bad sales of newly built homes fell 18% in december compared with december of 2017 according to john burns real estate consulting which is your rays builders monthly. sales were down 19% annually in november sales particularly bad in northern california down 40% and southern california down 49% rates did drop back in december and we apparently did not see a sales bump >> we've been seeing cancelations rise all year starting from 10% in january to 14% of sales cancelling in december and the feedback we're getting from our clients, their reasons are all over the map job skittishness visa issues. mortgage qualification >> reporter: the numbers confirm what some of the nation's largest public builders reported this week all because housing is just so unaffordable you see how affordant has weakened where you live. check out a map up on cnbc.com right now. >> are they down 40% and 49% from a month before or a year before >> reporter: from a year before. california is the priceyest market in the nation when you look at affordability and these people on the margins of buying california will get hi

and the chairman of lenar told us this week that that drop helped bring buyer interest back and john burns didn't translate into actual sales. >> we saw traffic seasonally adjusted flat. i'm expecting lower rates to help but it's really not causing a significant recovery >> reporter: burns also saw k s cancelation rates jump and that may be because of the plunge in the stock market at the end of the year f. you want to see how much worse affordability is in your region, we have a great interactive map up right now on cnbc.com back to you guys. >> diana, the home builders have been acting pretty well in the market what's your take were they completely oversold after a rough year >> reporter: that's exactly it no it was really that the home builders were so beat up last year trading so low that there was really nowhere to go but up and got a boost and also when you do see mortgage rates pull back, they're very sensitive to mortgage rates, even small rate moves and when the rates dropped they reacted well to that. as for sales, though, it is not much better looking forward. >> got it. good th

made the world a safer place and recently announced that a second summit will be held next month john burns is looking very forward good job . made a lot of progress that has not been reported by the feet but we have a lot of progress not so say intelligence chiefs their conclusion that north korea remains a major threat we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its w m d capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capability. yes because its leaders alternately view the nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival and the intelligence report says the president's decision to tear up a nuclear deal with iran is also based on false premises the cia director saying iran was in compliance with the deal but that may not change so at the moment technically they're in compliance but we do see them debating amongst themselves as they fail to realize the economic benefits they hoped for from the deal president trumps claim to have defeated eisele was used to justification to withdraw u.s. troops from syria but this is also contested in the r

. >> high hi, my name is john burns. i live at 3616 and 3618 sacramento street, a two unit building with my family. i just want to emphasize that sacramento street, particularly our block, is a balance between residential, therapists, and retail, and nothing of the size and scale of the proposed building is anywhere near the entire situation, so i urge you to support our appeal -- we are all for housing, but not for giant retail, and giant office buildings. thank you very much. >> supervisors, i am here to speak on process. i am familiar with the area, my good friend used to live at 3220 sacramento street. this should not have left the planning department in the matter -- in the manner in which it has. to bring so many people here, a lot of them psychologist, psychiatrists, affluent people, i think the planning department should get a proclamation, and name --dash the name of that proclamation should be the local proclamation. again and again we see people come over here, and again and again, i want to see what the outco

and john fisher burns of the new york times. welcome to you all., i'm going to start with you. theresa may is famously resilient and the past week has been yet another stress test for her. the government sustained two defeats in the house of commons, and dead on delivery was the verdict on her withdrawal bill, even from many of her own mps. but nothing daunted, the prime minister has mounted a last ditch campaign to win over political enemies. should we call this determination and admire it, or call it desperation and pity it? and what's mrs may's next move if, as widely expected, her bill is defeated in the house of commons on tuesday? agnes, i said i was going to start with you, and i am. is a determination we should admire or desperation we should pity? well, how to not be unrespectable to your british prime minister. i'm going to try. this pantomime has been going on for 30 months. i think the view from europe has been one of admiration for the british resilience she has shown but i think we have also come to a stage of deep exasperation and al

and john fisher burns of the new york times. welcome to you all. past week has been yet another stress test for her. the government sustained two defeats in the house of commons, and dead on delivery was the verdict on her withdrawal bill, even from many of her own mps. but nothing daunted, the prime minister has mounted a last ditch campaign to win over political enemies. should we call this determination and admire it or call it

hide gavin's car, and body, in his garage and yet another told detectives she saw chandy and john creech burningthes in the fireplace after gavin was killed >> this was a strange case >> reporter: prosecutor bobby grace. >> you don't normally find a body two years later after somebody is killed you don't normally have key witnesses who don't come forward until years later. >> reporter: in january 2015, nearly three years after gavin smith disappeared, creech was charged with first degree murder he pleaded not guilty. >> and chandy? >> we didn't know if she set it up or if she had something to do with it. >> reporter: coming up an undercover sting and chandy's the target >> i was like stop it! i was like screaming my head off. >> reporter: and then, a stunning moment in the courtroom. >> i wanted to get away. i was scared i was afraid of what i would see. >> when "dateline" continues it's just a cough. yeah right. and the earth is flat. ahhh!! treat your cough seriously with robitussin cf max. nothing lasts longer and treats more symptoms for your cough, cold and flu. robitussin. because it's nev

from a leak when the explosion happened dozens of people are being treated in hospital for severe burns john heilemann reports now from mexico city and a warning you may find some of the images distressing. it looked like a village celebration dozens gathered under a fountain of gasoline it had erupted from what next crew state oil company said it was an illegally tapped pipeline. they took their fill the soldiers sent to guard the pipeline looks on seemingly powerless then this happened. dozens of people were taken to hospital with burns many less food were burnt to death the tragedy comes just as the government is trying to crack down a rope that i. might. we want to offer our deepest condolences to the victims' families and to tell the victims' families that the entire government is with them and that we are sincerely by what has happened i would also like to tell the family members of those who were injured that we're keeping special attention at the hospitals and that we are trying to save lives. gangs and corrupt officials have been siphoning off petrol from the country's pipelines few

crowds up and on the country burned john jay in effigy. they eliminated their houses at night and protests. to the door of a federalist house that had no lights in the window read, " damnjohn jay! and everyone who won't damn john jay!!" the angry crowds in new york's stone hamilton when he tried to defend the treaty. gallatin's father in law openly insinuated that hamilton must be a british agent. when hamilton did not deny it, nicholson called him a coward. that left hamilton no option but to challenge nicholson to a dual. their friends managed to work things out before anybody got shot. but mickelson continued to despise him until the day he died. gallatin called on the house of representatives to block jay's treaty even though the senate had already ratified it by refusing to appropriate the money that would be required to enforce it. the constitution, he said, had given the house the power of the personal it could stop the wheels of government when the government is going astray. it was a bold position. intison gave a long speech which

after explosion killed sixty six people and injured many more victims burned to death as they filled containers with leaking fuel john holdren has more from mexico city. it looked like a village celebration dozens gathered under a fountain of gasoline it had erupted from what mexico's state oil company said was an illegally tapped pipeline. they took their fill the soldiers sent to guard the pipeline looks on seemingly powerless then this happened. dozens of people were taken to hospital with burns many less food were burnt to death the tragedy comes just as the government is trying to crack down on oil was the most important thing now is to look after the injured to save lives that is the most important thing the fight against the illegal theft of fuel will be strengthened. gangs and corrupt officials have been siphoning off petrol from the country's pipelines few years in two thousand and eighteen the army found more than six thousand illegal taps vulnerable pipelines have been shut down while the secured it's left many communities with shortages. the government's trying to make up those pools by delivering petrol

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today the money miners aren't working because of the rain but john bubba's showed the equipment he used just two days ago to burn off a piece of gold. everything we've been saying it's for this is about three grams of gold which translates into one hundred dollars which the average worker here could make in about three days. that's a lot of money immoderately that the average farm worker makes less than two hundred dollars a month that lure of gold is changing the face of the amazon as jungle is replaced by mining camps like this magnets for crime underage prostitution and poverty. symbols of gold at any cost. in two thousand and thirteen hunting images of the toll illegal mining had taken on the proving amazon went viral. the video was taken by the carnegie airborn observatory a high tech plane developed by gregg as nerve from the carnegie institution's department of global ecology. what is it about these mining activities that are so destructive from let's say from an environmental perspective first gold miners not only remove the forest to go down below the soil surface down into what would be called the mine

john were on their way to the dentist. but ended up saving a life. pulling sam from the burning wreckage. >> we don't know what's going to happen, if it's going to explode. >> reporter: sam's family got the call their son was in the hospital. >> it's terrifying. >> reporter: but then they saw the video and realized just what a miracle it was sam was alive at all. >> if he didn't have those people there to help him, we'd be telling a different story. >> reporter: sam still has a long way to go. he has a brain injury and severe burns. but tonight he's sitting up and talking. >> there's no words. i'm just incredibly grateful. >> reporter: grateful to heroic strangers who happened by at exactly the right time. kristen dahlgren, nbc news. >> brave men. amazing everyone survived. >>> next, the secret tunnel and the plot police say it's linked to. >>> back to tell you about that underground mystery, a tunnel discovered leading right toward a bank. the fbi trying to figure out if there's an elaborate heist plot behind it. here's kerry sanders. >> reporter: at first it just looked like a

. >> reporter: he a john were on their way to the dentist but ended up saving a life, pulling sam from the burningreckage. >> we don't know if it's going to explode. >> reporter: sam's family got the call their son was in the hospital. >> it's terrifying. >> reporter:ut then the saw the video and realized just what a miracle it was sam was alive all. >> if he didn't have those people there to help him, we'd be telling a different story. >> reporter: sam still has a longay to go. he has a brain injury and severe burns, but he's sitting up and talking. >> there's no i'rds. m just incredibly grateful.>> eporter: grateful to heroicng stras who happened by at exactly the right time.is n dahlgren, nbc news. >> man, we have covered a lot of ad-on collisions in our day, but you see something like that and to see somebody come out of it in the shape that he's in. >> it's mind-blowing. all i san say iseone out there is looking above for all of them. >>> up next, kfc gets dangerously cheesy, and one last trip to infinity and beyond. tom hanks and tim allen take us inside their last day of recording for "toy

brent burns...issues with his aim...hardest shot challenge..whiff there...everybody got a good laugh at that...john the wash capital won that...102 mph.. joe pavelski was in the shot accuracy challenge...and he came up short... david pahst-er- knock of the bruins took that one... actual games get going tomorrow 5pm in san jose.. hey mom!!! thats 91 year old rita vanderveer... mother of stanford coach tara vanderveer, watch her team run the floor at coloradoi... third quarter stanford on the run... kiana williams finds anna wilson kid sister of seahawks quarter back russell wilson... cardinal up 6 fourth quarter stanford pulling away...alanna smith inside....with the move in the paint she scored 20 on the night.. 6th ranked cardinal beat the buffalos, final of 80 to 69....still unbeaten in the pac-12... >> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music] - [announcer] if you want to make more money and take

next up brett burns, issues with his aim, hardest shot challenge, a little whip there. everybody got a good laugh at it, john carlson of the capitals won that one, 102 miles per hour. joe pavelski shot accuracy challenge and he came up short. hey mom!!! thats 91 year old rita vanderveer... mother of david pass pasternak of the bruins got that one. actual games get going tomorrow night in san jose at 5:00. >>> hey, mom, mother of tara vanderveer, stanford coach, watching her team run the floor at colorado. 3rd quarter, stanford on the run, 4th quarter pulled away. alanna smith inside scored 20 for the night. cardinal beat the buffaloes 80- 69 unbeaten still in the pac- 12. >>> the same cannot be said for lindsay gottlieb and the cal women at utah. look at how the utes just went inside. that's megan huff. she scored 24. so did cal's kristine anigwe, utah 87-704. the utes 70 --70 -- 87-74. we'll be back. thanks for watching!! >>> the late show with stephen colbert is next. have a wonderful weekend! captioning sponsored by cbs >> president trump just announced there is finally a deal to reopen the federal govern

today the money miners aren't working because of the rain but john bubba's showed the equipment he used just two days ago to burn off a piece of gold. everything we've been saying it's for this is about three grams of gold which translates into one hundred dollars which the average worker here could make in about three days. that's a lot of money immoderately that the average farm worker makes less than two hundred dollars a month that lure of gold is changing the face of the amazon as jungle is replaced by mining camps like this magnets for crime underage prostitution and poverty. symbols of gold at any cost. in two thousand and thirteen hunting images of the toll illegal mining had taken on the proving amazon went viral. the video was taken by the carnegie airborn observatory a high tech plane developed by gregg as nerve from the carnegie institution's department of global ecology. what is it about these mining activities that are so destructive from let's say from an environmental perspective first gold miners not only remove the forest to go down below the soil surface down into what would be called the mine

today the money miners aren't working because of the rain but john bubba's showed the equipment he used just two days ago to burn off a piece of gold. everything we've been saying it's for this is about three grams of gold which translates into one hundred dollars which the average worker here could make in about three days. that's a lot of money immoderately that the average farm worker makes less than two hundred dollars a month that lure of gold is changing the face of the amazon as jungle is replaced by mining camps like this magnets for crime underage prostitution and poverty. symbols of gold at any cost. in two thousand and thirteen hunting images of the toll illegal mining had taken on the proving amazon went viral. the video was taken by the carnegie airborn observatory a high tech plane developed by gregg as nerve from the carnegie institution's department of global ecology. what is it about these mining activities that are so destructive from let's say from an environmental perspective first gold miners not only remove the forest to go down below the soil surface down into what would be called the mine

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explosion killed and injured dozens of people at least sixty six were burned to death as they filled their containers with leaking fuel john homan has more now from mexico city. it looked like a village celebration dozens gathered under a fountain of gasoline it had erupted from what mexico's state oil company said was an illegally tapped pipeline. they took their fill the soldiers sent to guard the pipeline looks on seemingly powerless then this happened. dozens of people were taken to hospital with burns many less food were burnt to death the tragedy comes just as the government is trying to crack down on oil was the point that the most important thing now is to look after the injured to save lives that is the most important thing the fight against the illegal theft of fuel will be strengthened. gangs and corrupt officials have been siphoning off petrol from the country's pipelines few years in two thousand and eighteen the army found more than six thousand illegal taps vulnerable pipelines have been shut down while the secured it's left many communities with shortages. the government's trying to make up those pools by d

john what more do we know . well that's been given is just been on. t.v. images from inception sixty one people been taken to host the to be treated for burns on video what's happened is going to turn around here and it's really it's quite extraordinary person who you can see a lot of people dozens of people trying to gather up the fuel in the can time is will come he has now put out a statement saying they are actually giving up full fuel from what was an illegal type of pipe and then all of a sudden there's actually soldiers around what you do you've got some of them trying to get them away some of them not doing very much a tool to relieve the average he didn't succeed because the people were still the middle of the summer was an explosion in the sewer pipes you know there's a real context in this is coming. moment from a script because the president under his monologue is a good thought is. offensive against you given the country a few years now gangs criminals local community groups officials have been acting in the public's mind getting out most of the government's. petru but they do you think he said the enough is enough for that and he's actually.

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mark kramer and his son john immediately jumping out of their car risking their lives to pull 18-year-old samuel lachance out of the burningeep. sam is recovering in the hospital with a traumatic brain injury, burns and cuts but his family is so grateful their son received another chance at life. >> you take, you know, that risk of even getting hurt themselves to remove another human life out of a situation which was dire. i'm very, very grateful. >> reporter: his mom visibly shaken as she spoke about the heart-wrenching moment she saw the video. >> seeing the video was incredibly shocking and i'm glad i saw it after i knew that he was well. >> reporter: police say it's still unclear what caused the crash. lachance's parents say he'll likely spend months in the hospital. the truck driver also suffered minor injuries but incredible that those two men, the father and son, were there and able to jump in and save this young man's life. >> lucky to be alive. thank you so much, whit. >>> now to the super bowl and that backlash for maroon 5, halftime performance. they usually give a press conference before the big show but this y

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john huntsman will fow that case. >>> good samaritans and a police officer team up to save a man inside a burning car. news for the new year. more than 300,000 jobs added last month and a big boom for manufacturing. charles payne says it's only going to get better in 2019 and he joins us next. >> there he is. >> happy new year. >> you too. how is it going? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> saw the jobs number ons friday and they were huge. the president pointed out that the predictions suggested that it was going to be 150,000 less jobs created than the 310,000 roughly that were created in december. who better to break it down than charles payne. >> good morning. >> where did the number come from? >> this is the most amazing story really of the week. not only is it over 300,000 jobs created in the month of december, the best december since 1998. over 400,000 people came back into the labor force. you have to understand what's really critical about this. these are people who had given up on the idea of working again. 92,000 high school grads came back into the labor force. over 200,000 people with a high school diploma came

burning fuel that will require less sulfur to be in that fuel. i don't want to cause people's eyes to glaze over this morning. >> john, you're not.e imo 2020 rules you're talking about, you know, i do this rbi on "worldwide exchange. i'm going to call this bbi boring but important i'm pitching something bigger on that that's a huge deal for oil >> huge deal it could play right into our shale powerhouse. >> if that happens, we'll have less reason to care about what's going on in venezuela. >> yeah. they're in trouble >> john kilduff, thank you for joining us brian, thank you as well good to see you again, our brian sullivan >>> when we come back, a rare interview with a titan of private equity robert smith will join andrew in davos. it's an interview you can only see on "squawk box." that is straight ahead >>> as we head to a break, take a look at u.s. equity futures to see slight setback in the gains. but still the s&p 500 set to be up about 0.4%. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ our new, hot, fresh breakfast will get you the readiest. (buzzer sound) holiday inn express. be the readiest. [ neighing ] [ screeching ] ♪ [ sigh ] it's bring