i'm cheryl casone. cheryl casone. gerri: and gerri willis in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: now another film i can go see because it's going to be raining. gerri: raining every weekend this spring? cheryl: may be. a lot of breaking news. president trump throwing a lifeline to china's cte. president xi of china and their working together to give bte a way to get back into business fast. too many jobs in china lost. china has been instructed to get it done. after the jump administration then components to bte -- cte. gerri: the company accused of misleading regulators after settle charges of violating sanctions against north korea and iran. following the president street, china's foreign minister the country appreciates the u.s. position on zte. senate minority leader chuck schumer treating how about helping some american companies first. cheryl: kind of find out when a gate at the trump administration is putting more pressure on europe to stop dealing with a ring. white house national security adviser john bolton says the u.s. is ready to punish european companies tha

cheryl casone he has more. justice department is trying to meet the demands of chairman devon nunez and house oversight committee chairman tray gouty, both have been signing the request for these documents. nunez at one day catherine to hold jeff sessions in contempt. fox news is learned the invitation is a direct result of the meeting at the white house between rod rosenstein, his deputy and white house chief of staff john kelly. novartis and at&t paying a total of $1.8 million to a private company run by michael cohen. donald trump's personal attorney. for policy advice about the trump administration. novartis spent $1.2 billion for guidance on us healthcare issues like the affordable care act. the company stops working with:one month into the contract because it wasn't getting the services that it needed. at&t spent $600,000, the company paid $30,000 was all film actress stormie daniels who claims to have had an affair with donald trump. taking a look at shares, novartis down 8% this year, at&t shares off by

lou dobbs, cheryl casone. they don't have to pick someone from within their ranks. nt ratings of congress, maybe they should pick an outsider. cheryl: you have 40 conservatives signing this letter for jim jordan to take over. we had a couple guests on the air saying jim jordan would be a great pick. and he wants to fight for the true conservative beliefs of the party. >> i'll speak for talk radio. most of of my colleagues say jim jordan. and he's good on tv. he's combative when necessary. and he'll go on these other networks and be combative but it's in a friendly way. he's articulate. he's have much involved in all this russian collusion stuff as far as the real details and how to drill down. on issues like illegal immigration which i think is a critical issue. he's golden. let's take him tonight and put him in there. >> i like that idea, too. to me the opposite of a swamp moss monster is the most of conservative person. that's the person who will do the most of to drain the swamp. cheryl: one of the things that would happen with the farm bill going up in flames. th

cheryl casone has the details. good morning, cheryl. cheryl: good morning, dagen.hows the flames and plumes of smoke rising from miles, of the 75 employees inside the plant at the time. luckily, nobody was hurt. investigators believe something inside overheated that sparked a blast that officials believe they will resume operations within a few days. a judge is due to issue a ruling today in the legal battle between cbs and redstone controlling shareholder after the judge issued a temporary restraining order yesterday afternoon. cbs suing to prevent the holding company national amusements from forcing a merger. cbs and viacom has scheduled a special meeting to consider a dividend that would reduce the voting rights. shares are down 7% this year. viacom shares are down 8%. watch fox business today for more on that. first lady melania trump giving a personal update on her help on twitter. she said a sincere thank you to walter reid medical unit and also sent good wishes and prayers. i'm feeling great and look forward to getting back onto the white house soon. the fir

cheryl casone has the details. >> cheryl: we're getting new details.till coming in right now. we are told that a gunman killed the two officers and one other person. the associated press is reporting the suspect has also been shot and killed. about a half dozen shots were heard. you can listen here. [sirens] [gunshots] >> cheryl: the a.p. reported there are indications that the shooting could have been a terror attack. more than 30 people were killed by terrorists at the brussels airport and subway system two years ago. we're following that breaking news out of europe. deadly shootings across chicago over the "mornings with maria" . a series of shootings wounded 30 others throughout the city of chicago. among the victims, a 20-year-old mother who was shot and killed on her doorstep while celebrating her child's birthday. well, the marines are now on standby ready to air-lift people to safety as racing lava is leaving a pa path of destucks n across hawaii's big island. a new fissure is spewing lava at a rate of three feet per second, as a 4.4 magnitude

i'm cheryl casone. gerri: i'm gerri willis and for lauren simonetti. transcriptase they've gotten may first tend to talk about. things are getting a little brighter. gerri: and yet you have your boots on. cheryl: got a good sign. the trump administration extending deal in aluminum tariff exemption for the european union, for canada and for mexico for another month. they now have until june 1st to reach agreements with the united states to avoid the terrorists. cheryl: on trade gerri: meanwhile permanent exemption to brazil, argentina and australia. the details of the deals with those countries so they finally shortly. south korea was given a permanent exemption is part of a revision of a free trade agreement. cheryl: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu claiming iran covered up its nuclear weapons program before signing a deal in 2015. secretary of state mike pompeo issuing a statement saying the documents obtained by israel from inside iran show beyond any doubt that the iranian regime is not telling the truth. gerri: plate irvine is at the white

in new york, friday may 18th, day t day before the wed, good morning, i'm cheryl casone. gerri: good morning, i'm ger rewill his. cheryl: americans getting up nice and early. gerri: in our household, we will be watching. chinese foreign min city denying reports that trade delegation offered the trump administration a 200 billion-dollar reduction in china's annual surplus by increasing import of american products, this comes as negotiations continue between chinese delegation led by the country's vice premier and top u.s. officials in washington. cheryl: president trump giving his team clear marching orders. >> nobody has seen anybody from our country negotiate, trade with china and other countries. i'm not just blaming china, it's the biggest, it's a total one-way streak. cheryl: the president met with the chinese white premier. beijing announcing dropping antidumping probe into import of u.s. sorgum. gerri: complicated. nafta countries are nowhere near close to deal. labor and energy. cheryl: all of this coming as canadian prime minister trudeau strikes a positive note in

i'm cheryl casone. elon musk focusing on model three. gerri: i think he's trying to distract us from the real story at tesla appeared cheryl: that's going to be an interesting story. the trump administration is now considering steep new tariffs on imported cars and auto parts. the u.s. launches a national security investigation into auto imports. china says it will firmly defend its interests calling them of washington's abuse of national security laws under the umbrella of trade. gerri: lawrence is in washington with more. reporter: president donald trump thinking trade on many different levels. trade representatives have a lot of irons in the fire. the office tells me they can never remember a time where they have ever been so busy negotiating on so many different friends. the president pointing out that there will be big news coming soon for our great american auto workers have her decades of losing your jobs to other countries. you've waited long enough and announced the commerce department will initiate an investigation into the impo

cheryl casone. gerri: and gerri willis in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: tesla vostok we're talking about later on. gerri: it was big and elon musk did not want to answer any of the questions coming from analysts. he said they were giving him a headache. cheryl: will talk about that later on this morning. right now we go overseas. the u.s. delegation led by treasury secretary stephen mnuchin is in china with crucial trade talks. president trump treating a great financial team is in china trying to negotiate a level playing field. i look over to being with president xi in the not-too-distant future. we will always have a good great relationship. reporter: the best we can tell the talks have been underway for about two hours. delegation keeping a relatively low profile and they will continue talks into the evening. already passed evening. arty past evening. arty past 5:00 on a thursday evening in beijing. have dinner together both sides and be back at a long day of talks set for tomorrow. earlier today we're in downtown beijing just outside the u.s. e

good morning i'm cheryl casone. gerri: i'm gerri willis in for lauren simonetti.g. important is that the showdown brewing between special counsel robert mueller and president translators. considering a subpoena to get the president to talk. all of this as gop lawmakers threatened to impeach rod rosenstein. cheryl: todd pyro joins us to break it all down. >> good morning. such a busy morning as they all are these days. telling president trump's legal team he could subpoena the president to appear before a grand jury of refuses the interview. the threat from a march meeting explained by trumps attorney john dowd. admitted speed of having answered the interview request. the latest risk of the day after fox news obtained a list of questions that trumps legal team believes mueller wants to ask. possible questions cover interactions with key figures in the russia saga, james comey, jeff sessions, michael cullen along with topics including a moscow real estate deal, and begins with vladimir putin enemy back channel setup by jared kushner to talk to russia before the inau

cheryl casone has a preview. cheryl: good morning. a day. berlin i'm now two dow components, merck and pfizer along with aetna are due to report this morning. investors are also gearing up for apple's latest results "after the bell" that type type expected to pose sharply higher earnings per share and revenue compared to a year ago. this is the one to watch. investors are watching for a number of things from apple and looting the number five funds that were shipped from other financial forecast and plan for the $163 billion small pile of cash they are sitting on right now. apple shares touched a record high on march the 18th. again, big day when it comes to earnings and or apple. shares of bp right now stop jumping to its highest level since 2010. they reported their best quarterly profit since the mid-24 at team. of course the numbers are boosted by higher oil prices and rising production for the company. this is coming after eight years. it was eight years ago the company was hit by the massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico. the disaster

i am cheryl casone. we were talking about the power of disney and movies. it's incredible. erri: big jumps in oil prices. cheryl: lots of talk about in particular. 70 bucks a barrel. concerned that president trump is going to abandon the nuclear deal with iran. the trump administration has until saturday to decide whether to withdraw from senator joe lieberman would maria bartiromo calling to deal a mistake. >> i'm encouraged by what the president has said so far and i hope he does pull out. i am given the perspective of someone in the senate for 24 years, worked with both parties to put sanctions, economic pressure on iran with a singular goal, which was to denuclearize iran to stop their nuclear weapons development program. >> unofficially, saudi arabia wants oil prices at $80 a barrel in a bid to raise revenue to overhaul the kingdom's economy contracted last year. pressuring oil prices work with protests and strikes in iran and also continues in venezuela where the economic crisis has prevented the country from investing in hurting production. >> tens of thousands of peo

i'm cheryl casone. gerri: good morning. and gerri willis and gerri willis infra- lorinda simonetti. cheryl: a lot of braking is to get everyone up to speed. gerri: day, big, big and attend going on in the market. train to first, breaking overnight news. president trump's attorney rudy giuliani telling robert mueller won't indict the president. giuliani saying investigators told translators that they would follow the justice department's view that the constitution bars prosecuting a sitting president. juliano also saying -- >> remember clinton's supposed to subpoena and voluntarily complied. and then his administration wrote a memo saying they can't do that. gerri: today marks one year since they were appointed to see the investigation. investigators have charged 19 people including four trump campaign advisers and three russian companies. >> for more, let's bring in macy's. good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you for having me. cheryl: there's been a debate about invading a sitting president. how does this differ from a subpoena? >> absolutely. twice now the justice departmen

i'm cheryl casone. gerri: i'm gerri willis and for lauren simonetti. cheryl: three americans are, last at president trump welcoming back the men detained in north korea for more than a year. kim jong chu, tony can, against an intrastate activity elements from the plane shortly after 2:30 a.m. this morning. the president applauding them in the manhunt of terms and gestures of triumph. >> inspiring watching those pictures. they walked down the stairs and shook hands and hugged secretary of state mike pompeo who secured their release and escorted them home. the high point for president trump signaled further momentum as he had for a summit with the north korean leader kim jong said they feared >> kim jong un really was excellent to these three incredibly people. they are really three incredible people. the fact we were able to get them out so soon was a brilliant tribute to a lot of things including a certain process that is taking place right now and that process is very important. we will see what happens. we have a meeting scheduled in a very short peri

i'm cheryl casone. gerri: i'm gerri willis in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: big wedding on saturday. gerri: and an exciting but in practice at our house. gerri: actually celebrated, too. i can't wait to watch the highlights when i get home. sounds like a fun experience. a lot of news breaking over the weekend and this morning. top story this morning as the president. he says is going to demand the justice department to investigate whether the fbi infiltrated his presidential campaign. the president spent the weekend twitter venting about the russia investigation, ultimately thrusting himself. i hereby demand it will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice looking into whether the fbi doj infiltrated and surveilled for political purposes and to such demands or requests are made by people within the obama administration. drink your room is a possible spy emerged last week and chairman devin nunes is also demanding information on an fbi source. listen. >> they continue to leak out things about this informant and we don't know if there is

cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone. here we go with lovely memorial weekend celebrating heros. a very good weekend, indeed. you and i are red and white. cheryl: loving our country. the summit between north korea and the united states may not be dead, north korea is now saying they're willing to talk with the u.s. any time at any format, now this happening hours after president trump pulled the plug on the singapore summit which had been scheduled for june 12th, secretary of state mike pompeo said the rogue nation failed for prep meeting what would have been historic meeting. >> over the past many days, we have endeavored to do what chairman and i had agreed, put preparation teams to begin to prepare for the summit and we had no received no response. cheryl: the president also pinning a direct letter to kim, for more, brad blakeman and democratic strategists hopkin. brad, your initial reactions of canceling summit by the president, what went on in the white house to come out to this conclusion? >> i know what went on, deputy chief of staff for operations went over and was stood

i'm cheryl casone.e will have to watch that went today. >> hours away from a policy decision at president trump expected to announce his decision on whether the u.s. will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. he's let the bill stay in place during his presidency while constantly calling up one of the worst deals ever made. overnight, iran's president weighed in expecting the u.s. with draw saying it is possible we will face problems for two or three months but we will let that pass through this, meaning they can get beyond it. european allies try to persuade trying to maintain the deal. let's bring in research fellow been home. thank you for coming in today. let's start with those comments from president rouhani about how it will be a big deal for iran. do you agree? >> great to be back here with you guys. essentially rouhani straight to dampen products for escalation. we know their legitimacy within iran entirely tied to the jcp away. if that tanks, he tanks. we can all sit in the u.s. restoration of nu

good morning i'm cheryl casone. tracee: good morning. i'm tracey carrasco and for lauren simonetti. cheryl: they've got a lot to get to. a busy night. the facebook ceo talking regulations. breaking news this morning. u.s. and asian stock markets have pulled back overnight following a new concern over trade tensions between washington and beijing. president trump saying he's not pleased with recent trade talks with china. drinker edward lawrence is in washington with the details. reporter: president trump i'm happy with the trade deal with china. the final agreement will look very different from the framework does and they still have a long way to go. not part of the latest talks last week was the survival of zte come the telecommunications company. selling to iran and north korea is lying about it, dear sake $1.2 billion fine and dandy this technology to the company for seven years, crippling zte. as a personal favor, president trump says he will look at the enforcement action against zte, but the company needs to change. >> i envision a very fine of more than a billion dollars, i en

i'm cheryl casone. gerri: unnamed gerri willis. coming about cardio, but you can be offered education. cheryl: companies really stepping it up. stories later on, but we first focus on politics. the march of the mid-terms continues messaging for democrats and republicans now into focus. what do they care the most part and sheared away in his former bombing campaign regional direct your robyn biro and state republican senator john down. guys, good morning. we have robin, an example of what pete or care about. but to show you the most recent poll to give you a sense of what the american public is saying. what matters most. the russian investigation, tax cuts, trade work, north korea and immigration. these are the mainstream issues being battered about by voters right now. but don't you think that we are getting a little bit tired of the russian investigation. >> i sure do. democratic senator mark warner actually agrees. he cautioned that americans could get tired of this. i believe that they are. he also said we need to wrap this up b

i'm cheryl casone. nice to see the markets yesterday. loved it. gerri: can't complain with that and maybe we'll get more today. markets to open higher. cheryl: absolutely. reagan is this morning continues on the topic and washington and beijing nearing a deal to not only work on trade or to settle in cte controversy. the outline of the deal would lift the ban on u.s. companies selling components employs the company to make management changes to the deal could include china removing tariffs on u.s. agricultural products and buying american farm goods. the agreement has been signed. they might teach others that she at this point. beijing reportedly plans to cut the import duty on cars to 15% from the current 25. blake burman at the white house with more. >> president trump suggesting that china and the u.s. have reached an agreement on certain trade concessions. the president writing china has agreed to buy massive amounts of additional farm agricultural products. one of the best things to happen to farmers in many years and he then wrote to come dow

i'm cheryl casone. gerri: good morning i'm gerri willis. korea threatening to pull out of next month's summit between president trump and kim jong un in singapore comes as the north canceled a planned meeting with south korea. south korea. cheryl: griff jenkins live in washington with all the details. >> good morning cheryl and gerri. overnight north korea's vice foreign minister introduced a statement saying if the u.s. is trying to tie this into a corner to pressure unilateral nuke dealer abandonment, will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot reconsider proceedings to the summit after the north canceled the key meeting with south korea over provocative military rockets. the u.s. and south korea maintaining military drills mack's vendor exercises the pentagon calls training. the state department says they have not been notified by the rogue regime of anything to the contrary. >> we have not heard anything from that government or the government of south korea to indicate that we would not continue conducting these exercises o

i'm cheryl casone. gerri: and gerri willis good good morning, everybody. ernight hours after abc canceled her show over racist tree. roseanne barr is not going twitter. now she's apologizing. guys, did something unforgivable so do not defend me. who is 2:00 in the morning and i was ambient reading. it was the more they can do. i went too far and do not want it defended. i wish i made the mistake i wish i hadn't. don't defend it please. thank you. and that valerie jarrett, abc can in the conservative despite record ratings. conservative commentator jenna alice. ladies, good morning. i want to start with you and what is going on at abc. look, they've had controversy at espn since jamel hill who called president trump a white supremacist. she was not even suspended. she finally went to another job that had nothing to do with what she did. but yet, roseanne barr makes this tweet and she suspended. is there a lesson i missing here? >> very important for tv networks had one of the things they are selling at this point is per in safety. but the issues going on to

cheryl casone has the details.is moving on from venezuela saying the country is in social and economic deterioration. the facility 400 workers arrived to find the doors closed. clorox and general mills have ceased to operate in venezuela. the country's economy has collapsed shrinking in the last years. the stock down 9% so far this year. starbucks plan to go open 3,000 new stores in china, the company is going to add 600 new stories annually in the country over the next 5 years, double the store count to 6,000 by 2022. starbucks also planning to more than triple its revenue in china by tend of 2022. shares of starbucks down about 6% from a year ago. there's your one-year chart. ikea is giving shoppers another way to pay for all their stuff at ikea, they are launching a new visa rewards card, 5% back on in-store purchases and 3% back on spending it restaurants, grocery stores, utility bills, those can only be redeemed in ikea stores, be aware, the card has interest rate of 22%, yeah. okay, then there's this, a coupl

cheryl casone has the results. s yesterday. >> cheryl: it was a big night, certainly, maria. in west virginia, republican voters have rejected former coal executive don blankenship who was opposed by president trump in the senate primary. the state's attorney general, ma tricpatrick morrisey, claimed te nomination. >> mr. president, if you're watching right now, let me tell you, your tweet was huge. >> cheryl: huge. all right. then there's this, mitch mcconnell tweeting with an image of a big cloud of cocaine, saying, quote, thanks for playing, don blankenshop. ship. this after he called the senator cocaine mitch, this comes after accusations a ship was used to carry 90 pounds of cocaine but no charges were filed. meanwhile, gop voters chose mike br brann to face joe donnelly in the fall. in care north carolina robert pittinger lost to mark harris. and finally, to ohio, congressman jim renisi won the primary to challenge democratic senator sherrod brown this fall. he had the president's endorsement ahead of the five

cheryl casone with all the details and headlines, cheryl. continue to watch what's unfolding, molten rock is moving so quickly that's covering the length of 6 football fields per hour. cut off major evacuation route and heading towards another. residents are refuse to go leave and will soon have no way out if they do not leave. more than 75 homes have been destroyed since the volcano's initial eruption four weeks ago and scientists say there's no sign the volcano will stop any time soon. "the new york times" correcting article that said that only 1,000 people attended president trump's rally in tennessee, local fire marshal estimated 5500 and president trump tweeted about it. the failing and corrupt new york times estimated the crowd last night at 1,000 people when, in fact, it was many times that number and the arena was rocking, this is the way they demean an disparage, they are very dishonest people who don't get me and never did. the times reporter responded with this tweet, president at real donald trump is correct about crowd, my estim

cheryl casone has details now. >> cheryl: a shocker on this one.gives the embattled socialist incumbent a second six year term. opposition leaders accuse the government of buying votes and using tricks to boost the turnout among the poorest of voters. it's expected to increase international pressure on mudero. mike pompeo saying, quote, sham elections change nothing. well, it's going to cost airlines more to fly you to your destination this summer. that means prices will probably go up. jet fuel prices have risen 15% this year, giving u.s. airlines a potential headache during the busiest time of the year. fuel is airlines' biggest expense after labor so carriers can handle higher bills by reducing service or raising fares. taking a look at some of the big stocks, airline stocks, american airlines, that stock year-to-date is under a lot of pressure. you want to watch southwest airlines today, you'll want to watch united and jetblue. there's delta. there's been a lot of pressure on the companies. jet fuel prices is one of the biggest costs for all of

i'm cheryl casone in for liz claman today, let's start the "countdown." all right, looking at your numbers on wall street. stocks pretty much staying for a while to a multi-day winning streak. dow dipping into the red for the year as a matter of fact. that key number, 24,719.22. that is the number to watch as we move into the closing bell right now. big piece of this has been the energy sector. now energy sector still holding onto gains at this hour. crude oil, the big story of last week and this week settling half a percent higher today. $71.31 per barrel. energy names are looking good, but other names not looking good. chesapeake up. bp, conoco phillips, all of these are energy names. another stock we're watching, another rough day and a ride for tesla, if you will. pardon the pun. tesla shares hitting the brakes at this hour. there is news that the company is going to temporarily shutter model 3 production in california facility for six days to work on the assembly line fixes. a commitment elon musk has been making. can he do this? i mean this is the l

cheryl casone has the details now and her condition. happened about 2:30 a.m. local time sunday in grand junction, colorado. the girl went outside, she heard some noises. she thought it might be coming from her dog. well, the girl's mom says the bear was trying to drag her daughter from the yard but dropped her a after she began screaming at the animal. the girl suffered serious injuries. she is expected to recover. wildlife rangers are hunting for the bear, using tracking hounds and traps to find the bear. well, another child involved in a freak accident. a young boy was trapped in an inflatable bounce house as it flflew onto a california highwa. then it slammed into a car. high winds blew the bouncy house a few 00 descriea few hundred f. the 9-year-old only suffered minor injuries. the driver was shaken up by it but was okay. this was not supposed to happen at the daily parade at walt disney world. this is a fire-breathing dragon bursting into flames, smoke pouring out of the head of the dragon. this happened last friday. people didn't

maria: hawaii's kilauae volcano has erupted again, cheryl casone with the details. yl: the eruption shot a plume of ash 6 miles into the sky, residents to have big island being warned to take shelter, toxics gas levels have closed schools and handing out masks. geologists say it was small but first of series of major explosions for this volcano. well, cbs is nursing a black eye after first loss against sherry redstone, shareholder, the court rejected to dissolve redstone's control over the company. cbs is trying to stop redstone's plan. cbs canceled shareholders meeting, executives more time to figure out the next step here. shares of both companies falling yesterday for the year cbs is down almost 9%, for the year viacom is down 8%. twists and turns in the story. paypal shelling out big bucks to buy a start-up, acquiring the swedish point of purchase tech firm, $2.2 billion deal and paypal access to half a million small businesses around the world that use to process customer transactions and payments, of course, with credit cards, paypal going up against jack dorse

maria: nba star curry back on court cheryl casone with sportsdales. n for the first time over a month and didn't miss a beat! game two against new or laenz pelicans drained five three-pointers, scored 28 points in 27 minutes of play. golden state winning 121-116 leads series 2-0, take a look at nail bite inner toronto lebron cavs taking on raptors game one lebron putting up 26 points, despite missing, 18 shots, cavs team able to squeak out a victory in overtime, by the way, 113-112 now baseball tempers flairing in houston last night, started with gary sanchez, monster -run homer in 9th breaking a scoreless tie for the yankees. ch astros closer is not happy about giving up late home run, ken giles, punches himself on way back to the dugout here he goes right here. okay. ow! they say not to beat yourself up over bad play i guess he never got that, yankees won 4-0, president trump honoring army team at white house predicts there could be a new branch of the military, president signaling it could be out of this world. watch. >> it would be the space force

cheryl casone has details. >> cheryl: the footage shows how officers responded.e stephen paddock's suite and this video shows the inside of his room shortly after the shooting. 58 people were killed, hundreds of others were injured in that attack. well, a new investigation into cbs' charlie rose by the washington post is revealing several new and disturbing revelations against the former tv host. the post reporting this new investigation that basically that incidents of sexual misconduct were more prevalent than first known and three managers at cbs were warned of his behavior over a 30 year period. the allegations go back to 1976. rose responded to the post in a statement saying, quote, your story is unfair and inaccurate. 60 minutes' executive producer has denied prior knowledge. the two black men that were arrested at a philadelphia starbucks reached a symbolic settlement with the city, $1 each. philadelphia will establish a $200,000 entrepreneur program for students at the men's request. the men were arrested last month at starbucks while waiting for a friend

military running out of bombs cheryl casone with the story. y have trouble making new ones, according to defense news a pentagon report says the key suppliers are no longer making the necessary parts and materials for bombs. and price of chemicals going up report blames start and stop nature of munitions business over the last 20 years, the pentagon plans to spend 20 billion dollars on ammunition but there may not be enough manufacturers to make it all. >> and, honoring our nation's military heroes volunteers planting 10,000 flags university of fooenof phoenix c ahead of maryland this year's theme fallen not forgotten, it is school's ninth annual memorial day attribute donated to local veteran cemeteries after the weekend. >> tens of thousand dollars las vegas casino workers threatening to go on strike 25,000 union members voted to walk off the job if noaa five-year contract is not reached the culinary union contract expires may 31 strike could happen any time starting june 1 could cripple some of the resorts caesar's palace bellagio. >> san fr

cheryl casone he has the details.icy create a lot of controversy and there will be more. some reports are saying some nfl players are considering other ways to protest now the teams are placing lines for kneeling during the answer. the league announced a new rule that players have the option of saying in the locker rooms during the national anthem if they don't want to go out and honor the flag the teams can be penalized players are on the field and do a demonstration. it is unclear what kind of different gestures they are thinking of making but there are new ways to make their voices heard on the field. the story will continue to go. boxing legend jack johnson has been pardoned by donald trump 7 years after his death. johnson, the first black boxing heavyweight champ he was convicted by an all-white journey in 1913 for transporting a white woman across state lines. the pres. johnson is really great fighter who had a tough life. the pardon came after trump spoke with phil vester stallone who has been an outspoken advo

cheryl casone with the details, cheryl.s right, lava flow of volcano intensifying as it burns through the homes forcing more than 1700 people to evacuate, incredible video showing lava shooting more than 300 feet into the air according to the u.s. geological survey, molten rock, hot steam and dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide gas are potential here. the maker of oreos and ritz cracker is buying cookie maker tape bake shop for $500 billion. great and white label in the bag, new yorkers love, shares down 9% so far this year. wisconsin man hitting a big mac milestone, eating burger number 30,000, he said a guinness record. >> it's great to have a guinness world record, when you have a habit that's unique and stuff it's great to have it recognized. the record would have happened whether or not guinness was there. i will keep eating them every day. cheryl: he has been eating two mcdonalds big macs every day for the past 46 years, despite his habit he has pretty good health, shares of mcdonalds are up 10% over the last shares, m

cheryl casone has the details. >> cheryl: he's been through something else.tweeted out with his picture good news, spanish national police just released me after interpol general secretary advised them not to honor the new russian red notice. this is the sixth time that russia has abused interpol in my case. this happened hours after he tweeted urgent, just was arrested by spanish police in madrid, going to the police station right now. he also then posted a faux of the he took from the back of the -- photo from the back of the police car. he tweeted a picture of the russian arrest warrant as well. a moscow court sentenced him to nine years in prison on fraud and tax evasion charges last year. he has denied the accusations against him. the fbi is telling americans to reset their routers after discovering a malicious software attack on u.s. citizens. officials now saying that the best way to thwart this attack is simply turn off your router and turn it back on. it is linked to the russian government. the fbi is saying that this attack could stop a router from

cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, no drones for me in new york city, i'm putting that out there goes bad, it's tricky. cheryl: that story coming up as well. we've also got a lot of breaking news to bring to you, president trump has picked singapore as the venue for highly-anticipated meeting with kim jong un, that's going to be june 12th. gerri: griff jenkins with live from washington. griff. griff: by the way, no food deliveries by drone to the white house because you can't fly one near there. i digress, president trump says he hopes the summit will be a very special moment for world peace and maybe further signs that kim is serious about denuclearization pledge. satellite images from san francisco base reportedly shows significance reduction in number of buildings around one of north korea's nuclear sites, this as the 3 american prisoners touched down on u.s. soil on historic moment in the morning and rallied in indiana last night that strong leadership that got us here. >> do you remember everybody in the fake news where they were saying, he's going to get us into a nuclear w

in new york, i'm cheryl casone. gerri: and i'm gerri willis in for lauren simonetti. iani acknowledging that michael cohen paid stormy daniels to stop her from making embarrassing allegations against the president. >> this was never about the campaign. it's about personal reputation. the money wasn't paid to help the campaign or hurt the campaign, the money was paid because of the embarrassment in an allegation like this. maria: right. >> people pay that kind of money even when it's not true. cheryl: president trump repaid cohen, is giuliani helping or hurting. good morning. >> good morning, cheryl. cheryl: he's saying that this is common practice, celebrities, people of wealth, you have your fixer, attorney who takes care of things whether you're aware of those things or not. but the president seemingly has now admitted that he did in fact, have knowledge of payments to stormy daniels. >> yeah, i think this is giuliani trying to make what could have been a campaign matter a family matter, what could have been a criminal matter perhaps just ethical disclosure matter an

cheryl: i am cheryl casone. lots to get to overnight.y, anti-american protests breaking out in iran's capital hours after president trump withdraws from the everyday nuclear deal. trading three davida miller live with reaction from around the world. david lee. >> good morning. we are a few hundred yards from syrian territory where the israelis fear that a ring and an iranian proxy groups are planning some type of an attack on israel. specifically standing in the golan heights in this hour and residents have been told to go about their lives as normal. but this comes after a very stressful night. following president trump's announcement that the u.s. was going to pull out of the nuclear deal. the israeli military went on high alert after citing what was described as a normal iranian military movement across the border in syria. now, they say that bomb shelter is here were open, that arab defensive batteries are moved into this area and reservists were called up for duty. overnight, serious has israeli fighter jets attacking military base

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cheryl: i am cheryl casone. what a day in seattle.assed a controversial pass on large businesses like amazon and starbucks to help fight home with us. $275 for each full-time worker per year. jonathan hoenig at capitalistpig.com joins us now. good morning, jonathan. spin that great to be with you, cheryl. this is disastrous. this is really dangerous. it's really negative for amazon and starbucks and microsoft, but the seattle economy specifically. cheryl: will talk about some of that. amazon issued a statement about this. they're not pulling any punches. the city does not have a revenue problem. they have a spending efficiency problem. but they also said look, we've remained very apprehensive about the future in seattle. they're supposed to be building a new office tower. at this point they are picking up construction that they can change their mind. why go so antibusiness and bring tax revenue into your setting. >> about amazon, microsoft committees companies, seattle would be at fishing and timber village. they are the one that brin

i'm cheryl casone. hope you had a great weekend. gerri: time off. raining, not raining. i don't really care. cheryl: busy weekend to start in "newsweek." a lot of breaking news to get to. a political crisis is erupting in italy and in the stock market heard this morning. the italian tenure government on guilt is rising. that's the inflation for the country. the euro falling to the lowest level since november against the dollar. this happens after italy's president rejected an attempt to form a government big eurosceptic possible coalition. french president emanuel macron expressing support for the president that elections could take place as early as august. of course the oil prices, here we go, down $2.5 on the dow, s&p and nasdaq much lower as well. gerri: breaking news this morning. the team of american diplomat to meet with north korean officials ahead of next month potential summit between president trump and kim jong un. meanwhile, top officials reportedly heading to the u.s. to participate in negotiations before the summit. cheryl: greg talcott with the latest. spi

cheryl casone through the next hour. cheryl: neil, we have lot of breaking news through this hour clear hearing comments that u.n. does not want the summit. we'll bring the tape as we soon as we get it. all this tit-for-tat, north korea or nafta or china trade happening. the duh is down 54 points. nasdaq and s&p are lower there is breaking news. president trump is blasting investigation as you can imagine on twitter. he called it the greatest witch-hunt in american history. is the president right? we'll talk with judge napolitano where we're with the mueller probe. we're following it closely. he is the guy to ask. we have president trump's top economic advisors. they're holding trade talks with their chinese counterparts today. president trump signaling this week, he is willing to work on a deal with the chinese telecom company zte, this has to be part of a larger trade deal with china. there is back and forth going on. will the two countries strike some sort of a deal? yeah, let's talk about nafta for a second. we have t

. >> cheryl casone in for liz today. >> talking about making money, losing money, a day for investorslose money. the dow is about to snap its eight-day winning streak as trump plots with the gop. president trump on capitol hill this afternoon, returning to the white house minutes ago, meeting with gop senators about a rage of issues. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell revealing that the president talked to the senators about current events abroad, new iran sanctions and the condition of, yep, the economy. seeing upbeat mood heading into the fall elections. the midterms. blake burman is standing by, fill us in on the details of

i'm cheryl casone in for liz claman, let's start the "countdown." . cheryl: and if all of that wasn't enough, we're getting breaking news on facebook. mark zuckerberg set to answer the european union parliament in person as early as next week. of course on the personal data use scandal. this is according to the eu parliament speaker antonio tajani, facebook under pressure, that tells you something, right? wall street stocks are staging a comeback following yesterday's losses. down 193 yesterday at the close, at this hour floating with session highs. the dow is in positive territory for the year. of course, all that can change in the next 57 minutes. we're also looking at macy's. that company solidly on investors shopping list at this hour. shares of the retailer touching over a-year high, currently on track for the best day in nearly six months. they reported better-than-expected results, they smashed estimates for same-store sales. a troubled stock and troubled company. this is the one to watch today, currently the best performer in the s&p 500 as a m

hello, everybody, i'm cheryl casone. i'm in for melissa francis. >> good to see you. happy friday. i'm david asman this is "after the bell." so glad you could join us. more on the big market movers but first here is what else we're covering for you. yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's a very busy hour and it's not over yet. president trump signaling a north korean summit could still happen next month. white house has reopened talks. back in business, the trump administration striking a controversial deal with chinese telecom giant zte. you think it had anything to do with the north korean negotiations. the company had been banned from operations in the u.s. after violating sanctions with iran and north korea. details of the new agreement. reaction is pouring in and what relation it had, if any to the north korean developments. forbes media chairman steve forbes will weigh in with us. >>> new political firestorm brewing after a top democrat says a classified briefing revealed no evidence of an fbi spy in the trump campaign despite evidence to the contrary. a look at what happens now. ch

hello, everybody, i'm cheryl casone. i'm in for melissa francis. >> good to see you. happy friday.ad you could join us. more on the big market movers but first here is what else we're covering for you. yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's

cheryl casone has all the details. >> cheryl: you can't take your eyes away from the video we're showingroyed, 26 of them were homes. about 1700 residence have been forced to evacuate from the area. here is this incredible time lapse video, showing lava devouring a car in just minutes. some people we shoul say have bn allowed to briefly return home to save some of their belongings and threats. scientists say there is no way to know for certain how long the current eruption will continue. well, retired lieutenant colonel oliver north is set to become the next president of the national rifle association. a former fox news contributor, north served 22 years as a marine. he is parhe was part of the natl security staff during the reagan administration. the nra has faced backlash recently. looks like a storm is brewing over stormy daniels' appearance last weekend on saturday night live. joe piscopo accused the show of having a liberal bias. he spoke with you yesterday, saying daniels' cameo on the show was over the line. >> i'm so loyal to snl. but stormy daniels on snl? lorne michaels doesn't