at delta and united the boat was roughly two to one in favor with just over four thousand ballots cast from the forty seven hundred eligible pilots l.p.s. says that while they start forming committees to. go shape the airlines first collective bargaining agreement their newest members are immediately entitled to

at delta and united the boat was roughly two to one in favor with just over four thousand ballots cast from the forty seven hundred eligible pilots p.a. says that while they start forming committees to negotiate the airlines first collective bargaining agreement their newest members are immediately entitled to union medical advisers and insurance benefits. and other labor news workers supply is getting so tight in the rail sector that competitors union pacific pick and b n.s.f. railway are both offering hiring bonuses as high as twenty five thousand dollars almost brassica based union pacific is offering signing bonuses up to fifteen thousand dollars for diesel mechanics twenty thousand for members of the train crew and twenty five thousand for diesel electric according to the lincoln star lincoln journal star aspiring diesel electricians can get ten thousand dollars for joining the apprenticeship for that position the wall street journal says that union pacific and b n.s.f. planned to hire a total of four thousand new workers this year to help them ease congestion while the rail syste

at delta and united the boat was roughly two to one in favor with just over four thousand ballots cast from the forty seven hundred eligible pilots p.a. says that while they start forming committees to negotiate the airlines first collective bargaining agreement their newest members are immediately entitled to union medical advisors and insurance benefits. and other labor news workers supply is getting so tight in the rail sector that competitors union pacific and b.n. s.f. railway are both offering hiring bonuses as high as twenty five thousand dollars almost brasco based union pacific is offering signing bonuses up to fifteen thousand dollars for diesel mechanics twenty thousand for members of the train crew and twenty five thousand for diesel electric according to the lincoln star lincoln journal star aspiring diesel electricians can get ten thousand dollars for joining the apprenticeship for that position the wall street journal says that union pacific and b n.s.f. planned to hire a total of four thousand new workers this year to help them ease congestion while the rail system is s

it's still in development and will likely take a few years to hit the market. >>> delta, united and alaska are the top three airlines for on time arrivals in february, this according to the department of transportation. delta, united and hawaiian had the lowest rate of cancellations. researchers say airlines service was better across the board for passengers. complaints were down almost 28% compared to the month before. >>> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. it's 4:55 on this friday. at 7:00, nothing measurable at our reporting stations. there's a chance along the higher elevations of a sprinkle or two this morning. and through the afternoon hours pretty much nothing. look what happens tonight when the cold front sweeps through. we could wake up tomorrow to dampness, a couple hundreds of an inch of rain. most of the wet weather up north near ukiah. we'll have another chance of scattered light rain sunday. don't cancel any plans. damp from time to time. >>> we are looking at friday light volumes almost all the way around. we have a tiny bit of red out of

delta and united have introduced more changes. >>> the duchess of cambridge kate middleton has given birth to her third child, she and prince william welcomed their baby boy this morning. benjamin hall has more on the royal berth from london. >> it is a boy. thousands of royal fans in england and around the world celebrating along with kate and william. welcoming their third child on monday an eight pound seven ounce baby boy who is now fifth in line to the throne behind prince charles, his father william and most notably his siblings george and charlotte. >> he will not step in front of princess charlotte in the line of succession. as would have been the case until recently. that would be the first time that happened. >> de 36-year-old duchess and her husband traveled to the private wing of st. mary's hospital with huge crowds gathered outside after the palace announced she was in labor. the newest member of the family shares a birthday with shakespeare and was born on st. george's day a national holiday. fans gathered outside of the hospital and they are excited to share their good

the test is still in development and will likely take a few years to hit the market. >>> delta, unitedand alaska are the top three airlines for on time performance in february according to the department of transportation. delta, united and hawaiian had the lowest rate of cancellation. research says airline service was better across the board for passengers. complaints were down almost 28% compared to the month before. >> taking a look at the roads here this morning. we do still have our traffic alert inside the caldecott tunnel eastbound 24, still trying to clean up a rollover crash that was at one point fully blocking bore number one, now it's blocking one of those two lanes in bore one and then the second bore is open. not blocking much. we or not seeing too much of a delay through that area. eastbound 80 we have a two-vehicle crash blocking the left lane. we do have about a ten-minute delay approaching that. i know that is typically another light route this time of day. heading to the south bay, not seeing much on the traffic camera, southbound 280 to highway 17 connector, in san j

and on weekends, the price actually goes down. >>> meanwhile, major u.s. airlines may add flights to cuba after some carriers dropped service to the capital. they are pr posing the routes go to delta, united, and jet blue. >>> billionaire richard branson has purchased the hard rock hotel and casino in las vegas. the property will be rebranded over the next several months as virgin hotels, las vegas. there are about 1500 rooms and suites. it will remain open during renovations which are expected to be cleated by the end of -- completed by the end of 2019. the website of toys r us has shut down. this is the message you get. the brick and mortar stores are open. the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy last september. >>> thousands of adults and children visited the white house today to participate in the 140th white house easter egg roll. >> one of the biggest social events of the year. president trump and the first lady were there to welcome the families. we have more from the white house. >> reporter: children sporting their sunday best gathered at the white house monday morning to carry on an annual tradition, rolling easter eggs across the white house lawn. >> not what i expected at

the same time i think that you know southwest will get through this the way that delta and american airlines and united have gotten through issues before this is not the same kind of a situation as a small carrier with other significant financial problems in the past they have a wonderful reputation of the course of forty seven years and in fact it's better than you were suggesting at the opening of the segment because the incidents that they've had in the past were not passengers on board their planes who suffered as a result of mechanical failures so this really is something unique in the history of the airline when we look at ratings for these airlines whether or not its safety or come predicts cetera and i know you do a lot of those on view from the wing dot com people should go there and check it out but how do they how do they come up with these sorts of ratings gary well so each of the rating systems is going to be different if you're looking at the research that comes out of riddle and wichita state they're looking just at the on time of cancellations if you're looking at you maybe looking at b

staying on the topic of airlines delta, united and alaska were the top three airlines for on time arrivalsfebruary. that's according to the latest numbers from the department of transportation. delta united and hawaiian had the lowest rate of cancellations as well. the research says airline service was better across the board. complaintsy down almost 28% from passengers, compared to the month before. first employers told their workers they shouldn't expect to hang around for a rung career. turn around is fair play. workers are telling employers don't expect to have me very long. a new met life study shows 40% of millennials plan to leave to pursue free lanes opportunities at some point. that's part of a larger group of younger employers. 74% who say they're interested in free lanes work. the study found employees want their work to reflect their values, interests and aspirpgss and the flexibility of free lanesing allows for those kind of opportunities. now i want to hear from you, the "7 on your side" hotline is open monday through friday from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. the telephone numbe

. >> so my issue is i fly delta a lot, and then every now and again i'll fly american or united for places feel like there should be some sort of stock exchange where i could take those united miles, and trade them for delta miles. like right now i bet you there are some of you who you all have like delta miles that you don't use because you are like i'm a spirit airlines person. [ laughter ] i don't know who you are. you made some interesting life choices. [ laughter ] but if i had -- i don't think spirit airlines gives points. i think they just give cigarettes, but -- [ laughter ] i don't know. if i had three cigarettes, i could trade you those three cigarettes for like, i don't know, 40,000 delta miles. that feels like a good trade off. >> seth: that does seem like a good trade off. >> yeah. >> seth: so, you're traveling around, and you are trying to find solutions to problems big and small in this country. what are some of the problems that you have discovered in your travels? >> i mean i think the first one is that delta won't give me -- >> seth: yeah, sure. >> i think that's the firs

it was a three-way tie between delta, united and alaska for best on time arrival rates and fewest cancellations apparently there's a new survey that shows millennials blame baby boomers for ruining their lives. but there's a surprising twist in the survey. >> 51% of millennials say baby boomers made things worse for their generation citing student loans and questionable work future according to a survey. in the survey, most baby boomers agreed with that. >> the tension is rising between the baby boomers. that's pretty fun with the millennials. >> have a nice weekend. >>> 5:40. bill cosby could be heading to prison after being found guilty of sexual assault. we'll hear the reaction from an accuser here in the bay area. >> plus, an nfl prospect is expected to make some history in this week's draft. we'll hear from the central florida star who was born with just one hand. bill cosby has been found guilty. the once beloved actor and comedian >>> good morning. here's a live look at the bay bridge. how's that for a friday view? we have cloud coverage and it's cool. our temperatures this afternoon won

but, by the way, airlines are doing well today trading higher in the wake of delta's results this morning, and delta up 3%, united, southwest, and jetblue rallying too. >> phil lebeau is in atlanta with more on this and fresh comments from the ceo. phil >> reporter: and, i'm note surprised to see that delta is up more than 3%. listen to this susan and research looked at the last five years of earnings reports. if delta beats consensus, the day they beat consensus, the stock is up on average 2.5%. and today it's up more than 3%, and delta beat the street today earning 74 cents a share the company reporting record passenger revenue, even though overall revenue was slightly below estimates, record passenger revenue, pretax margin comes in at 6.9% if there's one area in delta's report that might worry investors, this is it. jet fuel costs up 20% year over year, and this is not just delta watching, but all the airlines when we talked with the ceo this morning, he's not overly concerned yet. >> it doesn't worry us it's been volatile certainly, over time, it's been up, about 25% up year over year basis, and we have to p

and tariffs today. airlines, yesterday we heard from american. yesterday we heard from jetblue. heard from united and delta trying to give upbeat outlooks. yet this group is not coming out of the doldrums. united continental down 4%. american down 4%. couple stories, we're not buying. not believing in airline story at the moment. coupled with the fact you have higher oil prices which weighs on transportation stocks across the board. melissa: they're warning about airspace over syria as well for commercial airlines. that is not big story impacting the stocks connected to syria. nicole, thank you. david: we have jonathan hoenig from capitalist pig hedge fund. a fox news contributor. todd horowitz, the host of bubba trading. markets moving on syria concerns today. >> i mean moving partially on syria concerns but the bottom line the tops are in for now. the markets are going lower. you're seeing pressure in areas that you wouldn't expect. look at rally in gold and bond. there are fear underlying the market. we're headed lower, we'll find support but i don't think for a while. i think we go lower from here. dav

window and you had decompression within the cabin and the wap was sucked out and not just southwest, american airlines united and deltall have very, same exact engine. liz: i always say to my kids, any flight that lands safely is the best flight ever, no matter what nightmare on the ground, or waiting you have to have we have to be grateful to our pilots. >> very true. liz: christina thank you very much. all right we are looking at about 39 minutes before the closing bell rings it sure pays to be an american express shareholder at this hour. look where it stands on the dow 30 right now, top number one poll position, jumping about 7% that's a record high of $102.06 after smashing first quarter earnings estimates. countdown to the closing bell is coming right back with more of my interview with imf managine director christine laguard, and treasury secretary steven mnuchin live from the nations capitol. s. zach! talk to me. it's for the house. i got a job. it's okay. dad took care of us. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body

and produced the documents. they showed, on average, that the airline was nearly 3.5 times more likely to have mid-air breakdowns than american, united, deltaore disturbing are new allegations from the ranks of allegiant's own pilots. their union president, captain daniel wells, says he's concerned that allegiant is trying to gain a competitive cost advantage by softening safety standards adhered to by the major airlines; that pilots are being told to think twice before declaring costly emergencies; and that allegiant's maintenance department tries to talk pilots out of reporting problems with their aircraft, to avoid delays and keep the planes moving. >> wells: what i hear from the allegiant pilots are, they get a call from maintenance control, from-- who is an agent of the company, and says, "you didn't write anything up, did you?" meaning, you didn't notice any maintenance problems on the airplane. and that's a very clear message to send to pilots, that the company is discouraging you from recording maintenance deficiencies. >> kroft: is that legal? >> wells: no, because our captains are required to report any mechanical deficiencies of

and mishandled bags. delta was in second place followed by jetblue, hawaiian and southwest. >>> and a first for the united states senate. senator tammy duckworth of illinois gave birth to a baby girl making her the first senator to give birth while in office. our congratulations to her and little baby maile. >>> when we come back, epic journey inside nasa's critical mission right here on earth. after he threatened to k people in san francisco -- but now, he )s behind bars... next, what set him off and how he was finally caught. we have the exclusive interview. that )s next. >>> finally tonight, let's take a breathtaking journey to one of the most remote places on earth. nasa has a mission at the top of the world that could prove critical to the future of our planet. our jacob soboroff takes us along for the ride. >> reporter: back home in washington, whether or not climate change is real seems to be up for debate but right here 750 miles north of the arctic circle on the sea ice of greenland, there is no debate at all, climate change is real, it's happening and this is ground zero. this is the coldest pla

. >> are you still fully in airlines >> i'm in delta and i'm in american i switched out of united i meant's interesting. when you think about it, they fly half a million passengers a day, right, delta. so you get eight complaints, that sounds like a lot >> pretty incredible >> if you don't come off the plane cruised, you're going to tell the survey 10, 10, 10. >> pretty good >> the best thing ever when you condition people to see the videos over and over again >> i'm happy to be alive. >> i'm on my feet. oh my god, this is a home run. >> there it is >> you're walk off there with your bags and without black eye. >> the screaming it's the screeching screaming that is disturbing >> we should not show. this. >> well, you're showing. >> nightmares, nightmares. >> dealt tax, by the way, delta reiterated their guidance last week valuation is cheap the stock is down i think about 15, 16% from the recent high so i think in the earnings on thursday, it's an interesting play. >> all right speaking of earnings and delta, option traders are betting the airline will actually soar on the back of earnin

assad, this comes at a time we have aggressive leaders like president macron and the conservative like trump who are united. deltao use military strength against the assad regime, and part from it we have seen this rhetoric from the in frustration with russia's involvement in syria but also escalated in the past few weeks. on capitol hill the presidents to me for secretary of state, ci director mike pompeo is facing some difficulty. is not expected to get out of the foreign relations committee, but he is anticipated clear the senate, should mitch mcconnell bypass committee and bring it to a floor vote. scarlet: kevin cirilli from the white house, thank you for that. chemistry can go both ways. julia: it depends on who has the strong handshake. scarlet: it is time for the biggest news stories right now. wells fargo's shareholder meetings tomorrow, and a marches plan in des moines, iowa with labor practices and work with the nra. prosecutors find wells fargo for lloyd abuses and the firm says it will explore to update shareholders on accomplishments to date. the $4.2onment of billion acquisition of a court after th

many companies decided to cut ties like delta, united airlines but a few did not like fedex and wells story there, not so here. >> reporter: today's comb day at ben & jerry's. you can get a free ice cream cone, any flavor you want from noon until 8:00 pm. i have it right here. if you can't make it to ben and jerry's. >> instead. >> you can go to showcase cinema giving away free ben and jerry's cones for lots of flavors. >> 01 wilson. >> for years. >> have some kids. >> i will go kind of healthy and get it in a bowl. america is healthier. >> with that, it is good, the national guard at the southern border, griff jenkins going where no reporter has gone before. >> reporter: it is one of the most porous parts of the country along the rio grande river, one of the first missions of the national guard flying for the border patrol and within seconds we were in hot pursuit. that is coming up next. amanda's mom's appointment just got rescheduled - for today. amanda needs right at home. our customized care plans provide as much - or as little help - as her mom requires. whether it's a ride to t

airlines went against the manufacturer and seeking additional time to inspect these engines, so again this is a cfm-56 engine used in a lot of airlines, united, deltaes and it did cause a crash or an emergency landing, it had one woman who unfortunately passed away from the event due to a traumatic head trauma, essentially what happened is you had shrapnel that broke off and hit inside of the engine and hit the side of the window that crashed and then pressure caused objects to be thrown out of the window including the woman, half of her body flew out and people had to pull her back in so they are investigating and it's going to become mandatory now for these airlines to just check and do inspections regarding the specific engine. neil: all right, christina thank you very very much. what are the odds of something like that happening. >> uh-huh. neil: that poor woman, let's look at the dow down about 149 points big technology sell-off that is also incumbents and the likes of caption despite reporting or labii oblivious to reporting 100 million prime members across the globe, deirdre bolton has more on that, jonathan hoenig as well and today there is

customs and border protection, took a flight from paris to the united states, on that delta flight sheith a delta logo, she saved the apple for later, for the second leg of her trip, u.s. customs and border protection found it and fined her because she is not allowed to bring fruits into the united states. she offered to eat it or throw it out but delta says it was meant to be an in-flight snack and customers have to adhere to border protection policies and requirements, so, of course, the story is an ongoing one but it really was the case of miscommunication across the board here. the stock right now down .1% when you're clocking out. sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable. i can also help with this. does your bed do that? oh... i don't actually talk. though i'm smart enough to. i'm the new sleep number 360 smart bed. let's meet at a sleep number store. we're all under one roof now. congratulations. thank you. how many kids? my two. his three. along with two dogs and jake, our new parrot. that is quite the family. quite a lot of c

delta. i think -- i bought it after united came out to talk about massive increases and it is still okay andacity increases don't effectuate so i'm staying with it. >> jimmy, roku down 21% since january. >> so that hurts and you have to admit, when you've made a mistake, it actually was up about 20% and i should have sold it but i didn't had a great earnings report and the lockup expired last week so seeing some insider selling. >> still sitting in it >> i have a small position but wait for the next earnings report at the end and a may add and i'll tell you when you do. >> will you tell me also >> no. >> let's do the blitz. first up is insight. it is down sharply on pace for the worst day in 12 years. it is cancer drug failed in a phase three study. josh. >> this is like in the godfather when michael said this is the business we have chosen. if you are a single stock risk in the biotech, sometimes a trail goes wrong and you erase huge gains this is the type of name where investors understand the science and give it a few days and see if it will settle out and decide if they want to own more

major carriers like united, delta, alaska airlines cracking down on these guidelines that do not include peacocks apparently. james comey insists he's not a leak or and i said i don't do sneaky things, don't leak, don't do weasel moves. we can argue what a leak is but that is the case. >> could comey be feeling the heat as the inspector general investigated handling of classified information? here to debate is writer for the washington examiner philip whitman, and david more. appreciate it. there's a joke about a peacock and comey. i will start with you. what do you think? the definition of a leak? >> i'm in the leak business and so is every reporter in washington dc and new york city. if someone comes to you and say this information but can't use my name and want to put information in the public square anonymously, that is the definition of a leak. james comey knew what he was doing, maximized it for public affected and i think we shouldn't be arguing semantics, james comey and anyone who wants to defend him should be willing to say what he did the classic definition of a leak. the 20 three different people he is accused of disseminating information

united airlines is still up 4% this year. that is compared to a 10% drop for american airlines and 2.5% drop for delta.oing to be replaced as well. some other news in markets, bond markets are getting a little bit excited because ten year yields are now approaching 3%. this is a level that hasn't been seen in about four years or so and people are saying that the yields are moving higher because expectations are moving higher. the other thing as well is that investors are beginning to expect four hikes is now 40% from just 28% two weeks ago. >> joe manna, koogle's parent company, alphabet has reported a first quarter earnings, shares dipped in value. what are investors concerned about? >> so alphabet beat on both top-line and bottom line if you want to look at the numbers, the profits were up 84% quarter-on-quarter. the revenues came in at $31 billion, of which advertising accounted for about $26 billion. still up 20% year on year. but the stock ended down because there was concern about a revenue slowing in the second quarter and also the announced very heavy expenses on research and development side s

and southwest is best according to the american customer satisfaction indux. alaska is number two. allegiant, a big surprise at number three. american then delta. united not in the top five. san francisco's virgin america is not on that list directly. it's owned by alaska airlines, actually today, today is the last day virgin america will fly as it's own branded airline. virgin was the number one airline on konde nast's list of best american airlines every single year it operated. nine years in a row. so this would be our last excuse to show you this. ♪ >> it is catchy. >> and you can order food and drinks at your seat. >> you can still do that on other airlines but maybe not with the dancing. >> it was a cool airline. >> it really was. sorry to see it go. >> maybe somebody else will bring it. >> why need an airplane to get to the royal wedding. it's less than a month a with a away. we've been checking mail and nothing. >> at the fair mont hotel, they have quite the plan, you can rent the pent house suite spanning the entire eighth floor of the hotel. calling it the prince and princess package. $15,000 credit at tiffany's, private shopping at saka fif

they do say second quarter unit and they are in the midpoint second quarter in their estimate of where they're going to be a earnings-per-share. delta airlines a struggling with oil, it's fuel prices. alix: and how you wind up hedging that in dealing with that going forward as well with margins and all these airlines were supposed to be cutting capacity and all of a sudden it was like no, thanks, we are going to pump capacity into the market. david: they had that tailwind of low fuel prices and it felt really good. alix: so much for corporate constraint. david: it comes back to oil just the way alix said it would. we are joined by marty schenker and we want to start with geopolitics and the risk. on gtd, it'srt average geopolitical risk. since february really, geopolitical risk has been higher than at any point since that big spike before donald trump became president. we are facing a lot of geopolitical risk. it's both china and trade war, but even a hot war. tweets thatd trump perhaps an imminent strike in syria may not be in place. futures jumped on the move. yesterday i said it was not a sure thing donald trump was going to syri

travelers and flight crews somebody getting pulled off of a united airlines flight here were the top three airlines, according to the airline quality report this is all analytical alaska barely edged out deltalue came in number three who lagged in the survey express jet, frontier and spirit came in dead last, according to the authors of the study spirit has a higher complaint rate than the other airlines we reached out to spirit they said yeah, we're bringing our complaint rate down. we think we're making some strides and progressing. >> the other thing i noticed is spirit did well i think on the bag issue. it didn't lose as many bags, phil just because you're thinking the discounts are probably going to do worse on all these measures. >> right. >> that's the whole thing. you're going to get a cheap ticket but not the great -- >> kelly, you know how it works on spirit. you pay if you check that's why most people who fly spirit are not checking a bag. they have fewer bags to handle >> true. that >> said, that said, you were correct. they had the best performance in terms of handling bags >> right, though it makes it easier if it's a smaller number i hadn't thought about that phil, thank you