liz: good to see, thank you, jeremy and thanks again to gradient and by the way, the markets yes did lose a little bit of steam, the nasdac is closing in the red, the fourth biggest laggard is facebook as it faces more allegations. melissa: stocks ending the day mixed following the august jobs report which is leaving the door open for a possible rate cut. the dow closing up 68 points we're up about 132 points earlier today, the s&p 500 finishing in positive territory, the nasdac ending the day in the red. you could see they're down about 13 points. all three major averages starting the week off strong, though the nasdac up nearly 2% on the week finishing the week off? connell: yeah, i think it's friday. it better be. melissa: i'm melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane this is after the bell and we'll talk more about it and all of the big market movers but first here is what's new at this hour.

we have unrest at home, and abroad. new protests in hong kong today, despite the protests number one demand there being met. this weekend is not expected to be any quieter and then over the uk, lawmakers voting to block a no deal brexit that's the show down with the prime minister boris johnson, we'll talk about all of that plus hurricane dorian making landfall along the north carolina coast as the storm continues to make its way north, we're live on the ground with the latest on the recovery efforts. melissa: fox business team coverage edward lawrence is in washington, christina partsinevelos is on the floor of the new york stock exchange and blake burman and hillary vaughn are both at the white house. let's start with edward. reporter: melissa today federal reserve chairman jerome powell hints he supports a rate cut, now he bases that around trade, not the trade policy itself. >> we would never comment on trade policy. we don't do trade. it's not a responsibility of the fed, but i think it is the case

that uncertainty around trade policy is causing some companies to hold back now on investment and so our obligation is to use our tools to support the economy reporter: you heard them there obligated to use the fed's tools to support the economy. he also sees the economy growing between 2% and 2.5% this year. and powell pointed to the jobs report again showing strong economic fundamentals. that wage is moving up by so many measures the labor market is any good place i think today 's labor market report is very much consistent with that story. reporter: and the economy created 130,000 jobs in august, falling short of expectations, but the wages are rising at 3.2% over the past 12 months, growth that is low enough to where the fed will not see inflation pressures. now, a future or further sign for some that rate cuts may be coming in september, the federal reserve also looking at a trend in the labor force participation rate, inching up for the past

three months. now that means that people on the fringes of the economy are being pulled into jobs with this 11 year expansion. melissa? melissa: edward thank you for that. connell: the white house meantime with reaction to that number, larry kudlow, economic advisor to the president, calling it solid, if not spectacular, so let's get to blake burman with more from the north lawn. blake? reporter: hi there, connell you saw the numbers edward talked about 130,000 jobs created last month, a miss on expectations the prior two months revised downward as well but the white house today is making the argument the president's top economist larry kudlow making the argument that when you look underneath the hood and the details this jobs report they say proves that the economy is still humming along. a couple different numbers that kudlow is pointing to first off, wage growth. you saw the number that edward threw up there. kudlow is talking about a different one though pointing to the last three months of wage growth and when he says you take the average of the last three

months and the average of that time period from one year ago, the white house is trying to make the case that it is over 4% over the past year, but they are also pointing to the household survey, which grew according to that survey, the labor force grew by some 590,000 people over the last month. now the household survey has been going up in the last few months, but connell it was something that the administration was steering far clear from. you didn't hear a peep about it earlier this year especially in march and in april when that reading was negative. now, the white house is pointing to that read, as a sign of strength in the economy. >> you know, folks are working. they're getting paid well, and i think a lot of folks who move that labor force see that and they want to come back in and play a role and take part of it. the household survey can be very very important. reporter: on the other side of the aisle democrats contend that when you factor in inflation,

wage growth is poultry, the head of the democratic national committee tomorrow as perez who was also the labor secretary said president trump's erratic behavior and wreckless economic policies are causing uncertainty for the american worker, wage growth is flat, manufacturing is in decline, and job growth continues to slow. the take from president trump today was as follows. he took to twitter and wrote, " the economy is great. the only thing adding to uncertainty is the fake news." connell? connell: blake burman at the white house. melissa: let's bring in todays market panel, create or of the future planning legacy system former investment banker and dion, access market reporter what did you make of the numbers what stuck out to you? to me the wage growth looked good. >> you and i are on the same page. the wage growth was a big number not only in terms of solidifying that the economy is looking

pretty good but also in motivating more debate about whether the fed needs to cut rates. you saw two fed presidents saying that we don't need to cut rates. i think you could see three at this meeting as that average hourly earnings number suggests that inflation could be picking back up but the economy looks pretty solid and it's hard to justify cutting rates with both of those things happening. melissa: carol? >> yeah, the things from me were some of the minority number s, the fact that we've got record low unemployment for black workers and you've got more women who are coming in to the workforce. it's interesting to me, i do wonder if this is a skilled mismatch more than a bigger issue about the overall number of people coming into the workforce. melissa: dion, so that leads right into the fed discussion because we saw the comments out of the fed that made it seem like the fed is willing to do at least chairman powell willing to do anything to support the market. markets like to hear that.

>> markets love to hear that and that's why this upcoming meeting is going to be big. you had the reading on jobs which is big and everyone was watching it but as jerome powell gets more bush pushback, how strong is he on holding up on cutting rates down. they want to see rates cut again in december and they want to see the fed getting on a path of pushing rates down solidly lower if they don't get that and if they signal that more rate cuts aren't coming you could see a sell-off. connell: we saw those technology shots while dion was spooking and google and facebook coming out today and shares of both of those tech giants were lower, yet several state attorneys general launching separate anti-trust probes into the company. hillary vaughn is live at the white house with more on the story. reporter: at 2:00 p.m. on monday texas attorney general will lead a group of bipartisan attorneys general from around the country launching a investigation, an

anti-trust investigation into big tech firms, so that not only would facebook and google but also really any company that fits into that category, the new york attorney general leticia james announced today she's launching her own anti- trust probe into facebook specifically looking at how they have impacted consumer data, and also how they factor in advertising and utilize that data in the process, google and facebook are responding to the separate investigations. google saying we continue to work constructively with regulators including attorney generals and answering questions about our business and the dynamic technology sector. facebook will be putting out a first-line of defense about their competition, saying this. people have multiple choices for every one of the services we provide. we understand that if we stop innovating, people can easily leave our platform. this underscores the competition we face, not only in the u.s. but around the globe. some anti-trust experts though are bashing these investigations , saying the state

ag probes go beyond modern anti anti-trust concerns calling probes slob it thinking, and given the interest of users and buyers of advertising space from google and facebook, often conflict, it's unclear how the probes will trade-off the impacts of the company's practices on consumers and buyer s, the senate judiciary committee also announcing this week, they are having a hearing on anti-trust issues, particularly how digital platforms have a practice of buying out their competition, connell? connell: hillary vaughn, it's interesting as she points out these are separate investigation s, and different topics to some extent but what puts them together, obviously, not only are they technology companies on both fronts but it's a bipartisan investigation so really, is that bad news for the company that you have republicans and democrats, big picture going after big tech? >> i think it's a muted bad thing for the company. it does seem like it's a little bit of a cash grab, how can we

extract a fine from these companies, but i do think that the market is expecting that these big companies, whether it's here in the united states, or abroad are going to continue to see these, they generate so much cash, and they're just such big entities that they write them off as part of doing business or non recurring items they don't expect it's going to effect the valuation long term and i certainly think that privacy-types of issues and regulations are bigger issues than anti-trust in this particular case. connell: if they do press forward, the government side with this, it would be an up hill climb from the government's point of view, don't you think to get into the idea these companies actually "stifle" competition. >> and the big question is this just a cash grab or is this something where governments are trying to put together some regulations to reign in what some of these companies can do and try to break them apart. i personally don't see any political will to do that sort of thing and if it's just about

the cash, facebook has more money than the catholic church so they can afford to write checks and keep the party going. connell: that's another issue altogether. dion thanks good to see you, carol as well. melissa: and the department of justice is investigationing four major automakers for anti-trust violations, let's go to christina partsinevelos with the details. reporter: the doj is revving its engines and looking into automakers specifically ford, honda, bmw as well as volkswagen and their deal with california over emissions, specifically, they are looking into whether these automakers violated federal competition law by agreeing with each other to follow tail pipe emissions followed by the trump adminitration and we know that the trump adminitration wants one national standard that is slightly looser than what was proposed under former president barack obama, hence the reason why the doj is looking into this situation. you have an industry though that

overall, the vehicles and its purchases and building years and years in advance so this could destruct the process for their products in the near future especially because california contributings so much to the entire market about over 10% of total u.s. vehicles come from the market, the state of california. what we know now is will the doj win this and the new agreement headed for a crash? that is something that's fueling the drama right now between the state of california,nd the president. back to you guys. melissa: christina thank you. connell: absolute devastation across the coast. hurricane dorian taking aim at north carolina, leaving thousands of people without power across that state and we'll talk about it live on the ground in one of the hardest hit areas coming up next. melissa: plus terror on the tarmac, an airline worker charged with trying to sabotage a commercial flight, why authorities say he did it, and how pilots saved the 150 passengers on board. connell: a crazy story and then

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connell: the recovery efforts are underway just hours after hurricane dorian made landfall over the carolinas this morning, to jeff paul on the ground in wilmington north carolina with the latest from there. jeff? reporter: connell we are here in downtown wilmington north carolina when just a day ago this place was a ghost town with no cars out here. most of the businesses were boarded up kind of like this, you can see the tools are out and taking these boards down, as hurricane dorian moves past the coastal carolina communities, and past the united states. now, where this storm has had a big impact along the barrier islands of the outer banks, that's where there was a direct hit from hurricane dorian, we're told that from officials, there is the storm surge as well as flooding and damages from the strong winds but if you talk to a lot of people who live through hurricane florence last year, they feel very fortunate today that damages weren't worse.

>> well the real deal last year was the practice, everything was ready for this one if it had been worse. we dodged a bullet with this one reporter: by the last estimates there were about 70 road closure s throughout north carolina but we have seen a lot of crews working to get some of those down trees and other limbs that were in the road off of the road to get this place back up and going, we also know that at the beginning of the day, there were about 229 power outages, and now that is down to about 100,000, so it seems like this community is definitely getting back on its feet after this long and drawn out hurricane came through the area. connell? connell: relatively good news there could have been a lot worse. jeff paul, thank you, jeff. melissa: joining us on the phone is mayor dana outlaw from new burn, north carolina. can you give us an update on your community and what's going on there? >> we're really rebounding. we have about 400 customers out

of 17,000 without power now. we had about 14,000 without power. eastern north carolina was about 120,000 total. duke energy had as many as 700,000 to be out of power, so somebody earlier said the heart of that was we have been so busy the city council and new bern, wilmington, and the mayor just got off the phone with them in wilmington, we are forming an alliance so that we all help each other because mutual aid and reciprocity amongst the resources we all have, we are all so much stronger when we all work together on this. melissa: you talked about in the past some of the lessons that you learned after florence. i know some of your concerns were the returning of the flooding, falling trees and lack of flood insurance. what's the latest on those issues? >> well the main issue is we're

encouraging our builders and our planning department we're waiting on guidance and leadership from the federal reserve to extend flood elevations. in new bern, you have to build a new construction at least 10 feet elevation, so i think that we need to look toward if the federal reserve doesn't do it we'll go ahead and probably pre dashboard another foot so it's just resiliency and it's the proper hurricane-proof metal roofs and other types of -- melissa: what do you mean you're going to pre dashboard another foot. what does that mean? >> it means that we're going to possibly require folks to build an extra foot of elevation higher because we have seen from florence, which i don't know that everybody is just came off the hurricane that the last time we had anything like this was back in 55, so i think now that we got hit so hard last year, everybody thinks the hurricane is going to be 10.6-foot

elevation storm surge, and in some instances, with wave velocity, 11 and 12 feet so we were very lucky on this one, and these is the type of communication and alliance that we're going to form in eastern north carolina to make sure we're all here for each other. melissa: you talk about being there for each other, and we see what's going on in your community and we're also watching what's going on in the bahamas and you have some island s that look like now, have been completely wiped out. what are your thoughts for those folks as those islands are trying to work together to help each other and you talked about an alliance but they're devastated over there. what are your thoughts on what's going on with them? >> well that's more of a worldwide center of alliance you might say. we're in north carolina out of 1,850 i think its been 46 major hurricanes, 60% have hit north

carolina, so we reach out, we will be sending those resources that we don't need we're trying to try to get as much material and cleanup materials to the other areas that we can, but again right now we're just catching our breath that no loss of life. no loss of life. that's so important and i'm so sorry what happened in the bahamas. melissa: mayor out law, thanks for your time. connell: we'll shift our coverage later this hour to the bahamas and as melissa said desperate as the search and rescue efforts are underway there, these pictures tell part of the story but the reports we're getting today from our correspondents, steve herrigan on the ground you can't even describe how bad it is there. people still missing, hundreds if not thousands of people and the death toll continues to rise melissa: in that rubble you're looking at? connell: it's unbelievable.

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connell: global chaos kind of the theme this week from london to hong kong, protesters taking to the streets once again as the political crisis in hong kong shows no sign of stopping, and then in the uk you have the house of lords approving a bill to block a no deal brexit. >> just a reminder how the question is -- >> [laughter] >> that this bill does now pass , as many of that opinion will say content.

and no content, the could be tent happened. connell: steve forbes, is our guest to break all of this town and we'll start with brexit, or to brexit or not to brexit i guess is the question. i read some of the british press , by the way, they know how to write a headline over there but the idea that anything from boris johnson resigning to him kind of resigning and running again and winning, to brexit being delayed to no brexit at all and anything is on the table here, do you have any idea what we should expect out of the uk? >> i think one way or the other , johnson is going to ultimately triumph. they want put off an election forever. they blocked it for now but i think public opinion wants this thing resolved, and simply kicking it down the road is like poor charlie brown always trying to kick the football and lucy keeps taking it away people realize they got to do one thing or another. the anti-brexit people are hoping for another referendum and that this referendum will reverse what happened in 2016.

i think a lot of people in britain feel this would make a travesty of democracy, yes, you vote one way, but we're not going to do it until you decide to vote another way, and make it impossible to carry out the initial wishes of the british people. connell: what's your scale of worry just of someone of the global business for years and years about dropping out with no deal? is too much being made of that or do you think it is a legitimate worry? >> well there's some worry but businesses have already been moving, offices and functions to paris and other places, in anticipation that the change was coming and remember europe is heavily dependent on business with britain, germany is on the cusp of disruption, as france and italy are so either they don't have a formal agreement but informal ways to make sure things don't become chaotic if a break comes. the credit rating was downgraded

by fitch, and as fitch went forward they sat at the month-long protest the region stability, so let's get to jonathan than hunt. >> connell, good early saturday morning from hong kong, and we may have had a taste of what is yet to come this weekend with police and protesters clashing again friday at a nearby police station and a subway station. riot police were heavily out numbered at types and fired tear gas and rubber bullets to try to drive the crowd back. now hong kong's chief executive tried this week to draw the stin g from the summer-long protest by scrapping a extradition bill but that appears to have done little to lay the fears of many protesters that the chinese government still seeks to take tighter control of hong kong and break the central promise it made when

the territory was handed over by the british in 1997 and the chief secretary at the time, listen to her. >> in the minds of many people in hong kong, one country at the moment is one country, one and a half system and as this erosion continues and very soon it will become one country, one system. >> now the 14 weeks of street protests have done real damage to hong kong's economy with fitch as you mentioned downgrad ing its credit rating and spending plummeting this summer according to the city's retail management association and its tourism board. now kerry lamb the chief executives political supporters say that time has come to stop the economic bleeding. listen again. >> once we can get back to a dialogue, and bring people back to calmness hopefully people

will come back. investors will come back, visitors, so i'm hopeful. reporter: now, that hope, that optimism looks likely to be fully tested this weekend with protesters planning further actions including once again trying to shut down hong kong's airport, which is of course the eighth busiest in the world. connell? connell: jonathan hunt, terrific reporting all week in hong kong and steve forbes i don't know if you read peggy noonan's piece in the wall street journal but to her main points she combined we're talking about brexit and hong kong and other issues, and said that maybe the actors in these particular instances might be "pushing it too far" but the protesters basically made a demand, their denand was essentially met this extradition bill was off the table but as jonathan reports they're still out there and pushing do you think that's a risk in some cases where its just gone a little bit too far and what might the ramifications be?

>> well it is a risk and the risk is theres nothing hard from the protesters but kerry lamb was much too late in taking that proposal, extradition treaty off the table and if she had done that from day one you wouldn't have had the protests but what people are really worried about is that extradition proposal was simply part of a process where china was just gradually more and more exerting more and more control over hong kong. connell: right. >> there's a chance that it's 1.5 soon to become 1 and what made hong kong great and fitch i think sort of missed this, is happening because the very thing that made hong kong such a great commercial center is being undermined. that is the british commercial and judicial system. one of the things, by the way, connell that britain should do to show support for the protesters is allow the 3 million employee in hong kong hold uk passports which just entitles them to visit britain visa free give them full rights to work and live in britain and show they are with

the people of hong kong. connell: we haven't heard as much as some might have hoped from great britain on this. as a last point is there an end, and again it goes to the point where you pull the extradition bill, the protests continue and its gone on 13 plus weeks is there a non violent end to this a non-chinese military involved end to this that you see right now? >> well what i think the beijing wants right now is gradually to wear the protesters down, isolate them as more and more violent and therefore los ing public support as people say we've got to earn a living, but if that begins to happen, that would be precisely the time beijing and the hong kong government should say let's sit down and let's try to resolve this thing and give people genuine assurances, not just verbal, that the 1997 will be adhere adhered to in letter and in spirit. connell: steve forbes have a great weekend. thanks. melissa: an attempt to sabotage an american airlines flight with

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connell: here is a potential disaster that was averted. an american airlines mechanic has been arrested for attempting sabotage a flight by tampering with the navigation system on the plane. the worker apparently was upset with the contract negotiations, and was hoping to stop some overtime pay and this plane had 150 people on board and the pilots noticed there was an issue with the system luckily before they took off. melissa: unbelievable. so must see tv on tucker carlson last night, watch this. >> how can you take an suv to the gym, and back every day, and

say that you are really worried about climate? >> it's a chrysler pacifica, a hybrid electric, it's not an suv i go back to my neighborhood all the time, it's the way that i stay connected to people that i'm able to have a routine that allows me to be the best mayor i can be. melissa: are you, i mean, maybe he is the best mayor he can be, but look at this, so this is just year-over-year, murder is up, rape is up, mel any assault up, grouped larceny up, all year-over-year in new york city in this past year. he's the best mayor he can possibly be. that may be true. i don't think he could be a better mayor, he's just an awful mayor but he couldn't be better because he's awful. the average retail vacancy rate jumpsing to 5.6 to 8.9% last year, a bunch of neighborhoods the about 25% and new york city mayor clocking seven hours at city hall in may, because he's

out riding around in his minivan that isn't an suv. that's according to the new york post. this month he decided to jet set around the country on his presidential campaign which is going nowhere. bill deblasio registering an average of half a percentage point in the polls, so they know he would be just as good as a president as he is a mayor, who better to talk this through than our own david asman. his argument with tucker was that he drives a minivan not an suv. what's really sad -- david: we see it though. we see it from our windows here at fox, we can see whenever his van goes by, it's preceded by about four or five cars and it's behind them they have a caboose of about another four or five cars all security people. that's what every mayor does, but the fact is he leaves a carbon footprint that's much bigger than the way he talks. melissa: the point was he takes this ride over in order to work

out every morning. you're saying why don't you do something about the city so on a serious point david this is a conversation we have all the time there is no doubt that new york is suffering under his leadership. we listed the stats and you look at the fact, nypd, first they had water dumped on them and now they have milk dumped on them, and besides the fact that that's disrespecting our men in blue, it also creates a situation where law and order is breaking down in the city and we've seen as we said at the beginning, murder is up, rape is up, felony assault is up, grand larceny is up. when do people wake up and vote him and others like him out of office and i asked because you lived through and covered the last time this happened in new york, where liberal mayor after liberal mayor presided over policies that ripped the city apart, where is rock bottom in here, san francisco, lots of cities. david: well unfortunately, rock bottom is pretty far down.

remember we had a murder rate in new york city of 2,200 a year and it's now below 400. it turned around dramatically with guiliani when he began his broken windows policy, when he began cracking down on all kinds of crisis when he began on clear ing the streets of the homeless by giving him a choice saying you can either go go to jail or a half way house but you can't stay on the streets and you can't pea and defecate on the streets and create a tremendous hazard for the people of new york city. it's happening more and more. we're getting worse and worse. you mentioned the crime stats. i'm going to also mention something else that's up besides crime and that is spending. he's increased the budget 30% more than any other mayor in the history of new york, a percentage wise, guiliani on the other hand did exactly the opposite and he cut $1.1 billion when he was mayor, when he was making" the streets cleaner,

safer, and bill deblasio is doing exactly the on o opposite with a lot more money, so i think there's a big story there to tell. melissa: definitely but if you look at whose lining up to come in after him, there are folks that believe it or not are at least if not even more liberal. i wonder, new yorkers as you watch people flee the city because of the taxes and you look at just the empty rows and rows and rows of empty store fronts, all over this city right now, at what point do people realize these policies are not working? do we really have to get to the point where it's totally -- david: unfortunately i think we do. its happened several times in my lifetime the late 70s new york city went bankrupt there were those bonds that got them out of bankruptcy but they just barely avoided official bankruptcy. of course then you had at the end of the era in the late 80s early 90s this horrible period, where again as i mentioned 2,200

murders a year, the streets were filthy, times square was a ses pool. you look at it now and people can bring children to times square, it's a family event almost like disney world. back then you wouldn't want to bring a wrestler into that area of the city. it has to get so bad that it really can't be stood even by the liberals in new york before there's a change and i'm afraid it's going to have to get that bad before we see a change and that means new york is really going to bottom out in a bad way over the next five or 10 years. melissa: i don't want to hear that so let's plug all our shows i'm going to be on the top of tucker carlson at 8:00 p.m., but you can catch bulls & bears with david asman right after this show. david: absolutely. melissa: on fox business david schweikert going to be talking more about mayor deblasio who you had on. david: we did have him on. melissa: i don't know how you stood that but thanks david.

david: see you soon. connell: now this health crisis we've been reporting a lot on this over the last few weeks is the health crisis across the u.s. that has to do with vaping. the number of cases of severe lung illnesses with possible links to vaping is now double talking about 450 in 33 states that's coming from federal health officials after state officials confirm four fatalit ies with possible ties to e-cigarette use. melissa: officials are warning people to prepare for the un imaginable. amid recognizing death toll in the bahamas that's coming up. the world is built for you.

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smell, shepherd. >> steve i must admit when i found out you made it there today i was so relieved because you've experienced the things you've talked about you've been in war zones and in natural disasters and though we've seen the pictures we've not been able to get a firsthand account of experience to quantify what this is like based on other experiences and i was hoping maybe you could. reporter: well thanks, shepherd. when you see it, it's a lot different. you can read a apy report oh, you know there's bodies everywhere, but when you go up to that baptist church 500-yards away, and you see arms and legs sticking out of those stones, people who were probably trying to take refuge in a church and ended up dead and they're still sitting there, you get the sense that there's a tremendous lack of urgency, certainly because it's difficult to reach this location, but also because these are the poorest of the poor.

they're dead, nobody knows who they are, nobody knows how many they are, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of urgency to try and find their bodies and give them a burial at this point, shepherd. connell: serve herrigan in the bahamas we'll be right back.

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out since a pap smear that i had some pre-cancer cells on my cervix, and we investigated further, did a biopsy and found out that that was the extent of it, those cells were removed, so i was kind of brought back, but i have to tell you, melissa just having that experience took me right back to my breast cancer days, stage iii, breast cancer very fast-growing type of cancer and the fear and the anxiety of that it was like that all over again just that anxiety welling up in you. melissa: its touched everyone's lives one way or the other cancer has but it is becoming something that you can beat, especially when you get together with other people and share support and knowledge and resources so we're all very excited to do this. after the bell kicked off our bubble gum challenge to raise

awareness, take a look at this. >> ♪ ♪ >> okay, i went through the dot com bubble and the housing bubble so this should not be a problem. >> yes! >> finally. >> nothing is tougher than gerri willis. melissa: nice! that was good. see, i just didn't have enough gum and i'm out of practice and it's really annoying. yes, connell mcshane, right next to me, go ahead and let it be.

we've got to go with the other shot here, nice! connell: i did, don't you think i won? it was like my ninth try. gerri: i hope you're not expect ing like money or a prize. can it say one thing, that package was so awesome. melissa: she's our team leader so what can people do to get involved? gerri: you want to go to your computer and go on this website, www.komennyc.org/fox. you can participate with us on sunday, you can give us money, whatever you want to do. look at the end of the day, kome n is giving money for breast cancer, advice, you name it they are there to help. melissa: gerri thank you for organizing all of this and i'll see you in central park sunday. you cheated on the bubble there,

my friend. melissa: our team captain great job. that does it for us. david: naping and shaming business owners around the nation are being targeted for boycotts and smear campaigns just because of their support for the president. president trump calling threats "modern day mccarthyism and it is raising concern on both sides of the aisle." welcome everybody this is bulls & bears thanks for joining me i'm david asman. joining me we have adam lashinsky, jackie deangeles, and gary b. smith. well liberals input are now threatening to release a massive list of nearly 100 local businesses owned by trump supporters, similar social media driven boycott is directed at one of connecticut's most iconic