. >>> sara: jc penney is going to sell appliances. it is to boost sales during off-times when it doesn't sell clothes as much. jc penney will be testing this in san diego. >>> sara: tiffany's is slashing jobs after disappoint holiday sales. the jeweler's stock dropped 5% yesterday. >> gene: verizon trying to save money on data. called freebie data service when they log on to website or open an app. the company will pay for the data usage. verizon will be testing out service next week. >>> gene: starbucks will tell users what song is playing when they walk into any store and spotify now has a selection coffee house play list specifically designed by the starbucks music team. services available at 7500 locations across the country. 7:26 this morning, dangerous virus putting pregnant women at risk. coming up the serious birth defects linked to the condition and why doctors are worried. twitter. new england's energy comes from a pool of energy producers. eversource buys it at a set market price and delivers it to you. but that pool is shr

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jc penney's will test this in san diego, san antonio and tampa, florida. >>> there are fewer little blue boxes under the tree. five knee and company are slashing jobs after a disappointing holiday season. this is the first time tiffany has announced job cuts since the great recession. wall street didn't take the news well. the jeweler's stock dropped 5% yesterday. gene and julie, any time you want to hand over a little blue box, i will be fine with that julie helping the economy. >> gene: good to know because i have no idea what to get her julie a good place to start. done song parody done song parodies on youtube. everybody has seen it. they have another hit. they turn a justin bieber about a song about being 40 about a song about being 40-something too late now for 40 . >> gene: the video was released yesterday and already has more than 50,000 views. these people can get annoying, i think, butter in not. i keep saying i had enough of these guys but every time i see it i start to chuckle and say they did it again. now the mom says she is okay with this because being 40, she loves to sle

. >>> it has been more than 30 years, now, since jc penney was selling home appliances. and now, it is going to do it again. the retailer will carry washing machines and refrigerators in 22 locations. you see, penny wants to boost sales and attract buyers from its rival sears which is the top appliance retailer right now in the country. >>> netflix plans to hike the price on grandfathered subscribers pretty soon. in a letter to investors, the company says it will increase the price of those standard streaming plans, by $2. so those users will pay the same price as current customers. that is $9.99 a month. why don't they just round it up to $10. >> i don't know. easier for them somehow. not easier for us. >>> schools sick-out. and classes canceled in detroit as teachers are trying to prove a point. >> the annual snowball fight is on. organizers say they are looking to help the community out this time around. >> and right after the break, i am going to introduce to you a man who has inspired an army of snow shovelers. so get out there and help clear the sidewalks and drive

. >> what's the fascination -- continue fascination with jc penn penney? >> they say what they're going to do. they do it. then they tell you what they've done. with each of the last three quarters, they've exceeded estimates, and they've raised guidance. they're going to continue to do so. the cat list here is they have a lot of debt on the balance sheet that was issued when they were close to death's door. now they have a chance to refinance a lot of this debt. why that name over some of the other names they compete with in the industry. >> there's a few reasons, pete. one is they got a good geographically diverse base. they have some of the mid couldn't independent and gulf coast refineries, and that's a lot of chance to move around their sources of crude to whatever is cheapest at the given time. they're operating some of the newest plants that are most cost efficient, least pollution oriented, and frankly they don't have to do a lot of cap x going forward. >> all right. see how it all shakes out. >> okay. thank you. >> you can follow although action,

penney is saying their top priority is to pay debt. it is going to be a challenge, and $1.2 billion without significant sales growth but 1 billion should be obtainable. jcponsoring the oscars. >> they did? >> apparently and it cost them a boatload. the focus on debt reduction could be to maintain current share price despite multiple decay by shifting debt to equity. >> first time in 30 years are sears and j.c. penney going to beat each other to both of them are lying on the ground? third stock. not a household name, jacksonville, florida focusing on timber land. outperformed from the market and say we're not timber land bulls but we're talking spread, between the current stock price and net asset value of the land is too large to last and if it does last, analysts notes that it could be a buyout target, did cut the target on price to 26 and 27 but that's still 30% upside and 5% yield. >> basically the analyst is saying that the tim betterland is being valued far below the market value of the land. therefore it's a value. >> there's unrest in the forest and trouble with the trees. >> that's a good lyric. >> next stock, juniper networks, remember it got c