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As Jeff Sessions finally breaks his silence. If he wants to make a change, he can certainly do so. What a white house at war means across the country. Searching for answers. The manufacture of that fireball ride that malfunctioned in ohio, tells Amusement Parks to shut down similar rides. The man identified who was killed in the accident, an 18yearold who just enlisted in the marines. Plus, why tourists are forced to evacuate a vacation spot. The billionaires battle for the title, worlds richest person. And comedy gold. A trip to the dentist. Today, july 28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you so much for being with us. Its friday, at last. We have carson in for matt. Matt will be back on monday. Its shaping up to be a very busy day. Were going ....
We are inches away from the record. Futures steady as we wait for the fed at 2 00. Tech titans will meet with donald trump today at trump tower. Were going live to midtown manhattan, watch them as they walk in. Two new names officially announced to take a spot in goldman. More on the changes. First, 89 points, thats how much it will take for the dow to hit 20k. The blue chips coming off their 16th record closing high. S p and nasdaq hitting record territory. All aed head of the feds rate announcement at 2 00. Live coverage will begin right here on cnbc at that time. We will get the forecast. Well get the dot plots and the q a. I have to tell you that Interest Rates are down today. You can see how this market is changed. Oil is not up. Interest rates are down. The futures are not higher. The banks have a lot of people feel like that the banks are the ones for this rate hike. Even the rate hike is now baked in or maybe feel that som ....
Strength and technology overall. For the moment, we are not seeing an improvement in stocks based on these numbers. Im going to take a look at the bloomberg, as well. A looks like we are not updating the dow. Ticking very slightly into the green, actually. It is up by about two points. The s p is up off by about 0. 5 points. Still a little changed. Still of 0. 25 on the nasdaq. 0. 25 on the nasdaq. The focus continues to be on retailer. Strengthen some of the Retail Stocks yesterday and today, we are going decidedly in the opposite direction. Consumer discretionary down only 0. 25 . There is strength in media stocks. Real estate is one of the worst performing groups today because some of the mall wreaths are trading lower. Individually, macys and kohls are leading the declines. Kohls is down 17. 5 . As theys down 13 announced plans to cut another 6200 jobs, bringing total cuts to around nearly 10,000. They already talked about plan ....
Look at the vix at 11. Yep. The vix is at 11. Yesterday somebody came into the s p 500 pit in the last hour of trading, and bought a whole bunch of protection that expires monday next week. These are s p 500 puts at the 2250 strike. They have already lost a pile of money on that trade. Put up 4 million, lost 5 or 600,000. So the big money is still protecting. Is not complacent. They have been doing similar things in the vix pit. Putting on protection ahead of the jobs report. And or whatever might be tweeted or happen over the weekend. With the interview, for instance, with the president before the super bowl on sunday. All of that could impact the markets, and some people want protection. So i wouldnt say its complacent. I would say that its right where it should be. Youve got the Missile Launch in iran. You have the whats termed the tough call with the australian prime minister. Comments about mexico. And oh, by the way, a fed t ....
A whole new level protesters are now gathering in the bay area. Tonight were following that part of the story, but steve udleson touches off our story. We reported it last night, it has gotten much worse. He was a School Worker in st. Paul. The cafeteria manager with no criminal record. He was shot by police in the suburb of st. Paul. The video that youre about to see is quite graphic. St. Paul School Worker filando castillos white shirt soaked in blood, he was in distress pulled over around 9 00 p. M. Outside st. Paul. He was license to carry, trying to get out his i. D. And wallet. Reynolds live streamed the video inside the car with her 4 yearold daughter in the backseat. He let that officer know that he was, he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm. I will, sir. No worries, i will. He just shot his arm off. He got pulled over. And please dont ....