stef in link, portfolio with hightowerer, good to have you with us. what do you think about what mr. dimon said there about interest rates so he says maybe even more than that, but i also want you to gob to earlier in that interview, where he said some incredibly favorable bullish things about the american economy. >> he did. i actually agree with him. i think you have to take a step back the fed -- by the way, they're still very accommodative, even though the taper is coming down. they are going to tighten eventually, but the environment is very liquid the reason he took a step back is the reason they are changing their tune is because the economy is strong. we should be normalizing policy. is that three rate hikes, four, five, ten? i don't know we'll have to see, but when you look at the economy and the data points that are presenting to us, we have strong housing, only likely to get better, because pending home sales were the best since may. you have isms, still comfortably above 50 that's a diffusion index auto is running full tilt. they have supp

stef just doesn't know what to do. but hey, how about the threes?probably wondering, well, here you go from downtown warriors up 5 at the break. he's still got it. 3rd quarter. sure. this one from 30 feet. it's down 16 to 48 dubs. clay is absolutely rightfully so. we go to the 4th quarter. he steps back behind the screen. another 3 slashes down. thompson finished with 17 points in just 20 minutes. steph had 28. what an epic night at chase center team. by the way, the warriors to win 96 to 82 alston afterthought. but they play next at the memphis grizzlies. coming up on tuesday night, kron 4 sports director jason dumas getting taken an event that people paid up to 14 grand for you got in for the low price of a media credential. jason, was it as well doubt there's a looked. >> raise the i didn't have the 14 k. so luckily i had that media credential. but it was as wild in person, as i'm sure seen on the television when klay first came out for his pre-game routine. the crowd absolutely or update he was out here for about 10 minutes going through his rou

the day before, stef, he had actually been performing. do we know any more at this hour about the circumstances surrounding the circumstances of his death? >> obviously erica is just surprising everyone. 65 is way too young for anyone to be gone. we know that he was happy, that he was back on the road. he was doing comedy shows. in fact, he posted about it, and just to show you what his last instagram post said in part. he wrote in part that i had no idea. i did a two-hour set tonight. i'm bag in comedy like when i was 26. i guess i'm finding my new voice and love me everything moment of it. he's addicted to this and he's really very much enjoying it and what we know is based only some of the 911 calls that we heard when a security officer found him, that there was no pulse and he wasn't breathing. we know that as far as a police department there and there is nothing that looks suspicious. there's no drugs, but we still don't know that. obviously it's shocking for people, including the "full house" co-stars. john stamos and what he said.

>> well, thank you, stef new, for having me this evening and for highlighting the real seriousness ofges that school districts have across the nation to keep in-person learning going. we are still seeing challenges though not as bad. we had about 1,200 staff out and we're down to about 800 staff out. we're starting to see the numbers go down. only 435 teachers, so that's looking better, and 41 bus drivers today. so the numbers are going in the right direction but still a lot more to do. >> reporter: are you getting a sense you've reached a peak, then? >> we do. we have been talking to our boston health commission. we believe we are at the peak. they have been looking agent the waste water predictions and other modeling from other cities and towns and, of course, as they look ated this omicron variant, it looks like it is going to be going down quickly, hopefully. >> reporter: we have seen other major school districts, superintendent, having to at least temporarily put a pause on in-person schooling as they grapple with safety and the staffing issues. at what point do you think you mig

last check 11,500 hospitalizations in texas, there is another problem that only complicates this, stef, and that's the fact that a lot of these workers think they may have been exposed. they go to get tested and they're waiting for in some cases hours upon hours in these testing sites to finally get the test, but then on top of that, they're not getting the results for days. and so they're kind of put in this limbo that they don't want to expose anyone else to it. they're left on their hands hoping for an answer. >> speaking of businesses, dr. gupta, we're seeing more fortune 500 ceos speaking out in favor of vaccine mandates despite anything going on in the supreme court. united airlines mandated vaccines for early on. 3,000 have tested positive, not one single vaccinated employee has been hospitalized. jamie dimon of jpmorgan is now saying employees cannot come to the office unless you're vaccinated, and if you're working from home, you're not getting paid. >> real world evidence is pretty clear now that vaccine mandates work. that when individuals are faced with the prospect of losi

until this past couple of days that's what's been working and i hope it will continue. >> thank you, stefa time i'm sure. >> okay, when we come back a lot more investor and real estate mogul samzell on theflation in the markets. meantime check out crypto currencies this morning. crypto currencies have been moving in tandem with stocks as investors get ready for tighter monetary policy from the fed squawk coming right back >>> still to come, our exclusive interview with real estate mogul sam zell we're going to talk inflation, the fed and much more. that's in just a few minutes and later kyle bass gives us his take on the russian-ukraine conflict and how it coulimctd pa the markets. stay tuned "squawk box" will be right back your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire ♪ ♪ you can't buy love. or peace. you can't buy security. you can't buy happiness. you can't buy confidence. but you can invest in it. we believe t