to what degree do you want to be seen at the met or in davos or doing anything that's high profile?, it's okay to go to davos if you've got something you're proud of and should be proud of and you can, you know, communicate some wisdom. but to see a business continually decline and the person go to literally every technical conference possible and do as many keynotes as you can, that doesn't square with the employees. so this is a ceo that's having a lot of problems. the business has been terrible. and she got together the direct reports plus a few others about four months ago and put a letter in front of them in a group meeting saying this is a contract where you're going to sign up for three more years, and i want you to sign it, stay here for three years, because we're eventually going to figure this thing out. when you're on the receiving end of something like that, it's no surprise that people go running out the doors pretty quickly. so them lost dozens of top executives in the last six months. it's a sad situation. and the leadership is nonexistent at the top of the company an

we will hear from davo sweeney at 8:30 this morning. in miami, brad fralick. care hour special, road to the title. our sports team will be live in miami with a preview of the orange bowl. you can also check out our live wire. it's a collection of clemson twitter posts on wyff 4 and our wyff 4 app. upstate fire officials are blaming a popular christmas present for starting a fire inside a greenville home. aly: the mauldin fire department was called to this home on windrush lane after a hoverboard exploded. officials say the board was sitting in the living room when it burst into flames sending charred pieces flying 25 feet across the house. no one was hurt. officials say if the family wasn't home the house would have likely burned to the ground. >> they are very lucky because the batteries went in one area from 15 feet it blew to 25 feet it blew apart. it disintegrated. aly: there have been at least 22 other hoverboard fires reported in the nation. officials say this may be the first one for south carolina. in anderson, police tell us two dogs attacked three me

people, he wants to be the leader of the world and the applause of the nobel committee, the people in davos of state john kerry's letter. to the iranian foreign minister. i'm confident that recent changes in visa requirements passed in congress which the administration has the authority to waive will not prevent us from meeting our commitments. he goes on. the congress demanded a change in the way we deal with visas for foreign governments and sponsors terror. yet, kerry is giving him a way around that. >> yeah. i don't like when any administration goes around congress. we have separation of powers for a reason. i think in a broad sense, open borders, open movement of people and goods is the best foreign policy conceived by man kind. the last thing you want to do is put you will walls between countries. it will reduce the rooting interest that we have. >> steve, i'll tell you one wall we want to keep up and that is to keep out their missiles. they're now going through an experiment on these mid range missiles that they can tip with nuclear warheads. i mean, we don't want to be helping gover

the islanders host the ducks and clemson's davo sweeney, the football coach of the year. and the southern oregon team, to jeremy scotter to matt the first pass skipped off the turf. marian ended up winning the game. and southern oregon, not bad. i heard it. >> is that the call? >> it is off the turf. they thought it was an incomplete pass. >> isn't that normally an >> online scrimmage. >> i don't know all of the rules just that one. any. [ laughter ] >> finally a look at stories for eyewitness news at 11:00. >> well, bill, coming up tonight at 11:00, a wild police chase caught on camera. behind the wheel, a couple of kids. you have to see how this one ends. >> and your gums could increase your risk of breast cancer. details on a new report tonight. those stories and much more on eyewitness news at 11:00. bill, liz? >> see you then. >>> and that's it for us for now. thanks for watching. >> world news tonight with david muir is coming up next. eyewitness news returns tonight

. >> and that timing of removing the ceiling from the swiss franc just in time for davos when the world's global elite were heading to switzerland and lattes were costing $15. >> it's an expensive place. do stay tuned to cnbc because we'll bring you an interview with thomas jordan after the central bank kept rates steady but it remains active in the currency market. >> all right. another new story that we are watching closely across europe, voblgs w vob volkswagen holding on to yesterday gains after it no longer expects to take a 2 billion euro hit in relation to false carbon emissions data. only 36,000 cars may have understated their co2 level which is is far below the 800,000 that they originally provisioned for and set aside all the money for. looks like no longer needed. >> it's been nearly three months since volkswagen admitted to using defeat devices to cheat emissions tests. during the scandal, shares dropped over 40% but have since regained about half of those losses. it lead to the resignation of the chief executive who has been replaced by the ex-porsche ceo. 8.5 million vehicle

according to multiple reports, davo sweeney sent the players home for failing drug tests. mccain is the top d threats. the undefeated tigers will take on the oklahoma sooners tomorrow in the orange bowl. that game will be followed by the cotton bowl, alabama taking on michigan state. winners from these games will be in the national championship game in arizona on january 11th. lsu's leonard fornet, putting on a show, leonard fournette. he also caught a touchdown in the game. fournette finishes this season shy of 2,000. lsu easily beat the red raiders. one of the most popular gift, okay the self balancing scooter. it looks like someone in mike tyson's household got one. here's mike tyson trying it out. he goes down and that happens to quite a few people who get on a bouncing scooter for the first time. i tell you what, guys, the first time i got on one was right before "early start" one morning, i went crashing down into a trash can and nearly missed the hit. >> what were you doing messing around on a hoverboard? >> you know what's interesting, watch anybody, they get on it

let me go back to the months ago -- 12 months ago, america, when i was in davos, mid january, it was stunning to see that the swiss franc being allowed to trade, and i don't want to get wonky, being allowed to trade freely really affected the eurozone which we saw play out the rest of the year as a huge hot spot and problem. >> well, one other thing that everybody's missing out on is in the eurozone remember when mr. draghi pulled a quick one on everybody and instead of going for 25 basis points, he went for 10. and look what it did. it shot the euro up over three cents in just the matter of a day's time. it gave the euro some strength again. but then we saw volkswagen, and volkswagen's going to come back and really haunt them a little bit longer than most people anticipate -- liz: wait, wait, wait, volkswagen's a bigger deal than molotov cocktails in greece in july and the swiss franc? >> not yet but, you know, again, that's a multi-country business. it is so large right now. it was the number one auto producer, so it's going to haunt germany for some time. as we know where germany

four years ago, maybe five years ago at davos, you never know with the theme is going to be.s ago where you had the establishment of finance asking -- did they communicate correctly? the clear answer is that they failed at doing that. they did not get the answer out at that most critical time in the crisis. going toknow, we are talk about this and the applications of this is just a moment. we were talking among ago to howard about this kind of bifurcation in the retail market. you have got the upper and doing well, the destruction of the middle class, and people talk about this qe story having led directly towards that. maybe that is not true, but it was never communicated, and i think that is the point. tom: you read the "ft" with a better accident than me. vonnie: nobody actually mention except for frank lindy roosevelt, who is clearly not a candidate right now -- franklin who is clearly not a candidate right now. has anybody come up with a name? guy: nope. that is definitely something we have to resolve. tom: today's letter to "bloomberg surveillance." coming up, daniel ye

. >> like davos style. >> yes. it's about the size of this area right here. >> do you remember there's a seinfeld where they were in chester drawers. >> that is like a coffin. >> all right. i'm going to sneeze. >> coming up a little birdie told us twitter shares have been under pressure this year down to the tune of 37%. we'll ask one social media analyst what the company needs to do to get the stock trending again. first as we head to break check out the biggest s&p winners and losers of 2015. you're watching squawk box on cnbc. first in business worldwide. >>> welcome back. take a look at u.s. equity futures on this tuesday morning. let's show you the board real quick. dow would open up higher. nasdaq looks to open up higher a little over 21 points and s&p 500 up higher. making headlines, legos could be a better investment than gold. the telegraph reporting that the toys have now increased in value by 12% each year since 2012. gold only giving investors a 9.78% return. my little 5-year-old, i think he's on to som

you come out of davos in 2009, everyone is trif bearish and went in-- >> and you have the ability tovey the ends of the year and this is our conclusion this year. maria: i like it, anthony scaramucci and dominic, thank you for seeing you both. coming up tomorrow, we'll hear from doug shone, and former new york senator al d'amato. and the markets are closed early at 1:00 for the christmas eve holiday and friday the markets are closed for the christmas holiday. coming around the mountain. guys. that will do it for us, "varney & company" is next and stuart, have a good show. stuart: i'll take it, thanks, maria. front runner versus front runner, the battle is joined, head to head clash, donald trump and hillary clinton. yes, on this eve of christmas eve, that political fight, it doesn't seem like christmas does it? trump says his vulgarity was misinterpreted. hillary says he's a bully and yes, he is helping the jihadists. it was the clash of styles, as well. trump loud and aggressive, hillary, calmly playing the victim. we will discuss. ted cruz the republican side is down to a two-man r