we would have been well over 3% except for the hurricanes. lou: you would think you were a member of the trump administration. cheryl: breaking news this morning, amazon at it again forcing cvs and aetna to talks. would that be good for consumers? lea: a major win for president trump. a tax bill coming next week. cheryl: big-tech blow-out. lea: we will get reports from exxon mobile ahead of that u.s. stock market futures taking a

cheryl: european central bank is pulling back. lea: in asia stocks in japan got a lift from u.s. titans strong earnings. cheryl: iphone 10 goes on sale for preorderrers but there's already a long wait. fbn:am starts right now. ♪ ♪ cheryl: 5:01 in new york. lea: i'm lea gabrielle in in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: great to have you, lea, are you going to get the iphone 10? >> i'm not going to make a comment right now. cheryl: breaking news this morning, stunning news in the health care industry, shares of aetna soring that cvs is in

talks to buy the insurance company. lea: tracee carrasco joins us with the details, good morning, tracee. tracee: if this merger is approved it would reshape health industry. cvs controls farm-store chains and management system while aetna is one of the largest insurers, talk of the possible 66 billion-dollar deal sent shares of aetna to all-time high while cvs fell 3%. report that is amazon is entering the pharmacy business reported a catalyst for cvs's move on aetna just as amazon gained approval from a number of state farm farm boards to become a wholesale distributor according to dispatch. including nevada, arizona, north dakota, louisiana, alabama, new jersey, michigan, connecticut,

idaho, new hampshire and tennessee. application pending in the state of maine. this news sent pharmacy business manager express grips down yesterday. lea: do you think this merger will actually happen? tracee: it's tough to say because health insurance, these types of mergers they always hit road block. aetna and humana tried to merge as well. anthem agreed to acquire cigna, those deals fell apart because there were concerns and antitrust rulations that they were working through and couldn't make it happen. so this one, i'm not sure. cheryl: this may be good for the businesses but not good for consumers, could lead to higher prices for consumers. tracee: exactly. cheryl: a different deal fell apart overnight.

the company have called off their 20 billion-dollar merger, deal opposed by activists u.s. investors claimed that it would destroy shareholder value. another company will have to pay a break-up fee. lea: house republicans with major victory. kevin brady speaking to lou dobbs thanking president trump for his help. >> today marks it begins of the end of this horrible u.s. tax code, president trump played a key role in passes through both the senate and the house and republicans came together knowing that we cannot land tax reform this year till we have a budget firmly in place. cheryl: more now on the vote and what happens next, connell mcshane. >> good morning, cheryl, good morning, lea, we had quite a day in the capital as the house

passed vote, it wasn't easy but important vote and paves way to tax reform. 216-212. the gop could afford 22 defections, they ended up getting 20 and the biggest issue were members from high-taxed states, they are word about removal of deduction for state and local taxes, you look at 20 no's, more than half came from new hampshire and new york, smith, even more from the state of new york will highlight congressman king has been quite outspoken on the issue. leadership is listening, house ways and means committee chairman kevin brady says the no voters made it clear. they need to see a solution on this issue surrounding deductions and he says he's working with them and he believes that the two sides are moving close to getting a solution but, you know, that's the issue for republicans here yet they have their issues, they have to work them out but many

of them have told us this week they feel as though they have to pass tax reform. listen. >> somebody is out there talking about what are the options, what are the things you can go after and start floating these to see what the reaction to them are. in the end, i want to see tax reform pass and we have to make uneasy and unpopular decisions. >> those decisions may have to be made quite quickly, the house says they'll have their tax reform bill ready to be introduced by next week, cheryl, lea, back to you in new york. cheryl: thank you, connell, tech is still king, four major companies on fire reporting blowout, all posting growth, sending shares sharply higher in afterhours trading. meanwhile starting today you can preorder the iphone 10, founder and chief analyst of disruptive research, hey, good morning. >> good to be here. cheryl: let's start with amazon, the stock on fire, the big news

really was the pharmacy push by amazon which is, of course, led to this merger that we are seeing between aetna and cvs. is this another industry that they will take over? >> yes, and it's one of many of industry that is we probably don't know about that jeff bezos plans to dominate. i mean, it's really pretty telling here. amazon, we might as well consider nation state, they are branching out into so many different aspects of everyday lives. they led the pack reporting sales growth of 34%. most telling stat for me is amazon's head count increased 80% in the last year. they are gearing up for much more growth ahead and i think we should expect it. cheryl: web services as well. amazon says they believe in investing not necessarily profit growth for now but investors like the web service growth they saw on that one. let's talk about microsoft, microsoft had pretty good news specially when it came to cloud service's business not

necessarily personal computing. are you a fan of microsoft right now? >> i am a fan. i say that seriously. if you look at it, they made an effort, when everyone was writing them off to focus on cloud segment and for two quarters in a row, that cloud segment has enjoyed growth faster than amazon. 56% this quarter versus 42%. so mr. softy is not so soft anymore. i'm a fan. cheryl: real quick on alphabet and then i want to get to apple. did you like the numbers you saw? >> they reported net income more than a dollar ahead of expectations. a billion dollars now. look for them to spend in acquisition to super charge growth. cheryl: 10 is out there for preorder. a lot of speculation that this is going to be a supply disaster

for apple because not is only 10 a hot phone but they can't get the made fast enough. what do you think? >> i'm guilty as charged as being apple fan boy. my bullishness on apple is off the charts. the super cycle upgrade, the numbers bare it out, recently apple cut back for production for iphone 8 because consumers are holding out today for iphone 10. look, as planned, this is going to be a large upgrade cycle for apple and next quarter when they report results, we will see it evident and look for shares to hit all-time high. cheryl: we had pete on the show for maria and they said 10 is amazing and it's going to totally change how people use phones, lou good to have you on the friday morning. >> no problem, great to be. lea: great expectations for passing tax cuts for americans.

>> tax reform will help reignite the american dream, a stronger, healthier economy and this budget that the house just passed brings us closer to making that dream a reality. >> okay, but what about your 401(k), is that safe? we will debate that with the political panel, the white house releases documents but it's not going down well with some people, you're watching fbn:am, stay with us ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ well i'm gone

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cheryl: welcome back, let's get you caught up on what's hang now. the white house releasing most but not all of the jfk assassination papers, but historians conspiracy theorists are upset that president trump didn't release the entire collection. in 1992 law mandated that all documents be disclosed this year but the cia and fbi asked that some information be withheld. the president put files under six-month review saying he had no choice. the irs has apologized to tea party members and conservative groups as part of settlement by the department of justice, allegedly targeted for their views and internal revenue service admitted it applied extra scrutiny to conservative

groups. harvey weinstein is suing the company he finded demanding access to documents he claims could help with potential defense against several claims. weinstein was removed as ceo and resigned from the board last week amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault and that is what's happening now, lea, over to you. lea: all right, thank you, cheryl. house passing a budget that is key hurdle to tax reform. 401(k) prom and state and local deduction discussion is getting heated. good morning, to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> michael, i want to start with you, change to offset revenue losses that would result in plant tax cuts, i want to get your thoughts on whether this is a good idea, contribution limit possibly being lowered. >> i don't. i think this is going to hurt middle-class taxpayers because to go from 18,000 pretax

contribution to 2400, you know, pensions have gone the way the bird, people aren't relying on social security the same way. the way that people are saving for retirement and people that are overwhelming saving for retirement are the middle class are through 401(k)'s, it'll hold tax debate. >> chris, i want to get your take, when you think of retirement, you think of 401(k). >> absolutely. president is taking expectations to keep that, there needs to be room to find some of those agreements, you know, obviously the changes would be to tax things going in and then that would be it not only out but certainly they are going to have to give some room and there's nothing that stops folks of making other personal savings decisions but they'll be concessions to get this to go

through. this can't be like health care, republicans have to get this done. lea: another hot topic is state and local deductions and what happens there. michael, 20 republican house house members voted against and many were expressing disapproval, repeal income tax deduction for state and local taxes, your thoughts there? >> another instance where, i think, middle-class taxpayers are going to get hit unfairly and use kind of vessel to cut taxes on the upper class and top 5% of the country. state and local deductions are what overwhelmingly middle and lower-class americans take. when you get rid of those deductions, if you were to triple the standard deduction, in the long run it would hit middle-income families hard. those taxes are on schools, roads, social programs, things that every citizen in states like new york, in states like new jersey use.

lea: you know, chris, democrats called a plan a give away to the rich and to corporations and they're now saying, they are the ones being the deficit hawks and saying it would swell the federal deficit, what's your response to that? >> democrats think that government can do no wrong. this is -- it's going to be difficult. i understand, i think michael is right on sensitivity it is way this hits middle-income people. on the other hand, you cannot draw revenues only from tax it is rich, we have seen the numbers, it's not georgia to add up. from states in new york and illinois, they have to get state budgets under control. they've had issues in revenue that are unique, they have to live within their means, they have to negotiate obviously these lawmakers can't reveal deals up front but we are going to be looking close at state and local income and be able to negotiate something and this cannot be like health care, they have to finish this to resolution. lea: certainly this is going to be an issue when we go to

midterms, it's going to be a huge trouble. yesterday's house vote allows republicans to bypass democrat filibuster, what's the strategy that democrats are now going to have to block gop plan, we see the messaging campaign but what's the strategy? >> democrats are going to take straight to voters and it's going to be middle-class taxes that are going to go up, middle-class taxes go up all to ensure tax cut for the wealthy. getting rid of state tax, that's something that a small portion of americans would take advantage of. so i think that's a message that's winning for democrats and i think it's a message that even republicans can support. lea: chris, i want to get your take on that, really there is a messaging campaign and a lot of voters, a lot of people will be voting in midterm elections what will the republicans do to

overcome messaging from democrats? >> that's where president trump put a light in the sand to voters. there's room to negotiate, property taxes that hammer everybody, i think they can try to find agreement in those areas and, you know, elections electie about results and democrats are complaining about the fact that president trump is president. we will see what happens but hopefully republicans can get this done and have results. >> michael, your thoughts, negotiations on this and points of agreements, for example? >> i think there's areas where absolutely democrats and republicans can come to the table, you talk about repatriating funds, lowering business rate to 22%. we are not antiworking with republicans, we are antibad ideas and so we look forward working with -- >> they ran hillary clinton for president. >> let's not even go there. lea: thank you so much, chris. >> good to be with you. >> take care. lea: we will see how it all goes

down. cheryl: a little fun this morning. lea: starting to get hot there. cheryl: my family we are big star wars fans. if you want to dress up, now you can. >> what do you do? cheryl: we will tell you about a new option of movie props. temperatures down across the nation and there's even snow. janice dean has the weekend weather. you're watching fbn:am

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i know a few about the films. is it time to start using usingw word? lea: janice, good morning. janice: the w word means weekend? yes, it is arriving, look at the cold front. much cooler air, behind 23 in rapid city, windchills in the single digits now, 24-hour temperature range. this cold front moves from what it was yesterday 24 hours, warmer air and potential for showers and thunderstorms. looking at this storm here, if you live across the upper midwest and great lakes, snow in october is not really anomaly here. we will get messy conditions into today and overnight and we could get several inches of snow

, michigan, great lakes. we will watch the system move. warning, sunday and monday potential big coastal storm for the northeast that could bring winds, rain and lots of travel delays. so enjoy your weekend, sunday and monday we are going to get into this stuff. lea: w for wet. cheryl: all right, well, coming up, what is it going to mean for tax economy if tax reform doesn't get done? president trump says tax cuts will light a fire under the economy, we are going to find out how we did third quarter gdp coming up in a few hours, more on that, amazon appears to be pushing cvs and aetna into a 66 billion-dollar merger. we have the details. you're watching fbn:am

sfx: loud poorly played electric guitar that sounds awful but a lot better than last week ♪rock guitar music ♪we weren't born to follow cheryl: breaking news this morning, amazon at it again forcing drug company cvs and aetna into merger talks, 66 billion-dollar deal could reach health care but would that be good for consumers? lea: major win for president trump, tax bill coming next week.

cheryl: big-tech blowout, amazon, microsoft and google parent alphabet surging overnight on strong earnings. lea: this morning we will get reports from exxon mobile, chevron and merck ahead of that. dow futures higher by 40, nasdaq higher by 26. cheryl: love the green. take a look at europe, same situation. the crisis in catalonia is getting worse and ecb, they are pulling back as you can see, right now markets are higher. lea: in asia stocks in japan got a lift from strong earnings, nikkei up over 1.2%. cheryl: iphone 10 goes on sale for preorders today but there's already a big long wait. fbn:am continues right now. ♪ cheryl: and it's 5:31 a.m. here in new york. friday october 27th, good morning, i'm cheryl casone.

lea: and i'm lea gabrielle in in for lauren simonetti and breaking news this morning. cheryl: we have a lot of breaking news. great to have you here, by the way, lea. stunning news in health care industry. cvs health is in talk to buying insurance company. this as amazon is poised to basically take over the pharmaceutical world. lea: tracee carrasco joins us with those details. tracee: good morning, ladies, if merger approved and goes through it would reshape the health care industry. cvs controls massive drugstore chain and management system while aetna is one of the nation's largest insurers. talk of the possible 66 billion-dollar deal sent shares of aetna to all-time high, up 12% while shares of cvs fell 3%, report that is amazon is entering the pharmacy business was reportedly a catalyst for cvs's move on aetna as amazon gained approval from a

number of state farm farm board to become a wholesale distriboutor according accordin. louis court dispatch, nevada, arizona, north dakota, alabama, new jersey, michigan, connecticut, idaho and tennessee and application currently pending in maine. the news sent shares of drug whole sailers and pharmacy managers express grips down yesterday. lea: let's talk about the merger, what's the likelihood of this happening? tracee: it's unclear right now. it could be tough because these health insurance companies faced road blocks before. aetna and humana also tried to do a deal but that fell through, similar with anthem and cigna, that fell through as well just because of all of the hoops they had to jump through, the antitrust concerns so the deal fell apart.

cheryl: regulators want to know how this affects consumers. tracee: we will see, it's unclear. lea: all right, thanks, tracee. tracee: thanks. cheryl: house republicans scoring a major victory approving budget blueprint. >> it's early. cheryl: thanking president trump for his help. >> today marks the begins of the end of this horrible u.s. tax code, president trump played a key role in passes through both senate and the house and republicans came together knowing that we cannot land tax reform this year till we have a budget firmly in place. lea: more now on the vote and what happened next with mcconnell mcshane. >> good morning, cheryl, good morning, lea, we had quite a day in the capitol as the house was

able to get budget passed. it wasn't easy but it was an important vote but pay it is way to tax reform moving forward, 216-212. the gop could afford 20 defections. they are worried about state and local taxes, more than half came from new jersey and new york, the names of new jersey, the likes of mcarthur, lance and smith and even more from the state of new york will highlight top of the screen, king is outspoken on the issue. leadership is listening. houses ways and means committee kevin brady says the no voters made it clear, they need to see a solution on this issue surrounding the deductions and he says he's working with them and he believes that the two sides are moving close to getting a solution, but, you know, that's the issue for republicans here. yet they have their issues, they

have to work them out, but many of them have told us this week they feel as though they have to pass tax reform. listen. >> somebody is out there talking about what are the operations, what are the things to go after and start floating these to see what the reaction to see them are. in tend i want to see tax reform pass. >> those decision that is the senator is referring to may have to be made quite quickly. the house says they'll have their tax reform bill ready to be introduced by next week, cheryl, and lea it's back to you in new york. cheryl: you can be sure that the markets are going to carefully watch developments on tax reform, david nelson is here. hey, david. >> good morning. cheryl: prices are taxed in tax reform, that we that confident? >> i'm not sure. the markets have been counting on it and you can see that starting in september, that's

when the markets started to change. we continue to hit all-time high and when markets get nervous about tax reform, that's when they start to head south. cheryl: other big news we want to talk about is deal between cvs and aetna, incredible news overnight. as you see all reports coming out yesterday as amazon is going into pharmaceutical cri business, you the two companies merging, this is pretty jaw-dropping. >> probably not surprising. aetna was looking for something with the failed merger with humana and cvs sees amazon coming, validated the retail space with the takeout of whole foods, drug delivery was probably the next step for them. cvs is making a wise choice thatly have retail, pharmacy benefit management, yet add insurance to that, this might have a better chance of getting through because there's not a lot of overlap between the two

businesses. cheryl: you think regulators might be a little kinder? >> i'm not an attorney but looking at 30,000-foot level it could happen. amazon is marching across the country devowerring everything in its path and reminds me of wal-mart a couple of decades ago. this is one of the most dangers companies in america and i honestly think that at some point those in congress will actually look at amazon and maybe rethink antitrust laws because there's no stopping this behemoth right now. cheryl: who can forget the 4-dollar prescription story with wal-mart. they're all getting into the business. really quick, we have gdp coming out today. this kind of goes back to politics because president trump has been very clear, he thinks if you get tax reform, this will fire up the economy but the economy might be already kind of fired up. we will know later, what do you say? >> 2.4% is good.

2.4 to 2.8. i think he's right. tax reform is important. we have a 77,000 payment code that actually encourages companies to offshore manufacturing, cash flow and sometimes even the entire company. sometimes it's good news if we get it. we have a 77,000 page code, what i hope that we don't get so complex in trying to fix it that we add up a couple of pages to do that. cheryl: more importantly, what are you going to be for halloween? [laughter] >> you know what, i'm a superman guy. i had a lipstick s on my shirt and maybe i will put it back on. cheryl: i want picture for twitters, david nelson, good to see you, thanks for being here. lea: coming up we will take a look at top 10 halloween costumes this year.

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lea: welcome back, let's get you caught up on what's happening now. president trump is declaring opioid addiction emergency but declarations stop short of national emergency that he vowed over the summer? trump says his administration was looking at bringing lawsuits against certain drug companies and pledged to raise the subject of chinese-made bootleg drugs on visit to china next month. saudi arabia is investing in space travel. kingdom is taking 1 billion-dollar stake in richard branson virgin companies, he had to stop operations after a pilot was killed in the test flight back in 2014. two american women stranded at sea for five months have been rescued. the women and their dog had set sell for tahiti, they lost engine and drifted off course,

they tried to send distress signals but too far to be heard, a taiwanese ship found them 900 miles east of japan and contacted the coast guard and that's what's happening now. cheryl: i can't believe they survived that. lea: it is really quite amazing. cheryl: halloween is right around the corner, if you haven't figured out it's costume. lea: halloween association founding member and founder of costume store. nice to see you this morning. tell us the most popular costumes this year. >> women empowerment, wonder woman and the costume from suicide squad. those are definitely really strong, clowns have made a new resurgence because of the it

movie. we also have. >> strong unicorn really popular this year, also rabbits, mice, anything that's fun and flurry and fluffy. anything that's pop culture related, inclusive of the president, anything -- cheryl: we have that. we will show our viewers. this is the controversial costume, probably. you're saying it's popular? >> it's. >> popular. all the candidates were popular that were running but now donald trump is the most popular. cheryl: he is the most popular. there you go, kids, get ready to wear that. >> witches are back in style. blow-up costumes, scary costumes but definitely unicorns are -- anything that is like mermaids and fun. halloween keeps on growing and growing, it's going to be over $9 billion this year of

spending. cheryl: a lot of controversial costumes. some company came out with the wall and the anne frank costumes and companies get beat up by the us, the press, why do they do that? >> people come up with costumes and they don't know whether it's going to be a hit or not and it's up to the retailer or the consumer to buy it or to express their concern. you know, so it's -- every year without a controversial costume that wouldn't be halloween. every year there's something that is pushing the limits and that's what, you know, aside of halloween. lea: i was going to try to put this on. >> i can put it on. lea: i want to ask you, we have seen -- amazing, i love this. i should have put it on. >> there you go. lea: are you seeing more sales moving online and you can keep

that on for the entire segment, we love it. >> definitely, with everything in retail, it's going online, the challenges that the brick and mortar stores have are ways, how to bring the people and the consumers into their stores, but it's definitely an online shopping experience is really taking over halloween. cheryl: not to be debbie downer, is amazon worried about attack on halloween, a lot of schools are -- >> yeah, well, with halloween -- [laughter] >> we just recently -- making sure that every student or every child can afford a costume or be part of it, many of our members are donateing costumes to underprivileged areas, but it's also, you know, when you have costumes in school, after school, a lot of the time the trick or treating starts at 3:00 o'clock oh so people can have different programs during the day and trick or treat after

hours. cheryl: robert, thank you for bringing the costumes. lea: thank you for being game to put them on, it's impressive. >> it's a time of year to dress up and to step out of your box and be a little bit more fun. cheryl: we need to have fun this weekend. lea: we do, thank you so much. i'm curious to see if men and women are wearing empowerment costumes. cheryl: i would pay to see it, people on twitter, send us that one. lea: coming up in sports, blowout thursday night football as baltimore ravns stomp on dolphins. gerardy out of yankees. tom brady is selling convertible but you will have to pay up and we will tell you why

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cheryl: tom brady has a new cool ride. luxury convertible for $360,000. the british sports car usually associated with 007 is now going tb12. yeah, brady's signature is on the door plate and if you want one, keep in mind there's only 12 of them and you have to be a tom brady fan. not everybody is. okay, anyway, the national football league is taking hits these days, fox news poll finds the league's rating is dropping.

today 46% of voters have a positive view of the nfl but that's down 18 percentage points, 41% view it negatively and fans are starting to come around players kneeling for national anthem. 44% feel it's operate. still a majority think that kneeling during the anthem if you're a football player is inappropriate. well, let's stay with football. dolphin fans probably have unfavorable view of last night's game against the ravens. the game over in first quarter basically. joe flacco for 34-yard touchdown. ravens 7-0, that's all they needed. 40-0. watch the head on flacco. alonso nails him.

there's a big fight. there it is. alonso giving the unnecessary roughens penalty. after the play ryan hits alonso and takes the helmet off. flacco would go to the locker room with concussion. one-game suspension but he still got his work in. oakland tech high school. posted the video on instagram. you can see he goes into mode, oakland tech, by the way, is 5-1 this season. well, in baseball, the yankees were one win away from world series but that wasn't enough to save joe girardi's job. the yankees decided not to renew contract. girardi was at end of four-year contract and had to speak to family before he we wanted to

return. new york made the decision for him. meanwhile game 3 of the world sears between dodgers and astros is in houston, they are tied at one game apiece. the game will start a little later, 8:20 eastern time to accommodate all fans on the west coast. and in the nba a great ending for the clippers, blake griffin, down 2, he hits it. griffin with the game-winning three. teammates soared him. lawmakers in spain and catalonia they are meeting today on break away for independence. we have a lot to report from london, straight ahead on fbn:am

cheryl: parliaments of spain and catalonia meeting. weriva gold from the wall street journal is here. successionists are still trying to become independent. what do you make of this? >> well, yesterday the news was that they were going to hold regional elections, certainly seems to be a change of tact in the last 24 hours. of course, that could certainly calculate tensions with protests

around barcelona for independence as well as against, you have the spanish government in madrid meeting to potentially suspend catalonia's powers, so, again, a lot of moving pieces, nobody really knows where this goes next but certainly driving a lot of moves in spanish bonds and stock markets as everyone is trying to figure out what exactly is going to happen in spain. cheryl: let's talk about what happened with the ecb meeting yesterday, we were leading up to it and wondering what the language was going to be. what was the fallout? >> the market certainly took this as very dovish, though, what he announced was roughly in line with what people were expecting, droghi gave a tone and had fall against the dollar since the day after uk defer ruim in 2016, stocks jumped and bond yields fell as people bet where ecb was no where near rate rise and growing farther apart

from what the fed is currently doing. cheryl: well, they are going to other direction, they seem to be following our lead, riva, i'm sure we will talk to you about spain on monday. >> thanks for having me. cheryl: that's it for fbn:am, we turn it over to lovely talented dagen mcdowell and say good morning, mornings with maria starts right now. dagen: back at you, good morning, everybody, in for maria bartiromo. earnings extravaganza, we are awaiting reports from big names including merck, exxon mobile this morning. amazon shares jumping on the news making jeff bezos $6 billion richer. google and microsoft hitting all-time highs in post market,