As the president and Vice President take up the first lady on her call to get moving. And here comes oscar. Preparations under way in hollywood with the 86th Academy Awards just two days away. The race to the top prize is open today, february 28th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Friday here. Carsons in for matt this morning. I hope that all those stars in hollywood are waterproof. Take a look at the dolby theatre right now where the oscars will be. Its all wrapped up in plastic. And if youre in charge of the oscars, youre thinking, weve had no rain in the state of california, and sure enough on the big night, is it going to rain . Yeah, it will rain, but the big question is will it get out of here in time for the oscars . Theres a good chance it may not. By the way, the rough weather out west is todays top story. The rain is, o
Closing bell. Im kelly evans. Im bill griffeths. Fourth time was a charm. This is our first rally of 2014 after declines. Pretty good Economic Data, the trade deficit number was strong enough. Thats 10 of our economy. So that bumped up the growth estimates for the quarter. The trade deficit figures were a big deal. Very excited about trade deficit. You can talk about the Immediate Impact to the Fourth Quarter gdp numbers. 2. 4 to 3. 3 on that report alone. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Energy story. Could you talk about what it means for the u. S. Dollar because the trade gap which is part of the current account is shrinking quickly. Were here to talk about the rally. The dow is up 114 points. Not far from the high of the day, but we got a ways to go before an alltime high. As bad a start as weve had to the year, were only 40 points off the closing high for the Dow Jones Industrial average. Were only 10 or 11 points for the s p 500. Its the Rolling Stone article that
Back pam cook. I heard it is getting warmer from steve paulson. Yes. Can see, there is a little bit of belief and 46 halfmoon bay walnut creek is in there menlo park, hillsboro 49 and 47 and i did see 43 in mill valley so how about that. Still a little breeze but nothing like yesterday and all associated. A few high clouds skirting the area. Some patchy fog, 60s and 70s coast and bay here is sal. If you are still trying to get to the national airport. Two lanes are held up and there is a minor crash and it is taking them time to get it out of the way. Just allow for extra time and you can use 280 to 380 and come back to san bruno that way. Get up to burl game at highway 13 and now there is somebody running away or running from the crash and traffic is moving a long okay. Westbound way bridge, that is backed up for that area, and that traffic does look good. The woman jumped from the area right across the string of popular restaurants. The crime in that neighborhood is getting more and
48th fighter wing. This happened in a lowflying training exercise, and not clear what may have caused this crash. We are working to learn more about this accident. We will bring you any updates as we get them from the live desk. Im wendy rieger. Back to you. More than 1 million americans lost their Unemployment Benefits when congress let the emergency extension expire at the end of the year. Tonight, president obama is urging congress to extend the benefits n. A narrow vote, the senate voted to move ahead with the extension, but the republican republicans and the democrats are far apart on how to make it happen. And Steve Handelsman has the report. Reporter the procedural vote means that the extended Unemployment Benefits may pass the senate in a few days, but president obama said it better. We are not a people who say, you are on your own. We believe we are all in it together the, and we know there but by the grace of god go i. Reporter there was catherine hackett, mother of two servi
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