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captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today. it s 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on a friday. i m matt lauer. i m ann curry. the clock is sticking. there s still no end to the debt ceiling crisis, and this has investors nervous. really nervous. just 30 minutes into the trading day, the dow down about 100 points already. this comes after a heated night on capitol hill where john boehner failed to find enough votes within his own party to push his plan through the house. as we said, we re expecting to hear from the president in just a short while. we ll get the latest from washington and wall street just ahead. also ahead this morning, a children plot to kill u.s. soldiers foiled near ft. hood in texas. investigators say the alleged attack was imminent and that a fellow soldier was behind it. we ll get details from ft. hood coming up, matt. and we want to tell you about another royal wedding in britain. the queen s eldest gran ....
story with us today, july 29th, we ll share his remarkal sto aa story with us today, july 29th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. tgif, matt. i m ann curry. good morning. the clock is ticking. the crisis is no clearer today than several months ago. both house republicans and senate democrats will meet this morning after speaker john boehner failed to find enough votes within his own party to push his plan through the house. so, are lawmakers wasting too much time on a bill that perhaps has no chance of passing in the first place? we re live on capitol hill with the latest on that coming up in just a couple of minutes. we ve got another very disturbing story. a chilling plot to kill u.s. soldiers foiled near ft. hood in texas and investigators say the alleged attack was eminent and a fellow soldier was behind it. we re going to live there for a report. have you heard there s ....