one boost is gilead sciences.ut to bloomberg while tech analyst who said this is for two reasons. first, the payout for merck and a recent patent infringement case over hepatitis c drug is a measly $200. a lot less than what the street had been looking for. mark's hepatitis c drug saying it is relatively weak. less competition for gilead than what investors had been looking for. he has said all along that gilead is the 800 pound gorilla in the hepatitis c space. a volatile ride for the stock over the last two years to read interesting to see how all of that plays out. betty: thank you so much. abigail doolittle at the nasdaq. much more ahead. a battle of the charts. it will be consensus who wins this time. junk bonds losing some luster. lisa abramowicz will go head-to-head with matt miller in a few minutes. ♪ betty: live from new york, on bonnie lou -- i'm betty liu. vonnie: i'm vonnie quinn. look at business stories in the news right now. says the ceo is leaving. he will be replaced by founder tim westergren. cha

. >>> and i-77, the northbound lanes at gilead road, a tanker truck involved in a crash, and they are trying to get this cleaned up. it's willfulling an armored truck, and the backup, it stretches for about four miles as crews work to clean this up. we'll keep an eye on this and monitor the backups. you can see the empty lanes there, and here come the backups, a solid stretch. >>> an early on morning shooting in west charlotte. >>> a shot est. (donkey sound) (elephant sound) there's a big difference between making noise, (tapping sound) and making sense. (elephant sound) (donkey sound) when it comes to social security, we need more than lip service. keep social security strong. (elephant noise) hey candidates. enough talk. >>> new at noon, a high-speed days in caldwell county ended with a crash and a motorcycle rider in the hospital. the chase started south of lenoir after officers spotted a motorcycle with expired tags. the rider crashed on star crossroad after turning into a dirt drive. witnesses told channel 9 that the rider ran from the scene and was tackled by officers about 100

gilead has donated $1.5 million to the university of oklahoma for its part in assisting the cherokeeep c elimination program. doctor mera says with competing hep c drugs in the pipeline from other pharmaceutical companies, he expects medication costs to come down. >> do you worry at all that some of the conclusions you'll reach here, aren't gonna be applicable outside of cherokee nation because most people don't have the kind of medical coverage that people here in cherokee nation do? >> we won't be able to extrapolate what we do or find to every medical scenario in the united states. but i think everybody will learn a little bit from some of the things we did. like, for example, we expanded age targeted screening to-- from 20 to 69. the recommendations right now are only baby boomers in the u.s. >> reporter: john ward from the cdc says the cherokee program could become a national model for eliminating hep c. >> well, the number one lesson we can learn from the cherokee nation is the power of political commitment to tackling this problem. >> reporter: so far, the cherokee program has

gilead is trading lower. gilead -- merck is a little higher.will be the amount of the royalties. let's look at virgin america. we have been talking about this. virgin america has reached out to central buyers about the sale of all or part of the company. this is according to those with knowledge of the matter. the airline backed by richard branson. shares spiking after the headlines. it has been halted because of volatility in trading once again. up by about 13%. mark: have a peek at what is happening in the european stocks today. this is the stoxx 600, and today chart. this is what happened after the brussels bombings yesterday. 1.6% decline. we arranged most of those inclined, finishing down about 1/10 of 1%. we opened up 6/10 above. about half a percent lower of the last few days. it's being dragged lower by the higher dollar. this level of sterling the last four days. is the biggest four-day drop since january. the pound is down by 2.5%. principally in the last 24 hours following this russell's attacks. many using the link between terrorism

today gilead stock fell almost 4%. why? america won a patent infringement case against gilead. more of the count for the fall is the stock market recognizes gilead will lose pricing power for the $84,000 a year drug. if gilead loses that pricing power the stock will go lower and it is down 11% for the year. the drug complex has come down as people fear that punitive presidential candidates donald trump and hillary clinton will use the government's bargaining power to negotiate -- that's the key word. negotiate with the drug companies for medicare. negotiate the code for what could amount to almost total loss of pricing power for a group that used to command it for years. here's the bottom line. don't forget this battle over price define as lot of individual stock action and that the stock with pricing power bounced back faster after yesterday and those that don't, they are destined to trade water or go lower when the tide goes out. curtis in north carolina. curtis. >> caller: hello, jim. thanks for taking my call. today i would like to say congratulations on 11 years of "mad mo

we work gilead. space, health care has come under fire as a consequence of a political rhetoric at the moment. it still has earnings, has a huge cash balance and we think it can be acquired and focus on r&d. >> let's go to the stock picks for this time. we start out with p & g, procter & gamble. you say they're turning around quality. >> it's one of the dow jones companies that had a terrible 12 to 18 months, two a low portfolio product, on all cylinders. new management has come in. they're trying to decentralized management and a lot of products that were offered to long-term businesses. meantime, they're in a space staples says is richly valued. project for gamble is relatively cheap coupled with the fact of the 3% dividend deal. >> about 15 seconds. >> great industrial franchise, once again, in the top sector, rebounding smartly in the ricochet rally we had and as well another stock that has over a 3% dividend yield and prospects on the back of investors realizing that global economies are not abo

i look at it and say it's a below for gilead. i stepped in to buy the weakness. >> dow component nike falling after hours on a big sales miss that call halfway through. we'll hear on the impact of the u.s. dollar, china and the competition all when "fast money" returns. ♪ you're not gonna watch it! ♪ ♪ no, you're not gonna watch it! ♪ ♪ we can't let you download on the goooooo! ♪ ♪ you'll just have to miss it! ♪ yeah, you'll just have to miss it! ♪ ♪ we can't let you download... uh, no thanks. i have x1 from xfinity so... don't fall for directv. xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. i used to like that song. >>> let's get back to headquarters for the latest on the attacks in brussels. >>> melissa, a belgian prosecutor says police raids are happening around the country after two men are believed to have staged a suicide bombing at the brussels airport and a third person fled. a new explosive device containing nails found in a raid near brussels. an isis flag and chemicals also found there. at least 30 people killed a

gilead will still use this drug but only in case offers people who relapsed after previous treatment. >>> look for changes on instagram. the photo sharing site will begin test agnew algorithm for its feed. instead of seeing photos in chronological order, it will place them in the order it th k thinks you will most want to see them. really? you follow her? >> no, i don't. >> the things we're learning so early on wednesday. they say instagram will be similar to what facebook has done, not saying when those changes will take place. you can get it all the time. >>> speaking of selfies, pay by selfie. amazon files a patent to allow customers to pay by selfie. to make purchases by taking a photo or video of themselves instead of using a password, which can be easy to forget or stolen. amazon would ask you to take one photo to prove your identity and second moving your head, smiling or blinking to deter hackers. got a lot of different looks. >> if you change your appearance, what happens? >> take off your makeup and put your glasses on. 4:50 now. >>> march madness starts tomorrow. >> i think

gilead, however, gilead is a rock star stock.have a franchise that is deteriorating a little bit, their hcv that investors think is going to peak in i think it's 2018ish. i don't think it's going the peak in 2018. it can continue to grow through 20. and then it's a $20 billion franchise for the next five years. in the meantime, they've been very clear about buying a company. they need to bolt on a big acquisition. if they can do that successfully, lights out. >> let's get to the catch-up trades that these think could be ready to break out in case you missed out on the rally. tim? >> we caught up a lot in the a lot of the big retailers or apparel manufactures had recovery. ralph lauren did not. thing is a turnaround story going on there. trying to engineer two things. better sg and a. try not to dilute the brand. ultimately there was too much discounting there was too much ralph lauren. the valuation 14 times makes a lot of sense to me that. is one i would stay with. i'm long the stock. >> you're talking gilead, your catch-up trad

gilead is on the rise. a court victory against gilead, saying that gilead's hepatitis c medication, the roots of that were from a research project. now, an analyst is saying despite that, the hepatitis b medicine is not enough to compete so those shares and shares of the partner are trading lower today. whom i rooting for, that manner superman? a tough choice. >> thank you so much. let's get to the news. mark crumpton is at the news desk and we have got a lot going on. mark: we are covering breaking news. the white house and congress are on lockdown. following a shooting at the capitol visitor center pair the associated press cites officials saying one capitol police officer has been shot but not seriously wounded. local television station tweets that the shooter is down. one capital police officer has been shot but not seriously wounded following a shooting at the capitol visitor center in washington, d he at a local television station tweeting the shooter is down to her we will continue to follow this sto

you're coming in from lake 65-miles-per-hour. 77 looking good right now, catawba avenue, down to gilead running in the green. develop. here across the charlotte area, most of our highways and roads are continuing to run in the green. northbound 77 coming out of rock hill this morning, curb drive ti for you is 21 minutes with an average speed of -miles-per-hour. and that is a check of traffic, john, over to you. >> john: get back to breaking news in west charlotte that wbtv first broke, police are investigating a shooting that happened in connection to a carjacking. the victim was found on rozzelles ferry near johnson c. smith university. ashton pellom was theirst to report this story on socl media, and he joins us now live from the scene. ashton, what can you tell us? what i can tell you right now the victim is recbdovering in the hospital. he was shot twice, once in the arm, once in the leg earlier this morning. that is what police tellw me. currently on the corner of roslyn and turner where police cleared the scene, they believe the shooting happened in this area and that victimmu end

merck says gilead owes 10% of its sales in the form of a royalty on this drug.lead is appealing decision and says it will only have a 5% effect on the stock. percentage standpoint, seagate technology is the worst as ubs has lowered numbers citing numbers in the desktop and commercial business segment. one analyst has reduced his price target to $24 a share and is reiterating his selling with the stock down and some investors are clearly taking it seriously. betty: what about other tech companies and play today? watchingwe have been google as they announced the platform cloud event. the street really wants to know how serious google is about its move into the cloud. whoached out to an analyst seems more impressed than i thought he would have been, saying google seems more ambitious and committed to this than he thought. the strategy is more about using the technology and leverage and stealing amazon or microsoft customers. over the medium-term, he thinks it could have a nice impact on google's revenue. york auto show is underway on the west side of manhattan. suv

. >> this month alone there have been a half dozen crashes from gilead to sanford road in huntersville. eyewitness news reporter joe bruno is live along that road to show us some of the issues they're s. >> highway patrol troopers tell channel 9 that there isn't much they can do because of the i-77 toll lane construction and the placement of the safety barriers. now, according to highway patrol, i-77 is, quote, a mess of a road. so far this year, there were 228 crashes on the stretch through charlotte. 240 in february and 162 crashes in march already. troopers we spoke with say there isn't much they can do because of the construction. according to highway patrol, the barriers make matters worse. there is no way to move wrecks parts of i-77 resulting in long back-ups to an already congested inter. >>> prior to the construction starting, if a vehicle was broken down or there was a collision, we can move that to the shoulder of the road. now there are certain spots where we can't move it to the shoulder of the road. >> according to highway patrol there have been double the amount of crash

you see you have the green shot all the way down to gilead road, hambright and up to 485. the rest of the charlotte commute, majors running free and clear, we do have an accident on south tryon above clanton. be aware of that. moving to the south if you're northbound out of rock hill you have the green light on i-77 northbound drive time of 21 minutes, average speed of 66-miles-per-hour. christine, over to you. >> christine: get right back to kristen miranda right now. >> john: she is following breaking news in the alert center. >> kristen: we have been talking about this a few minutes now, john and christine. take a look at apple tv to show you where we're talking about. if you know birkdale village, this is a jewelry store where this happened. that is the scene there, we're waiting to get pictures back from the scene but let me show you what huntersville fire is telling us through twitter this morning. apparently just a short time ago a vehicle was run right in the front of that jewelry store in birkdale village and by the time police and firefighters got there, that veh

they're happening in the toll lane construction zone between gilead and sam furr roads. joe bruno is live along i-77 right now where we investigated how troopers are handling this problem? >> troopers say a major responsibility is on drivers to be alert because this i-77 construction is causing problems when they're responding to crashes. so far this year there, were 228 through charlotte in january. 240 in february, and 162 crashes in march already! between exits 233 and 25 in huntersville. there have been six crashes this month. each caused by massive delays on an already busy interstate. highway patrols say it is difficult to respond to some of the crashes because of the i-77 toll lane construction. the barriers make it harder to move them to the side of the road. there have been double the amount of crashes on i-77 reporting live in cornelius. channel 9, eyewitness news. >> we just learned about a wreck on i-77 near sam furr road. we'll have much more on the toll within local politics. he will give us a check up on the accident. we'll also check in on this issue. dav

we broke into programs to let you know about the mess at gilead road. find out what caused the crash and anyone was injured. >>> the union county school superintendent announced she is retiring. dr.mary ellis's retirement comes days after the d a announced no charges would be filed against her in the case of her company and a laptop contract. she has been with union county as superintendent since 2012. her last day will be june 1. >>> stocks soared today getting off to a great start to the month of march, the dow surging 348 and the nasdaq, 131. a spike in oil prices pushed wall street higher, a 30% jump from february 11 when it was $26. this comes after saudi a raina, russia, and oil producers agreed to tentatively freeze oil. and now, gas prices will edge up because of this. cents in the past week. south carolina, $1.54. >>> it's a huge day for all the presidential candidates, super tuesday. >> allison latas is here to break down what is at stake. >> reporter: erica and scott, people in 12 states and one u.s. territory voting with 1610 delegates up fo

. >> gilead science is halting patients studies of a drug for leukemia and lymphoma patients. they will only use the drug in cases of people who relapsed after previous treatment. >> four people will share a $150,000 reward for the capture of two prison escapees. a san francisco homeless man will get the bulk of the reward money. he'll get $100,000. this is matthew hey chapman. he recognized the two inmates and followed them into a mcdonald's in san francisco back in january. he then flagged down some police officers. three convicted felons escaped from the santa ana prison and one inmate went back and turned himself in. >> the city council today approved turning the plaza hotel on san fernando street in downtown into housing for the homeless. plans are also in the works to transform another ho it witel. >> plans were revealed to reengineer lombard street to and from the golden gate bridge. they would narrow the road forcing cars to slow down. the gold is to make lombard street safer for pedestrians and cyclists, especially after 30 people were killed last year alone right the

you see you have the green shot all the way down to gilead road, hambright and up to 485. the rest of the charlotte commute, majors running free and clear, we do have an accident on south tryon above clanton. be aware of that. moving to the south if you're northbound out of rock hill you have the green light on i-77 northbound drive time of 21 minutes, average speed of 66-miles-per-hour. christine, over to you. >> christine: get right back to kristen miranda right now. >> john: she is following breaking news in the alert center.

the accidents happening between sam furr and gilead roads where crews are working on the toll lanes project. troopers are saying it's a mess. so far this month, there have they also say because of the construction barriers, there's nowhere to move the wrecks. and wherever there's a crash that impacts your morning commute, we send out push alerts. that can let you know before you head out the door about the back-ups. you can sign up to receive those alerts on our wsoc-tv mobile app. >>> we'll find out on tuesday who won a local primary race after it was so close a candidate demanded a recount. only 28 votes separate incumbent state representative charles jeter and challenger tom davis. today mecklenburg county officials started recounting the votes. the race may have been close because of the i-77 toll lanes fight. davis ran his campaign on a no- tolls program while jeter first threw his support behind the project but has since changed his mind. >>> a new trial date has been set for a man accused in a caldwell county double murder more than 25 years ago. his new trial will start august the f

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we believe gilead sciences which is a company that has been in the news quite a bit of late, is building a significant cash pile on its balance sheet, is in a fantastic position to do it, has done it successfully in the past, go out and acquire great capacity and capability in some of the biotechnology stocks that have been hit. their significant drug today is as a result of a acquisition they did many years ago. we believe they have the ability with the cash, strength of balance sheet, and innate ability to identify opportunities to go out and acquire something and make ultimately something very successful down the road. >> all right, david. thank you very much, have a great long weekend. david smith at rockland trust. >> thank you both. >>> let's take a look at the market before we leave you. and it was very interesting on wall street today with the dow managing despite some of the cross currents globally to finer up 13 points on the trading session. the nasdaq was up about 4.66. the s&p 500 bucked the trend a bit, it was down about .75 points. on that note, we'll say good night for "n

some of the biggest losers include bio jen, gilead, regenerate, and celgene.heck in on how the other major averages are trading. we had the s&p 500 down half a percent. the dow is below average 1/10 of 1%. as abigail mentioned, the abigail is down. pharmaceuticals are down nearly 40%. the conference call comes to an end a few minutes ago. conference call with michael pearson. still ahead, financing with art. financiers are putting up their valuable artwork as collateral. that is coming up next. ♪ vonnie: we are a look at the south african rand. it reached 16 per u.s. dollar. it is up over 3%. this continues as the finance minister and the directors for priority claim an investigation. they are saying that they will try to ensure that they answer questions. speaking of emerging-market currencies, we open with the russians currency up 71. that is being strengthened by 1.6% of the u.s. dollar. right, in today's pursuits, we're talking about art as collateral. if you are one of the lucky owners of a masterpiece, athena art financers is allowing collectors of high-

abigail: one sector in particular is standing out, gilead scientists boosted by the fundamentals aroundpany's drug franchise being strong. the new price target of $130 suggests that there could be an upside on the stock that has been beaten down pretty badly from its record peak last year. vonnie: thank you so much, abigail. turning now to china, increased debt will be used to fuel goals in china this year as growth slows. they said that they do expect to fall between 6.5 and 20%. with the headke of china research. have a listen. say, 6.5 to 7%, that's just not plausible. i'm sure that they are going to report that. they always report that they have achieved whatever target they set out. we think that the number is far closer to maybe 4%, that's realistic. they will continue to kick the can down the road on debt, just like they have learned from other countries around the world, until they cannot kick it anymore. you are right, how will we know that? take us throughout the year, where will we see that discrepancy? >> it won't be in the official data. you will see the discrepancy in weak

let's look at what is happening with gilead sciences. they are going up by 1% or so. this is one of the biggest listed on the nasdaq. a jury awarded the owner of the pharma company to pay $200 million to merk because of a patent case involving hepatitis b. interestingly, mark was wanting to billions wanting dollars. billion. it will be interesting looking i had to thursday when she makes a speech -- looking ahead to thursday when she makes a speech and maybe gives us some guidance there. cory: oculus rift is finally hitting the market today. is it good enough? ♪ cory: tokyo, we have a problem. they're launching a brand-new satellite. it was equipped with x-ray telescopes meant to study black holes. lost contact saturday afternoon and have been trying to reconnect ever since. some suggest that an energetic event may have sent it tumbling out of control and prevented the antenna from working properly. officiallyrift has hit the market two years after facebook surprised -- facebook's surprise to billion dollar acquisition -- 2 billion-dollar $2 billion dollar acquisition

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foster city based gilead sciences announced its new drug will be available.rketed as the smallest pill for treatment for hiv. >>> a new study says billions of dollars are wasted on the unused portions of cancer drug. >> some jobs are riskier when it comes to heart health. >> here's jane king. >> high prices for cancer medicines aren't the only reason they cost insurers and patients so much. the problem is that vials usually contain more medicine than most patients need and the excess is thrown out. wasted cancer drugs total about $3 billion. >>> if you're 45 or older and work in sales, you may be at higher risk of heart disease. certain jobs are riskier when it comes to heart health. those in sales are at higher risk of a heart attack and food workers had worse diets than average. >>> learning in mid life to juggle, swim, ride a bike or snowboard could strengthen the brain in ways that practicing other familiar pursuits, such as marathon training or cross word puzzles will not. the impacts of learning on the primal portions of the brain have been underappreci

congestion into huntersville and gilead road. the better your ride will be the closer to 485. >>> a florida doctor rushed to charlotte to help a friend she thought was being held hostage. ahead on day break the way scammers convinced her the threat was real and what stopped her if following through. >> reporter: plus, results on a controversial student assignment survey released today. board issueif you're doing everything rightbut find it harder and harderto get by, you're not alone. while our people worklonger hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1%. my plan -- make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. i'm bernie sanders. i approve this message because together, we can make a political revolution and create an economyand democracy that works for all >>> check that out. look at your screen here. 6:44. the sun just popped up over the horizon. got some clouds in front of it. this is picture-perfect. >> i like

j&j has a hepatitis c franchise that's just been crushed by koch technician from gilead that cures he p-c. sales fell last year. fell behind as implants went from up 34% in to 12 to sales shrinking by 4.3% last year thanks to increased competition weaker. somehow jnj hasn't seemed to skip a beat. despite the issues gor zs sky created a company with the fastest growing drug business among big pharma and perhaps the because he's confronted problems with a military discipline you would expect from a west point the army. two months ago he announced a order to boost profitability. it was tough medicine. roughly 3,000 workers. this is jnj in an initiative that should produce 1 million in cost cuts. ever since then the stock has been a rocket ship. johnson & johnson is an established drug business. they hadn't got much credit consumer medical device divisions. investors can focus on everything the business has going for it and it has a lot. not only do they have 11 drugs with over a billion dollars in sales and i love that mosaic including three huge arthritis drugs, remicaid, solarum and sy

. >> we have sellgene, gilead, regeneron, am-gen and they are a better value.ary in georgia, mary. >> caller: jim, i appreciate you taking my call. >> of course. >> caller: assisting individual investors. >> of course. >> caller: i would love your opinion about tide water. >> tide water had a major move. a really major move. today it was up big, up 12%. i cannot come on top of the 12% gain and tell you to buy it. it has to pull back. that move is based on oil going to 37, 38. if oil goes back to 35 you will regret that i said buy it so i'm not going to. sander in florida. >> caller: hey, jim. big boo-yah from the sunshine state. >> how are you? >> caller: doing great. how are you? >> good. i still believe in the long-term prospects of fitbit down 55%. again, listen, twitterati, i have been wrong. it's better to say i'm wrong than to say i'm early. i still believe. let's go to dave in illinois, dave. >> caller: dr. cramer. i like amicus therapeutics. >> i like it, too. but it is too speculative for me now. when i see sell gene down, some of the other major ones

>> caller: anyway, yeah, my question is about gilead sciences. >> right. >> caller: they seem to be doing the right things with good earnings. the approvals on the hepatitis drug and analysts are saying they're giving it a $100 price target, but my concern is the political head winds. should that stop me from buying it? >> i have to tell you of the ones of the four horsemen, of the celgene, of the biomed, this worries me the worst. it's an expensive drug, but i won't tell you to sell off, because it's too cheap. accounting irregularities equal sell. much more mad ahead. more than 25 million americans suffer from diabetes. i will talk to the ceo of the company who has an app that makes their life easier. >>> and up more than 100%, see if it can stay in good health. plus the super tuesday edition of the lightning round, so stick with cramer. find fantasy shows. when it comes to the things you love, you want more. love romance? get lost in every embrace. into sports? follow every pitch, every play and every win. change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. >>> for the last six mont

the slower moving traffic from davidson to catawba avenue up to huntersville and sam furr down to gilead road this morning. charlotte commute quite a bit of green but beginning to see slow northbound this morning, there again is your live look at the rest area, volume of traffic certainly heavier. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> christine: there are growing number of products on the market that claim to help make it easier for women to get pregnant. sold over-the-counter and online. do they work and pose any dangers? kristen miranda consults experts all new this this half hour. >> reporter: she that and kyle barlow are ready to make an addition to the family after two years of trying -- >> i'm willing to try anything, anything that can help us get pregnant. >> sheena hoped to improve odds with fertility supplements. packed with amino acids, among other ingredient. manufacturers say designed to promote conception. dr. amos helped to create products, he claims the count and thin cervical mucous. >> many women saying they were

a jury in california ruling in favor of merck in a lawsuit against rival gilead over patents for new hepatitis c drugs. wa oracle is suing is hp enterprise. oracle requires customers to buy tech support from it rather than from outside companies. the hedge funds that have launched a proxy fight with united airlines are now calling on the company to immediately appoint one of its new board members as chairman. park capital management and ultimator capital management said united's board is under qualified because of a lack of experience. >> more stocks to watch. krispy kreme projecting full-year profits below analyst estimates, warning international same-store sales will remain negative. red hat's fourth quarter results beat results and they're offering an upbeat outlook on 2016. subscription revenues jumped 18%, although billings or deferred revenue came in lighter than expected. five below reporting strong fourth quarter results that beat forecasts, but the retailer is projecting 2016 results at the low end of analyst estimates. long term, the company expects annual profits and reven

providenceprovidence, 77 southbound out of davidson, cornelius, slowing down up to huntersville, slow to gilead road, back in the green as you work toward 485. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> christine: kristen miranda has been getting us all the test breaking details hitting the wires on social media as well. and she is live in the alert center with more pictures of a polling place, where is this? >> kristen: this is in burlington, vermont. the camera is moving around because you can see these are photographers and media here in burlington, vermont. this is where senator bernie sanders is expected to cast his vote today on this super tuesday. we have not seen him come in the poll place workers and you can see people waiting for senator sanders to arrive. so i want to bring thank you livebring you that livepicture, if we see anything i'll get that back to you so you can see the senator casting his vote. polls have already opened. back to you. >> john: after the break, we'll have a live report on the breaking news in charlotte. >>

>> caller: anyway, yeah, my question is about gilead sciences. >> right. >> caller: they seem to be doing the right things with good earnings. the approvals on the hepatitis drug and analysts are saying they're giving it a $100 price target, but my concern is the political head winds. should that stop me from buying it? >> i have to tell you of the ones of the four horsemen, of the celgene, of the biomed, this worries me the worst. it's an expensive drug, but i won't tell you to sell off, because it's too cheap. accounting irregularities equal sell. much more mad ahead. more than 25 million americans suffer from diabetes. i will talk to the ceo of the makes their life easier. >>> and up more than 100%, see if it can stay in good health. plus the super tuesday edition with cramer. because i'm a woman... do you think i'm gonna crack under pressure or conquer the field? defy expectations any day with always infinity. made with flexfoam. absorbs 10x its weight. rewrite the rules. always. ugh! heartburn! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazi

. >> dan, give me a thought on gilead. a lot of the biotechs whacked hard. >> yes, they have.so, i mean, gilead is a company whose dominant franchises are in hiv and most recently in hepatitis c. they have grown earnings from under $2 level to near $12 a level this year. the stock level only trades at 7 or 8 times earnings even as they have a free cash flow well over 12%. the reason is people are fearing that the success of this drug and the cash hoard they have built up is going to be spent on acquisition. we contrarian think the valuation already discounts too much fear about what a top notch management team is going to do. what we point to is their growth in hepatitis c was based on an acquisition they did of foreign assets. we think the management team will do another great acquisition and this is significantly undervalued by the market. >> dan chung, and jill cuniff, we'll see you, jill, out in seattle in a couple of weeks at our iconic conference, first week in april. can't wait for that. >> i saw you were going to be here. >> stop on by. we'll send you information on it