focus is on the security of another technology of the future electric cars are reported to ponder jim bell is at that meeting in lives and to ponder how our electric cars vulnerable to hacking. well the main issue with electric cars is actually the loading stations public loading stations that is people normally have a car that they use to pay for the energy the electricity that they put on their cars and they have a card that is apparently not secure enough so the data on that card can be copied and when that happens anyone can basically use the same card at other charging stations to you know pay for their energy and that's the main problem and that's been the big story you know leading up to the chaos communication congress and of course it's the big story here at the chaos communication congress today. whether congress there where you are as well the most important security conferences in the world what else is on the agenda the next three days well there's a lot of things you know from data protection of course it's always a topic here it's been a topic for years and there is social c

.>> jim bell deserves people to applaud. we are looking forward to improving our mobility and safety. >> reporter: thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >>> republicans are on track to pass tax reform. >>> a live report from washington, the investigation continues into this our with the deadly amtrak derailment. >>> ktvu fox 2 , complete bay area coverage, news 2. track at least six people are dead and dozens more are injured. the amtrak demeter train jumped its tracks this morning. some of the cars went over the trestle. the accident happened on what was the maiden voyage of a high- speed trade going from seattle to portland. joining us live from dupont washington with the latest. >> reporter: one of the problems with deciding how many people have been killed, the associated press reported that six people were killed. but no other officials on scene will confirm that. it could be because they have not been able to get inside those train cars that are dangling over the side of that trostle. they brought in a lot of heavy eq

philadelphia city hall, city council members recognized jim gardner for 40 years of outstanding journalism. he received a proclamation and liberty bell. we are proud of jim and his wife and members of the news team. >> we had the political establishment, politicians, if you will, the news media, which was -- me. expressing respect for each other's priorities and responsibilities. in this day and age that was refleshing. >wasrefreshing. >> the folks in allentown were excited to watch the lights come on in the city's christmas tree. >> well, half the tree. you can see they had just a bit of a glitch on hamilton street. only the top half of the tree lit at first. they had the rest >> the make a wish foundation has made another dream come true for a young person battling an illness. they surprised 16-year-old mar quan graham young. he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy seven years ago. tonight he got the treatment as the sixers tooers took on the l. ben simmons took time to meet mar quan and gave him his jersey. >> i was happy to see him. >> we heard simmons is mar quan's favorite player but tonight, he told us he's not picking one pl

. >> twitter >> [ inaudible ] >> and favorite for opening bell >> jim cramer. >> that's it i mean, thathould be a show of its own. unbelievable -- i like arrow by the way. facebook too twitter, maybe a change at top -- just kidding. next up, patrick tucker, serious question are accounting issues pretty much always because of some level of shadiness or can honest mistakes be made i may have to to do a segment on this honest mistakes can be made and lot of times my rule will keep you out of situation where there's honest mistake and stock takes off. other cases it's not honest and you lose everything. going for maximum risk situation as opposed to minimum. i can't really tell from the outside which is which, which is why i'm cautious tweet from mr. samuels brother is 26, no 401(k) ots job. should he open roth or ira i prefer the roth. and tweeted you say you prefer individual stocks to index do you have a write-up i prefer a index for first $10,000 and use as retirement vehicle but also think you should pick some of the best stocks that would be etf you're watching the show, doing the wor

philadelphia city hall, city council members recognized jim gardner for 40 years of outstanding journalism. he received a proclamation and liberty bells wife and members of the news team. >> we had the political establishment, politicians, if you will, the news media, which was -- me. expressing respect for each other's priorities and responsibilities. in this day and age that was refleshing. >wasrefreshing. >> the folks in allentown were excited to watch the lights come on in the city's christmas tree. >> well, half the tree. you can see they had just a bit of a glitch on hamilton street. only the top half of the tree lit at first. they had the rest of the lights on in just a matter of minutes. how's it going down there? that's good. lica misses you. i'm over it though. (laughter) that's fine. i miss her more than you anyway. ♪ ♪ hey, my window is closing. yeah that's okay. alright miles. i love you. (phone hangs up) ♪ ♪ yeah i love you too. ♪ ♪ what do you think? hey, think ben will like it? yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music? i'm serious, i never know what to get him. just tell me you got him fios too. sigh. mrs. l

jim received a council proclamation and a liberty bell award. and you shared your award with the action news family and your wife amy. congratulations, jim! >> thank you very much. >> where is the award? i think you need to bring it to the set every day. >> it's in my study at home. >> share it. >> you want me to do that? >> i know it's uncomfortable talking about how great he is. let's talk about the weather, the action cam in boredentown, new jersey. say goodby to the sunshine for a while. we are live on sky 6 taking a look at city hall and the river rink there. a lot of people enjoying the weather tonight. it's not that cold but i am issuing a fireplace alert. make sure your fireplace is in working order. gather up the wood, because the next seven days, temperatures will be well below normal. saturday our first snow of the season and a direct shot of true arctic air two days in the next seven days. afternoon highs only near freezing. so time to prepare. right now temperatures not all that bad out there. typical december chill. philadelphia 43

phil lebeau, thank you so much tune in to "closing bell" tomorrow, jim chanos will join me, we'll be at the yale ceo summit here in new york city, don't miss it. michael, thank you as always have a great long weekend too. "fast money" begins right now. >>> fast money starts right now. live from the nasdaq market site overlooking new york city's times square i'm melissa lee. tonight on "fast," it is a crypto crash, well, kind of. bitcoin sinking 10% today, tripping the breakers on the futures and trying to come back from those lows. if you're worried about your crypto investment, we'll be tracking the price throughout the hour terry duffy, chairman and ceo of the cme will join us as his exchange gets ready to launch bitcoin futures trading this weekend. he'll tell us how big this business could be. >>> first, the fed, janet yellen making her last stand, raising rates for the third time this year and the fifth time since the financial crisis steve liesman was at the press conference >> reporter: hi, melissa the federal reserve raising the interest rates by a quarter point, that is the

jim cramer. carl quintanilla has the day off. the opening bell a half hour from now we're headed for a higher open it would appear at this point. european markets have largely also been well, mixed. >> mixed, kind of nothing actually. >> isn't that funny. >> all minimal moves. >> let's call it a complex more or less in europe flat at this point. 10-year note yield, we had the big employment number on friday. didn't really see that much movement though, did we? >> it's funny, i spent a lot of time talking about the bonds on friday on mad money, the old days what it would have been been like and it would have been self-fulfilling and we're -- we have a great economy so you know rates have to go up immediately. it did not occur and it's a different pattern but we've seen for the past 30 years. >> let's get to our road map this morning, we'll get back to the bond market in a bit breaking news in new york city, an explosion near the port authority bus terminal during the morning rush hour. there is one suspect now in custody. plus, the bitcoin boom, t

phil lebeau, thank you so much tune in to "closing bell" tomorrow, jim chanos will join me, we'll beeo summit here in new york city, don't miss it. michael, thank you as always have a great long weekend too. "fast money" begins right now. >>> fast money starts right now. live from the nasdaq market site overlooking new york city's times square i'm melissa lee. tonight on "fast," it is a crypto crash, well, kind of. bitcoin sinking 10% today, tripping the breakers on the futures and trying to come back from those lows. if you're worried about your crypto investment, we'll be tracking the price throughout the hour terry duffy, chairman and ceo of the cme will join us as his exchange gets ready to launch bitcoin futures trading this weekend. he'll tell us how big this

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the opening bell going to ring now. jimuld investors be keyed on -- it's a different way of me asking the question as we approach the open. >> they have to be keyed on three. >> three >> again i'm focused on this notion of managements not being static look, the range you're using is too low. that we're going to blow away the numbers at the top of the range and remember like boeing what you're betting against are these great american companies truly international with the international world being better i mean, boeing is getting orders from -- i interviewed boeing and admit, you know, last week, just last week the ceo and gigantic buy-back 20% increase in dividends. these are not bonds. they raised their yield so to speak and you're betting against companies that know exactly what they're doing. and be careful some of these ceo's really get it as does bob iger by the way. who gets it. alex gorsky's numbers raised today. he gets it the best we have >> celebrating 50 years of being listed over at the nasdaq. hoopla software.

bell. let's get to mad dash with jim as we cap off the week talk a little 3m. >> i have in my hand genuine home spun papers raising price target for 3m but david he says basically it's over basically it got luck, that they got china, auto, electronic all in their favor and those are kind of done and you know what i would say, i would do what elon musk said to me this is assimilation and i love his work. he was right about another industrial. >> yes, he was. >> why do you believe that >> because 3m is innovator they have created products they are a company that many of their new products immediately turn into earnings so even if he thinks they cob static, they will reinvent and create new markets, do fabulous things it is amazing. it's not in ga blame guy. >> the stock doesn't seem to be taking any sort of umbrage. >> my father worked for 3m you have to go back. over here when my father worked for 3m it's always been a great company. when it was minnesota mining and manufacturing t also located in a great city if i get to visit. >> you are going >> well, i don't want to jinx it. >> you just

up next, we've got jim's mad dash and count you down to the opening bell which looks like we'll have strong open when you look where futures are this -- as a result it would seem the expectations. we're going to get a signed tax cut maybe by the end of the week. >> holy cow. >> more "squawk on the street squt straight ahead. [ keyboard clacking ] [ click ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ clacking continues ] good questions lead to good answers. our advisors can help you find both. talk to one today and see why we're bullish on the future. yours. talk to one today and see why we're bullish on the future. it's a like, a dagger?a worm! a tiny sword? bread...breadstick? a matchstick! a lamppost! coin slot! no? uhhh... 10 seconds. a stick! a walking stick! eiffel tower, mount kilimanjaro! (ding) time! sorry, it's a tandem bicycle. what? what?! as long as sloths are slow, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies tha

bell this morning. >> and back then everyone was trading, jim everyone was trading they were doing it themselves. qualcomm on earnings would go from 450 to 550. >> and now the money goes to ishares and vanguard i agree. >> let focus on taxes for a moment the house could vote as early as tomorrow on the tax bill it would be followed by the senate ylan mui live in washington on what to expect over the next couple of days from a calendar standpoint >> it looks like republicans do have this locked down. we'll hear that the house will vote early tomorrow afternoon, though that time line is fluid the senate could also start its process which takes a little bit longer that could begin as early as tomorrow as well republicans in the senate do appear to have enough votes to pass this even without john mccain he have's back in arizona after spending several days last week in the hospital for side effects of his cancer treatment and he said thanks to everyone for your support and words of encouragement. i'm feeling well and looking forward returning to work after the holidays now another senator who harps b

bell if you will. >> lou: my first guest who grilled the fbi director this morning, republican congressman jim jordan of ohio. he's on the over sight committee and toe founder of the freedom caucus. you gave fbi director ray quite a grilling today, are you satisfied with the answers that you elisted. >> i will be satisfied when they release the application from the court. i believe peter took it to the court where the court grant that application based on the dossier with all of the garbage in it. so they can prove i am wrong by releasing the application and in hope they do that. >> lou: stunningly as a result of the house committee information and not from the fbi itself that bruce orr, a top member of the management team with the fbi had contact it is with fusion gps and christopher steel, the former british spy who was involved in the dedestruction of discredited fbi. >> he would not answer the question. and did they look at the dossier and go through and it is disproven as a bunch much national enquirer garbage and "fake news" in this thing. did they check it out before they took it to the fiza c

bell, if you will. lou: my first guest among the members of the house judiciary committee who glild the director of the fbi this morning, jim jordan. congressman, you gave fbi director wray quite a grilling today. are you satisfied with the answers that you elicited? >> i will be satisfied when i see the application that was take to the fisa court. i think peter strzok took the application to the fisa court with all the dossier garbage in it and that was used to spy on the donald trump's campaign. they can prove i'm wrong by releasing the application and i hope they do that. lou: stunningly we find out, not from the fbi itself, that bruce orr, a top member of the management team there at the fbi, he had contacts with fusion gps, including contacts with christopher steele, the former british spy who is involved in the construction of that discredited trump dossier. >> did the fbi pay christopher steele? i asked jeff sessions an wouldn't answer the question. did they look at this dossier? it's been disproven it's a bunch of:national enquirer early and fake news garbage. did they check it out before they took it to the fisa co

bell." we're sitting down with kynikos founder and president jim chanos thank you for rejoining us a lot of individual nates we want to talk about, companies you discussed in the past. i actually wanted to start by asking about shale when you talk about the prospects, you know, back in september when w saying i saying, look, it doesn't look very good. the stocks have been on a tear since then. >> some have, some haven't i mean, the chesapeakes of the world have stayed on their lows. the continental is up. it sort of depends on their debt structure and percentage of gas versus oil and there's a new belief, kelly, that they found religion, right, they're going to cut back now on the growth at any cost. >> yes. >> live within their means. >> profit over production. >> yeah, we told people be careful what you wish for because that's fots going not be very attractive, either. >> why not >> when they were growing cap-x, they said it was due to growth most of these companies, not all, but most, if they spent 3 capital spending enough to keep their production constant, so maintenance cap-x, we call

jim paulsen sticking with us. coming up, we bring the opening bell. all-time highs. of gains. the longest monthly winning streak since 2007. and it could have been a clean sweep for 2017 except for march. the news continues to bleed through from d.c. on the policy side of things. it looks like the senate -- senators on the republican side may have the vote to get the bill through. treasury yields finally breaking out of the very tight ranks it has been named. yields down by a single basis point. well off session lows. in the fx market, the dollar showing a bit of showing against the euro and more against the pound. this is bloomberg tv. ♪ is this a phone? or a little internet machine? [ phone rings ] it makes you wonder. shouldn't we get our phones and internet from the same company? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you get up to 5 lines of talk and text at no extra cost. so all you pay for is data. choose by the gig or unlimited. and ask how to get a $200 prepaid card when you buy any new samsung device with xfinity mobile. a new kind of network d

jim donovan. >>> what do you think eagles to have say about all that fan support they get on the road? well, don bellort from l.a. coming up next. >>> also ahead in sports the shorthanded sixers team tries to beat lebron james and cavilers it was a tough task we will take a look, we will also have this. >> students at a west philadelphia high school have a very unique side dish i'm greg air guess with exactly what they are creating and why it is, so very philly. countless ailments. countless hours. and guess what? you can handle it all. be a leader in your field with a bsn from strayer university. a nursing program created by and for nurses. let's get it, nurses. plenty of eagles fans will be there don bell tells us how eagles nation is flock to go southern california. >> rams head coach sean mcveigh had his team practice a silent count all week long because he anticipates eagles fans drowning out rams at the l.a. coliseum. meanwhile, the eagles players, they expect a big time, philly influence. >> you know, hearing bit from the players, i think, sunday, there will be bunch of green in the stand and

connecticut, church bells rang 26 times in memory of the 20 first graders and six adults shot to death at sandy hook five years ago. losing a child and gave them a mission. here is jimlrod. >> let's get on stone right there. >> greg gibson will never forget where he was five years ago. where he has been every december 14 for the last 25 years. >> we were in the graveyard. putting up a tree over our son's grave. >> galen gibson, a sweet empathic 18-year-old killed in a school shooting in massachusetts on december 14, 1992. >> we were walking home from the graveyard. my daughter looks at her phone and says, you won't believe what just happened. >> i think there is somebody shooting in here. >> 200 miles away the horror at sandy hook was becoming the deadliest school shooting in u.s. history. >> he was on his way to being remarkable person. >> mark barrden's son was murdered that day. happy soul. >> outside of our tragedy in newtown. greg was the first person that i had the opportunity to speak to who, who had suffered a similar tragedy. >> they soon realized another connection both sons shared a birthday as well. september 27th. >> what continues to anger me is people

jim cramer. carl quintanilla has the day off. the opening belligher open it would appear at this point. european markets have largely also been well

bell rings and we start all over again. my executive producer was saying ouch when i'm the ones with the hearing problem. take that. okay let's go to bill in california bill >> caller: hey, jim. thanks for all you do. i'm calling to talk to you about nova cure ticker symbol -- >> yeah, european approval that got this thing going. >> caller: yeah, got the ah european approval. japan just approved it and, you know, it's been approved here domestically in the united states they're waiting on medicare to approve it but nova cure is providing the electromagnetic fields - >> bill, let's not wait until the medicare, get ahead of that. you know i'm a huge believer in nova cure. but unfortunately i saw it work for someone who got many years of life in the earlier iteration. and i think that the approval for japan is a harbinger of what can happen here. i have to go to stephon in florida, please. stephon. >> caller: hey, so what's the deal with micron - >> okay, my favorite analyst over at morgan stanley said that the flash prices have peaked kind of hammered western digital. but moo makes flash, but that's what's ailing it if they have peaked that nine point decline this week, it may

. >> there's the opening bell and s&p at the bottom of the screen of the big board it's digital realty trust, a data center ret, cme group celebrating its 15th anniversary. jimdid mention financials a while ago and both jp and b off a expect trading revenues down. >> goldman is in a similar situation. there's not a lot of volatility. we want to take these up because of rate hikes. but we forget core businesses often relying on how to hedge, about things that are happening that in currencies that nobody expected and everything -- when it's calm, they kind of have no -- these divisions have no reason for being and the divisions are filled with people very well paid so the gross margins go down. >> they also were beneficiaries in the runup to the vote on the tax bill. >> right and also there's no brexit. >> we need a new brexit. >> why >> well, i mean, brexit caused a lot of volatility. they don't have any. >> year to date trading revenues at the five big banks are down 4.4. that's a decent number given we've seen double digit declines. >> it should direct money back too. are the drug stocks, the one area we've kind of forgotten, no longer in the cross hairs of

back it's time for our "closing bell" mailbox for a friday jackie tweeted, we have reached a true bubble status i don't disagree some of you reacting to our interview with jimid tesla was worthless. robert says its actual value is essentially zero until they start turning a profit if they didn't have someone as charismatic as elon musk leading them, they would already be out of business. stocker said, his short covering will likely send tesla to $500 sean saying druckenmiller, who talked about being offended by carried interest, sean said, very good interview overall, good to see podcasts being utilized more on cnbc. jonathan tweeted, this was an amazing interview, druck explained the tax plan without hyperbole. social security number will collapse he says, ankkelly, please get yr own twitter name it's live, mr. druckenmiller was not live, but they can be tricky >> he's been around, he knows. >> what do you think about carried interest >> i agree with him. but, you know, the problem is it's always people like stan druckenmiller who made their fortune off the carried interest >> it gives them more credibility. >> it does i believe there's a lot of things unt

jim, thanks to you as well. about to close it up which means we're going to come back with the "closing countdown" right after this. >>> and after the bellere. if you're still shopping online, there's a chance you might not get your packages on time. p. ie going to explain why u.s.s seeing more delays than fedex again this year when we come back and a gentle wave-like motion... liberate your spine... aflac! and reach, toes blossoming... not that great at yoga ya but when i slipped a disc, he paid my claim in just one day. so he had your back? yup in just one day, we process, approve and pay. one day pay. only from aflac the chase mobile app changed the game for us. we had this plan to go to the hottest place on earth, harness the energy from the sun to develop popcorn. we thought we had the right equipment, we quickly realized we needed more. we were able to send a wire transfer to a local vendor and get more solar cookers delivered, right here in death valley. manage business expenses from virtually anywhere. the chase mobile app available with business checking. chase for business. make more of what's yours. [ mouse clicks, keyboard cl

jim cramer is live from the new york stock exchange. we'll get his take on the day's top stories. futures are up sharply again this morning ♪ when this belln... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and. i mwell, what are youe to take care odoing tomorrow -10am? staff meeting. noon? eating. 3:45? uh, compliance training. 6:30? sam's baseball practice. 8:30? tai chi. yeah, so sounds relaxing. alright, 9:53? i usually make their lunches then, and i have a little vegan so wow, you are busy. wouldn't it be great if you had investments that worked as hard as you do? yeah. introducing essential portfolios. the automated investing solution that lets you focus on your life. >>> let's get down to the new york stock exchange. jim cramer joins us now. cramer, i haven't asked anyone this question yet because i'm interested in your take. i heard the stuff from fed