lauren: tracee carrasco joins us with more on that making news this monday morning. >> yes, good morning. amazon disrupting things once again for more than a year of testing with its own employees, amazon opening its first store in seattle villa to shop, grab what you want and walk out skipping the checkout line. amazon code made up of hundreds of cameras and sensors. to enter the store at comiskey in the top and just start shopping. the store was announced in 2016 was supposed to open in 2017 but was delayed because the technology was harder to perfect than they had expected. >> i'm excited for you. >> maybe they will expand and bring one to new york. lauren: netflix raised prices not too long ago. a look on it that is affecting the company. train to netflix will report its fourth-quarter earnings this afternoon and investors will watch for signs of a slowdown. analysts are expecting fourth-quarter revenue of $322 billion while netflix unguided last october predicted additional six predicted additional 613 million mobile subscribers after the same. he netflix latest price increase went

tracee carrasco brings us back. , tracee. >> apple announced it will users to turn off a controversial feature that slows down iphone spirit ios 11.3 release would have features to recommend if the battery needs to be serviced. users would be a lunacy of the power management feature that prevents unexpected shut ounces on and can choose to turn it off. apple didn't say when the new update would be available, but they did mention this last year in december when they admitted slowly down the iphone spirit lauren:'s peaking of technology, google the parent company getting into cybersecurity. >> alphabet launch in the 13 can appear to cybersecurity business called chronicle called chronicle that would so cybersecurity businesses. chronicle will use technology to help foster an store larger amounts of data to recognize patterns. google looking for the next google, alphabet is. cheryl: something else they can promote. let's take a look at airline stocks right now. stocks in the sector really dropping. >> interesting moveme

lauren: here we go on that, tracee carrasco joins us, good morning, tracee. tracee: facebook will attar formula that what rises to the top, you will see soon more status updates from friend and family that sparks meaningful exchange. what facebook wants you to stop you from doing spending time with updates but not interacting with others. ceo mark zuckerberg wrote in facebook post yesterday, i'm changing my team to have meaningful interactions. lauren: amazon second headquarters, what do we know? tracee: real estate deal in boston is sparking some speculation about amazon's second headquarters location. amazon is negotiating a potential lease for an entire 500,000 square foot building and option for a second building of the same size in the plan of sea port square development. amazon is expected to make announcement on hq2 location later this year, there was also buzz about atlanta being one of the top contenders. cheryl: and chicago has been really fight to go get amazon as well. well, several cities have been fighting but you're right. just when we thought

cheryl: tracee carrasco joins us with that in other headlines making news.same crypto currency on both local and offshore exchanges in shaking up the virtual clay market in south korea greeting local exchanges on alleged tax evasion. justice minister parks and keefe is the government is preparing a bill to ban trading of the virtual trading on domestic exchanges. the crackdown is a crucial source of global demand for crypto currency came as policymakers struggle to regulate bitcoin who skyrocketed 15% over the last year. cheryl: we've all been watching des come a hearing that the lights went out. >> hard to see those gadgets for next electricity. in las vegas right now for an hour yesterday. they employ thousands of attendees use the price squeeze of the flashlight on their smartphones divide up a massive conference alternate conference organizers said the outage at the convention center may have been caused the day before effecting a transformer. lauren: but the irony. the lights didn't work out the big a show there is. pay disparities between men and femal

tracee carrasco joins us with more of that. >> some shareholders think apple needs to respond to what some see as a growing health crisis of phone addiction. the yellow sea and california state teachers retirement system which controlled $2 billion of apple shares sent a letter urging did new software tools that would help parents control among that phone use more easily and study the impact of overuse and mental health have raised concerns about increased depression and suicide and worry that phones are replacing human interaction. not just smartphones, but the broader effects of social media. here's what sean parker, cofounder facebook previously said in an interview. >> you're probably interested productivity. god only knows what doing to our children's brains because you are exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. >> apple hasn't offered any public guidance on how to manage children. smart foreign user taking a position on what age they think children should begin using iphone's. lauren: of mention in school is in school as they give in school is picky about ipads and tabl

lauren: tracee carrasco joins us more without. >> duncan without the donuts. and as far as the name is concerned. i'm usurping tamara and quincy massachusetts come a suburb of boston is dropping donuts for mixing bowl beat the first in the nation to simply go by duncan. part of a broader rebranding to the new next-generation will pile another concept including multi-high-tech drive-through lanes. lauren: the box office this weekend, how did it go? >> hanging onto the number one box office this weekend. >> wearing hats assured in shorts in the jungle. >> the film raked in $27 million despite a number of new challenges like second place winner steven spielberg's pentagon papers charm of the costarring meryl streep and tom hanks as editor ben bradlee. a word season hopeful is forecast at $122.2 million for the four-day holiday weekend with a current total of 18 points 6 million. liam neeson thriller the commuter bringing in $1,325,000,000 rounding out the top five with $12 million in the greater showman with around 11 million. lauren: paddington to with just 10 p

cheryl: tracee carrasco has the story and other headlines, good morning. ee: good morning, everybody is trying to keep up with amazon, japan's top e-mothers company to start e-books and audio books, digital and audio books will be add today wal-mart's website. in return wal-mart will help rakuten, this is a push of wal-mart to compete with amazon. cheryl: you would still need a device to read books from. you can buy it from -- anyway. just pointed out. dell is thinking about going public, is this a discussion again? >> dell reportedly looking at purchasing cloud infrastructure company. if the company pursued a public listing, it would be one of the biggest ipo's which would give the companies to pay down debt. dell went public and investment form silver lake. cheryl: they just merged with emc. that was the biggest technology merger in the globe. lauren: let's have some fun. krispy kreme, they announced new limited edition doughnut flavor and i'm disappointed and cheryl is disappointed. tracee: i am too. cheryl: i heard two different flavors. i've heard two

cheryl: tracee carrasco has that with other headlines. >> these are the software updates disclosed last week with the required updates after they were reported on advanced microprocessor chips. others microsoft users might experience the slowdown. we expect most users do notice a decrease in system performance in computers writing windows eight and seven insistence on intel central processing unit two through 25th in before. cheryl: let's talk about kodak on a surprise announcement that has nothing to do. >> this is pretty surprising, pretty shocking. kodak said it would be getting into digital currency with plans to launch an initial coin offering. kodak claim has been a platform that will help photographers license their work and track the unlicensed use of their images. the technology behind bitcoin it to keep a digital ledger the photograph. preventing in the tech industry, but she encrypt or currency or hot buzzwords, but for photographers have long struggled to assert credit over their word untried work and how what we're for photographers who struggle to -- i put the archaic at $

tracee carrasco joins us at the details of what we can expect that the day. good morning. >> four days into 2018 and we are being hit with the first major snowstorm this winter. here is times square right now. you can see flurries are starting but we are expecting anywhere between five to eight inches of snow over the next 12 hours so bundle up new yorkers. meanwhile, 13 states from south carolina are under winter storm warning as to whether prepares to wreak havoc on the northeast. looking at pictures in south carolina where snow is extremely rare. georgia is currently under a state of emergency and residents of tallahassee, florida saw snow for the first time in 28 years. >> never seen snow promise a big difference. super cold. >> you know it's the sunshine state. >> i never experienced anything like this. this is crazy. i've got to check ice off my car. i don't know how to drive on the road like this. >> a powerful storm forecasters are calling a bomb cyclone is heading straight for the northeast it's up to 12 inches of snow and record low temperatures. hi

tracee carrasco joins us now with more on that another have meant making news this morning. >> this is the first 10 google it the first time google ever break in its own record in 2017 by spending it a million dollars to lobby congress, federal agencies in the white house on issues such as immigration, tax reform and antitrust. google spent money to weigh in on to regulate online advertising. google is not the only tech company to increase spending trying to influence washington pick facebook, amazon and apple brokering company records by pouring money into lobbying operations. lauren: bank of america, they are bragging this morning about what? >> bair bragging about their payer. >> a good look at the two women and minorities and say they are doing pretty well. according to "the wall street journal," and bank of america have reviewed a for the u.s. and women are paid on average 99% of what men are paid according to an internal memo. the bank also found minorities are paid on average 99% of white nonminorities are paid. citibank also did something similar and found similar findings. che

tracee carrasco has batted other headlines.tter exploring ways to show it to users that they may have been exposed to this russian propaganda during the 2016 presidential election. working to identify and inform individuals who may have seen tweets from criminal account spreading misinformation and divisive messages. the comments came during a senate hearing on an unrelated topic yesterday in washington d.c. cheryl: pretty interesting. transparency and really trying to move away from the whole controversy with his good. a collection of wines: from a big tank executive. say it isn't so. >> the culprit is a former assistant of this goldman sachs copresident. david sullivan had fun playing $2 million worth of rare and costly bottles of wine stolen from his personal collection there. his personal assistant nicholas to meyer. all of this exposed in court documents yesterday. he was reportedly transporting the stolen wind coming taking bottles come in selling them to a north carolina-based wine dealer. part of his job was to collect

joining us now from the fox business network studios tracee carrasco.g to you. >> reporter: good morning. happy friday. >> happy friday indeed. yes, oh, my goodness, t.g.i.f. let's get started. wal-mart closing sams clubs. you know, i don't think a lot of people are shopping -- well, lot of people are shopping there but i guess they're closing more of them. >> reporter: well, we had two big announcements from wal-mart. in one breath we had the announcement that they were going to be increasing the hourly wage because of the tax reform bill and also giving out some bonuses. and then just a little while later we heard that they were closing 63 sams club locations across the country, laying off thousands of employees, many of whom say they didn't even get any notice. some of the locations that we're hearing of that are shutting down are in texas, new york, virginia and arizona. a full list, though, hasn't yet been made public. but we're hearing that some of these locations will be turned into e commerce distribution centers which is kind of what they're go

cheryl: tracee carrasco has that another headlines. good morning, tracee. >> you at the price increase at a .3 million streaming users come of, the most it has gained in a quarter. that is 2 million more subscribers than wall street expected, tripling profits. that drove netflix to a market cap of $100 billion for the first time. shares are sharply higher in premarket trading after rallying throughout the month and rising 53% last year. during this quarter, netflix released seasons "stranger things" and will smith action movie bright and will continue to pour money back from $8 billion into its content to dominate around the world. another interesting note with incoming netflix paid out $39 million for content. sources say the content was related to kevin spacey and all of those misconduct allegations that came out. >> they also had a film that year he paid for. they're just not going to release it now? >> no. cheryl: rupert murdoch thinks that facebook should be paying for news content from the likes of his company. >> twenty-first cen

alert for you, crisis for chrysler, more than 100,000mini just recalled over engineer issue, tracee carrascousiness with what we need to know this morning. tracee: good morning, heather, 160,000 chrysler mini vans because of software programs that can cause the engine to stall. so far one accident relate today this and a dozen of complaints to national highway safety administration, dealers will be switching out this software to make sure that this doesn't happen. heather: all right, so we have to talk about the most important thing, dunkin donuts, without donuts what would they call themselves? >> just dunkin. dropping the name dunkin, so tomorrow one store is opening with the new name debuting, this is part of rebranding that they have been trying to do. they mentioned this a while back so now they are moving forward with this. this location in massachusetts would unveil some high-tech drive-throughs. heather: most importantly they will have doughnuts, they are just calling dunkin. tracee: so to celebrate martin luther king, jr. day you can get free admission to the country's national park

tracee carrasco from fox business network, hey, tracee.e that can cause the engine to just stall. so this is the chrysler pacifica mini van from the year 2017 so this is a really big issue that chrysler is trying to fix. they are alerting all of the owners of this car, they are going to upgrade the software, so far there's been one potential accident caused by this malfunction. no injuries but dozens of complaints. jillian: i'm scared for the next story, airline attendant, do not drink coffee on airplane, why? >> this comes from unidentified flight attendant, she told vice.com that you should not drink coffee because water that's used can be unhealthy. the water system that's used, it's the same water that goes through the bathroom system. that is what the flight attendant says, she says that the same goes for hot tea, bottled water is okay, the ice is okay and this goes along with other things that flight attendants have said about this previously, so depends on how you look at it, drink coffee with caution. jillian: i wonder why ice is o

lauren: and the price tag is interesting, tracee carrasco joins us on that and other headlines makingracee: weinstein company is close to a deal, now it could come less than $500 million, this is what the wall street journal is reporting and it would cost shareholders to lose all of their equity if it does sell for something that low. now, there was a december 22nd, deadline that a list of 20 people submitted bids, bids that was narrowed down to about 6 and right now the bidders include a group led by business women maria contreras. studio lions gate, entertainment and investment, alternative investment. cheryl: how the mighty fall, i guess is the weinstein story. samsung had problems with fire and now hp. >> lithium battery issue that samsung had and applies to 50,000hp notebook computers and mobile workstations, they were sold at amazon, on hp's website and the consumer product commission safety said they received eight complaints of batteries overheating, melting and received a complete of one minor injury, someone's hand was burned and property damage totaling $4,500 because of th

tracee carrasco here with what we all need to know. >> really large recall, 3.3 million air bags thatalled because they're faulty. now, this has been going on for years and specifically we are talking about the 2009, 10, and 13 vehicles, toyota, honda, gm, ford, big list of these. now the specific model will be released sometime later once the automakers get all the information together. heather: let's move onto u.s. post office doing something very important. joining the fight to stop opioid crisis, how? >> they have been working with federal agencies, they have been working working with local and state law enforcement to try and intercept some of these dairnlts opioids specifically fetenyl. 880% in terms of those domestic seizures related to opioids. heather: this is something i suspected for a long time. starbucks underfilling lattes. >> this is a lawsuit and has been dismissed. a lot of people were complaining and what you suspected that they were not filling lattes all the way to the top and the foam was taking up too much space, there's not enough evidence here so we are tossing

lauren: tracee carrasco joins us with more on that and other headlines making news this morning. >> tie-dyerting on january 1st. a computerized system menus for the sellers to keep track of everything. right now they are using paper invoices. the stated that oversees everything says this computerized system was implemented however there's been no training at so it's not been required for the sellers to use, which is a concern because the sales could push everything to the black market. a little bit of a rockstar affair. things haven't really been in place before january 1st. a lot going on in california right now the region shake her head without. is there a chance that the flight attendant would be more friendly on my next flight because -- >> a good chance the flight attendant is from southwest or american airlines because they have said they will share the wealth with their employees. they will be giving a thousand dollars bonus because of the gop tax reform bill. southwest is that they will also exercise right to vote at 40 new jets from boeing also give an extra $5 million to charity.

jillian: tracee carrasco from sister network fox business on how local mailman is lending a hand, heyively working with law enforcement and federal agencies to try and stop illegal opioids from entering the united states so they have been increasing investigations, they have been using technology to try and stop all of this. so here are the numbers, 2016 through 2017 they saw increase of 375% in international parcel seizure, 880% in domestic parcel seizures. jillian: if going to starbucks, is my drink going to be full? >> depends on how you look at it. there was a lawsuit and the judge tossed this out against tar bucks staying they weren't filling up lattes all the way to the top and they say this was an effort to save money and that the foam was taking up too much space but the judge said there wasn't enough evidence so that's why the lawsuit was tossed out but in starbucks' defense, if you ask them to make drink over again because you don't like it, they usually will. rob: dunkin donuts is taking sandwiches off menu? >> they are cutting 10% nationwide in mid-march, they are started

amazon new store opening today with no money and no lines, tracee carrasco from sister network fox businesshow the check-out preconvenience store works. tracee: good morning, heather, amazon is changing the way that people shop. the new store in seattle called amazon go opening up today, you just go in and you scan the app and enter, you start shopping and you can walk out. there are no lines, no cashier, you walk out with whatever you're buying. all of the sensors and there are cameras everywhere that are track -- they are tracking what you you by, that's how it know what is you're purchases and you can walk out. you have to sign up for the app, that links all of your payment information there. no lines, that's pretty cool. heather: tracking what you buy so they can send you advertisements and things like that, maybe, we will see if that happens. delta adding requirements for service animals? tracee: yes, harder if you're flying with emotional support animal or service animal on delta, so they've had a lot of incidents recently since 2016, complaints have more than doubled and more people

tracee carrasco has that along with some other headlines. >> google is facing two dueling lawsuits. the former google engineer fired after writing a memo said just the men were better suited than women for certain tech jobs and another google engineer saw the lawsuit for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men alleged that google is a hostile workplace for employees whose conservative views in the company and favorably favors women in hiring and promoting. here's what he said last night on making money with charles payne. >> there is continued harassment and clear sabotage a 91 that a conservative viewpoint and there is constant shaming and attacks against white men within silicon valley. it's really hurting google's employees, google and everyone that uses google's products. >> they are seeking class-action status incomes less than week after for female google employees filed a lawsuit also seeking class-action status alleging google pays and promotes men more than women. cheryl: interesting. he's making a lot of waves because they been stowed politically correct. t

tracee carrasco from sister network fox business here with how the checkout convenience store works. ning, guys, amazon changing the way people shop. this is a new store upping -- opening up in seattle. you download the app amazon go, scan, walk whatever you want, shop, there's no checkout line, no cashiers and the app keeps track of what you are buying, there's sensors and cameras everywhere that will track what you buy. this is open today, maybe we will get one here in new york city very soon. rob: i would imagine we would. not the last time but a couple flights ago i was on one and i heard a dog bark and then another dog bark, they started barking at each other. so many dogs on the plane, that might change? tracee: delta because there are so many animals flying now, they are making harder for people to bring their emotional support animals or their service animals, you are now going to have to provide proof of vaccinations, also sign a voucher that says your animal can behave during the flight. this starts on march first, all of this because they've had complaints double since 2016

tracee carrasco joins us with headlines making news. >> there's no force in china, star wars last jediters because it has been tanking with audiences in second week box office numbers were down 92% and the film earned just $28.7 million in first week, you compare that to here in the u.s. in opening weekend, $220 million, historically star wars film in china have not been very popular, so this goes along with the trend that they have seen with previous movies. cheryl: interesting, they usually love blockbusters. lauren: you have companies catering specifically to chinese audience, it's different. if you want to make money, you have to do it their way, i suppose. moving onto another topic, having diverse management team can lead to success? tracee: yes, researchers examined financial data of more than 1,000 major companies across 12 countries as well as gender and ethnic make-up of workforces, well the analysts found that the companies with diverse executive teams posted bigger profit margins than rivals compared with companies with relatively little diversity in the upper cheer and now

joining us tracee carrasco. good morning to you.k about some cost cutting measures at the airlines that are going to make us all a little more bored let me just say. >> reporter: yes, so the way that we are going to be entertained on flights will soon be changing. airlines getting rid of those seat back screens that we all really enjoy on those long flights. so, as you said, this is a cost saving move because it costs about $10,000 for these screens and in addition to being expensive, they're also bulky and add weight. they've become technologically obsolete. airlines are pushing for flyers to use their own devices, smartphones to download the airline apps that will provide content like movies and tv shows. so qantas there's the latest to get rid of these screens, delta announced that they would be slowly phasing these out back and american and united also slowly phasing these out as well. so, you're going to have to find anothr way to entertain yourself at 30,000 feet. >> that's just crazy because, you know, we just last report on

tracee carrasco looking at the map that the state department just put out. what's the deal?ah, so the state department is changing the phrasing of their warnings and alerts, which some travelers have found to be a little confusing so they're making it a little easier. they're using numbers and colors. so, if you see a number one, you'll know that you can just take the normal precautions. a number two means that you should increase your caution a little bit. a number three means you might want to reconsider your trip. and a number four the state department recommends against traveling to that country at that time. so, a number four is syria, north korea, you know, countries like that and it's interesting they'll also be adding some letters giving a little more description to what's going on in that country so you may see a c for crime, a t for terrorism or a u for civil unrest. the state department really hoping this helps people when making travel plans to beaf to certain places. >> yeah, just make it a little easier to understand. it's a great resource. i don't think a lot

joining us from the fox business network studio tracee carrasco.ter: good morning. happy monday. >> happy monday to you. let's talk about the shortage of iv bags. what's going on here? >> reporter: yes, so this is interesting. this is all caused by hurricane maria back september. so, the hurricane really badly damaged an iv plant in puerto rico and since then, the plant has been struggling to get their production back up to speed. so, the plan is baxter international as i said in puerto rico and all of this is causing somewhat of a shortage of these iv bags across the country so hospitals right now have very limited supply so some hospitals are electing to delay certain procedures or trials that they're running. so, this really could -- could put a damper on things especially as we're heading right into flu season right now. >> right. >> iv's are -- these iv bags are very critical to helping those combating the flu so this could really be a big problem. >> indeed. just another reminder that that situation in puerto rico is still ongoing and more ai

tracee carrasco with more.l, venezuela's oil put collapsing at record speed, in 2017 oil production fell 216,000 barrels a day to 1.6 million in december, compared to november. that marks the 15th consecutive monthsly decline according to new data from opec. during 2017 as a whole, production fell 649,000 barrels a day. that is decline of 29%, ranking this among the deepest declines in the industry's recent history. venezuela state-led economy relies on oil exports for 95% of its hard currency. this output decline means venezuela is only major oil producer not to benefit from rising crude oil prices which continue to whoever around three-year highs amid falling supplies. the collapsing oil industry is it further deepening the economic and humanitarian crisis there. also increasing the chances venezuela will default on its debts. neil, the bottom line here, socialism is not working. neil: all that money they're sitting on with all that oil. trace see, thank you very much. neil: president said sign me up, i'm wil