>> breaking news this morning. presidential candidate pat wes after making big gains yesterday. donald trump and hillary clinton look to add to their delegate count and we will tell you what is coming up next. good morning. i am nicole petallides. >> a setback that is planned for interest tags feeling another rally on wall street after four straight days of gains for the dow. take a look at this. 59 points looking at the highest level of the entire year. nasdaq teachers hired by eight team. nicole: in asia the cautious tone may tags listed stocks in the shanghai composite index up 1.2%. but in japan, the nikkei dropped

one quarter of 1%. lauren: a stunning rally in oil prices shot up almost 6% yesterday in hopes of opec reduction cuts. oil is coming up close to $40 a barrel. $39.55 a pound. nicole: president of a mistake or the supreme court has to d. woo lawmakers feared maybe just a waste of time? nicole: march madness is underway today. who made the final cut for the tournament. nicole: 5:01 a.m. in new york. thursday, march 17th. happy st. patrick's day. welcome to "fbn:am," the latest breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. lauren: we are in green. candidates head into the west ahead of next tuesday's contest. the artist left primaries in arizona and caucuses of march 22nd. democrats still caucuses in idaho. donald trump will claim

significant victories in tuesday's primaries. he was senator bradley talking about potentially running against front runner hillary clinton. >> we had fun little run in two months ago and i helped her a lot because her numbers came down very big after that, but that was mildly pro-confrontation with her. we will see what happens. >> more than 1600 delegates about 2400. bernie sanders has 850. nicole: more republicans talking about contested and brokered convention. a convention is brokered if no candidates finishes the primary season with 1237 delegates. candidates can try to convince uncommitted delegate to support them on the ballot. he wins the nomination. lauren: but if no one gets the

necessary majority, the convention turns into a brokered event. at this point, most delegates can switch allegiances. chairman raines prevents last night explaining what happens to commit delegates than a candidate drops out. >> if a candidate were to drop out, delegates would become unbound shell. you would still not billed account the delicate. so it is still up to the candidate candidates themselves to accumulate a majority of delegates before the convention. dropping out for an creative bounty on delegates. nicole: trump has collected 673 delegates so far while texas senator ted cruz has 411. governor kasich has 143. lauren: former house speaker john b-bravo support current house speaker paul ran for president if republicans cannot

nominate any candidate at the convention. speaker ryan removed himself from consideration, his posters and saying you're not accept the nomination to be the republican running for president. donald trump has warned that the party did thought came you would have riots. nicole: president of a mistake for the supreme court is due to pick capitol hill. do not president nominated an appeals court judge yesterday at the white house but the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell of reiterating ireland will not be considered by the senate until after the november election. >> we are following the biden rule. when he was chairman, he pointed out in a supreme court vacancy created during the election year should be filled because the american people were in the process of speaking. elections are going on all over the country. nicole: we have more in the president's choice from around,

gerri willis. reporter: good morning. president barack obama nominating merrick garland to fill the position left open by supreme court justice antonin scalia. the 14-year-old judge is a brilliant mind that this is common sense and common touch. however, the nomination is not likely to proceed because moments after the nomination, which mcconnell said he will not put the name forward saying the american people should decide who will fill scully is decision. four other justices from the d.c. circuit court the d.c. circuit court that berlin is that chief justice, by garland may be best known for the investigation of the oklahoma city bombing and prosecution of the unabomber. the search for the liberal icon in the supreme court, he's a centrist by salmon center right by others. this is not the first time it's been considered for a seat on the supreme court. he was also considered to replace justice john paul

stevens and orrin hatch has described him as a consensus nominee. typically the supreme court nominee cited by the judiciary committee which must approve the president's candidate. mcconnell said in a hearing by the senate would become contentious on the court itself could be politicized by the process. the senate will not proceed with the nominate for the next president but the name forward. back to you in the studio. lauren: thank you a major willis, very much. numerous relations ran hillary clinton's use of black. the after becoming secretary of state. clinton's team tried to change the row so she could use your device for classified information. current and former intelligence officials told fox news that is standard track is to lay upon electronics outside a secure facility. >> federal reserve on its plan for interest rate hikes this year that continues to monitor development overseas.

>> the fed decided against another increase in interest rates right now at latest policy meeting. the u.s. economy has kept growing despite problems of global market. besides that it's worried the u.s. remains vulnerable to overseas shocks. >> the chinese growth has been proven a great surprise was anticipated that it was so over time japanese growth in the fourth quarter with negative and that was something of a surprise there's been a number of emerging markets as you know suffering under the weight of declines in oil prices better affect in their economic dvd. >> said ray short-term interest rates for the first time in december since the financial crisis by a worker point. in a new economic forecast wednesday, signaled to increase

is down from four increases the projected for 2015. >> peter barnes. the fan is helping lift global stock prices. the shanghai in china up 1.2% for the hang seng in hong kong. the kospi and south korea two thirds of 1%. down about a quarter of 1%. >> up one half of 1%. france's cac up a quarter of 1%. only the dax is a downer but it's fractional, not even one 10th of 1%. lauren: a nice rally yesterday for the blue-chip radar data features up 50 points. highest level of the year. up about 15 this morning. nicole: at our lowest point, people are happy to have less

than 100 lawsuits. oil continues to move higher. up $1..39. forty dollars a barrel. gold is a $37 to 12.67 entrance. you can see it is weaker. canadian dollar, mexican peso as well as the japanese yen this morning. lauren: here's the deal. 1.87%. nicole: subway service in washington d.c. ran just fine after unprecedented 29 hour shutdown following an electrical fire monday. the train stopped rolling up monday night the cruise that examine the power cables with hundreds of thousands of mr. rogers had workers telecommute it, took a day off. kids in a school while others woke up early to take the bus. based on 26 areas requiring replacement or repair. 700,000 people use the train

every single day. nicole: shareholders of jpmorgan and citigroup will vote on whether the bank should be broken up. it's been a hot political issue this election season and the question requested by a shareholder activists will be included. analysts have said it is highly unlike way shareholders will support the move. a similar proposal last year won just 4% of the vote. lauren: peabody energy, the largest coal miner is warning it might go bankrupt. the filing with the latest in a wave of bankruptcy hitting the big american coal companies like arch coal, also natural resources. they are expressing is for renewables with a potion made for the whole nation energy needs. we will hear more on the show from adam shapiro. >> a headline in today's edition of "the wall street journal."

bug stray makers take aim at the gut. expected to be two to three times higher than this year. the company wants retailers to pay more for shipments. emergency saving and using drugs at sea. as the way to the smaller cargo from the shore to the moving shared. >> coming up, get your brackets out. they make their way to the first round of the ncaa tournament. we will show you all the highlights. and then there's this. ♪ lauren simonetti pranks are not trying to carry.has father's legacy died unexpectedly.

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news ♪ nicole: is not beautiful and captivating. frank sinatra junior carried on his father's legacy with his own career has died. he died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while on tour at daytona beach, florida. he was 72 years old. sinatra junior was born in 1943 just as his father's career was getting started. he later fathered his father into the business as a teenager eventually working for a regional director and her. when he was 19 years old he was

kidnapped or returned safely after two days of his family paid $240,000 for his release. frank sinatra junior is survived by his son, michael. lauren: let's take a look at the stock market futures this thursday morning. we do have a very have a bears. dow dow futures higher 42-point domestic futures higher by 10. s&p futures higher by five. nicole: let's check commodities. oil closer to $40 a barrel. 2.7% gain. gold is higher by $37 to 12.67 as troy ounce. nicole: the latest in the world of sports. michigan tech and 67-62 games last night. 52 seconds five. that irving cannot they get the go-ahead three pointer to help give both wearing fake ticket it to the next round. michigan will face the fighting irish of notre dame friday despite a regular losing record, holy crosscuts the wind and the

turner met thanks to 19-point in the final minute from robert champion. the crusaders the southern university. this is the first turn in the victory and 63 years. they will take a number one seed over again in the next game on friday. white sox first baseman adam roach was told to cut down his son's time in the clubhouse. he plans to retire and walk away from $13 million this season. team president kennedy williams said his son drake is a quality young kids, but he didn't want anything to deter the team's focus this year. williams noted kids are still permitted in the clubhouse, just not every day, adding no job would allow that. nicole: managers are going mad over march madness, but none of their employees with rockets. executives and supervisors are more likely than subordinates to participate in march madness office pools.

the new survey same one in a workers plan to bet on the college basketball tournament and that is actually down from last year. the total amount of betting this year is estimated at just over $9 billion bid to turn and then officially starts today at the first game that begins at 12:15 p.m. eastern time and we wish you good luck. lauren: 68 teams in one dream. the battle for delegates reaches a fever pitch for front runners. the next key state primaries in the race for the white house. >> my content to make america great again. that's what we're going to do. she cannot make america great again. she's going to fail in trade. she phalen military. lauren: it may be an excuse. we'll have the latest checking the stock index futures on st. patrick's day. looking at a lot of green. dow futures higher by 35 points.

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lauren: the shanghai composite up 1.2%. in japan, here is your one that era. the nikkei ended 0.2%. nicole: a violation of nearly 6% yesterday in hopes of opec production cuts. oil now coming close to the $40 a barrel mark. 39.46 a barrel. lauren: the president had to capitol hill to boo lawmakers but may be a waste of time. nicole: march madness officially gets underway today. we will tell you who made the final cut for the tournament. 5:23 a.m. in new york thursday, march 17th. happy st. patrick's day to you and welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at today's markets, the latest breaking is and what to expect the day ahead. nicole: presidential candidates now heading west ahead of next tuesday's contest. both parties will have primaries in arizona and caucuses in utah on march 22nd.

democrats are set to hold caucuses in idaho. for one or donald trump claims significant victories in tuesday's primaries on "the o'reilly factor" last night talking about potentially running against democratic front-runner hillary clinton. >> we have a little run in two months ago and i helped her a lot because frank to her numbers came down very big after that. that was my only real confrontation with her. we will see what happens. whatever it is, i'll do what i have to do. nicole: clinton has run in 1600 delegates. 2480 to win the nomination. bernie sanders has 850. lauren simonetti president of bottomless pit of the supreme court is due today to speak with democratic senators to the president nominated merrick garland yesterday, but mitch mcconnell reiterating on special report with bread. that he will not be considered

until after the november election. >> we are following the biden will. when joe biden was chairman of the senate judiciary committee in 1992, he pointed out that no supreme court vacancy created during a presidential election year should be filled because the american people are in the process of speaking. elections are going on all over the country. lauren simonetti charles grassley said he would meet with garland in the coming weeks. nicole: new revelations in the controversy surrounding hillary clinton visit her black area. less than a month after becoming secretary of state, clinton's team tried to change the world so she could use your device and care facilities for classified information. that is according to new documents released under the freedom of information act. current and former intelligence officials telling fox news did a standard part is to leave all the elect are a mix outside the secure facility.

lauren: let's get caught up in global action market overnight. the shanghai composite up 1.2%. the cost in south korea up two thirds of 1% paid the nikkei and japan can do it. european markets. the only one holding onto the green up one quarter of 1% of the cac down one 10th of 1%. and might not be scary to check your 401(k) because the dow is down 90-point this year. dow futures higher by 35, s&p futures higher by four. dissect features tacking on 10 points. lauren: right now 39.48 is up 1 dollar, up 2.5%. oldest at $35 a troy ounce. lauren: back to the future for your feet? >> arleigh says, all right.

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nicole: breaking news this morning. presidential candidates address after making big dance yesterday, we will tell you what is coming up next. lauren simonetti i am lauren simonetti. in the markets come in the setbacks have a splinter interest rate hikes after four straight. dow futures up higher once again by 20 points. s&p futures on 523. nicole: the cautious tone of great height by two stocks. the index of 1.2%. in japan, denis k. a quarter of a percent to the downside. lauren: a solid rally in the price of oil shot up 6% yesterday in hopes about that reduction cut. oil very close right now to $40 a barrel. 39.58 this morning. nicole: president obama had to capitol hill to woo lawmakers to

revisit a waste of time? lauren: could either bracket that march madness gets underway today. we will tell you who made the final cuts for the tournament. nicole: 5:36 a.m., thursday, march 17th st. patrick's day. welcome to "fbn:am," the latest breaking news and what to expect today i had. lauren: presidential candidates heading to the west ahead of next tuesday's contest that both parties have primaries in arizona and caucuses in utah and democrats have to hold their caucuses in idaho. republican front runner donald trump who claimed significant victories in tuesday's primary was on "the o'reilly factor" last night. talking about running against the front runner hillary clinton. >> we had a run in two months ago. frankly her numbers came down very big after that, but that was my only real confrontation with her. we will see what happens. i'll do what i have to do.

>> clinton as 1600 delegates in about 2400 needed to win the nomination. vermont senator bernie sanders has 850. lauren: more republicans talk about the probability of contest brokered convention. it is contested if no candidate finish the primary season with the native delegates 1237 is the number. at this point, candidates can convince uncommitted delegates to support them on a ballot that if a candidate gets a majority on the zero, he wins the nomination. lauren: but if no one gets the majority, the convention turns into a brokered event. at this point, republican national committee chairman was on hannity last night explaining what happens to run a candidate drops out of the race. >> of. >> of a canada reported dropout, delegates would become unbound. you would still not be a good

account to delegate. it is still up to accumulate a majority of delegates before the convention. dropping out to create a bounty of delegates. nicole: donald trump has collected 673 delegates so far. texas senator ted cruz has 400 adopted and governor kasich has 143. lauren: president obama due to visit capitol hill to his date with democratic senators. he nominated merrick garland, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell of reiterating that garland will not be considered by the senate until after the november election. >> where file in the biden will. when he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee in 1992, he pointed out that no supreme court vacancy created during the presidential election should be filled because the

american people are in the process of speaking. elections are going on all over the country. >> more now on the president strays from gerri willis. >> barack obama nominating mayor garland to fill the position that franken by supreme court justice antonin scalia. connecting your federal court judge is a brilliant legal minds of those who thought that common sense and common touch. the nomination is not likely to proceed because moments after the nomination, mitch mcconnell indicated he will not put their names forward thinking the american people should decide to fill scalia's position. for others sitting justices justices from the d.c. circuit is that garland is now chief justice said. he may be best-known for supervising the investigation of the oklahoma city bombing and prosecution of the unabomber. the garland clerk for the liberal icon, ideas considered a centrist is sound and center

right by others. this is not the first 10 garland has been considered for the supreme court. he was also considered to replace justice john paul stevens and orin hatch described him as a consensus nominee. typically supreme court nominees fêted at a judiciary committee which must approve the candidate. mcconnell said in a hearing by the senate would become a sanchez on the court itself could be politicized by the process. the senate will not proceed until the next president has made forward it back to you guys in the studio. lauren: gerri willis, thank you so much. nicole: hillary clinton's shoes are black very. a month after becoming secretary of state, clinton's team try to change the rules that she could use your device in secure facilities for class that information and new documents released under the freedom of information act. current and former intelligence officials told fox news that is standard practice to leave all

electronics outside a secure facility. lauren: lipsky caught up in global market action overnight. a sea of green minus 70 k. in japan to .2%. shanghai and hang seng up 1.2%. kospi and south korea at 0.7%. >> a look what's going on here. and france's cac to the downside by 131%. germany's dax the worst of the bunch got three quarters of 1%. nicole: many americans abraded st. patrick's day today. dow futures higher by 20 points. s&p futures higher by two. nasdaq up almost five. nicole: that could oil getting close to the $40 a barrel mark. gold is at $45. subway service in washington d.c. is supposed to be running again this morning after an unprecedented 29 hour shift and follow another coal-fired monday.

the train stuck on a midnight tuesday said cruz could examine power cables, inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of writers. federal workers telecommute, some took today off. kids off. kids in the school while others spoke up early to try to work or take the bus. they found 26 areas requiring replace vent or repairs. 700,000 people used the d.c. metro every day. nicole: peabody energy, the largest coal miner is warning it may go bankrupt to chapter 11 filing the latest in a wave of bankruptcies hitting big american coal companies such as alpha natural resources and the patriarchal. meanwhile come out democratic presidential candidates push renewables for republicans focus on oil, natural gas for the nation's energy needs. adam shapiro has more. reporter: the field of presidential candidates narrows, wider attention is paid to their position on key issues like energy.

hillary clinton intends to put a lot of coal miners out of business and shift the country where from fossil fuels. an additional $30 billion in government and it includes investments in clean energy research. she's also proposing tax breaks for wind, solar and other clean energy producers. donald trump has been more specific about his energy policy that supports the increase use of fossil fuels that he's made statements in support of striking and warned the obama administration's iraq caused killing american jobs in making the united states more energy dependent on their enemies. trump has called oil the lifeblood of the united states and promised to take aim at opec. ted cruz going for a great american energy renaissance of incorporates and all of the above of what should energy or life in the oil, natural gas and nuclear power to provide abundant and affordable gas and electricity. he will approve the keystone pipeline to create jobs in the

federal impediments to energy x duration, development and trade. he also proposed eliminating tax producers. john kasich supports a policy to make the united states energy independent. his policy relies on coal, nuclear, natural gas and proposes an increase in access to oil and gas production on public land with proper environmental production. some time ago that the regulation and allows states to regulate industries. he also supports the use of clean coal like the epa's green power plant which is the coal industry hard. bernie sanders promises to invest tax dollars and an energy projects like solar energy. he also promises to create tax on carbon to come back find a change. ban drilling in the arctic and an onshore drilling for oil and natural gas. he would prohibit the export of

oil and liquefied natural gas as well as a pipeline projects at the keystone pipeline. his promises as president to the communities to stop climate change. the new: lauren, back to you. nicole: adam shapiro, thank you very much. transfer the file teams make their way to the first round of the tournament. we will tell you and show you the highlights. the wearing of the green means raking in a lot of great for retailers had this acronym out of money and the business of st. patrick's day. the lysander saint patty's day weather forecast. can the stock market rally continue? absolutely. dow futures up 23 points, nasdaq futures up almost four. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at warning markets and breaking news.

nicole: up as continue. u.s. stock market futures right now could the dow jones industrial average. first time this morning -- we now have down there is. dow futures have now moved into the right down to nothing. s&p futures down to, nasdaq and seven. lauren: the show you that oil and gold prices are doing. they're still higher. oil is higher by 2.4%. gold is down -- up by $36 to $1265 an ounce. nicole: a look at the latest from the world of sports at

michigan took down told sammon of the final two paintings last night with 52 seconds left. he came up big with a three pointer and two free throws to help give a ticket to the next round. michigan will face 65 and address at notre dame on friday. despite regular season, holy cross grabs a season, holy cross crowds they win an ncaa tournament. a crucial three pointer. the crusaders. this is the first tournament back tour in 63 years. they will take on number one seed oregon in their next game on friday. the brunch is in the lineup cavaliers carried them to a 99-90 victory of the mavericks to score 33 points in a deal in the final seconds of the game to help close out the win.

this is an attempt to keep fresh the playoffs. >> would one start as a religious celebration to honor saint patrick of ireland has now turned into a spending finance it. here's a closer look. >> it has become bigger over the years. lauren: shoppers hitting a surfer's st. patrick's day food, clothing and drinks for the holiday will generate $4 billion in total sales. the national retail federation said that $35 per person. 31% of those surveyed plan to make a special meal. >> corned beef is a huge american dish. it's not irish, by the way. it originated here in america. we sell 2000 pounds of corn beef hash on st. patrick's day. lauren: people are looking for a reason to get out and celebrate.

29% of people had to a party. are we going to do something that is photo friendly thing we can answer graham, short on facebook. that's a trend that plays right into that. transfer you don't have to be from the emerald isle. the mac beta to us in america to know how to create a vertebrate that allows everyone to celebrate whether i'm sure not. lauren: 82% of people were brokering to raise their pride. guinness has 13 million patents in its famous stout are sold worldwide on this day of love. >> we estimate 70 million people celebrate st. patrick's day and way, shape or form. >> was some prefer pale ale with a tinge of green come to find of green comets find the ladies. >> as you enjoy guinness, that's as irish as a regular guy. the color is apparently believed dark. lauren: did you know pouri a

sk two minutes. first you have to saddle and top it off. nicole: i will skip the green and have a delicious classic guinness. if you had new york city today, you may want to pack an umbrella. meteorologist maria molina is here this morning. reporter: good morning. we will have sunshine, clouds, present temperatures for this time of the year. there is a chance for his body shower or isolated thunderstorm. that will be something to watch out for including new york city. as we have wes really do have heavy snow coming out across parts of the upper great lakes assigned areas with as much as if it is not throughout the day today and set to expire here in the next couple hours. across parts of the gulf coast, i want to take you down here because we are expecting showers storms later today. they could produce severe weather in the form of tornadoes or damaging winds.

places like louisiana, eastern texas and southern parts of mississippi. this is the region last week that was hit hard by so much flooding and heavy rains and still i'm going out there. unfortunately we are going to be seen additional rainfall across the region. heavier rainfall totals for the race across southern parts of georgia and parts of the florida panhandle. taking a look at current current temperatures not too bad across the nation. cooler spots across parts of the hype and the temperatures in the 20s. later this afternoon to temperatures will climb across the entire nation and southern texas in the southeastern u.s. take a look at the numbers. 80s and 70s forecast later this afternoon. over to you. nicole: maria molina, thank you very much. lauren: we will run over a global market action this morning before we hand things over to maria. it's

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several hours, maria bartiromo begins right now. maria: hey, nicole. at thursday morning. happy saint patty's day. i maria bartiromo. it is thursday, march 17th. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast yet despite donald trump late lead in the polls and with delegates, the establishment is still trying to find another path holding a meeting later today led by eric eric. >> the first goal is in a third party. can everyone wrap around as the nominee and set aside grievances between people who pick different candidates. >> new listing the show hillary clinton wanted it but airy when she became secretary of state but was denied by the nsa. president obama supreme court pick us up to scheduling meetings on capitol hill. but that he is chance of getting confirmed by the senate. the major league player with the multimillion dollars deal. why he chooses them out of the

clubhouse. a dog lost at sea more than a month ago found alive. details coming up in the program. the federal reserve decision yesterday driving action overseas today. in asia overnight the markets mostly higher print the shanghai composite of better than 1%. in europe, the markets turned lower. we are seeing fractional weakness for the ft 100. dax and germany down better than 1%. futures point to the client as well. the dow jones industrial average coming mass deck and s&p 500 to open a fraction this morning after the federal reserve yesterday was low down the pace of interest rate increases. it also lowered its economic growth forecast. although stories coming out. he was me all morning, michael block, bgc partner steve cortes and of course fox business dagen mcdowell. if you missed one. presidential candidate herman cain.