good morning, i'm nicole petallides. >> lori: hi, i'm lori rothman. details. >> nicole: we are seeing down arrows. had it been higher a couple days ago, dow down 30, s&p down just over 3. >> lori: all right. spacex makes space travel history. >> three, two, one, zero. we have liftoff. >> lori: and it lands dramatically, we will show you coming up. >> nicole: more problems for chipotle mexican grill, officials reporting a new e. coli strain. >> lori: quarterback drew brees making all the headlines, we will have all the monday night football highlights. >> nicole: welcome to fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news and what to expect on your day ahead. >> lori: all right. >> nicole: detective had been deployed twice to afghanistan, once to iraq, leaves behind a wife and three children. new york city police commissioner saying, we grieve and we remember this public servant. the taliban has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attacks. the deadliest attack on international forces in afghanistan since august. >> lori: republican front runne

good morning, i'm lori rothman. >> nicole: good morning, protestors take mall of america and move to international airport. [shouting] >> nicole: more protests are expected today for chicago's busiest shopping district. >> lori: let's have a look at u.s. stock market futures ahead of the opening bell, slightly lower after three days of gains, will open in positive territory albeit very slightly this morning. >> nicole: a decision has been in odell beckham's one day suspension. we will tell you who you will and who you will not see in this sunday's game. welcome to fbn:am, you're watching fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news, and what to expect on the day ahead. >> lori: two deaths reported in tennessee, in arkansas an 18-year-old woman lost her life when a tree crashed into her home. multiple tornadoes had been reported across the reason. >> it was a small tornado. it snapped off a pine tree by my truck and slammed my seat belt on and said, lord, let me survive this. >> lori: partly linked with el niÑo. new york city mid-60's and several degrees higher even los ange

. >> lori: and i'm lori rothman. >> nicole: more problems after secret service where gun was stole near headquarters. >> lori: new home sales, checking u.s. stock market futures. after the dow industrial completed, eighth day in a role of triple-digit move. >> nicole: that's true. seeing volatility. in sports two top college basketball teams struggle to stay on top. we will tell you the winners and the losers all coming up. >> lori: welcome to fbn:am, first look at morning markets and breaking news and what to expect on the day ahead. >> nicole: when a girl asked questioning about bullying -- >> you send it around the world. it's important to stand to bullies wherever they are and why we shouldn't let anybody bully his way into the presidency. during the same event former secretary of state standing by her claim that isis uses video of donald trump to recruit new members. >> if you go on arabic television as we have and you look at what is being blasted out with video of mr. trump being translated into arabic, no muslims coming to the united states, other kinds of derogatory, defamatory

lori rothman with more on that. an e-mail that the attack was discovered three weeks ago, did not say if the attackers succeeded in stealing payment card numbers or how many were affected. hyatt is the fourth major hotel, and in sports, dzokhar tsarnaev the agenda 26 will have not been content with the team, this is following his actions against the panthers, giants wide receiver apologize for those actions on sunday. a little girl in new jersey, accidentally knocked over her elf on the shelf. legend has it the elf loses its magic is touched at all so little isabella panicked and called 911. >> at her elf on the shelf, she won't call 911 again. lori: police have a direct line to santa claus and they would make sure everything would be okay. thank goodness. maria: a holiday heartbreak, seven people are dead, others wounded or missing after a storm system swept across the american southwest, three of the victims killed in mississippi including a 7-year-old boy, two deaths reported in tennessee and arkansas, an 18-year-

lori rothman outside of a chipolte here in new york. lori, if it is not e.coli, what is it?reporter: nothing a whole lot more pleasant really. sorry, chipolte is saying it is norovirus, basically a 24 hour bug, stomach flu, winter vomiting they call it. key difference between norovirus and e.coli, it sticks around longer but both just nasty. this is according to chipolte. the cdc is investigate. they have tested 80 boston college students who are sick and confirmed eating at chipolte restaurant nearby campus we'll know whether in two days whether or not it is e.coli or norovirus. because of the circumstances uncovered by the boston health department, chipolte believes this is instance of norovirus. this is what the health department is telling us, that, an employee at that restaurant near boston college showed up to work sick and that they discovered the meat was being stored at wrong temperature. so, as you referenced, chipolte is also being investigated, there are nine states with confirmed e.coli cases, some a a -- 53 people were sicced by that. the company to their credi

we thought let's get lori rothman to the chipotle this midtown manhattan.t are you getting the sense from the people who are there, lori? >> reporter: they're unfazed, steady stream of people. we've been out here all day really and the lunch rush was pretty much what it normally is. we talked to a lot of folks as they came out from their lunch and said, how was it? why'd you decide to eat at chipotle? haven't you heard about these e. coli issues and this latest instance which, by the way, chipotle is sayings likely a nor provirus, but it hasn't been confirmed by the cdc. >> honestly, i'm not super concerned about it. maybe it's stupid, but i'm going to keep coming here anyway. >> take the risk. >> it hasn't stopped me. >> reporter: are you not worried about it? >> no, i'm not worried about it. >> i'm not worried about it either. i don't really care. i did check the stock, and the stock completely plummeted -- >> reporter: have you heard about the e. coli outbreak? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: did that make you nest? >> of course it did. >> and you decided to

lori rothman with the very latest outside of chipolte. lori? getting worse with these kids, boston college kids getting worse after they ate at chipolte in the area. including members of the boston college basketball team. they are now up to 80 students being sick. chipolte put out a statement to their credit. this is from a spokesperson. we do not have any evidence to suggest that the incident is related to previous e.coli incident. there are no confirmed cases of of e.coli in the west. this looks like like cases of neurovirus. they have been tested for e.coli and norovirus. we are awaiting results back in two days. government health officials continue to investigate the sources of e.coli in chipolte restaurants in nine other states. still have not found a source to that confirmed contamination that made about 50 people, 53 people sick again in nine other states. massachusetts, again, still unconfirmed. what is confirmed according to boston clege that now 80 students there did get some kind of a food poussinning after eating at chipolte restau

. >> lori: great to be with you, nicole, i'm lori rothman.lary clinton a liar. >> she made it up. just like bernie sanders lied. >> nicole: record debut for the force awakens. >> we're home. >> nicole: new star wars movie smashes box office. we want to welcome you to fbn:am, first look at what's looking in today's markets and breaking news and what to expect on the day ahead. >> lori: a car plows into pedestrians, one person killed an dozens of others injured. six people in critical condition. >> initial reports had come out that there was gunshots. that's not true. there was no gunshots out here. second, we know that this was not an act of terrorism, we ruled that out. those are two things we know. >> lori: we also know details, the accident happened near planet hollywood. the driver is being held in the clark county jail. a 3-year-old inside her vehicle was not hurt. >> nicole: donald trump slamming democratic rival hillary clinton calling her a liar, this after clinton claimed isis uses videos of donald trump to recruit new members. >> she

lori rothman from our sister network is here with what you need to know. >> good morning ladies.s a chocolate recall to tell you about this morning. 24 ounce bags of dove chocolate. people reported finding snickers twix and milky way bars in the dove chocolate. the other canned bars containaller begins not mentioned in the packaging. >> if you plan on driving there will be a lot of travel this year. 100 million will hit the roles. the reason rising incomes and falling gas prices. the national average is $2 a gallon. gas hasn't abobeen this keep si 2009. amazon shipping deadline you need to know. you have until # p.m. tomorrow to send by standard shipping. he knows with the deadline for one day shipping. you can slhip to our delivery now. amazon deadlines are approaching. >> business class travelers will be comfy starting in march they will get passengers on the flights. gray cotton pj's. would you rathwear them? >> star wars the force awakens. box office records taking a staggering $228 million crushing the alvin and the chipmunks barely chipped in with 14.4 million. the amy poeh

lori rothman watching from the floor of the new york stock exchange. what fueled today's rally? >> it was interesting day today. we did have as you said a nice rally but from the get-go, leading into this highly anticipated fed decision tomorrow on interest rates, markets really kind of shaking its sillies out. we were down 300 friday. up 100 points yesterday. up in another 155, 156 today. all-in we're only off 50 points in the last three sessions. traders on the floor are just kind of taking what would be highly anticipated fed decision of really last nine, 10 years. quite telling leading sectors were energy up 2.85% and financials obviously benefiting higher interest rate environments up 2.83%. so you know, interest rates the story there, we've been following rout in the junk bond market last couple days. rates really stablized. two year, at highest level since may of 2010. that gave folks relief that the fed is more than likely doing exactly what it has been intending to tomorrow. we have less than 24 hours to find out exactly what at that is. melissa: lori, thank you very mu

let's go down to lori rothman on the floor of the nyse for news on this year's biggest losers. >> i'mll working. people are pouring champagne. david: i hate what i'm not invited. >> dow is lower on the day and year. we're up 178 points. 17,425. that puts us 398 points on the dow, down from break even point for the year. the dow for the year is off 2.2%. 2008 was the last time the dow closed out the year with losses. we were coming in from the financial crisis. dow was off 33.8%. decline this year of 2% not as bad but not great either. nasdaq, what it is worth, posted gains for the year so there is that. in terms of performers, let's unpack the dow itself and 30 component members. winners this year, nike, mcdonald's, home depot up 20 6%, ge, microsoft. technology real buoyed broader market. losers, biggest losers, walmart down 28%. caterpillar off 25%. weak global economy. american express off 25%. oil, we know suffering in sympathy and united technologies are the losers. david: cheers. >> melissa knows, i only need one sip and i'm toast. melissa: lori, don't do it. oil down 30%. gold

lori rothman with that and other headlines. e marquez will remain in custody as he faces terrorism related charges, he poses a continuing danger to the community and is charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists or plots and buying rifles shooters used in the san bernardino attack. sports, odell beckham has been accused the suspended for one game after the giants wide receiver hit joshed norman's helmets and buzz flag a total of three times. he will appeal the suspension but it will not be heard until wednesday. google maybe teaming up to speed up the launch of self driving cars. sources told yahoo! autos that ford ceo mark fields will make the announcement in january for the 2016 consumer electronics show. ford officials would not confirm details. ford says it will have more news, the consumer electronics show is next month. maria: thank you so much. ford, google said closer to making driverless cars a reality. mark is basically not a private equity investor in technology, google, internet related compani

lori rothman talking about why thousands of american companies are holding back and engineering theirnd that's it. >> you said it. let's talk about the biggest cash hoarding offender, liz. that is of course apple. get this, market share of 654 billion for apple. 203 billion of that is cash on hand. apple plans to return 200 billion of that to shareholders. why? why stoke the share price? obviously keep stockholders happy. why else? we've got a peoplic economy out there. almost like a which came first situation, the chicken or the egg. if you think about it from a corporate perspective why would the company throw out cap-ex in a economy that can barely print 2% expansion rate? in fact that what you get. survey of ceo roundtable came out this morning and they do it every quarter and here is what they found. they said cap-ex to be down 6.%. sales off 2.% in the same time period. employment will come in unchanged. what can change things? maybe higher interest rates. companies not as likely to borrow money with higher interest rates, but the fact is, liz, higher interest rates signal a hea

maria: warm weather temperatures making holiday travel easier lori rothman with other headlines now. white christmas in many cities across the country in the south and east, temperatures christmas morning will be attended grease above the average high for december 25th. this will also be the case in days leading up to christmas. in new york city average high temperature 40 degrees, the big apple may wake up to temperatures nearing 60 degrees. fortune reporting the warm weather affecting eastern half of the u.s. hitting retailers where it hurts, right in the pocket books. specialty retailers have lost $421 million so far this holiday season and this should come as no surprise, sales of outerwear have been decimated. estimates nationwide hour where sales are down 10% while sweater sales have fallen 6% for the season. maria: big ticket items. bring in the ceo, tom pgi. thanks for joining us. you are at the forefront of the shopping industry, characterize what you are seeing. >> we are seeing a very robust shopping season. our forecasts of for sales increased 3.5% from last year. supersa

lori rothman with more from the new york stock exchange. >> reporter: hi, neil. stocks roaring back on this final trading day of 2015. we've pared gains by about a half, the dow is down by just about 60 points, oil up 75 cents a barrel, and as you know, oil's been the story all year. let's look back at our trends since 2008, right? we were just coming off the financial crisis, the dow was down almost 34%. that was a tough year. it's been gains since then until this year. but right now the dow's only down just over 1.5%, and as i mentioned, the dow is coming back, though we still need about give or take 300 points if the dow to break even on 2015. but we're down nearly as much as we were back in 2008 when times were much tougher considering the football crisis, and we -- the financial crisis, and we doesn't know where we were going from there. but in terms of this year, it's really been the story about oil and oil prices falling, and that's really weighed across the broader america. energy is one of the weakest sectors today, you're looking at the 2015 dow losers.

i am lori rothman on the stock exchange. oil is up today.ar. 32% in 2015. the broader market. looks like the dow here today will close lower right now. 1.7%. one of the four industries in the s&p that will close out with gains today. the best performer there is amazon. google, microsoft also posting significant gains on the year. apple underperforming both the dow in the technology sector as a whole. much more coming up on "varney & company" after this. stick around. ♪ >> the affluence that case. he is still in mexico. >> the dallas area. just charging her. the hindering of an investigation. putting up 100 grand if she wants to maintain her freedom. early this morning, they did leave her in handcuffs at the l.a. airport. a local news station in dallas is reporting she will be arriving in dollars tomorrow. >> that is a young man. >> that is a picture of the facility in mexico where he is being held. he may have weeks or months to stay in mexico. obviously, hire a mexican attorney. stuart: he is there. she is here. both stocks have more than d