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this, that isk at a freight train blown off the texas, whichpkin, is an east texas. the cars were empty at the time. nobody was hurt. it will take at least 48 hours to clear the cars and debris from the roadway and tracks. the reality is returning to the weather around here where we brace for rain that could disrupt your drive home. devon lucie has a first look at the forecast. those nothing like stories, the extreme cold or severe weather, we are in the middle. the belfort furniture weather center, a beautiful night, very mild. the clouds holding temperatures up. but not arm day, record like today. we tied the record, 71, which stood for 170 years. a blanket of clouds cap the temperatures uniform. kept thek of clouds temperatures uniform. the satellite imagery showing cloud cover, rain to the west. at the bus stop tomorrow, a little bit of fog, no problems, a light jacket, a chance of rain after 2:00. the most likely is the late afternoon and early evening time frame. morning rush tomorrow, a-ok, but the evening rush will be wet. then we bring temperatures down. i w

dollar, the dog that did not isk after the fed -- it trading unchanged.story of the day. we see both brent and west texas lower significantly, and that is having an impact on the ruble. it is at a low for the year. copper calling in from the emergency room as well, down. our next guest, our guest host for this hour is the head of u.s. rate strategy for his company, george conn countless -- george gunn calvinists -- george goncalves. the ramadiet back to story that vonnie quinn was just talking about because you are telling us you are not sure that we should trust the reports from the iraqi military. the baghdad government has a big interest in claiming total success in ramadi. yesterday officials were saying that 70% to 80% of the city was still under isis control, and the government simply had only gotten the administrative center , after three weeks of fighting. so i would not place any big hopes on that pr claim. michael: if it were liberated, what would that mean? george: i would say would mean the public support of the government, the governments pri

here who isk is interested in the incidence of concussion or the kinds of circumstances likely to bringhis out. tom mcallister is interested in the cognitive behavior and the consequences of concussion. he is doing a long-term study of college students who can see what the consequences are. susan is interest in the brain mechanisms of concussions. she studies this not only in walterin animal models is interested in seeing can we come up with treatments for this s. tori: i started playing soccer was four years old and i immediately loved it. since that day until i was a senior in high school. old i had my years first concussion. i didn't even know it was a concussion. i miss headed the ball and headed someone else. i got home and had a lot of headaches. i didn't even think that was a possibility. i know ahead and important game the next day so i decided to play anyway. once i got to my game the next day it was a semi final in one of our state cup appearances. i fell to the ground and hit my head on the ground pretty hard. got up. i was confused as to where i was. but again setback for th

isk: it is likely that trump taken down by candidates and a campaign, rather than the outside group. think he could use the outside group to his advantage. cruz, chrisio, ted christie, if any of them say they will take out trump and put their money where their mouth is, using paid ads, that is the way he comes down. john: i will go further than that and i will say that those people cannot stop trump without going negative against trump in a serious way. some day, the day of reckoning comes. you have to do it. it is essential to him losing a race. he has to lose in iowa, new hampshire, both. that will take the wind out of his sales. mark: trump is not politically correct and he stands up to special interests. clinton is getting dizzy, tacking from left to right on issues. she is a hawkish on isis and elizabeth warren-ish on wall street. when it comes to maintaining general election viability, how is she doing? tok: she has been left appeal to the base and hawkish to distance from obama. she has been hawkish on for policy. these are issues she is comfortable with and running in a gener

isking at the challenges jeffrey.talk about the headlines when alibaba joining us the first officer in two years. was not an easy sell. or you surprised? -- were you surprised? >> they need to have the right platform. alibaba is not tainted by the past. less of alibaba using this platform. yvonne: we will bring you stephanie ruhle's exclusive conversation with ceo mark. one of silicon valley's most thoughtful executives, coming up. ♪ yvonne: welcome back to "bloomberg's best." stephanie ruhle recently sat down for an interview with salesforce chairman and ceo marc benioff. he leads the most successful cloud computing software company and his leadership style has brought him attention and acclaim. conversation begins on the topic of salesforce and the cloud. stephanie: the cloud has been your signature for so long, that without an infrastructure platform, do you think you have the full offering? marc: i think the exciting thing about technology and technology changing in the industry and in san francisco, where i live

isk: the conventional wisdom he is done. john: that is not the first: which we have seen it.hat do you give to the guy who has everything? aforementioned donald trump and the particle press corps has decided to give him free attention. he has not spent any money on advertising. he saysng he gets -- gets re-aired and dissected by the pundit class. think -- is the media out to get him or are they enabling his rise? hand the presse loves trump because he is an interesting story. part of his political attraction is he is interesting. john: he is fun. many reporters have pointed this out. mark: i sense a lot of the coverage and interviews, there is a desire to not be part of history that says we did not scrutinize him enough. we were not tough enough. the interviews are little bit press is still helping trump more than they are hurting him with the covers -- coverage. this thing where you see people bringing their hands and saying the media should not give him any oxygen. he is the front runner, you have to cover him. mark: it is not up to the press to stop the candidate. the othe

this iske a look at how performed over the course of a day. you can see it is not working right now. i will tell you about how the first rises at 10:00 a.m. we not seeing it back up to where we are. to get an idea of taking us up or down, dive in and let us take a look at global commodity prices. oil commodities right now, they are down. they are down today as well as year to date. wti crude, down 1%. interestingly, natural gas is rising higher. we have seen volatility in the market. remy: with natural gas stockpiles, those are actually falling according to the energy information organization today. they fell last week and we can see the spike, the reaction to that news, happen around 10:30. price us fall into session lows. they are at the lowest since april 2012. the company that deals in natural gas, they are still higher despite natural gas falling. the biggest gainer up by more than 8%. biggest gainer. another sector, airline stocks gaining. a 3% gain in year-end holiday travel. look at that. united airlines up 3%. delta air almost up or p

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if someone isk, too dangerous to fly, they are too dangerous to buy a gun.ry least, we should try to restrain that from happening. to do. worked t we need to continue to lead around the world. i'm very committed to leading with our values, advancing our interests, furthering our security. i intend to do it in a way that leads with both strength and smarts. we do have some real challenges and threats out there that we t ignore.k obviously, a lot of attention being paid to isis. it needs to be defeated. it has to be wiped out. that will take time and american leadership. it is something that we cannot ignore. that does not mean that we put american troops in either syria or iraq. i am against that. who areblicans promoting it are not serious about what we need to do, and how best to try to limit the spread of this radical jihadist violent extremism. there is a lot to do, my friends . i can only hope that you will work hard with me through the primaries and the caucuses, into the general election. it will be a hard journey. there is no doubt about that. so much

. -- ity can prove and show depends on which currency they isk -- that the yuan stronger than their other then the depreciation against the dollar is because of the market. it is not something they need to worry about. scarlet: let's stick with the theme of devaluation. another country that is speculated to devalue soon is saudi arabia. the reality is pegged to the dollar. >> you are seeing it in a short data forward markets. inders are buying forward the hopes that the currency will devalue. -- coverto hedge that that position. you need to finance it. that is where pressure is building. highly unlikely that the 35-year-old peg will go. a lot of political issues along nith it and it becomes a inflation issue as well. you would think, if it were that big an issue, they would be looking more at maybe cutting back on production and controlling the oil market, which is something they can do much easier. scarlet: they have been very firm on that stance. thank you so much for joining us , vincent cignarella. staying with the markets, post bill gross marks pimco's first --r since the departure o

price isk that carbon the best manner to reduce emissions. that is clear.rice will have to meet a global market, and how that will be and how much it will be and what they will do with [indiscernible] have beendiscussion i having -- after this interview i will sit down [indiscernible] optimistic, because the world is already aware. the second thing that we have to stop -- that is another thing. so how can that be legally binding -- i think it should [indiscernible] if somebody is ready to put money on the table they have the right to do something. francine: is it more or less difficult to do it when the price of oil is at this level? we have opec meeting in vienna today -- do you have a forecast for the price of oil? i know it is very difficult, but does it impact sustainability? >> i think something which is a contradiction -- carbon prices are contradiction. [indiscernible] that is something -- so i think these things [indiscernible] question, we have to strange the strategy and [indiscernible] i am not seeing any extra things -- francine: what is your ta

. -- isk southern is up down but canadian pacific is up marginally.s meant to -- any drop in canadian pacific share prices. investors aren't really looking forward to what is happening over there. homebuilders are rising after data came out showing strong housing starts in november, up 10.5% since october and 16% year on year. -- rising right now. toll rising the most, up by 2.3%. to natural gas, futures are trading near the lowest level since 1989. it will close today at a 16 year low. $1.82. sinceill be lowest price 1995. it is happening as an unseasonably warm december curtails demand for heating. this is on course to expand as production heads for a fifth straight annual record. david: oil is extending losses today amid new data on inventory. i want to bring in alix steel. she is a fan of commodities. let's start with what we have seen, a drop. alix: the inventory numbers came out. you had actual crude but you also had product inventories ailed despite the fact that refiners worked less last week. imports are at the highest level since 2013. basic

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the problem is the city isk worried that bricks will continue falling from that original building on 64th street, damaging the nearby building on east 63rd street and someone might get hurt. the buildings department has issued a vacate order for that building on east 63rd street in the original building from where a thousand bricks fell. inspectors discovered cracks in the remaining facade above the collapse. experienced being stuck in traffic for so long, a problem that's gone on for days now. >> i bring a customer from 35th street and 1st avenue to the hospital, one hour. i came on the fdr, and i have to make a right turn to go to the kespital. no, you can ot go tp make a right turn. >> reporter: and emergency management workers explained it's a balance between keeping people safe but also trying to bring back to normal this neighborhood. at this point, the city hopes to lift the street closures on monday morning. that is if repairs that are under way here go on as planned. the thing is, first avenue still is closed between 60th and 64th street at this point. back to you, darlene.

. >> energy has got that bigs a ter isk. erin, thank you. jonathan, appreciate it. a couple more segments every day on the website at http://"trading nation." cnbc.com. >> let's bring in peter, amusement park expert and author of "america's top roller coasters." we wanted you on because of this reason. a couple years ago i took my daughter to disney and saw a bunch of princessings es walkin around and there weren't a lot of young boys. some people have said disney has got kind of a boys' problem. they need more rides and attractions to bring in the 8-year-old boys. do you think "star wars" is the thing that's going to do that and thus drive a whole new brand of attendees to the theme park approximates. >> well, absolutely. i think the theme park is going to have that new theming area, of course, and it's a 14 acre area. it's going to do extremely well because who does not love "star wars"? whether you're a boy or a girl. as you know, in '87 they added star tours and it's been an amazing ride. this time around $4 billion later, they're now actually putting in the mar

isk: today, michael platt turning his firm into a family office.e, truck and druckenmiller and other hedge funds are returning capital to investors. the institution of pension funds still have to invest it somewhere, but where and will there be as many counterparties for the healthy continue?al market to tim: we're not talking about the new funds that startup and there are tons. spinouts from larger funds. people that have been investing with somebody else, i sat next to somebody less like for dinner who was at salomon brothers for 23 years and they started their own firm, and those firms are starting every day. i don't want to name it. erik: heartbreak. tim: a little bit. this money is not going away. stephanie: are you talking about mike bloomberg? hmmm. tim: gave go, no, i wasn't but that is my last answer. there is a pile of money and it will give people freedom to invest. maybe you will start lending investment kinds of dollars. you doare free, which is not have a chart of that limits you to, when you are actually able to run your firm in the

and severe thunderstorm warnings from memphis to new orleans, snow back behind t.8 million people at isk for damaging weather, damaging winds and risk of isolated tornadoes conainues again today as the front moves through tonight and tomorrow. severe storms possible through the south, and flooding rain as that front moves in. look at rainfall amounts, upwards of 3 to 5 inches as you get from alabama all the way into parts of northern georgia, and then the cold side of this storm. 33 milon people in the path of wintry weather. chicago, detroit, oklahoma city, kansas city and boston all possible as this system lift up and up into the great lakes tonight and tomorrow, snow to a wintry mix, low pressure, snow developing heavy at times and reducing visibility. look at some of the snowfall we're talking. upwards of a foot or more through iowa on into wisconsin and parts of southern minnesota, and this is what i'm really concerned about ice, power outages, dangerous travel, guys, from kirksville, chicago, detroit on into buffalo. we could be looking apt anywhere from half an inch to an inch of