author andrew chu on trump's push to win the bitcoin vote. and former google exec frederick fert on preparing yourself for the future. that's this week on press here. good morning everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. as someone who covers technology for a living, i deal with the future pretty much every day. the next iphone developments in ai and what it means for jobs and education. green energy that may someday save the planet for our grandchildren. so i am constantly looking at new ideas, future ready, i would think. but i kind of suspect there will come aay when i am old enough that i will say, okay, that's enough, because that's what we do as humans. we reach some point in our old age and we quit learning things and adapting and adopting, and it all seems too much. and i don't want to do that, which is why i want to hear from frederick fert, who teaches people how to be future ready. his new book is what's next is now. frederick is the former chief innovation evangelist at google. frederick joins us from what appears to be his habitat on mars. fr

let's get to dom chu with the pre- pre-market movers. >> good morning, becky and andrew and joe. company and ceo jensen huang took the stage at ces. he introduced the next gen chip and autonomous driving technology and omniverse products for a.i. which is a multitrillion dollar shares. >>> walmart shares moving higher as bernstein named it a top pick in 2025. it is an expensive stock on valuation basis, walmart still has room to run as it continues to glow row the ecommerce busin in the u.s. walmart shares up fractionally. >>> and robinhood is upgraded to neutral from underweight. record's user base is attractive, but products and assets shrink in comparison to competitors and maybe a bit of room to run to the upside. for that and other analyst calls of the day, go to cnbc.com/pro for the big calls and stories of the day. becky, back to you guys. >>> dom, thank you. see you in a little bit. >>> it has been a year since the door plug blowout from the boeing 737 max 9 which was operated by alaska airlines. rob epstein is joining us. it's an odd anniversary to be celebrating. i gues

andrew weissmann is going to tell us what all of it means. and later, all those devastating wildfires continue to tear through southern california. i'll talk to congresswoman judy chu, who says the devastation in her district is beyond belief. in just the last six days, more than 100,000 people have been forced from their homes. more than 12,000 structures have been destroyed. at least 16 people are dead, according to recent numbers, and many more are injured, all as a result of the wildfires tearing through southern california. it is a completely devastating scene. all of the photos, and we're not going to even know the full scope of the impact for some time. it's also a disaster that prompts a lot of questions about how this happened and what can what comes next. we're going to dig into a lot of that today as much as we can. but those are also the kind of questions, perhaps more importantly, that the next president should be spending his time on. i mean, california is the most populous state in the country. any incoming president of either party would drop everything to focus on how to prepare to help. when he's inaugurated eight days from now. but that's not exa

chu he has a look at this morning's premarket movers. what's driving things today? what's the overall feeling for the market? >> sure. becky, andrewng. we will start things off with a few analyst calls this morning driving some of the action, especially in some do you components. we have barclays upgrading boeing. analysts are seeing momentum on production, also deliveries and cash levels as well. potential light at the end of the tunnel after a very difficult year. barclay's is also upgrading citi group from an overweight to equal weight rating. boeing up about 2%, citi group up nearly that as well. also microsoft, salesforce and snowflake are being named top picks in 2025 over at piper sandler. analysts are seeing these three vendors as best positioned to capitalize on ai trends going into 2025. microsoft up about a percent. sales force down a quarter of a percent and snowflake up 1.5%. abilityists are down grading goldman sachs. saying as capital markets recover the firm's reliance on the global banking and markets revenue limits possible potential momentum going into 2025. goldman shares just about flat in the premarket trade.