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good morning, lauren simonetti. take us through it. lauren: yeah.the most in a year, ashley, good morning. and december was revised higher to 330,000 jobs created. november revised higher to 182,000. right side of the screen, unemployment rate falls 3.7% in january, wages up averaging $34.55 an hour. they're up 4.5% in the past year. finish inflation is running at 3.4%. where are the jobs? if you look at health care and social assistance, the most there, more than 100,000. retail, 45,000. government, 36. manufacturing added jobs but mining and logging fell, declined by 6,000, ashley. ashley: remarkable report though. all right, next one for you, lauren. amazon, apple, meta, all reporting after the bell. what did they do? lauren: all double beats, right? profits, revenue stronger or than expected. so let's start with the biggest of the companies, which is apple, and then we'll talk about why the stock is down 3.a 5 before the opening bell. the problem is iphone sales in china. they came up short. overall, pretty strong. nearly $70 billion in revenue,

doctor saphier, congratulations again preorder the book, love mom@foxnews.com, lauren simonetti is here for liz cl claman. >> i am lauren simonetti, the market is closed for presidents' day but the news continues and we are on it. we begin with a potential megadeal in the financial sector the wall street journal says capital one is buying discover financial this would merge two of the largest kind of car companies in the country and could be announced as soon tomorrow. the takeover is expected to value discover at a premium to the 28 billion-dollar market value, here are the takers to watch dfs for discover nco after capital one which is the ninth largest bank in a major credit card. will watch this the level on the s&p 500 goldman sachs again lifting the year-end target 25200 and back on friday, the s&p closed at 5005 so goldman sees a 4% rise from where we are right now. it's as big tech will have to continue to do the heavy lifting but we asked could and should the magnificent seven continue to have an outside impact on the broader markets. deutsche bank noting the combined market ca

for liz cl claman. >> i am lauren simonetti, the market is closed for presidents'

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ashley: you went through that like a true pro, lauren simonetti. that's any proof right there. 00 fan? ashley: i don't know. you had kickoff instead of flag dropping at 4:00. lauren: i ask that question, wait, hold on, i asked did you say kickoff and no one i was asking and everyone said that's fine. it's flag dropping. i knew i was wrong. it's not a --- ashley: kickoff worked, we knew what you meant, lauren. who's listening and saying get me out of here is ricky stenhouse jr., the defending champ of the daytona 500. thanks for joining us. how are you feeling? how are you feeling today? >> i'm feeling good, ready to go. got up and got a workout in this morning. the rain has finally stopped, sunshine is coming out and we're ready to go. ashley: now, you're the defending champ. does that put a little extra pressure on you? >> no extra pressure. i think this race is, it's hard to win the first time. i feel like once you win, you feel a little bit more comfortable throughout the race and our race car is ready to go. we have our kroger continue fell camero ready to hit the racetrack

our very own lauren simonetti is at a toy store in new jersey. come on in, lauren., i would say, by screens, video games and phones, but, sure, they're still playing with toys. in fact, on that toy heaven, tons of toys is literally the name of this retailer in new jersey. and as you can see, stuart, the shelves are completely full. and the reason heir full is because if this is no hot toy. there is no gotta-have toy for the parents to buy the kids this year or last year or, heck, even the year before. so i said, all right, well, what about barbie? okay. it's a hit movie. here's the barbie section. it's pretty full but this store said, well, mattel got us the toys late and they didn't have enough of the items the kids actually wanted like a version of this, the pink rc hot car. not this one because they can't get it, something similar. mattel is forecasting, believe it or not, flat sales for all of 2024. if you look industry wide, last year overall toy sale fell by 8%. 8%, despite all the hot movies and and despite people feeling a little bit better about the holiday

lauren simonetti with the details. >> that's accurate.w in athens are not releasing the 911 call. they say it's an active investigation. they say illegal immigrant jose abara interfered with riley's 911 call during the attack. residents are outraged, unloaded on the mayor during a press conference on city safety. watch here. >> who voted to make athens clark county a sanctuary city, sir? who? what's their name? >> you're a liar. >> liar. >> there will be time for questions. >> you're guilty and you've got blood on your hands. you need to go, sir. we don't want to hear from you no more. >> it was powerful. police say abara's brother was arrested after giving police a fake green card as they searched for his brother, also arrested in september for speeding while under the influence. more bad news for you, at least one person is dead, several injured after a shooting in orlando last night. several shots were fired before the police arrived on the scene. at this time, authorities have not released the identities of those who were hurt and it

lauren simonetti has the details. >> reporter: one person confirmed dead in these fast moving fires burning oklahoma. authorities saying 83-year-old woman was killed and fear of more deaths will be reported. ranchers forced to flee their homes and businesses. >> went back to try to get the remaining families, maybe a few belongings inside the house was the sky turned black, the smoke was so thick. when we made it out we went 30 miles of what i can only describe as a lunar landscape, absolute, barren, dead. >> i called 911 when i saw the house burning. they sent firetrucks, the deputies came out and forced us to leave. i last two dogs and two cats. still emotional. this is our life. we've been here for 50 years and it's pretty tough. >> reporter: dozens of cattle reportedly killed as the flames tore through farms. texas governor greg abbott has declared a disaster for 60 counties. take a look here, you can see where these wildfires are currently burning. it is a sad story. and this, the wife of a former dea agent killed in a cartel shootout relocated to mexico because she said crime in los a

lauren simonetti keeping track of it all. >> this is the taylor swift to technology. take a look at nvidia. up 16%. closing at a record 784 a share. market cap, just under $2 trillion. meaning it's now bigger than google and amazon. nvidia's ceo says that we're in year 1 of this ten-year cycle to spread artificial intelligence to every single industry. >> ai has kicked off a new investment psych toll build the next trillion dollars of structure of ai generation factories. we believe these two trends will drive a doubling of the world's data center infrastructure installed base in the next five years. will represent an annual market opportunity in the hundreds of billions. >> last quarter, profits of 12.3 billion increasing over 700% from a year ago. sales topped $22 billion. they tripled. nvidia says they will hit $24 billion this quarter. unbelievable numbers. you can say this tree appears to grow to the sky. didn't think that that could happen. it's happening now. investors reaping the rewards. it's not just for nvidia. super micro, they make servers for ai. their s