shots fired. The nras heated response to walmarts new move to ban sales of some guns and ammunition, and the pressure on Mitch Mcconnell this morning. Those stories, plus, billions pulled from the pentagons budget to help pay for the president s border wall. How democrats plan to fight back. Dislikes. Why some are worried facebook is about to get rid of its most iconic feature. And good news. The little boy thrown from a mall balcony is headed back home. Today, wednesday, september 4th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. Weve been watching the track of dorian and unfortunately weve seen what its done to the bahamas. The hurricane so large that watches now extend from florida all the way to North Carolina. And again, we are getting a clearer sense now of the damage in the bahamas. Just look at that. Those are
Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Hillary vaughn is in d. C. With the latest on trade. Blake burman is live at the white house. Hillary, first to you. Reporter melissa, the u. S. And china still have not set a date for what is supposed to be a refresh on trade negotiations that are scheduled for sometime this month. Even the president insists that the negotiations are going well, there have been a few hiccups in their communication between the two countries. First the president went forward with a new round of tariffs against chinese i imports on sunday, denying chinas plea to delay them. China now in response says they will file a lawsuit against the u. S. Through the world trade organization. A spokesperson for the Chinese Commerce Ministry Says the trade fight violates chinas quote, legitimate rights and interests, saying in a statement we urge the u. S. To stop abusing the concept of national security. It is deliberate smearing accusations against china and
Is. But i think its clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is. Hurricane matthew leaves behind a deadly trail of destruction. And the is not over as rivers continue to rise. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Green. Its hard to imagine a president ial debate being nastier or more contentious than last nights faceoff between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Almost immediately, trump was asked about a decade old trump that rah released on friday. Trump bragging that he can do anything to women because he is a star. Her. Its like a magnet. When youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. You can do anything. [ laughter ] reporter trump tried to downplay the tape and denied he had ever physically accosted women. The latest cbs news Battleground Tracker finds clinton leading in three key states. The polling was done before the release of the trump videotape. Clint
Quiet start to our day. Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous except for the wind we were stuck with dealing with for most of the day yesterday. We are seeing Clear Conditions from our Raleigh International camera where the current temperature is about 50 degrees. Our satellite and radar not showing any wet weather popping up. After the record rain that some of us experiend continue to dry out over the nextseveral days. Flood warnings remain in effect for all the highlighted in green. That is due to flooded roads, full streams and creeks and clogged storm drains. That continues through about 10 30 this evening. Temperatures across the area actually in the 40s and 50s so a cooler start to the morning. 50 degrees in raleigh and durham, 53 is our current temperature in fayetteville. We can expect things to stay dry thanks to an area of High Pressure building in. Were looking supny and cooler today sunny and cooler than yesterday, 68 degrees. Sunny skies all day today, a chance to dry out. Tha
That will continue today. At least this morning we are not seeing any wet weather here on the radar. We can expect this dry weather to continue not only through today but through the entire week ahead. A chance to dry out and get those Recovery Efforts going from the torrential rain we experienced on saturday. Again, flood warnings in effect unl 10 30 this evening. Thats for all the counties highlighted on the map here. That is because we do have flooded roads and there are a lot of them around the area. We also have full creeks and streams. Some at high water problems. Temperatures right now are in the 40s and 50s across the area. We can expect the sunshine to continueoday, and were looking at a high of 68 this afternoon. Well let you know how long the dry weather will last and exactly whats in store for your week coming up. Hundreds of thousands are without power thanks to Hurricane Matthew. And that means many folks out there may be turning to a genetor to keep the lights on cbs Nor