. >> good friday morning to tracee carrasco joining us with more on that plus the other headlines makings this morning, hi tracey. >> good morning ladies uber is considering, ge chief executive jeff immelt stepping down from role there at end of august, now earlier in the week we told you about another name that had been floating around for the job, hooul mule especially ceo meg whitman last night cleared up rumors with a series of tweets, saying we have a lot of work still to do at h-pe, i am not going anywhere uber ceo will not be meg whitman. >> tracey talk about amazon under pressure. >> amazon profits missed wrote a expectations yesterday, sending shares down 4% in after-hours trading. the company reported earnings of 40 cents per share on revenue, of 38 billion dollars during a second quarter below 1.39 share analysts predicted, but even as profits dipped about 77%, amazon kwrl revenue rose 25% to 38 billion dollars better than analysts estimated, operating expenses increased across the board, in part explaining why the profits slumped the biggest boost in spending in cost of sales

tracee -- loo leave tracee carrasco. tracee: that's okay, gerri, thanks guys. as far as federal trade commission review of amazon agreement to buy whole foods, it's looking into allegations that it misleads customers about pricing discounts. the advocacy group looked at about a thousand products on amazon's website and found that amazon put reference prices or list prices on 46% of items. analysis found that in 61% of products with reference prices amazon's reference prices were higher than it had sold the same product in the previous 90 days. consumer watchdog argued that deceptive prices make amazon prices look like a bargain. flat out wrong, we reached out to the ftc, it had no comment. >> that's a great story. unintended consequence of buying whole foods if they launch this big investigation. tracee: it is. i'm sure they were not expecting that. >> absolutely. lea: we will be watching amazon's earnings coming out next week. we heard that sears is going to be hearing appliances on amazon. tracee: that's right, whether he keep with amazon trend. it will sell

let's ask tracee carrasco what she thinks to have deal. tracee: it might be my favorite day of the week as well. cybermonday in july starting tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern running 30 hours. amazon prime members will be able to save even more on thousands of items on the website. this year amazon says there will be more than a hundred thousand new deals offers with sales posted as often as every five minutes, last year millions of people participated in the biggest prime day yet. this year could be even bigger. 12 in other countries including uk, mÉxico and china will be able to participate. some items to look for, the ps4, xb1, 4k tv's gaming laptops and home electronics. also look for products as amazon echo, amazon echo dot and look. some deals have started. you can get the top-20 best-selling kennedle books. subscriptions like rolling stones, men's health and gq deeply discounted. prime exclusive phones, smartphones from motorola, nokia on sale from 50 to 200. four months for 99 cents a month. prime members with alexa device wills get exc

cheryl: tracee carrasco joining us now with a very good story. good morning, tracee.spaper publishers are calling on congress to allow them to negotiate collectively with google and facebook as they call a digital duapoly dominating online and news distribution, according to wall street journal report. news media alliance at trade coalition representing some 2,000 organizations across the u.s. and canada says antiquated antitrust laws have unintentionally have protected google and facebook dominant position because federal antitrust laws stops competitors from coordinating on business decisions and market strategy, so granted a limited waiver by congress, coalition said it would seek stronger intellectual property protections, better support for subscription models and fair share of renew and customer data. david, president and chief executive of the news media alliance said, quote, quality journalism is critical to sustaining democracy and essential to civic society. to ensure that such journalism has a future, the news organization that fund it must be able to colle

tracee carrasco joins us more on that and other headlines. high of 2017, yesterday well over 21,000 points. eric trump tweeting about the accomplishment yesterday. the third new stock market high with markets up 17% since selection make. #make america great again and so far the dow has closed at record highs 40 times. one-fourth or 24% to have 168 days the markets have closed have been record highs. lea: maybe some good news from the markets but we are hearing that when you go to buy a plane ticket you may be having some disappointing information coming back at you now. >> you'll soon be paying more for airplane ticket, delta airlines said that passengers paid higher fairs for the first time in more than two years and also forecast that fairs are going to continue to climb. american airlines said something similar on wednesday that it will report even steeper fair growth, other airline wills likely follow the trend and we can blame the price increase on high hand and not oil. cheryl: more fun in the sky. lovely. okay, we are hearing there's a

cheryl: tracee carrasco with the details on this and a few other headline this is morning. > good morning. may have exposed customer record and user data unprotected after vendors put information into a cloud storage area and incorrectly set the storage to allow external access. one report as many as 14 million customers were found unsecured on amazon storage server concerned by israeli base system, but verizon say it is number is more like 6 million and it was a researcher who brought the data breach to its attention and, quote, there's been no loss or theft or verizon-customer information. we should probably still change password if you're a verizon customer. lauren: moving on. cheryl told me she bought a lot of make-up. we hear thiser than black friday. tracee: it was, i did not buy anything, believe it or not. lauren: me neither. tracee: amazon says it was the biggest shopping day, amazon says sales grew 60%, monday night ran through early wednesday morning compared to last year. it also saw the big jump in paid subscribers to service and m amazon echo smartphone, the be

cheryl: tracee carrasco joins us more on this story. tracee: good morning, ladies. facebook is one to have most popular messaging apps and now it wants to cash in. you will now see advertisements inside messenger that's use about 1.2 billion people every month. ads won't be shown in conversation but in the main inbox tab between chat threads similar to the way ads are sandwiched in posts and news feed and face brook is trying to make money for messenger as it embraces for unexpected slow down in revenue growth from the news feed. the primary source of the remember identity cease -- revenue. it started showing ads to users in 2013, facebook has been tested members of the jurier ads for six months in australia, thailand where users have been receptive, facebook thinks about using this for what's app, its other app. it's going to look what you see in the scroll, so advertisers can use this two ways, they can either, you know, link to their website so users can click to their website and go directly to this whatever -- a store. exactly. link you there and then you could

tracee carrasco with the details. tracee: a unit of warren buffet said it would acquire oncore. according to a reuters's report yesterday, it agree today buy dallas based bankrupt parent for 9 billion in cash. now, this is a bold move by buffet who is trying to win approval from texas regulators after they blocked two earlier attempts to sale oncore. a deal they said it's not in the public interest. chief executive shepherd said in statement to reuters by joining force, whether he gain access to additional operation, operational and financial resources as we continue to position oncore to support the evolving energy needs to our state. in 2013 buffet lost $873 on 2 million bond investment, so for him this deal marks a return to investment gone bad. lauren: what does this mean for warren buffet and berkshire? >> one of the largest acquisitions. as far as oncore, 10 million customers, 73 million income, quarter ending, berkshire hathaway energy, they have six big utility companies and they add to that. cheryl: tracee, thank you very much. we also have the story following for you,

todd: tracee carrasco from sister network fox business with recipe. ogs healthy? tracee: good morning, i'm not sure you really can. nitrate derived from celery juice which is preserved to get processed meat. it changed recipe, it's part of a a broader trend to remove artificial ingredients from products, the change makes little difference because it's still a hot dog. heather: celery juice? tracee: celery juice. todd: i'm fired up about the next story because i really we wanted to see the house with will ferrell, according to american public not a great movie. tracee: no, it didn't do so well but the minions are ruling the box office. todd: they always rule. >> we are going back to being villains. [inaudible] [laughter] tracee: $75.4 million in opening weekend coming in second, baby driver jamie foxx, $30 million in the first five days in theaters and 21 million from the three-day weekend. todd, the house starring, will ferrell one of the lowest. heather: chocolate peanut butter twinkies. tracee: chocolate sponge cake with peanut butter filling. as you

tracee carrasco from sister network fox business. good morning, tracee.are a group of people that you do not want to mess with. angelo bridal abruptly closed 60 stores after filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy. the company's whose headquarters is in delray beach, florida sells gowns at different locations. brides were sent into a frenzy trying to track down those dresses they paid for. >> i have three months, i can figure something out, i paid for something and i don't know if i'm getting a refund, i don't know if they'll get a dress. tracee: alfred angelo's website has a brief statement, we apologize for the inconvenience and hardship results from this event. what's funny is their competitor david bridal, they are offering coupons to brides. taking advantage of that. heather: what kind of answer is that? do they get the dress back? rob: bankruptcy, they are protected. heather: yeah. rob: let's go onto port belly prices. heather: more people eating bacon than getting married. tracee: now the bacon craze is pushing pork belly to higher prices. americans bought

cheryl: tracee carrasco joining us without another headlines. >> set to begin weighing today.at he is mistakenly calculated above the law. he allegedly defrauded investors into health care focused hedge fund senate convict did could face up to 20 years in prison. a national attention and 2015 at the pharmaceutical ceo who imposed a 5000% price tag on an hiv medication. >> everybody made money. no harm, no foul. cheryl: the prosecutor is saying he's a fraudster. we will be following that today. the big merger here to talk about the company. tracee: staples which was recently acquired by private equity firm sycamore partners had apparently been in the talks with 1500 retail stores, two long-time rivals reporting to "the new york times," in a public filing last week that back on june 5th 28 offered to 2600, $25 million for north american retail locations. rumored to be, you guessed it, office depot. staples had originally turned down the deal, the processes they sycamore partners may be a willing seller. a deal could create the big box office supply chain with thousands of locati

tracee carrasco. loans to pay for college and have not been able to keep up with payments may get credits wiped away because critical paperwork is missing, now at the center of a legal battle because national student loans trust has been unable to show in court that it owns the loans it says it does. they were granted to students and the banks bundled them together and sold the debt and the changing of the hands mean that in some cases it's not clear from records who exactly owns the individual loan. so if the trust tries to demand the money from the former students but the paperwork is not right, the entire amount could be thrown out by a judge. the $5 billion accounts for 166,000 separate lopes but the debt owned by national colliagic is just a fraction of student debt in the country with average of $30,000 borrowed by students. here in new york a judge wiped out a woman's 31,000-dollar debt last year after they took her to court. maria: what happened with that one? tracee: she went to court and she

a phishing scam euros receive e-mail appears to be from bank mishing targeting text messages tracee carrascoficial media last couple days. reporter: not just your bank may be entity service provider favorite store any organization mishing messages sent via text message cybercriminals trying to trick you into giving account information as log in name password credit card a link takes to i a web site they get enough to steal your identity or you might be asked to answer questions, via text message, or to call a phone number, in some cases you will receive a text with a sense of urgency sometimes scammers try to capitalize on something timely like tax filing season, or may come in form of a personal note or telling you you could win something, criminals like this users trust text messages if you get suspicion looking text asking you to you you are gently confirm not from a legitimate source don't tap on link simply delete it something you can do you can also make sure your phone has the most up to date operating system. >> if you get a text message on apple, on imessage a text message from unkn

tracee carrasco with the story. tracee: the washington post owned by amazon ceo jeff bezos has implemented a controversial new employee policy that prohibits conduct on social media that, quote, adversely affects the post customers advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners. in such cases post management reserve it is right to take displainary action up to and including termination of employment. all of this reported first by the washingtonian. are work to go revise it and policy went into may first and applies to the entire company. a spokesperson tells jeff bezos was not part of the team that determined the policy. people worldwide are reluctant to what news organizations are selling. gets into tricky territory here. maria: in other words, this is about the maybe stream media and what they've been doing, dagen, and now people are reacting to the mainstream media and there's fights on twitter and on social media. dagen: i think that anybody, any adult who can't control themselves on social media has bi

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maria: welcome back if you have got a full time job looking to make extra cash, in free time tracee carrascowhen you -- keep day job make money another way doing something else different outside of usual workday a survey from bank rate says 44 million americans have a side. >> age-group to have side gig millennials born 1980 to 1994 proving to be a generation of go getters more specifically the younger millennials 18 to 26 with 28% saying they have extra way to make money, aside from main source of income, and not using gigs to make a quick buck now and then spend on avocado toasty majority 54% uscash to pay expens, 86% do it at least monthly, with 36% of them earning more than additional 500 dollars a month, but younger baby boomers from 53 to 2 are the age-group most likely to pull in extra thousand dollars per month from their side gig, interesting. >> i think says about the economy the fact that you have a full-time job you also need a side job. because income tax have not really risen to level. >> it can affordable care act think about this, competitive less coverage, right, premiums ar

tracee carrasco with all the information.r: they have been banned on flights from abu dhabi to the united states after they put in tighter security measures. in march the united states banned laptops in cabinness on eight countries egypt, morocco, united arab emirates, saudi arabia, kuwait, qatar, turkey, to address fears that bombs could be concealed in electronic devices taken aboard planes. they credit ad facility at abu dhabi international airport where u.s. passengers clear immigration before they land in the united states for quote, superior security advantages, that allowed it to satisfy u.s. requirements. according to the dhs, tsa officials checked that the measures meet the requirements. airport officials told reuters the disruption to passengers with new measures will be minimal. processing time to travel to the united states unchanged. they operate 45 flights between be a but dub by and united states and only airport to offer direct flights. emirates, the middle east is cutting flights on five u.s. routes because o

tracee carrasco with the details. ee: this is interesting. 3 square market, designs software for breakthrough markets, first in the u.s. to implant microchips in employees, employees will be able to make purchases and open doors, log into computers and use the copy machine among other things by all scanning the chip which will be implanted between the thumb and fore finger under the skin. no larger than a grain of rice. this is the wave of the future. eventually it will be standardized allowing this to be used as passport, purchasing opportunities. data is encrypted and secure and the big question here is, will this chip also have a gps tracking system, the company says no, not yet. maria: why do they want them to have the chip in your body? tracee: to make it easier for companies, for the employees. maria: to track you. tracee: maybe within the building. [laughter] >> i think it's suppose for access. tracee: convenience. maria: i will say this, there were clinical trials over the last decade or so where companies were

tracee carrasco on that story. coming up, cracking down on this program.united states says the time for talk is over. next. plus russian president vladimir putin retaliating against u.s. sanctions. the fallout straight ahead. ♪ where to get in... where to get out. if only the signs were as obvious when you trade. fidelity's active trader pro can help you find smarter entry and exit points and can help protect your potential profits. fidelity -- where smarter investors will always be. .. .. .. >> welcome back i'm dagen mcdowell. it's monday, july 31. your top stories at 6:30 a.m. eastern time. tensions are flaring with north korea. after the country's latest missile test. president trump speaking with the present overnight. their conversation comes as a grown course. with the nuclear ambition. as a clear and present danger to the united states. the only solution is a diplomatic one i'm very disappointed in china's response that it has not been firmer or more helpful. the trump administration could force china's hand to write in the regime. investors are loo

tracee carrasco with details. that can't be good. ier we told you about chipotle restaurant in sterling, virginia that shut down after 13 people got sick after eating there, that number closer to 133 according to reports. i was poisoned.com. one person tested positive for noro virus which is the expected cause of tillness. chipotle ceo apologized, quote, i made a commitment on behalf of chipotle to make the restaurants the safest place to eat and i'm confident in the programs and procedures that we have implemented. the restaurant in virginia is now back open after thorough cleaning and as you said if that wasn't bad enough, a now deleted facebook video surfaced that showed two rats running across the floor of a dallas restaurant after allegedly falling from the ceiling, take a look at this. >> okay. i'm not eating at this one again. >> i can't blame them. the rottens fell from a building, shares are down more than 1% so far this year. maria: that's it? tracee: yeah. dagen: i will point out that there was a famous, on the cover of --

tracee carrasco with the story. acee: general electric chief executive jeff immelt will be stepping down of his job in august after 16-year tenure, another name that had been circulating this year, hewlett-packard meg whitman, she said, quote, normally i do not comment on rumors but the speculation about my future and uber has become a distraction, so let me make this as clear as i can, i am fully committed to hp and plan to remain the company's ceo. we have a lot of work still to do at hp and i'm not going anywhere. uber's ceo will not be meg whitman. there you have it. uber to pick a ceo by september. maria: now they are talking to jeff immelt. tracee: they need someone who is going to come in and clean the corporate image, redirect the company, frankly they need a grown-up after travis kalanick. kevin: someone that's going to bring in a good team as well and set the tone. if they ever wanting to public they will need to find a strong cfo as well. they are in deep trouble here. that's why they are trying to find ef

[laughter] stuart: we have uber, they've narrowed down the search for the next crea, tracee carrascoth who is at the top of the short list. >> meg whitman. they hope to fill the job by september of -- job has been vacant since travis kalanik resigned in june and it's unclear, though, if whitman were offer the job, if she would take it. she previously said she's commit today hpe but she's been reportedly meeting with uber's leadership. now many people have been saying that uber should hire a female ceo to take over. stuart: okay. tracee: amidst all of the scandals that they've had. stuart: i heard cheryl, doesn't want it. who else we've got? marisa myer. tracee: she's available. she could do a good job there. it's unclear, really, who would take the job because they've got quite sheet to tackle. stuart: i would take the company in a heart beat. a company like uber worth -- tracee: even with all of the scandals? stuart: you could be the person who fictions it. tracee: could be the hero. stuart: walk in with a piece of a stock, 70 billion. tracee: okay, you've convinced me. stuart: trac

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tracee carrasco with all the details. >> at morning. include audi and porridge facing allegations of collusion. according to a german newsmagazine start in the 90s, the german otto makers coordinated on vehicle technologies and strategies as well as mission control in engines are the automakers may have two limit the size of the tanks holding a solution used to reduce vehicle emissions of harmful nitrogen oxide. the european union has begun investing the teams to see whether the antitrust violations. vw has scheduled an extraordinary coordination on wednesday. shares of vw tumbled immediately following the report by the somewhat recovered. big story there. >> that will affect sales. >> i don't think you will peer volkswagen in 2016 surpass toyota for volume sales. they had that big incident several years back where they had the illegal software and had to pay several billions of dollars in fines, i believe eight executives. i don't think it will affect sales. despite all of that. dagen: the only scandal at the not only scandal at the no

maria: state of emergency snafu bank of america shutting customers out of bank accountings tracee carrascood morning if you couldn't get into account yesterday you are not the only one thousands of customers across the country, shut out for hours, due to a system outage impacting web site and branches, some customers reported receiving e-mails probably before noon according to downed detector.com web site tracks system frustrated customers looking forrance one tweeted wouldn't it be nice if manager at bank of america would have told us system had been done before we wastewatered 40 minutes waiting around another said every bank of america system down across the countryis i can't find lease tonight catch me home legal thanks bofa. >> bank of america did not say what caused the problem do not believe a hack in staipt said we have identity theft solution updating systems no i many who experienced difficulty are operating normally as of last night the system appeared back up and running. >> headache. >> that is. >> crazy how bad banks web sites are still in this day anage technology where it i

traceetracee carrasco with the latest. hi. tracee considering jeff and early in the week that had been circulating for the job, meg whitman. we have a lot of work to do at hpe and i'm not going anywhere. uber's ceo will not be meg whitman. cheryl: now we know. lauren: i'm looking at amazon shares down 2, 3% in the premarket. they reported revenue that was pretty god last night but not so much for profits. tracee, no not so much for profits. the profits missed wall street expectations on thursday sending shares down 4% in after hour trading. company reported far below than analysts predicted. amazon's quarterly revenue rose 25% to $38 billion. operating expenses increased across the board and cost of sales, pull fillment and technology content which partly explains why it slumped. cheryl: speaking of amazon, jeff bezos, ceo, hit a milestone yesterday, tell us about it. tracee: he did, jeff bezos started out as the richest man dethroning bill gates who held the top spot in 2013, thanks to surge in amazon shares ahead of its earnings re