, and they say most of the social media media around there about juul comes from third parties, but juulin social media influencers paying them to take a look at the product. >> we captured photos -- >> this is christine at work, and for the last ten years she made her living as a blogger and social media influencer, and one of her most recent jobs is to post positive content about the ecigarette, juul. they reached out to christina in 2017, hoping to target her 57,000 instagram followers. >> if you are a smoker, please let me know your interests in collaboration with juul. >> they are especially susceptible to being influenced. >> they ties exactly where young people live. young people today are on social media. they are on their phones continuously throughout the day looking at social media channels. >> juul's team reached out to me to work together, and we worked on a sponsored post and one instagram post, and their budget was we can offer you $1,000. >> juul declined an on camera interview, but they conceded they collectively paid less than $10,000. >> they are marketing these produc

one of her recent jobs: post positive content about the e-cigarette, juul."they really wanted to appeal to the younger market, and they did!" juul had hired an influencer marketing firm, which reached out to then 35 year old christina in september of 2017 -- hoping to target her 57 thousand instagram followers christina zayas "if you are a smoker, then please let me know if you're interested in a collaboration with juul." christina shared that 5% of her followers are in the 13-17 age range.they are especially susceptible to being influenced, according to stanford researcher dr. robert jackler who's been following juul since early marketing campaigns more than 3 years ago.dr. robert jackler: they advertised exactly where young people live. young people today are on social media. they're on their phones continuously throughout the day looking on social media channels.christina zayas: juul's team reached out to me to work together. we came out with a sponsored post, which is just a blog post and on one instagram post, we came up with a $1000.juul declined an on

. >>> tobacco's investment into juul. the average juul employee just became a millionaire. more news and hot topics. we are expanding to a full hour. we are calling it mi >>> she had been missing since thanksgiving. we have exclusive video of when authorities took him into custody. >> we are in colorado. i want to show you. we are outside the property here. right up there investigators have patrick his fiance went missing on thanksgiving. inve investigators rolled up and cut the lock and went up the road just as patrick was driving down. i don't know if you can see it but there's a blue truck up there. he was coming down to hill. they got him out of the car. they told him to stay put. they put him in handcuffs and right now they are about to take him out of here and take him to the county jail which is just up the road here. let me recap the case for you a little bit. she is a 29-year-old mother that vanished on thanksgiving day. she was last seen at a super market here in colorado about a half hour away. patrick, her fiance police say was the last person to see her on that

juul is on a runway train. they can't be stopped.makes sense that they would want to tap into the new, younger market, perhaps a little too young, some people would say. iny are taking a 35% stake the company and i hear they wanted a lot more than that. they probably couldn't afford it valued juul is so well at this point. shery: that is one of the key questions, should they have been more ambitious on this front? juul will continue to operate independently, and we are seeing threats to the traditional cigarette business. sure altria, i'm went to bat trying to get more of the company, but juul had the upper hand in these negotiations. you take 35% but you will only get three board seats. and they held them in a standstill agreement which means they cannot own more than 35% at any time even if shares of juul are sold to altria, there will be allowed to buy them and will be allowed to sell for at least six years. shery: olivia, thank you so much. quick: i want to take a look at the markets as we had to break. s&p 500 sharply negative.

. >>> a big tobacco company is buying a $13 billion stake in san francisco juul. altria, which produces marlboro cigarettes say it's investment will boost juul's value to $38 billion making it more valuable than ford, delta airlines, or target. julie watts is at the san francisco headquarters with some reaction. >> reporter: the merger between one of the biggest tobacco companies and the biggest maker of e cigarettes, comes just two weeks after the surgeon general declared that e- cigarette use among teenagers is unofficially an epidemic. >> these are some examples of some of the cigarettes. >> reporter: teachers say a new generation is getting hook on -- hooked on these things. a fitting comparison is juul, they are partnering with the makers of marlboro, a deal that concern -- that concerns anti- tobacco efforts. >> all of that muscle philip morris has is going to be available to promote juul. the e-cigarette which is a tracking the most kids. >> reporter: the cdc published evidence that e-cigarette use among high school students grew 80% this year. ironically j

in deal worth $12.8 stake in juul in purchases 35% loser: altria purchases 35% stake in juul in deal$12.8 billion . . . tobacco giant altria purchased a 35 percent stake in e-cigarette maker juul labs, the company announced thursday. the deal, which is worth $12.8 billion, values juul labs at $38 billion. altria, the maker of the marlboro cigarette, is looking for alternative sources of revenue amid the decline in traditional cigarette use. its investment in juul labs - which currently has over 75 percent of all e-cigarette revenue, excluding online sales and sales at specialty shops, according to a wells fargo analysis of nielsen data - is the largest in the company's history. winner: 'aquaman' has already made more money than its production budget, and is looking at a big opening in the us . .. . "aquaman" has already made over $266 million at the international box office, more than its estimated production budget of $160 million. some of the pressure is off the movie as it enters its opening weekend in the us. warner bros. bet that its latest dc comics superhero movie, "aquaman,"

be available to help and protect juul. the e-cigarette. >> e-cigarette use by teens sparked 80 percent this year, but juul says their main mission is to reach adults. >>> tonight bay area investigators have demolished a massive retail crime ring using quote operation wrecking ball. investigators say thieves stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from local shops near union square in san scthrnall over to another crime ring that sold the stolen goods online on the black market. even on the sidewalks of san francisco near un plaza. tonight a dozen suspects are under arrest and police are looking for at least 28 more and not just here. >> we learned the property stolen here in san francisco expanded beyond the neighboring bay area cities as far east as texas, as far north as seattle. >> we hope they catch them and words gets out, again to stay away from our shops and stop stealing us. >> a day after the initial search warrants were served, no one was selling anything at un plaza. >>> and so many people ar

. >> and the big investment into juul. average juul employee just became a millionaire. >> like that. >> yeah. >>> looking outside with abc 7 news now, we are keeping you up to daylight on weather and traffic on your screen throughout the commercial break. so we don't want you to pay yone cent more than you need to for health care. at covered california, you can get health insurance at a lower cost. in fact, enrollees pay an average of $5 per day. see how little it costs to get covered. visit coveredca.com today. >>> good friday morning. hoping for a light commute. the rain, well, it may throw a little bit of a curveball into your plans because it's going to be around during the entire morning commute. eventually makesing its way to the peninsula. into the south bay at the end of the morning commute >> messaging app whatsapp is being used to spread illegal child porn. according to techcrunch, third-party apps for whatsapp groups have groups to trade images. many are currently active. facebook owns whatsapp, it doesn't have

the boost juul got from big tobacco. >> i was in shock. my whole family was in shock. >>> plus, a hit man and a lover conspiring to kill. we're live with new details on an alleged murder for hire case. >>> a sunnyvale woman behind bars tonight accused of hiring a hit man to kill her lover. prosecutors say the motive was money. it was in the form of a hefty life insurance policy. maria medina is live in mountain view tonight with reaction to the arrests. maria? >> reporter: i spoke to the victim's former boss here at passage to india, and she says she's releighed over the arrests -- relieved over the arrests, but also shocked because she had no idea she was talking to a murder suspect. >> i was in shock. my whole famirerter: months ag e lost >> y day i was what happened, who killed him? >> reporter: his body was found in his fremont bedroom shot several times. >> my daughter was crying, and rm the56-year-old. little did they know investigators had labeled the case a murder for hire investigation. >> you don't normally get murder for hire ca

. >> 75% of the market is juul and all of those products in particular contain nicotine. nicotine is uniquely harmful to young and developing brains that can cause learning, attention and memory problems and prime the brain for addiction in the future. >> reporter: the new report comes months after the fda announced a crackdown on teen use. labelling it an epidemic. the agency recently revealing its plan to limit sales of flavored e-cigarettes to teens. both in stores and online. some companies, including blue and juul, have said they're already working to limit underage sales. blue raising the minimum age to buy pods online to 21 across the u.s. juul stopping the sale of certain flavors to retail stores, responding, saying, we must act to solve this problem. >>> recently, san francisco vaping company juul labs came under investigation by the massachusetts attorney general for targeting minors. the fda also reasonable asked juul to provide any documents about the product marketing and research into the health effects of its products. the company has said it is committed t

robert jackler who's been following juul since early marketing campaigns more than 3 years ago.dr.bert jackler: they advertised exactly where young people live. young people today are on social media. they're on their phones continuously throughout the day looking on social media channels.christina zayas: juul's team reached out to me to work together. we came out with a sponsored post, which is just a blog post and on one instagram post, we came up with a $1000.juul declined an on camera interview but conceded it paid "fewer than 10 influencers 28 and up", "who were all smokers or former smokers" and "collectively paid less than $10,000" scott gottleib: "i think it's incumbent upon the companies that are marketing these products to also take steps to try to crack down on the youth use."fda commissioner scott gottleib's concern is that teens are not aware that many e cigs contain high levels of nicotine, which is addictive, particularly harmful to the developing brain, and more likely to lead to traditional cigarette use. nat pop of hln news report since the fda cracked down on juu

. >> juul's team reached out to me to work together, one blog post and one instagram post.u $1,000. >> juul declined an on-camera interview, but conceded it paid ten influencers and collectively paid less than $10,000. >> i think it's incumbent upon companies marketing the products to take steps to try to crack down on youth use. >> scott gottlieb's concern is teens are not aware that many e-cigs contain high levels of nick tear that is addictive, and more likely can lead to traditional nicotine use. >> they seized thousands of documents from juul. >> since the fda cracked down on juul, the company said it ended its social media campaign in the united states. dr. jackler said too little too late. >> turning off juul's own contribution to this at this point doesn't matter because it's become a fab and taken on a live of its own. >> for her part, christina has stopped using juul, and while her instagram post and blog reached more than 5,000 people, she wonders whether it was worth it. >> stepping back, when i saw all these kids smoking it at this festival during the summer tu

f0 juul july. >>> tobacco giant the spending billions for a stake in juul. the parent company of philip morris and the investment in juul comes as more and more are using e-cigarettes. they will include a $2 billion bonus to be split among the 1500 employees. if you do the math on average each employee would receive 1.3 million dollars. the all cash deal puts the value of juul at $38 billion. >>> the mayor is talking about how she wants to use a windfall toward solving the homeless crisis. the money will help the homeless find homes and create more affordable housing. >> we're making it rain in san francisco today. >> san francisco mayor offered details on how to spend a 181 million windfall. the mayor says it should be used to shelter the homeless and create and preserve affordable housing. >> we spend 90.5 million and 90.5 million on homelessness. the mayor says that money would create 1300 new shelter beds. 86 recovery beds and could be used to buy existing properties to keep them affordable and purchasing 900 new affordable housing. one of the residents

altria is looking to juul. the report on wednesday that altria is looking at a 35% stage in juul. the investment gives juul access to the network which is international. juul has come under regulatory scrutiny after teenagers have become addicted to the products. more than 75% of high school aged children have used e-cigarettes. altria invested in cronos group. that is seen as a huge growth area in decades to come. >> that's a scary thing for parents. >>> "early start" continues right now. >> this is a stain on the honor of the united states. >> even the president's closest allies slamming the move to withdrawal u.s. troops from syria. russia, iran and assad regime all in line to benefit. >>> a bill to fund the government passes the senate, but did it include the border wall? >>> the man poised to oversee the mueller probe had harsh words for the investigation a few months ago. >>> and the dow now at the lowest point of the entire year. investors spooked after another rate hike from the fed. we're looking at the worst december since the great depression. good morning. welcome to "

juul said his main mission is to serve adults. they social advertise on social media and have popular flavors for teenagers. >>> uber's first step into self- driving car. >> right now it's like 16-year- old learning how to drive for the first time. >> the project halted after a deadly axon will be different when the cars at the bay area streets. >>> we are kicking off the friday with some rain and also with some fog. we will time it out for you on futurecast and of course the we can forecast coming up. >>> how was the wet weather affecting your commute? details coming up. >>> bay area investigators have been demolished a massive crime ring in operation wrecking ball. authorities say thieves stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from local shops near union square. then they turned it over to another crime ring that sold the stolen goods online on the black market. and on sidewalks in the city. now a dozen suspects are under arrest and police are looking for at least 28 more and not just locally. >> we learned

new details about big tobacctob big investment into juul.oyee will soon become a millionaire. the deal announced by al tri a includes $2 billion in bonuses to employees. that comes down to $1.3 million to each of the 1500 workers. investors will be paid out $150 per share. al tri a is spending $13 billion to buy 35% stake in juul. >>> uber self-driving vehicles is have returned to the streets of san francisco. it's suspending testing in march after one of the company's autonomous vehicles hit and killed a pedestrian. it did a top to bottom review of safety policies. vehicles will now go no faster than 25 miles per hour. they will be operating in what uber calls less challenging environments than before. uber says there will be a human driver in control at all times. >>> abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. that means we are digging into issues that affect our quality of life, like the tech industry. >> to 134 it means new jobs. for others, rising rents. payment processing company square announced a major expansion in oaklan

juul is pure greed. the investors are given an incalculable amount of money. nothing nothing to $20 billion in five years? you think they are thinking about that? greed of course is associated about this. we have to be thoughtful about that. >> i have tried to get juul on the show several times. i hope they hear this, no, no, no, they have to respond. thank you for being abowith us. we will be back in a moment. lin the new service launching monday...that will help you save time. plus: everyone needs a "digital will". do you have one? our responds team will show us why it )s so important. join us monday from 4:30 to 7. >>> before we go i want to mention the cult of the dead cow. we will be back to talk about what that webook is about on a later episode. thanks to my guests and thank you for making us part of your sunday morning. d"comunidad del valle." and welcome to i'm damian trujillo, and today it's all about entertainment, local and national stars on your "comunidad del valle." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo

the deal values san francisco—based juul at $38 billion — more than double its valuation when it raisedly choose non—combustible products over is cigarettes". and now, what‘s trending in the business news this morning. on business insider, state—sponsored chinese hackers infiltrated ibm and hewlett packard enterprise, then stole their clients‘ secrets — according to sources speaking to reuters 0n cnbc — juul employees to split a $2 billion holiday bonus from altria. the investment by the marlboro cigarette firm means a big payout for staff at the vaping firm — the bonus averages out to $1.3 million perjuul employee. the two founders will become billionaires. 0n the wall streetjournal — some global banks break ties with huawei. hsbc and standard chartered won‘t provide the company with any new banking services or funding after deciding it is too high risk and don‘t forget — let is know what you are spotting online — use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. that‘s it for the business briefing this hour, but before we go, here are the markets. fresh political turbulence in washington and renewed fe

it is spending nearly $13 billion to buy a 35% stake in juul. it will bring the vl of juul to $38 billion. it is larger than ford, delta airlines or target. they say it will let it prepare for a future where noncombustible products overtake. >>> thousands grounded at a terrible time. the drone incident that could trigger a troop response. >>> and are you having unexplained problems with your wrists? the reason it may be in the palm of your hand. >>> more news, and local hot topics. abc 7 news is expandsing. we are calling it midday live. join us every sometimes bipolar i disorder can make you feel like you have no limits. but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on... ...shaky ground. help take control by asking your healthcare provider about vraylar. vraylar treats acute mania of bipolar i disorder. vraylar significantly reduces overall manic symptoms, and was proven in adults with mixed episodes who have both mania and depression. vraylar should not be used in elderly patients with dementia, due

the government blames juul for a rise in vaping. it made the two who created juul millionaires. it is reportedly worth $38 million and they will pay their employees a bonus of $1 million each. >>> lawmakers at the state capital are alarmed at the increase of e-cigarette use among teens. two senate bills are in the works that would ban the sale of it statewide. it would prohibit them from advertising in a way that appeals to minors, like using cartoons. >>> we first told you about a gofundme account for president trump's border wall. it's raised more than $9 million. it's started by an amputee. there is now a new fund for ladders to get over president trump's wall. so far it's raised more than $45,000 in less than a day. the creators of the ladders account says it's not really about ladders but lifting people up. >>> we're almost at the weekend, aren't we? >> we need a santa forecast. >> yeah, we need to start getting the santa forecast. >> soon, soon. got it on the seven-day forecast. you can see on mobile doppler radar we have showers developing over santa rosa. more details on

>> funny you mention that, this juul deal. out your way not in the social media world. $38 million value. not a control position, no path to control for them, but they're not to the earlier point, not going public they raised $12.8 billion. >> they're selling cigarettes. i have these issues as a mother of a teen, the juul devices, how they're sold and it is nicotine they can't keep pretending it is healthier version of smoking when you see something like this, they're buying a product that's a big marketing market leader it makes sense for them to do this philip morris to do this because they're not in this business >> they're 12 pin 5%, somebody discovered they're misogynist on twitter? >> i didn't know that. >>> as we head to break. stocks at session lows on a possible showdown in d.c. over the border wall and funding bill the dow breaking below 23,000, it's down about 1.5% some of the day's laggards on the nasdaq 100 sma sma smantek, netflix donk there's brushing...and there's oral-b power brushing. oral-b just cleans bette

. >> juul tells abc 7 news it made steps to avoid marketing to teens. last month juul suspended facebook and instagram accounts. >>> scott weiner is trying to get bars to stay open until 4:00 a.m. according to the chronical he plans to reintroduce his bill that would allow alcohol sales past the 2:00 a.m. limit. nine cities would be able toul passed the legislature but governor brown vetoed it. >>> the san jose city council will vet new ground rules for electric scooters. city leaders are aiming to implement new safety regulations to slow the speed of scooters in high traffic areas. the city wants to keep scooters off sidewalks. more than 1,700 of them have been deployed in a downtown areas of san jose just this year. >>> a police program to curb prostitution in the mission district is getting bupushback from sex worker advocates. it is to arrest pimps and johns while offers services to the sex workers on the street. advocates say there has been an increase in sex workers themselves in the mission. it started in august. >>> facebook coo sheryl siion. co

juul labs, which he accuses of marketing to young people. >> 75% of retail sales are of the juul productst is easy to hide, and it delivers a much higher nicotine content. >> reporter: juul is pushing back, saying in a statement, the company "shares a common juul -- goal with the surgeon general and other health regulators, preventing youth from initiating on nicotine. ann dr. adams says there has been a 78% increase in young people using a cigarettes this year. he is calling for a cultural shift. using the same forces, that eventually led to sharp declines in cigarette use. >> reporter: the public health community works really hard to help young people understand that these products are dangerous. we need to do the same thing with the cigarettes. >> reporter: the new study also shows, one meant it -- 1 in 5 high school seniors has tried vaping. the biggest jump in any substance use in an -- and 40 years. steve harrigan, fox news. >>> researchers say the russian operation to influence the 2016 election was much larger than first thought. next, we will speak with the researcher of the stud

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this is bloomberg. ♪ juul deal with all tria just transformed the layout. makes juul more valuable than other closely held companies like airbnb, spacex but still less than uber. more valuable than target, ford, lift. >> it is crazy. this is a company that started selling in 2015 so it is remarkable that the sales have exploded. themselves asd the cure-all to tobacco addiction and now they are aligning themselves to big tobacco. products are on the shelves next to cigarettes. talk about the safety issue. >> this is the real problem. nobody knows because it has not been around long enough. ited on what we now know, doesn't look like a great thing. we do know that they are a lot safer than cigarettes currently because you are not getting the tar burning affect you get with a traditional cigarette. we don't know how the vapor affects the lungs. feelis why a lot of people this is an unconscionable company. some people have gone so far as to call it evil. to get anhave tried expert on the show and you have told us a lot of people don't want to be associated with

products like san francisco bay's juul are >> they can expose you to harmful chemicals in addition toaken steps. >> it cauomes on the troubling stats one cigarette use. >> that's 'cording to the university of michigan's institute for research. >> they say it's the biggest one-year spike in teen substance abuse in 44 years. is abc 7's >> the huge scam is they're promoted as a way to quit, but they actually make it harder. >> reporter: he said products like san francisco bay-based juul are increasingly addictive. its technology makes the smell of secondhand smoke less noticeable. >> by putting acid in there, they maybe it easier to inhale the nicotine so they can deliver a harder hit. >> reporter: new research shows the percentage of 12th graders who say they had vaped neck teen in the past 30 days has nearly doubled. >> this is a very big problem because kids brains are still developing and nicotine literally rewired their brains. >> they've made steps to stop marketing to teens. in november they shut down their facebook and instagram account. san francisco is leading the nation in com

, whether it be at social gatherings and that's when i started to pick up on juuling. >> reporter: hemy money to go smoke. >> reporter: his mother kelly says the honor roll student's grades faltered. his mood darkened. >> he's always had a wonderful, vibrant, happy personality and that changed pretty much overnight. one day he was great and the next day he was totally a different person. >> reporter: luca was among the 1.3 million teens who vape in a year. just this week the surgeon general declaring e-cigarette use an epidemic among young people, all the more troubling because studies show a teen's still developing brain leaves them more vulnerable to addiction. >> kids are coming in just with problems with juuls. that's pretty new for us. >> reporter: "the wall street journal" found that doctors across the country are struggling to help teens fight their e-cigarette addictions. >> what i discovered there aren't many treatment options. there are not many things parents know about how to deal with this. >> reporter: dr. sharon levy is director of adolescence substance use and addictio

juul has been under government scrutiny.ed e-cigarettes. altria invested in the canadian company, but if this means juul will grow more? that is worrisome. >> you want to make it harder to buy for teens. we'll be right back. if you have psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats moderate to severe plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla,75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. you'll earn unlimited double camiles on every purchase,. every

the majority of children using juul products, t most popular type of vaping product, don't think they are using a nicotine-containing product. laura: they don't, and yet we learned that every juul contains as much nitine as regular cigarettes. should the sales be banned altogether? dr. murthy: what is important in -- is learning what is driving these sales. the most common reasohethey cite islavors. why do we allow e-carettes and flavored e-cigarettes in particular to be sold to kids? this issue has been taken up by the fda in thenited states. they are taking steps to restrict the sale of e-cigarettes to kids. but we are not moving nearly fast enough. if we cannot protect kids from using e-cigarettes, which the last few yearsavshown we have not done a good job of, we need to think about a wholesale ban or we need to say that e-cigarettes, if they're going to be used for cessation, should be prescription devices prescribed by doctors or health care professionals.la a: would you favor a ban on e-cigarettes? dr. murthy: i would favor a ban on flavors. also, if we cannot get the use rates

this deal puts the value of juul at $38 billion.arger than ford motor company and delta airlines. >>> san francisco bay square has signed a lease to move into the old sears building in oakland. the payment processing company signed the lease today and one of the largest real estate deals in oakland history. the move will make square the largest tech company in oakland. a first-floor public marketplace with restaurants and stores is also planned for the building. it is located at 19th and broadway in the heart of the uptown district. track more than 1400 breweries nationwide are taking part in the fundraiser to benefit survivors of the camp fire. it started as an idea from sierra nevada brewing. they created resilience ipa and shared the recipe with any brewery that agreed to donate 100% of the profit from the beer to camp fire victims. 1400 breweries across the country agreed and tonight brewers are having resilience parties. as promised, all of the money they raise will go to the people impacted by the fire. >> i predict the beer w

all juul products in particular contain nicotine.young and developing brains. it can cause learning, attention and memory problems and prime the brain for addiction in the future. >> reporte the report comes months after a fda announced a crackdown on teen use labeling a ploon to limital ses of flavored e-cigarettes to teens both in stores and online. some companies, including blu and juul, said they e already working to limit underage sales. blu raising the image age to buy pods online of 21 across the u.s. ofl stopping the sale certain flavors to retail stores, responding to the latest study saying we must act to solve this problem. so a lot of the teens said tsot al media played a really big role in their friends' dec to vape. companies like juul are no longer actively using their facebook and instagram pages to market the products. >> the government aears toe trying to rei in this thing in. are schools doing anything? >> they are. one school in connecticut is holding information sessions ebcause parents and staff don mbers don't

altria is in talks with ecigarette company juul.hares of aphria plummeting 23% in the regular session after quintessential management and hindenburg research called the company a black hole it opened a short position on the stock alleging a network of insiders at the company diverts money away from shareholders into investments aphria calls those allegations false and defamatory you may remember that aphria was reported to have been in talks with altria earlier this year. back to you. >> thank you very much, aditi roy. for more on what an altri altria cronos deal, let's bring in chris growey. thank you for joining us. >> thank you thanks for having me. >> what's your view of an altria acquisition of these companies i ask you this, the size of the companies is different tilray is closer to 10 billion when it comes into making a foray into cannabis, these are very different size bets. >> no doubt, and while the company can afford it with that balance sheet they have with plenty of capacity to buy the business, i think that altria give

the company said it is committed to preventing underage use of juul. >>> san jose oakland airport is celebrating a milestone, it leapfrogged to become the second busiest airport behind fothat breaks the airport's previous record set before 9/11. annual passenger totals by half a million. sjc plans to recognize one lucky arriving passenger tomorrow, a >>> spacex's falcon 9 just about to launch from johnson space center in cape canaveral, florida. we're showing you live pictures at the top of our 6:30 hour but moments ago it canceled, aborted due to problems with the liquid oxygen system. today's window just passed so there will be another attempt tomorrow. it will mark the company's first ever national security mission as spacex sends a gps satellite into orbit. >>> it is 6:37. i've been keeping a close eye on the roads for you. we'll start with the morning looking good and now delays along southbound and northbound 880 as well but we have a sig s unfortunately a crash about an hour ago, westbound 80. that has been turned into a sig alert because lanes four and five remain blocked. if

juul productnitine.developing brains that can cause learning, attention and memory problems. and it can prime the brain for addiction in the future. >> reporter: the new report comes months after the fda announced a crackdown of teen use, labeling it an epidemic. the agency revealing a plan to limit sales of e-cigarettes to teens in stores and online. some companies, including blu and juul, say they are working to limit underage sales. blu, limiting purchase online across the u.s. juul, stopping sales to certain retail stores. part ofayin we must act to solve this problem. a lot of teens said social media played a big decision in vaping. that's why the companies are no longer using facebook to market their products. >> the government appears to be trying to rein this in. are schools doing anything? >> reporter: they are. one school said they are holding information sessions. the staff members don't know what to look out for. the kids said the devices look so small. it's easier to hide. and they can't tal

rea in the 2.5%, alt red after the announcement of a stake in juul.he company, $12.8 billion. altria low get a third of the seats on the board pending antitrust approval. this company is now valued at $38 billion, nearly twice what it was a few months ago. this represents another bet toward the decline in smoking. tobacco products less and less popular in the u.s. they are shifting to higher growth opportunities. they have an investment in kronos and they are making a calculated bet on vaping. it is growing exponentially. 2022,ing to data, through expected 20% annual growth rate. shareepresents 10% market of those products. tria is only currently 6%. the ceo says this should be cash generated within the next couple years. s&p downgraded the rating to bbb. guy: what is the regulatory risk? kailey: juul really popular among youth, with parents and the fda up in arms. the company altria saying that if youth vaping continues to be a problem, it could put the entire market at risk. leinz, thank you. exclusive get to the bank of america ceo brian moynihan,

altria is spending a whopping $13 billion to b a huge staying in the ving company juul.ng,ll espec among teenagers. juul remains an independent company for nowow but has access to all of altria's services. vaping is now a $6 billion business. 15% of adults in this country still do snoke traditional cigarette. but one in 20 says they have switched to the ecigarette. and there's growing concern in the spike in use. more than 3 million high school students say they smoked ecigarettes this year. that's a 20% jump in the last seven years. officials say vaping with the sleep packaging and kid friendly flavors is getting a new generation addicted to nicotine. >>> h about a holiday decoration that you can eat rather than give away? the houses are to fund scholarships for students. >> i feltike it was with my family, we got to bring o in uniqueness and all of these houses. >> they made a ginger bread house involving the caps. the team actually bought it. if you're interested in bidding on any of these houses, contact the school. >>> a famous civil rights law is at the center of a

nearing a deal to take a 35 cent stake in juul labs the value at $38 billion. san francisco is the leader in the e cigarette market, the fastest growing segment of the nicotine business. as part of the deal, cnbc is reporting the 1500 employees at juul will get a huge bonus reportedly about $1 million each. >>> notre dame rang the opening bell this morning, the fighting irish members of the 1988 national championship football team, that's the last time the team won. they play clemson in the semi finals next week. checking in on the markets, even though dave was talking about optimism over that deal to avoid that partial government shut down, stocks are down now. dow jones off 167 points, 3 quarters of a%. the nasdaq, 6607 now. down almost half a% and thesnp 500 down almost half a percent. >>> amazon has fight youred out a user was given access to more than 1,000 recordings from another user. the company says it was a case of human error by the company. amazon is not saying how the problem was solved but does sate it was an isolated single case that happened in

juul labs says evacuation of about $38 billion snow. say the deal would give the martin luther king jr -- -- marlboro maker. >>> now at 7:00, we're seeing a lot of fog moving all over the bay area. meteorologist mark tomiao tracking how long it's sticking around and sal is watching our morning commute. >>> a san francisco police officer already suspended for sending racist text messages is now charged with bank robbery. the evidence being used to link him to the crime. >>> good morning, from cal berkley running right on time. buses that bring toys up north to children affected by the northern california fires this year, we'll have a live story on that coming up in just a minute. >>> it's 7:00 on the dot this thursday morning, i'm gasia mikaelian. >> and i'm dave clark. did you bring the fog in with you. >> it was there and i woke up. >> me too. mark has been talking about it all morning good morning, it could be tricky. be prepared for that. 0 out towards the central valley and sacramento,

juul itself will set us down a path of a smokeless future. stuart: you have a piece of juul?stor for several years. stuart: do you think the surgeon general and others are success fell really restricting juul sales? >> no. i think people are waking up. they're understanding. i recently saw director geller in of the fda state recently if we get all americans to switch e-cigarettes like in juul, we could save 15 million lives. stuart: but you have to keep it out of the kids hand? >> i think technology will come to keep it out of kids hand. you continue to have bad actors like retailers selling to children. i think that will come with technology. stuart: greg smith, i am sorry to cut this short. i find the discussion fascinating. you walked into the middle of a very big news day. >> happy holidays. stuart: thank you very much, mr. smith. see you again soon. >>> big guest coming up for you, treasury secretary steve mnuchin joins us live next hour. what does he make much this crazy market volatility? and crazy it is? we'll ask him about 11:40 eastern time this morning. ♪ i'm snow.

jiflt unfortunately -- juul. >> before the break, dagen you were talking about carlos ghosn we know to highlight you, brain gut rocket on this from moment one, has been so spot-on you spoke out about the injustice the appalling treatment of carlosgone, kelly not just nissan but by japanese government and prosecutor this appears as you said to be an orchestrated persecution you have been undaunted i cannot say that enough. >> thank you for saying that there is incredible injustice i think now, increasingub in of people are figuring it out this was a coupe, we don't know if carlos ghosn did anything wrong in terms of under reporting compensation more will be revealed, having said that, they put him in jail, for the first 20 days, on no charges, and we know japanese government did not want nissan its jewel to be sold to a french company renalt the weaker financial, more is coming out on this story the things that i am hearing are outrageous and i expect that more news will be broken you will hear it here we will definitely keep on it until carlos ghosn greg kelly released from japanese

the tobacco producer making a big stake in juul. all means when second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ >> announcer: live from the most powerful city in the world new york this is "squawk box. >> good morning. i don't think -- i didn't say a recognition there. mr. wonderful, welcome back to "squawk box. >> i have the original vinyl >> honestly? >> yep, yep. >> and when you get home, it gets played when you walk in >> my wife doesn't call me mr. wonderful. >> stop, stop with that. >> anyway, "squawk box" here on cnbc we're live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm joe kernin along with andrew ross sorkin and melissa lee. becky is off we have kevin o'leary. shares are up. all over the place fairly tight range up 70 or so down, 100 or so, i guess at one point 5 now. nasdaq indicated up 11 and the s&p has been right around unchanged, it's right around there, still. treasury yield, i thought the ten-year was fascinating yesterday. what was it? >> seven months left. >> 2.77. how many point that is on the ten-year boy,

reports last week said altria is eyeing a minority stake in juul. cigarette smoking in the u.s. fell to the lowest point in recorded history last year but that cannabis and e-cigarette sectors are growing. total demand for pot is about 52.5 billion, including legal and black market sales as for e-cigarettes wells fargo preje projects that market to hit about 6.6 billion this year. altria shares are down this morning. >> see you in a few minutes. thank you very much. >>> your three big money individual stories involve sofas, semiconductors and smart sheet. shares of rh are soaring today the stock is up 19%. they had better than expected results. they also raised guidance. apparently $4,000 coffee tables are hot now. >>> cirrus logic is cutting its revenue outlook citing weakness in the cell phone market here's why you care. cirrus logic is a big supplier to apple they join other apple suppliers who cut guidance they're down 6%. >>> smartsheet reporting a smaller net loss revenue rose 59% beating forecasts. this is a cloud softwaremaker. they saw the number of customers with large

. >>> altria buying 35% of juul labs the e-cigarette maker juul would be valued at $38 billion double the valuation the company fetched in july. if you have teenagers, you know, this have become the industry leader in america with reported more than 75% of that market companies have been investing in e-cigarette makers as smoking rates decline but vaping rates taking off one prominent doctor calling it a nationwide epidemic recently. >>> let us go back to the stock market and talk the technical side because of the big move wednesday, your next guest says a bottom may be developing, and you may want to add more stocks to your portfolio. craig johnson joining us to talk about his call, the chief technician, also the single hardest working man in financial television because he joins us live from san francisco, which means you either stayed awake or you're just not sleeping tonight, craig which one is it? >> we just keep rolling, right from one day into the next, and keep working as hard as we can. >> you're doing a great job, buddy. we appreciate it, because back in january, you gave us

juul is by far the leader e-cigarette-maker and the fda blames the e-cigarette-makers for the increasen vaporing. critics say this has only served as a way to get new customers addicted to nicotine. >>> the crews company is opening a port in san francisco. starting in 2020 ships will sail all along the west coast. travelers can make the long trips to places like south america and alaska or take the short trips to catalina island. >>> check out this the special traveler at oakland international airport. you see him there? that's a seal. deputies found that seal overnight and posted the seal to video so we could see it then. they took the wild animal back to the water just coaxing him there. he returned. deputies are working with marine mammal experts to make sure that the seal is healthy and can be returned home and that he'll stay put. >> when i think of seals, i think of cooler temperatures. seems like we're having that with all the fog in the area. >> still coined of lingering around the bay area. we've been dipping in and out of our camera at sfo because it's a busy travel day, one

employees following 13 billion dollars deal with altria giving two-billion-dollar holiday bonus, to juultock they own altria deal nice broke juuly accepted company selling out to maker of marlboro maybe will feel better shares altria down modern 2% premarket. >> stock down 3 1/2% that is a great story, cheryl a million dollars or more than a million dollars per employee what if employee of altria what are they getting. >> getting the dividends i guess a long time. >> keep your job. >> buying into juul employees getting liquidity may gos private market great when something like this happens. dagen: i would argue not just nicotine deliver ultimately a bet on legalization of marijuana in more states if not nationwide some point. >> you are right coming up breaking out ugly sweaters celebrating season in style wait until you see the ugly christmas sweaters we picked out next, back in a minute. -- the christmas tree, the a christmas party house ♪ this is where you can about see every ♪ your home improvemet "to-do list" still isn't "to-done". but hey, at least you still have time to get the fo

the purchase of 35% of juul valued it at $38 billion.boutnus works out to $1.3 million per person at the company. qualcomm has scored another victory over apple, gaining a ban on some sales of iphone models in germany. the munich regional court agreed apple is infringing qualcomm intellectual property on an energy-saving feature. however, the devices will still be available up to christmas as qualcomm would have to post a bond of about -- to cover any apple losses if that ruling is subsequently reversed. that is your bloomberg business flash. matt: debra mao in hong kong, i will take over here because we have got breaking news out of france. gdp figures are missing the mark as far as the quarter over quarter numbers. it is a little backwards looking. it doesn't include the damage done by the yellow vest protesters, but we are looking at 0.3%. we were anticipating, our survey had forecast 0.4%. the year-over-year number is in line with the survey of 1.4%, but the question is, what is going to happen in the fourth quarter? paris, andfrom e

the fda recently asked juul to provide any documents about its product, marketing and research into the health. the company said it is committed to preventing underage use of ming. he bay area'ssies airport. of course, behind sfo. sjc expects to ser previous record set before 9/11. it also tops oakland's airport annual passenger totals by half a million. sjc plans to recognize one lucky arriving passenger tomorrow, as a symbolic record-breaker. i don't know what they get. they're just going to recognize them. sash perhaps? >> maybe. i know what you're not going to get out on the roads though, traffic. >> what's that? >> that's good. 5:38 right now. typically we see some issues start to pop up on our map but look at our overall bay area map. it's always fantastic to see it this way. gives me less things to report. let's get straight to live picks. i want to show you some spots that are starting to see some stop and go traffic. oakland 880, even though it's starting to slow down, we're not seeing any accidents. it's the regularfounately. the bay bridge toll plaza typically busy. the inle

. >>> juul-tide greetings. a bonus awaiting employees at the nation's largest e-cigarettemaker. >>> and what fun. >> hi, guys. >> we look back at the lighter moments we shared this year. today, friday, december 21st, 2018. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hey, everybody. welcome to "today" on this friday morning. we're happy you're here. we're happy that willie is here. you're filling in for savannah. you picked a yucky day. >> i had to wear a wet suit. we have a big crowd out in the rain. we're so grateful to them. travel will be tough for a lot of people today. >> and a lot of people trying to get the last-minute christmas gifts. we're going to get to all of that in a second. >>> we want to start with that upheaval in washington. secretary mattis quitting, while the clock is racing toward midnight and the next government shutdown. we have it from capitol hill to the white house. that's where we start, with peter alexander. go

♪ >>> new details about big tobacco big investment into juul.ounced by tobacco giantality rhea included $2 billion in bonuses to employees, coming down to $1.3 million to each of the 1500 workers. not everybody will get a million if you just started. you won't get it. but if you were there a while you'll get paid and investors will get paid $0 they are spending $13 billion to buy a 35% stake in juul. >>> americans love to spend time with friends. the tv show, that is. >> a new report said the sitcom off the air for 14 years was the most bing-watched tv show of 2018. i would have thought "game of thrones" but friends is up there. reports based on analysis by an organization called tv time to track app users and that is big news for netflix agreed to pay around $100 million to keep the >> that is good news. >>> well if you are hosting friends or family for the holidays, new tests show you don't have to spend a lot to find a comfy air mattress. >> consumer reports found you could buy one of the best ones for as low as $27. >> really? >> that seems