fed chair janet yellen puts investors in a buying mood, pushing s & p to new highs at the close. should her comments be interpreted as a green light for stock investors? >>> return to profit. a surprisingly strong quarter for electronics retailer best buy. but is it proof that the company's turn around is on solid footing? >>> and what did general motors know and when did they know it? regulators are asking whether the automaker reacted fast enough in its recall of more than 1 million cars and the issue could prove costly. we have all that and more tonight on "nightly business report" for this thursday, february 27th. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm susie gharib. >> and i'm bill griffeth. look forward to an interview. >>> meantime soothing words today from janet yellen, new chair of the federal reserve to testified today before the senate banking committee about the strength of the u.s. economy right now. that sent the s&p 500 to a new record closing high today. ms. yellen told lawmakers and wall street that she is staying the course right now. she will continue to taper back on

fed chair janet yellen puts investors in a buying mood, pushing s & p to new highs at the close.d her comments be interpreted as a green light for stock investors? >>> return to profit. a surprisingly strong quarter for electronics retailer best buy. but is it proof that the company's turn around is on solid footing? >>> and what did general motors know and when did they know it? regulators are asking whether

fed chair janet yellen puts investors in a buying mood, pushing s & p to new highs at the close.uld her comments be interpreted as a green light for stock investors? >>> return to profit. a surprisingly strong quarter for electronics retailer best buy. but is it proof that the company's turn around is on solid footing? >>> and what did general motors know and when did they know it? regulators are asking whether e

crews are begning to patch up the potholes ahead of their spring push. news4's mcgrath is live in northwest washington now. it's probably just getting worse now, right? >> reporter: yeah. it is. all of the snow that we've had, the freezing and thawing cycles is creating a problem with potholes all around the area. take a look at this one here. we're on 16th street prior to upshire street here in northwest washington. and you see the size and depth of that pothole. not good to hit that at any kind of speed. take a look here. we've got a hubcap here. someone obviously took a big hit. just down the street apiece, there's another hubcap. these can really cause quite a bit of damage if you hit them. in the dark this hour in the morning, they're very difficult to see. we've actually seen a number of people really slam into that at speeds that they really shouldn't. you're going to want to take it easy, keep your eyes open especially in the dark. in the district, they filled 5,700 potholes already this year. their goal and they're achieving it is to do the turnaround.

and grabbed the silver to go with the bronze she won in the two thousand six games into men kuwait s push of the threats to the trots. cross country skiing semi sweet and went into the men's forty km relay loaded with confidence this week but the defending champions three members of the team had already won medals they followed up on the success of their women's team which could hold the deed the full. the rest of the silver in front of the home crowd that included president biden and clinton the french team took the bronze. some athletes didn't even get the chance to show their staff organize this post on the men's fifteen kilometer race because of heavy fog will compete later on monday. jen and ashley's hope they can hold on with the week a lap to go. the film won seven golds three silvers and two bronze twelve medals in all the ducks have won more medals seventeen but few and golds. i remember we'll have updates and retail what's happening inside she has these athletes can see battle and the trains ai ai. the nba game seems to be something you did at home on your own or with friends an

the institution does not seem to push back. s it the courts role to help congress balance power. when congress sues itself. the house sue the senate over he filibuster. it was about this big of an item in "the new york times." the suit is now on appeal. the house sue the senate, saying the filibuster is unconstitutional, it is outside the constitution's text. their argument is that the constitution wants a supermajority, it tells you to ratify a treaty. if there is no supermajority, why would the senate think i can create this permanent barrier. let's get to the punchline, do you think courts want these cases? do they want to tell a president he is against the constitution? do they want to tell the senate how to do business? this is why i am having a problem getting this book off the ground. how do i argue the court has a place when the court does not want a place. if congress is timid and deferential and the president is aggressive and robust in his orientation to his office, i don't mean this president, necessarily. if the court is uncomfortable with these questions, where does

. >>> that news helping to push the s&p 500 back into record territory and investors also been digestingarnings reports from retailers including lowe's, abercrombie & fitch, and barnes & noble. >>> target also reporting earnings showing the massive data breach cut its profit by 46%. the retailer says sales fell nearly five 1/2% as the breach scared off customers. and as we mentioned before, delta making major changes to its frequent flyer program. it will reward those who buy its most expensive tickets as @pposed to those who fly the most miles. the program doesn't go into effect until 2015. those are some of the hot stories right now on foxbusiness.com. >>> coming up, the white house is claiming another obamacare victory. we'll have the real numbers. >>> next the va seems to have the solution to the growing backlog. just destroy the files. we'll tell you all about it coming up. ♪ ♪ we asked people a question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? $500,000. maybe half-million. say a million dollars. [ dan ] then we gave each person a ribbon to show how ma years that am

s. that is pushing south to the gulf of mexico. there is only a weak system coming across the states. that is the reason why we do not have a dusting from system number one. it pushes to our southeast tomorrow. the dusting up to an inch at most. cloudy to start the day on saturday. that will sweep the country to our north. the futurecast captures this as well. approaching from the southwest. light snow accumulating. cloudy skies sunday. very light amounts. here is our express forecast. 33 at midday. 36 in the afternoon. that will come to an end on our seven day. monday and tuesday, quiet and cold. the last system, another chance for rain and snow. temperatures look like they will stay at or below average as we have through all of next week. >> now, the toyota sports desk. brought to you by toyota dealers. to stayizards helping below the 500 number. we have to watch the actual games leading up. once you get over 500, the work doesn't stop. they are doing everything to prove the benchmark wasn't a fluke. there is a resurgence of life under the leadership of their franchise. washington i

helping push the s&p 500 up, however, biggest gainer there, cliff natural resources.arging higher after announcing a new ceo and beating earnings estimates. shares, like i said, best performer in the s&p today, up more than a buck. and if you're growing sick of hearing about the on again/off again courtship between joseph a. bank and men's wearhouse, throw a third name in, eddie bauer. joseph a. bank has agreed to buy eddie bauer for $825 million in cash and stock, but it does not mean an end to the acquisition chatter. joseph a. bank says it could back out of the deal if it receives a buyout offer it feels is superior. hmm. checking shares of men's wearhouse and joseph a. bank, joseph a. bank is up 50 cents, men's wearhouse down, look at that, a drop of more than 5%. >>> well, freeing the bluebird. nearly ten million shares of twitter will be set free tomorrow as the lock-up period for shares owned by non-executive twitter employees expires. nicole petallides is at the new york stock exchange with the details on how the microblogging site is moving. >> reporter: well

s medal count. >> pam: that pushed the u-s up to fifth place in the medal count with 5. >> pam: .that's behind canada, the netherlands, and norway -- all tied for first with 7. >> pam: russia sits in fourth place with 6 -medals. >> pam: and the netherlands got three -medals -- one each - gold, silver and bronze -- by sweeping one event -- the men's 500- meter speed skating race. >> reporter:american skater ashley wagner is responsible for the most re-watched moment during nbc's saturday night coverage of the winter olympics from sochi. >> reporter:maybe it has to do with her reaction as she looked up at the scoreboard. >> reporter:here she goes from happy face to mad face once she saw her low skating score from the judges. >> reporter:and as you can imagine social media is exploding with versions of her rubber band expressions. here she is so mad she's smashing thru a door. fortunately her score didn't hurt the u.s. skating team. they managed to pick up a bronze. >> reporter:- show us your mad and happy faces. just send em to our kron facebook fan page. and we'll put them on the air. catherine? >> ca

east part of the city is continuing pushing up against their i s g so they're looking at drilling a new well. there's a lot of interest in continuing this conversation. it motive both go to using those brown water basin and the west water treatment plant we don't have any resources allocated it's a challenge and palo alto a very weighing community both financially and with water we're allocated 17 million gallons per displaying day there's no incentive to look at that. i would encourage the puc to look to buy back some of the water allocation and with the purchase of the funding going to projects like taking place into the ground water sustainability and there's another way to look at this with partnering with the community with the mid peninsula to bring on a project by dropping the needs for the region. and, you know, it's a long process. we're getting started and i look forward to get together and chat >> commissioner vietor. >> you know thank you for that. and i do feel recycle at some point i don't know when it fauldz falls we need to have a conversation about diversification and t

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s. pushing through with tropical moisture in and we have a storm up at the north which will merge and head the bay area. we would tie that all futurecast that we will talk about this though, the up in just a bit... talk about the snow! >> pam: meanwhile -- california is still in the midst of a drought emergency. and it could utlimately affect your wallet. >> pam: the conditions could dry up the state's supply of hydro-electricity. prompting utilities to switch to more expensive gas-fired plants. >> pam: the sacramento bee reports, while utility companies do not anticipate shortages during the summer. customers could eventually end up paying more. >> pam: that's because -- federal officials say, gas- fired electricity costs about three- times more than hydro power. >> pam: federal officials have announced. california farmers who have been affected by the ongoing drought. will receive 20- million dollars in aid. >> pam: according to department of agriculture secretary tom vilsack. the money will be used for improvements in irrigation and assistance with water facilities. state officials said

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but the key is it's pushing more to the south than it is to these. we will stay in the 30's. it will stay on the chilly side but we are watching a couple of systems that will have an affect on our weather. some rain down south will move out should -- will move offshore. if we look farther west, we can see a couple of features. one disturbance off the coast of california, bringing some rain. another one farther north may be bringing rain to northern california. this one may become a big storm when it gets out in the ocean, but not for us. thatne the effects of saturday and sunday and you could get a dusting to an inch or snow -- an inch or so, but no big storm. keep your eye on the fact we are getting closer to spring. if you are winter weary, we'll see some sunshine and then the snow moving it. be in fine shape. tomorrow, upper 30's to about 40. then you'll see some snow possible over the weekend. clearing skies monday and tuesday and morse though -- more snow by wednesday. >> and now, the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. are in winnipeg questi

to the bay bridge toll plaza and traffic is slowing down a bit and westbound tail lights on 80's as you pushs. >>> secretary of state john kerry will make his fifth into asia traveling to south korea, china, and indonesia. his schedule does not include japan because he met with the foreign minister in washington on friday. he will visit seoul, beijing and jakarta starting on thursday amid heightened tens between china and the small are neighbors over territorial disputes in the east and south china seas. >> a study shows an effective way for proem -- premies to catch up with their peers by while in the hospital >> a new coffee shop called "dumb starbucks," nearly identical to the typical starbucks and serving free coffee to people yesterday. the flyer says it is calling itself parody art to skirt trademark laws. a spokesman for star publics decline to say if they will pursue legal action. >> sochi security and a top congressman who says russia is on the brink of a terror attack. >> what the weekend is revealing about the new bay bridge. >>> a hollywood actor with a brown paper bag on the red

s&p 500. that proved to be a buying opportunity. how long does this continue? >> right here we are seeing the market against these highs and we need a catalyst to push above new highse s&p, 1846-1853, what is holding it back is data. we are not seeing data and we are engaging the yen in gold. gold prices have picked up all year long. gold is an inflation hedge and if we are not seeing equity market, the question could be coming. we called the s and p but we may i just this, data does not show growth is missing as well. yen is still, the yen, consolidation, the bank of japan is keeping their foot on the pedal and that is helping keep equities at these levels as well. liz: we throughout the weather as the prime blame factor for housing but you could definitely point to as what is helping prop of the natural gas market. why is oil down? >> a couple reasons. natural gas, very weather-related. we have another week of that would strengthen the natural gas market after that. we set the policies and pull back. crude-oil has got to look at other factors besides the weather because we have producers coming on line all leaders this year that we are not here last year. we also

. >> this morning president barack obama is pushing get u-s troops out of afghanistan by the end of thes giving the pentagon marching orders to accelerate troop withdrawels. the president spoke to afghan president hamid karzai yesterd.the first time since since june. and the white house says he's frustrated at karzai's refusal to sign a security pact that would keep u-s troops in his country into 20-15. >> shhfewer air marshals are flying the friendly skies. the department of homeland security has cut the number of federal air marshals on commercial flights over the past three years. 150-million dollar in budget cuts are the main reason for the reduction. the agency is reducing the staff through attrition but declined to say how many positions have been eliminated. >> there's more evidence of vulnerability this morning on the state's health insurance exchange. covered california. an e-mail from a federal cybersecurity official says the marketplace had a lingering security concern in its system more than three months after it opened. the security flaw was noted and posted publicly but wa

the s&p pushing further into the unknown and untrod territory. the russell 2k, they're breaking records. the nasdaq not quite a record but nonetheless another 14 year high. all in all, a pretty good week and a very good month for the three indices as we close out february. this is the tally for you. the dow up 4.4%. the s&p up 4.7%. the nasdaq, the outperformer, up by 5.6% over the course of this past week. >> i had to go live with my aunt and uncle in bel-air. can you believe that? story of my life. >> that is the story of your life. very short story but a good story nonetheless. >> thank you very much. >>> the prince of cnbc, princ s princess. weather has been an excuse for corporate earnings for years but this year, do companies actually have a point? the weird weather continuing everywhere. let's start with that and get on the weather channel's kate parker with more. >> reporter: we are talking about a deluge of rain in california, something they haven't seen in a very long time. in fact, it was march 2011 the last time we saw more than one i

s. now they have push rates higher but not by enough i think. they should probably do more.he fact that they have started down the right path, we think that this probably doesn't end in a complete and utter meltdown. it needs to be managed very carefully. the central bank of turkey is still quite reluctant. under market pressure, they have done the right thing. >> talk about these adjustments. how is south africa doing? arguably, turkey and south africa have suffered the most in the last couple of months. >> the difference is that south africa doesn't have the external debt that saturday -- that turkey has. it is not as immediate as turkey's credit binge. they are not levered the same. the central bank in south africa is much more proactive. the central bank will hike rates quicker. they don't care that much about the currency. the currency can depreciate a long way in south africa without creating a systemic problem for the country. that is not true for turkey. they create systemic problems for the country's corporate sector and the banking sector. in south africa, if the p

. >>> the s&p 500 pushing for a new record high, almost there. just 12 points short. morning. a little bit higher. the s&p 500 hit dozens of records last year but has yet to close at a high in 2014. there have been concerns about slow economic growth and turmoil overseas, but those fears, at least for now, have subsided. the major average is up 3% to 4% this month. what happened to that correction in january? forget about that! even more support to stocks today is news that the world's richest countries are pledging to add $2 trillion to the global economy over the next five years, maybe in terms of, like, big infrastructure projects, structural reforms. the goal is to boost economic growth, this coming from that g-20 meeting in australia. remember, for years, we've been talking about austerity. now they're focused on growth. and the mobile world congress in barcelona. samsung expected to unveil a new galaxy smartphone. rumor is it will have a fingerprint sensor, something the iphone already has. >> you're looking at their watch they're very proud of right there, which

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the s&p 500 pushed even further into record territory. >>> the treasury department says the country'sdeficit dropped to its lowest level in six years, during 2013. the federal deficit was $680 billion in the last fiscal year. that's down from about $1.1 trillion the previous year. cnn global economic analyst, managing editor of "time" magazine. so it's a dramatic -- about 15% drop in the deficit, which is still high, but a lot less than it used to be. what happened? >> well, in short, the country's growing again. we have been in a recovery for the last year. hasn't felt like one to a lot of people, but growing your way out of a deficit is always the best way to do it. that happened during the boom period of the clinton years, what a lot of people have been hoping would happen once we got past the fiscal headwinds in washington, that we get back on a growth path. what's interesting, though, there is actually a cbo study out looking at the longer term impact on budget deficits. and we have to keep growing faster in order to keep it down. we go back to a 2% economy, those numbers will ti

push people behind the demonstrations and behind just organizing to push the government into signing. the demonstrators. with t.v.'s friends from the major part of the training. think this was a pretty interesting points of difference three months no need to show some results the deciding to do so it would be true your jenson didn't really care dies in the process let's look back at the how the situation unfolding on tuesday when the violence returned to the ukrainian capital first the opposition rallied the crowds and urged them to march on parliament the trouble began right there when radical protesters broke through the police lines and the situation escalated even further when rioters tried to storm the office so if you crane's ruling party then setting it on fire and as it all continued to the police struggle to contain the thousands of protesters throwing molotov cocktails and rocks and. even using a truck to try and break through the security caught on. now three people were killed becoming the first victims of the street violence which then continued to escalate and less than two hours later a police office

noon and low-to-mid 50's and hold in the low-to-mid 50's at the clouds increase through the afternoon and when the sun sets the showers will start pushing through. most of the evening rush were, the sooner you get there, the more dry it will be. by 7:00, we will see more rain developing. >> through the next three days the heaviest rain is tonight through tomorrow morning with scattered showers tomorrow afternoon and most of friday is dry and when the sunsets, again, scattered showers will develop for friday morning plans ahead of the system that is going do bring us significant rain saturday and sunday. >> now we will check with leyla gulen. >> the roads are quiet but for the construction. in the east bay we have this project working in the northbound direction along 880, we will have lanes shut down and it will last until 5:00 this morning in the southbound direction as you make the commute out of oakland to san leandro and southbound 880 from 98 to marina we have another project with the cones being picked up at 5:00 this morning. in the east by, walnut creek, southbound, 680, traffic is running smoothly as you make it to 24 junction

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this is the place with the reset button was pushed supposedly other in ushering in a new era of u s russian cooperation. frankly from the rhetoric it this year was sounding more like a new era of cold water. will you ride it said things are and what they should be days of school is frustration over the inability to come to grips in syria there is anger and frustration over of the dispute. the tug of war so to speak over to corinne and savior. but let's face it we will need to work with russia. and that to me i believe russia knows that the need to work with us with united states and europe. so i regard this as one of the balance. and then there will be other ups again. so i don't think we should dramatize it is not a great moment of our relationship with russia. but better days will come. and that was most engaging a sticky mess to melinda. now is ukrainian opposition activists who says he was severely tortured has been allowed to leave for treatments include few atm to retrieve a lot else has reportedly called brady left ukraine. it's a calling at least two opposition leaders i did make it

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kpix 5's da lin on the push for the private security and why some people are saying it's not a good idea at all. >> reporter: the private security guard seen here in the back seat of a police car has been reassigned to a different location after he shot a suspected burglar. but many neighbors in this oakmore district want him back. >> it's a little vigilante but it's what's necessary right now to protect ourselves. >> reporter: richard mcdermott is the guard's manager. >> he will not be returning there for his safety. >> reporter: he says when the two suspected burglars spotted his guard last thursday, the suspects got into their cars and almost ran over the guard. >> the individual that we ended up catching actually fell out of the back of the car. >> reporter: neighbors say this is the suspect that fell out and was later shot by the guard. 18-year-old larry ward now facing burglary charges. while many neighbors praised the guard, others are upset. their contract says no weapons. >> he was going to be going to the range after his shift. that's the reason that the weapon was actually in

in the upper 30's in napa and santa rosa, and 47 and 48. two areas of high pressure are pushingtorm track to the north and you can see the rain around portland and seattle, and we have the low that is coming in from the west. at midnight it will bring the light rain into the north bay with a few sprinkles through 6:00 a.m. on wednesday and sunshine for the afternoon hours and one of the cool of the days, the seven day forecast is warming trend on thursday and look at the 60's and 70's away from the coast, friday, saturday and sunday. so, the roads, leyla gulen? >> i rope holiday lite to go with the beautiful sun. >> we have light conditions. we do have a brand new crash in walnut creek westbound highway 24, it is a crash involving a couple of vehicles blocking the center lanes and as we take you offer to 80 westbound at richmond at san pablo avenue we have debris in lanes and you head past 580 it ising -- it is going to be a live shot and the metering lights are not turned on, on the bay bridge. >> you can watch abc7 news each night at abc7news.com or our mobile app if you are w

the midterms could be huge and push him to a digit plafferent s to today, no incentive to challenge herrun as a woman and make the first ever the issue. do you think she'll do that overtly or, people know she's a woman. will she run on that issue? >> i don't see why not. remember when the primary, the 2008 primary had ended, she was on the upswing predominantly because she was finally pitching herself as someone who was going to break the glass ceiling. it was a resonant message. part of the reason that people are a little bit tepid in sorts, they feel she's too calculating, that everything is done with some sort of political calculous in mind. that sort of fit naturally. i think people really gravitated. >> i agree. >> one more thing with biden, if he were to run against clinton, i'm not sure where the divides are. he also supported the iraq war. i'm not sure what his candidacy would be based on if it was against clinton. >> marks, sam, thank you both. we'll be right back. [ girl ] seriously? that's a lot of music. seriously. that's insane. and it's 15 bucks a month for the family. ser

s-f-o had 48-cancelations. >> we are waking up to low cloud cover. we continue to see the increase throughout the day. we have showers that will pushwaking up to spotty showers tomorrow morning and afternoon sunshine. there is another chance for showers tuesday night and into wednesday. >> the temperatures this morning are in the upper 40's. low 50's to low the east bay. that afternoon highs will be in the 60s from the south bay as 62 degrees for fremont. mid 60's for evergreen. we're looking at mid 60's for livermore as 64 degrees for pleasanton, low 60s along the east bay shoreline. it is a little bit cooler towards the coast. a mix of upper 50's, low 60's for the north. >> we have a cold front and a score to push through. well cloud cover drop the day and the showers will push then by about 2:00 p.m.. light rain for santa rosa growing widespread and we are also picking up intensity. moderate downpours and by 10:00 p.m. you can expect rain tonight for san francisco and overnight is what is want to be more widespread. by 2:00 a.m., it will trickle out of here towards tomorrow morning. >> the sierra forecast, if you're going up to

if i look at the s&p futures, we pushed above those december lows at 1761 and we are above the prettyly right now. that is a positive sign that we are building on bullish convergence. the volatility did not reach new highs. >> what about the vixie? it has come down to below 18 still wellut is above its 200 day moving average. what would it take to get the vix down to 14 and a half or those trendlines are? >> we talked about this yesterday. 1750 is the midpoint of this rally. 1750 is very important. we are near that level right now. volatility, contracts were sold for $.50. this mirrors that recently 250,000 contracts were sold for $.70. someone collected $18 in premium, counting on the vix being below 22 in expiration for february options. >> china is set to resume trading tonight. what do you see in terms of options for emerging market etf's. about 36 as the crucial support point. we went from 48 down to 37. the halfway point -- someone was selling june calls. calls beingjune 41 bullish. buying for about a dollar. looking for cover. technically speaking, from a risk-reward level, i a

after trying all week, the s&p 500 finally closing at a record today. dom chu, what pushedt's moving after the bell? >> finally we got through that resistance area. we're going to start off with gap. the company beat wall street forecasts by 2 cents in terms of profits in this fourth quarter. it came in a bit light in terms of sales. they're increasing their annual dividend to 88 cents a share. the stock is currently at least up -- well, now down about a percent. salesforce.com has beaten fourth quarter expectations by a penny as well. its revenue coming in a bit higher. it sees first quarter earnings of 9 to 10 cents a share. a programming note here. sales force chairman and ceo marc benioff is going to be on jim cramer's show at 6:00 p.m. eastern time here on cnbc. and then there's ross stores. out with fourth quarter results that matched wall street estimates. earnings guidance below what wall street was expecting. that stock down about 2.5% as well. then there's splunk. posted weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings, down about 4%. decent moves in the after market.

s redwood city. the another live view of the bay drim from our east bay hills camera. you can see a little bit of fog beginning to pushhe bay. temperature readings in the mid 50's at santa rosa, napa, petaluma. 58 at concord. and final live view from the exploring camera looking towards coyote tower which is now shroud entered fog and these are forecast features. patchy fog will continue to developing overnight. it will be mild day for your valentine tomorrow and rain likely late saturday early sunday morning. here's our satellite image showers rainfall manufacturing through northern california right now. it's possible that some of the moisture can drift far enough south ward for to us get a sprinkle overnight but the next system that is likely to bring us some meaningful rainfall measurable rain faul late sachlts forecast animation saturday morning at 10 okay. by 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon on saturday we see rain pushing into the north bay by 7:00 o'clock in the evening. moving down to the strat central part of the bay area then saturday nature after midnight written pushing south of the golden gate south and east

s&p. and nasdaq reached it's highest level for 2014. gold pushed upward..as oil continues to trade above $100 dollars per barrel. banks get the okay to inhale pot money. regulators made it possible for banks to do business with licenses marijuna companies. and autoworkers at a volkswagen plant in chattanooga tennesee voted to become a union shop. it's huge plus for uaw. it's the first the union organize worker at foreign plant. and autoworkers at volkswagen plant in chattanooga tennessee voted to reject a union. it would have been the first time the uaw organized workers at a foreign plant. scott bauer of trading advantage joins us now for some trader talk on this tuesday morning. good morning to you. >>hi there angie. >>what are you watching for this week? will you be watching the commodities space? >>last week we saw the heavy volume was really in the commodities space. and actually lots of volatility especially in natural gas and oil and gold. we saw gold top1300 for the first time in quite a while. although the market had this huge comeback, th

, pushing past 1850 for the first time this year. dow futures down by 5.5 points, sutures off by just 1.5. the ten-year note, the yield continues to hover around 2.67%. that is still near a three-week low for the yield on that. and tension remains high in ukraine. especially in the crimea region where armed men have taken control of two airports. ukraine's government is describing it as an invasion and occupation by russian forces. u.s. defense secretary hagel warned russia to respect ukraine's sovereignty and avoid provocative action. russia denied involvement in the airport seizures. this situation continues to be ugly and confusing. >>> men's apparel retailer jos. a. banks says it's talking to talk about a higher bid. that's the first time any of these folks said they wanted to talk to each other at all. men's warehouse raising from 57.50 earlier this week and added it would consider increasing that offer to $65 if it was allowed to conduct limited due diligence. hanging in the balance of all of this is eddie bauer which was maybe being played like a fiddle in try

s he is negotiating for him. i'm gonna be other opportunities to push through an industry's interests. as soon as the agreement is in place and american companies could sue for the right to export all read and watch some like that. raul. it was successful it would mean that the country getting the product. have to pay compensation to the industry and all. moral of the product in. the agreement forces arbitration tribunals for what's called investors trade disputes. the american meat industry into a european country. but instead of going to court each side with santa the third lawyer would act as arbitrator and issue a legally binding decision. law firms were with different clients so they changed their rules constantly conflicts of interest are likely the american consumer protectionist sworn that if a company sued and eu member states and one that taxpayers would foot the bill. in a while i would say. due to the germans with their concern about. you know having your budget under control. should think twice before they agreed to an investment chapter. that allows u s corporations to re

a mass of young twenty's and thirty's pushing forward and start in the room business is very the number of s s m e's is significantly lower than it needs to be does the government get it from yes it seems like the government to starting to look into the possibility of compiling a new reform program precisely along the lines of structural directed at boosting productivity finally the focus is more short term previous programs reform programs for ten fifteen twenty years now the focus is on the next several years so hopefully that kind of effort will lead to something akin to what we saw in two thousand and two thousand and one during putin's first term the most successful form program that we've had in decades the graph program if something like that is rolled out later this year i think this is one of the potential drivers for the economy and for the markets this you can they don't have much choice do they i mean this is you know this is we have a. government that has been able to garner support because the economy has been relatively successful and we've all remember the one nine hundred ni

push has been self. now it is more to the ease. temperatures are starting to warm up. lower 20's in suburban areas. disturbance tracks to our south these. we had to draw in a little of the cold air. that is our system. light snow developing. maybe up to an inch. the track is going to go to our south. that is tapping long. this doesn't have the ability to produce a lot of moisture. there is another system we will keep an eye on. that has been a number of snows. that is going to try to our north. is the projected snowfall for the weekend. maybe over into fredericksburg. here's is her story for the next seven days. too early to be rain or snow. that all weekend long. flex that would scare me. -- >> that would scare me. >> a lot of fun tonight for a special person. a baseball legend. hank aaron. we will have the details coming up. >> the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. >> after the game against weveland, randy wittman said are not a very good team. the frustration was palpable. best of john wall again. irving driving hard. 103-91. the same quarter, martell webster. was