syria's crisis topsy agenda as president putin has a british prime minister cameron as a two seater have a common approach to getting concerned talks. this comes up so russia and the u.s. agreed to mend a key differences over syria in favor of setting up an international conference to bring about an end to the escalating conflict. and a blood a so to democracy braces for saturday's historic general election amid a wave of brutal attacks and kidnappings by the taliban.

this has been a topsy-turvy weekend for a lot of people in the country's midsection and this dangerous weather system is on the move. tonight the national weather service says 148 million people are at risk for severe weather from now into tuesday. that's half the u.s. population. we watched as this all unfolded in oklahoma just moments ago. take a listen. >> go left! >> big-gun tornado coming down! whoa, whoa, whoa. stay on the street. >> folks, look at that. that's violent. that's violent. >> violent tornado! off to the right. big-time debris cloud. there is large structural debris. >> it's going to be heading for -- >> right in front of us! >> dobbs road. >> it's very dangerous! >> baseball-sized hail. that is approaching dobbs road. one mile south of waterloo road. you folks in rural areas up there, this is a life threatening, damaging tornado here. it is large and multi-vortex. >> as they reported in oklahoma a short while ago, our team is in place to cover it all, including nbc's janet shamlian in oklahoma city who spent some time herself taking shelter today. janet? >> yeah, tha

do you think that leads one to believe that we are topsy-turvy, that we're going to turn around and go down soon or would you put new money to work here? >> i would put new money to work, maria. i think we're in the stage of the bull market where people are just beginning to realize that there is actually a bull market going on. when you consider it's more than four years old, and people are still extremely skeptical, that's understandable. but i think we're getting to the point where people are finally accepting that there might actually be a bull market. >> and of course that bull market really fueled initially by the federal reserve. but alison, do you agree with that? and what about the fundamental backdrop? how has earnings season been. >> well, that's my issue which is the market no longer holds the same values to hold and earnings momentum is really slowing down. earnings growth is pretty tepid and top line growth is relatively weak. i look at that and think we've had such an incredible run in the market. the values aren't there to the same degree that the t used to e and now we

do you think that leads one to believe we are topsy-turvy or would you put new money to work? >> i would put new money to work. we're in the stage of the bull market people are just beginning to realize there's a bull market going on. when you consider it's four years old and people are still extremely skeptical. that's understand ab. we're getting to the point people might realize there is a bull market. >> fueled initially by the federal reserve. alison, do you agree with that and what about the fundamental backdrop. how has earning been? >> market has no values to hold and earnings momentum slowing down, pretty tepid and top line growth relatively weak. i look at that and think we've had sup an incredible run in the market. the values aren't there the same as they used to be. we have earnings challenge at least for the next several quarters. i think there's a risk the market could pull back and go sideways. >> what kind of pull back, how significant? >> not significant. when you look at other asset values out there, this is still one of the better places to be. i just think

syria's crisis topsy agenda as president putin has a british prime minister cameron as a two seater have a common approach to getting construed talks. this comes after russia and the u.s. agreed to mend a key differences over syria in favor of setting up an international conference to bring about an end to the escalating conflict. and a bloodless so to democracy braces for saturday's historic general election amid a wave of brutal attacks and kidnappings by the taliban. international news a live from moscow this is archie with me to bomb would say it's good to have you with us this morning. working out a common approach to mediating peace in syria is expected to dominate the discussion when president vladimir putin has british prime minister david cameron late on friday the meeting comes after moscow and washington patched up some of the differences on the crisis and called for an international conference on syria. ski has. in the russian city of sochi which will host the twenty fourteen winter olympic games that's where the russian president will be holding most of his international mee

themselves that finally, uncle tom became gitlow judson and aunt missy became-- who was aunt jemima and topsy became lutiebelle gussie mae jenkins. and i learned something in the process, that it is only if you allow the characters the freedom to create themselves, if you trust them, if you invite them, if you indeed allow them to take over your own imagination can you then hope to create life upon the stage. many theatergoers find it an intriguing experience to peek behind the scenes. perhaps it is more than curiosity. perhaps it is a secret longing to participate in the powerful atmosphere of the theater. and yet, this closer inspection of a stage can lead to disenchantment. the scenery loses its magic and is seen as painted canvas stretched on a frame, latched to other frames. the actors without makeup or costume appear ordinary. the pretense is gone. make believe no longer exists. nowhere is this situation more readily apparent than behind the scenes of the salzburg marionette theater. the scenery is built from wood and wire. the puppets are only dolls manipulated through their wires or s

another topsy-turvy adventure literally, the upsidedown house. >> wow, you need to be getting -- whoaation, there's the tower and garden. and just for us, a special song on their famous bells. and a sight before sunset, the batarn in gainesville home to over 300,000 bats. from wings -- ♪ under the sea -- to tails, yes, mermaids, they've been performing here since the 1940s. mermaids, and you thought they were a myth. for "today," kerry sanders, nbc news. >> all right. kerry, nice work if you can get it. let's try a little of the fountain of youth water. >> is that a subtle hint? forget the glass. >> all right, natalie. too much. too much. you're going to end up -- >> that's water. >> force of habit, she sees a wine bottle shape and pounds it right out of the bottle. >> like kathie lee and hoda. >> we'll have much more from orlando, but first this is "today" on nbc. >>> we want to thank everybody for a great morning here at universal studios in orlando, florida, and we're going to ride out in style in a '57 chevy. >> that's right, our flights are delayed so we're hitting the road to je

and then adt stuck another knife into that to show us that there are going to be some top -- some topsy-turvyding coming upon the very near future. liz: i'm glad you brought up the dollar. because it is absolutely affecting commodities which has been down all day long. the dollar briefly moved slightly higher after the fed came out with its announcement, which had understand. nonetheless, that is what happened. now -- you have to get the interview i did on foxbusiness.com. he makes all kinds of predictions but talked about how oil is pulling back rather significantly today. >> well, yes. i tell you what, we looked like we were going to get a hundred dollar crew this summer. everyone was unable list at the scenario here. and that we get to $93 peered out. that settled ddwn new lows at $91. last week you were in the $80 handle. think we're going right back to that. i think the strengthening dollar was will weaken the price of crude. we have collected the inventories. we have more crew on and then we have had an awful long time. all the combination of that is going to get us and said that 80 han

it's all topsy-turvy right now. it makes no sense and everyone for the first time in this nation agrees. everyone. there's the business, badges and vital coalition. there is the labor movement coalition because we are a coalition and for the first time , we are very much on the same page about what is needed and immigration reform. evangelicals, you can go on and on. the first time we agree it is so broken that it is not serving, in fact it is hurting every aspect of society in this country. so we have an opportunity to make a major change. i heard earlier people say we're not going to get it out once. okay, but fundamentally we should. we should design a system and improve the system that will deal with 11 million people coming out of the shadow and having the same rights as evert won to speak up, to work, to expect a decent standard and decent wage for their hard work. they should be able to speak out politically. that means, they should have a path to citizenship. they should be able to -- s.b. 11 is now here. th

its ten major industry groups while actually consumer staples was the biggest decline a sort of a topsy turvy session over a warship that's how it stands at the biomed stock into europe right here with what you see actually ended is the highest closing level since september two thousand that's really been boosted by some banking shares also want to talk about easy jet we had a huge rally for the budget airline we had shares running four percent reporting a thirteen percent rise in four year profit on a five percent increase in passages to really tapping in to those people that want to save a buck or two on their holidays so i was a big story on the so you want to talk about europe as well because as you can see what that does around seven tenths of a percent in positive territory that it was the carmakers actually that was doing the big numbers in europe we had her job. gaining around three percent so a good day all round for london mainland europe russia did and for a much jumping on the bandwagon here in moscow as you can see you've got the r.c.s. around eight tenths of a percent arou

scored the first nine points of overtime to with the crowd of nearly 20,000 into a frenzy and give this topsyrvy series of other twist. nearly 300,000 children in california have a parent in prison. for mother' dparents inr mother's day, a local organization called get on the bus used a dozen buses and drove 300 kids to the central california women's facility to see their moms. kron4's alecia reid shows the effect visits like this have on both the prisoners and their children. alic >> lalecia: there are many happy faces and visits like these go along way. without family visits it makes for six times more likely to offend when they get out. it's also therapeutic for the young ones. with these visits, they are less likely to act up and they're great increase. alecia wrotreid, kron 4 news. we'll be back with more in just a minute. >>jacquelinjames: >>erica: we have when he spots, i do have when advisory to talk about and some areas of drizzle. temperatures are not too bad. but like palo alto at 50 degrees, 54 out the door for half moon bay. most of the stations are reporting clear conditions at

we have had a topsy-turvy week of course, two up, one down and now our fourth day is certainly an upshley. ashley: lots of green. lauren, thank you very much. ahead of today's, well we've seen today's jobless claims. tomorrow is of course the all-important jobs report. unemployment claims falling last week to a five-year low. u.s. initial jobless claims dropping by 18,000 to 2324,000, that is the lowest level since the recession hit in early 2008. according to outplacement firm challenger, gray & christmas employers are announcing plans to lay off 38,000 ,121 people, right down to the single person. that is down 23% from march. down six% from this time last year. >> that number is accurate. not going to change at all. today's stock gains flowing in the s&p 500 are near a record high. our next guest says you better get in before the summer. jeff saut the chief investment strategist at raymond james joins us now. jeff, i remember what the summers were like these last couple summers. they were hairy and you're telling me this will happen again? >> we actually raised cash and recommended

so it is a kind of topsy-turvy situation here, but the white house can't win.argue, on the irs, in particular, and on the ag subpoenas, the white house is really a step or two removed on benghazi. they are not removed. but on two or three out of these, the timing is completely unfortunate for them. >> gloria borger, thank you. and jessica yellin, thanks to you as well. from washington we go to harlem. it is not often i hear in my ear my executive producer telling me that prince harry is now playing baseball. but here you have it, live pictures, prince harry playing some ball with some underprivileged kids there in harlem. max foster is there. max teixeira, the first baseman for the yankees, going to hop over to the mound and toss out some pitches to these guys and gals. big doings in harlem. >> reporter: yeah. no pressure on prince harry. doesn't really play baseball. not particularly good at cricket even. so he's out here in front of the world media, getting some practice in. but he's out, as you say, he's got the experts on site. we'll see how he does. just b