here's steve sedgwick. >> very good morning to you, frances, phillip probably the first time we've doneon this show that we've talked about inflation this way cpi is a bit boring and something the federal market looks at we are expecting potentially this time the biggest figure, 3.6% jump, the biggest increase since september of 2011. the federal reserve is saying, don't worry about it this is transitory others in the market which has wobbled a little bit are saying this could be more permanent elsewhere, got a couple of great new suvs for consumers in 2022 there is a collaboration between subaru and toyota. it's called the solterra which means sun and earth. that will be available in 2022 ford is unveiling the f-150 lightning and that will be built in dearborn, michigan on may 19th it will be available with production starting next spring as well. let me hand it back to both of you. >> steve, thanks for the update. >> appreciate it. >> it would be cool if bob dylan was the pitch man on that. >>> coming up, why texas lawmakers are going toic keep it here going to change who i am.n't whe

here with that story and more is cnbc's steve sedgwick.ing. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, phillip and frances. i spent the last ten minutes looking at the 4,000 film catalog. james bond and they own films such as terminator, rain man gigi, some of our great favorites. look for amazon close to a $9 billion to buy mgm which will put them straight up against the likes of netflix and elsewhere. >>> united ae launching your shot to fly sweepstakes. they can load their covid vaccine with a chance to win a round free trip. five people will win a year's free travel anywhere anywhere united travels. back to you both. >> wow that's brilliant great idea cool incentive, steve. thank you so much. >>> coming up, janessa tracking a big warmup for the week. why this allergy season is nothing to sneeze at really. my first idea was “in one quarter of an hour, your savings will tower... over you. figuratively speaking." but that's not catchy, is it? that's not going to swim about in your brain. so i thought, what about... 15 minutes. 15 percent. serendipi

he has a little bit of experience from antietam john sedgwick. this is his first time commanding a core and then he's going to be given a wing of the army about 60,000 men. so we have a lot of new guys coming in to take on a veteran army that is commanded by robert e lee. lee at this time is 55 years old. he's a west point graduate of the class of 1829. he came in second in that class only behind a guy named charles mason who serves in the army for one year and leaves so there's some more you're useless trivia for you who was better than lee at west point a guy named charles, mason from new york robert lee though is going to be a solid army officer for the next 34 odd years. of his career he is going to serve an engineering capacity it places like what becomes fort pulaski he'll serve out west on the mississippi river. he's going to serve in mexico. he's at and in fact going to serve on the staff of winfield scott who will talk about here in a moment. we're already lee when he when the civil war starts is going to be a guy who is looked upon in t

what's going on with bitcoin steve sedgwick is following all of this for us good morning. >> reportermorning. it's more like what's not going on with bitcoin. if you like roller coasters, get involved in it if you don't want a thrill, steer clear. middle of april, $63,000 for bitcoin and it crashed yesterday, really crashed. we got to 30,000 per bitcoin then it's half now it is trading just shy of $40,000 for bitcoin. a 33% rally from the lows having crashed below. just be careful. you want to play that one, make sure you enjoy roller coasters pop tarts have a mist ri flavor, mister e if you can guess what the mystery flavor is as well. so get your ideas in as well and use the qr code on the box to enter the competition. burger king, they're getting involved in the chicken sandwich wars and then we've got this, it's ch apostrophe king. they're trying to set themselves apart by hand breading their chicken, which is a step that takes training, time, new equipment. that's differ enentiating them. >>> as long as you don't have to guess the flavor of chicken. >> everything sounds like flav

let's ask cnbc's steve sedgwick. good morning. >> reporter: absolutely, frances.ng times at the moment. the live dow futures up half a percent. it will take us a percent away from record levels on the dow. why? well, for starters, we had great jobless figures yesterday. the lowest jobless figures on a weekly basis since the pandemic began. high hopes for the biden administration budget package as well it will put forth a $6 trillion package today. there are hopes republicans and democrats can finally get together and get an in infrastructure deal for congress it will be the first one we've had since 2015 great new survey from oracle food and beverage. americans are ready to get back out into the restaurants again 71% of americans want to get into restaurants 3% interestingly say they're going to use less cash 49% are going to do something that i did in a pub this week, and that is reserve the table, order and pay and, yes, you can tip as well using a mobile device america, i did it this week in a pub. i had some great shrimp scampi and fries. have a great weekend.

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here's a quw many social media follower do you need to make $100,000 a year let's turn to nbc's steve sedgwickt hey, steve, good morning >> good morning, frances, good morning, lindsey it's like total recall meets minority report. china has the taxis. you've got fast anion is here a. our second story for, verizon, as you mentioned considering selling the remnants of aol and yahoo! these assets were worth $9 billion a few years ago, it didn't work for verizon. these assets to be 4 to 5 u.s. billion dollars. frances, you know this because i know you're making these numbers asny social media followers do you need to make $100,000 according to a social calculator youtube, a minimum of $1,000 24 million clicks that will generate you $100,000. instagram, i know you've both got it 5,000 minimum followed with 309 sponsored posts. on tiktok. 10,000 followers with 270 million views. lindsey, frances, i know you're making those numbers already >> i'm not even on tiktok. it's too much work oh, it's all too much wok. how much of yourself are you going to put up, how much are you not. all of that good stuff

telling you how many drinks you've had and tidal wave of cash headed in for jay z we have steve sedgwickell your acc, blood oxygen and your blood sugar, your blood pressure, possibly blood alcohol as well will be measured there they'll have to call in to one of the suppliers we don't know if it's going to be in the apple watch 7 due this fall as you mentioned, jay z finalizing the sale of 80% stake to jack dorsey's square. it's good money if you can get it for jay z if i turned up at my mothers with donuts instead of flowers, they have a donut disguise box six-pack of donuts that looks like a book. if you're in detroit and columbus, ohio, one or two other locations, you will be able to buy these for your mother on the ensuing mother's day this weekend. >> that's assuming they're donut shaming. eat them loud and proud. you don't have to hide that. >> new way you can hide other things in there. steve, thank you. >> which late night host is leaving decades on tv first for a streaming service instead? >> and the artist rmlyfoer known as puff daddy has made another change to his name well...

julianna tatelbaum in central london and steve sedgwick wearing some florescent vest at gat gatwick. steve, i know you are on the tarmac and have to wear it talk to us about how travel is really starting to reopen. >> reporter: brian, can you imagine being amid a crowd of the scrum? that is still a long way off you are right in the introduction this is a good day we have travel here at gatwick i have been on the runway. i have seen a couple of planes take off the first plane to portugal. one of the first countries on the green list it is very limited, the number of countries, on the green list. the amber list is huge most countries in the world. you have to quarantine for ten days what the airline industry wants and what the u.s. airline industry is crying out for is more countries from the amber list with quarantine, to the green list, with no waquarantine pete buttigieg and the transport secretary in the uk are talking about the possible opening of trans atlantic routes. united and american and virgin and british airways are desperate for the trans atlantic routes to open up in mea