be sure to catch mere on bulls and bears at 5:00 p.m. eastern. follow me on twitter and like me laurencheryl: it is 5:00 a.m.c, even recession fears, seem to be weighing on markets this morning. the dow is down 207 in the premarket. a state of emergency has been declared in san francisco and an american soldier tested positive for the virus. lauren: it was a fiery debate last night. shouting matches between the 2020 democratic candidates with bernie sanders as the main target. but with just days before the first in the south primary, can joe biden keep his narrow lead? cheryl: mcdonald's auctioning off a cup of gold worth an estimated $100,000. it's all for a good cause and

we've got it in the studio this morning. it is wednesday, february 26th and "fbn: a.m." starts right now. ♪ ♪ feel the rain on your skin. ♪ no one else can feel it for you. ♪ only you can let it in. ♪ no one else, no one else can see the words on your lips. ♪ treat yourself in words unspoken. lauren: good morning welcome to "fbn: a.m.." i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everybody. i'm cheryl casone. another wild ride for everybody today. lauren: let's take a look at how your money is moving this morning and we have more selling. the s&p has lost for perspective $1.7 trillion in value this week, dow is down 221 this morning, s&p is down 18, nasdaq is down 66. fears of the coronavirus spreading, really making

investors nervous. cheryl: oil and gold right now, oil we see the selloff continuing this morning. that contract is down 1.5%. again, think about consumption in china and now other countries. that is affecting oil. gold is the opposite, a little bit of a bump here. that safety play continues. lauren: safety play being seen in the treasury market. the yield on the 10 year treasury down five face a row at 1.33% this morning. cheryl: stocks in asia, investors continue to grapple with the spread of the coronavirus. that's affecting manufacturing, the supply chains, especially in the asian region, red across the board. the biggest loss right now, the kospi, coronavirus affecting that market. lauren: stocks plunging in europe, the cac in paris down 1.2%, dax down 1.7%. cheryl: our top story continues to be the coronavirus because now san francisco has declared a state of emergency over the deadly outbreak. for the first time the virus has infected an american soldier in

south korea. lauren: let's go to jackie abanya, she's live as the cdc warns this outbreak could become a pandemic. good morning, jackie. >> reporter: san francisco city leaders declaring a state of emergency to speed up its response when and if the coronavirus hits the bay area. people have been treated for the disease, so far no cases originated in the city. san francisco's mayor saying residents need to be prepared. >> while we have no active cases in san francisco at this time, we are focusing our efforts on protecting the people who live and work here around we want to be ready for what we anticipate may come our way. >> reporter: now, the declaration will allow the county to staff more doctors and nurses, 24 hours a day, and allow for future state and federal reimbursement. this as another american who was evacuated from the diamond princess cruise ship in japan is

transferred to a hospital in nebraska. the patient was being monitored at travis air force base in california and is the spouse of one of the 13 people who arrived in omaha last week. for the first time, an american soldier stationed in south korea tested positive for the virus. the 23-year-old is being quarantined near the city where most of the country's coronavirus cases have been clustered. the cdc says it's matter of time for the virus to spread across the u.s. and disrupt our everyday life. listen. >> current global circumstances suggest it's likely that this virus will cause a pandemic. it's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected. >> reporter: the number of cases worldwide this morning jumping to more than 80,000 with 57 right here in the u.s. and more than 2700 deaths worldwide. back to you. lauren: thank you. the trump administration is saying we've got it under control so a little bit of mixed

messages coming between the cdc and the administration. let's go to south carolina, because sparks were flying last night as bernie sanders and mike bloomberg faced a barrage of attacks from fellow candidates during the democratic primary debate. cheryl: the primary considered to be a must win for joe biden, this is just three days away. did he do enough to attract voters or to save himself. hillary vaughn is live this morning in charleston, south carolina with a lot more. what a night, hillary. >> reporter: what a night. this was definitely the most intense debate we have seen so far. the gloves are off between senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders and mayor michael bloomberg as sanders attacked bloomberg for his billions, warren went after him for the complaints he's received as an employer from women in the workplace, after bloomberg agreed to release three women from nondisclosure agreements that he had them sign after they

filed complaints. >> donald trump thinks it would be better if he's president. i do not think so. vladimir putin thinks donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping you get elected so you lose to him. >> mayor bloomberg has a solid and strong and enthusiastic base of support. problem is, they're all billionaires. [shouting] >> on the other hand, of the last 50 polls that have been done, nationally, mr. bloomberg, i beat trump 47 of those 50 times. >> polls aren't the election. >> i don't care how much money mayor bloomberg has. the core of the democratic party will never trust him, at least i didn't have a boss who said to me kill it, the way that mayor

bloomberg -- >> i never said that. >> -- to one of his pregnant employees. >> the trouble is with this senator, enough is never enough. >> reporter: mayor pete buttigieg and senator sanders got into a heated debate over the revolving price tag for sanders' medicare for all tag while sanders tried to explain how the math adds up. >> i think we were talk about math and it doesn't take two hours to do the math. let's talk about what it adds up to be. let's talk about math. here's the math. >> can i respond the attack? >> reporter: and former vice president joe biden may be getting a boost later today from one of the most important democrats in the state, congressman jim clyburn, who is expected to give his endorsement to biden later today. lauren and cheryl. cheryl: well, there's one. hillary vaughn live for us in south carolina. thank u hillary. lauren: a major change at walt

disney. the ceo, bob iger, is being replaced by bob chapin. iger has been ceo for 14 years. he will stay on as executive chairman through the end of his contract in 2021. chapin has mostly run the theme parks and consumer products. he oversaw the opening of shanghai disneyland. the broader market is selling off. disney is down 3.1% this morning. cheryl: mr. iger is not completely leaving. this will be interesting. coronavirus fears and lot of other issues really for the markets have been slamming stocks for a second straight day. investors are weighing the outbreak's impact on the global economy. dow industrials and s&p 500 tumbled 3%, nasdaq falling nearly 3%. gains have been wiped out for our markets. let's bring in jonas max ferris, a fox news contributor. good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: when you start to see

day after day of a selloff, you start to ask yourself if the reaction is emotional based on fear of the coronavirus and other things going on. is the selloff overdone? >> well, you don't know it's overdone until we see how far the coronavirus goes. i think it's more about exposing the fear that a lot of these countries are still weak and you don't know if this is going to expose, especially in places like greece and italy, where they barely got out of the last crisis and we don't know what governments can do with interest rates this low to boost an economy that's slowed down by anything, whether it's a virus or something else. this is more about we don't know what can be put into place to stop the economy from getting worse globally than anything else, i think and stocks are very expensive globally, particularly in the u.s. right now and that always sets up a potential for a crash for any reason, essentially. cheryl: you're bringing up a good point. we're at lofting valuations

right now. if you see that the top is kind of hit, then it's time to pull back. there may be other things going on in the markets besides the coronavirus, jonas. >> there's also the positive where people always see when there's any kind of crisis, it's a buy in the dip opportunity. even the last 2018 crash was 20%, let's not forget, it was a great time to buy stocks. it's never going to be as bad as people think it's going to be, it's always going to be a buying opportunity, there's that mentality versus this is the big one and the bull market's finally over and those are balancing fears and greed at this point. cheryl: a lot of companies will talk about this in earnings. the other issue is the 2020 election. and now as we're seeing the candidates kind of narrowed down, a couple of market analysts have said, look, we've got to start talk about bernie sanders on wall street. amanda said, look, the risk to u.s. stocks is pretty significant if there's a nomination of bernie sanders because that gives the him a ber

chance of being president. we know how he feels about being president. they say we've got to talk about the risk to wall street if sanders is the nominee. is it too soon or do we need to have the discussion now? >> given what happened with trump sliding through what didn't seem like an easy path, it's never too soon for a wild card and somebody who shouldn't be electable getting elected. there's also the case that the market, anybody gets elected at this point that's not the president, the corporate tax cuts are probably on the line, that was a major boom to the stock market and that would get reversed. ththe coronavirus will make it worse. it's bringing up fears that something has to happen that might not be good for at least tax rates, if not the whole economy. cheryl: you talked that before about the federal deficit. we probably don't talk about it enough. you're right. jonas, thank you very much. good to have you. lauren: the gloves came off at

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lauren: frontrunner person taking hits from all sides at last night's tense democratic debate in south carolina. >> vladimir putin thinks donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping you get elected. >> i think i would make a better president than bernie. >> if you think last four years has been chaotic, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with bernie sanders versus donald trump. >> bernie sanders' analysis is right. i don't like his solutions. >> bernie in fact hasn't passed much of anything. >> it matters if you can actually get things done. lauren: was bernie sanders damaged last night or anyone else for that matter. republican strategist anna luna is here as well as democratic

strategist howard franklin. thanks for joining us. you're both in the south. i want to start with you, anna, running for office in florida where bernie sanders has taken a lot of heat for saying there's a good side to fidel castro's communism in cuba and there's a democratic state senator in florida warning that if bernie's the nominee, trump takes florida. how concerned are you that bernie sanders could take this nomination? >> i mean, i don't think he's going to get it. i say that because the moment he said what he said about castro, he lost pretty much all of miami-dade county. no one likes castro. castro did awful things. for him to say that and not apologize is a huge slap in the face, especially for the hispanic community in miami. lauren: a lot of democrats are distancing themselves from bernie sanders, fighting in the moderate lane. you can make the argument that as they fight and no one has dropped out, they're only

helping sanders. that was for howard. that question was for howard. >> sorry. lauren: no worries. >> no worries. i agree. it sounded as if both senators sanders and warren were initially competing for the lane that bernie seems to occupy all by himself. this will come down to organization of money very soon. we've got a number of moderate candidates who all agree that bernie sanders and his particular brand of democratic socialism wouldn't do well for the democratic party in 2020 or going forward. it will come down to resource and organization very quickly. the way these campaigns typically work, they're focused on the state at hand. they're all in south carolina. obviously super tuesday will present a different challenge across 14 states. lauren: let's look at the nbc poll in south carolina. you can see joe biden has a lead, 27% support. but narrowly in second place is bernie sanders. so anna, how important is south carolina and a major victory

there for the longevity of the joe biden campaign? >> i think it's going to be very important. right now, bernie is nationally polling very well with millennials and gen-gers. biden needs a leg up. it's important for him to score in places like south carolina, especially given the political climate within the dnc. lauren: how do you think biden did last night, making his case and do you think he can build any momentum between the primary saturday and super tuesday a few days later? >> i think not only does he have to win, but he has to win convincingly, can't be a 2 or 3 point margin with bernie on his heels. as you've seen the last kim weeks, we've given -- democrats coming second and third if they beat expectations. i think joe biden has shown he can be affable, he can have a command of the issues. the question that democrats have been asking for the last year is which joe biden is going to show

up on any given night. he did have some gaffes, he did maybe imagine a couple pacts and misconstrue a couple numbers. the concern is among five or six or seven democrats at a time the mistakes will go unnoticed. against donald trump on a debate stage, he will make a mockery of him. lauren: did any of the dynamics change last night? >> in my opinion, biden performed well. bloomberg came in, tried to crack a geek and humanize the -- crack a joke and humanize the situation. he said he spent $100 million to buy congressional seats and no one, doesn't matter if you're democrat, republican, independent, no one likes the feeling of being bought so i think that really hurt him. lauren: anna, howard, thank you for weighing in after the big debate last night. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. cheryl: we've gotten an update on the coronavirus from iran, 19 dead there, 139 case is confirmed. there's over 80,000 cases of the coronavirus worldwide. that is affecting futures, along with other issues.

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lauren: sales force took a one, two punch yesterday, particularly in after hours. cheryl: all about those earnings, tracee carrasco. good morning. tracee: shares of the cloud sharing company were down 3.5%, this after it reported fourth quarter earnings that missed wall street estimates. the loss was $248 million compared with the net income of $362 million during last year's fourth quarter. salesforce also announcing that its co-chief executive keith block is stepping down. marc benioff will become the sole ceo. tess. [ laughter ] under out-- tesla under scrutiny. the ntsb says the auto pilot feature played a role in a 2018 crash in call noo california. investigators say the driver had the feature engaged in his model x and was playing a game on his iphone. the ntsb said tesla failed to take measure to prevent foreseeable abuse of the auto

pilot. tesla's share price has taken a hit, dropping more than $100 in just two days, stock dipping at much as 7.3% yesterday following criticism from federal investigators, that is on top of the broader market selloff fueled by the coronavirus concerns. the future of star wars lies in the past. disney revealing the new saga, titled star wars, the high republic, it will take place 200 years before the prequels and play out in multiple books and comics. the first novel, light of the jedi, will be released in august. and finally, patience you must have if you want baby yoda, hasbro's popular version of the character is reportedly sold out. the next deliveries for the must-have toy not expected until december, hopefully just before the holidays. lauren: tracee, hold up. in that trailer for the new star wars, they might have teased another baby yoda.

so this one even though it's sold out might be old news come time for a new star wars. tracee: maybe. lauren: just putting it out there. cheryl: thank you very much. well, good news for the future of space tourism. virgin gal acparticular said they'll -- galactic said they will start taking deposits for trips to space. lauren: joining us now is brett larson. did you buy tickets? >> can i borrow your credit card for a moment? this is actually really exciting, space tourism is coming. virgin galactic has been talk about this for the better part of a deck aimed now you can go on virgingalactic.com and sign up for the program and for the low price of $1,000 you can put down a refundable deposit to then purchase a $250,000 ticket. cheryl: the 1,000 is just the deposit. >> you get it back if you chicken out at the last second or you decide maybe i don't have $250,000, maybe i want to buy a house and not a trip to space.

cheryl: if these markets don't look any better, that's, you know -- >> but very exciting. i feel like we have a race between virgin galactic and elon musk and he was talking last week by the end of this year or next year we're going to be putting people in the dragon spacex capsule. there's the virgin galactic test flight. if you feel confident in their ability to get you beyond the stratosphere, i say go for it. cheryl: nasa will have to weigh in and the faa. they keep saying it's going to be soon and keep pushing back the timetable. >> right. they keep kind of going-it's expensive. so they keep having to do all these tests and we shall see where this takes us. i say maybe late next year. lauren: the insurance cost -- i'm missing jif peanut butter, getting into the jif versus jif

debate. >> it's either/or. it is gif or jif. if you think of what gif stands for, graphic interchange format, so jif is choosing. lauren: on social media it could be a gif, the peanut butter it's jif. cheryl: the company weighed in on it. >> it's a novelty bar of peanut butter and you can get one that says gif on it, g-i-f or you can get a bottle of jif. lauren: what's a giffey? >> it's a thing the gid kids she on social media. cheryl: how much is the peanut butter? >> it's only ten bucks. by the end of today it's going to be $1,000 on ebay. cheryl: press larson, thank you very -- brett larson, thank you very much. lauren: catch brett on fox news headlines, 24/7, sirius xm

channel 115. let's show you your money. the dow is down well over 200 points, just 28 minutes ago. now it is down 52, s&p is flirting with positive territory as we continue to talk about the coronavirus, now that's clouding apple's time line for delivering its latest iphone. what investors need to hear from apple's shareholder meeting happening today. cheryl: the hot pocket heiress sentenced in the college admissions scandal. what her sentence could mean for actress lori loughlin. you're watching "fbn: a.m.." ♪ is it too late now to say sorry. ♪ because i'm missing more than just your body. a new brokerage , your cash is automatically invested at a great rate. that's why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. ♪ talk, talk

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prepare for a po for a potentiak of the virus. it was a fiery debate in south carolina last night with bernie sanders taking the most hits. all eyes on goa and whether he can -- on joe biden and whether he can hold his narrow lead. bob iger has stepped down as ceo of disney and is being replaced by bob chapin. cheryl: a little bit of pressure on disney this morning. we're watching apple. the coronavirus outbreak will be a major focus at apple's annual shareholder meeting today. let's bring in lou bassineste. iphone production is going to certainly be an issue here, lou. >> i think it could be. we're not there yet. iphone production rams up in the summer. we're in the preproduction phase. cheryl: the components, though, because if you have factories in china that are shut down, even the pieces they need to build

the phones aren't being produced now. >> i think we're getting into that zone where that might be a concern but ironically the final components aren't locked down until may. we have a couple months of leeway. i don't think it's time to play the freak-out song yet but it's something to worry about. if coronavirus wasn't happening, this shareholder meeting would be a nothing burger today. no one would pay attention to it. cheryl: they have other products in the pipeline, there's questions about where are they going to go with the mac, the next generation of apple tv, where is the car we've been waiting on. it's a good time to talk about apple. someone made the point yesterday, just because we're having a major market selloff and maybe some of it is panic over coronavirus, it doesn't make apple a bad company. apple didn't fall apart in seven days because the coronavirus has investors nervous. >> two years ago, they changed the guidance they gave, everyone freaked out. we've been here before with

china. demand waning a year am apple always comes out on the other end and they've typically been great buying opportunities. cheryl: we've got to start talk about that, lou. i'm glad you brought that up. disney and bob iger, a little bit of pressure on the stock. he's going to be executive chairman, focused on entertainment. he's had a lot of wins at disney, trying to retire for years. what do you make of bob iger's announcement. >> it came as a surprise. people want to make it more reality tv drama than it is. it's really a transition plan that's not set in stone, if you read the sec disclosures, he remains as executive chairman, complete creative control over programming and disney plus and then can be assigned any responsibilities by the board. so he's really largely in charge, just not of the day-to-day operations of the parks and things. i don't think it's a big deal. cheryl: also too, to follow up on that, bob chapin, there's a lot of discussion about whether or not he will be the eventual

leader of disney. he's still going to have to answer to the board and to iger. we've seen this play out before with potential successors to iger that didn't pan out. >> he's on a trial period. we'll see what happens. the last time it happened in 2015 we had someone come in that was largely believed to be the successor to iger answered lasted six months and he was out. chapin's got a three-year contract. we'll see what happens. cheryl: big shoes to fill. anybody that follows bob iger in that role has big shoes to fill. thank you. >> thank you, cheryl. lauren: the air re heiress to t pocket company is sentenced to five months in prison. she only accepted responsibility when backed into the corner. she was tacked on with a money laundering charge. this could mean a heavier sentence for lori loughlin. she and her fashion designer

husband have pled not guilty for their role and are fighting the charges. cheryl: peter nigard stepping down from his company after the fbi and local authorities raided his firm's manhattan office as part of an investigation into sex trafficking allegations against him. earlier this month, 10 female plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing him of raping women and under age girls at his estate in the bahamas. a spokesperson said he is cooperating with the investigation and he expects his name to be cleared. lauren: hillary clinton opening up about campaign donations she received from now convicted rapist harvey weinstein. she said he contributed to every democrat. >> he contributed to every democrat's campaign. he contributed to barack obama's campaign and john kerry's campaign and al gore's campaign and everybody's campaign. lauren: even mike bloomberg had help from weinstein when he ran

for mayor of new york city in 2005. according to a report by the sun, weinstein recorded a robocall for blearing saying blg this, new york city is a great place to make movies and we've got a great leader in bloomberg. cheryl: well, bernie sanders' status at a democratic frontrunner has nfl owners worried. they are concerned over how the stock market would react to sanders' canada circumstance according to a -- candidacy. according to a report in sports illustrated. according to the report, this has added urgency for league owners to finalize deals with their players that expire after the 2020 season. lauren: vacations are supposed to help you destress from your job. a new survey says getting to vacation might be worse. 55 bees of people say the process for booking your flight, going through security at the airport, flying itself, all more stressful than going to work.

respondents saying they find dentist visits and spending the day with their in-laws to be less stressful. that brings us to the question of the day, which is more stressful for you, your job or air travel? let us know what you think, here we are on social media. cheryl: i think air travel is a lot more stressful than going to work. lauren: now with the coronavirus. cheryl: not just the coronavirus, the airports, the security, the tsa checkpoints, those people are the sweetest. lauren: no offense, but lately flight attendants haven't been that friendly. cheryl: it depends i've had a couple moments myself. we all have a bad day. let's take a look at what could be a bad day but who knows. we've had a real volatile session overnight with futures up, down, right now we're down 78, better than what we had earlier, s&p is down 3, nasdaq is down 17 and three quarters. from combat boots to cowboy boots, how one woman is using her company to help inspire style and also give back to our nation's veterans. lauren: plus, what's putting

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cowboy boots, one woman is using her company to inspire style and given back to our nation's veterans. she is a veteran herself. joining me now is founder and creative director of ranch road boots, sarah ford. sarah, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. lauren: i was reading your bio, so impressive, three tours of duty, you started working at the age of 10 years old at a janitor and now you have your own company. >> that's right. i started working at a young age and never stopped. lauren: tell me about your boot company. >> ranch road boots was inspired by my grand feamplet i gre-- grandfather. he was a coul cowboy. i wanted to make clean, classic designs with lasting quality. that's what we do. even though he was a cowboy, we also celebrate the global culture, recognition that there's men and women that live the lifestyle. we're going to expand. lauren: how much are the boots? i know cowboy boots are awfully

expensive. >> our boots aren't cheap. we try to overdeliver on value to our consumers. most of our boots are 350 to $450. they should cost about twice that in a typical retail setting. lauren: and how do you market? >> mostly online today, although i tried so many things in the past, including converting trailers and dragging them around the united states and selling boots out of those too. lauren: oh, wow. as a veteran yourself, coming from a military family, then going to harvard business school, what's the take-away that you have from all of your experiences and how does that help you and guide you as you now run a business and perhaps hire veterans? >> that's right. so in the marine corps we were taught to do more with less and being comfortable making decisions, so i'm comfortable making decisions with 80% of the information i need. and also talk about hiring

veterans, we definitely hire veterans and any company in america that doesn't is missing out on some of the best trained men and women in our workforce today. lauren: thank you so much, sarah ford, for coming on and sharing your story. you're an inspiration for everybody and we do thank you for your service. >> thank you. cheryl: well, the coronavirus continues to spread around the globe. the new warning for americans right here at home. lauren: and you know that meatless trend? well, it's getting two very big endorsements this morning and one is coming to the breakfast tape. keep it here on -- breakfast table. keep it here on "fbn: a.m." ♪ ready or not, here i come. ♪ where you at. ♪ the night is young. ♪

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cheryl: well, we told you about that is few minutes ago and here's the proof. we've had a very volatile night overnight for your futures. just a few moments a it was 77 points of the dow, now the dow is down 161, s&p is down 12, nasdaq down 47 and a quarter. this could be a high volume day for your markets. a lot of volatility overnight. we'll see how the stock market ohms, 9:30 a.m. eastern time. lauren: investors are reacting to the coronavirus. the death toll from the outbreak is rising to more than 2700 deaths, more than 80,000 confirmed infections worldwide as coronavirus continues to spread. look at that map, really in almost every continent and country. 39 countries have reported confirmed cases of the virus including the u.s. with 57 here. cdc officials warning it's not a

question of if but when the coronavirus will start spreading in the u.s., warning americans should begin preparing right now. what that could mean, school closings perhaps. a u.s. soldier in south korea became the first service member to test positive. he is quarantined in an offbase residence. cheryl: there is new research out showing marijuana usage among seniors is growing. lauren: tracee carrasco, very interesting story, has the details. tracee: usage of marijuana among americans over the age of 65 has increased 75% over the last four years, according to a new study published in the journal of american medical association. and it isn't just older americans. another recent study saying college students are using marijuana at the highest level since 1983 with 43% of students saying they used it at least once in the past year. well, disney naming its

preferred plant based burger at parks and cruise lines. the company set up a strategic partnership with impossible foods and will carry the meat-free product debuting it at the upcoming food and wine festival. starbucks will start serving a plant based product in canada starting next month. about 40% of millennials and genagen-z have been in credit cd debt due to fitness and subscription. a third of americans make fitness related purchases each month with the most common being a gym membership. cheryl: if you go to a soul cycle class or any fitness class, it's just expensive. tracee: it adds up. lauren: i'm makes me work harder to justify the 40 bucks i

just dropped. it's the apps, a lot of people subscribe to the yoga apps, that's a monthly subscription, it all adds up. cheryl: yeah, you pay for it. there's always running outside, that's free. i want to throw that out there. coming up, mcdonald's golden shamrock shake that's worth nearly $100,000 is up for grabs for a good cause. we have got it here in the studio. lauren: plus gunz puts mcdonald's candle to the smell t we'ltest. we'll get his reaction. ♪

♪ ♪ >> cheryl: so mcdonalds is shaking up a classic with a new golden shake that we have onset and wait till you hear price tag. lauren: mike gunzelman joins us. >> shamrock shake barks they do it every year, it's the classic, because it's 50th anniversary of shamrock shake, they have received the golden shamrock shake, what you're looking at is a limited edition, you can bid on it, et cetera, 18, carat gold

and i'm not able to get near it with my bear hands. cheryl: let's point out these are beautiful diamonds, actually. i think you can see the sparkle on the camera. mike: you can go site, over $30,000 right now appraised for nearly a hundred thousand dollars, a lot jewelry right now, wild that we have it. awesome. cheryl: for a good cause? mike: all goes to rmc. lauren: what am i drinking? mike: because the shamrock shake, in addition that they have the oroeo shamrock mcflurry which is delicious. i'm jealous, you're making my very hungry right now.

lauren: you have the spoon. cheryl: didn't you guys have a thing about the big mac and quarter pounder? mike: we did. lauren: mcdonalds has candles and they are quarter-pounder scented and why not have the big mac scented? mike: it's for the quarter-pounder enthusiast, pickles, ketchup and more, it's already sold out. in fan club it's golden arch archeslimited.com, we have them there. smell them. cheryl: each candle, here is the ketchup, here is the pickles,

the sesame seed buns. onios, i will light that one up real fast. lauren: i was closer to it, the whole box smelled like a fast-food truck. mike: a burger would smell like my apartment, smells a lot better than my apartment when you pit it all together. lauren: don't just use the onion candle. mike: it's gone viral. it's sold out. lauren: how much is the set? mike: via the website. the website is goldenarchsunlimited.com. it's delicious, make you get golden shamrock shake. i'm just hungry.

cheryl: mike, well hats off to mcdonalds, amazing organization, hundred grand on our set, a hundred thousand dollars, we get the die monday and we get the gold on the show. lauren: thank you so much for joining us on fbn:am, mornings with maria start right now. maria: hey, ladies, happy wednesday, everybody, thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, jam-packed program this morning, wednesday february 26th, top stories right now just before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. another wild morning for markets this morning, futures pointing to triple-digit loss this morning rite out of the gate, dow futures down 172 points, nasdaq down 45 points and s&p 500 currently down 13 points after big selloff yesterday, the nasdaq wiping out all of the 2020 gains, we have wiped out 1 and a half trillion dollars in market value in the last two days, coronavirus fears driving the action, of course, a u.s.

soldier test positive for the virus in south korea, this is very latest, the cdc warning a spread of the virus here in the united states is inevitable. san francisco this morning declaring state of emergency before the virus even hits, find out what you should be doing right now to protect yourself, we've got the very latest, big surprise from disney yesterday, the end of an era, bob iger steps down as ceo staying on as executive chairman, a look at who is taking his place and look at the future of the company. democrats battling it out, bernie sanders target of multiple attacks and debate spinning out of control at times. massive explosion in los angeles sparking major fire, mornings with maria is live right now. ♪ ♪