thank you so much, dan clifton.n bloomberg markets, the changing face of higher education. we will tell you about one report that says, get ready for major changes to hit colleges and universities. ♪ ♪ alix: welcome back to bloomberg markets. i am alix steel. scarlet: i am scarlet fu. forget that freshman 15, these days, it is colleges and universities that feel sick hi themselves. alix: that may lead to more mma for colleges and you receive. here is the vice president of moody's. thelet: you talk about higher education sector, what are the dynamics at play here? >> to provide some context, we think there will be an uptick in mergers and acquisitions in higher ed. is between two and five entities a year, the average over the last decade. we are seeing an uptick driven by state governments. he received georgia system completed 12 consolidations. we are also seeing someone offs and private higher education. that is coming from revenue pressure, primarily. a slowdown in the ability to create revenue is trading pressure

fiorina tweeted this statement -- for more on this and what it means for business, john harwood and dan clifton. welcome to you both. john, first your reaction to this news? >> noestible. i think it will also be inevitable that chris christie will leave the race, though his senior aide texted me that they haven't made a final decision. they're convening to take a breath, that is advantageous to donald trump who heads with a steam into south carolina. you've got a fractured situation, where, yes, he has ted cruz taking some of the conservative populist vote from him, but you also have jeb bush, john kasich and marco rubio dividing the anti-trump vote. that's a prescription for him to keep winning until the field consolidates. >> are the big stories starting to emerge, or could there be a primary -- >> well, there's always surprises. we've seen them two weeks in a row, but if you think about this, the republicans were in a good position to start coalescing around marco rubio, and him mussing up saturday has led to this increased fracture. i do believe wen we go to south carolina you'll see at lea

this point but we're going to start doing that more often as the field narrows, let's bring in dan clifton. and i'll tell you what, let me bring in a little bit of breaking news. we're getting word ted cruz has asked his communications director to resign. i guess when you don't come in second in south carolina as you had expected, something has got to change. what does have to change for ted cruz do you think? >> that's right. i mean, ted cruz had a fire wall that was to win the evangelical voters and did not do. there's a side story where there was information leaked out about marco rubio right before the campaign. in iowa it was about ben carson. the distractions are getting weighed down and those get overemphasized when you're losing. cruz wants to get rid of his communication director and move own an start over with the new states coming in on march 1st. >> what about dan what we're hearing basically that this race is and needs to consolidate to trump and the anti-trump, the single anti-trump candidate if you will? >> that's right, when this republican race should have started consolid

dan: you got that right. thank you, jeff. >> denise: a popular local restaurant is closing its doors after 17 years, the dinero clifton, the popular spot at the corner of clifton and west 117th will close its doors february 29th this coming monday. be sure to stop in and get your >> dan: that's too bad. i ate there several times. >>> cleveland pizzafest is returning to the cuyahoga fairgrounds this summer. cleveland19.com reports 10 pizza places signed up to participate. the event runs friday june 4th through sunday june 26th featuring music and food and last year it drew close to 20,000 people and i bet a lot of people are about to there's a chaps you could pay for pizza with a selfie. master card is making an app to approve purchases on a selfie. selfie security using face recognition technology could be the future of protecting on-line shoppers from fraud. >> denise: sounds like a good idea. what if your friend has a selfie with you and they crop it. of purchase asking you to take a picture. >> denise: new school curriculums are so challenging even parents are headed back to class just to keep up. we'll tell you what th

dan griffin, wlwt news 5. mark: thank you. new pictures of the person who robbed a clifton bank monday morning. the suspect held up the u.s. bank on ludlow avenue just after 11:00. the person' s face was covered with a garbage bag, so it' s hard to make out any features of the suspect. police say the robber did have a weapon, but no one was hurt. lisa: a jury trial is expected to begin today for the man at the center of a 20-hour swat standoff in latonia. 43-year-old michael vaughan faces attempted murder charges after allegedly shooting at police back in december of 2013. he was shot in the arm before finally surrendering. vaughan is a military veteran who claims to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. he says -- police say his he held his 3 children inside that home for several hours. mark: a major step forward today in restoring the historic rabbit hash general store after fire destroyed it. wlwt news 5' breaking it down for who is writing a hefty check, as donations continue to pour in. good morning, andrew? andrew: good morning. a of donations pouring into help when this rabbit hash general store burned last we

dan griffin live. >> thank you. those are the conditions up north. here is a live look right now. this appears to be vine street. this is in the clifton area. the roads are kind of snow covered as well. take it easy out there. the updated school closings are at the bottom of the screen. "the today >>> it's 7:30 now,uesday morning, 9th of february, 2016. polls are open here in new hampshire. voters are casting their ballots already in the first in the presidential race. live look at a polling place here in manchester. coming up, we're going to look at why second place is sometimes granite state. first, let's go back to studio 1a. other stories making headlines today. 41 million americans are under winter weather advisories this morning as the second storm in as many days rolls east. snow expected from the mid-atlantic to new england later tonight. >>> new steps are being taken to control the spread of the zika virus here in the united states. the cdc's emergency operation center now moving to its highest level for the fourth time ever. president obama is asking congress to free up more than $1.8 billion to fund research of the virus and mosq