the 24 hour race at daytona speaks tremendously to what this car can do. >> driving at the daytona internationaledway, the lighter weight and rear wing are welcome changes. >> i have it in performance mode, with manual shifting, of course. you can feel the car slipping already. [laughter] driven this fast in my life. i am actually just flying. we were maxing out the g-meter, doing 180 miles an hour around the corners here at daytona. it is a feeling unlike anything else i have experienced, except for being on a roller coaster. standing in line for a roller coaster isn't nearly as luxurious as the cockpit of an r8 v10 plus. atfeels like a bargain $190,000. manus: i feel the need, the need for speed. i am channeling "top gun." i will not make the noise at the end of that particular one line. banking on a buffer. multibillion euro deal, next on "countdown." ♪ manus: welcome back to "countdown." you are looking at the skyline of new york city where it is 1:50 a.m. despite alcove's profit dropping is 6:51 here in london. let's get you up to speed with the bloomberg first word news. rishaad, good morn

meter, maxing out the g doing about 180 miles an hour around the banks corners at daytona.ing unlike anything else i have ever experienced, except maybe being a roller coaster. but standing in line for roller coaster isn't nearly as luxurious as the cockpit of an r8 v 10 plus. starting at $190,000, it feels like a bargain. mark: matt miller, the cap the got the cream. -- the cat that got the cream. you can learn more on the bloomberg. up next, the european close is next. italian things, interfax reporting that saudi arabia has reached a consensus on oil freeze. the russian energy minister has declined to comment on the report. don't forget, we have talks taking place on sunday. the european close is next. ♪ . . scarlet: from bloomberg world and quarters in new york, i'm betty liu. mark: and i'm mark barton. you are watching the european close on bloomberg markets. we are going to take you from new york to london in the next hour. here is what we are watching -- shares of a italian banks are jumping around today after a massive 5 billion euro fund has been created to help st

while it does so severe weather from orlando back through gainesville and daytona. some drier air getting into southern -- central florida after a very humid and wet couple of days here. across the rest of the country looking at pretty mile weather across the west, temperatures in the 70s in san diego, 10 to 15 degrees above average in the sierras back through parts of sklt, g denver. 64 degrees and nice sunshine across the central plains including houston, 73 degrees, a little more humid there. ryan: good morning. rain this morning. we will see partly sunny skies this afternoon. the wind is going to kick up. tonight, a wind advisory through the overnight. tomorrow, very chilly. >>> this weather report is brought to you by panera bread. making me hungry. hope we have food later on in the show. >> we do. tan by for that. >>> coming up on the show, though, it's electric. tesla's new car. >> good one. >> buying frenzy. what the fuss is all about. >> did you come up with that. it's electric. >> it was on the teleprompter. >> do you read everything on the teleprommer. >>

we've got a severe weather watch box that includes jacksonville, gainesville, orlando and daytona soevere weather likely here. this after an entire week really of severe weather across the country. overnight, more tornadoes and torrential rain creating a path of destruction. this dangerous funnel cloud whipping across georgia. >> it's coming this way. >> for the third straight day, the system inundating much of the southern states. roads opening up in alabama. emergency crews rushing to rescue three men clinging to a log after their canoes overturned in storm-charged waters. 19 reported tornadoes including this ef-1 in twiggs county, georgia. >> it's terrible. you didn't know there was a house here with the trees on top. >> it was scary. i thought we were going to get blowed away. >> reporter: 90-mile-an-hour winds sending trees into homes. >> it came falling down. i was about to go to sleep. >> reporter: the powerful storm even credited for washing away a bridge leading to a massive train derailment. and up north winter not letting go. an april arctic blast dropping snow and ice acr

we could see severe weather in orlando and gainsville and daytona.etting into southern and central florida after a couple of humid and wet days here. across the country, mild weather across the west. temperatures ten to 15 degrees above average in the see -- sierras. in houston, 37 degrees, more humid there. that's a check of the national outlook here's what's shaking locally. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, i'm meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. we had heavier downpours and another batch on the way within the next hour. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast by afternoon sun and clouds, 62 and the wind pick up tonight. it's making me hungry. i hope we have some food later on in the show. >> we do. we do. stand by for that. >>> coming up on the show, though, it's electric. tesla's new car. >> good one. >> sparked a buying frenzy. what the fuss is all about. >> did you come up with that. it's electric. >> it was on the teleprompter. >> do you read everything on the teleprompter? >> pretty much. ♪ i'm solo soup and sand

lost by 0.01 seconds at daytona. your leader here with 53 to go and rejoin the guys. >> thanks, chris. the only team that had a victory last year in the sprint cup series that has not yet won this season. 15 cars on the lead lap. 52 laps to go. here in texas. his crew chief from london, ontario. they pronounce things differently. >> it's not cole pearn. >> i know he's been saying cole pearn a lot but back home they do say cole pearn and some say peron. it has different variations. i'm good with d.w. saying it as long as he keeps saying it. >> the main thing they spell it right on the chest. pearn. >> i like peron. >> how talented he is. you can tell he is a good guy. like them leading the team, doing well. fast race cars. keep doing his game. >> d.w. >> i am. cole pearn. tonight's aerial coverage provided by goodyear. superior performing tires to face challenging conditions goodyear, the official tire of nascar giving us these great views of texas motor speedway. fox sports supports, very proud to team up with mergin

darrell mentioned truex, 28 races since his last win and lost at the daytona 500 by 0.01 seconds. there's been five overtime finishes here. this race could be headed for an even later night. you're watching nascar on fox live from texas. ce. let's check it out. do any of you have kids? pi do yes. this car has a feature built in called teen driver technology, which lets parent's see how their teens are driving. oh, that's smart. it even mutes the radio until the seat belt is fastened. will it keep track of how many boys get it in the car? (laughter) cause that could be useful. this is ahead of what my audi has for sure. wish my beamer had that. i didn't even know that technology existed. i'm not in the market for all right, 3:15. k, you better watch out boys, i'm on a hot streak today. what's that? wait. what's that? man, that's just the ice cream truck. you ain't got nothin. we got time. you don't got time. i've got time. no you don't. [arguing] look at that! ahhhhhh! we at time warner cable need to apologize to you. we no longer offer an excuse to bet on when we'll arrive. we're

a florida teen says he was surfing about 75 yards from shore south of daytona. >> he says he was doingrick when his foot came down on top of a shark, that's when it bit down hard on his foot twice. 15-year-old says he thought the shark took off his whole foot. he tried to walk to shore but he couldn't put any weight on it. that is when he says a stranger stepped in and helped pull him out of the water. >> if he wasn't there, i would have just been laying there screaming for somebody to get me. i couldn't walk. my mom's car was so far down the beach. i couldn't get there. >> his family is thankful to the good semaritan and hopeful they can thanking him. he needed a whole lot of stitches. he knows this could have been much worse. >>> volunteer firefighter shot on the job out of the hospital tonight. friends, family and other firefighters escorted 19-year-old kevin swain out of the prince george's county hospital. swain and another firefighter were shot when they went into had a home earlier this month to check on a man's a condition. that man says he woke up to what he thought were intru

darrell mentioned truex, 28 races since his last win and lost at the daytona 500 by 0.01 seconds.here's been five overtime finishes here. this race could be headed for an even later night. you're watching nascar on fox live from texas. ce. let's check it out. do any of you have kids? i do yes. this car has a feature built in called teen driver technology, which lets parent's see how their teens are driving. oh, that's smart. it even mutes the radio until the seat belt is fastened. will it keep track of how many boys get it in the car? (laughter) cause that could be useful. this is ahead of what my audi has for sure. wish my beamer had that. i didn't even know that technology existed. i'm not in the market for a car but now i may be. [ intense music throughout ] [ fans cheering ] introducing the x1 sports app. get live stats, averages, and standings. right on your tv. change the way you experience tv, with xfinity x1. >>> good luck down there. let's have a big win tonight. >> after that -- >> blind on both straightaways. >> definitely seeing spots on the track. >> talking about pit

in the races since his injury at daytona a little more than a year ago, since he came back 31 races, 6 wins. 21 top fives. that's two out of three and he led over 1200 laps in that time. he came back with a vengeance. he missed those 11 races and got back in and raced like he was ready to race. didn't come back too soon. came back just right. healed up. good shape. putting them down. >> you hate for anybody to go out for those reasons but interesting perspective that you have on the sport when you're watching it from home. i think that, you know, he has a greater appreciation for being a race car driver and he realized you know what, i need to be more patient and i need to, you know, be kinder and be, you know, more involved as a team and the whole job and he has come back a much better race car driver -- he was always really talented but now smart being smooth, making really good decisions. >> the thing about this last week he ran 750 laps at martinsville. this weekend he's going to run 800 miles this weekend here at texas. >> hey, guy, it's a package deal, though, with this 18 car.

went the from the coast daytona beach off the coast of bermuda. anything could have happened.hit it waves could have rattled stuff around. all kinds of things could have happened. >> is there a suspicion that there was more than the two boys on that boat? >> that was raised by the attorney of one of the two boys. but that's as far as it's gotten. there is nothing that's been confirmed or has there been any other person that has raised that suspicion. >> is the i phone being examined to see whether there is any information there? >> the iphone is in the possession of the stephanos family and that's where it remains right now. they say they are going to find a person to examine the iphone. once they do have it examined, they will share that information. >> bill, thank you very much for joining us. >> my flesh. >> and what wins? the trump card or the woman card? former adiscontestant omarosa is standing by to go "on the record." plus the nuns are roaring. pop star katy perry finding herself in the middle of a battle of w. california nuns. that's coming up ♪ you're going to hear m

darrell mentioned truex, 28 races since his last win and lost at the daytona 500 by 0.01 seconds.here's been five overtime finishes here. this race could be headed for an even later night. you're watching nascar on fox live from texas. ce. let's check it out. do any of you have kids? i do yes. this car has a feature built in called teen driver technology, which lets parent's see how their teens are driving. rt. it even mutes the radio until the seat belt is fastened. will it keep track of how many boys get it in the car? (laughter) cause that could be useful. this is ahead of what my audi has for sure. wish my beamer had that. i didn't even know that technology existed. i'm not in the market for a car but now i may be. [ intense music throughout ] [ fans cheering ] introducing the x1 sports app. get live stats, averages, and standings. right on your tv. change the way you experience tv, with xfinity x1. put more fun in your day with ice-cream-flavored coffees at dunkin' donuts. go for delicious flavors like butter pecan, c