scott cohn joins from us san jose with the story. >> hi, tyler. we hear this all the time especially during campaign season. the big job creators are small businesses, companies with 100 employees or less. but it certainly seems like states are always giving tax breaks and subsidies to the big companies to set up shop there. well, there are now some hard numbers to tell us just what is going on. the nonpartisan watchdog group good jobs first examined more than 4200 state assistance awards supposed to be open to byes of all sizes. we're talking about more than $3 billion worth of subsidies in 14 states. on average, 90% of that money went to big firms. in some cases it's even higher. in indiana, 96% of the hoosier economic development tax credits awarded over the last four years went to big businesses. same number for personal property tax exemptions in nevada. even for the most equitable program in wisconsin, 80% of the money went to big firms. one small business group says it is stunned by the findings but not surprised. sue and tiler. >> scott, s

and scott cohn, what do we know about the state of his health right now?ex, we are continuing to give some glimmers of hope, and some of the latest from jim harrick, who was his basketball coach in rhode island and he says that the former nba tstar s much improved, and he is et going t -- getting much information from khloe kardashian, his estranged wife. and now, e! is saying that he suffered a stroke, and that is not good news, but the latest is that he woke up and said, hey, baby," to khloe kardashian and then went back to sleep. all of this started a week ago when he checked into the love r ranch in crystal, nevada. he is shown on the surveillance video touring the place, and visiting the bar and then found unconscious in the suite. as all of this plays out, perhaps the most public family in america, the kardashians is asking for privacy, but running into issues with dennis hoff who is the owner of the brothel, and he is saying that he wants to defend odom from some of the rumors about drug use, and telling nbc news that they actually had a talk when o

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scott cohn in charge of both joins us live with the latest. >> ohio where they will also be voting onon next month is in much better shape economically now than it was when governor john kasich took office nearly five years ago at the end of the great recession. here is what he is claiming credit for. >> we came in here, $8 billion in the hole, a loss of 350,000 jobs, 89 cents in the rainy day fund. four and a half years later a billion in the hole, $2 billion surplus. a loss of 350,000 jobs, a gain of 350,000 jobs and tax cuts -- tax cuts of $5 billion. the largest in the country. >> did governor kasich do all that? let's take call of those claims one by one. it is true truth that kasich took the reins at a low point for the state economy. when he was putting together his first two-year budget in fiscal 2011 some projections suggested an $8 billion shortfall but those projections were based on an assumption of no increase in tax revenues even though the economy was already rebounding. in other words, the forecast was unnecessarily grim and the hole wasn't quite so bad. today ohio doe

and nbc's scott cohn is in las vegas with the very latest. good day to you. latest condition? >> reporter: no, there is not. while we got the first bit of good news that odom was apparently responsive to his estranged wife khloe kardashian yet, uttered hello baby and went back to sleep, he suffered a stroke. he likely suffered brain damage, damage to his vital organs. so this former nba star is not ott of the woods by any means. this whole thing began one week ago when he checked into the love ranch here in nevada. seen on surveillance video touring the facility, having drinks at the bar. paid $75,000 for the five-day experience. then found tuesday afternoon in a suite, unconscious. rushed here to las vegas ultimately to sunrise hospital where the watch remains. and meanwhile, as all of this plays out and everybody hangs on his every prognosis, one of the most public families in the world, the kardashians, is asking for privacy. suspending much of their media presence and trying to get the brothel owner to be quiet. he said he's defending lamar odom against t

scott cohn is at the headquarters to show us how it works. >> you can see everybody is in place. our fact patrol is a team of cnbc journalists with a mission to verify everything all 14 candidates say using primary sources. and you know what, we're already on the case. like the other day, when donald trump tried to claim credit for ford moving jobs from mexico to ohio. in this case, the cfo of ford did some of our work for us. >> i heard last night that ford is moving back to the united states. they may not do that deal. i get credit for that. >> the facts are that there is no change in our plans and no discussions with mr. trump. he has mistweeted. >> and in fact the move to ohio was part of a uaw agreement four years ago. and ben carson talked about the fight of poverty. >> what has been the result of that. ten times more people on food stamps. more welfare, more poverty, more incarceration, out of wedlock births. >> there is no question that we have at least ten times as many people on food stamps as we did at the beginning of the war on pover poverty. and we have more people

. >> our scott cohn back at hq. we want to get to bob pisani with an upgrade on allergan. >> they are still halted. they said, we are in discussions. normally, the way this works, the company would call the nyc and say all the news is out. you can open the stock. it is not open and it doesn't look like they are getting the okay to open. the only thing i can speculate happened right now is the company is not comfortable with the idea that all the news is actually out. that's what we have to find out, if there is any more news or anything else. right now, we are just waiting. back to you. >> maybe somebody forgot to make the phone call. >> dow is down 34. we will get stock trading with jim in a moment. "squawk on the street" will be right back. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts, ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time, 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether it's building the world's most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned sys

scott cohn joins us with details on that. >> hillary clinton just happened to make her comments whileact patrol is on duty in full force for tonight's debate. last night stephen colbert suggesting that maybe hillary clinton is not quite the populist she claims to be. >> you put forth a plan. >> i did. >> for reforming wall street. ab wall street embraced it. is that a good sign? >> well, i'm not sure who you are talking about. because i certainly didn't get that message, if they did. paul krugman, the columnist for the new york times. >> sure. >> nobel prize winning economist said i came out with a tough, comprehensive effective plan. >> well, actually, paul krugman never uses those words in the october 16th column that hillary clinton refers to but does say the plan is better than sander's plan. but she has not looked at donors to her campaign which include private equity and real estate firms. and she was also em fassic on future bailouts. >> if you are president. >> yes. >> and the banks are failing, do we let them fail this time? >> yes. >> we let them fail this time? >> yes. >> b

scott cohn. next year the debate will be taking place here on cnbc next week october 28th.ll begin at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. don't miss it. >>> we've got the latest from alphabet's earnings conference call. shares up by 10%. > >>> alphabet's conference call begins. >> operating profit $4.7 billion. the cash balance now at $73 billion. that led her to a discussion of the stock repurchase news, $5.1 billion. saying that reflected disciplined capital allocation program they have there. starting q-4 she noted they'll begin to break out the different divisions. google and what they now call other bets, being this official name for moon shots, saying they'll break out revenue, profitability and capex. just getting on the phone now saying he knew chief executive at google, saying google is just beginning to scratch the surface. owe wants google to remain a place of creativity and innovation. i'm going to hop back on the call and bring you more headlines as they come. >> great stuff. thank you for now. alphabet shares up 10%. >> it's been a crazy hour for earnings. next amazon and