he signed a contract with merck once merck decide which made in the cells that would have been worth up to $1 million to him personally had it been executed by shortly after he signed it nih heard and got wind that he was selling a cell and sent out chief investigate of frud and abuse and call shriver to investigate. he resign ised under pressure from stanford an spent many years in the -- in weld witherness and can put it so accurately when he said that he became public this really is a great tragedy this is a man who at the height of his powers brought about his own down fall. that's front phage of "the new york times" on a sunday in march of 1967 where one of the headlines says -- nih investigator by the united states -- he spent many years redealing his reputation if you talk to anyone today what they will know about is the limit. very important discovery of cellar mortality. they will not be aware probably of his really difficult interval in mid-1970s. and also won't be aware of the tremendous contribution he made to getting safe, mini cellar factories into circulation for makin

merck is second largest drug maker in the u.s.ackers encrypted files on the computer network and now demanding money to decrypt files. >>> merck isn't alone a pittsburgh area hospital and health care system is recovering from a sign's tack. we are told intrusion was linked to the other hacks report add cross the globe some patients were forced to reschedule medical procedures, since the commuters were down. officials say they are using same protocol they were using during a disaster. >>> horrific bus crash is caught on camera in detroit but as we show you this video, everyone survived. >>> wow. a crash happened last month but authorities just released surveillance video they blame a teenage driver for speeding through a stop sign. >>> police in paterson, new jersey are searching for a suspect who stole a street sweeper. it happened just before 2:00 this morning as worker was changing a garbage bag, suspect went on a joy ride for a half a mile crashing into several cars before running away, worker was not injured but there is exten

drug maker merck and europe banks and metro systems have been affected, as well as shipping giant merck. oil company giant there, even british advertising agency wtpp. now, stocks in some of those companies ended the day in red. let's bring in fox news gregg with the very latest. gregg. >> it is big, dangerous, digital stuff, and it is spreading around the world. it looks like it is a replay of the may cyber attack which saw in 150 countries hit and were held ransom for a bitcoin payment. power grids, energy suppliers, banks, and government were targeted. officials there were quick to say russia was to blame. the country has been at war with russia for the past few years. except then the biggest russian oil supplier was hacked too, as well as russian financial institutions. then it spread to western europe including a huge shipping, a company in france. now the digital virus has crossed the atlantic, the u.s.-based global merck drug corporation has been targeted, plus, big law and health care firms. department of homeland security saying in a statement that it is monitoring reports of c

merck has a big presence in our area. in this attack hackers encrypt ed files on the computer system, and they are demanding money to decrypt, the files. the sign's tack started in ukraine this morning, and it has quickly spread all around the world. in a statement merck said we confirm our company's computer network was compromised today, as part of the global hack, other organizations have also been affected. we are investigating the matter and will provide additional information as we learn more. >>> today's day six of the corruption trial of the philadelphia district attorney seth williams. bar owner michael wise was back on the stand for more questioning. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden was in the courtroom all day long and in center city right now with more on the day's testimony, joe, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, lots of testimony here from the stand and judge's patient as peers to be wearing thin, during the cross-examination, of the michael wise, the judge checked his watch in less than e

drug giant merck says its global computer networks were hit.lso affected, danish shipping giants, a russian energy giant and ukranian government ministry. similar to the "wannacry" attack in may, today's hack takes over computers and demands digital ransom in order for owners to regain control. it's not clear who is behind it. >>> the white house has issued a warning to syria as the trump administration says they have potential evidence that syria is preparing for another chemical weapons attack. last night press secretary sean spicer released a statement saying it identified potential preparations and also called our the syrian president bashar al-assad saying if he conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons he and his military will pay a heavy price. at this point the white house has given no evidence backing the statements. >>> a chaotic morning commute for passengers in new york city after a subway train derailed in manhattan. 34 people had minor injuries. the derailment caused a power outage and suspended service on four li

. >> let's talk about the hometown i live in, merck.ke one part of veeva, where they do marketing communications. i thought, well, they do the -- how the tests are going. this is far bigger and you're doing a lot more. describe what you're now doing for merck. >> we do a variety of things. we have 24 applications altway from merck helping them automate their field force and sales reps and helping them automate their clinical trials and documentation they need to collect for clinical trials and helping them in the regulatory area to register their products for sale. that's what the excitement of veeva is about. last quarter with had what i call a 30/30 quarter with more than 30% growth and 30% profit. that's by having a lot of products we can sell to customers and being their strategic partner and thinking about it long term. that's veeva in a nutshell there. >> we had a lot of biotechs on and you said you worked with some of the bio-techs. if they're starting new, it's right to go with veeva than the old way, right? >> absolutely. when

merck in france and in denmark, also, companies reporting they had been hit by this attack. here's what the department of homeland security had to say. they said they're monitoring reports of cyber attacks and coordinating with our international cyber partners. we stand ready to support requests for assistance. upon request, they provide support. information shared with dhs in part of these efforts is confidential, so the u.s. government offering its support here, but one of the problems e case of to come up in a sib r ransom wear where the hackers lock down the data or steal the ta ta and demand payment in r to get it back is that companies often do end up paying. that's why ransom wear continues to exist. if companies didn't pay, there would be no ransom wear. someone is paying because companies view tha data as so important and so expensive the rememb replicate they thin paying the hackers is a better deal. that goes against better advice from professionals, but those professionals aren't the same people tasked with running businesses. >> so how damaging is this attack to

. >>> drug maker merck is working to get its computer system back on line. it is one of 80 companies affected by a massive sign's tack. merck has a big presence in our area. hackers encrypted files on the computer system. they are demanding money to de crypt their information. the sign's tack started in ukraine, this morning, and has spread around the world. >>> well, we are following a developing store right now, human remains found by a construction crew in nicetown eye tioga chopper three over the scene in the 1700 block of west atlantic street. a construction crew doing demolition discover the partial remains while digging at the site. authorities are now investigating. >>> south jersey beach where three people died in 2012, will remain opened, the sand, gave way beneath those beach goers, as they were walk ago long waters edge on hereford inlet beach in north wildwood. new jersey judge refused to close the beach, dismissing the request made by the family of one of the victims. instead the judge wants the department of environmental protection and the ci

merck said it would pause new enrollment in two late stage studies of the immunotherapy drug used in combination with other treatments for blood cancer. the stoppage was at the recommendation of an external data monitoring committee to allow more information to be collected, to help understand why some patients died given the therapy. it is approved for lung and skin cancer. merck was unchanged in the regular session at $64.39. >>> and shares of coharris biosi senses plunged after the fda failed to approve a drug that helps prevent infections for cancer patients who are on chemotherapy it finished down nearly 24% at $15.73. >>> a ruling by the supreme court today could have wide ranging implications for the pharmaceutic the court's decision speeds up the time the copycat versions of by yo logic drugs can get to market. it's an expensive class of medicines that can boost sales for the drug companies. biosimilars are copycat versions of those drugs. meg terrell is following this story and joins us here on the set. always good to see you, meg. so, what was the case that the supreme cour

they presented amino therapy followed by merck, astrazeneca, robber and pfizer and that seems like antant one, it has been a mover this month on data dropped ahead of the conference, we could see more movers next week, inside testing if the immun no therapy from merck and bristol-myers. >> that will be a big one to watch. another space people are watching closely is this other form of card t, this includes taking patient's bones out of their body modifying them with cancer and giving them back. this has been advancing juno, kite and bluebird, they're up ahead of this conference, finally, puma biotech had a big move this month based on data. >> i'll say 100%. >> a big move understated really because they had a positive fda panel vote on the breast cancer vote. we will see a competitor from raush early next week. >> you want to trade some of those names, the ones meg mentioned? >> kite has been a favor amongst the guys that i cover. we seen the tail of a binary tore, to say the least, it seems as though the wind is at their back. i guess the question is, how much has the rhetoric subsid

will be lost >> we're talleying the name as we get them, new ones come up every hour the latest is merck british advertising joint, a russian oil company. is there any thread, anything you can glean from the fact that it's seemingly random companies from various countries it does remind us of what happened with the ransomware attack in may. >> right this is the problem that u.s. government has in jevenlt tgene. the fbi and other agencies will work to attribute this attack to the persons behind it. the ransom attack didn't result in a big financial gain or the people behind the tack, given the vdiversity of the victims, it's thoord understand who the actor is based on the motive if were a financial scheme, we would understand that may be a criminal group if it were to influence our diplomatic or defense policies, quo understand that it might be a nation state but this appears to be more what i would characterize as cyber vandalism. and it's hard to understand from that point of view who would do go through the time and effort to create this kind of impact. it could be a nation state that

charles: a company as s sophisticated at merck.it was reported, cyber security stocks were down, this is before tech fell apartment i think that underscores that businesses seem reluctant to spend money they need to spend and governments too, it feels like they are waiting for someone else to spend the money or for us to have a cataclysmic event where we say, this should be a priority. >> you are right with that i tell you of 61 anti-viral solutions on the planet, only 4 were able to detect this attack of ransom wear. just a, amazing penetration across the spread of this attack and who is behind it really, a lot of people are asking. on this particular attack. no one knows yet, what they do know is that they are using very sophisticated methods to hide their tracks. it is tougher to find them, they are getting better and better. charles: one thing working out for them, they haduge success. they get money via bitcoin, bitcoin closed 25. it is up 1000% in value. it is currency of choice for ran -- ransom hijackers. >> this is an inte

merck has global locations in ukraine, which appears to be the epi center of this attack. banks, shipping companies. the ran some wear also hit the biggest oil company in russia. this appears to be the same type of attack that calls all sorts of problems around europe last month. >> video evidence tonight of atv riders terrorizing from maryland to dc and now virginia. we want to show you later one of the more brazen moments caught on camera this weekend at national harbor. >> route big group of riders as it always is. they were up here right on route 1 here and they just kept going here and after they got through the intersection, a number of them jump right there into the middle there. that is the bus lane right there. so in the new video that we're about to show you, it looks as if cars just got out the way. >> illegal a tvs and dirt bikes took over route 1 in arlington and into alexandria sunday. video from gas station cameras shows the riders go speeding by one after another. >> i'll say, at least 100 of them. >> they got into the bus lane and continued their aggressiv

world's biggest companies have been hit including advertising giant wpp, us pharmaceuticals giants merckussia's biggest oil company rosneft. also affected is the world's biggest shipping line — denmark based maersk. it's ports in new york and newjersey have been closed as well as europe's largest harbour in rotterdam. that means businesses face delays in moving their goods around the world. philip ingram is the chairman of global intelligence insight and a former british army intelligence officer — hejoins us from birmingham. these reports seem to become more frequent. what should businesses be doing to protect themselves? the best place to get at vice is on the national cybersecurity website in the uk. followed asic rules. back up data frequency. do patch ups on time. make sure the executable files, the files are injected the virus are limited only to certain people with the right authorisation and they have the right neck and is to make sure files should not be executed are executed. if it was that straightforward and easy, why are not businesses doing it? there are not businesses doin

and merck has been hit by an attack.tweeted we confirm our company's computer network was compromised as part of global hack. researchers says there is no kill switch that would limit the attack and while drexel university says that the virus is now spreading on its own. >> in a lot of cases you either clicked the link or open an attachment. >> what we see today is a self propagating piece of malware, meaning if you connect your computer to a network impacted you will be affected. disconnect your computers and i'm pads from the network to minimize further spread of the attack. >> this is what all home users and companies need to do. >> make sure your anti-virus is up to date and the software is up to date and the operating system is up to date. >> the video says that criminals keep using ransom wear is effective because we leave our severals vulnerable. meantime the fbi and department of homeland security is investigating the latest attack. back to you. >> independence blue cross is tightening the limits on new opioid pr

pharmaceutical giant merck became the first u.s. company impacted by the rent somewhere. companies that receive a message that the data is held hostage in held hostage come scrambling until payment was made. in this case currently under dollars and that the point. they share something in common last month. both were spotted by using digital tools allegedly created by the national security agency and link to the west. they did not perform necessary security package for easy target. >> we have built up over the years the huge digital data. we haven't been keeping about today. that has led to the government killing again and again. >> a microsoft spokesperson says we are continuing to investigate and take appropriate action to protect customers. >> are they doing enough to deal with the threat? >> we see it again. they don't have the necessary antivirus in place for something like this. they need to have some sort of thing in place. >> i wonder if this makes consumers afraid to do financial transactions. this makes people more worried. >> would have to start to pay attention

data from merck, pfizer and incyte, next generation of immunotherapy with bristol-myers and merck.ing earlier with celgene and roche. other big stocks to watch on monday. sara? >> important conversations. thank you for studying it up, meg tirrell at headquarters. >>> let's send it out to sue herera with an update. sue? >> thank you, sara. trump administration asking the supreme court to reinstate its ban on travelers from six predominantly muslim countries. the administration says the nation would be safer if that policy is put in place. >>> four people were killed as hundreds of protesters took to the streets of kabul in the wake of wednesday's extremist attack that killed at least 90 people and injured more than 450 others. protests turned violent when the demonstrators tried to get closer to the presidential palace. >>> 36 people died in addition to the gunman during an attack on a casino in manila. most died of suffocation as the gunman set gaming tables on fire. he fleed with $2 million in gaming chips before setting himself on fire. >>> and prince william meets at the headqua

it's being studied with merck and bristol meyers.hey had good response rates on everything from bladder cancer to melanoma to nonsmall cell lung cancer to carcinoma of the head and neck, it fell 6% on the news. the stock had run dramatically for two weeks going into the conference. i think the expectations got ahead of themselves. personally i view this as a chance to do some buy as there's very deep pipeline. i like the company very much in real stock sense it's a winner. then there's juno therapeutics. saw the stock fall nearly 11% on monday. problem, juno gave us a safety and efficacy update on their treatment for nonhodgkins lipoma. there were 8 instances in the study and the company had to shutdown it's adult leukemia program last year due to patient deaths caused by tox sisty. so it's something they're worried about. the drug does look good but juno stock has been asleep for months and i'd rather own a biotech we can get excited about. finally there's roche. it presented phase 3 trial data on the big breast cancer treatment. in

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companies like fed ex and merck are affected.ns were hit and there's ed that some of them have paid the ransom. because of the e-mail address was shut down, they're not going to get their access back to their computers, shep. >> shepard: thanks, trace. workers in michigan first assembled what would an iconic american sports car on this day in history. but when family members forget, trust angie's list to help. [ barks ] visit angieslist.com today. (baby crying) (slow jazz music) ♪ fly me to the moon ♪ and let me play (bell ringing) (audience cheering) >> shepard: on this day in 1953, chevy built the very first corvette. workers assembled it by hand in flint, michigan. the price tag, $32,000 in today's money. the corvette's speed considered fairly average and the company considered scrapping the two-seater. so chevy beefed it up with a v-8 engine to compete with the ford thunderbird and workers put together america's sports car 64 years ago today. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking news changes everything. here's neil

based pharmaceutical giant merck in new jersey.now to weigh in on this attack. hi, max. i'm wondering it looks like the folks using that nsa software or hacking tools, however you want to describe it, that somebody stole from the nsa. is it same folks? >> we don't know if it is the same folks, but certainly same underlying tool they're using to spread. one of our challenges in cybersecurity, once tools like this out in the open, almost anybody with a basic level of capability being picks them up, reuse them, that is exactly what we're seeing here. david: in other words, somebody with no association with the first attack a month ago, could have somehow downloaded information about those tools that were used for that attack and used them again? >> absolutely. in fact the initial, what people initially seen off the new attack, it looks more sophisticated. looks like someone with a little better capability. frankly was more prepared for this attack. david: max, likely to be individual or group of individuals or perhaps a sovereign nati

and merck was the first major u.s. company impacted by the ransomwa ransomware.his before demanding a payment, this time, $300 in bitcoin. security experts say this attack is similar to last month's attack. systems that did not perform necessary microsoft security patches made for easy targets. a microsoft spoke person says we're continuing to investigate and will take appropriate actions to protect customers. neil? >> tracee thanks very much. now a crack down on laptops. not that you can't use them but you'll have to go through hoops from a lot of countries, better than 100 coming from there to here. could be a matter of time before it affects those here going through. fred, the problem is lab tops could be a problem and used for other means including nefarious ones. so this cut back on their use. what we don't know is whether this will be an outright ban. we do know it involves better than 100 countries and better than 325,000 passengers what do you think? >> two thoughts on this. it appears the trump administration came across fairly compelling intelligence on

ukraine and russia appear hardest hit, but it spread quickly, to hospitals in pennsylvania, merck pharmaceutical and nabisco. cyber security experts believe they may have found a kill switch for the swoft weaoftware they're still trying to activate it. it has been hit with a fine of $2.7 billion. the eu says it favors its own shopping. the european action is unlikely to affect how google operates in the u.s. >>> there's a controversial new monument on the grounds of the arkansas state capital building. inscribed are the ten commandments. the aclu and others say think will sue. they say it is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. supporters say it honors the role that the commandments have held in u.s. law. >>> an agency in charge of u.s. border security says between four and app eigeight companies get contracts for prototypes for the wall. >>> and a have pictures removed. >> this is hanging in at least five trump clubs, a "time" cover. that's not what ran on that date. >> so you see the fake has a photo of the future president and celebrates the success of the president. but the real cove

and here at home it froze up hospitals and companies like merck and nabisco.e and in russia are trying to activate a kill switch for this. >>> the main allies in syria is going after the white house. a threat came after the white house revealed there may be potential evidence that the syrian military is preparing for another chemical weapons attack. but russia and iran are now calling that threat from the white house a provocation. abc's cecelia vega has more. >> reporter: inside the oval office, cameras invited in to see the president and members of his national security team. >> congratulations on your great victory. >> reporter: huddled for a phone call with the prime minister of ireland. no mention of syria or that ominous late-night statement from the white house press secretary, saying the united states has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack. sean spicer warning, if mr. assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price. >> the goal is at this point not just to s

the newest attack affected merck. experts warn even if victims pay up, they may not regain access to systems. >>> mercer county teacher now charged with sexually assaulting a nine-year-old student. robert is a fourth grade teacher at franklin elementary school. he worked in trenton public school since 1997. >>> human error, that's what officials say caused the subway train in new york city to derail yesterday. passengers were tossed to the floor when the train went off the tracks around 9 yesterday morning. a piece of replacement rail is not properly bolted down on the tracks. crews worked overnight to inspect every inch of rail to make sure every replacement part was securely attached. at least 34 people were hurt. meantime the husband of the woman killed in a crash at the hoboken terminal last fall has filed a lawsuit. 34-year-old woman at the terminal last september when a new jersey transit train traveling at twice the speed limit crashed into the terminal. family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. blamed new jersey

including merck , maersk. >> they're asking for money. >> $300 to be exact. here's what an infected computer tells the user to do. pay up in the crypto currency bit coin to get your files back. cyber attacks say the experts are here to say. and they could get much more sinister. >> you can imagine the future where maybe conceptually they are able to infect the defibrillator or pacemaker or automobile or something like this which is the ultimate ransom. >> that's a terrifying prospect. >> i think it's a nonunforcastable future. >> reporter: the experts say there was a software fix available to protect against petca. but not everyone has been keeping their it security up to date. this latest attack should be a wake up call. elizabeth palmer, cbs news london. >>> a north bay teenager behind bars tonight accused of stealing a disabled student's wheelchair. that wheelchair is worth $5,000. a surveillance camera snapped this imagine of a group of teenagers taking the chair from a windsor high school classroom. police identified one of them as a 16-year-old from san

u.s.sian energy giant and pharmaceutical company merck are just some of the private firms to have been hit. ransomxperts believe the where is using a windows loophole, once used by the u.s. national security agency. but unlike last month off virus, this one does not seem to have a kill switch, which could make it all the more dangerous. is the second major cyber attack in as many months and as with the last virus, hackers are demanding money. beenapanese firm has alkylating the cost, saying that it averages 700,000 euros. >> rising numbers of cyber attacks have been hitting firms around the world for the last five years now. the numbers of attempted hacks on french businesses more than doubled between 2015 and 16. most at risk are small enterprises, less well equipped to handle an incident. keeping the back of his key to avoiding problems. >> the attack will only impact you for one or two or three days. otherwise it is much more complicated and could impact your business for a longer time. repercussions can be huge. on average, and can cost 773,000 euros. rises to 1.3 million euros. th

executive dan moss and merck. julia: coming up, the house could start voting on dodd-frank.t next.e ♪ mark: former fbi director james comey gave his long awaited today.ny on capitol hill to shed light on his talks and meetings with president trump in just previous to his firing. three days after mr. trump dismissed mr. comey, the president tweeted that comey should hope there are no tapes conversations. comey this to this say in response. >> i was so stunned by the itversation that i just took in. the only think i can think to mind, ias playing in my got to remember every word he said. it's playing in my mind, what response be. i've seen the tweet about tapes. hope there are tapes. i remember saying, i agree he's guy.d as way of saying, i'm not agreeing what you just asked me do. mark: mr. comey referring good formererence to the national security michael flynn. he said there's no doubt that interfere into last fall's u.s. presidential election. the president's personal says he never directed comey to stop investigating anyone. includes michael flynn. speaking today response

. >> reporter: also down at merck pharmaceutical. in new jersey. even the company that makes oreo cookies, as well as this law firm that warned a people as they entered the lobby. >> you can't read any e-mails, you can't read any files. basically, your computer becomes a brick. >> reporter: the attack first surfaced in ukraine. shutting down everything from grocery stores to power companies, airports and banks. as the attacks spread across the globe, including at this giant shipping company, the thousands of targets all received this ominous message in english on their screens. your files are no longer accessible. nobody can recover your files without our decryption service. send $300 worth of bitcoin. >> they may not give you your data back but hit you again and say give me more money. >> reporter: it's similar to a scheme last month. it hit british hospitals particularly hard. that attack later linked to north korea was stopped when cyber security experts discovered a kind of kill switch. u.s. and russian cyber security experts say they may have

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>> it's a great question in fact it's merck merck's been our top pick for a few months, and it's notse they're the lack of new drug per se it's really because there are new indications for existing drug you had most recently, andrew, you remember that ken's focus was either a recent cancer meeting, and in fact their drug is showing an expansion in the overall number of tumors in which it may play a role most recent being approval in may for lung cancer. first line lung cancer utilizing catruda in combination with chemotherapy and it's our belief that the overall expansion for that opportunity last year sales were $1.4 billion $3.6 billion this year, could almost double by 2020 and that drives earnings per share which we would expect to be $3.86 this year, probably up to $4.91 and those are new estimates out from a note that we have out this morning so merck would be our top pick, in part because of the expansion of opportunity for catruda and lung cancer. >> how concerned are you about the recent reports that merck halted two trials in multiple my lem ma because of an imbalance of de

cyber attacks reported around the world today the latest is affecting the pharmaceutical company, merckantime, the food giant, mondelez, says it's possible it was hit, but it is not confirming a a cyber attack. britain's wpp, the world's largest advertising company characterizing it as a ransomware attack. >>> it is day two soft martin shkreli trial in new york city the defense asked for a mistrial, blaming the media for a jury selection slowdown. but the judge denied that request. >>> and a jury began deliberating in the case of five men accused of involvement in the murder of russian opposition leader, boris nemtsov. he was shot late last night in -- late at night in 2015 as he was walking across a bridge right outside the kremlin. >>> and queen elizabeth is set to receive an increase in the official funding that she receives each year the sovereign grant will be 82.2 million pounds or about $105 million. that's an increase of more than 6 million pounds the increase is derived from a formula based on the financial performance of the crown estate. that is the news update this hour now

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the latest virus to affect russian banks, even pharmaceutical giant merck. the ukrainian government said the attack shut down its computer network but nothing vital was affected. that encrypts data and holds it for ransom. >>> an assemblyman from san f n francisco wants to boost electric vehicle sales. tang will announce a bill to do just that happening at the civic center electric vehicle charging station right across from city hall. >>> all right, up next, an effort to outmuscle amazon at its own game. the retailer's prime pantry program has thrived, target is introducing a rival option with some pretty competitive perks. a look at what might give target the edge next. cnbc/live vobox vobox >>> good morning. i'm landon dowdy live at cnbc headquarters. top business headlines, wall street will try to rebound from yesterday's losses. stocks turned lower following the decision by senate republicans to pull a vote on their health care bill. tech stocks tumbling to post a record antitrust fine on google. pending home sales falling. the nasdaq down 100 to 6146. t

corporate titans were hit, too, including new jersey-based merck pharmaceuticals, the danish shipping company, moll nar mask and the russian oil giant raz nav. who's done it? carl radberger from cyber security. what do you expect? >> the suspicions are this is a criminal motive. why? because they're asking for money. >> $300 to be exact. here's what an infected user tells the user to do. pay up in the crypto currency bitcoin to get your files back. cyber attacks say the experts are here to stay, especially ransomware and they could get much more center. >> you can imagine a future where maybe conceptually they're able to infect a defibrillator or insulin pacemaker or automobile or something like this, which is the ultimate ransom. >> that's a terrifying prospect. >> and i think it's not in the unfor castable future. >> the experts also say there was a software fix available to protect against it, but not everybody has been rigorously keeping their i.t. security up to date. this latest attack should be a wakeup call. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >>> the trump administration hope

targets included merck pharmaceutical and a hospital outside of pittsburgh where doctors could not access patient records. >> they said the surgery is canceled because the computers are down. >> companies in asia and europe an oil giant in russia and two large corporations in australia are also affected. >> one of the key things about addressing a ransom ware attack like these is to make sure we are sharing trade information with our partners overseas. >> the virus is believed to have originated in ukraine where it took out the airport power grid and atms. receiving messages like your files are no longer accessible and send $300 worth of bit coin. >> sometimes if you pay you get your data back and sometimes they take your money and move on. >> this latest attack is similar to another kidnap and ransom scheme that hit last month than was linked to north korea. channel 6 "action news." >>> jury selection continues in the trial of a former pharmaceutical ceo charged with securities fraud. martin shkreli caused a nationwide uproar when he hiked the price of a life saving drug 5,000% and refus

pharmaceutical maker merck were among those affected. the hackers are holding victims' data for ransom. experts warn even if victims pay up, they may not regain access to their systems. >>> a 90-year-old man who escaped from prison four decades ago is charmed with fraud in philadelphia. william lewis moved here after he broke out of a maryland prison in 1970. he used an ail use to apply for social security benefits. investigators say since 1991, he's selected nearly $500,000 in retirement benefits to which he's not entitled. >>> now to an nbc 10 exclusive. a man who witnessed a philadelphia police officer shoot and kill a man this month is breaking his silence. he says he was in an officer's suv with his two children, there it is right there, on their way to speak with detectives about an unrelated case. that's when officers stopped david jones for driving on a dirt bike erratically. the officer tried to pat down jones but he broke free and ran. the officer first tried to use a taser, then fired three times. >> we were sit thing in the p

. >> reporter: among today's targets, pharmaceutical maker merck, the and mare sk and the nuclear plants which to manual monitoring. >> in is a highly profitable business. we have to remember that organized cyber crime totals up to almost $445 billion on an annual basis. >> u.s. government security experts say this attack called petya was released by hackers. exploiting vulnerabilities in the windows operating system, and holding it all for ransom usually paid in bitcoins. >> they don't have to worry about what data you have. they only have to care about the fact that you care about your data. >> and you'll pay up. >> you care about your data, it's valuable to you, and therefore, the attack applies to nearly anyone globally. >> reporter: what can all of us do to protect ourselves? use long complicated passwords, mixing letters, numbers and symbols. keep your operating systems and anti-virus software up to date. don't click on suspicious e-mails or web links. experts say even if victims pay a ransom, they may not regain access to their data. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> tech gi

. >> reporter: one major step forward, just weeks before the conference, merck received approval for its cancer drug. for the first time a drug was approved based on an underlying driver of cancer, rather than for the specific location of cancer in the body. >> it's the first time that the fda has approved a therapy across many different tumor types, based on a molecular definition. >> reporter: that same philosophy led to one of the conference's major success stories, a young biotech company with a rare mutation driving cancer. >> it's almost a key in a lock phenomena. it's such a specific, dramatic effect, that the patients know it right away. they feel better right away. their symptoms get better right away. >> reporter: but delivering targeted therapies requires people with cancer are tested to see what genetics are driving the disease, something josh said doesn't happen frequently enough. >> if there's one takeaway or call to action i would love people to hear, is get your tumor tested. figure out what is making it tick so you know what is the right therapy to be matched to your

. >>> drug maker merck is working to get its computer network fully back online. one of 80 companies affected by a massive cyber attack. of it has a big presence in our region and this attack they encrypted files on a network. they're demanding money to deencrypt the information. the cyber attack started in ukraine and has spread around the world. >>> new jersey meantime will be able to make its case for legalized sports betting before the united states supreme court. new jersey has been battling for years to make sports betting legal at its casinos and racetracks but major sports leagues sued chris christie after he signed legislation. the leagues won every case in the lower courts. the supreme court will hear the case during its next term, which begins in october. >>> if you had to critique your driving, would you say your courteous behind the wheel? >> i'lls than later. a brand new survey ranks the stage with most polite drivers, our tri-state area is not in the top ten, and one state is considered among the rudist, where and why? straight ahead. >>> a construc

a little bit of cloud and merck close to coast on the south—west.e in that means plenty of heat yet again. relentlessly high 205, maybe low 305 again in the south—east corner. just the slim chance of the midlands and lincolnshire catching a shower due to lead, but they will really will be very isolated in deed. the case will be a bit more refreshing, plenty of dry sunny weather in the story from any. same in southern scotland and northern ireland, but our weather front will slip south and produce a little more cloud, but at the same time maybe some brighter conditions for the northern and western isles in comparison to recent weeks. that pushes out overnight monday into tuesday morning so, a subtle change developing on tuesday, the cloud will just arrive a developing on tuesday, the cloud willjust arrive a little bit further south and produce slightly fresher air, so made teams into scotla nd fresher air, so made teams into scotland —— made teams into scotland keeping the humility to the south not really easing up i'm afraid please. wednesday, dry h

and in the u.s., some of those included pharmaceutical giant merck, cookie and nabisco, and a fedex subsidiary. the largest terminal at the port of los angeles has also been closed for two days. a danish shipping company that works out of the port confirms it was affected by the recent cyber attack. >>> the ftc is urging anyone with a computer to back up their files at least once a week just in case. >>> bart riders will no longer have to guess whether the surveillance camera on their train works. but juliette goodrich found out the cameras may not be watching out for you as closely as you think. >> reporter: out with the decoy cameras. >> feel better that they have the cameras that are working. >> reporter: and in with brand- new working security cameras on all 669 bart trains. four cameras per train, all of them installed and ready to record. and they provide very good quality images. >> so if something happens on board a car, police can pull it, we now have video of you, we have your image that we can share with police. >> reporter: bart's fake cameras came to light after a fatal shooting o

among the american targets are the giant merck pharmaceutical company in new jersey, a major multinational law firm in los angeles, and possibly the mandelas food company, which produces oreo cookies, also in europe and asia. researchers say the attack uses a windows flaw to spread through the corporate networks, and there is one thing you can do to help keep your computer safe. >> from time to time you get that pesky reminder in the corner automated updates, click it, install those. a lot are important security updates that are going to protect you. >> yesterday's attack was similar to another attack in april that crippled tens of thousands of computers around the globe. >>> thousands of employees in san francisco are eagerly looking forward to this weekend when the minimum wage goes up to $14. >> but the hike is still not enough to keep up with the cost of living in the bay area. >> minimum wage goes up to $14 saturday, july 1st. >> reporter: saturday can't come soon enough for a lot of san francisco's minimum wage earners. right now it's $13 an hour, which means many who work in restaur

. >> reporter: also down, computers at merck pharmaceutical in new jersey. even the company that cookies may have been hit. >> you can't read any e-mails or files. basically your computer becomes a brick. >> reporter: it first surfaced in ukraine shutting down grocery store, airports and banks. as it spread across the globe thousands offing its all received this message in english. your files are no longer accessible. nobody can recover your files without our description service. sent $300 worth of bitcoin. the attack bears great similarities to a similar computer kidnap and ransom scheme last month that hit british hospitals particularly hard. but that attack later linked to north korea was stopped when cybersecurity experts discovered a kind of kill switch. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> our thanks to brian. >>> one of the newest of the wildfires raging across several western states is now burning about 65 miles east of los angeles. it was sparked late tuesday and has quickly grown to thousand acres. as firefighters worked to keep the flames away from

some of the biggest plays are bristol-myers, merck, astrazeneca and roche. slightly. some analysts saying especially in the area of lung cancer, the advantage may be looking to go to merck a little bit. bristol is a little bit weak. cowan estimates that the drugs that are pd-1s they say that market will be $32 billion by 2022 and they see bristol having a big chunk of that market. as for other movers lots moving in the biotech space. as you check out tg therapeutics, they're moving up a lot. finally, we'll draw your attention to the other attention of i mew know therapy drugs, you can see that all in the green on data updates here at asco. when you think of the stocks moving, there are financial implications but there's positive updates in the fight against cancer. pretty interesting weekend. lots more to come. we'll have the bristol-myers ceo joining us on your show. as well as others. >> thank you very much meg tirrell in chicago. we'll watch for headlines out of asco. there are usually one. apple's developer's conference is going to happen starting today.

this was especially a surprise for merck.cholesterol drugs has been rockny the past huge blow-up for pfizer. it wasn't clear that this approach to lowering cholesterol would be a successful one. merck in their release saying that thistrial did meet its primary goal of reducing coronary events. they're deciding whether to file for approval here. that may be tempering the share's movement definitely good news on the cholesterol front. >> watching day two of the shkreli trial in brooklyn. >>> meanwhile, dow down 14 s&p relatively flat. we might see cards held close to the vest when yellen speaks. >> you would think so. days ahead of month end an upward rise. >> a couple of large dow components, ge and verizon fairly weak this morning, too. i noticed ge i can't help, old habits, of course, having been part of that company for so long, nearing its 52-week low again, despite that change that is now coming in leadership. >> nobody really quite knows what it means in terms of whether it forestalls the thinking of the structure or not

in touch with merck, no more information than what's said here in the press release, but we'll followlly, back to you >> they have hundreds of the combinations in testing, correct? i mean, so, how important is multiple my low ma in that in. >> that's right. i mean, unclear, really, how much this would necessarily add to overall keytruda. they are correct, tested in hundreds of combination studies here there may be some concerns just over the safety, until we understand what drove the reports and, really, it may not be anything having to do with the drug we'll wait for more information, but certainly never good news to hear that about a study. >> of course a 1% decline in the stock. not huge, thank you. >> thank you >>> time now for a cnbc news update back to sue. sue? >> this is what's happening at this hour, everyone. the defense delivering its closing arguments in the bill cosby sexual assault trial cosby's lawyer told jurors that constant's story a new study shows 2 billion adults and children around the world are overweight or obese and suffer health problems because of it equatin

corporate titans were hit, too, including new jersey-based merck pharmaceuticals, the danish shipping company moller-maersk, and the russian oil giant rosneft. who done carl herberger: what do you suspect? >> the suspicions are that thery say criminal motive. why? because they're asking for money. >> reporter: $300, to be exact. here's what an infect the computer tells the user to do-- pay up in the cryptocurrency bitcoin to get your files back. cyberattacks, say the experts, are here to stay, especially ransomware, and they could get much more sinister. >> you can imagine a future where maybe, conceptually, they are able to infect a defibrilator or insulin pacemaker or automobile, or something like this, which is the ultimate ransom. >> reporter: that's a terrifying prospect. >> and i think it's-- it's a not-unforecastable future. >> reporter: the experts also say that there was a software fix available to protect against petya, but not everybody has been keeping their cyber-security up to date. be a wake-up call. >> mason: elizabeth palmer, thanks, liz. president trump afears have d