our reporters, fast company mark sullivan and lara mandara, managing editor of "u.s.a. today," this week on "press: here." >>> good morning, i'm skod scott mcgrew, this week i learned two things, one, fico, the company famous for the fico score, does not decide your credit rating. who knew? and also fico is headquartered in silicon valley, about two blocks from this studio. again, who knew? will lansing is ceo of fico, i assume he walked over here from his office, he's past ceo of fingerhut, info space, joined by mark sullivan and laura mondaro of "u.s.a. today." let's start with this idea that fico doesn't -- my fico score is so important. but somehow you're not the credit rating? >> the way it works is we're an analytics company and we produce the algorithm and the score. but we don't have any data. so the data is held by a credit bureau, by someone else. and they use our algorithm to produce the score, which they then share with banks, that's how the credit determination is made. >> i have a macy's bill, i don't pay the macy's bill. it's ex-peerian or others who know

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it's also a special year that marks the 50th anniversary of the holiday. we spoke with myisha sullivan. each of the seven days of kwanza is dedicated to a search principle beginning with unity. sullivan says it brings millions 0 people together each other. >> people are disbursed around the planet. it has united us. it has united us across land, across water and it's one of the only holidays we have that does that. >> kwanza continues through january 1st. >>> a north aspen county cancer patient is paying it forward. he won a holiday contest gave away, free pizzas for a year. he was diagnosed with colon cancer in july. getting by with the support of family and friends. he entered a local pizza give away. he found out that he won but when he did, he knew he wanted to do something good with it. so he decided to donate the two pizzas per month to a local food bank >> everybody was so grateful and paying it forward to me, i felt this was an opportunity to pay it forward to other people that are down on their luck or doing through hard times. >> as for josh's health, he expects to make a com

we are staying above the freezing mark, which is good news for the morning commute. jamie sullivan in the traffic center -- how is it looking out there? jamie: issues. we have what roads but still everyone traveling at a good speed. some good news in virginia. woodbridge -- we have a hazmat situation. ist we were able to find out something involving the fire department. there was not an accident, no crash. it is just going to be a hazmat situation that now has lanes open. ahead past the accident southbound. there are still some emergency crews there, so you will see flashing lights. through lorton, continuing north closer to newington, and springfield. 395, an easy ride from alexandria getting into the district. we are clear from 395. the beltway top stretch, only about 14 minutes. the stretch on 270 southbound, you are moving well. it is going to be a little bit wet out there. jummy: breaking right now, a queen anne's county sheriff's deputy is in critical condition after being shot overnight. this started with a domestic dispute. we know that the deputy went to a house on edge mo

mark: what do they bring to the table, schwartz and sullivan?harvey schwartz has been the ceo for the last four years roughly. he has been asked to cut costs, keep efficiency high at a time when revenue on wall street and the banking sector has been hard to come by. he came through the trading business and has had some other jobs around the face. solomon has been heading the investment banking division for roughly the last decade or so. he has done a great job from everyone i have talked to. they had record reviews in the last couple years. solomon and schwartz are two guys who are senior in the firm. these are the two that we have been hearing through our reporting that we're the two likely to get this role. not a huge surprise. should be interesting to see how the next couple years workout with them in these roles. mark: should be interesting to see who ultimately follows on on. who is the favorite right now? dakin: good question. i think it is still to be determined. i think there are different groups within goldman up behind each of these gu

it's a special year as it marks the 50th anniversary of the holiday. today nbc 10 talked to naisha sullivanwho worked with the man who created kwanzaa. it honors african celebrations and transitions. each of its eight days is devoted to a principle such as unity. she says it brings millions of people together each year. >> people of african descent are dispersed across the planet. this unites us. it's one of the only holidays that does that. >> a celebration for the holiday will be held at city hall tomorrow. >>> this will make you appreciate our weather. it's a day of weather extremes across the u.s., causing delays and cancellations for holiday travelers. this right here is chicago's o'hare airport. some passengers arrived this morning to find a wrench thrown into their travel plans because of these blizzard conditions. they shut down roads across the great plains. out west, parts of utah picked up, erin, get this, close to two feet of snow. >> oh, my gosh, dealing with that in the travel time. i mean, that's kind of rough. let's go over to glenn "hurricane" schwartz with a look at what w

sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) colombia. >> stephen: hey! hey, everybody! hey, mark. how you doing, chris? >> jon: hey! >> stephen: what's going on? philosophical. >> jon: philosophical. >> stephen: hey, everybody! welcome to "the late show." i am stephen colbert. happy friday! what else is there to say? ( cheers and applause ) you all ready for the weekend? i am. i absolutely am. you guys you heard about this donald trump >> jon: uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. >> stephen: it's crazy. he isn't even president yet, and donald trump is already saving jobs. for instance, he has done wonders for mine. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and yesterday-- ( cheers ) thank you! not worth it, but thank you. yesterday, trump was at the carrier air conditioning plant mexico, sending a clear message to mexican workers: if you want good-paying factory jobs, you're going to have to come here and take it from an american! and everyone-- he said he would do it. he did it. that was pretty impressive. i don't know how he did it. it happened. everyone was surprised by this carrier deal. even donald trump was surprised. and th

sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! good to see you. ( cheers and applause ) hey, everybody! thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you, marktephen.

mark wahlberg lee daniels and musical guest miranda lambert. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivanater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! good to see you! ♪ ♪ >> jon: hey! >> stephen: good to see you. merry christmas. >> jon: merry christmas to you! ( applause ) >> stephen: welcome to "the late show." please sit down, everybody. thank you so much. you're very kind. what a lovely night. what a lovely crowd. how is everybody feeling tonight? you feeling all right? feeling the holidays. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. a lot of exciting revelations today, yeah, who donald trump is meeting with for cabinet positions. you know how they've got the cameras at trump towers and seeing them coming in and coming out. it's like a detective show or something like that. >> jon: yeah, like cop. >> stephen: so far it's opinion a who's who of why? what? ( laughter and today, today brought the strangest news yet, because this morning, the president-elect met at trump tower with ali kanye w. you can tell it was a high-

sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! good to see you. ( cheers and applause ) hey, everybody! thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you, mark

sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! good to see you. ( cheers and applause ) thank you, mark. >> stephen! stephen! stephen. >> jon: yeah! >> stephen: what's going on, jon. good to see you. ( cheers and applause ) hey! you're very nice. oh, the people-- wonderful. what a lovely crowd. welcome to "the late show." i'm stephen colbert. everybody feeling good? ( cheers and appe biden is what they're excited about. ( cheers and applause ) i wish that was for me. big political news today is that al gore went to trump tower yesterday to talk climate change with donald trump. yeah, yeah. ( applause ) first half of the meeting was convincing trump that al gore chinese. when gore emerged from the meeting, i gotta say he was passionately noncommittal. >> i found it an extremely interesting conversation and to be continued. ( laughter ) >> stephen: "extremely interesting" and "to be continued," two things that have never been used to describe al gore's political career. ( laughter ) >> >> stephen: keith breathing. keep breathing. meanwhile, trump's twitter stream is just as polluted as ev

mark back up and running for him and his staff. alison: hopefully those folks return those goods and find who's situation with jamie sullivan with the details. >> hi. we're starting with a water main break. we've seen quite a few of these throughout the day today and this is something that will continue to happen. 16th street between somerset and sheridan. this is with the water main break. now, we don't have problems from d.c. to silver springs. but 14 miles per hour is your average heading into the city. now, just a heads up, we do have some slowing here inbound but we have the slowing heading outbound which is going to be typical for us. bottom side of the beltway, a reminder we do have that debut concert tonight with boyes 2 men at m.g.m. we will see a lot of -- bozyii men at m.g.m. we will see a lot of traffic. volume on the inner loop as well as the outer loop and some spots even a little bit of sun glare out there. that stretch right there on the inner loop between 6 american legion bridge will take you about an hour. so, again, definitely slow. not as many crashes to worry about. but watch for those water main breaks. that i

sullivan. here are your three big headlines right now. first, with with two hours to go in trading, will the dow hit the 20,000 mark today? away earlier. let's see if the market provides any kind of a late day push. second, we're counting or continuing to follow the developing story overseas following terror attacks in germany and turkey. we're live in berlin ahead. >> and third, we're keeping a very close eye on fedex. why? the company reporting earnings after the bell. we bring you the three things to watch when they report. "power lunch" begins right now.

sullivan. here are your three big headlines right now. first, with with two hours to go in trading, will the dow hit the 20,000 mark today? we were as close as 13 points away earlier. let's see if the market provides any kind of a late day push. second, we're counting or continuing to follow the developing story overseas following terror attacks in germany and turkey. we're live in berlin ahead. >> and third, we're keeping a very close eye on fedex. why? the company reporting earnings after the bell. we bring you the three things to watch when they report. "power lunch" begins right now. >>> and welcome to "power lunch." i'm michelle caruso-cabrera. the dow hitting yet another record high today. as brian mentioned, we came within 13 points of the thus far elusive 20,000 mark. we're oh, so close. but our market reporters are close by. bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. bob, give us a rundown of what has gotten us this far so far. >> the important thing is to understand why we had the big move from the middle of 18,000 for the dow, before the election to 20,000 today. so let's take a look. why the moves