said sometimes she thought of herself as one of the caterpillars and she did not know what compelleder to do her work pretty and she thought maybe some of the silk worms would never medical office and do to it they were meant to do, and maybe she that she was meant to do. but as you know was that she had to keep at it. >> i think it is really cool. >> i think the english translators still kicking himself for not the letter i cannot explain it. >> as we have also achieved a high level of success in your own work to inspiring science writers out there andou what yor secret and what is writing process a day in the life of bindu sketch out but she will write it he told her to just jump into the material too early to. >> will little bit of both. and i think that the advice that i would give, is to find out the time of day works for you and go to work at that time of day. i'm trying to protect it from the busywork that we all have to do like e-mail. >> how do you evolve the structure of your story i also want to ask you about what inspired the. chapters. >> okay, at first, the structure wa

and she said that sometimes she she thought of herself one of those caterpillars that she didn't know what compelled her to do her work. and she thought maybe maybe some the silkworms would never metamorphose and and do what they were meant to do and maybe she would would never complete the work that that she was meant to do but all she knew was she she had to keep it. and i think that's really cool. and i think that english translator is still kicking himself for not including letter. i don't i cannot explain. so you have also achieved a high level of in your own work to the perhaps aspiring science writers out there. what are your secrets? what's the what's writing process? a day in the life? do you sketch out what you're going to write in detail or do you just jump into the material and see where it leads you? a little of both. i think the the the advice i would give is to find out the time of day that for you and to work at that time of day and and try to protect it from from the busy work that all have to do, like. how do you evolve the structure of your story. and i also want to

look at the dow winners, caterpillar, chevron, boeing, verizon and amazon.com. headed up by inter interpublic, the warner bros. and supermicro. they were on the list, the nasdaq composite, do we have big tech, pdd, workday, warner bros., mongo and walgreen boots alliance. the ten-year treasury up a little bit this morning, you stopped a relatively low level 4.17%, the price of gold strong this morning up 2692, the price of bitcoin right now 99100, oil 68, $69 a barrel, 16-point to three right now. nat gas, 317 hardly changed. the average price for a gallon of regular all the way down to $3.1 per gallon. most of them paying $3. california $4.36 per gallon. coming up trump has a solution for families mixed immigration status. deport them together. >> i don't want to be breaking up families, the only way you don't break up the families, you keep them together and you have to send them all back. stuart: some will see that as harsh, well as portable truck counsel chris cabrera about that. democrat senator ab klobuchar went after biden for pardoning biden, she's calli

and she said that sometimes she she thought of herself one of those caterpillars that she didn't know what compelled her to do her work. and she thought maybe maybe some the silkworms would never metamorphose and and do what they were meant to do and maybe she would would never complete the work that that she was meant to do but all she knew was she she had to keep it. and i think that's really cool. and i think that english translator is still kicking himself for not including letter. i don't i cannot explain. so you have also achieved a high level of in your own work to the perhaps aspiring science writers out there. what are your secrets? what's the what's writing process? a day in the life? do you sketch out what you're going to write in detail or do you just jump into the material and see where it leads you? a little of both. i think the the the advice i would give is to find out the time of day that for you and to work at that time of day and and try to protect it from from the busy work that all have to do, like. how do you evolve the structure of your story. and i also want to

if you want by 50,000 shares of caterpillar you don't pick them all at once. what happens -- michael down. never by all at once instead i should've got it in increments of 5000 shares and gradually over time during that day trying to get the best price i could. you cross your fingers and hope it goes down see can get more at a lower level and get a better cost basis. i don't mind if it goes down if i can get more. i don't want to say trade incised. he probably still do that i still invest my capital trust. whenever we add a new name we bind small increments. 500 shares at a time to get to 2000 shares at multiple days. that's why we like it if it goes down. and we lay out this whole process to members of the club. when you buy at once your declaring that the stocks will not go lower. no one has that kind of insight all the time. buying in stages is recognizing that judgment is fallible. so why don't more people do it my way? if they want 500 shares of exxon mobil decided by -- why won't they? it's because they want to be big. they don't want to waste the broker

let's talk about caterpillar, a big name. why do you like caterpillar? >> similar in the sense that, again, sort of best of breed defensive stock. i like it because we're looking, one, it is really cheap right now. it got hit really hard last week. definitely in the over flow conditions, it's trading at about 17 times forward earnings which is very cheap compared to its peers as well as the s&p 500. but it's looking at about 10% average growth over the next three years. so very strong expectations and it has nice balance of both domestic as well as international revenues and so i think, again, this is just reasonably priced, high quality, resilient and right now it's basically on sale. ashley: very good. copy that. very quickly, erin, small caps have been struggling a bit over the last month but do you still like them here? >> i do. i know this is a little more controversial but again, it goes with the diversification play. these stocks are so expensive and really have good growth prospects, even if we're facing a bit of head winds, there's a lot less do

goldman sachs up $15, nvidia three dollars, american express 7 and caterpillar up 9.s, please. some gains there. nvidia on the top of the list. google is up, apple is up, microsoft is up and amazon also is up. one last check on the markets that will be the 10-year treasury reeled and down a -- yield down a bit at 4.5%. fulton county da fani willis disqualified from prosecuting donald trump's election interference case in georgia. shannon bream is with us this morning. what does that mean? >> could be huge for the case moving forward and she's been the driving force for this entire thing. what this appellate court said it you didn't have to have a conflict but enough of appearance of conflict that people would lose their, you know, belief in the integrity of the justice system there in georgia and that's enough to disqualify her and her whole team. they've filed a notice of appeal to go to georgia supreme court f. that court upholds this ban kicking her out, then goes to this coalition of prosecuting attorneys in georgia and deciding if another attorney will pick it up

. >> i call a caterpillar. >> growing up, joanna zelman's love of animals was always encouraged by herher, jared. just listen to how many pets they had. >> at one point, we counted 26. >> something like that. >> counting. >> she's a dog and i do too. >> well, good call. nurturing that passion because it led to an accomplished career for joanna. about ten years ago, she became one of the earliest employees and eventually the executive producer of a social media brand you probably know called the dodo. little buddy. over the past decade, the dodo has become one of the most famous providers of animal videos that make you go, oh, i love two girls! however, joanna's time with the dodo is soon coming to a close and as she looks back, there's one costar from her videos that she's especially proud to have featured working at the dodo. >> like we have gotten to have more special moments. oh, definitely. >> it started in 2016 when her father, a semi-retired doctor and volunteer ambulance driver, led facebook live workshops on how to make diy dog toys. >> i was just running into this like fluff i

can i say your caterpillars coming down? but once you get here, you become a butterfly and if you need to leave this place, at least you have just experienced. and so people out there that, you know, the, there is a place where you become what you want to become. and that's here. and you know, there's a whole community that will support any idea that anybody have the my kids are you know, i don't, i don't have them right now. my associates a jury trial in alaska ceiling. i can see my kids. so there, i mean, it is very, so, 7th and low whenever i, whenever i see my kids again, you know, when they asked me and asked, what were you doing this whole time? no, that's what i've been doing all the time. i'm is, i'm 11. i'm actually happier, you know, i, i can be who i am and i can't judge by that for me. you know, uh, i don't seem to the healy or, you know, and why would i leave and put myself in a spot where i'm going to be homeless there. right now. i'm homeless. i have a roof or my air. i have food in the cabinets. you know, i h

but companies who make things out of steel, like ford, gm and caterpillar, suffered dearly.t ask ford's then ceo jim hackett. >> the metals tariff took about a billion dollars of profit from us. if it goes on longer, there will be more tariffs. >> reporter: tariffs against one particular country can backfire. >> with the china tariffs, we're importing a lot more from vietnam and malaysia. if the idea was to bring jobs back home, instead we're shifting them from china to vietnam in some sense. >> reporter: and ps, tariffs don't just raise prices on the imported stuff. >> it's the price of the domestic substitutes as well. >> there is a tariff on imported steel, but i'm an american steel maker. i can opportunistically say now i can raise my prices too? >> absolutely. consumers don't have the choice anymore. they can buy the high-priced or one lower. when we imposed the steel tariffs the european union and china got upset for us. what did they do? they raised tariffs on american farm goods. so all of the sudden american farmers who had nothing to do with steel sales per se had

some wildfires scattered across the landscape as he's fit sorts and it also needs milk it for caterpillars officials also want to designate more than 4,000 acres in 7 california counties where monarchs migrate for the winter. >> well, it was a special night in san francisco's north beach to love letters to the city fused into one big performance. >> kron four's noelle bellow joining us live from club fugazi with the details and well. >> cade and yeah, all of the magic happened right there on the stage behind me. dear san francisco isn't acrobatic show that's been held here at club fugazi over the last 3 and a half years. it is a love letter to san francisco that also points out its flaws. but humorously and tonight, it basically fused with our vicki liviakis says this is our city segment. >>iwhen the show here absolutely uplifting, literally. >> she is not lying. it is very literally uplifting and dynamic similar to the highs and lows that the city of san francisco has experienced over the years. the show weaves in the acrobatics with the personal stories shared by san franciscans. and ton

walmart sfroins, john deere others that have withdrawn from controversial scorecard more like lowe's caterpillark diversity in favor of neutral policies that don't alley innate most workforce walmart says good-bye to dei announced no longer returning to human rates campaign corporate equality index for score you write american corporations don't have to yield governance do any activist group era is over entering new age of good sound business decisions walmart trashg supply john deere as you write led the way how does this happen were they bullied by activists to change practices. human rights again got a foothold in companies that they've done said if you don't sign this survey this corporate quality index you are not being good to employees, meanwhile, folks waking up to reality that you don't to sign a survey to treat people well you can treat people well, you can make good products, you can make sure to have maximize return on investment to shareholders without bending the to me to far left interest groups or advocacy groups i think more customers have more information that 1792 exchange abo

i'll tell you, it is unitedhealth, walt disney, johnson & johnson, caterpillar. now the s&p 500.tocks as most people who are investors have some of these stocks. huntington, cigna, cvs health, unitedhealth group. nasdaq, asml -- and we have -- don't know that one. lauren: mercado libre. stuart: that's right. and on semi on the list. >>> still ahead, liz peek will react to the biden administration not answering direct questions about the mysterious drone sightings. tennessee senator bill hagerty, he's going to be here on the backlash over biden selling border wall materials. ukraine says it assassinated a top russian general. what does that mean for the peace talks? incoming special envoy to ukraine and russia, retired lieutenant general keith kellogg to, has that for us. and some democrats are calling out biden for disappearing from the public stage the as trump tax over. bill hemmer on that. the 10:00 hour is next. ♪ oh, i wanna dance with somebody. ♪ i wanna feel the heat with somebody. ♪ yeah, i wanna dance with somebody -- ♪ .. xcom g7 is one of the easiest ways to take bette

walmart, ford, harley-davidson, caterpillar, close, it goes to show you that the free market always prevailsbud light, you know the next commercial was following the commercial that they had dylan, a man who they dressed as audrey hepburn drinking beer in a bathtub, there next commercial after losing all that money was a big burly man on a motorcycle with a camo can. it goes to show you that the free market always prevails. >> sean: our final story, according to the washingtonian, food workers in d.c. are pledging to refuse service and cause inconveniences. they are calling this resistance and they think that by not serving a trump supporter or anybody in the administration, that they are taking their power back. can you explain how not offering service is taking your power back and how dumb are they? we are about to have no tax on tips. lousy service means lousy tip which means less money because you think you are taking power back and you are not taking any power back. >> no, all they are doing is losing money. so i would encourage all of these trumped supporters, not just people in the ad

this includes apple, american express, caterpillar and goldman sachs.r check. >>> let's get over to kate rooney for a cnbc news update. >> the united states saw an 18% increase in homelessness this year. that is according to new data from the department of housing and urban development. officials say more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless. the agency reports that the rise is driven mostly by lack of affordable housing, devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants and several parts of the country. >>> custom agents seized more than 22,000 counterfeit pennsylvania vehicle inspections . the agency reported the stickers were shipped from israel and were heading to addresses in philadelphia. officials did not say who said the tickets or who was to receive them. no arrests were made. >> the park city ski patrol officially on strike after months of negotiations with the park city mountain parent company. patrollers hitting the picket line. talks broke down between the union and resorts over wages and benefits. it is unclear how long the str

caterpillar is down about 16%, verizon is off 10% and novo nordisk just killed that one down about 43% the latest stretch down coming last week after that new weight loss drug that they are talking about missed the trial results. people only lost 22.7% of their weight versus 25% and on that heed line, they took $20 out of the stock which is absolutely ridiculous. novo nordisk is one of the biggest european, not going out of business and this is just a gimme, the novo nordisk but the other two are a little bit more american, cat is a big industrial name but on sale and considering this new economy going into new president, new administration, hopefully a new economy global economy, cat should benefit and verizon is a very boring name. nothing is sexy about verizon at all but it's a great dividend payer, pays about 7% for owning it and it trades in this 38 to $45 trading range and now it's kissing at 39 at the moment and it's finding plenty of support but i think on weakness, verizon is another name i own and we own it but on weakness i'd be adding to my verizon just because that name of

and it also needs milk it for us caterpillars. >> officials also want to designate more than 4,000 acres 7 california counties where monarchs my great for the winter. >> smiles all around here has a 4 years player visit to east bay hospital. and still ahead, we'll hear from guard pat spencer on what this means to him. >> fighter. i did at the warrior tree for we wanted to fight the fire. if think every some gift. >> in the east bay patients at kaiser permanente's, oakland medical center received a surprise visit from warriors guard pat spencer. he gave out some warriors team to gifts, including blankets and many basketball hoops to these little patients here. and spencer says that this really means a lot to him. >> after spent some time with some really incredible families that fighting, whatever battle that might be fine before the holiday season. so obviously, we're very blessed and privileged to do what we do for a living from it you to come here and get back to some of family. >> now, this is all part of the warriors annual season of giving campaign. very cute to see that kathy is an

and it also needs milk it for its caterpillars. >> officials also want to designate more than 4,000 acresnties were monarchs migrate for the winter. >> smiles all around here as a warriors player visit to east bay hospitals. still ahead, we will. we will. we will hear from guard >> caitlin clark has been named time magazines 2024 athlete of the year for her, quote, unprecedented influence in helping elevate the wnba into appointment viewing the 22 year-old set a single-season record of 337 assists during her rookie season with the indiana fever taking home the rookie of the year award and also was named to the all wnba first team. >> a heck of a fighter. i did that, the warriors truth that we wanted to fight the fire, it think every some gift. >> in the east bay patients at kaiser permanente's, oakland medical center received a surprise visit from warriors guard pat spencer. he gave out warriors team gifts, including some beanies blankets and some many basketball hoops to these tiny little patience here. spencer spoke about what this means to him. >> and after spent some time with some re

. >> monarch caterpillars are 500 times more sensitive to diamide insecticides.particular class of insecticides than than bees are. >> environmentalists say the epa underestimates the toll pesticides have on the monarch butterfly, and they're lagging behind more progressive countries. >> the european food safety authority is already asking pesticide manufacturers to submit data on pesticide impacts to butterflies, moths, bumblebees and solitary bees. pesticide manufacturers in europe are already complying if signed. >> researchers say it will be the first of many steps that can reverse the downward trend of this critical butterfly population, and that it will lead to critical improvements in both agricultural and residential spaces in santa barbara county. i'm news channel reporter mina wahab. >> next at six, milpitas police conduct a welfare check at an apartment. inside, they find four bodies, including two adults and two children. tonight, investigators are trying to figure out what happened. plus, nikki fortunato bass sworn in as oakland's interim mayor just

home depot, nike, caterpillar, american express.are, lululemon, now up 16%. ulta beauty, 11%. hewlett-packard enterprise, dollar general, weyerhaeuser. and the nasdaq winners, lululemon, mongo db, datadog and siriusxm radio. some nice gains today the. >>> coming up, msnbc's joy reid makes a disturbing link between denying sex change procedures for young children and and hitler's germany? you've got to watch. >> targeting trans if people isn't new. it is an age-old tradition which nazi germany did with brutally viability ends in the 1930s. violent ends. stuart: okay. seriously? how did we get here? i'll ask karol markowitz. >>> syrian rebels celebrate in the streets after taking control of9 another key city. these rebels are moving fast, they're moving towards damascus. what happened if the assad regime falls? general jack keane is here to break it all down for us. ♪ muck finish if. ♪ ♪ [coughing] hi susan, honey? yea. i respect that, but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerf

cnn's larry madowo has the story there is a leaf, and here are the caterpillars living underneath theen't brought them in. they've come in of their own accord. >> steve collins has devoted his life to butterflies. his garden in nairobi is a sanctuary for the insects. >> every day we empty these and they come in and we see. we record who's there. >> he traps documents and then releases butterflies here every day. >> oh puppy. i'm going to bring this one out because it's beautiful oh my goodness. this is the white banded emperor. there she is with her tongue feeding on my finger. >> but it is collins's collection of preserved butterflies which is most remarkable. this is massive. >> yes, it's the biggest collection of african butterflies in the world. >> in total, collins has over 4 million specimens from across africa, including 1.2 million pinned in cases like these. this is a very expensive hobby. now in his 70s and running out of space and money to maintain the collection, he is trying to find it a new home. what do you want to do with this entire collection ultimately, it needs to

our steel makers thrived, but companies that make things out of steel, like ford, gm, and caterpillararly. just ask ford's then ceo jim hackett. >> the metals tariffs took about a billion dollars of profit from us. if it goes on longer, there will be more damage. >> reporter: tariffs against one particular country can backfire. >> with the china tariffs, we're importing a lot more from vietnam. we're importing a lot more from malaysia. if the idea was to bring jobs back home, instead we're just shifting them from china to vietnam in some sense. >> reporter: p.s., tariffs don't just raise prices on the imported stuff. >> there's a tariff on imported steel but i'm an american steel maker, i can opportunistically say, hey, now i can raise my prices, too? >> absolutely. consumers don't have the choice anymore. they can buy the high priced steel or buy you. >> reporter: finally, there's the retaliation problem. >> when we imposed the steel tariffs, the european union and china got very upset with us. what did they do? they raised tariffs on farm goods. farmers found their sales limited ove

maybe jpmorgan, blow owl, caterpillar, other industrial names that we love. liz: yeah. and that have gotten extremely expensive. >> correct. but if we see this pullback that's coming starting today, if this continues for a couple of days, some of these stocks will take some of the froth out and set you up for an opportunity the as a long-term wealth -- long-term investor and wealth adviser. liz: what he said about a prices was very interesting to to me. you know, that was a big campaign discussion. donald trump went on and on about how high prices were. he blamed joe biden. prices are the sticky. if you look at the most recent core cpi at 3.3%, it matched expectations, but it was hotter than the prior month, gabriela are. let's listen to what powell said about prices, and then we'll talk about what may be an opportunity for price-sensitive stocks. here's powell. >> what i think people are feeling right now is the effect of high prices, not high inflation. so we understand very well that prices went up by a great deal, and and people really feel that. and it's prices of

i think about the giant home sized caterpillar drum -- caterpillar dump trucks out there that are runningdiesel fuel for the most part to create these batteries. this is another reason that at the institute we emphasize creativity, options, and the clearing away of regulatory hurdles for entrepreneurs to create new technologies. i think we will continue to see improvements in batteries for electrical vehicles and continued improvements in gasoline powered cars. maybe integrating smaller batteries into hybrid automobiles. over and over again, you know, to bring up my favorite example from history, in the late 1800s there were severe concerns about them a problem in manhattan. this was a public health crisis. the tons of manure generated by horses, it was rendered moot by the automobile and gasoline powered engines coming to the forefront. i think we will continue to see technological solutions being the answer to many of these problems but consumers as well, if an electrical vehicle is not the right choice for you and where your family lives, the market should be open to other options bein

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i'm making a statement about caterpillar. >> you had nice words to say about bank of america today andy're looking at crypto. >> the first time i've seen someone say point blank, we have to watch when we have this much money coming into the alternative, david, alternative being in this case code for things that are not typical that we don't follow for instance, if you were at goldman, you have a consumer package good and you should have froth. i cover froth. what do you cover? >> froth can go on for a long period of time >> yes >> as those of us who reported during the dot com era remember. i remember, irrational exuberance was 96. >> so why not put a department of froth maybe actually pro-froth the reason i say that, they used the backlash against ginsler i knew him for like 40 years suddenly, i'm like, i didn't really know him. i never got to know him. people think ginsler stood in the way of capital im. >> he stood one place, in front of the fireplace this effort musk and vivek ramaswamy are making to get federal workers back to the office >> what was the percentage of people in the

. >> our caterpillars are 500 times more sensitive to diamide insecticides.ferent because they experience pesticide exposure in big cities and suburban neighborhoods, not just on farms. environmentalists say the epa underestimates the toll pesticides have on monarch butterflies. well, squirrels, usually known for eating nuts, seeds or grains, have recently been seen feeding on other animals. a new study from uc davis observed squirrels in contra costa county this summer. researchers say they saw the rodents actively hunting voles in nearly half of the species interactions. researchers did not see the squirrels hunting other animals, but noted that it may have just been easier to hunt than gather. the carnivorous activity peaked alongside the massive population growth of voles in the area. health experts are downplaying the old saying of don't go outside without a coat or you'll catch a cold. well, cold weather is not the main reason for getting sick. it can make things more severe. doctors say viruses that cause the flu, covid 19, rsv and the common cold can

lot of experience from other big companies, top executive at companies like amazon, at ford, at caterpillara lot of that too. i think the street definitely liked what it heard from you yesterday. i guess my first question is how are you so confident about these higher than expected numbers across the board raising expectations on things like margin, things like profits for the year when there's so much uncertainty about what to think in your arena? what gives you that confidence? >> first of all, thanks for having me. there is a lot of uncertainty, becky, but we it feel confident. we feel confident because leaning into technology and ai, it's been a game changer for us, and we are revolutionizing our company but we're also trying to be a leader in the industry within ai and technology. if you look at our large language models and what our engineers are doing, it is making a game-changing change for our people. we say our strategy is our people powered by technology. and when we take that and look out, it gives us that confidence that we will hit those numbers that we laid out yesterday. >>

names like honeywell, caterpillar, nice, stable earnings quality that can weather the storm, weathereat expectations. vonnie: thank you so much for joining us this holiday week. chief investment officer at main street asset management joining us. incredible how the market just turned around. we were going to be able to report a nice, green day, but we did not get it. sonali: it's interesting. as our colleagues have been reporting, typically between christmas and the new year, you do see a bit of a bump higher, epidemic rally. we are not seeing that materialize quite yet. of course, a lot of the sectors that were driving the market earlier in the week -- for example, tesla was one of the bigger losers on the day today, dragged down that broader consumer discretionary index that would have seen much larger gains today with the likes of more stacks, on a day like dollar tree seeing a lot of love on a day when you are seeing people go to the stores buying things. vonnie: we will continue to talk about this. coming up, the editor-in-chief and cofounder of rizzi club joins us with his outl

can i say your caterpillars coming down? but once you get here, you become a butterfly and if you need to leave this place, at least you have just experienced. and so people out there that, you know, the, there is a place where you become what you want to become. and that's here. and you know, there's a whole community that will support any idea that anybody has the my kids are you know, i don't, i don't have them right now. my associates a jury trial in alaska studio. i can see my kids. so there, i mean, it is very self cell and low. whenever, whenever i see my kids again, you know, when they asked and asked, what were you doing this whole time? no, that's what i've been doing all the time. i'm is, i'm 11. i'm actually happier. you know, i, i can be who i am and i get judge by this to me. you know, uh, i don't seem to the hell here, you know, and why would i leave and put myself in a spot where i'm going to be homeless. and right now, i'm not homeless. i have a roof or my food in the cabinets, you know, stuff that you drink