i mean, if they want to do what berkshire does, they probably should buy berkshire.iser. it's intellectual property that belongs to berkshire, what we're doing as security. so we have no desire to encourage people to buy or sell stocks at all. except i will tell people that over time, i think they will do very well buying common stockings. i think the best thing for most of them to do is buy an index fund. i think they're making a big mistake if they're biggie backing me or ten other people whose names appear in the paper. that is not a great strategy. a great strategy is to buy st k stocks over a lifetime and not worry about how much they go up or down. that's what i tell my wife to do in my will. you know, she's going to put 90% in an index funds and 10% of government. i told a lot of other people to do that overt years, and they've done very well. >> warn warren, i want to get one crack at the bat. to extent that investors want to look at your whether it turns right or wrong. it it did turn wrong, what would be the trigger for you to say, okay, maybe i did make a

>> warren buffett has said that berkshire will only repurchase stock if the valuation of berkshire ist or below 1.2 times. currently the stock is run three times four, which makes me think there is not a lot of downtime in the shares. we think that they could buy back billions of dollars of stock, but we're not sure it will. at the same time, berkshire is going to benefit from big, creative acquisitions. our sense is that they are still on the hunt for other large deals. of course, you have the ongoing of major acquisitions which was justz, enclosed within the past year. scarlet: what do you think he would say about an underperformer like american express? >> stockholding, major stock holdings and american express have knowledge of dollars of gains from berkshire. warren buffett still has a positive, long-term outlook on the company. then of course, you have ibm be a laggard since it was acquired in the portfolio. the same time, the company is raising dividends. that increases the value as well. over the long term, we think american express, the other major holdings like coca-cola and

in the case of berkshire, you can bet that it will be a long-term holding.hat tends to be his style, but that is not true for every manager who files. alix: excellent point. thank you. "what'd you miss?" is it time to short gold? jeff is head of commodities research at goldman sachs and makes the case in his latest note. it is kind of counterintuitive. what is behind your thought? jeff: nothing to fear but fear itself. what has been driving markets over the last 2-3 weeks has been fear, fear over it negative and restraints, fear over what is happening in china, fear over what is happening in oil. if you look at the facts, whether or not these events are systemic, it is difficult to make the argument. if we begin with negative interest rates, there are two channels, one through european banks, but it can't given the fact that the emergency funding facilities provide enough capital to keep liquidity relatively high, even against high capitalization. what about the u.s. potential going into recession and forcing the fed to considered negative rates? again, unli

noah: that is a long-term trend at berkshire. it's not the place he wants to put berkshire's money.that continue last year. interestingly he has been borrowing to do his acquisitions . he said he plans to issue about $10 billion in bonds to fund his purchase of precision castparts, the manufacturer that he bought earlier this year in one of his biggest deals. matt: sometimes you like to sell when you don't really like to buy. that's how the market works. thank you, noah. still ahead, economic woes in china are bleeding into the asian art market. that is next. ♪ you know by now, economic woes in china, bleeding into the art market as we head into a selling week for asian art in new york city. absent chinese buyers are expected to impact the sales. james is here with more. so, asiaweek, right? meaning all the galleries and auction houses are selling off their art? >> it's a kind of ten-day long asian art and anza in new york and abroad where they come in and kind of offer as much art as they can in as short a. of time as possible. chinese buyers have been increasing in numbers? james:

it's not the right now to get out there to the berkshires here's live storm tracker showing where the flakes are flying we haven't made their way east any father but that is berkshires i don't believe the going to. outside of a random floor that to central madison and were going to wait for the snow to get on in here. look not going to be much not a huge storm so week system coming up the south south connection to another disturbance off to our north west and as that connection comes to us imagine a line drawn between the two of them it's going to produce some of the snow squalls during the day tomorrow. here's where the timeline works out.tonight the clouds break apart as they already doing will have a partly cloudy night out there. but it's going to stay dry. will watch for a few flurries during the morning tomorrow into the middle part of the day but watch a snow squalls of pick up in the afternoon that connection between these two systems is starting to develop it's also the leading edge of some cold air that's going to make it on here and here. snow showers and snow squalls commu

wove had clouds back across the berkshires and through worcester county and we will get into the clouds tonight a cold front is is back to the west. not a ton of moisture but as it comes through a quick sprinkle or flurry in the berkshires through american northern vermont. -- northern vermont and the wind kicks up tomorrow 10 degrees colder. high pressure fair weather build over the northeast, to end the week. so friday will be a similar day but less wind. and then the clouds increase late in the day on friday. that's the sign of the warmer air pushing in. so the warm front lifts across northern new england meaning a lot of clouds for us. maybe even a sprinkle or flurry early on saturday morning. but not a ton of moisture with that front and we break out the lower 50s for some of the warmest spots on saturday. tonight we dip into the 20s. and 27 in boston is probably about the lowest we will go. 19 in ja if ffrey some of the coldest spots in the upper teens. highs tomorrow about 10 maybe 12 degrees colder than today. most of us topping out in the low to mid-30s. that is little below wh

right now we are at 50 in boston. 51 manchester but 30s are working into the berkshires and the cold will be felt as we head through the evening. gusting over 40 at times. across the southeastern part of tonight. and still some at 30 to 45 miles per hour. and slowly as we move towards tomorrow morning the wind begins to calm down a little bit. but even during the day on friday, they will be a gusty breeze and it moves northwesterly and our gusts tomorrow will be 22 to 30 -- 20 to 30 miles per hour with colder temps. and we have rain showers that are moving through. scattered about in nature sprinkles here and there and a few steady areas of rainfall from worcester westward and barre and brookfield. and on a day like today antique weather is warmer later this year. a few more rain showers tonight. and as we head deeper into the night snow showers there in the berkshires and a lot of cloud in the overnight. colder feel much different type of weather out there. and for tomorrow we will break more sun as the day goes on. but chillier temperatures that is very much guaranteed. so overnigh

they often get into the berkshires but not all the time do they penetrate east of the berkshires but they are doing that right now. both in worcester county as well as the south shore. you see the purple, visibility is down a little bit. one saving grace is the temperatures inched above freezing so the roads have warmed a little bit. but of course, if you do get a heavier squall it can then temporarily cover the ground. but it is cold enough out in worcester county and beyond. from worcester up, we have snow showers that are going on. we'll tend to see them continue around the region in scattered form through about 6:00 or 7:00 tonight and then once we lose a little bit of the heating of the day that we had, they will tend to dissipate. also, the disturbance responsible for them moving away. but there is another little disturbance in the upper levels of the atmosphere. it will come through during the first 2/3 of the day tomorrow. at 7:00, seeing some more break-outs around hartford, scattered around the region. doesn't mean they will be precisely where they are depicted here but the

. >>> warren buffett's berkshire hathaway's profits rising by more than 30%. on the programming note, warren buffett joining the "squawk box" team live for three hours starting at 6:00 a.m. today. he'll be answering your questions. submit using the #askwarren. make sure you don't miss that. get involved. ask him some questions. >>> i just want to bring you a head line that just happened moments ago, the people's bank of china cutting its reserve by 0.5%. this is easing effort. china's way of lowering interest rates, responding to what has been happening in the chinese market and chinese economy. pay lot of people expected china to start doing this, remember, they're just coming aue ing off meeting which they hosted themselves, they need to look like they're on top of it.

toons in the berkshires today. there is a bit of an extra edge to the temperatures. it feels like eight in worcester. we are going to wake up to sunshine tomorrow night and we are going to start to warm back up. many towns make it to the 40s tomorrow arn. a-- afternoon. we take a look at the weekend >>> a wild day in campaign 2016. donald trump revealing a new weapon tonight. a big endorsement from his one time rival chris christie. >>> also tonight maine governor paul la page endorsed donald trump. it should be a wild day of campaigning before super tuesday. >> reporter: hours after surviving the republican debate donald trump got some powerful support, the endorsement of new jersey governor chris christie, who just quit the race is a thing of beauty for the republican. >> being embraced by chris christie helps him to tamp down debate. >> reporter: marco rubio looked surprised by the endorsement. conartist. >> reporter: the move amplified marco rubio's shift into total attack mode. >> he needs to be unmasked conservatives need to know who is take over the most befor

charlie: one of the attractions of war and and berkshire -- warren and berkshire is not only the investment what we can learn from him. his number one concern is that he trusts the management of the people that runs the business that he buys. that is a great way to invest it seems. i think he does fundamentally understand. they are normally very simple businesses and reliable income streams. you are a fan of his business. one thing he warned about is the next graphic i have which is the ma activity. averse man that is not to that. should we be more concerned about that activity? charlie: he is normally very &a.tical of m and says that management teams that do these big deals do not sufficiently at to the earnings streams. principally because he says they are doing it for their own interest rather than the shareholder interests. he is number three. he is the number three at -- number three billionaire on the list. that is nothing compared to gates. bill gates lost $2.9 billion. bezos lost $10 billion. who has lost the most? rren has lost $220 million. you like the stock. charlie: i do like t

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can see some of that snow in the birches here it's been moving in from the west and clipping the berkshires but having a hard time making over the hills. we see that often because it's air comes down back of the berkshires it sinks into the connecticut valley.even that not likely tonight. however these patches of snow are going to move steadily eastward we will see some coming in during the day tomorrow. it's all the leading edge of some cold air to the progression not coming very quickly as that snow we talked about the berkshires but it's on the way. it's not a storm like we saw yesterday not even close to that but what is a weak system offshore along with cold air coming in to have a kind of connection in the atmosphere. it's good to form some snow showers in snow squalls in the area but this takes until the to pick up some steam in southern new england. after 2 o'clock let's say go to see some of these popping up and 3:30 is going to stop here snow squalls developing this problem for late afternoon driving an evening commute snow squalls by definition are intense snow showers and that r

into the monadnock region berkshires get up to two inches of snow from this one to two of this. here's the deal. cold front part of the system comes through later in the day another batch of showers come on by but notice how they fizzle as a come to boston still be a shower when it comes on through the lower to coal plant not going to bring cold air for sunday it will start to cool us off though for monday that plays a part in the forecast so sunday record of pretty nice-looking day with some sunshine out there as well a little windier temperature still be on the mild side. tomorrow we're talking your 50 degrees in fact over 50 in some places ridgewater 53 hall 51 sandwich 40 degrees tomorrow afternoon. 55 and ramming him 54 burlington gardner 51 degrees north shore just a little cooler rockport at 49 degrees. no complaints they are. late sunday night and early monday with the cooler air starting to get on in here going to see storm system formed herself it's going to england with some snow. it is a latest year to cast barely grazing the south coast of new england cape cod and t

a couple of showers in southern vermont maybe through the berkshires. this missouri this moves to the east. by 11:00 inside 495 about near worcester. and then this moves towards boston, the south shore, the cape and the islands will be the last to get it around mid afternoon hours. then a secondary cold front comes through, but it's dry. it just brings in cooler air, slightly cooler air. we're still pretty mild though. then we're watching this system down to the south going to bring in some moisture from the gulf of mexico. so we are expecting a period of some steady rain on wednesday. basically tuesday night into wednesday. when all is said and done from this rain, we're talking about about an half an inch upwards of inch. it could flip over to some snow. then we're watching a system on frye fry. this i do want to point bought it's a coastal low pressure system. not every model has this yet but i do want to bring to your attention that if it were to develop and come like this model is saying we could have a period of snow and maybe even some accumulati

in fact out over the berkshires we're in the 30's. however, temperatures are going to continue to warm up during the day today. so we're not looking for accumulations from this. we're really just looking for maybe wet snow flakes turning to just plain old rain coming down for the next two hours or so. and then look at the temperatures. they're on the way up today. 54 degrees for your high. 52 on sunday. and temperatures on monday and tuesday. that is just in time out ahead of our next potential big long-duration storm starting tuesday night into wednesday and thursday. the track is very key on what kind of precipitation we get. looks like it will start off as snow. the latest track bringing it more towards rain by the end. karen and doug. negative numbers so i i guess that's okay. request 5 for good." a 12-year-old chef using her culinary skills to help hospice patients. karen: janie wilson of peabody already has a long list of experience including on the show "chopped junior." she visited the kitchen at kaplan family hospice house in

. >> jeremy: adam, noticing a couple of rain showers mixing with snowflakes in the berkshires. tonight snow showers with a deck moves through you will sleep better tonight. 40s in metro boston but move through the berkshires to eastern new york state and temperatures down to the 20s and 30s and that colder air is on the move thanks to the cold front and these west winds which are still up there between 20 and 25, these are not damaging winds and with the become damaging overnight tonight. but the wind will continue to scrape in the colder air and morning commute, features a lot of clouds, no snowflake organization rain drops, mid30s tomorrow morning and as we step through the day, 30s tomorrow afternoon, but with the chilly wind the wind chills tomorrow afternoon only in the 20s to around 30. february. >> jadiann: a deadly accident in plymouth is under investigation. a car is smashed and in the woods on route 3 northbound. two people in the vehicle a passenger a 20-year-old man from providence passed away. the driver was taken to the hospital. state police are trying to >> adam

the clouds -- coming in the berkshires and western connecticut. snow extends to northern connecticut at a pretty good clip for a hour or so in a couple spots. extending down to the cape right around midnight and then some leftover rain drops mixed with wet snow flames predawn tomorrow. this is 4 a.m. and then any leftover rain so don't be surprised if of you wake up tomorrow morning and-- and there's clouds. possible. 1 to 3 the farther north you g we will break down the rest of couple minutes. >> thanks very much. noon. harford lee the killer of to kale mockingbird died. the author was 89 and passed away in her hometown in alabama. she became famous after to kale mockingbird was published in 1960 highlighting racial injustice in a small southern town. it later became a movie and last year she allowed the release of a second book titled watch me. right now. a judge has just ruled an suv allegedly used by aaron hernandez in a double murder dealership. lawyers for the former patriot wanted jurors in the case to see the suv. >>> now at noon a mass ba

concluded that this deal will not adversity impact berkshire's rating.&p mentioned that they're now analyzing as a conglomerant and that's due to the series of acquisitions over the past couple of years. >> thank you. coming up, ben may have gotten his first big break but rick what are you watching today? >> that two year note. it's up five basis points today and here's the interesting other end of the curve. tens are unchanged and we're actually down in 30s. and this is after hotter inflation data. we'll talk about that and we're also going to talk about main street and negative rates. after the break. >> coming up on the halftime report at the top of the hour. stocks on pace for the first time in three months but is this rally really sustainable. one analyst says it's time to be aggressive and buy the energy names. should you follow that lead? are there any bargains there that you should add now to their shopping list. that and more coming up at the top of the hour. >> let's get over to the cme group. >> thanks kayla. >> listen when i look at the yield

the heaviest snow will be through the berkshires at 2-4 inches. it is that transition you want to be careful about as we talk about monday night. tuesday' s high into the 50' we cold on wednesday. a cold front comes through. not looking for much out of that. cooler weather -- upper 30' s with plenty of sunshine. we do have a chance at seeing a little something, right now it does not look like much -- on saturday. rain or snow, mix going on. it will pass through but notice the temperatures -- in the 40' s. not like what we have been looking at the last 24 hours. we are warming up. a lot of rain on tuesday. watch out for tomorrow night. that could be on a slippery side. lynch. s day. days. this afternoon they are in mo town. the team that has the puck last is probably going to win. wet wings -- the redw in ings lead -- lead the bruins right now. bruins had a 3-1 lead in the first. right now, 10 and a half minutes ago and the bruins trailed the red wings by 6-5. evening in toronto. isaiah thomas. been a while since the celtics competition. here is is

berkshires, pittfield, 55 degrees. we may have a record before midnight. the record for today is 59. predicting 58 but it's possible we could get to 59 or 60. worcester's record is 57. predicting about a 54 as we climb but they could break a record, too. the wind gusts are picking up 30. in worcester. look at providence, gusting to 36 miles per hour. so raincoats more than umbrellas will probably help you. see the temperature rise as we get to about 10:00. even rising into the wee hours of the morning. then that front kind of gets close and then the temperatures ample down but very, very slowly. very warm start to your day tomorrow. temperatures will be pretty steady in eastern mass during the day, in the 50s. it will be another very mild day before chilly air moves in. the chilly air that moves in overnight tomorrow night and friday morning, is going to coincide with a second storm that will bring moisture, especially in southeastern mass it may get cold enough for the rain to flip over to snow. temperatures will stay in the 30's for the rest of friday. l

perhaps the northern berkshires, new hampshire could, pick up a touch more. of course anybody who gets any snow is going to melt tomorrow because look at these milder temperatures right now and some of that is headed our way. here's a look at the next seven days. an idea of how mild we're talking tomorrow. this is one computer model projection. but i'm adding a few to it. i think boston could be up around 55 degrees. sunday is pretty mild as well. on sunday night, a small disturbance is going to pass south of us. may give just a touch of mix or a little snow to the south coast or cape. but the more i'm looking at that, the more it looks like it's weak and to the south and won't be a real significant player. colder weather with sunshine on monday, then it starts to get interesting thereafter. we may have a couple of storms to deal with in the later tuesday night into thursday time period. first one could start as snow but then probably go to some and if there's a second one, that looks like it will track close to us, probably too close to provide snow. but the

snow falling in vermont back here the berkshires not going to be? leading snow farther east elevations higher spots temperatures dropping and rains changing to snow. rain showers continue this there you may drive into one of you going to be driving around the area 11:30 to be offshore hill towns northeastern connecticut northwestern rhode island some of the worcester hilton sampler at the tail end snow will be held back in the mountainous locations into the berkshires cleared out the morning wake up the sunshine much cooler temperatures right to the afternoon despite the sun that's good be greeting you high temperatures tomorrow hard-pressed to make it to 40 degrees most towns.wind gusts come down no more dust for 40 miles per hour but 31 in boston 39 hyannis wind advisory southeast massachusetts dropped the phone even came on at 5 o'clock this evening and the winds a moderate threat of keeping a moderate threat because of the wind gusts to nearly 40 miles per hour right now still bring it down to week everyone gets one of those i put into the high

they are having a tough time over the berkshires. hollis, new hampshire at 33 right now. 35 in tewksbury. lexington at 34. boston at 36 degrees. brockton down at 33. more of those lower 30s. hanover down to duxbury but not quite freezing. sandwich at 38 and a lot of these on and off clouds that stand out. you will find the winds sustained in the teens and 20s all day, gusting into the 30s. by noontime, only 36 degrees. and we get back up to 378 at 3 p.m. so we only go up by a couple of degrees today. i want to you dress for all day 30s and coming up in less than 10, an hour-by-hour look at wind gusts when you get a little break in the action. over to julie grauert with live drive-time traffic. hey, julie. >> julie: things looking good. 128 you are sailing. northbound and southbound good through the peabody and woburn and burlington and lexington. pike open from framingham through newton and you can count the cars, one, two, three, four, five. fun little game at 4:31 a.m. 25 minutes from 495 to mass avenue. 9 minutes on the spray from

lower elevations for holes of the berkshires temperatures can still be below freezing and you getting some icing on the roadways. i don't expect an ice storm. i don't think ice is good take of a pulldown tree limbs and power lines but it will be slippery and spots. a bit of a break late morning into the middle of the day and then here comes part two of the storm. rain coming down heavily at times and the showers in the we'll revisit that in a moment. expecting slushy into boston southeastward to plymouth little bit of snow now coding it's going to wash away so quickly it will be inconsequential. points back your northwest of boston 128 we could get 1 to 3 inches of snow much of this will wash away as well. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. her life's work has been about breaking barriers. and so would her presidency. which is why, for every american who's not being paid what they're worth... who's held back by student debt or a system tilted against them- you- she understands that our country can't reach it's potential... unless we all do. together. a stronger country. w

a couple flurries overnight and a few light know showers in the berkshires stretching up to the spine of the green mountains a couple inches by the time the morning is done and summits of the mountains especially great news for ski country. and we have additional snow south. we don't have to quarey about any of these. the storm departs high pressure building into the south. we are in between which means we get a strong wind today gusting up to 35 miles per hour at times. the real feel is not out of the 20s. wind shift tomorrow out of the southwest typically a warmer wind direction we will see the warmer air come n normal fortomorrow with highs around or over 40. sunday morning clouds and additional more sunshine comes out and we warm up into the 50s low 50s for most of us by sunday afternoon. monday with a couple showers including a touch for the start of in week. mid-30s so we are in the rebounding all that much this afternoon. overnight tonight we get back into the teens and 20s. clear skies overnight and a little chilly and winds will slowly subside. tomorrow, 41 in boostan and upp

tonight producing no showers at least two southern vermont likely southwest new hampshire in the berkshires but as is all comes down off the hills air sinks and would sink that dries and look what happens showers go away clouds come into western boston later tonight but it does send that reinforcing air in here during the early morning hours such a tomorrow a few clouds come i but overall mostly sunny day here in southern new england. set us up for very cold morning behind that second with temperatures dropping back into the 20s back over the west very cold all relative after mild day-to-day really warm day today feel kind of chilly but about average for this time of year. high temperatures also about average above average tomorrow 20 degrees cooler than you saw 43 boston 42 wooster tomorrow 45 in lawrence and plymouth about 43 degrees tomorrow afternoon. 40s sound nice but the fall back into the 30s in the evening as he's clouds start to arrive. it looks like the get down to freezing out there worcester county into new hampshire and vermont. that's a problem because the system works in aro

but i have owned berkshire hathaway for 20 years.the largest position in my portfolio holdings and i'm very comfortable with it. buffett made other mistakes. he has lost money on conocophillips, the very name of his company is -- his biggest investment in the stake, which he's quantity tiesed at $100 billion. so even though he's a great investor, he has made mistakes. >> the washington post company, that was a newspaper that was top of the world in the 1970s and into the 80s. then, you know, it was sold for $200 million, which is really a pittance now that there were other parts of the company that performed well, that kaplan educational operation. >> tyler, he sold his position in the washington post companies for one -- over $1 billion. so an $11 million investment got him dividends of $9 million a year and he sold it for a billion dollars with cash and the return for berkshire hathaway stock and television station in miami. >> there is an example of where he did sell, where something told him time to get out, right? >> well, he wa

this is where were talk about right here. can't call berkshire dining area as well right here. we talked with student recently from here megan parsons from billerica who said she thought she might've heard gunfire wasn't sure what it was but she stayed in her dorm sheltered in place.this entire process put in the campus alert system. putting it to the test and she said that they first heard sirens the emergency sirens campus wide they knew something was up she then said they got an alert on the phone telling them there were reports of an armed person in pierpont hall. next thing you mentioned ock they were told to stay in place just in that area and then as you said they expanded it campuswide students being told not to go anywhere while police investigate these reports. hostile as he also sent to one of their tweets as well police said the person is hostile gunmen reported in pierpont hope it at one point talk about possibly another person with that individual so we're going plays out we continue to monitor the developments to twitter of course the amherst school umass amherst

and berkshire hathaway bought about 2.5 million more shares. berkshire with roughly 13% stake.hillips 66, now berkshire's sixth largest stock holding. >> eslon musk is increasing his investment in tesla motors. he's exercising 35,000 in stock options. the shares were priced at less than seven bucks. less than 3% of their current level. tesla says musk paid more than $50 million of his own money to cover taxes on this investment. >>> toyota holding production in japan for six days this month due to a part shortage. the company says that stems from an explosion in january at a steel manufacturing plant. production will be suspended next week. however, overseas plants will not be affected. >> toyota share it's in green here. >>> more stocks to watch today to watch. ge strikes a deal to invest $600 million in italy. to build turbines and compressors in tuscany. ge said the structure of galileo will boost revenue by $1.7 billion over the next five years. >>> coca-cola taking a 40% stake in a nigerian snack maker. the deal will allow coke to increase its ownership in qi limited. and

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will be streaming the berkshire hathaway conference. >> they have had some nice things.ths ago, they had the nfl. emily: a little buggy. >> not too bad. i had a good experience. yahoo! has some nice content. this shows they are a platform that people care about. emily: what is the latest when it comes to selling the company versus turning around the company versus a reverse spin off? what are you hearing? >> we know they made a big announcement in february. we know there are going to be people interested. we reported folks like verizon out there. we do not know what will happen yet. let's be honest -- there are a lot of moving parts. i think, longer-term, there can be some interesting things that will happen, but it is early. emily: how did this year play out for marissa mayer? >> i think a developer's conference is something she has to love as a consummate geek herself. she has got to feel good about that. but it does seem like, by the end of this year or soon, we will see two companies, one possibly owned by verizon or someone like that, and the other is the alibaba ho

what will he say about berkshire hathaway's poor performance last year?marco rubio at a rally in oklahoma city. this is bloomberg markets. ♪ carol: welcome back to bloomberg markets. tracy: we want to turn to politics for a moment because chris christie is throwing his support behind donald trump. making the surprise endorsement at a trump event in fort worth, texas this afternoon, calling him the best choice. >> america must have a strong leader again that can restore american jobs and restore american confidence and donald trump is just the man to do it. carol: joining us from charleston, john heilemann. are you surprised by this endorsement? >> i think the world is surprised by this endorsement. it did not leak, no one expected it, no one wrote about it. chris christie took his share of shots at donald trump while he was in the race. you kind of understand the logic in the sense that christie really has zero respect for marco rubio, took marco rubio on hard. christie's view has always been rs arehe first-term senator' not up to the job of being preside

a berkshire hathaway earnings are out tomorrow. chu joins us with what's working and what's not. >> such a widely followed letter. everyone likes to see what he's going to say and do and maybe hear him talk about uk layle lees at some point. the ones we're talking about here, yes sometimes they are small and picked by his lieutenants, but we picked out the biggest ones in his portfolio. all of this data is as of the end of december. that's important. these are from regulatory findings then. top six holdings, he has kraft heinz, wells fargo, coke and ibm and amex, wells fargo a $23 billion position and amex around 8. these are not small at all. check out the down arrows for ibm and amex, both year to date and of course longer term over the last year or so. it calls into question a little bit about what he sees there. we know about the products in coca-cola and banking franchise in terms of wells fargo. the interesting part about this, for those five we listed, berkshire is the number one shareholder in each of those companies. these

berkshires getting a wintry mix thanks to the higher elevations but all this pushing through, satellite radar picture showing here. morning, still keeping the chance for maybe a bit of a wintry mix, a couple wet snowflakes mixing in to the but after 10:00 a.m. and through noon, we start to clear things out and become mostly sunny, temperatures soaring in the lower 50s. fantastic weather for us. today more warmth on the way for sunday and then we are tracking the chance for another bit of a wintry mix, those details in just a bit. >>> mayday, mayday, mayday. [ indiscernible ] with a [ indiscernible ] going on. >> four firefighters are at the hospital right now injured in a blaze in brighton. one fire department official tells wbz last night almost became the worst night of his life as they took roll call after that mayday. julie loncich has more. >> flames just shooting out of the roof, out the windows. >> reporter: the fire on perthshire in brighton quickly went to three alarm. >> i saw a bunch of firefighters on the roof, i could see their flashlights and everything, that there was a l

. >>> believe it or not we have a severe thunderstorm warning in berkshire county right now. >> thank you, we will see you tomorrow captioning sponsored by cbs ( band playing "late e ) >> stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause )

snow is developing on block island and more in western connecticut and southern portions of the berkshires. some snow showers will try to fill in. there may be snow showers briefly heavy but that is from midday onward. notice by noontime squat red snow showers north and west of boston and deeper blues so we may get reduced visibility and some untreated roads will be slick this afternoon and early evening. we come into the 30s. scattered snow showers and they will be steadiest into the ride home. speaking of rides let's get you on the road with traffic and >> reporter: good morning. quiet out there -- robi. >> reporter: good morning. quiet out there right now. a car spun out 39 northbound at 128 going away from the morning rush. it's early and that's not causing backups at this time. it was later in the commute -- if it was later in the knew the commute, we would worry about it. >>> voters in new hampshire have spoken the bernie sanders and donald trump celebrating big victories. >> we have complete coverage for you this morning. paula ebben is live at our primary headquarters in manchester

we keep it more significant snow maybe a plow necessary in berkshires. far north wert part of the state any snow we get will be washed tomorrow. also a high wind watch that will go into effect tomorrow afternoon and evenings because swept rain. slowser look at the time line here's the snow looking where the temperature are by 8:00 p.m. we're still in the mid up toer 20s. then this pink line comes in and it is pretty big one you see with the forecast model. freezing rain a good possibility where the temperature are at 29. and then we kick that out in the wee hour of tuesday morning by we're into the 40s. what a difference from this weekend. takes until tomorrow afternoon and evening to really get that rain going. but it could be around an inch maybe an inch and a half for most locations as we get that very heavy rain tomorrow. wind swept rain. 26 to 42 overnight tonight. as the temperature rise which could also mean some fog tomorrow morning. and then tomorrow how about 50 to 55. temperature roller coaster we're in as we head through out the week. possibl

but notice on radar, a little bit of activity out for the berkshires and down through connecticut. the eastern tip of long island as well. the snow showers are coming out ahead is a front. this front is the leading edge of colder air. on the other side it is in the single digits, so that is the air mass that works in to what we have going on right now. notice that we are pretty much holding steady throughout the day. also notice the wind picking up out of the west, gusting this afternoon. they will be accompanied by scattered snow showers once they' re developing across the still looking at these scattered snow showers. they will be hit or miss, a quick burst of snow a possibility, a absolutely a possibility. do keep that in mind. let' s get you back to the roads -- early trouble once again. olessa: we did have an issue early with a truck that has since been cleared. we have been watching is just about gone heading into boston. there is also some inspe construction that is just picking up. so far, an issue be start -- an issue free start on 93. emily: breaking overnight, the mass p

real cold coming on in. berkshires. we are still just 26 degrees in boston. look at the sky over boston. we just had this snow squall come in. you can see this light snow. there are these areas of snow showers moving through the area. look at the wind. it is out of the west. 13 miles per hour, gusting over 20. gusty winds across the entire state. that is associated with the frontal boundary. it already feels like 15 in town. this is just the beginning. those wind chills are going below zero tonight. first batch of cold air. bit. north of town, scattered snow showers on the north shore up into the merrimack valley. these are not amounting to a color. this is indicating these snow bursts may have a little bit more punch to them as you get into the afternoon. there may be a burst of snow within the that is powerful enough to slip can up the roads -- slicken up the roads. the skies clear out tonight. look at these low temperatures by tomorrow morning. even south of town. as well. these are your wind chills. they are going to be below zero. the wind sold in the si

berkshire hathaway bought more shares of phillips 66. shares in january giving it a roughly 13.7% stake. now his sixth largest stock holding. they've been doing buy-backs over time. >>> people across iowa gather tonight to designate their choice for president. the hawkeye state holds the first in the nation caucuses. candidates will spend the day rallying supporters. donald trump leading in the polls over senator ted cruz. ben carson will be our guest this morning. >>> toyota halting production in japan for six days this month because of a parts shortage. the company says it stems from an explosion in january at a steel manufacturing plant. overseas plants will not be affected. >>> g.e. striking a deal to invest $36 million in italy for r&d projects in the oil and gas sector. they'll build turbines in italy. >>> coca cola is taking a 40% stake in a nigerian drink and snack maker. the deal allows coke to increase its ownership in chi limited in three years. it's part of coke's plan to boost investment in africa by the year 2020. >>> let's

it is cooler through the berkshires. pittsfield coming in at 46 right now. north adams at 47 degrees. the cool air will be working in from the west. a few clouds around mid to late afternoon, too. i don't expect much here in boston out through worcester, points north. look add at these numbers, though. the record high in boston, 66 degrees. awfully close to the city of boston later on this afternoon. give it another hour or. downhill. it will cool off this evening. certainly, cold overnight tonight. mostly cloudy skies this evening. upper 20's to lower 30's by daybreak tomorrow. it is a cooler day overall. will punxsutawney see his shadow tomorrow? looks likely across the commonwealth there. that means six more weeks of winter. as a meteorologist, i have to say, we are not done with winter yet. not ready to stick a fork in it. it does turn colder next week. now over to danielle. >> danielle: thanks, chris. yeah. you saw the damage that this storm did in southern california. stretching up into the upper midwest. bringing a lot of rain and snow to parts of the

up over the mountains and creates snow showers up and down the spine of the green mountains and berkshires. we don't have to worry about those today. a trend is going to be for increasing sunshine and that wind is going to stay strong through the day today. so the real feel won't get out of the 20s this afternoon. tomorrow, that wind shifts around out of the southwest. temperatures will be a touch milder going around 40 degrees and we will get late day clouds and the cloud will be with us on sunday morning but watch what happens. sun breaks out and it turns beautiful. lower 50s on sunday. we are on the warmer side of the front again on sunday. cold front comes in on monday with a couple showers with us and cool us off a bit heading into the first day of meteorological spring tuesday of next week. 30s and we are not going that far. overnight tonight we drop into the teens to right around 20 in boston. tomorrow lower 40s so pretty normal for this time of the year. it will be a little bit breezy southwest wind make it feel a touch colder. look at sunday. 53 in boston. 54 in norwood and 50 in

hinting glancing blow for south east and others are bringing the snow totals all of way into the berkshire so we will have watch this very closely. snow flakes could stick around with us on again and off again all of the way through the middle of this coming week. but again, tomorrow, we do have skies. 41 to 46 but this looks to be ends of those temperatures into the 40s. more in my extended forecast coming up just a bit. >> also on seven fire north and over takes a deadly turn. house goes up in flames with woman trapped inside. even more lives could have been lost. if it wasn't for one man's quick thinking. seven live now north and over with more on his rush to the rescue. john? >> well that man says, he was he heard fire alarm go off they rushed inside, to save his parents. he also tried to save the woman upstairs, but he says, there was just too much smoke. >> so i ran upstairs. there. and i opened door fire came. stop bill kelly from running inside of the burning home to get his mother joe afternoon. warren called for help. down the stairs i got down the stairs. all i know is that it.

suburbs, otherwise, notice the suburbs building north and west of boston, back to vermont and the berkshires as well. eventually an increase in clouds mixed with the thunder in the afternoon. there's rain and snow for the snow extending down through kansas and iowa right now. that's our next weather maker that will move in for tomorrow, and because we have been so mild it will be in the form of rain by the time it gets here. today's highs, 45 in the city of boston, not the 60s we had yesterday, but nonetheless, 10 degrees above average. most of us mid- to upper 40s today and the winds should be fairly light as well. and it will be comfortable in terms of a february day. overnight tonight, we will drop into the 30s. 35 in boston. the suburbs dipping to around 35 degrees. 31 in canton, and the mid- to upper 30s back to province town, and the highs tomorrow, back into the 50s. 53 in boston. the records to beat are are upper 50s, and i don't think we will get there, but a lot of spots in the mid-50s tomorrow. it will be gusty out of the south, and i think the morning we will end up with rain adv

berkshire?f, when you look at what is happening in the world, do you have to have diversified risk? james: the one fly in the ointment if you look at the performance of sharp -- berks hire -- hans: when we look at what done over the long-term, they get a little nervous when their balance sheets get too heavy. at what point will they be out hunting again? james: they will be opportunistic. tey absolutely wait until the markets have inappropriately low valuation of a credit company. at which point, they pounce. this will be a classic turning point in market psychology. they came forward and they say that we dude not think you know how to value this country. that is a good turning point for market sentiment generally. the insurance, is that something that warren is looking at? the banking sector is really struggling. this is going to be a tough place to be. james: a proven case of adding value for the balance sheet. he will be a bigger participant in the insurance sector than he has ever had. more

that's why the winter weather advisory out here also in the foothills of the berkshires. these are the wind gust were talking about. after 10 o'clock tonight, over 40 miles per hour even gusting over to two miles per hour thunderstorm just between 55 and even city miles per hour. but you would need a thunderstorm to pull those winds on in here the wednesday gusty through the day on thursday even once the front crosses that's why we have the wind advisory in place for those gusts of 50 miles per hour tonight in southeastern massachusetts especially is futurecast showing the drying the city but the cold air coming this take a little father inland to the future into friday morning. going to be some snow flurries around new england early friday coming away see every insurance policy has but not every insurance company understands for those who've served and the families who supported them, we offer our best service in return. usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay 5 new issue states attempt to reinstate a murde

and pink showing up a touch of freezing rain possible and northern worcester county out to the berkshires and northward into southern new hampshire in southern vermont that's a first immediate problem. the heavy rain will come later. i will show you a time in weeks but the worst of it to come on through a few minutes. breaking just to tell you about the boss and that little boy who was found unresponsive in a roxbury home this weekend has died. fox25 told you on sunday a three-year-old was rushed to the hospital from an out pine street home for what police called life and trauma. also learned now that the boys sister has been taken into state custody and that dcf has right now police are not saying how the three-year-old was hurt or whether any charges will be filed. also breaking right now nbta reporting all trains are stopped on the franklin line as emergency crews respond to a report of a person struck by a dedham. right now bussing is going on between corporate station and read bill right now we don't know anything more about the person who was struck but we do have a crew on the way