for the week. vonnie: 1.5 million dollars worth of savings will help contribute because this is an all-cash deal. an exciting day for the industry, specifically when you consider that they have been trying to consolidate and there are so many unsolicited bids between companies, monsanto included, and now monsanto is on the receiving end. jon: and the potential of that deal is being reflected let s get you up to speed on markets. futures where are we? i m not sure we are that saw on the dow. we will update you on that in a moment. s&p futures down. that is one year and not intraday. moves, theyraday are your one-year moved spirit let s switch up the board very quickly. hopefully they are intraday moves through they are one year moves once again with euro down. that is the reality today, down by 10% over the last year. around the s go world and check in with our bloomberg team for in-depth coverage of our top stories. matt miller is in berlin on buyers push for monsanto. enda
improve, saying that most districts reported consumer prices holding steady. the key one, economic activity expanding in most districts. last month we saw the economic activity expanding and nine of the districts, getting a similar story from the fed beige book. also saying that wage growth varied considerably by variance there. we will get more on the labor market leader once we get that monthly jobs report from the government. get right over to the markets desk where julie hyman is sitting. any reaction, julie? julie: typically we don t see a big reaction to the bache book, right? it just gives color. the fed saying that consumer spending rose in the majority of the middle of in headwinds from a weak energy sector. no surprises there. second that the stronger dollar with global headwinds is hurting exports again. we are already seeing stocks in a tight range and they remain within a tight range as well the nasdaq has been the day and it remains it as stocks bounce around. l
exactly. it is not necessarily the most pressing thing on my mind, to try to figure out how many people were there. reporter: despite not having a estimate mayor says weekend s events were a success for hundreds of thousands hossa tended. more definite numbers were, however a available for other areas, according to the city about 28,000 people rode septa s regional rail saturday, about 34,000 on sunday. patco saw nearly 26,000 passengers this weekend, and about 90 percent of area hotel rooms were booked. security was also tight, and, 71 agencies involved, and checkpoint lines, at times, were long. even archbishop charles chaput said some of his friend had issues. some of my friend, who tried to come, were still waiting to get in when it was almost over. reporter: now the event is officially over. while the city didn t provide specifics on how many people attended, mayor nutter says the weekend, however large, it actually was is proof for the future the city of philade
with first word news. vonnie: we are following breaking news out of mali this morning. none man attacking the radisson blu hotel in the capital of bamako. rumor is that there are 170 hostages. the army commander tells the ap that 20 of the captives have been freed. until bloomberg there are u.s., french, and the hotel.ps in two malian citizens and one french citizen are dead. here are the latest of elements from paris. nearly one week after the attacks there, a third body found in a department that was rated two days ago. the body of an unidentified woman. the suspected ringleader of last week s attacks was killed in the raid. the european union is being urged to implement security measures that were passed earlier this year. ,nd the oldest mosque in france services are canceled because of security worries. we are also hearing this morning from the german interior ministry, a spokesman commenting in berlin, saying one of the attack suspects came through germany. the senate ha
is not there. that will be something to watch through the week. guy: it is a story we will have to watch longer than that. themegoing to be a big throughout the show. good guest lined up for that story. let s get the first word news. spanish government bonds tumbling after an election that raises questions about the country s political direction. voters chose a fragmented party. negotiations will be needed to form a coalition. the conservative party cell short of the seats needed to go it alone. socialists gain the parliament seats. they are expected to join with groups to form a voting block. rescuers in china searching for missing people after a landslide. a mountain of dirt and construction waste very nearly three doubt three dozen buildings. at least 91 people may have been trapped. the city is a major manufacturing center not far from hong kong. a fakequestioned about bomb found in the bathroom of an air france jet. the flight was diverted to kenya after the device was
wounded. people had been lined up outside the building to get their national identity cards. no word on who is responsible. police in brussels arrested two people described as suspected terrorists as part of an effort to prevent terror attacks in belgium during new year s celebrations. the texas teenager in the so-called affluenza drunk driving case has been arrested in mexico with his mother. ethan couch had been missing for weeks. his lawyers argued that his wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility. he could end up in prison. we are seeing a rebound in futures today after declined yesterday on the last trading week of the year as stocks declined yesterday with oil. we are seeing the bounceback today. change fromg little the averages for the full year. seeing a little bit of a list this morning. lift this morning. let s check on oil. we will be getting stockpile data from an industry group today. natural gas has been an interesting story. we have seen thi
3 federal investigators are now investigators are now analyzing computers and other electronic devices as they try to figure out what led a married couple to kill 14 people, and injure more than a dozen others at a holiday office party wednesday. chris martinez has the latest from san bernardino, california. 3 nats-as thousands gathered at a candlelight and prayer vigil last night to remember the victims killed in san bernardino. the focus turns to what motivated syed rizwan farook and his wife, tashfeen malik to execute mass murder. -nat/sot- we are in so much shock it s unbelievable sarah khan and her husband farhan were related to the suspects.who died in a i can never imagine my brother or my sister in law doing something like this especially because they were happily married, they had a beautiful six month old daughter investigators say farook traveled to saudi arabia and pakistan last year and returned with malik, who came to the u.s. on a fiance visa. (standup chris
there is concern that government intervention to prop up the market will fail. meanwhile, fed vice chairman stanley fischer hinted that raising rates has not been ruled out. mohamed el-erian said investors should not count on the fed to ride to the rescue. market has been conditioned to view the central banks as their best friends, so whenever there is a hiccup, people look to the central bank. i do not think this time around the central bank is going to respond. the fed has reason to not do qe4. a new poll shows bernie sanders is now with hillary clinton and iowa. he has picked up 25 percentage points since january. he opened about his growing momentum on cnn. bernie sanders: all over this country we are generating enormous enthusiasm. people do not understand why the middle class of this country is collapsing at the same time as almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1%. another poll has donald trump in front at 23%, followed by ben carson, ted cruz, an
annual american an american on a quest to join that group. why another person with ebola there are no plans to ship him back to the u.s. nancy writebol talks about her battle with the deadly virus. when they put me on the plane, i knew i was bad. and game on! the excitement is building for tonight s start of the new nfl season kicks off in just a matter of hours. we are at the stadium if seattle today, thursday, september 4th, 2014. from nbc news, in is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, everyone. we welcome you to today on a thursday morning. i m matt lauer, al roker, willie geist. football starts tonight. we got kids back in school. where does the summer go? you got to say it, al, it s first night! it s football in america! the most storied franchise in football. the packers are doing it tonight. meanwhile, also coming up, i wait a minute wait to hear this, remember that guy that used the kn
from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia this is cbs-3 eyewitness news . a close encounter with a great white shark. local fishermen have quite a tale to tell after this huge shark circled their boat and took couple of bites as well. good evening everybody. i m natasha brown. thanks you so much for joining us. were a story this is. everyone is just fine. just bit shane and excited after a great white shark decided to hang out by their boat just off the jersey coast. new at 11:00 o clock tonight our matt rivers talked to the boat owner in avalon. reporter: here s a fish story that s actually true. and by fish we mean great white shark. it swam down the length of the boat and i happened to see it first and obviously i was a little bit stunned. i didn t say anything to anybody. i was looking at the trying to process the information it was quite a big fish. reporter: that voice you re hearing is steve clark avalon retiree. he own the 35-foot boat that was all th