cheryl: tracee carrasco on this all morning. lauren: the fcc wants to get rid of rows of equal access on the internet and it would allow che cable and telecom companies to slow down pride in speed and savor their own services if they want to. trade to adam shapiro will take it down from washington. reporter: good morning. the actual draft order will be released this morning from the sec which essentially outline the new position we are going to essentially rescind the net neutrality order put into place under president barack obama in the sec in 2015 go back to essentially where we were with the wide-open internet prior to that. ajit pai, chairman of the fcc was subcommittee on the program on sbs last night and here's what he said about the need to do this. >> part of the reason the regulations are misplaced if there was any regulation here. it wasn't like it was work and we are living digital dystopia. going forward, we want all companies, not just a feature to invest and innovate on the web and the best way to do that isn't su

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tracee carrasco, are yours ready? tracee: they've been warming up all morning.s will spend $656 billion today the cybermonday, almost double what was spent last year in cybermonday. on black friday, online sales $5 billion, which is pretty good. in total, $1,754,000,000,000 spend this holiday season on holiday shopping is the prediction from adobe. a lot of people spent the weekend came to shopping around for deals looking to see if they were better on black friday, if not waiting until today and today they are ready to click the buy button. lauren: are they better? >> a lot of deals and is registered in heard in the last half an hour, let tronics of the big ones, high ticket items. the amazon echoed back for 29 points and again. and the sun fire, best buy you can get the galaxy note s. a r. 350 off when you activate a new plan. also the bose quiet comfort noise canceling headphones for $179. wal-mart sony playstation four pro $1349. a lot of deals on electronics. >> si has the best prices on the mac. today's the day. house of cards, great show. we love it on ne

cheryl: tracee carrasco shares bought back another headlines. perman, flash, wonder woman couldn't even save this weekend even though justice league did come in number one at the box office. it disappointed a little bit. expert dishes were that it would bring in $110 million in the opening weekend only brought in 96 million, which is less than its predecessor batman versus superman, the don of justice. a cut the mixed to negative reviews and maybe people are kind of over this superhero superhero trend we've been seeing. our resolve. tell us a box office winner the past few weeks. cheryl: thora still came in over the weekend number three there. tracee: one there was a bit of a surprise there. everyone was surprised that one came in second. wasn't expected to really. lauren: wonder is on my list. cheryl: obviously big travel week. looks like security is tight. lauren: it is going to be tight. ts estimated throughput of 4 million people will be screened each day could the record set back in 2004 for the sunday after thanksgiving when to thanksgiving

tracee carrasco, not another headlines this morning. tracee: amazon wants companies to start using echo devices popular virtual assistance to the conferences, lunch meetings and bring voice computing to the workplace. amazon is reportedly working on your odds to make alexei useful in the setting. "the wall street journal" reporting amazon plans to make announcements later today. lauren: i'm excited about this. can you explain what is going on in the bitcoin market? $11,000 yesterday. tracee: wild ride in the last 24 hours. bitcoin across the $10,000 mark. the highest level in nine years. it tumbled more than $2000 they yesterday. the federal exchange has struggled to handle the volume pretty rallied later to close at $10,000.200 for teen through "the wall street journal" now says the nasdaq wants to launch bitcoin features in 2018. a lot of people in the market winding bitcoin. lauren: is becoming more popular. cheryl: american airlines has some major holiday problem on their hands. tracee: we were calling this a glitch for christmas. i

cheryl: tracee carrasco joins us with more on that headlines. good morning to you. >> twenty-first century fox shares down by as much as 10% after reports recently and stocks to sell most of its assets to disney. the deal could have fox movie studios, production unit entertainment networks to disney for keeping it isn't sports holdings including broadcast networks and local broadcast stations. cheryl: interesting story. all buzzing about the holidays. target getting an early start, hoping this'll bring in the sales. train for not wasting any time with black friday. customers can get early access to black friday deals like the google whole mini, and beef headphones. offering free shipping and returns on all online orders until december 23rd. also announced its holiday shopping schedule. store is open from 6:00 p.m. to midnight and thanksgiving day and reopen on black friday at 6:00 a.m., giving employees a break or master turco is open from p.m. on thanksgiving day 2:11 p.m. on black friday. that's a long day. cheryl: i don't think people were sh

cheryl: tracee carrasco joins us with more the headlines. fascinating numbers, tracee.tracee: uber commended a loss of 1,364,000,000,000 last night as part of a formal bid from softbank to buy a large stock at "the wall street journal" reporting a formal goober employee said the company had a team dedicated to stealing trade secrets and help in a legislator scrutiny. just days before the start of uber alphabet which claimed they stole trade secrets from its unit. the trial is now delayed and this is just the latest in a scandal. train to all for a company that the bank participants want to go public. this is a big problem. lauren: they keep pushing the date back. cheryl: a new security flop for apple macs. tracee: apple has acknowledged it is that they are fixing it. if you have a mac and you are running the latest version can they keep an eye out for any patches that the software engineer discovered a bug that allows people to bypass administrative accounts when trying to access the different system preferences and prompted to enter the strait of credentials to a user

lea: tracee carrasco joins us by without another headlines. >> good morning, ladies.ome 14,000 hoverboards issued warnings we called by the u.s. consumer product safety commission comes after two house fires were started this year, one of which was fatal. the safety issue is most of these. the lithium-ion battery is to charge them. the agency warning consumers not to use lacie hoverboards and issues recalled on the other ones, textured cover digital projects, for start imports from a drone guards salvage world. take that back to the store if you have one. lea: new claims that the blander brand future bullet might be dangerous. train for this might be serious. 14 people suing the brand that it are strenuously than the most severe cuts and burns. the feed of the plate causes it to build which causes it to burst from the rest of the machine. one victim was injured back in may. she said she was using miniature bullet for 20 seconds before it exploded. future bullet has denied the allegations made against the product setting user error is the likely cause. >> we just talke

lauren: tracee carrasco joins us with more of that headlines. an exploding table?ained for this is really terrifying. ikea customers report made the glass tables, glass desks are suddenly exploding, basically shattering everywhere. the consumer product safety commission have received a dozen complaints. there is no recall, but what you look at right now the video of a dinnertable shattering while people were eating. pretty scary stuff. this is what ikea says after one and senate. our class is tested rigorously to meet high standards. over time, small fractures can affect the durability of tempered glass. it is designed to shatter to minimize the risk of injury. though we call yet. about a dozen complaints they've received. stay away from that one for now. lauren: at amazon pretty close to launching the store that doesn't have any human workers in it. tracee: they announced it last december. they are pretty close to opening in downtown seattle. this would be the first of its kind. another way amazon is disrupting brick-and-mortar stores. you basically go had come th

tracee carrasco joins us with more on that another headlines. good morning, tracey. >> good morning to. >> at morning tea appeared over has reached a conditional agreement with tech firm softbank to invest billions into the company. softbank would buy 1 billion purchase shares from investors and employees were 14% of blooper which is valued at $58.5 billion. that deal was delayed by the benchmark capital and ousted over ceo travis kalanick by both sides came to terms clearing the way for the investment. geri: kalanick losing more power here. if they given here. a big deal in a story we've looking forward to the general electric will concerns about the dividend mayor. >> this is a big day today. ceo john flannery expected to focus on through the company's biggest biggest ninth, aviation power and health care according to "the wall street journal" promise sweeping changes going forward after disastrous third quarter so investors will be looking for details on changes including the fate of his dividends. ge is the worst performer of the dow was sur

lauren: tracee carrasco joins us by without comment making news this morning.i, tracey. >> john flannery told investors that 2018 will be reset year and that ge is going to be qualcomm a smaller business, simpler business. flannery outlines a restructuring plan to focus on markets, power, aviation and health care and said ge would like to get rid of smaller divisions such as transportation and lighting. 50% cut in ge dividend will go from 24 cents a share down to 12. shares of 7.2% after the announcement to end the day that the lowest close in five years in its worst day drop since the financial crisis. shares are higher in the premarket but the stock is still down 4% this year. lauren: up 13% this morning. someone just made a big offer for buffalo wild wings. training for this is interesting. "the wall street journal" reporting by capital group does is focus on franchise-based company said in a $2.3 billion offer for buffalo wild wings. famous for its chicken wings and worldwide for the chain has been hurt by rising chicken prices and a decrease in traffic at

lauren: tracee carrasco another headlines.e after you buy, buy, buy, tend to donate. >> absolutely. this is the sixth annual day we are urged to give to charity to help out. president trump also urging he says americans are resilient people particularly when they support each other through acts of charity, kindness and generosity is the process of recovery need for assistance continues i encourage all americans to unite and selflessness, compassion and giving. he specifically wants us to help out those affect did by natural disasters this year. you can donate to a nonprofit. you can start a fund raiser, volunteer, send a message of the meeting spread awareness about a charity or cause them give more. maybe a neighbor, friend come it doesn't have to cost anything, but he can still do something nice. cheryl: donate to a local shelter. that's what i'm trying to do today. transfer i'm trying to instill this and a 2-year-old daughter. what he wanted different santa claus and what u.s.a. because to give to somebody else? i'm not sur

lauren: tracee carrasco joins us more with that. >> good morning ladies.olvo says it has agreed to supply it over with the fleet of 24,000 health driving taxis beginning in 2019. one of the first and biggest commercial orders for such vehicles. the deal was for it the suvs which already include advanced autonomous features like systems to keep the clients and maintain the proper distance to another vehicle. according to "the wall street journal" in order like this would account for 4.5% of volvo's current total sales and is estimated to be worth more than $1 billion. lauren: speaking of uber, in hot water again more shocking revelations. a colorado regulators with serious criminal to work for the company. the former prison escapees with drivers licenses. they should have disqualified that they were allowed to work for uber anyway. just 10 days to pay 50% of the massive fine or request a hearing to contest the penalty. cheryl: let's talk about travel to unbelievable deals to europe out there for this week. tracee: this is a deal that will allow you. startin

chg it was incredible tracee carrasco joins us with that report and headlines this morning. >> good morning apple delivered its best quartersly growth in two years sending shares u up to 3% and strong earnings thanks to strong sales and key product's and rebound in china and reported up 12% from last year the big question today, though, how will sales of the newly released iphone 10 go? people literally camping outside of apple stores around the world showed strong initial demanding for the new iphone 10 but the real question will be how a physical handles delays in getting this phone into consumers hands look at all of those people. >> i know it is crazy something called halo effect here like first people die hards get the new phone and show it off and see if the friends line up. >> we don't know how many phones they have in the stores so that's the big question. >> is can supply keep up with demand it is off the charts and we're talking about that yesterdays. but we don't know if they can keep up. they say her. i don't know . so somebody tried to cabbage cabbage trump twitter act. >> if y

alert for you, 1 million cars recalled because they can burst into flames, what's this all about, tracee carrasco fox business, tracee, good morning. tracee: good morning, jackie, yeah, this is a pretty big recall. one million bmw's being recalled for two separate issues that could both cause a fire. one recall 2006 to 2011, 3 series bmw's because air-conditioning may overheat, the second recall various models from 2007 to 2011 with the valve heater and could lead to fire. now there have been a handful of incidents reported but bmw says bring the car back and we will take care of it for you. jackie: yikes. amazon shoppers, amazon is cutting prices ahead of holiday. that's a nice surprise. tracee: we as the consumers benefit while they are trying to keep up and compete with loar low-cost retailers like wal-mart. cut in prices on third-party vendor items. so they are not exactly telling which items they are and you will see it discount buy from amazon, up to 10% on various things. effort for them to try and beat out the other competition. jackie: they are doing pretty well. tracee: yes. jackie: ada

flying for thanksgiving, you're not alone, tsa gearing up to screen a record number of travelers, tracee carrascoere with what to expect and i'm guessing long lines, tracee. tracee: tsa is estimated 2.4 million travelers will be traveling, they'll be screening 2.4 million people every day this thanks giving week, that could be a record-breaking number. the record broken in 2004 with 2.7 million people screened that day and the tsa says, yes, expect long lines there. they are advising people to get to the airport at least two hours ahead of their flight. heather: that's what they always say. i just purchased my ticket to fly home last night and i got a really good deal and buying the last minute you pay a little less. tracee: absolutely, still deals out there, you have to dig a little bit but if you're willing to fly out today or tomorrow you can find good round-trip deals on expedia, you can get to seattle -- from seattle to las vegas, $300, there are deals for $500, of course, the closer you get to thanks giving the more expensive the tickets are, but just look, you found a good deal? >> i sure

tracee carrasco from sister network fox business here with a look at the numbers for us. week but take a look at the numbers, markets surged as you said after the passage of the house tax reform bill and then also shares of wal-mart that boosted things up yesterday, so the dow rose 187 points to close at 23,458, s&p gained 21 points to 22,585. nasdaq to close at 6,793. i checked the futures, they were done. we will see if we are able to pick things up. heather: we have just begun a brand-new day. taylor swift winning big time. tracee: new album reputation released and in four days it sold over a million copies to become the most -- most copies sold for a record this year so far. she beat out ed sheeran's record divide, that sold 919,000 copies, within the last few days she sold even more. heather: you'll probably hear a song or two 10, 20, 50 times. appreciate it, tracee. tracee: thanks, heather. heather: the story of the grinch who stole christmas in phoenix, arizona, look at this. you better look at it really quickly. the tradition, christmas tradition draws thousands ea

tracee carrasco on what to expect. ng week. that could break records. most people they've ever screen was back in 2004, sunday after thanksgiving that was 2.71 million people. you know, they say to expect long lines and get to the airport at least two hours ahead of your flight if you're flying international, you should probably get there a little earlier. jillian: definitely good advice you're not sure what you're doing thanks giving, just go to trader joes. tracee: yes, this is best thing, thanksgiving in a box. so it's a turkey and stuffing, there it is on your screen right there, basically turkey, stuffing wrapped in a pastry, 12.99, serves eight people and comes with the cranberry sauce, gravy and you just need your own pumpkin pie. rob: i have no where to go on thanksgiving. my aunt is in florida and family in indiana and i have to work friday morning. >> tracee and i are coming together on thanksgiving. tracee: we are not having thanksgiving in a box, though. rob: let's talk about flying car from tesla. tracee: i

bargain hunters get ready to click, tracee carrasco from fox business here with record-breaking salescted today here on cybermonday. tracee: good morning, happy cybermonday. the super bowl shopping we will call it with $6.6 billion in sales expected today on cybermonday, that's compare today 5 billion spent this past friday, black friday on online shopping and the cybermonday deals that we are seeing now now we are expecting double the price of what -- what we spent last year, so it's going to be a record-breaking day, they'll be analytics expecting 107.4 online. >> remarkable. i have to go to this one. they have really good comedians and they are continuing the comedy business offering 10,000-dollar, quote, internet escape? >> sometimes you need to get away from it all. on kfc's online store on cybermonday they are offering internet escape pod, $10,000, a real steal there, you can go inside the kfc pot with colonel sanders giving you a hug and get away from the internet, your work phone, whatever you need to escape from. >> i love the way in the article they say it may not actually w

jillian: tracee carrasco from sister network fox business sharing latest move, what's that, tracee.taking down videos of extremist american cleric, he was known for influencing terrorists like the boston marathon bombers, fort hood gunman, 70,000 now to about 18,000. they've been under pressure to kind of reduce this type of terrorist propaganda, these videos, still not completely down but it is a major step forward for them. jillian: yeah. rob: this is interesting, wal-mart raising prices online to help stores, that seems very counterintuitive. tracee: when it comes to website, they are actually raising prices on a lot of household goods, food items because it's not profitable for them ship the things, they are trying to drive traffic to their stores, this is all as they compete with amazon, of course, so we will see how this works out for them, the new strategy. jillian: bill gates is now towner of $80 million worth of land in arizona? tracee: his investment firm purchased 25 acres of land 50 miles west of phoenix, they are trying to build a smart city. futuristic city that will h

tracee carrasco with the recall that could impact us. >> this is a big one, 40 million fire distinguisherse they may not work in an emergency, so now they may become clogged or the nozzles may come off, recalling 34 models, 1973 to august 15th of 2013. if you have a extinguisher, check it out. this is thin air, they are asking passengers to keep all their clothes, outer wear and luggage and they want to weigh you as a whole because they are trying to get accurate calculations for fuel, for their planes and they haven't had the numbers since about 2008, so they want to get the most accurate data so far they've had about 18 volunteers out of the 2000 that they are looking for. heather: i would not be volunteering for that. all right, if you do volunteer for that, you don't need to be doing this, eating candy bars but hershey's has a new one. >> yes, the hershey gold candy bar, there is it is on your screen. first candy bar in 20 years, buttery sweet, it's got peanuts and pretzels and will be released next month nationwide, looks pretty good and joining the original hershey bar, the special d

tracee carrasco from fox business here with a look at the numbers, hey, the stock number is doing wellcee: we had a slow start to the week but we rallied yesterday, shares of wal-mart they soared boosted by earnings and, of course, as you said the house passing tax reform, their bill, and so here a look at the number. dow up 187 points to close at 23,458, s&p gained 21, nasdaq added 87. so what we have noticed so far, you know, these selloffs are pretty short-lived. dow few right now all the futures are down but hopefully we will rally as the morning goes on. so we will keep an eye on that one. jillian: get ready to pack your patience. tracee: you will pack your patience. triple a saying nearly 51 million people will be traveling on the roads and in the skies, on the rails, most people will be driving, that's about 45 million people which is a surprise because gas prices, they are up this year about 41 cents a gallon more than last year and the busiest day on the roads is going to be next tuesday between 5:30, 6:30 a.m. at night, you have people going home from work and you have people

tracee carrasco with more in lower manhattan. what can you tell us? reporter: good afternoon, neil, we wrapped up the up tate from the nypd, the fdny, new york mayor bill de blasio and governor cuomo. calling this an act of a coward. we are learning more of victims. 20 of them in total. six of them died on the scene. two of them were taken to the hospital where they were proannounced dead. five from argentina. two from america, five from belgium. five are still hospitalized. the investigation is still in its infancy stages. right now the attack by 29-year-old sayfullo sayfullo saipov, he said this was a well-thought out attack. >> based on investigation overnight, it appears mr. say say positive was planning this over the weeks, did in the name of isis along with items covered at scene with notes that further indicate that. he appears to have followed almost exactly to a t, the instructions that isis has put out in its social media channels before, with instructions to followers how to carry out such an attack. reporter: as far as saipov goes, here is

joining us from the fox business network studio tracee carrasco. >> reporter: good morning.day. market futures looking pretty good right now all pointing up and we ended the day on wednesday a little bit mixed. the dow was down 65. the s & p 500 also fell but the nasdaq, the real big winner of the day it was up five. its 68th record close of the year so far. we've got a short trading day today, markets close 1:00 p.m. t volume, so we'll keep an eye on that. >> okay. let's talk about uber. i know a lot of people wondering about this security breach and now we're hearing that the ceo may have actually known about this. >> reporter: yes, and you know, this is really troubling because the new ceo he stepped into the position in september and we're hearing reportedly from the "wall street journal" that he learned about this security breach about two weeks after he took over that job. and immediately he did order an investigation. he wanted to get the full scope of things but, you know, he wanted -- he didn't tell the public. he told a potential investor first. he told soft bank.

joining us from the fox business network studio tracee carrasco. coming off a down week last week.itive today so far. >> reporter: no, right now futures are all pointing down. as you said we ended the week a little bit mixed dow s & p down, nasdaq up barely a point. all three indexes posted declines. this snapped an eight week winning streak for the s & p 500 and the dow. concerns mounting over what's going to happen with tax reform and then one thing that we're watching today, ge, they are holding on investors call, an investors meeting. the ceo is expected to kind of address the slump that ge ha been facing and what they will do next. one big thing we're watching there is what will happen with the dividends. >> tax reform continues. every time we hear the phrase 401k our ears perk up. what's the latest possibility when it comes to 401k's. >> reporter: the senate is set to begin the markup of their bill today and senator orrin hatch proposing some changes some amendments as you said to 401k contributions. this would be the catch up contribution and under the law people aged 50 or

joining us from fox business network studio tracee carrasco. again today. we got a bunch back that we lost earlier this week. >> reporter: yeah, we saw a big rally yesterday. right now, though, futures are looking mixed but as you said dow, s & p 500, nasdaq, all way up. you know, we can thank shares of wal-mart which were soaring after record earnings and then, of course, the house passing the tax reform bill, that was pretty big as well. >> all right, so what are we looking forward to today a far as any fall outfrom the tax bill or was that build into yesterday. >> reporter: now we'll be finance committee. they pass their version, they're going to be sending it to the full senate and the real focus will be on those senators who are for or against it, those who have not committed yet. you know, as far as what they want to do. so, we'll be focusing on that hoping for some movement. of course everyone wants to get this done as soon as possible. we'll see if check. >> tesla making big moves and kind of outdoing themselves. they said, hey, come lo

. >> tracee carrasco, good morning to you. happy thanksgiving week. >> reporter: good morning. had like a gift last week on wall street and then just like that, poof, it's gone. >> reporter: yes, you know, looks like we're going to be starting out the week in the red right now. futures all pointing down. that's the same way we ended. down yesterday. which is interesting because the dow and nasdaq, they fell after both indexes notched their biggest one day gains just one day before last thursday. so, we'll see, you know, there were a lot of concerns about tax reform, that was weighing heavy on the stock market. we'll see if that does continue now as all eyes are on the senate. >> all right, yup, and you led me right to it. some senate -- some republicans in the senate might have a tough sell when it comes to getting the tax reform bill passed with some of their colleagues. >> reporter:. thathat's right.republican leadg to have to really sell this tax plan to some that are not as convinced. there's been about six or so that have come out saying that they are opposed right now the

joining us from the fox business network studio tracee carrasco.ng. happy thursday to you. >> happy little friday. that's what we like to dream and call it. >> reporter: yes. >> the dow down, s & p down, nasdaq down at least when the markets closed yesterday. >> reporter: a lot of red, yes. the dow was down yesterday 138 points. you know, the dow and s & p haven't been doing well the last four out of five sessions that we've seen. a lot of this still concerns about tax reform. also oil prices falling as supply outpaces demand. earnings, that's another thing. earnings season is winding down a little bit but we saw earnings from target, wal-mart out today, best buy, so we'll be keeping an eye on all of that stuff. >> okay. and speaking of tax reform, there is expected to be a movement from house republicans, right, expected to pass their version of thi so, that's the big thing. house republicans expected to vote on that, pass it later this afternoon. the president also expected to address house republicans, you know, a final push there and meanwhile

joining us from fox business network studios trace carrasco.ew fed boss to talk about, we have the tax proposal. how is wall street responding to all of this? >> reporter: futures right now pointing up. yesterday we closed the market a little bit mixed. dow was up 81 points s & p up just very fractionally and the nasdaq was down not even two points. the dow recovered from some losses earlier in the session as they digested everything that was in this gop tax reform plan. and then as you've said a new fed chief and then today looking ahead, a jobs rept we'll see a revision from those september numbers taking into account the hurricanes that happened and big busy day here. >> no doubt. we'll look for the jobs report at 8:30. let's talk about tax reform though. the initial proposal came out yesterday. we were looking to see where some of the break down would be as far as brackets and deductions that type of thing. what's the initial response? i know this has a ways to go before it gets through congress but what's the initial response been? >> repo

first to scene of deadly attack, tracee carrasco in lower manhattan this morning near the scene, traceegood morning to you. tracee: good morning, maria, yes, we are about a block away from where deadly rampage unfolded. behind me you can see that the investigation is ongoing and has been going on throughout the night, there are flashing police lights and just beyond that is the rented home depot truck that 29-year-old suspect used to carry out this deadly attack along the west side highway, that popular bike path that so many people use, he traveled about a mile down that path mowing down eight people, killing them, injuring about 11 others. the suspect was shot by nypd officer in the abdomen. all of them unfolded just a few feet from memorial. here is what mayor de blasio had to say about attacks. >> we have been tested before and new yorkers do not give in in the face of these kind of actions, we will respond as we always do, we will be undeterred. tracee: so here is what we are learning about the suspect this morning, he's in critical condition but expected to survive. he was holding

tracee carrasco with a lot more. reporter: matt lauer finally breaking his silence today after he was fired by nbc for inappropriate sexual behavior. in a statement read on air by former "the today show" co-host, lawyer said there no words to compressor row and regret to people i hurt. some of what is said is untrue or mischaracterized but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. there are as many as eight victims. that is according to nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. details are slowly coming out about the accusations against lauer. "new york post" says the first accuser was intern at 2014 olympics in russia when she was first approached by lauer. lauer allegedly sent lewd text messages to the woman. the reason he was fired so quickly because the text messages were saved by the victim. one former employee who didn't use her name, told "the new york times" that in 2001, lauer called her to his office, locked the door and sexually assaulted her. another anonymous female emp

tracee carrasco joins us from the newsroom. what is the latest? reporter: good afternoon, connell. reuters are reporting that saudi arabian banks began freezing accounts of those involved in the anti-corruption probe. at least 11 princes including prominent billionaire and investors prince alwaleed bin talal were arrested over the weekend. they were carried out by the powerful new anti-corruption committee, headed by the crown prince salman, the country's future king. walid is the one of the world's richest hest men. previously he held a 5% stake in twenty-first century fox, parent company of fox business network. as of yesterday he held zero percent. following the prince alwaleed's arrest, they say they have confidence in the company, writing in part, i'm not surpised by the government's vote of confidence as khc pursues the investment strategy and global business operations. i would also like to emphasize that khc's experienced and seasoned team of and experienced executives leaders in their respective fields are focused on the unwaivering responsibility to khc shareholders and s

now, this let's get an update from lower manhattan tracee carrasco is with us. the latest, the suspect's mosque back in 2014, it was being looked at by police, correct? tracee: yes, that's right, that's a new development that we are following. 29-year-old, his mosque in patterson, new jersey, 20 miles away from crime scene in lower manhattan, it was under surveillance by the nypd since 2005, that mosque was among several others in the new york metro area that were being studied by the nypd as possible locations for, quote, butting terrorist conspiracies, that's according to north new jersey.com, now, there was no criminal link to this mosque, but the nypd said that there could have been possible federal investigations linked there, that's something they are still looking at and now we are awaiting an nypd press conference at 11:00 a.m. where we should learn more information, stuart. stuart: tracee, thank you very much, indeed. i'm going to stay on the terror issue on diversity visa lottery program. joining us now former consultant in the department of homeland s

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