. >>> we begin with two big tech topics steve kovac covering apple earnings and ayeamon javers in washingtone have a historic case wrapping up steve, let's start with you. >> reporter: yeah, leslie, we have apple earnings coming at 4:30 p.m. eastern. the real, top thing we're looking at here is what does it look like over there in china? we're expecting overall revenue to be down about more than 4.5%. a large part of that is because of these stung lruggles we've sn apple go through in china. sales for iphones down 13% in the september quarter, and since then, loads of data showing iphone sales have been down as much as 19%. we see other rivals like huawei grow significantly huge competition there by the way, a lot of that data has caused some analysts to trim their estimates for the june quarter in addition to this disappointment they're expecting in the current quarter the question, of course, becomes, what can turn things around everyone is also going to be paying attention to any commentary about artificial intelligence unlike the other big tech peers, apple has not really told a clear ar