2016. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live in studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Its friday morning. Im savannah alongside willie geist. Matt will be back on monday. We talked earlier about how remarkable it is we had george w. Bush, president obama and president clinton entering in on the race. Enter the pope. Dont mix religion and politics, not applying to this race. It is a big story this morning. The president ial candidates are making their final pitches ahead of tomorrows Democratic Caucus in nevada, and the republican primary in South Carolina. As willie mentioned, this election has taken another strange twist, with this back and forth between donald trump and the pope. We will talk to mr. Trump live in a moment. We want to begin our decision 2016 coverage this morning with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning. Savannah, good morning to South Carolina, of course, famous for a Good Spirited debate. The fighting has gone
Your screen. New overnight Raleigh Police are investigating a complex. It happened shortly before 1 30 on an apartment complex on no word on the victim. Police are investigating. Were working to learn more. The Denver Broncos are super bowl champions. Peyton manning and the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers to win their third super bowl. Denver linebacker von miller is the super bowl 50 mvp. He forced two fumbles and got 2 1 2 sacks to help the broncos beat the Carolina Panthers, 24 10, last night. Peyton manning is the first starting quarterback to win with two different teams. New overnight, governor mccrory was involved in a minor car crash after the super bowl. He was in a california highway vehicle that was hit in santa clara. The governor wrote, we were very fortunate and while im panthers this puts the game in proper perspective. I want to thank california Highway Patrol and ems for their quick action. The Governors Office said he did have some pain after but was abl
Night that al isnt going to make it back in time and thats why im here. In honor of al, on the road again. He made it home. He instagramed a picture. Montreal is a great town. Nice place to hang out overnight. Good restaurants. Shall we talk a little politics . Yes. The republican primary in south carolina, as i mentioned, is tomorrow. Ahead of that, donald trump has taken this to an entirely new place, squaring off with the pope. He walked back comments a little bit that he made yesterday. On the flight home from mexico yesterday, the pope was asked about trump and he challenged his proposal to build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants. He said, a person who thinks about building walls and not building bridge it is not a christian. Thats the pope responding to trumps proposition for a wall. Donald trump arguing the pope would be blessed to have donalal for a religious leader to question a persons faith is disgraceful. If and when the vatican is attacked by isis, which as everyone kn
Of these winners that we now affectionately refer to as the fang stocks . Two Money Managers go head to head, one still likes and the other one says maybe time to look elsewhere. Two emerging market currencies that could have major implications for the boarder market. Why everybody should be watching them, ahead on closing bell. Lets start with this friday selloff, bob pisani on the floor here at the exchange. The bottoline is we are not getting any bounce at all. We opened we gapped down more than 20 points on the s p 500 and essentially we have been sitting at the lows all day. There have been really no significant attempts to rally and every time we have hit a lower low weve seen a little spike in volume. Five to one, seven to one, somewhere around there declining to advancing stocks, notably weak of course oil and oil stocks under new lows here, right across the board, apache, big company down 6 , here is exxon, the majors arent down nearly as much, down about 1 . Defensive names a
The search is on for suspects police say someone opened fire near a gas station and then took off in a sedan heading north on the 15. The man who was shot is in Critical Condition right now at umc. Officers found multiple shell casings from a 45calibre handgun. If you have any information. Youre asked to call metro or crimestoppers at 7023855555. Three people are in custody after police say they tried to rob a local jewelry store. It happened at amigos jewelry near eastern and owens. Thats where action News Reporter Stephanie Zepelin joins us live with the story owner. Stephanie . When we got here, detectives were still on scene looking at surveillance video. The store owner says a woman came in asking about a piece of jewelry. She left, but when she came back she brought two guys with guns with her. As soon as don lee figured out what was going on he hit the from the inside. Trapped inside, the wouldbe robbers fired several shots into the windows and ran out. 12. 03. 27 everybody gets