that was marc chandler, vice president of global currency markets at brown brothers harriman. western banks are already reported to be shutting off credit lines for russian companies. chuck coppola joins us with a report on the malaysian airlines flight 370.. chuck? the malaysian mystery known as flight 370 has fueled a variety of scenarios--from an explosion to perhaps a hijacking or distraught crew member at the controls. that's partly because the malaysia airliner's automated communications system appears to have been working as much as five hours after it left kuala lumpur for beijing, a week ago last saturday it's now believed that the plane crossed into airspace over the indian ocean. the boeing triple-7 was carrying 239-people. in another airline investigation...the faa is looking over a florida bound plane that reportedly blew a tire during takeoff , causing the flight to "bounce" along the runway before screeching to a halt at philadelphia's airport. these pictures, posted on twitter -- reveal the nose gear collapsed on the runway. an investigation is underway to dete

nick colas, the chief market strategist at converge effective and scott clemons, brown brothers harriman. nick we just heard the gdp numbers were worse than we had been expecting. is this a backwards looking number? >> it's a backwards looking number. it base lines our expectations for how q one is progressing. for the weather and its impact, it's useful to see the economy is quite slow you think the economy is worse than the weather is letting on here? there's something else happening? >> this is definitely a grow growth economy. when that happens, we get a lot of pulls and tugs on the economy. it will make it feel like it is slow at the very least choppy. we're in for an entire year like this of kind of slow choppy growth. >> that's not a great thing for the markets or for anybody trying to work in thesement haves. scott, do you agree with that assessment? >> i do. i think this is more of the same. i was surprise the at the preliminary release of the fourth quarter gdp. this doesn't strike me the revision today is particularly negative, mor backing to an economy growing along at a mode

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brzezinski learned that a member of the old astonished, governor harriman, didn't think that someone named brzezinski should occupy a high foreign policy post. so he pinned a feisty little letter, part of which i'm about to read. dear mr. harriman, since you're a blunt man, ma let me say quite bluntly that i do not feel that in her kissinger's background is qualified him are dealing with the middle east, nor do i think that your background as a million capitalists prevent you from dealing intelligence with the soviet communists. [laughter] yours sincerely, zbigniew brzezinski. i hasten to add that they soon reconciled. so while our first goal was to divide weight his career and the second to place it in perspective, our third goal that i tried to emphasize was to publish a book that is readable, mixing their easter's essays with a few stories about him. there is certainly no time your to even mention host of these stories but i will summarize two of them that i particularly like. the first story has to do with the election of 1978 of a polish pope, john paul ii. some of you may remem