i'm meg tirrell. check out jetblue, the airline reporting march traffic increased 9.2% from last year. the company also reporting an increase of 8% on a measure of passenger revenue, saying revenue on that metric increased about 4.5% in the first quarter, above its guidance of 3% to 4%. jetblue currently trading up just a fraction of a percent. melissa, back to you. >> all right, thank you, meg tirrell. she knows about so many things. >> it's unbelievable. >> smart girl. >> within the airlines -- >> but it had not been for a long time, since november. it's finally catching up to the rest of them. i think all these gals and guys report next week, jetblue on the 23rd, delta next week, i heard that on the 4:00 show you're going to learn a lot about the airlines, which have lagged recently, if you look. i do still like jetblue, but i think clearly, earnings next week are very important to these guys. >> american had a quick update today. i thought the numbers were good, the margins are a little under pres

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let's bring in reporter meg tirrell with the details. feel like this happens a lot when drugs go off patent and they go generic. >> it happens from time to time. it's all about life cycle managements. you're trying to extend the time patients are staying on the more expensive brand and drug. they call this is hard switch. they also call it product hopping. essentially this all came to a head in september when the new york attorney general sued actavis saying this shouldn't be legal. and basically they got a federal judge to grand an injunction to stop actavis from pulling the older drug off the market. the old drug is called namenda-ir. now they have namenda-xr that is once a day. patients should switch to that anyway, they say. the patent runs out in july. so cheaper versions are going to come onto the market then. they think if they can switch patients over to the one a day version by then, it will be cheaper to switch back in july. actavis has appealed in injunction and that hearing is on monday. it has implications for other companie

for "nighlty business report," i' meg tirrell. >>> on wall street that proposed deal helped prop up the nasdaq but the averages fell on uninspiring earnings reports. by close the dow jones closing by 85,000 at 17,949 and the nasdaq was up 19 and the s&p fell three points. bob has more on the message corporate america is sending to investors. >>> we are finally in the heart of earnings season and two clear trends are emerging. number one, earnings are dropping since companies beat estimates but second revenues are bad and getting worse. that i worse. and weak revenues are largely blamed on the strong dollar and with some justification. the dollar index rose almost 10% on the quarter. that is an amazing move. the strong dollar hurts revenues because it reduces the value of money in other current -- currencies. dupont was down 9% due to the strong dollar. dover which makes drilling equipment and pumps and refrigeration and equipment said they are down because of the dollar. and davidson said they were hurt by currency and lower shipments. these are just examples. other companies are report

meg tirrell has more. >> reporter: rhonda kelly changed the light on front porch to blue every april. their daughter, taye begangan, has autism. now 7, doesn't communicate verbally. now uses ipad to express what she wants. >> these are just normal people. they communicate differently than we do they express themselves differently than we do but still have thoughts and feelings and es just the same. >> reporter: a range of diagnoses under the umbrella of autism spectrum disorder. cdc finds it as a group of developmental disabilities with social communication and behavioral challenges while the advocacy group autism speaks calls it a group of complex disorders of brain development. >> we think it's really an interaction between genes making vulnerable to those environmental risks and then the environmental risk factors, so those things somehow acting together. >> reporter: autism spectrum disorders affect more than 3 million americans according to autism speaks and tens of millions worldwide. the prevalence is increasing. in u.s. 1 in 150 kids had autism in 2000 according to the cdc. in

amgen also with its quarterly results, lids pivot there with meg tirrell.re and news on perrigo's board rejecting that unsolicited bid by mylan. let's begin with amgen. >> a big bead on the top and bottom line revenue coming in at 5.03 billion versus estimate of 4.91 billion. company also raising its guidance, just narrowing the bottom end of it for revenue to 20.9 billion to 21.3 billion for 2015. that's up from a lower end of the guidance from 20.8 billion but raying the epps guidance to 9.35 to 9.36 up from 9.05 to 9.40. they did see unfavorable impacts from foreign exchange. amgen isn't as impacted by this as some of the multinational pharmaceutical companies like j & j. getting growth from various drugs. now on the call a lot of people going to be listening for competition coming from biosimilars to some of amgen's products. also its plans for launching some of those itself. those are generic versions of buy logic drugs. also on the upcoming advances of new drugs for cardiovascular disease. >> meg, thank you so much. amgen are higher after hours. let's

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meg tirrell joins us with some of the answers. >> autism is a diagnosis encompassed of autism disorderavioral challenges. while the causes of autism are not known, it's associated with genetic and environmental factors. 3 million americans have thought to have autism. prevalence has been increasing from 1 in 150 kids in the u.s. in 2000 to 1 in 68 kids in 2010. as for treatment the cornerstone is behavioral therapy. of course, not everyone with autism spectrum disorder needs ar or wants treatment. medications are currently limited. johnson & johnson's abilify are approved for symptoms associated with autism but nothing that gets to the core symptoms. drug companies have been focusing on genetic drivers of autism from roche to pfizer. work is still in the very early stages. kelly? >> meg, thank you very much. i want to turn to a man who holds autism awareness close to his heart, ringing the closing bell. here joining us at post nine former nbc chairman and autism speaks co-founder bob wright joining us with his grandson mattias who has autism. >> thank you. i'm surprised you're still ta