mysql - is today between two column values

Question

| id         | first (datetime)    | last (datetime)
--------------------------------------------------------
| 1          | 2013-04-15 00:00:00 | 2013-04-21 23:59:00
| 2          | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 | 2013-04-14 23:59:00
| 3          | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 | 2013-04-07 23:59:00
| 4          | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 | 2013-04-07 23:59:00

I want to show records if records datetime range covers today. (3 and 4 for this sample)

I tried do this with two NOW(), it gives syntax error in second NOW().

How can i do this?

Answer 1

select 
    *
from
    your_table
where
    first <= NOW() 
and last >= NOW()

Answer 2

select *
from your_table
where current_date() between first_datetime and last_datetime