and lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning i'm cheryl casone. if you want chicken you might have problems in some parts of the world. lauren: well, the mashed potatoes are good. cheryl: hope you like your carbs. lauren: president trump supporting efforts to improve gun purchases after teenager killed 17 people in a parkland florida school last week. cheryl: blake burman is limited white house details. present trouble in the same session on wednesday on the issue school safety in the white house says the president is quote, supportive of looking for ways to improve the federal background check system. he spoke to senator john corning last week. he has a bill with senator chris murphy which would strengthen reporting standards. the white house says the discussions are ongoing. >> he has a phone call to the fbi. we look for ways to do fix the system you want to understand what broke down and allowed for this individual to go on unattended by the people raising red flags. reporter: resident trackback at the white house after we can get away at his re

lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti, any good weekend plans for you? cheryl: there's a lot of flights in my future, it'll be very exciting, i will see you at the airport. lauren: president trump said is said so speak to cpac for second year in a row. and gun control to be a major topic in speech later this morning in aftermath of parkland shooting. cheryl: and then the president welcome prime minister and expected to ask the president to consider rejoining the transpacific partnership. that's at 2:00 p.m. today. lauren: president is pushing earning and paying them bonus and extra money to do so. cheryl: blake berman at the white house, he has details. blake: president trump on wednesday during listening session with student first broached the idea of having teachers, fact ute, staff who are are experts with guns bringing them to school so they can defend schools an reiterated that with much more firmer offense on thursday with state and local officials. the president saying shooters view gun-free schools like ice cream. >> what i recommend people who do

i am lauren simonetti. cheryl: did i have a field? lauren: futures trading that won't be there in a couple of hours. trinity president trump going on a twitter rampage after they were indicted for allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. first the president blamed the russian investigation for the fbi missing clues in the dead way forward to shooting. and then he says very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals by the florida school shooter. they're spending too much time trying to the russian collusion with the trump campaign. there is no collusion. they get back to the basics and make us all proud. former independent counsel kenneth starr telling around maria bartiromo that russia is to blame. >> i think we should stop pointing fingers at one another in this country and realize who the real enemy is and i say and to me. these are spies. they came into our country, spent millions of dollars. they didn't need to collude with anyone. lauren: the indictments do not clear the trump campaign of colluding with russi

that's it for our time here, david asman, lauren simonetti will be taking away now after the bell. >>markets are closed on this president day but fbn is open for business as you notice unlike another network. leland:s take a look at the futures, things slidely ahead of tomorrow's opening bell dow futures down 59 points i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa fran since. >> deirdre: i'm david asman, great to see you all after the bell as stocks wait for tomorrow here is what's happening right now. a bureau under fire, any moment now president trump will depart palm beach, florida making his way back to the white house after igniting a firestorm on social media. the commander-in-chief slamming the ongoing crisis with the fbi the ignored tips, botched investigations and allegations of

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: i'm cheryl casone. uren: we are learning more about the suspect and the horrific school shooting. 25 miles northwest of fort lauderdale. trained investigators say 18-year-old nicholas cruise post on social media before the deadly rampage. his adoptive mother died on november 1st. he was staying in a mobile home with a friend and his parents. cruz was expelled for disciplinary reasons. police searching the mobile home last night. he had been staying there for about 90 days. lauren: let's go to phil keating and parkland, florida for more details. reporter: one of the worst school shootings in modern times. the worst absolutely in broward county history. >> 17 confirmed that dems, 12 it comes within the building. two victims outside the building, one on the street at the corner of pine island and to folks, people lost their lives at the hospital. reporter: the shooting started around 2:30 in the afternoon school was about to end. on the website of broward county northwest of fort lauderdale. students report

lauren: and lauren simonetti. thanks for joining us. cheryl: so many americans reacting in saying they've never seen anything like that at the white house. the president taking the time to listen pure lauren: it was raw and powerful and now we'll see if anything happens to change anything going forward. the other crazy day was what happened in wall street. cheryl: the dow spending nearly 500 points yesterday, erasing gains as the yield on the 10 year treasury had a fresh four-year high, closing in on 3%. reach her show due .92%. minutes from the fed raising concerns that they may hike interest rates more aggressively than expected this year. lauren: let's take a look at exactly what the fed indicated that what was behind the market action with david nelson, chief strategist with delphi asset management. good morning, david. two questions. what was the message from the fed? hawkish come at dovish, what was their talent? we are so close to 3% interest rate. is that such a big deal? >> the fed came in up to forecast. it's important to find

:31 in the morning, friday the 16th of february, good morning, thank you for joining us, i'm lauren simonettin the stock market. lauren: what a tremendous week. you can see futures up about 70 points on the dow, investors this week have put the corrections that we saw last week in the rear-view mirror or have they? some analysts say we might be racing to record highs too fast. is it time to put on the brakes, we bring sean and edward of the american institute for economic research. hi, guys. >> hi, how are you? lauren: is this too good to be true, sean, is this rebound for real? we have been up this week by 5% for the most part. yesterday we finished at the highs of the session, that's a good sign? >> i think that's a good sign. we are still 5% of the all-time high. we still have room to go before we race all the way back. i think the correction that we had was needed, we had almost two years uninterrupted without a correction. i think there was a couple of things that spooked the market, perhaps, threat of inflation and maybe rising rates. yesterday the day before with two bad prints having

lauren: lauren simonetti. good to be here.awmakers return to washington today after weeklong recess as they face intense public rusher to an ongoing control. they are expected to consider a measure that would encourage states and federal agencies to commit records to the national background check system. president trump telling the nation's governors last night that the shooting will be discussed during a meal white house meeting with the governor happening today. >> will be talking about parkland and the horrible event that took place last week. i think will make that first on our list because we have to end our country of what is happening with respect to that subject. connell: meanwhile, governor rick scott and "fox news sunday" calling for an investigation into the law enforcement response. >> with the fbi, what happened? tell us. we can have it after he appeared it was called? or was the process? give us the facts. hold people accountable. the local sheriff's department has to be completely transparent. we had to do a tho

lauren: a claim lauren simonetti. cheryl: is great except for the cover of "the new york post." d vaccinated for the flu right now or else. a flu story coming up which is going to be good. lauren: we saw the major average. each one of them fell 5% last week. we are seeing a rebound this morning taking a look at the dow futures up to 72. >> what can investors expect for the week after the worst week in more than two years. john petrini said bob point management, gentlemen, good morning. let me start with you. we've obviously had a lot of volatility in the markets. investors pulling out 22, almost $23 billion out of mutual funds and ats site of a seven-day period that ended on wednesday. is this a simple correction, little bit of a pullback that was healthier as i telling you the average investor is nervous? cheryl: john, go ahead. i'll start with you. >> it's nice to see green on the screen that's for sure. we expect more volatility throughout the week. we didn't get any sense of the firm are investors and clients. the market had been dealing strongly, i think investors understand

i'm your in for lauren simonetti.ter his recalling the great >> a day after another selloff. cheryl: more volatility. i'm cheryl casone and we've got a lot to cover. >> first let's talk about politics. 1000-dollar bonuses crumbs. but now nancy pelosi says the president tax plan is unpatriotic. >> you are cutting the taxes at the high end and therefore not being allowed to invest in the future. you are doing a great disservice to the country. >> it wasn't long before the house minority leader was heckled during the sponsored town hall in phoenix. >> most people are not in poverty, but some are. most people have to struggle, make ends meet. we are not talking about that. i'm a mother of five. i can speak louder than anybody. cheryl: for more on this from a democratic strategist and republican strategist fort o'connell. good morning. >> for the republicans, looks like they are using nancy pelosi is a political thought all for the midterms. he set the right strategy? >> absolutely. the 28 to mid-terms, nancy pelosi will b

in new york february 27th and lauren simonetti. lea: i am lea gabrielle been for cheryl casone. lauren: a big day, said dave. jerome powell and the hot seat on capitol hill as he makes his first public comments about the economy and inflation is the federal reserve chairman. investors listening closely for any clues on whether the fed will raise interest rates more aggressively than the expected three times this year following the tax-cut plan and also budget spending. stocks rallied sharply yesterday ahead of day one of powell's testimony this morning. >> basically what we know is jay powell had no reason to push a more aggressive stance right now and i think that's very comforting to market watchers. train to powell's testimony will be released at 8:30 a.m. this morning. because it 10:00 a.m. eastern fox business will have live coverage of the question-and-answer portion of the testimony. lauren: stocks close higher ahead of this testimony. please scroll the prompter little bit more. investment advice or group joining us this morning. the monster rally we've been talking about

lauren simonetti. take it away. lauren: thanks, cheryl, trying to stem the bleeding in final moments of the trading day. ending the session at 4:00 down 261 points. they traded below 300 points just moments ago. for the dow, s&p, you can see this is the first decline in seven days. checking out the nasdaq, down five points. looks like that index closing lower as well. hi, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti. i'm in for melissa francis. david: good to see you. i'm david asman. this is after the bell. only handful of dow stocks ending the day higher, earlier in the session, an hour ago it was down 350 points. it did come back quite a bit. there is a lot more red on the screen than green. gerri willis standing by on floor of new york stock exchange. gerri, stocks coming off the best week >> as you heard at the very beginning traders glad to see this trading day in the record books. we're down 257 points it looks reich right now. here is what going on right now. walmart performing horribly today. down as much as 10% and why?

lauren: good morning. 501 am in new york and lauren simonetti. connell: and connell mcshane filling in for cheryl casone. i'm off to her tenure it here for the rest of the week. lauren: i did hear that. connell: we have a lot to get through but this first story is kind of scary. lauren: developing overnight. 11 people were sickened after suspicious letter was opened at marine corps headquarters in the pentagon. three people taken to the hospital listed in stable condition. the above contained an unknown substance. meyer henderson and virginia appear to spend sent to the fbi's lab in quantico for testing. the building was evacuated are not clear at this point he sent the letter. connell: obviously will stay on top of that. closing sharply lower as we talked about the new concerns. the fed except maybe the pace of interest rate hikes. lauren: all of this after jay powell expressed confidence in u.s. economy in his first public comment as leader of the central bank. adam shapiro in washington with those details. >> good morning. the federal reserve c

president's travels, fbn:am continues right now. ♪ lauren: 5:32 in the morning in new york, tgif, i'm lauren simonettieryl: i'm cheryl casone an a lot of breaking news to follow right now. lauren: first house is voting on capitol hill on bipartisan to your budget deal we have fox news reporter griff jenkins live covering it all for us, hey, griff. >> hey, good morning, lauren and cheryl, listen, here is the deal f you are a government employee and you're up all night wondering whether or not you're getting the day off, chances are you better hop in the shower and start getting ready, it appears now as we look at the numbers reaching over 220 that the house has the votes to pass and they will pass this bill, now, that wasn't without a lot of drama and we see the house there obviously as they get this about ready to move and ultimately it will have to go to the president for signature and the government will reopen, it was essentially just closed overnight so not actually affecting the government employees but again it wasn't without drama, what was at play here and we saw house speaker paul ryan and mi

lauren simonetti with details. >> good morning.ederal investigators about why it's in the wrong position with the amtrak train onto a collision course in the csx freight train in south carolina. the amtrak train traveling between is new york and miami would hit the trade. the engineer were both killed more than 100 others injured. the federal reserve's crack down on wells fargo sending a message to the board of other banks. "the wall street journal" reporting that put other things on notice that not just management will be taken to task if they don't manage the risk properly. on friday the fed said wells fargo will replace for directors this year. also eliminating the assets which could hurt their revenue in the wake of the widespread abuse scandal. taking a look at shares of wells fargo down 9.5% in premarket trading and of course a closer look at the story when murray will speak with wells fargo ceo timothy sloan 8:30 a.m. eastern time on "mornings with maria." brought calm ready to other software from qualcomm. "the wall street

lauren simonetti. take it away. : thanks, cheryl, trying to stem the bleeding in final moments of the trading day. ending the session at 4:00 down 261 points. they traded below 300 points just moments ago. for the dow, s&p, you can see this is the first decline in seven days. checking out the nasdaq, down five points. looks like that index closing lower as well. hi, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti. i'm in for melissa francis. david: good to see you. i'm david asman. this is after the bell. only handful of dow stocks ending the day higher, earlier in the sessi

lauren simonetti on all of that. lauren: they're dangling a lot of carrots neil so coke-brother ed backed group called generation opportunity are basically a conservative millennial focused advocacy organization against tax cuts for big companies like amazon and they're showing and we'll show to you this ad. in 19 u.s. cities in the running to score amazon's second headquarters, saying and you can see as quotes in this ad. local officials are bending over backwards to offer corporate welfare and questioning how a company that raked in $175 billion last year gets taxpayer cash. well, these right here are the city's just desperate for amazon s business you have los angeles and denver out west and look at all of the city on the east coast three near our nations capitol are in the running so all of them desperate for $5 billion from amazon that they will invest into their cities and the 50,000 high paying jobs that come with it. newark, for example, over new jersey, they're offering a $7 billion incentive package. that's

that's it for our time here, david asman, lauren simonetti will be taking away now after the bell. >> well the markets are closed on this president day but fbn is open for business as you notice unlike another network. leland:s take a look at the futures, things slidely ahead of tomorrow's opening bell dow futures down 59 points i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa fran since. >> deirdre: i'm david asman, great to see you all after the bell as stocks wait for tomorrow here is what's happening right now. a bureau under fire, any moment now president trump will depart palm beach, florida making his way back to the white house after igniting a firestorm on social media. the commander-in-chief slamming the ongoing crisis with the fbi the ignored tips, botched investigations and allegations of political bias new details on how the agency failed to act on multiple warnings about the florida high school shooting suspect and the president's claim that the russia investigation got in the way. plus, justice for innocent lives taken way too soon. nikolas cruz appearing in court this afternoon, th

welcome back, remembering the first terrorist attack on the world trade center 25 years later lauren simonettithis morning, lauren, good morning. lauren: pivotal morning in new york city, 25 years ago today, a bomb exploded in underground parking garage killing six and injuring more than a dozen others, survivors of that attack will be at ground zero today. the victim's names will be read and a moment of silence at 12:18 p.m. when bomb went off. muslim extremist to retaliate over middle east policy, responsible for that attack, since suspects convicted and sent to prison as a result. well, the iphone 10 has a new competitor, the samsung galaxy s9 smartphone launched today with new features to compete with the iphone 10. the galaxy s9 and s9 plus have a new camera with super slow mode video, low-light capability and augmented reality or animated emojis, yeah, kids actually do this, that's samsung's answer to apple's aniemoji. price for samsung's new phone $720, it's cheaper than the iphone 10. preorders start this friday and sales start march the 16th. we have a lot of airline news for you, mar

lauren simonetti is here with the details. >> lauren: light sweet crude is around $64 a barrel. dollar and that makes commodities more expensive for foreign buyers. oil down 1.5% now, in positive territory for 2018. we got earnings from b.p., first quarterly loss in over a year. the company hit by u.s. tax code changes and changes from the deepwater horizon disaster, the oil spill back in 2010. b.p. posted a $583 million loss for the fourth quarter but they did say 2017 most profitable year since oil prices crashed. that was two years ago. let's take a look at shares of b.p. they're moving slightly to the down side. the stock sell-off took a toll on bitcoin too, falling below $6,000 at one point earlier today and losing half of its value for the year. bitcoin taking a hit recently due to concerns about regulatory oversight. the virtual currency did hit $20,000, that was the high, back in december. congress will hold a hearing on virtual currencies a bit later this morning. well, space-x is preparing to launch the falcon heavy spacecraft today. to show you th you the power ofs ro

thousands of workers walking off the job, lauren simonetti with that story. : not here in germany, maria, ford and voling volkswagen being hit by walkouts, 24-hour strikes over pay and hours, they are encouraged by the fastest economic growth in six years and record low unemployment and the union is demanding 8% pay raise for nearly 4 million of workers, they want the right to cut the hours to 28 to 35. can you imagine? new deal for uber, sharing electric bikes as well as cars, the company is team up with another company called jump on pilot program in san francisco, riders can use their uber app to pick up their e-bike and drop it off at bike rack at designated spot. instead of pizza and wings how about mexican, chipotle is offering free delivery, they teamed up with team delivery service, all you have to do is download the app and type in chipotle bowl to get free delivery, the service would typically cost $6. if you take a look at uber shares it's not the best year for the company, down 20%. maria: thank you so much. lauren. the staggering amount that exper

i am lauren simonetti. cheryl: i'm cheryl casone. lauren: a lot of people give up chocolate for lent. cheryl: i will not be one of those people. lauren: the white house budget director mick mulvaney headed to capitol hill today. he has to sell the president for $.4 trillion budget plan to congress. the plan would add a trillion dollars to the federal deficit next year. it would also increase spending for border security and infrastructure. cheryl: connell mcshane in washington has more. reporter: sherilyn moran, good morning to both of you guys. it is a big day for the budget and infrastructure plan committing to spending $200 billion on infrastructure. that is key because the idea is to take the seed money and incentivize local governments to have more than a trillion dollars to it so if all goes according to plan comes to $1.5 trillion or thereabouts. but the president did is invited a number of governors and mayors to the white house to talk about the plan because he will need them to pick up a lot of that. he said let's see how ba

i am lauren simonetti. cheryl: i'll take some extra cash from apple. a good story to talk about. esident is the big story this morning. lauren: is a classified memo to be made public. the memo is the democrats rebuttal to the nuÑez memo that alleges the fbi alleges the fbi's abuse of surveillance power with the term presidential campaign. cheryl: griff jenkins live in washington with the latest. good morning, cheryl of mourning. the president can decide whether it released to block some or all of the democrats counter memo. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein as jack kelly says the president gets a better understanding now. >> a greater understanding what the differences between the first memo, second memo where he received it late last night. the doj, fbi team -- reporter: some republican lawmakers like trey gowdy warns it could be a trap. >> the democrats are politically smart enough to put things in the memo they require the bureau at the department of justice to say it is to be redacted and creates this belief that there's something hidden from the american people. reporter

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: happy ash wednesday. i'm cheryl casone. and ash wednesday. oday, but also going out for valentine's day. tweet us and let us know what your plans are. lauren: apple hold its annual shareholders meeting that brand-new headquarters tim cook throwing cold water on whether the company would issue a special dividend. trade do more on that story from hillary bond. >> tim cook wooing investors at their annual shareholder meetings come in many telling they came just for an opportunity to check out the new campus but i'll ask ron cook as the company faces increased pressure after the company missed its wall street estimates and skipped out on the crucial holiday season. investors who talked to say they are phase. >> we've seen this before. there's trains that go up and down with phone sales, strong competition from a lot of different places, especially asia. they will continue to innovate and make great products and people will buy them as long as they make them. >> when it comes down to if people make a lot of money, the rest doesn't matter. reporter:

. ♪ lauren: friday second of february, i'm lauren simonetti. >> i'm connell mcshane. eryl casone in super bowl. lauren: absolutely, volatility is being reintroduce intoed the market. >> a couple of interesting things the fed number would be one, that's what we referenced in the show, their gdp now model, forecasting model says we could grow in the economy of 5.4% in the first quarter, higher than anybody else thinks, that's great news, could be too good, the fed is going to start raising rates. lauren: in the job's report for the month of january f hourly wages go up in a big way or bigger than expected way that could mean inflation is here sending message to the fed. >> exactly. you have that plus deutsche bank laws but not a very good start this morning. lauren: are you ready? >> do we have any other choice? lauren: good point. expected to release nunes memo drafted by chairman devin nunes alleging that the fbi abused its surveillance power over the trump presidential campaign, white house deputy press secretary hogan was on fox news at night and explained the presid

lauren: i am lauren simonetti. connell: we do pick up to some extent on selling.ad their worst week in two years last week. stock index futures are lower 112-point drop on dow futures. what should investors expect when we ring the opening bell on a monday? longtime floor trader down at the new york stock exchange. so much so that anybody earned the nicknamed sarge. how are you? >> good morning to you. i earned the nickname in the marine corps. connell: probably a good story by the way. what he think when you wake up in peter futures as i said a moment ago percentagewise down. >> into the equity market you have to add a little bit of the futures. about 11 or 12 and the dow futures down 100 xt. and i think it's going to be sloppy going into the trading action. you won't know how equity stands until tomorrow night after that close. if you have an event like friday you need a day or two to let the market digests was happening. connell: it is funny because everybody, not everybody, but a lot of people say this market can go up forever. when you do see some sort of a pu

and lauren simonetti. trained to live pictures we're getting out of seoul, south korea.ice president might penciled in a bilateral meeting with vice president lucci again. visiting for the winter olympics which kick off tomorrow night. the u.s. delegation for the ceremony in about three hours or so. and lauren: the olympics are here. it's not that i'm not very base. he said there is a new sanctions against them but is not backing down from kim jong un. lauren: to your budget deal today in the agreement is so important for military pay and dangerous across to his secretary now desperately needs to keep america great. they must support our troops in this bill. spin at the senate bill facing a bumpy road in the house. adam shapiro in washington. spin magazine of the senate does have a plan to get past the thursday made a deadline. that is the continuing resolution tickets to march march 23rd. legislation to raise spending caps for defense and domestic spending. all in all a couple hundred million dollars to the task of spreading legislation to the continuing resolution and

lauren simonetti outside the new york stocks exchange and what was behind the comeback today. started out additionally, lauren. >> i know. this is a day where the traders in the building behind me are just happy to walk out and be done with it. we had an 11-point range from top to bottom of the market today. if you add to the 1,200 point sell off that we had yesterday, down 666 points on friday, a few other rough days last week, we're talking a market that has given up about 2,300 dow points and then bam, right in the final hour of trading today gains a lot of it back. closing sharply higher as we wait for the final numbers to peter out here. the nasdaq and s&p 500 closing up nearly 2%. so yes, call this a turn around tuesday indeed. we have seen so much volatility come back, that it feels like out of nowhere into the market. you have the vix surging yesterday. the most ever. rising sharply again today. investors fear and bet that higher interest rates are needed to combat inflation. so a lot of traders that actually bet the vix index, the fear would remain low and calm, they g

i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa francis. david: good to see you, lauren. i'm david asman.g this hour. we have a very busy one coming up. first of all the trump factor, firing up the conservative base. president trump imploring republicans to rally ahead of midterm elections, touting a strong economy a

i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa francis. david: good to see you, lauren. i'm david asman. this is "after the bell." thanks for joining us. here is what is happening this hour. we have a very busy one coming up. first of all the trump factor, firing up the conservative base. president trump imploring republicans to rally ahead of midterm elections, touting a strong economy and those crumbs from tax cuts. the president's message to the gop. >>> disturbing new details in the florida school shooting. another red flag missed by the fbi. an armed deputy failing to act, standing outside the building for at least four minutes. the 30-year veteran of the sheriff's office resigning. now there are police officers stationed outside of his home. the latest on the investigation. >>> mueller striking again. the newest charges against rick gates, former trump aide appearing in court this afternoon but is this squeeze just about getting to the president? among our guests this hour, steve forbes, charlie hurt, from "the washington times," and republican congressman todd rokita. >>> first br

lauren simonetti has the details. >> lauren: dick's sporting goods, one of the country's largest sports say they'll no longer sell assault style weapons. they will not sell high capacity magazines and won't sell any gun to anyone under the age of 21 years old, regardless of what the local laws are. the shares are not moving in the premarket. this is the one year chart. they're down 35%. bill gates had nothing good to say about cryptocurrencies. he was speaking at an ask me anything event. he suggested the technology is used by money launderers, terrorists and drug dealers. gates said the main value of money like bitcoin is the anonymity which allows users to hide from law enforcement, adding that long-term investments in the virtual currencies are super risky. well, mcdonald's' happy meals will once again have disney theme toys in them, starting with "the incredibles 2". >> honey, where is my super suit? >> what? >> where is my super suit? >> lauren: mcdonald's and disney are relaunching a multiyear deal, starting with "the incredibles 2 2", that his theaters in june. mcdonald's shares

lauren simonetti with the details. >> lauren: the department of justice is approving discovery's proposedcquisition of scripps network. the company expecting the $12 billion deal to close this quarter. discovery announced last summer that it reached an agreement to acquire scripps networks in a cash and stocks transaction. the deal brings together animal planet, food network, cooking channel and hgtv under one umbrella. take a look at share reaction for discovery communications in the pre-market, up 2.8%. there's also this, a plane packed with passengers lighting up the sky over utah after its engine explodes. the southwest jet's engine, take a look closely, it burst into flames minutes after taking off from salt lake city, headed to los angeles. the flames were so big that people standing on the ground could see. that plane was packed with more than 100 people. it was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing. fortunately, nobody was injured. southwest is calling the issue with the right engine a, quote, performance issue. we're taking a look at shares of southwest. they're up

lauren simonetti i saw her at 4:00 in the morning. david asman is here round-the-clock as well. lauren, you had wind what was going on in asia. selloff ensuing. europe, worst levels by day's end but still very, very volatile. >> i couldn't see the futures where my cameras was, i was anchoring with connell, passing me notes, down 200, up two. down 300. neil: he was making it up. >> making it up. passing love notes. no, it is crazy environment. you don't know what to expect. we saw europe open down 3%. then it was down two. neil: right. >> asia just destroyed. japan was down almost 5% today. so some really ugly involved numbers but everyone keeps saying why? they seem to be following the u.s. market. they seem to be citing central bank policy perhaps not here in the u.s. but around the world will change today. hazing day yesterday for mr. powell. neil: absolutely. >> will central banks respond to inflation a la wage growth? the fact that interest rates are going up. which is not a bad thing,. neil: david, you and i covered '87 crash in different venues, velocity shares, inverse pro

lauren simonetti with the details, lauren, good morning., maria, investigators are telling cbs48 horses that wagner is a person of interest and now call her death suspicious, one of the witnesses reported hearing yelling and crashing sounds from the couple's room, wood was on a yacht with wagner and after night of drinking the body was found off of catalina coast. there's a changing of the guard at sony and wall street seems to like it, ceo is stepping down after he let a turn-around in the company, he's going to be replaced fbi cfo, yoshida, ceo, market leader and consumer electronics, the name behind walkman but it lost the race to newer companies like apple. take a look at shares of sony, they are up in the premarket by 7%. told you wall street likes it. how about this one? ahead of valentine's day max.com says austin is home to the most misbehaving men. match.com find out that austin men 49% to go to go someone, never texting them back even though they are dating. they are also guilty of bread-crumbing, don't thank nancy pelosi, you lea

lauren simonetti has details on this. >> lauren: are you laughing because it sounds so old fashioned?auren: this might be an old fashioned way may be the best thing we have in terms of trying to combat meddling in the election. this is what facebook is doing. this is for ads that mention the candidates, not for issues, so only if you mention a specific candidate. they'll send a post card to the mailing address. when you get the post card, there's a special code on it. you use that code to authenticate yourself. and facebook says they want this in place by the mid-term elections which are in november. it's not going to be 100% fool proof. but in this climate, it's something in the right direction. what we learned on friday with that indictment told us several things. just to focus on two of them right now, that, yes, russians adopted false online identities and number two, that those did not influence the results of the election. now, that was underlined by the v.p. of ad sales at facebook, rob goldman. he sent a series of tweets over the past couple days. some of these went viral beca

lauren simonetti has the details. >> lauren: there's a 14 hour time difference.ice president mike pence will lead the u.s. delegation at the winter games. before doing that, he met with four north korean defectors, including the same man who lifted up his wooden crutches, you guys remember this image during the president's state of the union address, if we have that picture for you. everyone remembers that. the father of the american college student who died, otto warmbier after being released from captivity i. this is an image of the president looking at otto's father hug the north korean defector who lifted up his wooden crutches at the state of the union. this is a beautiful moment. this is a sound bite from vice president pence earlier today. >> he is a great champion for the north from which he fled and the freedom of the people there and it's an honor to be with you. >> lauren: the other big story emerging is the younger sister, we think she's about 30 years old, of kim jong un, the leader of north korea, she's actually in south korea and is attending the o

lauren simonetti with all the details. e has a sense of humor, she's 17, she won the gold for the woman's half pipe and showed up when done with the win her back to back 1080's becoming first woman to do so in olympic history. she might have been focusing on food. first tweet about craving ice cream and she will get ice cream, i think. decided not to and now i'm getting hangry apparently works for her, like i said, food sponsorship might be in her future, in the men's qualifying, we see writers usually more mellow. they save the best for last. shaun white looking to clinch third gold. answered scotty from australia with back to back 360. norway has nine medals, netherlands and canada, team usa coming with six medals and france has five if you are keeping track and in women's hockey we bring you the controversy over lady liberty, this has been resolved moments ago, at issue look at the helmet. violate the international committee rules that ban political symbols, if they rule yes, they would have to change helmets game before

lauren simonetti has all the details. >> lauren: it's a volatile trade.king a comeback today, pushing closer to the psychological 10,000. if you look at this, remember december, we hit the high of about 20,000 and then not even two months later, february 6t sh it plummeted under $6,000, that's a 70% decrease in just a couple of weeks. it is back up this morning. so the question is why. the answer is south korea. this is the third biggest market in the world for cryptocurrency. in fact, bitcoin a fifth of all those transactions are happening in korea. at first the government said they were considering a ban on cryptocurrencies. that was back in january. that's when everyone kind of got spooked. now one of the government officials is saying no, no, no, and this is a quote, we're looking at making cryptocurrency trading more transparent. so if that's regulation or some sort of understanding that this quite frankly is a global phenomenon, let's figure out a way to handle it and eventually regulate it. maybe there is a more realistic market for it. you have in

only getting rave you reviews you heard earlier the most tweeted about movie of 2018, about lauren simonettipresidents' day weekend what could be a 200 there are a-million-dollar opening one of the largest not only for headlined weekend but ever, black pen they're pretty good story a great backstory let me take you back 20 years ago, marvell abrupt at the tibankrup tries to sell to superheroes black panther iron man 25-million-dollar, but buyer sony only wanted spider-man got it for 10 million dollars but to think mistakes that you make in if hindsight fast forward 2010 disney scoops up marvell for four billion dollars, but look, this is what they did with it, 17 blockbusters counting here are the biggest money makers avengers 2012 global box office 1 1/2 billion dollars iran man 3, about captain america spider-man marvell wound up producing for sony long story all in top five with worth about a billion dollars now talking about the black panther rooted in black culture mostly black cast, is about to become a global blockbuster. sony once said nobody cared about a b-list kaeshth like black p

lauren simonetti has all the details. >> what a reporter.its by taking a look here you can see revenue $15.35 billion in the last quarter that actually miss expect nations than they did take a one-time benefit related to the new tax law. 1.6 billion there. nonetheless, look at the share price reaction right now. shares are up to .2% at 108 to 50 in the premarket. look at many of these users with revenue for this segment, you can see the studio immediate units for sure the next patient but they did the big strength in the theme parks. goes to show your customers are still willing to pay skyhigh prices for tickets. by the way of price increase for theme park tickets in the coming week. the higher hotel prices consumers are willing to spend this for entertainment. speaking of, we do have news for espn. espn plus their new streaming service or is going to cost $4, 99 cents a month. by as an add-on service used further redesign the u.s. app that will give you life programming not available on the current channels. and then -- >> reach out. >> tha

lauren simonetti. >> talking about fertility. >> you don't look pregnant? >> really? seven months.kay. maria: you look beautiful. >> you guys are so sweet. attracting and retaining workers. 66% of companies say they will offer by next year some sort of fertility treatment whether it's covering ivf for egg freezing or options for same-sex couples. this is a big jump from 55% for the year before. very popular right now. people are working later into life, particularly women they have to make this expensive decision to freeze their eggs. we want to show you the newer companies six and in increasing their coverage. foursquare, any worker can get fertility coverage. pincher is now offering 20,000 as they pay. more companies getting into what our workers want. this is how we also diversify your math innkeepers tough. look at the loyalty rates. six in 10 workers are more likely to stay with the company because they were rewarded when it came to figuring out their family situation. i have a girlfriend whose husband had just switched job. she knitted ivf. her company give her nothing, fully

sw lovpz team usa won 12 metals ratings to sink from games lauren simonetti with details. >> you knowaithful the lowest metal count, trailing norway, trailing germany, canada as well as the netherlands, we have less than haef metals as in sochi in 2014 could be worst since 1992 the most ever athletes 244 athletes to south korea what is the problem? a lot of performances disappointing including -- a 22-year-old skier chasing five gold already pulled out of two races not going to compete in downhill wants to rest up focus on thursday's prime combined moved because of the weather the weather has been another issue in the games this year. and take a look at figure skater a disastrous short program 17th place recovered in free skate you saw his record six quad jumps see him in beijing next olympics what is playing out on screen unfortunate. >> do you think nbc should be worried. >> absolutely a disaster for them weekend ratings down double digits from sochi, they paid a record 4.4 billion dollars to broadcast the games, through 2020, then extended that for almost 8 billion dollars, through