Chinese Parent Company bytedance. The order says the platform poses risks that constitute a national emergency. Simply put, tiktok could enable the Chinese Government to spy on american citizens. Essentially this is the path forward to banning tiktok in this country unless its sold to a u. S. Company. Microsoft has been in talks to buy the app. It now has 45 days to make a deal. Thats when President Trumps order takes effect. Also late tonight, the oakland as are on damage control after a lot of backlash on social media. One of the as coaches caught on camera with an apparent nazi salute. It happened after the as won their game this afternoon at the coliseum. What youre seeing here is as bench coach Ryan Christianson congratulating the players. Instead of the covidfriendly elbow bump, he used the statearm salute. The as releasing a statement saying they do not support or condone the racist sentiment, and its extremely offensive especially during these times. Christianson also releasing
The dow is down over 200 points. Of course, pointing to weaker than expected Manufacturing Survey that was definitely the trigger. A lot of the rally since late summer was about a process with industrial activity. I will point out weakness today is not specifically concentrated in manufacturing, it seems like it is an excuse to say we had a nice run, havent had many pull backs. See the nasdaq down 1. 4 not full of manufacturing. It is more of a general cemen sentiment. U. S. Data not improving on time according to the schedule investors were hoping, we have a backoff. I would point out, s p is back to where we traded a week ago friday were skimming a bit off the top of the last part of the rally. Dow is down 220 as we talk now. Meantime, lets turn to the political ad hold outs mark sazuckerberg was reiteratig facebooks policy for now. At the end of the day i just think that in a democracy people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying even if the ads contain fa
Steady wind in allentown. Its increased to 21 Miles Per Hour. 17 Miles Per Hour for philadelphia and mt. Holly, wilmington at a 13 mileanhour wind. It doesnt take much wind to make it feel good. Weve got a lot of wind this morning. 4 is the windchill in allentown. Feels like 7 in northeast philadelphia and trenton. 9 in wilmington. At the shore, feels like Single Digits to start. Bundle up all day long. Cold weather all day. Without the wind, 18, thats the actual temperature. 21 right now in new jersey and philadelphia. Peaking in the low 30s this afternoon with a few ighborhood later today. Ill break it down hour by hour when i come back in ten minutes and a look at snow, too. Now to Jessica Boyington and first alert traffic. Thanks, in the Lehigh Valley, no problems, but more little earlier this morning. East and west, moving nicely around lehigh street. No problems reported there. Collegeville, a crash at 1st and east main street. Heres the garden state parkway moving through the ca
Things in the campaign that haunted him and no one gave him the benefit of the doubt and then he continued to drive he does not deserve the benefit the of the doubt all right folks, thank you very much. Jared, sarah, we appreciate it as we get to the top of the hour on power lunch, lets bring in kelly evans and Bill Griffith to join us as they will carry forward. Were giving you a big handoff here, folks. It has been a wild two hours with lots of news. I know youll be following it exhaustively somehow, i think its not over yet, tyler, yes were going to pick up the ball from here. Thank you, folks well see you a little bit later. If youre just joining us and you havent heard yet somehow, Business Leaders bailing on trump. Two key Business Advisory councils have been disbanded after more ceos quit in the aftermath of the criticism over mr. Trumps respond to the deadly violence in charlottesville this weekend the president himself gave a fiery response to the ceo departures yesterday lets
Well [ bleep ] kill these people if we have to. Mystery solved. A potential breakthrough in the 12year old disappearance of Natalee Holloway. This morning her father speaks out in a live interview. All that and eclipse fever breaking out coast to coast. This may be the biggest weve ever seen. Honoring elvis, 40 years after his death. He broke the mold. He broke the mold. Were live at graceland with Priscilla Presley. And the new necklace that live streams your life. Today, wednesday, august 16th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. We have got an awful lot to get to, so lets start with our top story. President trump at the center of a new firestorm after pivoting back to his original wake on the weekend violence in virginia. The president saying both sides of protesters were to blame and that very fine people took part in the rall