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we re seeing right now. we re trying to parse that out. that s what makes the markets so interesting. let s start here as we head into the final hour with where we stand on the major stock market indexes indexes. the dow is up 168 points and remember we ve had many, many more 1% swings this year than we had last year, and today by the way, we ve had them in both directions. the dow is up about 170. the s&p is up 18 points right now, nearly 1% there to 2085. the nasdaq adding 36. it s actually the underperformer on the session to 4,922. we ll also and we ll get to this in a moment talk about what we re seeing across the benchmark interest year 10-year. have to talk about oil as well. very strong. i don t know if you can show oil right now, but last i saw it was up about 5%. it s now 6.25% gain for u.s. oil. wti. that s at $52. brent north sea crude is at $58. that almost feels like a short squeeze. let s all make sense of this. all of our guests today except rick ....
president s physician dr. sean conley was upbeat but what he told us was rather ominous and led sanjay gupta say the president could be sicker than what the doctors are letting on. they also revealed he s taking a new drug, a steroid, one that is recommended by the world health organization only for people suffering from the most severe cases of covid. that s in addition to two other drugs he s taking. monoclonal antibody cocktail approved only for compassionate use and remdesivir for patients with severe covid who require supplemental oxygen. and cases of the virus are surging in the united states. president trump s infection was one of the highest single day number of cases we ve seen here in the united states since august 14th. two months ago. not a good sign. as the american public is receiving this mixed messaging from president trump s doctors and the white house, the president himself tweeted this video message from the hospital saying he has learned a lot about ....
this is a real threat to the democracy. what happens to donald trump is as important, but it is far less important than what happens to the country as a hole. donald trump is a loser, how he must hate that. but he lost the election, he lost the pga things for his golf tournament. he wears a scarlet letter l of loser and how he must hate that. no amount of marble or golden toilets can erase that, that s where he is. but what happens to him, whether he s made to pay any kind of price for what he has deliberately done to the country is going to answer your question of what happens to the soul of the country, what happens to the very future of the country. i don t like to be a doomssayer, i m an optimist as you know, don. we can get through this, but we have to wake up and understand we are being torn apart by extremes, an extreme right. unless it comes to a pretty quick halt, we will be in very deep trouble. well, you mentioned, you know, the price of anyone, if he wil ....
evan lyzachex. and what was the most memorable moment of the year online? you re my wife? we will hand out the first-ever orange room award today, tuesday, december 10th, 2014. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live, from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer alongside natalie morales and al roker. we have been watching this memorial service for nelson mandela at fmb stadium in soweto. and i think our first reaction was the weather is not cooperating. it was raining. but let s remember, in south africa, rain is a blessing. boy, they re being blessed during this ceremony. they are. and they are being graced by dig that tears from all over the world as it unfolds. and we ll talk to brian williams in a moment. that s right. this unprecedented gathering is our top story this morning. first, nbc s lester holt is inside fmb stadium in s ....
flight, an air canada flight, arrived in that very terminal on a flight from alaska earlier today, that he waited for his luggage along with the other passengers on that flight, that he retrieved his bags where he had checked firearms. these are firearms that you can legally check with the airline. and he legally was able to do that. he went to a bathroom, retrieved the firearm and came back out and started shooting. according to the initial investigations, it doesn t appear that he was targeting anyone in particular. he appeared to be shooting ram donnelly. there was no rym or reason to the shooting. but it appears that a lot of the people who he would have shot and some of the people that were killed might have been some of the passengers that were on this flight. again, he came on a flight, an air canada flight we re told, that came from alaska and landed earlier at ft. lauderdale international airport. again, this is a twist on something we ve never seen before. again, we ve s ....