jeff cutmore joining us with more on where we stand at this hour jeff, good morning. >> brian, very good morning to you. what we've got here is a very f fragmented outcome in this election, if you look at the spd, center left or the cdu/csu, center right both of these main parties only managed to get a quarter of the electorate support then you have a bunch of other parties like the greens who got about 15%, and then the fdp, the liberals, around 11% and various other parties trailing at the extreme left and at the extreme right so the most likely outcome now, the pollsters think is that we will see the spd, which narrowly won the poll, form a coalition with the liberals and the greens now what does that mean for business and for taxes the greens and the spd had tax pol policies that would have seen higher taxes on the wealthy and probably higher taxes on companies. the liberals, they're against higher taxes they are more focused on investment in the structure of the economy. so that could actually mean that these parties, as they come into coalition, begin to cross out policies where th

c nbc's jeff cutmore is here good morning >> yeah, a very good morning to you.me challenge we've had with other industries this happened. we have natural gas now. supply has just not kept up with demand analysts are warning of a sticker shock for commerce as we've seen prices up 180% in the wholesale market over the last 12 months. well, that's going to be painful for the half of american households who heat their homes with natural gas so we'll be all hoping i think for a mild winter through this season it is just worth pointing out, one positive the analysts say they think now that prices may have peaked. so we will hope for that to happen lowes is offering a 10% discount to first responders. they say it's a way of giving back to those who have given their own fine service now this will run for three days from october the 22nd to the 24th you can get those discounts in store and on lowe's.com. of course, it comes ahead of national first responder's day on october the 28th. back to you. >> it's great. hopefully, they can get the supplies they need and there is