watch him use his hand to get emerson to sit. >> good boy. >> reporter: emerson also learning one command down. emerson now part of nick's own pack. hanging out with his other dog, scout. going on runs and getting to know other dogs in their family. >> that's a happy dog. happy dog. >> reporter: a happy dog and a happy owner who don't need words to understand each other. >> the bond that we have is awesome. we understand each other very well. >> reporter: we thank nick and emerson for sharing their story. we thank you for watching on this good friday and happy pass overas well. i'm tom llamas. see you tomorrow. >>> a box truck burst into flames this afternoon. damaging the structure and closing two lanes. the good news, the driver was not hurt. >> the bad news, traffic on one of the main arteries out of the bay area was slowed to a crawl for hours after the crash. >> here's how it looks right now behind the toll plaza on 680. this is a live look from sky 7 with our sky map 7 technology. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. >> the toll plaz >> more on the unusual fire. >> reporter: ve

emerson again, emerson said the law came as a sheet of lightning at midnight. what did it illuminate? it illuminated the fact that people in the north could no longer pretend that slavery was a southern problem. it illuminated the fact that slavery was an american problem. which mr. lincoln knew very well. i will remind you of that in a second. in the second inaugural address he speaks not of southern slavery, but of american slavery. the north was implicated in slavery up to his eyeballs. the banks were financing the plantations. everybody who walked down the street with cotton clothing on their back was wearing the product of slave labor. everybody who put sugar in their tea, emerson said we do not taste the blood in the suites. the mill owners who were in the vanguard of the industrial revolution were spinning cotton into cloth for domestic and external consumption. so the north was up to his eyeballs in slavery but it's eyes were closed according to emerson until the passage of that law because now, if you were walking down the street in boston, you could s

emerson.sider it solved. >>> as you know, the nigerian brothers are on the lookout for unusual options activity today they're finding it in shares of microso microsoft. let's start with you, pete. >> yes the beginning of april we saw huge buying buying april calls at the 120 strike, stock was trading 118. well, today what they're doing is taking april off because those are going to expire soon they're taking april off, going out to july. buying the july 120s, buying more time for more in what the stock is moving, now it's over 120, trading above 120 and buying 21,000 of these calls and spreading those off. these are expensive calls by the way, going for almost $6 apiece on the 21,000 that were bought i have a spread trade to the upside and i am out there further in time. next -- >> wait, pete. >> yeah? >> i'm happy to be part of your unusual activity because i've been buying microsoft calls -- >> it's about time. >> -- i added it early in the week. >> that's a great move >> thank you, pete, i

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emerson. consider it solved. >>> welcome back to "the exchange." a news alert for you samsung is formally announcing it's going to delay the release of the highly anticipated folding phone called the phone after getting reviews about malfunctioning you can see our own scott hayze lton had issues with his savm sung saying to fully evaluate the feedback, we have decided to delay the release of the gayle ax laxy fold. the original release date was this friday, april 26th. for now they folded. we'll bring you the updates when we get them. >>> meantime, health care is the only s&p sector in the red this year it just suffered its worst week since christmas. we're curious. is the selloff on overreaction on the campaign trail or will they remain until after the 2020 election let's bring in michael ge and les runlighter welcome to you both. les, first of all, to see a name like united health get slammed as hard as it did, why are investors so skittish about bernie sanders' talk about medicare for all >> the reason is i don't think they understand the legisl

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emerson. consider it solved. >>> welcome back everyone. i'm sue herera here's your cnbc news update at this hour. the senate armed services committee holding its first official hearing on president trump's space force proposal the pentagon projecting it will cost a total of $2 billion over five years to set up the service. >> our military is organized around physical domains. army on land navy on sea. air force in the air given the significant change confronting us, we now need a military service dedicated to space. >> pittsburgh's new gun control law signed by the city's mayor on tuesday is now facing two lawsuits and one of those is being backed by the national rifle association. one of the lawsuits says the new law infringes on the people's right of self-defense. >>> prince harry and his wife meghan say they've decided to keep plans around their baby's arrival private. buckingham palace saying the two look forward to sharing news of their baby's birth once they've had a chance to celebrate privately as a new family. can't wait to meet t

emerson. consider it solved. >>> welcome back to "the exchange." restaurant brands, the parent company of burger king and pop eye's is falling below expectations shares down more than 1% shares of trucking and logistics company across the board, including c.h. robinson, werner enterprises, old douminion, afte they said the freight brokerage platform is set to go live. >>> take a look at pinterest, continuing its momentum from the ipo. up more than 11% today it's up more than 70% since it began training on april 18th wow. let's get to sue herera for a cnbc news update. >> hello, here's what's happening at this hour sarah sanders insisting that president trump condemns anti-semitism and hate crimes, this after a fatal shooting this weekend at a san diego synagogue. >> one of the most important things we can do is use the bully pulpit of the president is call out this hatred by name, condemn it as the president has done and will continue to do any time something like this comes up hopefully we do

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emerson.olved. >>> fda scrutiny of e-cigarette and tobacco companies is growing and some retailers are taking the matter into their own hands raising the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 aditi roy joins us with more hi. >> hi there, carl. the tobacco companies and retailers are embracing tobacco 21 initiatives speaking out and some cases spending money on ads and testifying in support of those measures walgreens and rite aid will raise the minimum age required to sell tobacco products from 18 to 21 and those joining altria, british america tobacco in advocating for tobacco 21 laws after the cdc reported last fall in 2018 the number of high school students using tobacco products increased by about 38% and the use of e-cigarettes went up by nearly 78% just last week senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he will introduce tobacco 21 legislation. initiatives have passed in a dozen states nationwide. jule has spent millions of ads supporting t-21 and has provided testimony in

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emerson. consider it solved. >>> another week of trading here for new york stock exchange about 7 minutes from now >> on the "mad dash," you like to feature micron. >> it is a bout a battleground. this is where the company is diving down. here it signals there is going to be a cut. they're going to cut back the number to get the inventory down the question is, is samsung going to play ball it is a bit of a monopoly. that's something that i post with micron and micron was pretty much don't worry about it so far you have not had to worry about it there is multiple downgrades if you bought all the downgrades here and here, you did quite well this is a well reason done grade, 2020 is going to cause another downturn because there is a lot of equipment being bought i don't want to leave micron because i think it is too cheap. >> it can withstand of whatever that's coming its way. the fact that i think there is pick up in business. >> david, 5-g. >> 5-g is creating a lot of demands. >> yes, for every

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emerson.onsider it solved. . >>> where it fits in and all the companies that are considered high growth without yield with the nasdaq this will be right in the middle of 75. if it goes below the offering price, then you will have people panic. they'll panic. lyft is a good company that they got a great balance sheet. this is a decent price it looks like there is no appetite for this ipo. its got a whole 72 i think it should be worth it. >> does it matter? >> in today's closing bases, just add all >> now people did make a lot of money if they got in the deal. they can flip. i think at 87, a lot of the brockers brokers release the buyers you would want tosell other nasdaq companies if this thing is 72. you would sell others and buy this one because it is going to be cheaper than a lot of the big cloud companies, i keep on wondu are comparing it to those anies. >> because it got high growth and because they started out losing money sales force started out losing money. you got huge enterprise mig

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emerson. consider it solved. internet that puts alright boys, time to eat.hat handles anything. [ crowd cheering ] that protects what's important. and reaches everywhere. this is beyond wifi. this is xfi. >>> welcome back to "power lunch. i'm mike santoli health care getting a scare, down 5% since monday, turns the etf any nivar for the year craig jansen of piper jaffray a. and mike tepper are your trading team today craig, this has been a sector that's gone from firsto to worst. obviously falling apart. is this a longer lasting, structural change for this group? >> mike, no question the health care sector has caught a cold. the relative performance versus the s&p has been very painful the last 30 days when he break down the chart here, you can see an uptrend violation, the divergence, it looks like the next support comes in at 85 we're not buying at this point in time. we're going to wait for the shakeout where does that leave you? >> quite frankly, this is all political, 100% a response to the possibility of medicare for all becoming a reality, which would

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emerson.sider it solved. >>> let's give you a quick look at the markets dow under pressure as a result largely of the decline in 3m s&p back in positive territory and, of course, technology led by the likes of facebook, service snap, pick your name, is up the mt isosth morning so far. "squawk alley" back after this >>> you would? look at you go that was our own david faber from his winning on "jeopardy!" back in 2012 little trip down memory lane meantime, professional sports gambler james holzhauer is on "jeopardy's!" hot streak lately, winning 15 straight game and closing in on the record $2.5 million winning total set by ken jennings we're breaking it down at hq with more on the strategies and secrets of success eric >> holzhauer is bringing an aggressive approach to "jeopardy!" aggressive strategy. a lot he learned from his career as a professional sports gambler. he loves in vegas. that's what he does every day. first thing you will notice he goes at the expensive clues at the bottom of th

emerson.sider it solved. >>> welcome back to "squawk alley," areeveryone i'm sue herera venezuela opposition leader juan guaido says he's begun the final phase of his plan to oust nicolas maduro he was joined by lopez who has emerged from house arrest. he's called on the military to back him against maduro. >>> north korea's vice foreign minister says the u.s. will face undesired consequences if it fails to present a new position on denuclearization talks. the second summit in vietnam between president trump and kim jong-un collapsed without an agreement. >>> iranian president rouhani says iran will continue to export oil despite u.s. sanctions. in a speech broadcast live on iranian state tv, he says americans will see for themselves that they cannot stop iran >>> and a wild fire in southern england has destroyed a large part of the woodland that inspired the children's series "winnie the pooh." the stories were about pooh and his friends. >>> that's the news update this hour, carl, back to yo

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emerson. consider it solved. >>> let's catch you up on a few stories that should be on your radar right now. rapid fire, we have bill griffith, kate rogers, frank colin, only one of u.s. will emerge alive >> are we going to get a word in edgewise here, my friend >> i want to survive >> you win mitch mcconnell announcing a bill that will pump the national minimum age from 18 to 21. it's a bill, not a law yet it would also apply to vapping products we should know, some states in america have a minimum age of 21 this would be a symbolic move. it's your beat here, what's the reaction what do you think. >> here's the thing, a lot of stats we can throw out here, here's another one 90% of current smokers tried a cigarette by the time they were 18 there are 16 million americans with a smoking disease in america right now. >> this is the tobacco industry trying to get ahead of restrictions that may come out why now? there was a 75% increase in the use of vapping by teens. surprise, surprise, the tobacc

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emerson.sider it solved. >>> health insurancers who manage care providers under pressure with unitedhealth, cigna and humana hitting 52-week lows what a hat trick unitedhealth said that medicare for all would destabilize the nation's health system let's bring in anna gupta. anna, welcome. good to have you here. why all this anxiety all of a sudden over medicare for all something that seems like an extraordinary long shot that is in all likelihood a long way away from becoming an active issue? >> i think it is about senator bernie sanders tweets, if you will and the proposal likely to get placed in his populous message and investors are just increasingly nervous that until you know who wins the democratic primary and then eventually what the outcome will been een on th 2020 election these stocks will not work they're looking for a catalyst, if you will, to come in and i don't think they're seeing one so, you're beginning to see long, dedicated investors showing nervousness and it's contributing

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emerson. consider it solved. >>> time now for cnbc news update with contessa brewer. >> hi, morgan. vice president mike pence addressed the u.n. security council about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in venezuela. he says the u.s. has drafted a resolution calling on the u.n. to recognize juan guaido as the country's true leader. >> for the peace and security of our hemisphere, the world and the united nations must stand with the people of venezuela to that end, the united states is preparing a resolution recognizing the legitimacy of the government of interim president juan guaido, and today we urge every member of the security council and all u.n. member states to support this resolution >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu's main election challenger, the blue and white party, conceded defeat in israel's general election. although both parties won the same number of seats in the 120-member parliament, netanyahu looked to stay in power with the support of religious right parties. >>> one perso

emerson.it solved. >>> in less than two hours elizabeth holmes, founder of the now defunct blood testing startup theranos is due in federal court. holmes along with the company's ceo sunny belwani are facing charges they defrauded doctors, patients at one point theranos was valued at -- john carriereu broke the story. he's author of "bad blood. which were chatting in the break has spawned basically a theranos empire featuring podcasts and documentaries and movies it's great to have you here. what are we expecting? are we expecting elizabeth and sunny to serve prison time >> they're charged with wire fraud. 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. and the maximum time they could spend in prison if convicted by a jury is 20 years so the pro spektive prison time is very real what we're waiting to hear today is whether the judge is going to finally set a trial date because remember those two were indicted in june of last year. it's been almost ten months. for a while the defens

emerson.onsider it solved. >>> the journalist this morning reporting that samsung will delay the release of its galaxy fold smartphone originally slated for this friday after several reviewers reported screen issues with the $2,000 devices foldable display. this follows the company's cancelation of the phone's launch see vent in china. it just wasn't one review, multiple reviewers had trouble with this thing breaking or cracking literally out of the box. >> including our own cnbc team. >> yes, indeed. so we'll see if this delay means bad news in the longer term for the galaxy phone. >> it's definitely one to watch especially since this phone and this whole foldable notion was hotly anticipated and cast that debate between apple and samsung and this idea of innovating and who's on the cusp of that next generation of phones and what will trigger sales in an already saturated market. >> keep our eye on that. that's journal reporting. >>> some breaking news this morning out of treasury and for tha

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emerson. consider it solved. >>> welcome back here are some of the movers this hour pg&e is seeing a bit of a comeback a federal judge in california threatened to restrict dividends if the uhe timt can't get a handle on its wildfire risk. shares have now turned positive. regional banks we saw on pace for their best day since mid-january. 2.5% for the kre today pnc, bb&t and sun trust up more than 2%. and blizzard are also up about 2% after web bush added the advise i don't game maker to its best ideas list. now to sue herera for a news update >>> here is what is happening. former minneapolis police officer mohammad noor arriving at the courthouse for the start of jury selection in his trial he is charged with the fatal 2017 shooting of an unarmed australian woman who had called 911 to report a possible sexual harassment -- sexual assault in the alley behind her home. xwl >>> at least 20 were killed when a fire broke out on a bus in peru people were reportedly trapped on the second deck of the

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emerson. consider it solved. >>> after weeks of expected sales of existing homes, sale of newly built homes. breaking down from washington. diana? >> this has mortgage rates written all over it. sales of newly built hopes romee 4.5% and in the positive 3% higher compared with a year ago. these numbers based on signed contracts in march and march was a huge month for mortgage rates. remember rates spiked in november for over 5% and then started coming down to start and then in march, that 50 basis points to right around 4%. you have to believe this played a big role in it ceo ryan marshall certainly thinks so. marshall said falling rates have expectations changing again with some calling for a reacceleration of housing demands. back to you. >> diana, thank you. diana olick. >>> time now for "trading nation" with boeing said to report before the bell tomorrow in the first earnings bell 737 max grounding with the stock in march what should investors expect fairfield strategies and then mark peppe

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emerson. solved. >>> are you house rich but cash poor there's a new way to take cash of your house without taking out a mortgage diana olick is in washington to explain. diana? >> reporter: kelly, you can sell the equity in your home to an investor it's all from a new start-up called point and they'll offer you cash up front with no monthly payments here's how it works. let's say the home is appraised at $1 million. point lowers that value, say by 15%, so it's now $850,000. that gives point a $150,000 cushion against risk and then point gives the homeowner, say, $100,000 cash. the owner has up to 10 years to return that cash but can exit the contract at any time when the owner does, point gets the initial $100,000 back, plus a percentage, say, 30% of any appreciation in the home's value. and here's where point can profit since it lowered the value to begin with, it automatically gets 30% of that $150,000 cushion or $45,000 if the value goes up, point gets more kingsbridge wealth management ple

emerson. consider it solved. >>> welcome back to "power lunch" semi conductor stocks surging today. smh semi conductor etf up 28% this year. is this rally just kicking into gear or is it time to let the chips cool off we have guests to talk about it today. mark, a stupendous run the semi conductors led tech in the overall market down last spring, almost a year ago. here they are in a leadership position how do they look to you? >> i don't like the group here i think they're unattractive a couple reasons you're getting right up to prior highs we saw last march. 114. three months ago the group traded at 82.64. now it's over 112. that's a 35% gain in three months up to prior highs second reason is that you're seeing momentum gradually start to stall out a little bit. it was higher in february and march when you look at things like the rsi we're moving toward prior highs. up side is limited 3 to 5% i'm not a buyer here >> all right maybe the move looks a little bit stretched for us but what about on a fundamental basis? what's the market saying about the semi conductor market? can you p

joelle emerson, thank you for joining us today >> thank you so much >>> markets in a holding pattern, dn sll, ow80tis&p down just a point. "squawk alley" is back in a few minutes. >>> welcome back to "squawk alley. first, spotify, now slack, the workplace messaging company selecting the new york stock exchange monday to host its public debut, but in a direct listing. it's the second major tech company to choose that route over the traditional ipo slack's latest funding round came back in august of last year, valuing the company at just over $7 billion "the journal" reports slack might go public as early as june or july and direct listing, no bumpers on the lane, got to roll that strike. >> yeah, it's really -- i mean when spotify went public in this way and there was a lot of speculation how this would perform would sort of determine whether we would see more offerings that were similar to it and it seems we're going to get another gauge now with this. >> meantime a lot more still to come of course adp will give us the picture of the job market tomorrow i think we have game stop tomor

emerson. consider it solved. that's what happens in golf nothiand in life.ily.'m very fortunate i can lean on people, and that for me is what teamwork is all about. you can't do everything yourself. you need someone to guide you and help you make those tough decisions, that's morgan stanley. they're industry leaders, but the most important thing is they want to do it the right way. i'm really excited to be part of the morgan stanley team. i'm justin rose. we are morgan stanley. >>> and we go to miami now welcome back to "power lunch." because miami is taking aim at silicon valley tech start-ups around the world competing at the emerge america conference for a chance to pitch including mr. worldwide, pitbull with mayor francis suarez. welcome, gentlemen great to have you here let me begin with you. >> thank you for having us >> fantastic to have you back, pitbull. >> thank you >> let me start with you, mayor. whether you try to lure existing companies from other locals into your state and region or trying to get new ones to locate there, where do tax incentives c

emerson.sider it solved. >>> welcome back as trade talks continue between china and the u.s., chinese negotiators reportedly offering to open up some access to its cloud sector joining us with that and a lot more, tom siegel, chairman and ceo of ctio3 good to have you. >> good morning. >> we talked a lot in the past and you mentioned you're not doing business in china, or you weren't at the time because of concerns of ip protection. as we look at the trade talks, is it going in a positive drikts >> i think it's definitely going in the positive direction. i think the president has a lot of leverage over china if they don't grow more than 6%, the government gets overthrown and we don't face that problem so the president has leverage, he's using it and that's a good thing. >> what's the concession that you need and guarantees to feel comfortable bringing c3iot >> we will not do business in chienia. we have a massive scale, industrial defense, ai and we're more with china on the ai front. china is

emerson. >>> lyft closing down nearly 12%, well below its $72 ipo price. >> what sort of price would encourage you to take some profits? i understand your long-term bull case but given the jump you've had since you invested >> the way we do it is we manage funds. we manage this for our client. so after six months we just give it back to the clients, they can do whatever they want. but in our long-term funds we'll see. we are long-term holders we're going to stay there. we believe in the story. we believe in this whole segment of the market. transportation service is going to be big. it's very disruptive very early stages. it's only 10% of the whole market of the country's using this >> does he still believe in lyft given today's stock move santosh rao from manhattan venture partners is back with us good to see you again. >> thank you thanks for having me >> what do you think is driving the selling today? given it was oversubscribed and people like yourselves are locked up for six months >> tha