let's get to it now with ceo michael ward. rnoon. >> thank you for having me, kelly. >> csx, more attuned to what's happening in the eastern part of the country. a lot of focus what's happening in terms of coal numbers as well. how did you manage that 40-cent number? what are you seeing in terms of business trends, even in the weeks since you've reported it? is the u.s. economy recovering? >> it is indeed, kelly, and i have to say i think these are very solid results considering we had one of the worst winters on record, and it's impacted all of transportation, railroads, trucks, airlines, and i would like to give a sincere thanks to the dedicated, terrific men and women of csx who really worked under some horrific conditions this quarter, but to your question, we really do see this economy as being very strong. as you know, we grew about 3% despite that winter weather, and since the weather's broken we've been seeing a pace more like 10% year over year growth. >> no kidding. >> so we expect -- >> well, some of that obviously i

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let's bring in michael ward. he has a buy on gm, and $50 price target. phil lebeau is here.irst i want to go to you, phil, in the context of what has happened, and the internal documents that were revealed. >> officially gm will say, hey, both of these people have left the company, pursuing other opportunities, but let's be honest. i think you're seeing mary barra and the management team becoming much more aggressive at least in trying to convey the tone of we are going to change this company. whether that means they're going to be more aggressive with her coming occupy and speaking publicly remains to be seen. i don't think they'll get too aggressive. >> i think they'll no longer be played. >> they say not the good direction. >> the head of communications, also, by the way, mary barra was the head of human resources when all of this was going down? >> yes, her previous job was head of human resources. >> she advanced up through the ranking, but had been. >> this is just conjecture. what you're trying to send a message we are a different company, the people we will employ wi

michael ward came on "mad money" and coal is trading up.mention the secret behind what any short wants which is the epa getting more and more aggressive on their primary cargo which is coal. of which csx is more levered than the others to coal. >> amazon, too, down more than 1%. haven't talked about that in a while. in the meantime we'll see if the dow theory can hold at the close. for now let's go to bob and see what's moving on the floor. >> i want to reiterate not just the dow at historic highs but the s&p was there yesterday. the big three, dow, s&p and the midcap index. people ask why do i talk about midcaps? because that's what we talk about all day. midcaps are airline stocks and home builders. a lot of the stuff that we talk about that's not the biggest company following the midcap group and you can own that as an etf these days. notice what's not on the list russell 2000 not at a new high. not quite there yet. overseas a lot of talk about china, the chinese premier rerated 7.5% gdp growth because a lot of people felt it would slip

i think michael ward is good. >> you've been a fan. >> i have been. >> been in that job quite some timeyears has he been in. >> that long? >> i'm kidding. >> time to go. >> i don't know. time goes by fast. i can remember years ago his fight with activist back before we knew what activist were. >> the children's fund. >> children's fund. >> they played like children in the end. >> yeah, they -- >> how about google up three quarters of a percent on the titan aerospace deal taking away the drone maker we thought facebook was going to buy. >> my travel trust owns it i saw an upgrade. jeffreys. i think it was jefferys. you don't want an upgrade ahead of the quarter. that raises the bar. you want what happened with j&j where a guy says it's not going to do well. google, i don't know. i want them to buy yelp and open table. >> drone wars with facebook. >> like do you want -- why don't they buy the cia division cutting back on the drones. don't laugh. musk puts up rockets for nasa. >> yes. >> google here take over and don't spy on regular people, spy on big guys. >> drone company, the drones ar