carol: and i am carol massar.entist is trying to stop the destruction of reefs in the south china sea. oliver: we spoke with one reporter. how did you come across what was happening here? >> i used to be based in china, so i tend to follow developments in asia but the south china sea , is one of those conflicts i had not been following. i thought, what are they fighting over? and then in they had a tribunal july, ruling, which is very unusual. the philippines had made a complaint under international unusual, it went on for years. and then i read the tribunal ruling about who had what rights in the south china sea and what was going on. what struck me is there was so much about the environment and i , had not focused on that element. this man's name kept coming up, john mcmanus. i thought how unusual to be this scientist thrown into the midst of geopolitics. here is your name type thing. and his name came up because he had been the one to go and quantify all this environmental damage that had happened to these reef

carol: and i carol massar.n also listen to us radio channel 119 on sirius xm 99.1 fm in washington, d.c. and , am 960 in the bay area. in the markets and finance section, how goldman sachs comes out on top in the incoming donald trump administration even though candidate donald trump targeted the bank on the campaign trail. >> it has been quite remarkable. their stock is up something like 35% since donald trump won the u.s. presidential election. some of that, a lot of that has to do with donald trump's policies and the fact that a lot of people think he will roll back regulations on wall street. he said, he talked about repealing all of dodd-frank. dodd-frank is at least 10,000 -- pages. 1000 so, it is unlikely that all of that is going to get rolled back but some things that hurt goldman will be first in line. carol: volker has to do with hedge funds and private equities. >> it is a ban on prop trading and the other is a limitation on stakes in hedge funding and private equity funds. both businesses where ver

carol: i am carol massar. carol: in the markets and finance section, held goldman sachs managed to come out on the trump organization, even as they were targeted on the campaign trail. >> it has been pretty remarkable. the stock is up something like when donald trump won the presidential election. a lot of that has to do with trump's policies and the fact of people think he will roll back regulations on wall street. he has talked about repealing all of dodd-frank. dodd-frank is at least 1000 pages. so it is unlikely all of that will get rolled back, but some of the things that particularly hurt goldman, such as the volcker rule, will be first in line. carol: boulder has to do with hedge funds, investing using banks, a lot of personal money. dakin: voelker is two things. trading,prop limitation on steak and hedge funds and private equity funds. those businesses were big for goldman before the financial crisis, and stakes in hedge funds and private equity funds remains big for goldman. they have roughly 7 billio

carol: and i'm carol massar. also listen to us on the radio. and in london and asia on the radio plus app. area. 960 in the bay industries section, volkswagen's emissions scandal leads to a reboot of the corporate culture. you chose to start your story with an anecdote that took place several years ago in a gaudy setting, paints a picture of what volkswagen used to be like. tell us why you chose to start with that kind of imagery. christoph: yes, the new management that has been put in charge to steer the company through what is effectively the deepest crisis and the company's history is trying to more than resolve the scandal or fix the cars. they are also trying to turn the company at the moment, rein in excessive spending compared to the other automakers, and they are trying to turn and make the company leaner and more flexible, because the auto industry is facing age or shift towards electric vehicles with features like autonomous driving, so that is a pretty long, comprehensive list of things they need to ad

carol: and i'm carol massar. if you ever bought our work on a cruise ship, prepare to get sees it -- prepare to get seasick. carol: and tainted seafood. what's behind it and what is being done about it? ♪ oliver: another must-read. the cover story titled "bad scrap." shrimp. it caught me by surprise. what was the first thing that pops out at you? >> the first thing that pop down is the context we are talking about is china and where we are going in the global economy. just the chain it goes through and what islems getting into the food supply. theells a tale of regulatory environment that leaves a lot to be desired. carol: here we have the u.s. regulators putting sanctions on chinese shrimp and they found ways to get around it. i don't know if you would call them loopholes, but the way they have evaded scrutiny. the very fact of wanting to get having a robust environment. the contrary effect is that it seeks in and you don't know what is happening of where these things are living and breathing. and the effect of

carol: this is bloomberg. ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek". i am carol massar.r: i am oliver renick. we talked to carol matlock. carol: russia is on a mission in the middle east. what are they doing to broaden what they are doing beyond syria? that areave interests diplomatic, geopolitical, and commercial, very specifically, they are starting to do a lot more deals in countries across the region, and that would include doing a deal just in the tot few weeks with qatar take a stake in russia's biggest oil company. that would include some very major dealmaking in iran, where the sanctions are being lifted and there is a lot of opportunity for oil and gas development in that country. anthe same time, there is effort by russia to rekindle, rebuild relationships with countries such as egypt and libya, where they had more influence in soviet times than they have in recent years. oliver: how much of this is motivated by oil, getting access to regions that do obviously have a lot of oil? russia has not only been involved in these countries, but opec as well. >> obviousl

carol: welcome to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm carol massar. oliver: we will talk about what the future holds for those just starting out. we are talking about a how to build your nest egg. businessng your persona. carol: all that ahead on businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with the editor-in-chief of bloomberg business week. good to have the issue of new money. what was the special intention? >> it's all about people starting out or starting over and how they will do with their finances and where they see opportunity and risk and how they plan and we look behind people who spam every experience of life from transgender to new couples and babies and kids. oliver: it's new as in taking new steps as well as young people? megan: it looks at what millennials are doing and people in their teens trying to get business. we have people taking their children as young as five and six a classically can learn how to improve their credit rating. oliver: you have one story that's youngish ceos. megan: theranos is one company we talked to. it was the implosi

carol: i'm carol massar.university of pennsylvania and also the oscars of paper currency. all that is ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: megan murphy, there are so many must-reads! you guys take a deep dive into the french election. >> this is something that has attracted immense scrutiny worldwide. what is interesting about this is we see this populism theme play out. marine le pen likely to face a runoff with the central right candidate. what is so interesting about this is many know the path of her nationalist policies, picking up a lot of the things that donald trump has been talking about. but in terms of her economic policy, she is trying to tap into that working class, improving labor policies, making sure the 35-hour work week stays. the other candidate is really focused on smaller government, cutting the corporate taxes. that actually goes against a lot among this working-class population. it's a really fascinating thing to see how this global populism is playing out. oliver: what will happe

carol: welcome. in this special issue, poland offers donald trump a blueprint for not have to drain the so-called swap. wants to become the gold standard for diversity in the workplace. >> all of that is ahead for bloomberg businessweek. ♪ >> we are here with the editor in chief megan murphy. if you think about the yahoo! hacks and the samsung phones, not such great stories but overall it was not of that here. >> it will be one of the seminal pieces. it makes the point we could talk about the samsung phone catching or some of the companies that didn't have a great 2016 but the point is underneath that we have seen things like uber make real advancements in self driving cars. technology and computers ability to advance. under new presidential administration, how technology is really going to step forward and puts itself to come out of the agnostic political staff we have had. we had a responsibility of companies like facebook or other providers. is this going to be the moment where tech have to come o

carol: and i'm carol massar. still had come the men behind urentrocks -- saint la doubling down on being environmentally friendly. oliver: investors are lining up to get behind green infrastructure products. we will tell you about the man behind the trend. and, robot babies. oliver: all of that is ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: we are with businessweek editor-in-chief megan murphy to talk about some more important issues in the magazine. must-reads. let's talk about the markets and the finance section which is about litigating in germany. megan: this is quite common across western europe and the difficulty of pushing forward and it goes into the impediment that you face and run that kind of litigation in germany. it is talking about volkswagen in terms of getting consumers and people who bought these the w cars who had she systems built in on emissions. this guy running this case and trying to generate this big class-action. one of the biggest impediments actually in germany is that the lawyers do n

carol: i am carol massar.he oscars of paper currency, all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek". ♪ carol: megan murphy, there are so many must reads. you take a deep dive into the french election. >> this is something that has attracted immense scrutiny worldwide. pen likely to face a runoff with the central right candidate. path of here nationalist policies picking up a lot of the things that donald trump has been talking about. tap into thatto working class, improving labor policies, making sure the 35 hour per week work week stays. fascinating thing to see how this global populism is playing out. oliver: what will happen to mexicans in the united states who have to send money home if remittances are held back or taxed by the trump administration? story wherereat looking at, this underground economy. of thetrump eight at one centerpieces that he was going to tax or stop remittances. that is a huge deal. that people who are charging $350 per suitcase to send money back, what the article shows is that they ar

time for "newsroom" with carol costello. it's market cap, carol. not big enough that way. >> i'm glad you cleared that up for us. thank you so much. "newsroom" starts now. you guys have a good day. >> no love. >> you, too. >> a lump of coal in human form. >> i'm sorry. "newsroom" starts now. >>> and good morning i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. closing arguments set to begin in just a few minutes in the trial of dylann roof. the man accused of carrying out the charleston church massacre. on wednesday jurors got a firsthand account of what unfolded during that night of terror from one of the survivors. holly shepard recalls diving under a table when bullets started flying. she says roof pointed a gun at her and asked this chilling question. did i shoot you yet? shepherd's tearful 911 call was played out in court a warning some of you might find this disturbing. >> 911, what's your emergency? >> please emanuel baptist church, people shot down here. please send somebody right away. >> emanuel church? there's people shot? >> he sho

, carol, i don't want to hear anymore. i mean, why don't you just get off my back. - you wanna know why? - yes, i do. - because you're my mother, and i love you. - oh, honey, i'm so sorry. oh, carol, when i walked into that apartment last night with senator bob and found walter in bed with that... after only three weeks of separation, and the fact that he's drinking again just kills me. oh, carol, i love walter so much, and i hate him. - [vivian] ah, ah, ah, excuse me. ah, i have just remembered something that i have to do in my own home. (laughter) when you started. career versus marriage never is. - walter isn't against my career, carol. he's against my career in albany. you know, selling the store and just dragging along. - will you stop defending him? and stop assuming all the guilt? look, walter walked out on you because of an inconvenience to him. - oh, come on, carol- - mother, yes, it's a severe inconvenience, the one who refuses to even compromise. and the whole time, he's carrying around this big banner that says

carol: let's go through one of the couples.seem to have come into the relationship with different approaches to the money. josh: when it started i was he alreadyving and had his spreadsheets and financial plan and savings figured out. and they converged. it converged on the one hand where rebecca became more conscientious of money but rebecca helped re: -- helped ari -- this is a couple that now gives away 20% of their income, something that they went through a process to figure out how to do and it was important for them to do. that doesn't mean they don't have any conflict. they still disagree about how to handle inheritance, what the progressive approaches to being to get a chunk of money from a family member. carol: trans persons are meeting some challenges when it comes to retiring and benefits. let's talk about transitioning from a man to a woman or a woman to a man. there are economic and financial consequences. you write about that. guest: i talked to a lot of transgendered people about the experience, not only the medi

carol: you met him? ethan: i spent many hours with him. carol: what is he like? is a very interesting guy. because you know, this world we are describing feels almost gang-owned or like an underworld. but martin is very charming and i think he is both sort of a bulldozer and a pussycat at the same time. he is a guy who can get his way but who also sort of moves you through his sincerity. you don't have the feeling that he is out to screw you, to be perfectly honest. you have this feeling he wants to move this thing along. part of it if he is very upset at what has happened in venezuela and he wants to have the government be moved out. oliver: up next, the length to which one fast-growing startup is going to build a diverse workforce. then after that, the energy drink that is all the rage in brooklyn and hollywood. ♪ oliver: welcome back. i am oliver renick. in the "focus on small business" section, flag technologies opens up about the challenges of quickly building a robust and diverse workforce. carol massar and i spoke with reporter ellen hewitt. carol: silicon

hi, suzanne. >> hi, carol. we actually saw president obama talking about the fact that he did have a personal conversation with president putin. that happened back in september we're told. this was a sideline conversation in china at the g20 summit when he made it very clear that the united states did not appreciate and would not tolerate the espionage that was taking place. it was back in october when intelligence analysts finally said publicly that russia was behind this. this is carol part of a public and private shaming, if you will, of russia to get them to stop but the president also saying that there are other alternatives, as well. some options which include economic sanctions and our own cybersecurity threats of our own. now the president is trying to really be conciliatory in a way, and bipartisan because he does realize that when trump becomes president he might have to carry the mantle in terms of holding russia accountable. so listen to this part of the interview, carol. >> it's very important that

hi, matt. >> hi, carol.his one-china policy and any perceived threats to it is, for the chinese government, one of its most sensitive topics. so it's not a surprise that earlier today at a regularly scheduled press conference for the ministry of foreign affairs, a spokesperson had some strong words for the president-elect after his comments. adhering to the one-china principle is a bedrock for the development of u.s./china relations. of the bilateral relationship as well as cooperation in major fields would be out of the question. >> so some strong words there but a relatively measured tone. but the communist party here in china does have other ways of expressing his viewpoints and they use the state-run newspapers to do so. earlier this morning in a paper called "the global times" in an editorial that paper said that trump is like a child in his ignorance of foreign policy. so some very consistent negative statements. but, carol, the reason why the chinese government is so upset about this is because of wha

carol: you met him? ethan: i spent many hours with him. carol: what is he like? is a very interesting guy. this world seems like an underworld. martin is very charming and i think he is both sort of a bulldozer and a pussycat at the same time. he can get his way with also sorts of moves you through his sincerity. you do not have the feeling he is out to screw you, to be perfectly honest. part of it if he is very upset at what has happened in venezuela and he wants to have the government be moved out. oscar bait up next, the list to -- allat -- off the bank of her bank the live to what one upstart is doing. oliver: welcome back. in the focus on small business section, technology opens up about the challenges of quickly building a robust and diverse workforce. carol messer and i spoke to the reporter. carol: silicon valley has been under pressure to have a more diverse workforce if you look right now, that is not what they have. that started a couple of years ago in 2014, a lot of pressure on big tex companies, google, apple, facebook, to release demographic data.

. >> time for the "newsroom" with carol costello. carol's going to give them gifts. she's a softy. >> i've already bought them. they're in my office. >> yeah. >> got me one, too. >> sorry, poppy. >> thanks so much, guys. have a great day. "newsroom" starts right now. and good morning, i'm carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. donald trump announces his pick for secretary of state but diplomacy may be hard to find on capitol hill. where senators are voicing deep concerns. >>> rex tillerson has no foreign policy experience but as the head of exxonmobile, he has developed close ties to russia and its president, vladimir putin. that has unsettled lawmakers and set the stage for what could be the first big fight between the trump white house and his own party. sources telling us tillerson does come highly recommended to trump. those endorsements, former secretaries of state condoleezza rice and james baker and bob gates. we're covering it all for you. jason carroll is live outside of trump tower. cnn political reporter manu raju live in washington. jason, let's s

time for "newsroom" with carol costello. good morning, carol. >> good morning. that is a good, good stuff. you guys have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. >>> and good morning carol costello, thank you so much for joining me. the electoral college on track to seal the deal for president-elect trump today 538 members will cast ballots across the country. the process largely seen as a ceremonial one now taking an unusual step into the spotlight. next hour, electors in indiana, new hampshire, tennessee and west virginia all expected to begin voting. and the pressure is on. some electors are now being urged to break their party's pledge and vote their conscience. recent revelations of russian hacking only adding fuel to the fire. but in order to block trump from the white house, 37 republicans electors would need to switch their votes. something highly unlikely. let's begin with cnn's jessica schneider. >> hi, carol, that's right. michigan's 16 electors will cast their vote right here at the state capitol starting at 2:00 this afternoon. this is largely ceremonial

carol? >> all right. hala gorani reporting live from berlin this morning. with me now to talk about this, terror analyst peter bergen and karen greenberg director for center of national security at fordham university and a terrorism analyst. welcome to both of you. so, peter, this tunisian suspect is supposedly linked to a pro-sigh sis network operating within germany. what more can you tell us about that? >> not much, carol, because i think linked is kind of an ambiguous word. does that mean that he shared an apartment with some in the network? does that mean that he was actively part of that network? i think that's not very clear. you know, at one point the german police have said that there was no direct link to isis. so now we're getting conflicting reporting from german security officials that he had some kind of link to this network. but again, link is kind of an ambiguous word. i mean i'm sure we'll know more in the next 24 hours. >> and karen, we just got an urgent in to cnn that ger

carole: do not walk on pond and lakes, it's still not safe. the fire department used the cold to train today. they suited up to practice techniques and ice rescues. idle or not to idle. the idea of leaving your car running to warm up the engine re early days of combustion engines. a brief idling time of 30 seconds is all that is truly needed. >> no weather alerts because of the wind chill, but that could change as the temperatures bottom out. you can get alerts sent to your phone. it's free to download. charged with attempting to shoot up a school. carole: one message i sent said he thought it would be funny if a school shooting happened in sheboygan. >> reporter: this all unfolded very quickly according to police. they were tipped off about the threat and got a search warrant to raid his home. >> it's scary. yes. >> reporter: according to court record, the threats came on bagemahl's facebookanel. he said i might be buying an ar-15 with a laser red gothr dot on it. the next day he posted someone needs to do a school shooting around here. he pu

carol? >> so he's sort of the middle man between the intelligence officers and donald trump? the twitter thing caught my ear. so why, why wasn't the ceo of twitter invited to this tech meeting? >> yeah, this is really interesting. i think it is notable, and i think it's certainly caught everyone's eye the fact that jack dorsey and anyone from twitter left off the invitee list. notable because donald trump's affinity for twitter, how much he relied on it during the campaign and relied on it during the transition, and potentially during his presidency, as well. left off the list, we know that the meeting today is to talk about jobs and certainly a grab bag of other topics but no response as to why they're not there. >> interesting. i'm sure you'll delve into it later today. sunlen serfaty, thanks so much. still to come in the "newsroom," donald trump promises to drain the swamp. our next best wants to lead the bucket brigade and he said much of it can be done with the stroke of a pen. he will

carol? >> joe johns reporting live for us from washington. let's bring back reid wilson is with me again the national correspondent for the hill and rebecca berg the cnn political analyst and national political reporter for realclear politics. so, mr. trump's pick to lead the epa sued the epa over mr. obama's emission reduction program. but trump also talked with al gore and leonardo dicaprio about climate change. so what gives, reid? >> well, this is one of the things that i'm going to be watching. we're going to see a seachange here in the relationship between federal government and the states now that we've got a new administration. scott pruitt, attorneys general from state like texas and kansas, very conservative states, spent the last eight years suing the obama administration, every agency from the epa to the department of energy, the department of the interior, fish and wildlife service. now, we're going to see a reversal. if scott pruitt as the next epa administrator tries to undo a

carol? >> all right. jessica schneider reporting live outside of trump tower this morning. thank you so much. now let's head to indianapolis, and the carrier plant, where mr. trump and mr. pence will meet with workers. cnn's suzanne malveaux is there. good morning. >> good morning, carol. well we expect around 2:00 is when they're actually going to be at the plant. they're going to be touring on the floor. it is an amazing moment. it was ten months ago the owners made the announcement to the employees that their jobs were all going to mexico and you had one of those workers pick up his cell phone and actually tape that moment and put it up on youtube. it went viral, and donald trump noticed that, and really made it a centerfees for his jobs campaign. so it is coming full circle. there are some things in this deal, it is kind of murky but there are a lot of things that people are talking about. why would this big company do it? their parent company united technologies, well, many incentives.

carol: you guys met him? >> i spent many hours with him. carol: what is he like?a very interesting guy. the world we are talking about is like kind of an underworld. but margin is very charming. he is both able dozer and a push the cat at the same time -- he is a bulldozer and a pussycat at the same time. you don't have the feeling that he is out to screw you, to be perfectly honest. he is very upset at what has happened in venezuela, and he wants to have the government moved out. which:, the lengths to one startup is going to build a diverse workforce. after that, the energy drink that is all the rage in brooklyn and hollywood. ♪ ♪ oliver: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." i'm oliver resnick. in the focus on small business center, they open up on the challenges of building a robust workforce. ellen: silicon valley has been under pressure to have a more diverse workforce. if you look at silicon valley right now, that is not what they have. >> it is a story that started in 2014. there was a lot of pressure on the tech companies to release demographic workfo

i'm carol costello. thank you very much for joining me. three families who lost loved ones in the orlando gay nightclub targeted by a terrorist are suing facebook, twitter and google. they blame social media for the explosive growth of isis. they said without those three that growth wouldn't have been possible. deborah is following this for us. >> good morning. that's right these companies basically are being sued by families who excuse twitter, google and facebook of providing material support isis. material support usually charged federal prosecutors bring against people that help terrorists. but pulse families allege these giants knowingly and recklessly allow terrorists to use social media in several ways. to raise money. to recruit people. the suit says without twitter, facebook and google which owns youtube or streaming videos the explosive growth of isis would not have been possible. now lawyers accuse twitter of allowing isis accounts to promote its brutal terror individual jobs elicit donations and connect with one another. they e

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carole report entertainment world is mourning the death of alan thick. he was portedly playing hockey with his teeged son when he suffered a h he was 69 years old. he was widely known for his role on sitcom "growing pains." george: caelyn o'neil was last seen sunday. if you have seen him or know where he is, call the sheriff's department. done there are stopped in wisconsin as part of his thank you tour. state took the stage as well. trump praised them for helping him win wisconsin, but the reaction was mixed from the audience. >> no, i have come to appreciate him. he's like a fine wine. he day goes by, i get to appreciate his genius more and more. if he ever goes against me, i won't say that. governor scott walker. where's scott? oh, man. he was tough. he was great. he's a great governor. george: at the ends of the speech ryan presented trump with a packers' jersey sporting the number 45 for the 45th president. how did he do? >> reporter: people we talked expected. they left with a sense of pride for wisconsin and this country. they waited in the cold f

>>> good morning, i'm carol costello. in berlin, a truck plows through a crowd of shoppers at a busy christmas market killing 12 people and injuring dozens more. a german official tells cnn there's fear the attacker could still be on the loose armed and dangerous. in turkey, killed on camera. the russian ambassador to turkey gunned down, his assassin shouting don't forget aleppo. attacks in switzerland and yemen. world leaders now calling for action. we're covering these stories with our team of reporters around the world. let's begin in germany with cnn's senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen, hi, fred. >> hi, carol. yes, the german authorities of course earlier today said they had someone in custody but since then have said they're not sure or they believe that person might actually not be the one who was at the wheel of that truck when it plowed through this christmas market. of course killing so many people and injuring so many others. they say all of this is very alarming because they believe that if s

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. >>> good morning, i'm carol costello. we have confirmed the former texas governor rick perry has been selected for energy secretary. you might remember rick perry at one time wanted to abolish the energy department but mr. trump hoping he'll become his energy secretary very soon. jason carroll live at trump tower to tell us more, good morning. >> good morning, carol. it was back in 2011 during that debate when rick perry was asked which three departments he would eliminate if he became president. he had that sort of an oops moment where he couldn't remember which department he wanted to eliminate, at lead not all three of them at first. then later on during that debate he said yes, one of those departments i would eliminate would be the department of energy, the department he has now been tasked with heading up. so that is one of the developments here from trump tower. also, a lot of talk still about trump's choice, rex tillerson, for secretary of state. a number of gop leaders weighing in at this point. coming forward in

so please, carol, maybe you can -- >> thank you very much, jules. well, i med david baldwin in 1964 in the east village at a party. i was living in the area and. we met at a party at the home of an attorney that worked for jimmy. and then it was up or down from there, depending on how you look at it. but it ended up being literally the next 3/4 of my life in terms of amazing experiences things that i treasure. so david was at that time in rehearsal for a blues for mr. charlie, which i don't know if anybody in the audience see it? well, a lot of people left because they couldn't handle it. it was quite a play. actually a wonderful work of jimmy's that has never received the proper due as much of his work. i was at a performance at the amphitheater every night and then, it closed and, it went to london for a little while. and it ended. there have been resurgences of the play. in fact it was done recently where daniel lives in providence, rhode island at the trinity rep paer to theater which is exciting after all these years. it is a wonderful play to

carol: no, not yet. you hear, though, the current saying that if donald trump were to do this 804 times, then maybe he would match record onobama's reviving manufacturing sector. but you haven't seen a broad a policy or blueprint from the trump administration-in-waiting. amy: i want to talk about the carrie.u tour, donald trump went to ohio. it looked like a campaign rally saw throughout the course of the year. he had prepared remarks but also veered in and out to attacking the media, attacking hillary clinton, talking about how great was in different states, saying people didn't believe in him. is this what we should expect to from a president donald trump for the next four years? these campaign-style rallies president? carrie: they seem to be indicating there will be. of advisers indicate he will be doing this. i covered president obama together. this reminds me a lot of him, thing, what he said in the clip at the start of the show, i need you to help me pass agenda in washington. this is exactly what

the pictures trace his earliest dales with carol -- days with carol right up to his burial here in new york at st. john divine, at the cathedral. i think while taking distance from america, he retained a love/hate relationship. he always felt very american. he said i can't be an expatriot, that's only for -- expate rat, that's only for white people because i have a lot of baggage with the family history and don't forget i was the grandson of a slave. so he always felt this double-sided relationship. and he finally became, as he called himself, he always said i'm a small, ugly, gay black american, as he liked to describe himself. but he was finally accepted as one of us in the community. and one of the wonderful things just going back to the picture for one minute is i asked the waiter in the hotel why is there a photo of james baldwin here? i understand picasso because he came and all the others. and he said because he was like a son to the family roux who owned the hotel, and the grandmother of the present generation said we want you to be part of the family, and you come eat with us

however they made an exception stating they gave carol and al a full refund. it is noteworthy that they made this decision after we started asking questions. visit nbcbayarea.com/responds. have a great weekend. >> thank you, chris. >> jeff ranieri joining us with the cold story of the night. >> i know. i've been talking about it all night. i went out for a break and -- >> i saw terry in the parking lot. i was like, it's cold. it gets down to your bones. >> you didn't have the a hat. >> he doesn't want it mess up the hair. >> i didn't follow my rules. i didn't have a jacket on, right? all right. it is definitely very chilly out there as all of you know. if you've been heading out to a micro climate alert, so much colder with the freeze warnings in effect. moving in this time last flight with the rain but now dropping from 6 to 13 degrees colder and you can see the freeze warnings here in purple for the north bay east bay and south bay. that's where temperatures will range 27 to 32 degrees. now not quite as chilly near the bay. we're under a frost advisory from

>> of course, everyone knows carol costello. >> time for newsroom with carol costello. >> thanks, stan and anderson, appreciate it. >> what'd she call me? >> stan! >> "newsroom" starts now. and good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you very much for joining me. another busy day taking place for president-elect donald trump. he's in meetings and under fire. on the left side of your screen, the famed gold elevators whisking advisers up to the headquarters. on the right-hand side of your screen, we're awaiting the next shot fired in trump's battle with the union boss. chuck jones is holding a news conference over the carrier deal. and the fallout after calling the president-elect a liar. and this could be a decisive weekend for the secretary of state pick. aides to the president-elect say former critic mitt romney is still in the running, despite some of trump's most trusted advisers publicly gunning him down. >> i just was reflecting what i saw on the grassroots. i had not seen blowback like that in quite a while. >> and i do want to ask you about that blowback. hold on one second, kel

carol? >> jessica schneider live outside of trump tower. later this hour, alexandra field will join us from beijing to discuss china's reaction to all of this. let's talk about that and much much more. with me, cnn political analyst rebecca berg, national political reporter for real clear politics. karen tumulty from "the washington post," andrey brower, former lieutenant governor of south carolina and cnn commentator bakari sellers. welcome to all of you. what do you want to talk about first? we got a lot on the plate this morning. let's start with jill stein. she's expected to speak at any moment about this recount and is holding this rally in front of trump tower. what is she expecting to gain from that? >> i can't answer that. i don't know what she's expecting to gain. it's not moving america forward. it's not continuing to get ready for the new president to take office. to me it seems like a side show. i don't want to negate anybody's opportunity to challenge something they feel is not

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now carol isom will be laid to rest this saturday december 10th.would have also been her 56th birthday. reporting live, andrea cline-thomas, nbc 10 news. >>> it's been a year since the cdc released its recommendation on stopping gun violence in wilmington. today an advisory group updated their plan to put that advice into practice. it was part of a public forum by the movement for a culture of peace. and it comes days after a 15-year-old was shot while walking to the bus stop. delaware online reports the advisory group is expected to release its plan this month. the cdc report recommends the city develop tools to identify young people at high risk for committing violent crimes and then work to get them involved in outreach programs. >>> well some kids in the lehigh valley will surprise their family members with gifts this christmas. thanks to a few airport cops. officers from the lehigh northampton airport authority took 12 children on a target shopping spree in allentown today. each officer went with two kids on an aisle-searching adventure to pic

good morning. >> good morning, carol.ncertainty continues to mount as to donald trump's stance on china especially after his tweet storm this weekend and the phone call to taiwan on friday. in terms of the tweet storm, donald trump criticized china for what he says manipulation of its currency, also criticizing military action in the south china sea. when it comes to china the foreign minister there says it refuses to speculate on donald trump's actions or whether or not this could be a break in policy. the president-elect lashing out at china. only two days after his unprecedented phone call with the leader of taiwan. donald trump accusing china of keeping its currency artificially low. monetary experts say it's fairly valued. and decrying their military presence in the south china sea. trump stepping up some of the tough talk from the campaign trail. >> they've taken our money and our jobs. our manufacturing -- they've taken everything. china is responsible for nearly half of our entire trade deficit. >> but the timing