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our own meg terrell is there and joins us live with a special guest.morning again, meg. >> good morning, carl. joining us now is emma walmsley. emma, thanks for being here. >> delighted to be here, meg >> you took the job from april before that spending 17 years at l'oreal, so in some ways you're an industry outsider what's job number one for you? >> well, as i laid out very clearly in july, all three businesses of gsk have to perform, but my number one priority is our biggest, most profitable, highest return business, pharmaceuticals. and at the beginning of that, that means we're very focused on executing the launches that we have in hand right now, and we have extremely exciting ones our new chronic pulmonary disease we're marketing right now. critically in vaccines, and this is a big launch for gsk on a new shingles vaccine this is a tremendous opportunity for the company. you know, one in three of us is going to suffer from this really debilitating disease that's you, me, or your cameraman, and we have 90, over 90% efficacy with this vaccine, whic

meg? >> reporter: bill, thanks so much john, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, meg. >> reporter: gilead's stock is moving big in the green direction after your presentation yesterday one of the things you said for 2018 is a key focus is m&a and building the pipeline. does tax reform change the size and the nature of what you're looking at there >> well, first of all, i think tax reform is very good for us i think it's very good for the economy and for companies like gilead, which allows us to flpln long term. as you know, our businesses are a very long-term cycle of approvals of our drugs in terms of order, it real i will doesn't change anything i talked to you last year, talked about how m&a was important to replenish the pipeline and still intend to invest in m&a, tend to invest in our pipeline and compounds going forward to broaden our pipeline for short-term, medium-term and long-term growth for the company. the priority doesn't change. it allows us to focus on returning

the group a strong start to the year meg has three names to watch before the torch is lit. meg?> reporter: biggest of the year more than 450 companies present 9,000 attendees, those are the ones that can just fit inside the building much more is happening around the building setting the stage for the rest of the industry what to watch deals. monday morning, prime time for m & a announcements. pharma in 2015 and buying ariad last year all at multibillion dollar valuations. many question whether there's been enough time to digest the tax overall for big companies to trigger this and many report q4 results early. three stocks to watch, celgene, a tough fourth quarter, something of a bellwether for all and drove more generalist investors out of the space and also, jpmorgan announced in previous years and the stock under pressure down 14% in the last year. and regenreon, reports at the conference and ceo schleifer on. a space you won't want to miss. >> thanks, meg. >>> and biotech stocks among top performers should you keep betting on them in the new year? carter is at the plaza to b

stick around for that. >> meg, thanks meg tirrell in san francisco for us >>> despite a strong startostocks getting hit today, plunging 4% so what do you make of this rough start, guy >> well, the science till works behind these things. the stock went from basically you saw the move, from 130 or so down to, what, 95 or so? celgene i think has messed up a lot of people. i do think the science works in this space, and i think we can own names like am again and gilead here. what do you they with the board? power pitch? >> what show are you on for the past 11 years? >> happy anniversary, by the way. >> happy anniversary if you like the science, you have to buy the people who service biotech. >> how about acquisitions? what happened to acquisitions last year? >> and there's still all that cash on the balance sheets i think on some of the big farm oohs does pfizer decide to make a move somewhere in the space? >> like a big move >> and will they make a move or who is going to make the move if you're looking just for the stock itself to prime minister, you're looking at a biogene, a look at

> let's move on biotech is breaking out this week as it gears up for a slew of big earnings reports meg tirrell has more hi, meg. >> biotech closed out its best week since september and it's on pace for its beth month since july 2016. a couple of things are at work this is in play. investors are wondering if every monday is going to be merger monday in the sector that will be key to watch this the coming weeks's earnings reports, pfizer, and gilead among them the second thing they're buying today is abbvie. saying its effective tax rate this year basketball 9%. analysts had been expecting 20 they're telling me investors are keeping a close eye on reports next week, amgen's in particular for similar commentary on tax benefits abbvi abbvie's quarter is boosting gilead because of hepatitis c drugs, a 32% market share. abrams calling it a positive market share all this leading biotech to get seriously close to its 2015 high here's where the warnings start to come in industry publications pointing out some of the activity in the space is causing investors to, quote, worry the sector is takin

be here, meg >> reporter: what are you going to do with the lower tax rate money?t's very exciting, we can have more cash, we can invested in our r&d and expand manufacturing capacities to support r&d. i think it's great >> reporter: you announced today some increased investments in both cancer and in your drug dupixint, cancer adding a billion dollars with the investment with sanofi that's a crowded class with a lot of drugs on the market already. how are you going to compete >> there may be a lot of talk in the crowd, but it's pretty early going in immunooncology. we're starting to bend the curve a little bit in the fight against cancer we're really still way early in the innings, i think there's a lot we can do. we have a lot of technology and biology and a great product we'll be submitting we think to the fda this quarter we hope it will be approved this year and we should be off to the races. >> reporter: if there are multiple regimens on the market competing with each other, do you compete on price >> you know, we're a company that always feels that price sho

the group has rallied 3% meg terrell has three names to watch before the torch is lit. meg?> reporter: that's right, mel it's the biggest health care investing event of the year, 9,000 attendees, and those are just the ones who can fit inside the building there's much more happening inside the conference. what to watch? deals. monday morning is prime time for m&a announcements. we've seen in previous years deals announced like shire's acquisitions at multibillion dollar valuations. many are questioning whether there has been enough time to digest the tax overhaul for big companies to pull the trigger on m&a. the week will also bring q4 guidance three stocks to watch are celgene which kicks off the conference monday morning. that stock had a tough fourth quarter after the company revised its 2020 forecasts lower. celgene is something of a bellwether for all of biotech. many said that scare drove the more generalist investors out of the space. another one to watch next week will be shire. that company, the buyer in two of the biggest deals announced in previous years. the stoc

elaine. >> meg, thank you. >>> for more on the frigid weather we turn to meteorologist pamela gardnerour cbs boston station, wbz. pamela. >>> elaine, record cold once again for the sunday morning burlington, vermont, 20 below zero. in boston, we tied the record which was 2 below. and forecast highs for monday, little milder. we'll have high temperatures finally above freezing from showing to minneapolis, philly right on the dot, freezing. boston, high of 35. and, more warmth, building acrossing the south. the jet stream will retreat farther to the north as we get towards the second half of the workweek. that means miemd milder tempera thousands, running 10 to 20 degrees above average. have to get through a winter weather advisory. across the midwest and ohio valley, that any where from st. louis, indianapolis, pittsburgh, philly, you have advisory through monday. talking snow, ice, freezing rain, and, also some rain farther to the stout. but the wintry mess here, that will move across, the midsection of the country through monday evening. so, about a quarter inch of ice accumulation c

meg oliver takes a look back at the year in health. >> president trump declared the opioid crisis, a national emergency. drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for people under 50 in the u.s. the american heart association revised its guidelines for high blood pressure. the new threshold is 130 over 80, replacing 140 over 90, which means nearly half of adults in the u.s. have hypertension. a game change ner the treatment of multiple sclerosis. the fda green-lighted ocrevus. >> just slowing down the progression. if nothing else, it, lows you to keep doing the things you're doing longer. >> reporter: cartee removes a patient's t cells, then modifies them in the lab to treat cancer cells. >> this is a brand new way to treat cancer. >> they reported a sharp rise in cancer sale cel -- cancer cells in gen xers. >> i didn't even know young people could get colorectal cancer. >>> a mother had the first boy delivered from a transplanted uterus. >> there was something so excite being this. because the patients are so excited. >> a team of doctors repaired a faulty gene in a human em

so what )s meg whitman up to no?>> tonight at 6:00, no longer an hp or ebay, so what is meg whitman up to now? also, disoriented and wandering around the east bay. the river otter found shot by pellets. the search is on for the shooter. those stories and more, coming up on our 6:00 news cast. >>> two black bears hurt in the southern california wildfires are examples of a medical breakthrough. the pads of the feet were so badly burned they couldn't standed, and one was pregnant. burns take months to heal, but a vet came along using fish skin and attached them to the bears' pad. apparently the collagen in the skin speeds up healing. within weeks they were back in the wild. >> that's fascinating. >> that is so interesting. >> that veterinarian school at uc davis is apparently incredible. >> one of the best in the world. >> i seen some traffic on the bay bridge there. >> some heavy rainfall right now from vallejo to san francisco. put a track on this, moving into contra costa and alameda counties, continuing into oakland

meg oliver has details. >> reporter: in his first interview since admitting to an extramarital affaireric greitens denied allegations of blackmail. >> there was no threat of blackmail. there was no threat of a photograph and blackmail. >> reporter: greitens admits he had an affair with his hairdresser before he became governor in 2017 but he says it was consensual. >> there was no hush money, no violence. >> reporter: audio recordering by an affiliate which has not been verified by cbs news shoes an unnamed woman, the governor's alleged mistress admits to her husband of the affair. >> comedown stairs. i want to show you a proper pull jupp. i knew he was being sexual and i still let him. he used some sort of tape, i don't know what it was, taped my hands to these rings and put a blind on me. >> reporter: she then scribe d the blackmail. >> he said, you're never going to mention my name. >> reporter: at 43 greitens is the skong youngest governor in the country. he proudly painted himself as a familiarity man during his campaign. >> i'm a navy s.e.a.l., a businessman, i'm a native "misso

for "nightly business r i'm meg terrell in san francisco. >>> there's been a big push by silicon valleyo move into the very large and very lucrative health care industry. theodore boza has that angle tonight. >> this year more than 20 million americans are predicted to be using smartwatches. many of them will be using them for more than just telling the time. they will be tracking how many steps taken, how many calories burned and resting heart rate. could a smartwatch one day save your life? apple is trying to find out. the tech giant is teaming up with stanford medicine for a first of its kind research study that will use the apple watch to detect irregular heart rhythms that could lead to stroke. it's not just apple. other big companies like alphabet, amazon and facebooke to remake the health care industry. a few reasons tech is moving into the space. one, it $3 trillion industry in the united states. two, it is ready for innovation and disruption. and three, these companies know consumers and have the scale, data and reach to deliver. in recent years their involvement in the health

meg oliver reports. >> reporter: days after a massive snowstorm's stinging temperatures continued sunday from south carolina to maine -- >> i never anticipated we'd get this cold and stay this blue for so long. >> reporter: -- new york city issued a cold blue for the homeless and shelters added beds. >> it's really been very demanding on us, and then you think about those that we serve. it's a matter of life and death literally for them on the streets. >> reporter: in dorchester, massachusetts, flames at a five-alarmt fire burst out of a home in a block of ice. firefighters frosted over during the fight. in the nation's capitol, power outages and ruptured pipes are delaying the start of classes monday at howard university for at least a week. >> you don't want students to go there and start freezing and take away from the learning environment. >> reporter: the cleanup could take days. in boston, major on stijor obst, streets that have turned into rivers with floating ice chunks. with gusting winds at more than 100 miles an hour, new hampshire was the coldest on saturday. >> right now we'

rallied 3% for a strong start to the year meg has three names to watch before the torch is lit. >> that'sight, it's the billingest health care investing event of the year, 450 companies present 9,000 attend ees and those are the ones who can fit inside the building. there's much more happening around the conference which sets the stage for the rest of the year for the industry. so what to watch deals. the weekend before the conference or monday morning prime time for m and a announcements. in previous deals we've seen deals like shire in 2015 and a2016. all at multibillion dollar valuations many are questioning whether there's been enough time to digest the tax overhaul for big companies to pull the trigger. the week will also bring major company updates. q4 results early and give longer term guidance, three stocks to watch, celgene which kicks off the conference and that stock had a tough fourth quarter after the company revised the forecast lower. it is a bellweather for all of biotech. another one to watch is going to be shire, the buyer in two of the biggest announces to jp morgan in

meg oliver for cbs3 "eyewitness news". we will continue to monitor this nor'easter. kate bilo will have the latest at 5:00. be sure to wake up with us tomorrow morning. we'll closely be monitoring this bitter blast and tracking the snow. you can catch us half an hour early starting tomorrow at 4:00 a.m. >>> authorities in bucks county investigate wagon caused a driver to lose control in shopping center parking lot and then crash into a ross store around 8:30 this morning at the levittown town center on levittown parkway and route 13. officials say the driver was not hurt. ross is closed while crews determine the safety of building. they hope to reopen sometime today. >>> noel word what sparked a fire at this housing complex in sicklerville, new jersey much the building located at williamstown aerial and jarvis road is still under construction and no one was inside at the time. firefighters coping with frigid temperatures and water freezing on their equipment. this is the same development where fire happened in septemb september. >>> the city of philadelphia is hoping

meg terrell on the new innovations being made by pharma and biotech companies. but first, bertha coombs. >> reporter: i'm bertha coombs. 2018 will be another year of change and uncertainty in health care. here's what to watch. one, m&a, as in mergers and antitrust scrutiny, will be front and center. regulators flocked to the big insurance mergers saying they would hurt consumers. will they block cvs's deal to buy aetna? nonprofit hospita are gearing up for big deals too. they've approved more mega mergers as other play defense. two, amazon will impact the health care supply chain, whether or n the online giant gets into the pharmacy business. the scrutiny over price willing keep pressure on pharmacy benefit firms to hold down costs and prove their value. three, obamacare won't go away. doug jones' win in alabama makes the math even tougher for republicans to get enough votes in the senate for full repeal. but the trump administration can still make big changes at the edges, especially through state waivers on plan benefits. the lead-up to 2019 change in enrollme

meg terrell, "nightly business >>> the dow advanced to 25,574. nasdaq added 58. the s&p 500 was up 19. that means it has risen seven of the first eight trading sessions of this new year. >>> and that will do it for us tonight on nbr. i'm sue herera. thanks for joi us. >> thanks from me as well. i'm tyler mathisen. , absent. >> this is "bbc world news america." funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. >> planning a vacation escape that is relaxing, inviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. you can find it here in aruba. families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm, sunny days, cooling trade winds, and the crystal blue caribbean sea. no

for "nightly business rt, meg terrell. >>> let's turn our attention to those pricing plans meg just referenced. will other companies offer installment plans for rebates? vincent chan is a senior analyst at bernstein. welcome, good to have you with us. let's start with the idea that a medicine's cost might be adjusted by how well it performs. is that something that's really feasible? >> i think that's actually something we're starting to see a little bit more of over time. i think it's potentially an effective way to facilitate access. payers. i think we'll see more of it as we see more motion towards more innovative pricing plans, especially for these high cost drugs. if we think about the arguments around drug pricing, one of the areas of debate is the idea of how can you better align the price paid to the value that's delivered in te hea care. and rebates or some sort of outcomes based pricing, tying the price to the outcome achieved, we've seen a few examples already in the united states, novartis has a cell therapy for cancer that was recently approved, and the price there is $475,000 per

meg oliver. >> reporter: it's a good time to be a frequent flyer. >> i get on my flight and go where't worry about it. >> reporter: it being safety. there were no fatal commercial passenger jet accidents in 2017, according to two studies. >> aviation has learned from its mistakes and is an increasingly safe form of travel. >> reporter: the only deaths were from crashes involved cargo or turboprop planes. on new year's eve there were two small plane accidents including one in costa rica that killed 12 people. experts attribute fewer deaths and accidents to high levels of airline safety and some good fortune that say there's no room for complacency. >> reporter: there are more commercial flights now than ever and nonfatal were up this year including cases where plains couldn't stop at the end of the runway. experts are also concerned about passengers, checking laptops and other electronics with lithium-ion batteries which could ignite an in-flight fire. >> it may be too great for the fire extinguisher capability of the baggage department. >> reporter: president trump highlighted the fi

meg whitman, the former ceo of hewlett-packard recently stepped down. she could jump in. i could easily see that deck getting shuffled. i want to ask you about state, one ofur them is marijuana. what happened? guest: that remains to be seen. we have seen colorado and other states deal with legal hot with some degree of success and failure. here in california, voters have spoken clearly on. in the puddingbe to see if they can roll this out in a rational way. , i am in favor of legalized marijuana, but practically speaking, there will be bumps in the road, and i expect to see those. is the host of kabc.rive home," on tell us about the show. guest: it is that afternoon drive when the freeways look like the arteries of someone who eats a block of cheese for dinner. we tried to talk about the top stories of the day, and keep people informed and inner change when they drive home from work. host: if people are interested in hearing your show and are not in los angeles, can they do that? guest: they can. we are on kabc.com host: happy new year to you. [captions copyright national

louis prosecutor and mounting pressure to resign, elaine. >> quijano: meg oliver, thank you. vice president mike pensce visited egypt and jordan this vice president mike pence visited egypt and jordan this weekend, before arriving today in israel. the trump administration's controversial decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is dominating pence's mideast trip. seth doane is in jerusalem. >> reporter: good evening, vice president mike pence's visit here is prompting very different reactions from israelis and palestinians following the trump administration's announcement that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. posters are up around town welcoming mr. pence as a true friend of israel and he will be meeting with israel's top leadership. but there will be no meeting with the palestinian president who is furious with the u.s. for, in his view, taking sides. in neighboring jordan today king abdullah told mr. pence he worries that moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and thus recognizing as the capital of israel could destabilize the r

cnbc's meg tirrell with all the latest hey, meg >> reporter: hey, scott. >> happy new year. >> happyr to you. >> you guys kick off this conference, a tradition, celgene monday morning and you gave us the only deal news we saw over the weekend. $1.1 billion acquisition of this private biotech company that not many people knew tell us why this makes sense. >> first of all, it's a hematology play. >> second, it's a highly unmedical need-mile fibrosis is a rare cancer and at the same time up until now there's been one fda-approved drug ever for the disease. the product that we acquired through the impact biomedicine deal actually works for patients who have progressed where they have no other therapeutic options for the disease, and it also rescues patients who get the standard of care so we think we've got a very nice market to come into. highly underserved it's a hematology play and, of course, that's celgene >> the deal is poe tonksly up to $6 billion more including sale goals. there were some concerns earlier with this. is there a risk it doesn't get through the fda? >> there's alway

there are reports of crowded emergency rooms and treatment shortages all over the country meg tirrellre with a look at how much worse this flu season could get, meg. >> reporter: hey, kelly, it is shaping up to be potentially be a worst one than we've seen in several years. we spoke to an e.r. doctor at stanford yesterday who said they're getting clobbered. he says this feels like the worst flu season since the 2009 swine flu. if there there's a couple reasons why it's appearing so bad this year. first, the strain of the flu a more severe one, h3n2. the flu vaccine isn't looking as effect ive as in recent years we talked to a doctor from the nih said it's looking 30% effective. in better years it's 60% effective at protecting people from the flu public health officials recommend everybody who can get a flu shot, right now adults about 43% last year of american adults got their flu shot. 59% of kids. and so that is pretty big business for the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the flu shot of those, sanafee is the largest maker of the flu shot delivering 70 million doses to the

>> meg, thank you. mr.frazier, appreciate you joining us i was going to ask in light of everything that's happened with drug prices in the country the last couple years, we reported amazon has looked at getting into the pharmacy business do you think amazon's entry could be good for consumers? and would you embrace that as a drug delivery model? >> well, i don't know exactly what amazon has in mind. that's in the drigs side of the business we're focused on our business bringing new innovative differentiated medicines to market for conditions like alzheimer's and important conditions like cancer so if that's a more efficient way of getting drugs to patients, we would be in favor of it. >> as we think about drug pricing, of course -- oh, sorry, go ahead, kelly. >> sure, i was just going to quickly ask as a follow-up to that is there something broken with the drug distribution model l in this country as it currently stands >> what i would say about the drug distribution system in our country is that the rebate

meg, one could say, this is an initiative by three companies. why should the broader universe care? how significant will it be if 1.1 million employees of these three companies can suddenly have more transparent, high-quality, cheap health care, something people across this nation are desperate for? >> i think there are two things at play here, stephanie. really, it is the companies that are involved here. they say they're going to be creating an independent company that is going to be free from profit-making incentives and constraints. while they are starting with their own about 1 million employees, each leader of these companies talks about potentially expanding this for all american health care. warren buffet calling health care costs a hungry tapeworm on the american economy. jamie dimon and jeff bezos saying in a statement while introducing this today say they hope they can help all americans. amazon is the key focus on the market among health care investors today. they've weighed on all areas of the helalth care sector in term of potentially coming into the place and impactin

. >> also, meg, just on your beat, there had been some reports that there would be interruptions to fluonitoring you're saying not true >> no. it sounds like the flu is going to continue the federal flu monitoring the reports getting from states and counties there was some concern as the severe flu season goes on we wouldn't have the cdc monitoring it but they are continuing with the activities even as other things are not going on. >> all right good to know thank you, meg meg terrell at h.g we'll have b of a's moynihan and schwartzman and bridge water's ray dalio and a lot more that starts tomorrow on "squawk alley. >>> facebook's announced plans to rank new sources by trustworthiness in an effort to battle misinformation. theres a lot of controversy around this and other measures that it and alphabet are taking, private search engine duck duck go ceo tweeted, "promoting trustworthy news sources is a reasonable idea. relying solely on crowd sourcing to determine trust, though, on making trust scores individualized are both poor implementations that will create more negative unintended

>> quijano: meg, thank you. for more on the frigid weather we turn to meteorologist pamela gardner of our cbs boston station wbz. pamela? >> elaine, record cold once again for the sunday morning. burlington, vermont, 20 below zero in boston we tied the record which was two below. and forecast highs for monday a little bit milder. we'll have high temperatures finally above freezing from chicago to minneapolis, philly right on the dot freezing but boston a high of 35. and more warmth building across the south. the jet stream will retreat farther to the north as we get towards the second half of the workweek. that means milder temperatures. we'll be running by thursday 10 to 20 degrees above average. but we have to get through another winter weather advisory, across the midwest and the ohio valley where from st. louis, indianapolis, pittsburgh to philly you have an advisory through monday. we're talking snow, ice, freezing rain and also some rain farther to the south but it is a wintry mess here that will move acro

meg tirrell will be there.he gets ahead of the trade on jp morgan's health care conference next right here on "halftime. >>> all right. welcome back to "halftime. jp morgan health care conference kicking off monday me meg tirrell wilt be there, she joins us been she his to the airport. >> this is a huge conference, really setting the stage, taking the temperature of investors in health care for the year ahead this is a huge conference for deals, off over the weekend, or monday morning, if the companies can keep the deals under wraps that long. you see a lot of big deal announcements. in previous years we've seen shire make two big acquisitions, $5 billion acquisition in 2015 of course, last year, takeda bought ariad for $5 billion. people wonder if the tax overhaul has had time to be digested by the big companies in order to pull the trigger next week on a big deal we'll be watching that company also do a lot of guidance and early reporting of q4 results, there we'll be watching celgreen, always the first compa

britain's prince harry is to marry meg and mark on the nineteenth of may it wins a costal an experts say that's going to add at least off a billion pounds to the u.k. sluggish economy already much advice is going on sale commemorating the royal wedding. no one does royal pageantry better than the british and the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle will be the last top level royal nuptials for years to come millions of romantics around the world will be watching when a royal pair walks down the aisle at windsor castle on may nineteenth but lots of people will just want to be nearby even if they can't attend the ceremony based on the wedding of harry's brother william in two thousand and eleven the country can expect about three hundred fifty thousand additional visitors next may the heart and garter the hotel office of the historic castle isn't this a painting thrilling times and a ringing cash register. it means everything we're all really excited by for myself the staal for. local people of wins a really really excited so we're looking forward to is going to be a massive boost

meg oliver has details. >> in his first interview since admitting to an extramarital affair, missouri governor, eric greitens, denied allegations of blackmail. >> there was no threat of blackmail. no threat of a photograph and blackmail. those things are false. >> greitens admits he had an affair with his hairdresser before he became governor in 2017. but he says it was consensual. >> there was no hush money there was no violence. >> news broke last week. audio recordings obtained by the cbs affiliate, which has not been independently verified by cbs news appear to show an unnamed woman the governor's alleged mistress admitting to the affair to her then husband. >> she went on to describe the alleged blackmail. he stepped back and i saw a flash through the mind fold and he said, you're never going to mention my name. otherwise these pictures will be everywhere. >> at 43, greiten is the second youngest governor in the country. democrat turned republican proudly painted himself as a family man during his campaign. >> i am a navy seal. i am a businessman. native missourian. but most impo

is woodstock the right name, meg?n't know there are more business stuts over here than you probably have seen at wood stock joining us now, of course, the biogen ceo in an interview thank you for being here. >> it will be a good year, an eventful year. health care is such a big part of the gdp, and, therefore, the political scene and the worry of does the engagement of governments all over the world i would say the biggest event is the tax law that we are analyzing nowadays a lot of noise on all the topics, but we embrace and we approach 2018 with a good level of optimism. >> are the tax overhaul spur m&a in this space. how is biogen looking at the impact of its own business and whether it will influence whether you are look to make larger purchases >> we are working at closing now the loop for 2017 and getting ouract together on what will b the year -- impact of the tax law. it takes a little bit of time to see the plus and minuses there are provisions to be made. this is very positive. it may still have m&a activity

. >> meg, thank you.rell back at headquarters. >>> there's been plenty of talk about deals to come, so we thought we would ask our players to play matchmaker here. who do they think would make the perfect match? grasso >> the market tells you more often than not where the target will be. bluebird has been out there a as a potential takeoff target i think i'm going to say pfizer blue democrat bird is the next one, and i think it's gilead that takes them out. look at gilead, and 12 sometimes multiple >> is celgene a partner? would they be an obstacle? >> i don't think so. >> guy >> me or dan at t tesaro has had a -- what's the point? better to buy these stocks when they're down than to try to pay up for them. i think pfizerless the comes in, they have a ovarian cancer that works. >>> let's get to mike in austin to break this next one down? >> not necessarily some kind of a match, but allergan, two times the average daily call volume, the most active. over 2,000 of those traded for an average so these folks

meg oliver has more on the big chill. >> reporter: stinging temperatures continued sunday from south carolina to maine. >> no one anticipated it would get this cold and stay this cold this long. >> new york city issued a code blue for the homeless. shelters open to any one in need and they added 450 new beds. ceo of new york city rescue mission, craig mays. it's been demanding on us. and life and death for those on the streets. roim airlines resumed flights after thousands of cancellations. a walter main break at jfk airport sunday created another mess. in dorcester, massachusetts flames at a five alarm fire burst out of a triple decker home frozen in ice. thick icicles weighed down power lines as firefighters frosted over during the fight. in the nation's capital. power outages and ruptured pipes are delaying of start of classes at howard university for a week. >> don't want students to go, start freezing. takes away from the learning environment. in boston, an obstacle. rivers full of floating ice chunked. with gusts of winds more than 100 miles an hour. new hampshire mount washing

back over to you >> meg, thank you. meg terrell.ome back, some stocks to watch as we continue the countdown to the opening bell. plus, we will talk market strategy with morgan stanley's ruchir sharma. he has some predictions. as we head to i abreak, take a look at the u.s. equity futures. continuing to gain ground. dow futures now up by 51 points above fair value s&p futures up by just over 2.5. the nasdaq up by 14.5. "squawk box" will be right back. jake! today, you're recognizing two promotions. hey kids i'm home. what do you want for dinner? hers to manager, and yours to grownup. with blue apron, any night is a chance to see what cooking can do. >> welcome back to zwauk box we have some stocks to wauch this morning let's start with under armour. it was down braided to sell. the firm reversing its stance of just two months. the analysts saying that the brand's risks are more like reebok than nike, and that there's no fundamental recovery in sight that stock is down by about 3.7% just this morning. albauba's founder jack ma says th

grand coalition because we convinced it wouldn't be right for democracy in germany and we consider it meg legend to let the far right or you have to you become the leading opposition party with us and for the second time in two months cain at will be locking horns with s.p.d. party leader martin schultz on sunday as he bids to convince party delegates to vote no grow closer to his grassroots support kuna believes this is the only way for the s.p.d. to regenerate after damaging years into local governments. the finnish president and for me he is the kind of politician who hopefully certainly shaped the future of this party. that they tried to influence a very talented upcoming politician he's still young and everything lines ahead of him i think something will become of him. even pas members who support the idea of a grand coalition have high hopes for canucks political future. impose a t.v. and put in the most positive senses of politics junkie he breathes politics but at the same time he's matter of fact and stands by his opinion and he definitely has a big future. cannot became a member

his nucle bigger and powerful than the one kim jong-un says heasdi lowest number ofashes and death megod time to be a frequentflyer. it being safety. there were no faye aseng jet accidents in 2017 two studies. >> aviation has learned from it safe form of travel. >> repr: deaths were from crashes involved cargo or turbopropewyear's eve there o 12all plane accidents including people. deaths to safety fewer and some say there's no complacency. >> reporter: there are more commercial flights eve and nonfatal were up this year including c couldn't stop at the end of the runway. thpassengers checking laptops a other e lithium-ion fires. >> it may for the fire extinguisher capability of thepartment. >> reporter: president trump tweet. meredith and michael scarboroug. experts believe the trend of increased safety wil, cbs news, >>> well, "cbs this morning," the latest in robotics from mit and harvard. >>> plus, what happens to all of those cardboard boxes that ship all of your holiday deliveries. we'll take you to is site where they're reborn and we talk to two actors on the new hit movie "the

elaine. >> meg oliver, thank you. >>> vice president mike pence visited egypt and jr. arriving in israel. the trump administration controversial decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is dominating pence's mideast trip. seth doane is in jerusalem. >> good evening, vice president mike pence's visit here is prompting very different reactions from israelis and palestinians following the trump administration announcement the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the the capital of israel. posters are up around town. welcoming mr. pence as a true friend of israel and be meeting with israel's top leadership. but there will be no meeting with the palestinian president who is furious with the u.s., for in his view taking sides. in neighboring jordan today, king abdullah told mr. pence that moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem thus recognizing it as the capital of israel could destabilize the region. jordan supports east jerusalem as the the capital of independent palestinian state. the u.s. would support a two state solution if israelis and palestinians agree

according to meg hillier, it hasn't.lly what the government was doing in trying to create a market, it was almost destroying the market because it was killing off a lot of smaller suppliers of public services and allowing these very big oligarch companies, that were very good at winning contracts, to run public services that they were less good at. we also found there isn't enough transparency. you can sort this out. if you want to play in the public sector market and you are using taxpayer's money, you ought to be open. so you shouldn't be able to hide behind commercial confidentiality. the government can say we will make it open? and they should. when we talked to four of the big players, they were willing to do that. the other thing is the civil service capability. we all know that it's really isn't there. it is unrealistic to think we are going to get rid of outsourcing. over half of the service is now provided by the tax payer, this is not, you know, tax relief or benefits, pensions, but the services, over half of t

here's what frazier told meg tirrell in response to that. >> we continue to work with congress and theion to try to do what's good for patients there are real issues out there for patients there are real issues for our economy, jobs, innovation. we continue to work effectively with the administration as well as with congress on those issues >> were you surprised or insulted when the president got personal >> no, i can't say i was surprised. you know, i made my statement and the president made his statement in response. >> checking on merck stock, it's down more than 6% since president trump was elected. it's slightly in the green in the premarket. >> thank you >>> cnbc's coverage of the jpmorgan morgan healthcare conference continues today special guests are the ceos of johnson & johnson, allergan and on march 28th, cnbc will host healthy returns, investing in healthcare innovation. it will feature top government officials, ceos, investors go to cnbc/.com healthy returns for tickets. >>> still ahead, the must-reads and a dramatic finish. alabama clinching the national title with an ove

our own meg is there, and she has a very -- i'm going to say very special guest, meg.it away >> he is very special. david, thanks so much. joining us is alex gorsky, the ceo and chairman of johnson & johnson. >> great to be here with you >> one of the big themes of the conference always is m & a, is deals, and of course, with the tax overhaul just passed, you guys have $16 billion in overseas cash. what do you plan to do with that analysts are indicating maybe pay down deblt but are you going to be investing, hiring, doing research >> it's great to be at this conference about ten years in a row i have been out here. what a way to start the year you hear, it's not always about deals but innovation, new technology, and all the reporting out of the previous interviews you have done, you have heard about breakthroughs, cures we couldn't have imagined, you know, 10, 20 years ago these things are actually hap n happening in our industry so it's a great time to be here johnson & johnson, we're always looking for great new therapies. we try to be agnostic about whether we sour

meg terrell issing f following e money. >> these three are teaming up to create an independent company that they say will be free from profit-making constraints and incentives essentially what they say is going to lower health care costs for their own employees. but it's clear from the announcement today, while it doesn't have a ton of details, they are talking about more broadly than just trying to create something for their own employee wo warren buffett calling health care costs a hungry tape worm on the american economy bezos and dimon making comments about broadening this to all americans if this works out. amazon has been the specter hanging over health care stocks with questions about what they're going to do in this space. we have asked every health care ceo when they come on our network in the last six months take a listen to what we were told recently. >> amazon, if they were to look at sort of coming in as a retailer or coming in and taking care of cash patients, we think could actually make an interesting partner for us, but i'm not -- i can't comment on how interested they

meg oliver, cbs news. streaming on c-b-s all access.. i had a chance to interview sonequa martin-green -- >>> star trek discovery, chapter 2 is now available for all. saniquais best known for her portrayal on the walking dead. i asked her what drew her to her new role on star trek. >> there was sort of a synergy happening where i was dwrun to it and it drew to me as well. and i love a lot of things about it. i love the -- i just love the essence of "star trek." i love what it's always represented. i love the positive change it has already done. because it has diversity over the decades. that alone is so powerful and invaluable. and then, to see this particular story be told in such a deep, profound, microscopic, yet macroscopic kind of way. and then to know they were going to champion diversity, in a new way. by having me as a lead. by having a female captain, by having the first openly gay officer. i just knew this was something i wanted to be part of. it was so much more than just a good story on paper. >> they are currently available

meg oliver is at la guardia airport to break down the numbers. >> it's a good time to be a frequent flierflight and go where i'm going and don't worry about it. >> it being safety. there were no fatal according to two new studies including airline consultant 270. >> aviation has learned from its mistakes. >> the only deaths were from crashes involving cargo or turbo prop planes. new year's eve there were two small plane accidents including one in costa rica that killed 12 people. >> there's no room for complacence y. >> including cases where planes couldn't stop at the end of the runway. experts were also concerned about passengers checking laptops and other electronics with lithium eye onbatteries. >> the lithium eye onfire may be for t f >> president trump highlighted the improved numbers in a tweet staying since taking office i have been very strict on commercial aviation. meridith and michael scarboro travel every year. >> the study found 35 people died on the ground from airline accidents. >>> so it's pretty cold outside right now. duh. you know this. a lot of people using space heat