our own steve grasso spoke with jack ma before the opening. joining us now on the fast line. steve, good to talk to you. what did he ask you? >> my new best friend, jack, was actually -- he was really interested in the pricing mechanism. how it starts from 68, where we were going to open it on the floor. what that -- what that whole process looks like, who we were talking to, the mutual funds, the pension funds, what they were saying and what prices they were talking about as far as supply and demand. he struck me as a student of the market. it was really -- really nice to see. >> yeah. and it's interesting because he sort of got a word in with bob pisani, who was inside post 8 inside of the open. he said, i'm learning. i'm learning a lot. clearly this bet on this company has a lot to do with him. his vision for the company, the former english company who started this in his apartment. a very much -- to see him in that humbling moment right now and to see him on the floor of the new york stock exchange, it was reshocking, wasn't it? >> it's refreshing, too. what's kept invest

our traders are steve grasso, brian kelly, karen finerman and guy adami. the breaking news on ebola. the first days in the united states. meg has the latest back at headquarters. >> this news just coming. the cdc confirming the first ebola case in the united states. we're still getting details about it. there's expected to be a press conference at 5:30. we'll bring you more details. we also have news, cnbc has been confirmed with the texas governor's office that the governor of texas is aware of the first ebola case there in texas. so that is currently what we know. the first ebola case arriving here in the united states. we'll bring you more details as we learn them from this 5:30 press conference. again, this has mostly been in west africa. >> meg, talk to us about the companies that are poised to deliver treatments or vaccines. we are seeing shares of techmir move. >> these companies are working on ex tperimental drugs. they're very early in testing. they are starting to ramp up testing in humans for these drugs. the hope is they can ramp them up fast e

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our traders are steve grasso, brian kelly, karen finerman and guy adami.king news on ebola. the first days in the united states. meg has the latest back at headquarters. >> this news just coming. the cdc confirming the first ebola case in the united states. we're still getting details about it. there's expected to be a press conference at 5:30. we'll bring you more details. we also have news, cnbc has been confirmed with the texas governor's office that the governor of texas is aware of the first ebola case there in texas. so that is currently what we know. the first