he does a great job with adam schiff. we thank you for being with us. larry kudlow joins us tomorrow. lauren: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. a new study finds bernie sanders' proposed wealth tax comes up way short, to the tune of $1 trillion, of what he says it will generate as a billionaire candidate may be proving you can buy your way into an election. cheryl: now that the coronavirus has reached u.s. shores, the world's top health officials warn we could be on the brink of a global health emergency as u.s. airports announce new travel restrictions on passengers inbound from china. lauren: our ip, the internet going nuts over the explosive end of mr. peanut. it's thursday, january 23rd. "fbn: a.m." starts right now.

♪ ♪ cheryl: a beautiful shot of america and new york city. good morning, everybody. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning. welcome. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: let's take a look at how your money is moving this thursday. we're waiting for earnings this morning from southwest airlines, american, jetblue and several other major companies, of course the wake o of the 737 max crisis the big story for the airlines. lauren: let's take a look at the close in asia, sharp losses for the major indices there, if are looking at the chinese market which was down almost 3%

today. investors worrying about the impact of the coronavirus on the economy overall, ahead of the lunar new year. the week-long celebration kicks off tomorrow. cheryl: in europe, no fears about a trade war between the u.s. and europe, the cac and dax in the red. lauren: let's begin on capitol hill where adam schiff kicked off president trump's impeachment trial with a nearly three hour opening statement. the california democrat slammed for dragging out arguments against the president. >> they knew what it was like to live under a despot and risk their lives to be free of it, for a a man who believed the constitution gave him the right to do anything he wanted, for a man in short who would be a king. cheryl: griff jenkins is in washington with all of the highlights from the third day of the trial and of course what's you ahead. griff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, cheryl and lauren. out of the gate and swinging,

house managers laying ou evidene against the president, making the case he abused the power of his office, putting his personal interest ahead of the country. >> giuliani is not the secretary of state. he's not an ambassador. he's not a member of the diplomatic core. rudolph giuliani is a cold-blooded political operative for president trumps' re-election campaign. >> reporter: both sides get 24 hours over three days, look for house managers today to dive deeper into the law and constitution. meanwhile, the white house defense team getting into that already, before their moment on the senate floor. >> this is not impeachable. these policy disputes are not what the founders had in mind when it came to the seriousness of an article of impeachment. >> every american sort

instinctively knows about fairness and it comes from the bill of rights. the fact of the matter is, the house managers have to prove their case. the president doesn't have to do anything. >> reporter: there's the question of whether witness coughs be called in this -- could be called in this trial. we heard reports of a possible trade for john bolton for hunter biden but chuck schumer says that's a nonstarter. >> i think that's off the table. the republicans have the right to bring in any witness they want. they haven't wanted to. that trade is not on the table. >> reporter: house managers resume today at 1:00 p.m. they'll continue through friday. on saturday, we will see the president's defense team for the first time. they'll get their three days and of after all of that, the senators will get 16 hours of questions. lauren, cheryl. lauren: thank you very much. that's not the only drama happening in washington. a he pro t testers burst into -- protester burst into the senate and interrupted the impeachment

trial. [ indiscernible ] >> the sergeant in arms will restore order in the gallery. lauren: witnesses say a man came into the public gallery, shouting, abortion, dismiss the charges, and calling chuck schumer the devil. he was quickly escorted out. cheryl: the faa is facing more criticism after a whistleblower complaint alleged that u.s. regulators cut corners in the way it authorized hig hawaiian routes for southwest airlines. they say they found a substantial likelihood of wrong doing by the faa. they continue to face chris crim over the oversight of the 737 max approval process. lauren: jetblue and american airlines are set to report earnings later this morning. southwest earnings are expected to fall almost 7s from a year ago. southwest has the most boeing

737 max jets in the fleet and the grounding is estimated to have cost southwest an estimated $435 million. cheryl: we'll have more on that later on in the show. well, bill abbott, the ceo of hallmark channel's parent company, crown media networks, p stepping down. his last day will be tomorrow, this follows controversy which hit the channel last month after this commercial featuring a same sex couple for a wedding planning website was yanked in the air airwaves. hallmark reversed the decision three days later. i sat down with the now former ceo who said the company and channel were committed at the time to providing family-friendly content. >> we provide positive, whole some content, that you never have to worry you will fee uncomfortable or run for the remote or be in a situation after a long day you're feeling badly about the world or yourself. cheryl: in a statement, hallmark thanked abbott for his

service. the ratings of after the controversy were down by 300,000 viewers for hallmark and that was in the christmas season. lauren: that's a good chunk of viewers. the deadly coronavirus could soon be declared a global health emergency. that will take center stage in today's world health organization meeting. the mysterious outbreak has killed 17 people and sickened 580. cheryl: aishah hasnie what has the latest as more airports start screening passengers. aishah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. china made an unprecedented move to try to quarantine an entire city. listen to this. so the country just shut down all public transport, that includes planes, trains, ferries, in and out of wuhan, that is the epicenter of this outbreak. containing the virus is going to be a tall order, considering that wuhan is home to 11 million

people. that's bigger than new york city. plus, the country is heading into this busy holiday travel weekend. so anyone leaving the city is being screened for fever. but officials admit they aren't convinced their efforts will actually pay off. >> trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science. it has not been tried before as a public health measure. so we cannot at this stage say it will or it will not work. >> reporter: take a look at this, the number of sick people has now jumped to 571 in china alone, 17 people are dead. the virus now in seven other countries, including the u.s. and screenings are officially underway at airports in atlanta and chicago now. that's on top of the other airports that were being -- were screened a couple days ago.

a patient visiting china returned to washington state before those air port screenings took effect, he has the virus. new this morning, a 3-year-old girl hospitalized in california from the coronavirus but this time it's not the same strange causing the outbreak. this one, though, a more common strain seen about every single year. health officials say it looks like the coronavirus spread through close human to human contact as opposed to through air. early signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever and cough. in severe cases it leads to pneumonia and in china it also led of to death. the world health organizations, the leaders haven't yet declared the virus a public health emergency just yet but they're supposed to meet again today and talk about what's going on and get an update and of course we'll be waifing that very -- watching that very closely. lauren: wuhan ground zero for

this epidemic is a you city of 11 million people on lockdown. it's at a stand still as they try to contain this mysterious virus. thank you. tragedy in the australian wildfires is hitting close to home. cheryl: this has to do with some of our american heroes. tracee carrasco has this devastating story. tracee, good morning. tracee: good morning. this is very tragic. an official in new south we'lls says three u.s. firefighters died in a water tanker plane crash. it was on its way to a fire bombing mission when it lost contact. the wreckage was found in a snowy region. it's not known where the u.s. firefighters were from, which states. officials say flags will fly half a staff tomorrow in their honor. brush fires are groanin groanin- growing near australia's capital. vice president mike pence is in israel. he is just one of 50 world

leaders who are attending the world holocaust forum. it also marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp in poland. ahead of the forum, the vice president is t meeting with israel's prime minister. they will also be joined by russian president vladimir putin. they are expected to discuss the tensions in iran. president trump is speaking at somattomorrow's march for life y in washington. he announced the news on twitter. this will make him the first sitting president to do so. the rally is the largest gathering of pro life activists. finally, it's the end of an er. manning will officially retire tomorrow. he is retiring as the nfl's highest paid player ever, earning a $252 million salary. that's according to sport track. just last year, he shattered the

record of about $249 million which was held by his brother, peyton manning. cheryl: wonder what he's going to do next. i don't know, broadcasting career, guys, what do we think. lauren: i'll go with that. tracee: put my money there. cheryl: thanks so much. lauren: take a look at your money right now, the dow is down by 32 points, so if it closes lower today that's three days of losses in a row. three dow stocks do report today. still ahead, the faa investigated over potential special treatment for southwest airlines. is the safety in our skies in jeopardy? cheryl: you may have to keep your peacocks, your pigs, your ponies grounded when you fly. how ai airlines may be putting m on the no fly list. you're watching "fbn: a.m." ♪ at fidelity, online u.s. stocks and etfs are commission-free.

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fire again. this time, for fast-tracking the you approval process of southwest airline's plans to go to hawaii. the agency is already being criticized over its approval process of the 737 max. those planes were involved in two deadly crashes, the plane is still on the ground. let's talk about safety, let's talk about our skies, let's talk about airlines. let's bring in senior analyst ian king. good morning. >> good morning, nice to see you. cheryl: we're looking at southwest in the premarket, it's actually a little bit lower as we a await these earnings for southwest airlines. this news about the fast-tracking from the faa, how concerned are you about this when it comes to the company's earnings and is this a stain on the faa or southwest? >> yeah, you know, you bring up a good point. i think that the whistleblower complaint is really more focused on the faa and it's not going to have a material impact on southwest's earnings, looks like a $3.9 million penalty. it really focuses on this new route between california and

hawaii and the fact that the approval process was rushed because what happened was in early 2018, government faa workers were furloughed and they wanted to kind of make up and speed up the application and the approval process afterwards. so i don't see it being any material impact on southwest. the bigger story here that people have to think about when it comes to these airline earnings this morning is what is the impact of coronavirus of. i really don't think we've seen this fully play out yet. cheryl: to your point, we've already heard from united. we already got their numbers. united could be affected by coronavirus and delta as well. definitely assessing their plans for china, you're absolutely correct. i want to go back to the issue of southwest. we'll be hearing from american and jet today. there is a note out, an analyst says the best plan for southwest is to buy jetblue. is m&a the answer a here? >> you know, that's really interesting. jetblue actually trades at a

discount valuation to other airlines because they operate in the northeast and a lot of the routes get disrupted in the winter months. i don't know about too much consolidation of h domestic airlines. i looked at the financial impact of ebola to compare it to kind of the situation we're in right now, between september and october of 2014, you had a 20% drop in southwest airlines in one month. you had a 30% drop in delta, 20% drop in jet yo jetblue and 10% p in the s&p 500. i think investors in airlines need to be focusing on what the headlines are coming out of china. cheryl: the sector underperformed the s&p 500, that happened last year. back to southwest and the max, they were expecting 44 maxes last year, 38 this year, 44 next year. does the company address this this morning on the call? >> i mean, you would think they would have to say something about it. they obviously grounded all their 737 maxes after year after

the horrific second crash. but i don't know what's going to happen here. boeing for the first time last year had more cancellations than they had orders for the first time had in decades. airbus stock is up 60%. i mean, you would think boeing is too big to fail right now but it's really hard to tell at this point. cheryl: ian king, thank you so much for being with us this morning. appreciate it. >> thank you. lauren: you know that going to the super bowl is expensive. but just how expensive? the latest price tag to spend the night in miami fueling accusations of price gouging against one major company. cheryl: i'll be sleeping on the beach. lauren: rub it in. cheryl: is this every girl's dream home. how you can have breakfast at tiffany's, literally. keep it here on "fbn: a.m." ♪ i hate when things are over. ♪ so much is left undone. ♪ and i say what about breakfast

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small. the problem is people -- cheryl: the peacock. >> the em mentio emotional supt peacock -- cheryl: she was denied. >> pigs are very smart animals. there you have the emotional support pony. some people actually need to have a dog with them, there's an emotional support animal, a trained service dog, those are going to be okay. the l rules are getting more strict because it's always the case, it only takes one person with an emotional support peacock to ruin it for the rest of us. cheryl: or a dog that potentially bites a passenger, which did happen of. so there have been problems. >> dogs getting sick on airplanes. lauren: are you okay with animals being on airplanes when you're flying. >> the few times i've seen it, yeah. as long as they're behaved and most of the time they are behaved. the question of the day, should emotional support animals be banned from airlines?

i'm okay with it, as long as it's legitimate, as long as you're not trying to get past the fee to bring on your animal. cheryl: reach out to us on social media, facebook and ins . lauren: let us know. airbnb accused of price gouging for the super bowl. what do you think of this in. >> the hotels are all booked so book an ai airbnb. some are accusing them of price gouging. super bowl day costs $750, not super bowl, $150, you can see this one, airbnb said the average nightly rate is $150 and this is money that stays in the community, it stays in the pockets of the people who are renting their space. if it looks like and walks like

price gouging, it's probably price gouging. lauren: or we'll see capitalism at work. cheryl: we'll see if people get the numbers. they always overcharge for super bowl rooms and homes. they put big prices out there. the owners never get it. i'm pointing that out, after seven super bowls. thank you very much. lauren: you can catch brett on fox news headlines 24/7, sirius xm channel 115. cheryl: i'll be covering the super bowl for fox business. i'll be down there for "fbn: a.m.," "mornings with maria," all of the shows during the day. i'm going to be talking about airbnb and the $3,000 a night hotel rooms that you can find in miami coming up next week. lauren: hopefully you're staying in one of those. forget living in a barbie world, how about a tiffany world. a florida developer is building a penthouse on top of the retailer's palm beach store. it will have a roof top garden, infinity pool. it's a quick walk to tiffany's. if you're looking to live that

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he apologized for saying that i was corrupt. he didn't say anything about whether or not i was telling the truth about social security. cheryl: this goes back to bernie sanders. could biden be fed up with the criticism he's getting from fellow democrats. biden and fellow candidate bernie sanders have been clashing over biden's record on social security. but sanders did apologize after a surrogate wrote a piece writing that biden had a, quote, corruption problem. you heard the word corruption in the sound bite. lauren: tulsi gabbard filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against hillary clinton. she said hillary has to be held accountable after she called her a russian asset. clinton did not name her but strongly implied she was referring to the congresswoman elizabeth warren going after michael bloomberg and his news organization for not investigating its namesake owner

or any of the 2020 democratic candidates. in a lengthy twitter post, senator warren said he should divest from the company and accused him of hobbling the press. a new poll shows michael bloomberg at 9% support nationally among democratic voters, that puts him at 9%. that's no comparison to the perks bloomberg is trying to win staffers with. he is offering things like free catered meals, a new iphone 11 and mac book pro. cheryl: a new study shows that bernie sanders' math doesn't add up. the proposed wealth tax will fall short of a trillion dollars of what he says it will generate. the same report says joe biden's plan would raise $600 billion, maybe up to $900 billion, less than biden's own estimates. lauren: how much of a threat do

these 2020 democratic hopefuls pose to the markets. we ask fox business contributor, jonathan hoenig. how much of a threat, jonathan? >> long story short, lauren, it depends. democrats historically have been very anti-market. they see government as really a central player in education, in energy, in healthcare. so it really depends how much this rhetoric turns into legislation. when it comes to impeachment, that's a lot of theatrics, has no impact on the market. historically, the clinton impeachment was very good for markets. the nixon impeachment was very bad. when it comes to legislation at large, democrats have been anti-market and anti--- lauren: if you say i'm going to pay for the free stuff by taxing the rich and that comes up short, you're going to tax the middle class eventually, that's how a lot of voters might see it. bank of america did a survey, and they found the election, the 2020 l election politics was the biggest risk to the markets.

now a that th that the trade wah china is what over, phase one is signed, sealed and deliver, however, can you make the argument if it's all about politics that the potential trade war right now brewing with europe is no big deal? would you make that argument, jonathan? >> not at all. i think the potential trade war brewing with europe -- the trade war with china isn't really over yet. but the trade war with europe is in fact brewing of. the president threatened tariffs on imports of automobiles from europe, not only just automobiles, also champagne, handbags, and that really could have a major impact, just as the trade war with china did. americans paid those tariffs and the trade war with china, lauren, also impacted investment and savings. so this potential trade war with europe will have an impact on our economy and a lot of it a has to do with this digital tax. the europeans have proposed a digital tax on american technology companies. that so far has been suspended.

a potential trade war with europe is brewing just as it seems like the trade war with china may be coming to an end. lauren: u.s. exports three times more to the eu than it does to china. europe has already promised retaliation for any tariffs that we do impose. that would hurt many of our companieses right here in the u.s. jonathan, remember, i think it was back in the early 2000s, george w. bush threatened tariffs on europe and they said okay we're going to hit your orange juice. where does orange juice come from, florida, key swing state. >> the economics are clear, tariffs are taxes on americans. they hurt americans. the politics are really at play here. those are almost impossible to decipher. the trade war with china might be at least phase one over but the trade war with europe just brewing and doesn't seem to be ebbing any time soon. lauren: 2020 all about tariffs

once again. >> seems to be. lauren: thanks for the time. cheryl:.cheryl: let's take a lt futures this morning. the dow is down 17 in the he premarket, s&p up a half point,s nasdaq up 7 and-a-half. the story on the dow will be boeing today. adam schiff calling the president a cheater. >> trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a strategic partner to secure foreign help with his re-election. in other words, to cheat. cheryl: but did he make his case or did he just strengthen the hand of the president's defense team? lauren: game of thrones fans could finally get the ending they wanted all along. we'll have those details straight ahead on "fbn: a.m.." ♪ i want to believe. ♪ whoa mona lisa --

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down 14 for the dow, s&p up three quarters and nasdaq up 8 points, all of this on the heels of what we've been talking about, lauren, and that's the coronavirus which has certainly been affecting -- those worries about it slowing down global growth, business in general. lauren: when you look at sars back in 2002, 2003, the services part of china's economy was so much smaller. now it's so much bigger. if you have a city of 11 million on lockdown during a major travel time, the lunar new year, what does that do to the chinese economy? we have tracee carrasco with us now. cheryl: got some big headlines for us right now, trace, yeah. tracee: let's get to that first, the harvey weinstein trial heading into day two and opening statements yesterday, lawyers for weinstein ripping prosecutors for describing him as a, quote, predatory monday p officemonsterand showing him w r

president bill clinton. they are calling the prosecution's tactics inappropriate. the request was denied by the judge. canadians looking to avoid picking up the tab for prince harrynd a meghan's security. a conservative group called the canadian taxpayer foundation delivering a petition to the prime minister's office earlier this week, that included more than 80,000 signatures. details on how r harry and meghan's security will be handled not yet been resolved after their split interest the royal family. but some estimates say it might cost more than $10 million a year. and fans who were disappointed by the ending of game of thrones might just get a second chance for a better result. author george r martin teasing readers in a new interview that the ending of the series might not actually be the ending for the books. the acclaimed hbo series outpaced the books after season

4, forcing them to create new story lines that didn't stay faithful to the books. no word on when the final two novels of the series will be finished. one animal shelter taking a new approach to finding a home for one cat. brutal honesty, the mitchell county animal shelter in north carolina posting a picture of the cat in question and openly admitting that the cat is a jerk. this shelter goes on to list her likes including staring into your soul until you feel as if you may never be cheerful again, lurking in dark corners, being queen of her domicile and fooling shelter staff into thinking she is sick. the post has received tons of aa tension but no offer -- attention but no offer of attention just yet. cheryl: the adoption would be free if anybody is near the shelter and interested in the cat. there are people out there with huge hearts that will

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>> trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to a strategic partner to secure foreign help with his re-election. in other words, to cheat. the president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot

box. we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won. lauren: that was congressman adam schiff yesterday claiming the integrity of this year's presidential election could be compromised if the president is not impeached. did he make his case or is he just throwing around claims? let's bring in jenna ellis. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. lauren: democrats seem to be scared that president trump is getting a second term. >> absolutely. and he is. this is the democrats making their case because they don't have any other candidates. when you look at the failing new york times can't even pick between two candidates, this is how poorly in shape the democratic party is. and so they are impeaching this president not because they have any legal or constitutional merit or substance. and we saw that throughout their opening statement yesterday. all it was was just a bunch of personal attacks, no legal substance, and all they're saying is we want to impeach and

remove this president because we can't win at the ballot box. that is not how the rule of law in this country works and i think once you see the president's legal team start on saturday, they are going to make that case very clearly and they will show that the house managers have not made their case and this, again, is not about president trump having to defend anything. this is about the house making their case and they have absolutely failed on that through the articles of impeachment that don't even allege a crime, much less an impeachable offense. lauren: do you think witnesses will be called? >> i don't think they should be. that will be up to the senate. in terms of the constitutional process, compare this to the clinton impeachment trial. any of the witnesses that were called there had already been depodeposed. they had gone through the full inquiry. here, the senate is not obligating to cure a defective record and so the house managers have said they didn't have time to go through the judicial process so to force witnesses over and against and above

executive privilege and not go through that challenge in a valid judicial context would not be appropriate here. lauren: let's say they are republican defections and witnesses are called, how reciprocal will they be? minority leader schumer says democrats will not give hunter biden for john bolton. >> this is a trial. it's not a hostage situation. and so this whole thing about exchange -- lauren: sounds like it, right? >> the negotiation of exchange of witnesses and saying we'll give you this for this, that's not how it should work. if we're concerned about fact and you truth, relevance is the lee legal standard. it's up to the house managers to make their case. and they have said overwhelmingly, 11 times in their initial opening pleading, that they had compelling and overwhelming evidence and then suddenly they need more evidence? no, not so much. lauren: jenna ellis, thank you for the. cheryl, over to you.

cheryl: jeff bezos breaking his silence for the first time since the un report said he was likely hacked by an account that was tied to the crown prince of saudi arabia. bezos, who owns the washington post, tweeted out a photo of him warning the murder of a journalist thats was killed by saudi government agents, the hash taking was jama l. how common are hacks like these? what can we do to prevent them. let's bring in a cyber security expert. >> good morning. cheryl: as we follow the hack of the phone of jeff bezos, one of the richest, most powerful man in the world and another powerful man who allegedly went into his phone to expose him, we wonder how vulnerable are we, from our own friends? >> we have a false sense of security with all of our applications and with our digital life. this really started even just a few years ago when you learned if you posted something on

facebook, it's out there. if you have your photos on your phone, they're there and people are able to get to them. just the question is, how are they able to? the falsehood here is that they're actually using anen crypted platform -- encrypted platform like what's app to gain access to the phone. that's something where we feel something is encrypted and we're told it's done that way, that's supposed to protect us. here's something where that application is allegedly being used to be able to breach that trust. cheryl: i think the concern for everybody, remember, facebook owns what's app. we've got apps on our phone, facebook, twitter, instagram. i mean, and then you're getting direct text messages from people. i got a family member, i got a text message last night, i know it's a hack, i know it's a scam. a lot of people don't. what do you say to the average person who doesn't understand how vulnerable they are? >> well the first thing is, if you don't know what it is and you don't know who it is, don't open it. just like we all do with spam. that's a very, very key issue.

the next thing is, we're starting to -- people are sending us videos and that's what happened in this particular situation where people are believing that in order to gain into that hack, they used a downloader on what's app from a video in order to gain access. so anything that looks like that it's going to download something to your phone without your authority or actually your computer, it's the exact same rules. we need to be vigilant about it and continue to say i'm not going to open that. cheryl: i'm talking about family members. you said people that you don't know. i'm talking about people that we do know and it wasn't just jeff bezos that it's reported that the crown prince was what's apping with, jared kushner, richard branson, this is people that we know that are putting us as risk. that's the frightening part in all of this. >> it is. and the same is true when we look at some of those crazy phishing e-mails that come to us. the hard part is to evaluate

what you want to open and what you don't. even if it's from a family member, from a friend and it remotely looks suspect, you have to be able to step away from that. the second is understanding how much information is being transmitted. in this particular case also, they're saying that the volume of data went up 300-fold on a constant basis where the phone is constantly transmitting. so one of the things you should always do is -- we get our bills at the end of the month. if you look at the volume of data and you see it's really strange a lot, you should say to yourself there's something wrong here. cheryl: thank you so much for being here this morning. it's good tips for everybody. >> thank you very much. lauren: poor mr. peanut, no one saw him going out like this. >> hey, mr. peanut, no, you don't. don't do it, mr. peanut. no! lauren: gunz is here with a super bowl ad that social media is going nuts over. get it? cheryl: funny. do you go to the super bowl

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cheryl: peanut has been a friend of us for many generations and now final good-bye. lauren: he made it to 104. >> good morning, very sad and solemn day as the plant every's character itself, mr. peanut has passed out, mr. peanut was driving a car and it went bad. ♪ >> look out. >> no, you let go. >> hey, mr. peanut, no you don't, don't do it. no! >> maybe you'll be all right. maybe not. [laughter]

>> that's terrible, so looks like mr. peanut, 104, no longer with us. tons of brands everybody from oreos and budweiser and also the company says to check in next week's super bowl because they have another commercial where we will celebrate mr. peanut's life in the third quarter, marketing thing behind this, tune into that. lauren: does he have a replacement? >> if wesley snipes can't help you, nobody can. speaking of super bowl, is it about the food or game? >> according to new poll more so about the food. 56% responded saying they go to super bowl parties for food itself, social interaction, 49% say for the game, 38% say for the commercials, yes, it's all about that grub. all about the food. lauren: mike gunzelman.

>> go tiger woods. cheryl: we will be back tomorrow in fbn:am, mornings with maria start right now. ♪ >> live from the economic forum, special edition with mornings with maria. maria: good thursday morning, everybody, thank you so much for joining us, i'm mornings with maria coming to you live from world economic forum here in davos switzerland, biggest and brightest minds from across political world are gathered this week and we are here talking, thursday january 23rd, top stories right now before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. corona virus fears hitting market. over 570 cases including one in the united states, city of 11 million people is on lockdown, two more cities just hit with travel restriction in china, the world health organization meeting again today to decide if the virus should be classified as a global health

emergency. mean while the push for impeachment, claiming president trump should be removed from office, this as a group of attorneys generals urged the senate impeachment openings resume later this morning, let's check market this is morning, we are looking at weakness at the dow industrials, down 16 points, nasdaq up a fraction, 9 points higher. mixed opening this morning as we are expecting, building america's workforce, my exclusive interview with ivanka trump and ceo of ibm about their pledge to the american worker, find out why you not need a 4-year degree to get a good job in technology, mornings with maria begins right now. ♪ ♪ maria: and we've got another big show this morning, joining the conversation from new york,