six years ago after she blew away everybody, judges and millions of fans with her angelic voice on merck's got talent. >> now, after five albums including a gold and platinum

merck has been a company that's done a lot of deals in the past.ow are you looking at the environment right now for m & a? >> i think it's a good environment. i think there's been a change and i think it gills us an opportunity to possibly acquire good companies with good pipelines at a reasonable price so we can create shareholder value. >> another huge issue in the pharmaceutical industry of course is price. i want to ask about the hepatitis-c regimen. you priced it at a significant discount. tell us about that decision. is this a new normal for you guys and maybe other people in the jury? >> well, the way we have looked at pricing is we've always said we want to optimize profitability and patient access. here in the united states there were so many patients who weren't being treated under the current regime. we said let's bring a product to market at a price where we can treat not only most well-off americans, but treat the less economically viability people, because this is a communicable disease, it's a big problem, we need to make sure that w

alex merck and calvin lee. front seat passenger cameron are graduate this spring. the parents issued a statement calling the plea bittersweet and wrote while it relieves us from having to endure the endless pain of tt days of trial it drives home the cold hard fact that our son died at the hands of another human being. sentencing guidelines for this type of case are between 3 months and 8 years, that is not binding. ellis could face up to 10 years in prison, on each count. >>> ellis sentenced june 3rd, determined by montgomery circuit court judge how much time he gets. we posted the statement in entirety on our wusa9 app. >>> ex-navy seal that shot osama bin laden is facing drunk driving charges. robert o neil was found asleep in a running car parked outside a convenient store. when they woke him up, he appeared confused and intoxicated and failed a field sobriety test. >>> prince georges, a 9-month- old bare by girl was killed. why her unlicensed daycare investigators, the medical examiner says savanna wright died december 2nd from a non accidental blow to the hea

greg: just two high lights from the career, a special message may be merck. >>> hi, hello. rosanna: you just came in from the west coast? >> yes. i did. >> how did you sleep? >> not very well. i am working on it and pinpointing why i have insomnia. i am working with merck to say i suffer too and here is a wonderful website to educate yourself on why you are not sleeping. i can fall asleep and then up every two hours. it is not because of my brain is saying anything to me. i have nothing going on up there. rosanna: you are not solving the world's problems? brain, awake brain and asleep brain, i think of all the technology and the information that we are being overloaded no one is sleeping any more. greg: what is the solution, if any? >> i am trying different kinds of hygiene things, cool bedroom, go to bed at the same time, put devices away an hour before going to bed. the blue light is activating the awake brain. rosanna: what we heard -- >> someone hits you over the head. meditation is huge. rosanna: a helped my sleeping. have you noticed a change? >> it helps a little bit

that includes stanford, ucsf, merck, bristol-myers squibb and genentech.a lofty goal getting all the top minds of immunotherapy on the same page. we are talking about 40 different labs and 300 researchers trying to work together. kiet do, kpix 5. >>> the fbi was reportedly approached by professional hackers who helped the agency break into an apple iphone used by the san bernardino gunman. according to the "washington post," the hackers showed the fbi a software flaw in the phone that was previously unknown. they were reportedly able to crack a personal id number without setting off a security feature that would have erased everything. the post says the fbi paid the hackers a one-time fee. >>> government health officials are saying that the zika virus could be much more serious in the u.s. than they thought previously. the obama administration says it wants nearly $2 billion for research and prevention. they proved additional funding on tuesday but not that much. one man who got the virus in brazil described it. >> rash, redness, itching, 110- degree fever

6 cancer research centers including stanford and ucsf are on board as well as pharmaceuticals like merck, bristol-myers squibb and genentech. currently cancer research is siloed it scientists and companies protective of their work. the institute would help academics negotiate with industry to bring the therapy to the patient and to the market faster. the institute's ceo jeff blue stone said having lived in a world of individualized solo research i can say that the thinking is different. it's about how we can all do something bigger and better together. immunotherapy is one of the major advances of therapy's treatment to attack cancer cells. parker has asthma and allergies and has family members with auto-immune disorders. that's a preview of the big announcement. expect the official word to come today. kiet do, kpix 5. >>> protestors plan to protest in front of city hall today at noon. they are protesting conditions that are inevitable about skyrocketing rent in the area. rent in san jose went up by 54% between 2010 and 2015. protestors say that they will end up on the streets if the cit

their merck are you news reports the victim was a 19-year-old man. police say several suspects walked up to the young man, shot him, and then drove off. this is the city's 12th 12th homicide of the year, last year at this time san jose had eight homicides. >> residents in a neighborhood find out a fire hydrant outside a burning townhouse failed. the fire department says the two nearest hydrants didn't work during the fire and says the water district is responsible. the president of the home owners association says neighbors repeat lid reported the problem. >> there was a fire right here. and here's a fire hydrant right here. and look. look at this. does that make any sense? >> nobody was hurt but two pets were lost in the fire. the red cross is helping four people burned out of their home. no word yet on what sparked the fire. >>> ahead, putting training into action. it's just a drill but could mean the difference between life and death during a disaster, how neighbors in san francisco today prepared for the worth. >>> also coming up at 5:00, whale-w

cancer research centers including stanford and ucsf are all on board as well as pharmaceuticals like merck, bristol-myers squibb and genentech. this is a big goal trying to get the top minds in immunotherapy to work together. we are talking about 40 labs, 300 different researchers all trying to get on the same page. kiet do, kpix 5, stanford university. >>> all right. let's take a look at the big board right now and see how the market is doing. looking good. the dow is up about 185 points. >>> a new report sheds light on how the fbi was able to get information from an apple iphone used by the san bernardino shooter. according to the "washington post," professional hackers approached fbi investigators and showed them a software flaw in the phone that was previously unknown. they were reportedly able to crack a personal id number without setting off a security feature that would have erased everything. the post says the fbi paid the hackers a one-time fee. >>> north carolina's governor wants lawmakers to change part of a state law that critics say limits the rights of lgbt people. governor p

and also with merck.espite the fact that they were first to market, their sales are not growing as fast as bristol-myers. $3 billion in sales. 50% of growth in the oncology business. how important is it to you to get this product launch right? cancer therapies are a focus. we increasingly locate sources in this area. a very promising area. it has the potential to make a big difference for patients across a number of cancer types. we believe that we are in a leading position. with one of the broadest portfolios in the industry. we have 50 clinical trial programs ongoing at the moment with nine new investigational medicines in the clinics today. our -- as far as our compound is concerned, we have two indications for bladder and lon ung cancer. we hope to launch the indications this year. as far as bladder cancer, this will be the first cancer therapy for this type. they are very optimistic for the franchise. hans: on those new launches, does that mean you will be spending more on marketing? if you do, will

efforts on merck's pipeline. yesterday on "closing bell," he said he understands why companies opt for inversions. >> it's really important to recognize why companies seek to do tax inversions, and that is the current u.s. system of taxation makes u.s.-based companies simply uncompetitive. >> frazier said the treasury's new rules do nothing to fix the source of the issues. everybody says, by the way, in all of their defenses of the inversions, please fix it, please fix it, please fix it. but at the same time, there's this whole new idea that it's sort of un-american that you can't leave. but the un-american idea that i think everyone's referring to these days is the rule of law, the fact the laws are changing in front of our eyes. >> well, getting used to it. what jeff immelt said was important. we're in favor of comprehensive tax reform, even if it raises our tax rates. when you get people stepping up and saying that, that shows you, look, this is not just about me wanting to pay a lower tax return. this is abou

remember the terrible crash from last june along a windy two-lane road in north pa toe mack. 18-year-old merck and calvin lee died in wreckage. today police revealed ellis' car dipped in a culvert and went airborne traveling 110 feet. the vehicle frame ripped apart by two trees and flew through the air. i landed on its hood and slid to a stop in a rational driveway. prosecutors went on to state and i quote -- "mr. ellis was driving the vehicle at a bare bones minimum of 65 miles per hour." this on a road with a posted speed limit of 35. >> this is a tro difficult case. is a tragedy. we will ask for jail time. we believe he should be held accountable. kevin: to that point a judge could sentence samuel ellis to up to 20 years in prison. both sides the defense and prosecution say that will most likely be in the range of three months to eight years in prison. live in rockville, i'm kevin lewis. maureen: thank you. the man who admitted carjacking an ambulance and causing a deadly crash will spend 16 years in prison. a judge sentenced isaacson today. he pleaded guilty to d.u.i., motor vehicle mansla

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. >> if you look at the j & j multiple, merck's multiple, you get the $280.f you throw in bristol-myers, you have a price of about 350 this company was doing incredibly well, where there were aspirational numbers for brent saunders. brent wanted to run the combined company clearly. i was desperate to get him to break the deal. i felt it capped him. >> at the same time you will never have a takeover premium in shares of allergan again. that's gone. >> allergan will be a buyer of companies. they have no debt. they'll pay cash. that's what brent will do. we can talk about valeant and how good valeant is doing, trying to buy it, can't, frozen, because of the teva deal. a lot of people feel the treasury is looking back and trying to destroy the structure of allergan, not true. but the deal -- >> but they were trying to destroy this deal in particular. that raises a broader question in terms of what treasury is doing and whether that will undermine treasury in the future. by seemingly overstepping the boundaries of what people expected. >> which makes people wonder

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the creator says it is helping dogs sign with google and merck.an $3000 for a post. >> if they are looking for a dog on a bed pose, i know one, my dog. quite an actor >>> the owner of out west farms posted this on his facebook page showing the son standing next to an alligator 15 feet long, weighing in at more than 100 pounds. they were hunting gators when they spotted it in the pond. they used a farm engine to get it out. it had been eating its cattle. >> we have earthquake here but no alligator. >> we have to head out to the ballpark to invite the giants home for their home opener. >> we'll be there. >> i'll be there with alex savidge. enjoy the heat. san francisco close to 90. you guys know having grown up there, it's rare. >> maybe we should invite alex. >> i need someone. >> alex is fine. we'll figure it out tomorrow. >> that will be cool to have you out there. >> i want to go. i want to go. everybody to the ballpark. >>> live from new york city, "the wendy williams show." >> my girls are always turned out. i'm giving it to you straight, no c

coming up at 6:00, we will bring you more from the merck family. >>> ellis will be sentenced on june 3rd. we posted the family's statement in entirety on the website, you can read it also on the wusa 9 app. >>> a young person is recovering after being stabbed near the rhode island avenue metro station. a large fight involving teens started outside the station, and ended with a stabbing about a block away. it happened after 1:00, in northeast, we have not heard of arrests yesterday. >>> investigators in prince george essay the death of a 9- month-old baby at an illegal home daycare in temple hills, they say charged 43 year old beatrice manning with the crime. manning made bail and released this afternoon. >> reporter: it's heart breaking to look at the pictures of the beautiful 9- month-old little girl who according to investigators died from a blow to the head while in the care of that unlicensed daycare operator. savanna wright's mom said she was the perfect baby. according to charging documents, in perfect health when she was dropped here at the home of beatrice manning, at 7:30, d

six years ago after she blew away everybody, judges and millions of fans with her angelic voice on merck's got talent. >> now, after five albums including a gold and platinum album and three billboard top ten hits, jackie evancho is all grown up and reinventing her sound, branching out from classical roots to mainstream pop and we're so excited. >> and with a voice like yours, you've trained it to do anything you want it to do. >> yeah, but i'm not branching and doing only pop, i'm actually just doubling. >> the video is so cute. what song will you sing for us. >> i'm going to sing apocalypse, it's my recent single and it will be on the new album. here's our jackie. fixing to find you in this treacherous terrain there's landslides and land mines it's jungle that we made you're not the king of it, i'm not the girl that you'd die for none of us is better than the other none of us is better than the other it drops blood, the sweet sting but it's a poison that we know, i thank god you found me and god knows how i'll let you know are we a kingdom worth saving, is it a shadow i'm chasing i know

left a high school drinking party driving down a windy road, ellis crashed. 18-year-old alexander merck and calvin lee died in the wreckage. at the plea today, prosecutors said mr. ellis was driving the vehicle at a bare bones minimum of 65 that speed caused the car to dip in a culvert and go airborne for 110 feet. all the while ripped aid part by trees. that vehicle landed on the hood. and then slid across a residential driveway. >> this is a troubling and a difficult case all the way around. it's a tragedy. >> by pleading guilty ellis faces 20 years in prison. both parties acknowledge the teen's sentence will likely be between three months and eight years. today's plea deal barely lasted 15 minute. they will expose new information in samuel ellis' sentencing that is set for june 3. we are live in rockville. i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. kimberly: on the heels of massive inspections on metro, drivers for the district circulated buses are sounding an alarm of safety. sam ford is live on a circulator bus. we trust your bus is a safe one, sam. i hope so. we are at nailor road and good hope

i next gas is chris merck, supports the lot a she suppted the law by using a facebook post.es this make me a pirate? dress like a football player and does thima me russell wilson. facebook banned her fo week. christy merrick is witus now. welcomto the program. >> hi, t thanks fohaving me. stuartas a a possible facebook banned you because y cld be accused of making fun of people? >>ell, i didn't know there was a blot against that. stuart: that's true. did thetell you why they banned y? >> they actually st me some notifition saying there was in my photos. they sent about nine photos and told me i needed to move e, but some of those photos were picture of cs and me at e republican convention, things like that. no. stuart: explain at youere doing dressed up as airate and pain i am dressed like pirate, do this make me a pirate? what is the relence to the north li bathroom issue >> i was ting to show the vas dedefere between jusinking you're something or idtifying a und game versus actually be not found in. stuart: you support e north carolina bathroom law? >> i support but theove

another gathering in los angeles that our cameras have spotted east of the crenshaw neighborhood in la merckr work would you hang in the louvre museum? what would it be? and this calls for a judgment on your part. but you're his biographer. what do you think prince would have said, hang this in the louvre? >> you know, one thing about prince is he was always looking forward. he never wanted to look back. it was part of the changing of the name thing. we're moving forward. so if you asked him that, he would say, the next album. right? because the next thing is the greatest thing that i'll ever do. if he thought something he did in the past was the greatest thing he ever did, that would be a failure, right? so it always has to be the next thing. so whatever next album or tour he was working on, that would be the thing that he would want in the proverbial louvre, until the next album is about to come out. >> let's talk about the influence prince had, especially on his younger fans. this sounds funny to say. prince's hair was hugely influential. >> absolutely. >> and when he kind of made his deb

not just bristol-myers but pfizer and merck. all of them are coming back right now. >> you own it? and calls in eli lilly. i like this sector. i know the ibb is one i'm still more concerned about, the biotech world. we know the political landscape. >> i love politics. >> i love those names as well. >> we got a lot of biotech reporting next week also. we have amgen, gilead, cell g. i think the sector is looking g some growth money from tech is going into biotech. >> all right. dunkin' brands? >> where's josh? >> we're going to talk to him. i should have held up -- >> the food correspondent to come in here. it's a coin toss. >> vf corp. >> yes. >> i think that will be a good one. juniper? already gave you an idea it wasn't going to be announced. >> everybody kind of wondering, okay, enterprise, what is going on? >> you have to talk about cisco. the question is if cisco is eating juniper's lunch. >> i think pete and i would agree that cisco is. >> all right g stuff. i'll see you tomorrow. thanks for watching. "power lunch" begins right now. >> welcome to "power lunch," everybody. we h

another gathering in los angeles that our cameras have spotted east of the crenshaw neighborhood in la merckin the louvre museum? what would it be? and this calls for a judgment on your part. but you're his biographer. what do you think prince would have said, hang this in the louvre? >> you know, one thing about prince is he was always looking forward. he never wanted to look back. it was part of the changing of the name thing. we're moving forward. so if you asked him that, he would say, the next album. right? because the next thing is the greatest thing that i'll ever do. if he thought something he did in the past was the greatest thing he ever did, that would be a failure, right? so it always has to be the next thing. so whatever next album or tour he was working on, that would be the thing that he would want in the proverbial louvre, until the next album is about to come out. >> let's talk about the influence prince had, especially on his younger fans. this sounds funny to say. prince's hair was hugely influential. >> absolutely. >> and when he kind of made his debut with an afro, that

hans: i have a question, that may keep merck king up at night, it looks like they were able to breaktion. who is able to reverse it? is that even metaphysically possible? guest: i think it is. there is a lot of noise in the inflation data at the moment, given you have had some of the biggest year-over-year moves in oil in history at some of the biggest currency moves. both of those reflected the headline data. in thelook at core pce u.s., it has been reasonably stable and taking higher. even if you look at core measures of inflation in the eurozone or japan, it's not great, but heading up, not down. some banks are dealing with an inflation problem, that our view it is more likely you will see in deflationary pressure than deflationary pressure -- you will see inflationary pressure, rather than deflationary pressure. guy: the headlines are dominated by deflation. we talk about the dis-inflationary story that kuroda is trying to fight against. blackrock and other houses saying, get ready for this. you are saying a similar tune. is the market set up for the reemergence of inflation? gue

former ceo which merged with merck in 2009. also a cnbc contributor.e you this morning. i want to talk politics, inversions and the pharm industry. i want to start with valeant because you know joseph poppa. you worked with him at pharma sia. >> very well. >> you taught a class at yale. >> yes. in fact, we've done that for a few years. >> so i assume you're a fan. >> i am a fan of joe. he did a great job. he launched celebrex, which is a block-buster. he is a very smart guy and a good exec. >> can he be valeant's lee iacocca? >> he can if he gets the space and time to do it. it seems there is a lot of pressure on the company. people looking for quick results. it's not easy when things are not totally known and totally understood. it takes time just to understand what the issues are. >> do you think mr. poppa has even had time to try to get his arms around that? is he taking a flyer on this? jim cramer said yesterday it's good for valeant that they got an experienced ceo and that says something. but that was not a huge sign of success from him. that it'

did you have some guilt that you want and she did not push merck it almost seemed like you were completely shocked. that is what we did. given the keys to a car. we were doing okay for ourselves. >> i think you win a new car. unbelievable future, probably. >> one year ago to the day i moved out of my mom and dad's house. i did not know where was going or what i was going to do. you can always come home and work on the farm. that is some difference there. rosanna: i know you will be singing in a few days. >> yes, ma'am. greg: i think that your friend >> not really. i was terrified about that. a huge honor to say there. greg: are you nervous about that? >> i have saying the national anthem in the key of a. i am a huge fan. i am so pumped to be able to do that. rosanna: what is the first thing you're going to do? i know the next few days are going to be crazy. when you have the first downtime, what do you want to do? >> i'm going to get into some comfortable clothes and i'm going to get a ball into boxes of my favorite cereal and lay in up and do it again. we will see you in new yor i hope we

alix: good stuff and we will talk to the merck rory economist and he said the doha meeting is unlikelye at 4:00 p.m. ♪ lisa: this is breaking news. david: here are the markets just moments away from the release of the fed's beige book, the report that comes out a times a year. -- eight times a year. closely at inflation and wage growth and a breakdown of the regions. let's go to erik schatzker in washington. signs of inflation, that is the key take away from the new beige book. the fed said prices increased modestly across the majority of its 12 regional bank districts. modest may not sound like much, but it a lot better than generally flat, which is how the fed banks-- characterized february. modest economic growth since the last beige book, seven districts as opposed to three come a significant improvement. this

pfizer, merck, health care as a sector having strong performance. 2%. 1.6%.f the leading gainers on the dow. shares up 1 1/2% for apple. but dragging the dow lower, consumer discretionary a problem in the sector. nike, for example, off more than 3%. ge down 2 1/2%. cisco off .8. more "coast to coast" after this. >> most dangerous man alive right now in my opinion. [applause] running around, didn't you read history books. you don't want nuclear proliferation. you want fewer, not more nuclear weapons. neil: most dangerous man alive. i'm sure like me, is joy behar talking about fox news radio host tom sullivan? no. she is talking about donald trump. enter mr. sullivan on her thoughts. >> which is a good point. usually as talk show host our buddy rush limbaugh, for example, has been most dangerous man in america for decade or two. neil: now there is leadership swap? >> yes. and, certainly no news flash to me. of course she thinks anybody who doesn't agree with her point of view is most dangerous person. i think, it is interesting to hear other people's views. i d

merck has shown promise in fighting melanoma.ent jimmy carter is the most high profile patient to have taken the drug. a drug developed by bristol-myers could prolong survival by 3.2 months compared with a chemotherapeutic drug. re-engineer the patient's t-cells. the most successful treatments may be combinations of the drugs. science first stumbled across the human bodies first cancer defenses when doctors noticed tumors shrinking after patients developed infections, stimulating antibodies to fight cancer were not so promising so radiation, then chemotherapy became the most favored method despite the sickening side effects. here is the argument. the therapies are so new, nobody knows how effective they will be at preventing relapses. they have only been proven effective for advanced forms of cancer. cost may also be an obstacle to widespread use. that is your quick take and global business report. for more stories, visit bloomberg.com. tracy: we will have more "bloomberg markets" coming up next. ♪ david: and david gura. tracy: i

mer merck, the american express, sisco, and several other companies a couple years ago fired an average of 23,000 people that were qualified, and they were in this program. and they wanted congress to pass hb1 visas so they could replace them with people who would work for practically nothing. my brother, who was disabled at work, went back to college, got his mechanical engineering degree at age 61. he can't find a job anywhere. and when the company that he worked for found out that he had a degree, he therefore is now eligible to work, so they terminated him. so he's stuck with no disability payments, and he's stuck with over $100,000 debt in education. you guys got to stop letting these companies fire american workers that are qualified with the skills and bring them in, and the programs you're suggesting have been around for 40 years. boy, way to reinvent the wheel. have a nice day. >> i hope that you have a nice day, too. and rather than reinventing the wheel, what we're trying to do is make sure that the programs work. again, i think you're voicing a lot of the same frustration th

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a company like merck has a new drug for allergies, a tablet that may see upside.ohnson and johnson has a slew of products over the counter as well. we also like cvs and kimberly clark because everybody knees kleenex and you have to go somewhere to buy the stuff. there are a lot of ways you can take advantage of sneezing and the suffering that comes from allergies. hopefully won't be is bad this year, though. >> the other part of the cvs walgreen kind of story is people go into buy tissues and might walk through the store and might buy other thing, right? >> right. and certainly that's -- a little economically sensitive too, but, yeah, it would seem to be showing some improvement over let's say a not so great last year and the back of the store for walgreen, pharmacy is, walgreen and cvs have been holding up pretty well. so good economy, bad allergy season, they probably can do a little bit better. >> one last question, some picks, we talked about health care more broadly. it looks like you're going towards i want to say the parks makers. but hips and valves and th

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