know had some issues before with manufacturing, but it seems like on the last call, they are starting to turn things around. you might like that name as well. charles: you gave us so much to think about. i didn't get to your three dos. i will post them on twitter because we love you. you are fantastic, victoria. you have been spot-on for our audience. liz claman, again, i'm doing this, i hand it off for that last hour of trading, the most important hour of trading. liz: yeah. but is it like yankees or like a softball game? you're teeing it up. thank you so much. markets are on the move, yes, as the cdc makes a major announcement that will get k through 8 schools a big step closer to reopening. just issued in the past hour, the new guidance will be data-driven to get kids back into classrooms. testing will be key.

the ceo of the company that has the test that can detect foreign strains of the virus is here. he's standing by on the two breakthroughs his company is now deploying in the covid fight. sonos pumping up the volume. a new product in the works that could take aim at tech's biggest titans but who should be running scared? we are about to ask the ceo patrickspencethat question and more. did one of the world's biggest oil giants just indicates it's ready to sign the death warrant on gas stations? and shell turns its energy to ev charging stations. we begin with breaking news. all the analysts who said the nasdaq's run is overdone kind of have to eat their words, as we head into the final hour of trade. the tech and biotech heavy index down in striking distance of its

second record close in a row, and year to date the nasdaq has already rocketed up about 9% just since january 2nd. who is bringing the 2021 heat? take a look. we have the names. moderna up 75%. baidu up 46%. applied materials rounds out the top five in the nasdaq 100. but new leadership names at this hour check all the crucial boxes. smart speaker gian sonos is melding tech, streaming media and is a hot pandemic product as people stay and work at home. the stock is up 51% year to date, better than any company in the nasdaq 100 other than moderna. down right now about 3.5%, the stock which ipo'ed at $15 a share is trading at $35.16. the ceo says sonos has only just

begun. great to see you. revenue up 15% over the year to a record $646 million. can i just begin with how much of that is the work and stay-at-home crowd updating their sound systems? >> you know, thanks for having me. great to be here. it is a tail wind for sure but i think it's much more some of the trends we are seeing more broadly with audio, so obviously streaming music is huge, podcasts, audio books, everybody is enjoying a lot more audio. we are seeing home theater in a big, big way, so we make these sound bars and everything that people enjoy and you are seeing hbo max go, at the same time they do theaters, disney plus creating great content and netflix, you name it. we are also seeing this great reshuffling where a lot of people as they start to do remote work and rethink where they live and work, actually move. we think those are big long-term tail winds but you're right, we definitely saw a pop in this quarter thanks to some of the pandemic and stay-at-home

trends. liz: well, yeah. success and hot products are a great thing until you're hit with supply issues. what is at the heart of supply issues you suffered with the ark sound bar and how do you fix them? it was across the board. there were manufacturing issues in the sense covid hit, some manufacturing locations were in malaysia and china. i'm sure you heard about container shortages, covid hitting the dock workers as well. i have never seen a quarter like this where the team just did an incredible job managing all of that and still delivering more product than we had expected, exceeding everybody's expectations, but it has been something else trying to manage all of this. it's just a great testament to our team and it hasn't let up. we can see today, there's lots of component issues and there's still delays but we are getting through all of it. liz: you are promising at least two new product launches per

year. that's ambitious for a company your size. in fact, one is coming out next month. what is it? can you give us any hints at all? >> no, i can't. it will be another great product. we are excited to bring it to the world. i'm happy to come back next month to talk about it when we bring it out. liz: invitation is standing. okay. let me put it this way because i'm a weasel when it comes to trying to get something out of it. who might be most threatened by it? you've got the smart speaker companies where you are talking about the echo which of course, whether it's google, alexa, apple home, is it at a lower price point than some of your current products? >> you can start today at $169, you can get started at a pretty attractive price point. we work with all those players. we support all their services. it's what makes us unique. the way we think about our products is as a portfolio, making sure we are bringing new things out that really reach and contribute to the system we have developed, because as you saw

this quarter, we had a record number of our existing customers come back and add another sonos product to their system, not replace or upgrade but rather, add one. that is so powerful. that's what we always think about. what else do our customers need and want. we don't get wrapped up in who should be threatened. we focus mostly on what do customers need, what do we think will be something that will be appealing to them not only if they are at home, but as they start to go outside the home. liz: you saw yesterday disney reported unbelievable disney plus streaming numbers. they have gone from this time last year, 25 million now to 95 million. with people staying at home and binge watching everything, all three seasons of cobrakaiin one weekend. what kind of longer term bump will streaming be giving your home theater business and your general business overall? >> yeah, we did actually a promotion with disney plus and

the mandalorian over the holiday period. that was a huge tail wind to our business as well. we think there's going to be continued demand for people that want to have better -- a better experience at home, right. we have seen a huge upgrade cycle in televisions. we are seeing record sales of our sound bars and subs because they want to create a theater in the home. i think we will see more and more people doing this even as we open back up. i think people want that quality. they want that experience at home. that benefits us. liz: well, we are a big customer, i tell you. i can see them all in the ceilings here. your products are not cheap, of course. what's your plan to get the millenial crowd what they want right now? boomers, let's face it, have more money, certainly, but you talk about $169 as an entry price point, but is there something else you could do to attract that market? >> yeah, you know what we started to do, is partnerships. two years ago, we launched our first partnership with ikea so

we worked together to collaborate on less expensive speakers. you can get in for $99 and they work within the ecosystem. so if you want to have one of our products and put one of the ikea products, you can do that. we will have more ikea products together this year. that's been an interesting way to reach a lot more people. i think they have, you know, four billion people go through their stores a year. it's incredible. so that's been a great way to introduce people to our brand and bring them in. so look for us to consider more partnerships that really broaden the reach of what sonos does and offers. liz: every smart hardware maker gets into patent fights. you guys are taking on a goliath. you filed something against google for forgive me, i think it's ten patents. one against the international trade commission starts in ten days. how do you see this litigation ending? >> i think we are very confident, we invented this category. the reason we filed patents is we knew some of those goliaths

would want to come in and get a piece of this. we have 1500 people that work very, very hard to create and invent the best products out there, and we want to make sure if somebody else is going to infringe on what we have invented, that we are being paid for it or they are not producing those products. we are very excited to get into the hearing. the preliminary decision should be available in early may. liz: early may. we are looking forward to that. we will see what happens. come back with the new product launch. thank you so much. patric spence. disney stocks seeing more twists and turns than marvel's wanda vision. disney hitting a new record after adding 21 million new disney plus subscribers in the latest quarter. disney plus subs just under the 95 million mark, as we mentioned, but the record glow turning from green to red right now during the day after tnt

all-star nathanson went against the grain, cutting its price target on the magic kingdom to $175 a share. right now, shares stand at $187.41. take a look at shares of virgin galactic. apparently all it takes to shave a couple percentage points, 8, in fact, at the moment, off the stock is a sub orbital test flight schedule change. the company announced this morning it was pushing its flight test originally scheduled for i believe tomorrow to allow more time for technical checks. still no update on when the new flight test will be. virgin galactic pulling back by $5.32 to $54.09. let's flip it to affirm. affirm stock slipping about 9.25% following its first earnings report since its ipo. shares falling even after the payment installment firm topped estimates due to weaker sales volume forecasts for the current quarter. and the case of mistaken identity strikes again.

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liz: we told you yesterday the white house has snagged 200 million more covid vaccine doses. the effort to get them out to americans now extending to major retail pharmacy chains while making sure underserved communities are able to get to those vaccination sites. to jeff flock at the walgreens on the south side of chicago where today, they began the inoculations. jeff? reporter: one of the underserved communities, and these stretch all across the country. they're not just cities but underserved communities, communities of color, they have been a little slower to get the vaccine for a number of reasons, some of it, you know, just having to do with where they live and their lack of ability to get the technology to make an appointment, and some vaccination concerns. the black community, for

example, if you look, associated press has been looking at this, black community in north carolina, makes up 22% of the population. only 11% of the vaccinations. one community, 68% of the population, 82% of the vaccinations. a.p. says this is the case all across the country. so uber has stepped in, offering ten million free rides to those who don't otherwise have one to get to a location like this one, the walgreens here, where they are now handing out the vaccines. as i said, that hesitation on the part of particularly the black community given some of the things that have happened in the past, the tuskegee syphilis experiment where people were experimented on without their knowledge, there's a hesitance in the black community. it's where the chicago urban league is stepping in to try and address that. listen. >> we have had black scientists, black physicians at the table

from the onset of this disease and in trying to address this disease, and we are rolling out the vaccine with the black community in mind. reporter: very important. when you talk about vaccine either deniers or people that are concerned, it's not just -- it's across all kind of lines. i will leave you with these walgreens and rite-aid and walmart, people that are participating in this vaccination ramp-up, take a look at their stock since the pandemic started. walgreens is up 4.5%. i think cvs, up 16%. walmart is up 24%. in the midst of this pandemic. liz? liz: jeff, thank you very much. jeff flock in nice and warm, happy palm tree area of south side of chicago.

we have breaking news, folks. the cdc says u.s. schools can reopen to kids in the classroom if they follow new safety guidelines that just were issued in the last hour. the guidelines include what we already know, students and teachers masked at all times, maintaining social distancing of at least six feet plus proper hand washing, cleaning of facilities, but the new part of this is big data. they say it's a must to use contact tracing and quarantines to reduce the risk of transmission, but as new strains pop up around the globe and arrive here in the u.s., that's where medical device giant becton dickinson steps in. the company has its testing in place in the delaware school system and others, and plans to step in. the ceo tom polen joins us in a fox business exclusive. tom, welcome. let's get right to your reaction to the new cdc school safety guidelines. what do you think? >> i think it's great news. having school-age kids myself, the importance of getting kids

together, having that interaction, the ability to learn in person, it makes a big difference. obviously we are focused on the providing the testing to make sure that's done safely. liz: talk about how your testing in the delaware school system is working. i know you are in other schools as well. >> yes. we have a very simple hand-held digital reader and you take a swab, run the sample, put it in the reader and it immediately would tell the results plus or minus on the screen. very portable system. i think that's really important as you go into environments that don't have trained laboratory professionals. it's making it very simple. they don't want to have to interpret there is a line there or not on a manual product that was designed for professionals. but making this digital technology that tells the answer right away, takes -- provides them comfort that they are given the right answer and actually utilizing this system, upload the information to the cloud so

that the school can track who is being tested, what are their results, making it simple for the teacher so they can focus on teaching, not on testing. liz: that is exactly what every school system in america needs. have you talked to the biden administration about getting these out there to every public school system? >> we have had discussions with the biden administration. i think they have made testing a priority, even before they took office, and i think we are seeing the results of that focus beginning to emerge, obviously much more still to go and we look forward to partnering with the administration in that. liz: you've got a test that is a little bit more i guess detailed and involves waiting for a day or two for the results. this is the one that can actually detect both the uk strain and the south african strain, correct? where does that stand in getting widespread adoption? >> so actually, we believe this

test also detects those strains. the rapid test at point of care. we do have a system that's a pcr based platform that's meant more for hospitals. we actually just got approval and launch, we announced this morning that we are releasing a combination test that detects flu and covid, including the two strains that you mentioned. that test takes more like two hours and is more appropriate for patients in a hospital setting. we do think that particularly as we go into next year, the importance of having tests that detect both flu and covid will be increasingly important. this year, there's not much flu. if you have flu-like symptoms, unfortunately, covid is the first thing that comes to people's mind. we hope with vaccination and the continued reduction of covid incident rates in the future, most of those types of symptoms will be associated with the flu, but you will still want to rule out that it's not covid and having those combination tests will be important. that's what we actually just announced we are offering this morning is a combination test.

liz: well, good. emergency use authorization. we are thrilled about that. tom, finally, we just talked to the sonos ceo. there are all kinds of supply shortages, particularly, this is a global issue, semiconductors, microchip supply problems. you guys are in smart devices, in hospitals, medical situations as well. what kind of experience are you having with the chip supply? >> we are fortunate that we have a very strong supply chain. we constantly are looking at building redundancy within that supply chain. to your point, 90% of all patients who end up in a hospital will be touched by one of our devices and that includes some of our smart devices like infusion pump and others. we have been able to maintain supply of those products throughout the last year and continuing on today. something we've got our eye on but we are managing through. liz: okay. talk to the sonos ceo. maybe you can help him.

actually, they finally got it back up but it appears the biden administration is making it a big priority to get the semiconductor world much more open. thank you so much. tom polen of becton dickinson. we'll be right back.

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the south side of chicago. she credits her mom's wardrobe for sparking her love of fashion. >> my mom is a shoe-a-holic. i would play in her college all day. >> in college, she studied international relations but spent her free time teaching her self how to design shoes. >> i decided i wanted to do it on my own because that's the way that felt the most right. >> during her junior year, determined to learn how to compete in the luxury shoe market, reynolds packed her bags for milan to find a manufacturer willing to bring her dreams to life. tell me about the moment when that first pair of shoes was actually a reality in your hand. >> they take you to this back room and they have like maybe six pairs of shoes, six pairs of my sketches laid out on the table. i just like can't believe it. >> by her senior year, her brand, kendall miles designs, was ready to launch. her graduation party doubled as a shoe launch party, earning her $17,000 in sales.

>> that was my first event. from there, it was just upward. >> reynolds caught the eye of david asale, the owner of madison boutique, one of the first to agree to sell her shoes. >> when i saw her collection, i was very -- i could see they were feminine shoes a woman could wear ten years before i saw the collection. >> today, everyone from rihanna to haley bieber to cardi b sport her kicks. where do you see kendall mile designs in, say, five years? >> i see kendall miles designs as the first mainstream black female-owned luxury footwear brand that the world has ever seen. liz: wow. while luxury sales as a whole have struggled during the pandemic, kendall says her e-commerce sales are up 150%. to see more great stories like this, head to

foxnews.com/americatogether. the auto world is already doing it but now one of the biggest signs yet that big oil is shifting gears, signaling a potential end of the era of pumping gasoline. the stocks you should be selling and more importantly, plugging into on this 180. closing bell ringing in 30 minutes. the dow is down 32. russell is lower as well. but the s&p is up 6. the nasdaq inching toward new record closes. we'll be right back. don't go away.

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like gasoline and diesel by 55% over the next decade, but at the same time, shell said it will ramp up and roll out thousands of ev charging stations and double the amount of electricity it sells. the stock is jumping nearly 3%. did big oil just telegraph the end of old time gas stations and if so, how can investors pump up their portfolios? to our floor show. phil flynn from the price futures group and oppenheimer's colin rush who follows all things clean tech and electric vehicles. colin, this seems like a big deal. it almost seems like a big signal that shell is saying you know what, we see the future and we are starting to move now. >> i think it is a big deal. we've got over 1500 major corporations that have committed to net zero by 2040. they represent about $25 trillion in market cap. the challenge that all those companies have is not just their own operation but their entire supply chain transitioning over to net zero. if you look at the implications

for some of the leaders, moving towards net zero, there's a massive amount of work throughout the entire economy to transition over and it's not just fuel, it's also infrastructure. so we are looking at a wholesale change in both the fuel and infrastructure markets moving towards net zero and i think shell is acknowledging that. liz: well, you know, you could look at the blink charging stations and you could look at some of these other publicly traded stocks that involve that, but you have to give me a sense of what oppenheimer and you see as opportunities for people's portfolios. >> yeah. there's a lot going on right now. on the infrastructure side, we still very much like next era energy partners. they own and operate power assets. we are bullish on a hydrogen platform, we are very bullish on what's going on in residential solar in a number of names,

enth, and on the ev side, we have been bullish on tesla as a real leader in the technology platform, on the battery side, but now moving into autonomy and moving into some of the infrastructure needs we are going to see there with communications via elon's portfolio. the other name i would point out is trimble, in an efficiency play. a company leveraged to infrastructure and around communications. there's a lot to work with here and some very, very good companies. liz: what does this mean, phil, for big oil? because pursuing very environmentally challenging drilling in areas that are controversial, whether it's the arctic or the canadian sands, you look at that and say this is obviously expensive, it's environmentally challenging, et cetera. what does this really mean for the gas stations and the sort of soup-to-nuts integrated oil

companies? >> it probably means they will end up making a lot more money but not because they are doing anything smart, because they are making some very bad decisions. usually these energy companies will make money when oil prices soar. i think they are making some very rash decisions about the future of the transition that we're not ready for, and we're not going to be ready for for some time. i don't think they are thinking this through. you and i have been covering this stuff for years, and we have seen, we have been through peak oil, now we are going through peak demand, now we are seeing peak production. every one of those predictions in history have been wrong, right? and -- liz: except that, let me jump in, except that we are now seeing names like general motors saying we'll have 30evs by 2025. and to colin's point, this is almost a sea change or that pivot, the start of a pivot, that we have all been hearing about for decades but you know,

now we are seeing. >> yeah. but you know, the thing is, they don't think it through to the next degree. how are we going to charge millions of evs? where's the power going to come from? look at electricity prices today. in texas, with the cold front, they're at $2,000 a metric btu today or megawatt. record-high prices now, can you imagine if we charge 10,000evs? there are billions of dollars that have to be spent for this transition and i think to think we are going to see such a dramatic drop, listen, evs are part of the solution, but it's not the whole thing. liz: colin, what about that? >> i think it's not going to happen overnight. i agree with that. i also point to those power prices being related to the polar vortex happening right now and the demand there. if we look at the power infrastructure in the u.s. and europe, being at 42% utilization rate, there's a lot of capacity

that can move into the ev space and the transportation space very quickly. so i agree that we are going to see kind of a lumpy transition over the long time so there is going to be some short-term price pressure higher on some of these commodities, as capacity comes off, but over time, we are going to see the transition happen and it's going to make some very good waves. i think investors are ready for it now. investors are looking for ideas, they are capitalizing on these companies with a lot of technology. that's moving into the market and we will see that money get spent on accelerating the transition. liz: yeah. it looks like evolution which is always very slow but we are watching it happen. colin, phil, great to have you. thank you so much for weighing in on this. by the way, don't forget to check out my morning minute on tiktok. we have all your overnight headlines, monday through friday mornings. follow me at redfoxliz on tiktok. more changes may be coming to the white house as president

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robinhood/reddit trading frenzy. everyone is talking about who is coming on the witness list. it could come today or could come monday. it's being finalized as we speak. again, some of the names have been bandied about by staff members. staff members have told this to various sources i have, the final say obviously is up to committee members led by maxine waters of the house financial services committee. i have seen these witness lists change at the last minute but names, you know, are going to be pretty interesting if this is who they call. ken griffin of citadel, gabe plotkin of melvin capital, remember, it was one of the funds that almost went under on the short squeeze. steve huffman of reddit, which was obviously at the center of the short squeeze. obviously robinhood is the app, free trading app, at the center of this as well. and a reddit blogger, i don't know the name of the person, it might be the guy everybody talks about being the famous one, it

might be someone else, wait for the final list. that's coming. could come today for all i know. could come monday. but it's coming down the pike. back to what lydia reported earlier today, fascinating developments here, joe biden is going to take a special look at tech. i know everybody is looking at tech, the trump administration had doj breathing down their throats, he was tweeting about bias on the tech company side. the biden administration is taking a different tack. obviously bias is not something he's worried about. tech companies are generally nicer to democrats and joe biden is a democrat. but what he is going to look at, he's going to create several jobs, from what i understand, senior staff positions inside the white house that are going to be devoted to tech, at least that's what our wall street sources who have very close ties with the biden administration, are talking about. that's what they are discussing.

various roles where it would be essentially kind of like a task force. now, the biden people have not commented on this. we have reached out to them and again, it's in the talking stage, but from what is being discussed broadly, is that these people would have some impact on regulation or the development of regulation. they would have some impact on policy, particularly, i keep hearing 5g would be something they are very interested in. how do we compete against china with 5g. you know, the nationalized 5g, that's always been something out there that would put companies that have already spent money at a disadvantage right now, if they are essentially competing with the government on 5g. that would put at & t, verizon, all the names you know, t-mobile, at a big-time disadvantage. you know, so that's one aspect. the other aspect is regulation. i also understand, at least the way these sources are telling lydia, this is not in conflict

with the doj investigation on google. that runs separately. the justice department is apparently a chinese wall. chinese walls are always prettyamorphous. that's what we are being told, that investigation will go on regardless of what's going on here. so that's what we know right now. it's going to be very interesting to see how biden addresses big tech. obviously the companies themselves are generally considered politically more democratic, yet a lot of democrats joined republicans, this is like where you see crossover, on the worry about tech companies being too big and intrusive. elizabeth warren and donald trump have something in common in some of their comments about amazon and apple and the impact of big tech on our lives and intrusiveness on our lives. it will be interesting how these folks straddle, if they go that way. in all likelihood, basically we are hearing there's a good

chance they will. liz, back to you. liz: charlie, good stuff. thank you very much. charlie gasparino. yeah, the dow has now turned positive. by one point. but we'll take it. ten minutes to go. pro athletes strike bigger and bigger multi-million dollar contracts, the man who tells many of them where to put their money is joining us next. with the exact stock names he says he's recommending they buy. maybe you should, too. find out. we'll be right back on "the claman countdown."

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liz: okay. four minutes left before the closing bell rings. markets are on pace for their second straight week of gains, but folks, s&p just hit an all-time high. nasdaq, any gain, we are there right now. all three major averages on pace for record closes. the dow only needs seven points. we are up 26. to ashley webster with this week's biggest leaders and also

the laggards. ash? ashley: that's right. we are going to focus on the s&p, liz. it's funny, it's been a muted week of trading but any gain in this record-breaking environment means another record. let's look at the s&p winners, if we can. twitter. twitter has been on fire. i was just looking at the numbers. month to date, up 42%. up 26% this week. twitter up 84% in the last 52 weeks. illuminaup 82% this year. that's a gene sequencing company, getting all sorts of analyst love. that's helped push the stock higher. zebra tech corporation had a blowout fourth quarter earnings. that stock also up 17% on the week. let's take a look at some of the losers, if we may. been a tough week, t.a.p. or moulson coors brewing company down 10%, nearly five bucks at

$44. and newell brands, they make sharpie pens, down 7.5% for the week at $24.14. those are the laggards. there are nice winners, especially twitter. liz: yes, i know those sharpie pens. their ink is indelible. tell my kids. ash, thank you. have a good weekend. with more and more $100 million plus contracts pumping up their bank accounts, pro athletes are looking for ways not just to maintain but also to grow their wealth. aren't we all? our "countdown" closer joe mcclain is here to tell us exactly where he's telling his pro athlete clients where to invest. pro athletes are interesting, because you know, they have a very short shelf life for their careers due to injuries and things like that, but they really would like to see growth and fast. what kind of advice are you giving them? >> it's a good point. great to be back. the old adage we want to focus on is prosperity is a process,

so you can't microwave your returns and try to get quick fixes and make your money grow faster. a security bucket is always critical for us. always have at least six months' worth of fixed costs to meet, then we get to talk about the growth bucket. for a lot of our young clients, they recognize technology as being one of the leading opportunities and it's something they now want to save for so they can lean into the technology space. liz: let's talk about specific names here. you could break it out, i guess, to both security and fintech, financial technology. >> that's right. crowdstrike is an area of stock we like, and it is the old adage. if we are not unwilling to own it for five years, we don't want to own it for five days. cybersecurity is here to stay. the work-at-home, that is something that's going to be sustainable. every ceo we talked to, they are going to build spaces for people to come and meet but at the end of the day, everyone will go back home and work. so cybersecurity and a stock

like crowdstrike we think is here to stay. paypal, we believe them when they say they are targeting 750 million users in the future, up from about 377 million. disney has been a play, i know you talked about it on the show, they have really revolutionized the media space and streaming content, but they also have the great hedge and for my young kids, we can't wait to get back to disneyland. that time will come again. the fact they have streaming content growth and the ability for people to go back to the cruise lines and theme parks is something you want to hold on to for the long term. liz: can we go back to paypal for a second? they are going to close out this trading session with a bigger market valuation than mastercard. this is a high growth area. they are, of course, now making news by saying they will deal in bitcoin, et cetera. is it sort of that you're looking at this kind of financial technology and saying paypal's the one that checks so many of these boxes versus just the toll road companies like

mastercard and visa? >> yeah, they have always, when they got into the space, they had the most flexibility, probably the biggest innovators. you see paypal jumping into all kinds of other businesses. they seem to be able to pivot faster than anybody else and it's a trusted source now for everybody, especially anybody in an >> liz: you've got to this time we are about to see all-time record closes again for the dow, s&p, and nasdac. market looking a little over heated to you, or is this just a new normal? >> it is, you kind of have to stay in the game and play with the momentum, but at the end of the day, you know, since the new president's election wie were up 20% there will be a pullback, we'll just be ready for it and we will be excited. >> liz: yeah, just be ready for it, have your shopping list ready folks things are cheaper when there's a pullback.

joe it's great to have you joe mclean, we've got the fireworks because it is record for the dow , s&p and nasdac powering to new closing highs that'll do it for the ""claman countdown"" guys it's the weekend have a good one, i'll see you monday. connell: well after a record setting week on wall street and this is a very strong finish to it here in the last few minutes as stocks add to their records, on stimulus hopes and vaccine opt optimism but also this afternoon the cdc is showing a roadmap they say will be in place to safely reopen school, get children back in the classroom around the country but first the numbers at the close as we close around the highs, the dow looked like it was touch and go and would set a record it needed a seven point gain up 28, so that was a nice finish the s&p 500, the nasdac just needed to be up to be in record territory and they're both up, the s&p by 18.5 points the nasdac by half a percent nearly 70 point