however, u.p.s.e than a couple of -- more than three bucks last week, still hasn't touched that low today, and it's a remarkable performance, given the high-profile nature of the disappointment. that's because i believe this negative preannouncement is the beginning of something new and different and, yes, special for united parcel. first of all, u.p.s. now knows it has an expanded holiday season. no doubt in part because of amazon's guaranteed two-day delivery. but also because of the secular shift away from the mall traffic and buying things online. that's good news, not bad news. secondly, know that u.p.s. will never be caught unawares again. it probably recognizes that it needs to prepare for that week, which judging by the sea change in shopping habits might turn out to be the new peak shipping week next year. it's shopping at u.p.s., which knows more about logistics didn't see this coming. but when you consider the weakness in the retailers, this was one of the most seismic shifts in shopping p

u.p.s.ust warned on the quarter a moment ago. and, of course, we have earnings from ge, morgan stanley, intel, and more. the ten-year yield take a look, we'll get industrial production and michigan sentiment this morning and then europe has some mild gains. 97% of the german dax by the way trading above the 200-day average. the roadmap this morning begins with u.p.s. the stock going to take a hit this morning after lowering their fourth quarter guide ax, a hangover from the holiday shipping fiasco. >>> and shares of intel are sliding after fourth quarter earnings missed estimates and warning of flat revenues for the rest of this year. >>> and speaking of earnings morgan stanley, general electric, and amex making big moves today, we'll break them down with you. but first up, u.p.s., the package delivery company expects fourth quarter earnings of $1.25, well below forecasts. u.p.s. said it's been negatively impacted by higher costs driven by a surge of shipments during the holiday season. the

finally, the u.p.s. driver takes refuge. call it wildlife refuge in his own truck. >> oh, boy. we don't know if he ever made the delivery. it's the time of year when delivery drivers may be hoping for a bottle of wild turkey for christmas. and instead, this man is a victim of fowl play. how many puns can we work in to this? >> you have the moves. all right. >>> for some of you, local news is up next. >> for everyone else, we'll be back with some cures for your >> for everyone l be back with some cures for you the length of 146 football fields... they can see the light of a single candle. your eyes are amazing. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins with lutein and vitamins a, c, and e to support healthy eyes and packed with key nutrients to support your heart and brain, too. centrum silver. for the most amazing parts of you. smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. he

., why are the numbers down on u.p.s.?y picked the exact wrong dates. december 16th through 20th is our peak week. december 17th is our peak day. they were talking about right then of having to hire -- really not a lot of people in terms of what the last-minute surge would be. they just got the week wrong. they like everybody else in this country did not understand this shortened period between thanksgiving and christmas and they really didn't understand by the way that amazon is the place that people shop. >> and that people were still -- the retailers like amazon were still promising you could get it in time. there was a lack of communication between them. >> you really had to hire a lot of overtime workers. look, it's a high-quality problem, maybe they've learned that the -- that the idea of the december 16th to the 20th now peak is no longer the case. they just got the calendar wrong entirely. it's kind of interesting to go back and read off u.p.s. kicks off peak week analysis, they put out a release december 16th, 201

u.p.s.elivers more than a package to a bay area home and we will show you the carelessness caught on camera and show you what is going on in the oakland maze where traffic but add some sauce, pepperoni and cheese and fold up the crescent dough and presto, tuesday night just became crescent pizza pocket-tastic pillsbury crescents. make dinner pop. he loves me. he loves me not. he loves me. he loves me not. ♪ he loves me! that's right. [ mom ] warm and flaky in 15, everyone loves pillsbury grands! [ girl ] make dinner pop! ♪ oh, in the morning, with my whole wheat toast ♪ ♪ with a dash of salt, alone i love you most ♪ ♪ avocado-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh >>> we will look at radar and show you the high pressure is to the south and west and riding over-the-top is a small piece of energy bringing you the radar returns you see north of 80. if we see rain in the bay area it will be in the north by. 70 in sacramento and fresno and 84 in palm springs. the snow we talked about yesterday in the sierra, it is be

u.p.s.r in the bay area was caught on video chucking a package. here is surveillance video from last week in concord, showing the driver running up with the package and -- boom -- throwing it over. the homeowner said something was fragile inside but it did not break. u.p.s. did not respond when asked. >> video shows the city of san francisco lick you have never seen it before. these were photos with time-lapse, amazing shots from all over the city, and a stop motion video has two million views on youtube. we have the full time lapse video on abc7news.com. >> interesting on time lap video you see fog, clouds, sunshine, blue skies but never rain. mike? >> no, that is unusual especially this time of the year when we are supposed to get .15" a day. you can see rain around eureka and reno and to fort bragg and we have a winter storm watch in the sierra tomorrow evening through thursday evening poll up to a foot of snow. today, clouds and a sprinkle is possible and 54 and mostly cloudy and 58. clo

. >>> in bay area news today, we are watching the u.p.s. driver -- a new -- [ indiscernible ] boarding area e in terminal 3 at sfo is getting an upgrade for a year and a half. the multi-million dollar upgrade has given the terminal unique state-of-the-art features including customized interactive digital displays and bay area-centric restaurants. >>> this u.p.s. driver in concord must have been in a big hurry when he ran across the street and carelessly threw his delivery over the fence. it was caught on camera. the homeowner said the package had something fragile but nothing was broken. so far no comment from u.p.s. >>> a strange scene in sonoma county. a bull roaming the streets before he was captured in santa rosa. for more than an hour though yesterday afternoon some santa rosa firefighters turned cowboy in an effort to corral this big guy. the bull's owner says the animal somehow escaped from its ranch a couple miles away near rohnert park. he had been wandering all day even stopping traffic on 101. he took the exit ended up on todd ro

u.p.s. is more -- preparing for the fact that this could be the reality? more and more people are shopping online, and may need them delivered. >> definitely. u.p.s. was surprised by the late push, and how many people due to weather, or just the fact that they forgot some people unnethes christmas list were going online to shop. okay, so the big headline today is just a big number. definitely, yes. >> good to see you, from buzz feed. a program note, ali velshi will have a special all next week. you can see america's middle class rebuilding the dream starting monday night. right here on al jazeera america. the new england journal of medicine followed more than 7,000 kids 12.5% were obese in kindergarten that rose to 21% by 8th grade. those who were obese in kindergarten were four to five times more likely to maintain their obesity through 8th grade, and those who were obese then, were likely to stay that way through adulthood. ebbs perts say this may show that combating obesity is best done a

u.p.s.n as well after they said it expected its fourth quarter and full year profits to be below previous expectations. this as it struggled with the surge of last-minute online orders and a shortened holiday shopping season. fed ex is falling in sympathy with u.p.s. apple is falling lower. we're going to end here on general electric. ge, which is losing ground after its profit margin missed goals set by the ceo jeff immelt. the company reporting fourth quarter earnings that matched wall street estimates. back over to you guys. yoop >> there it is down 3%. so why is general electric getting smacked today? the earnings seemed pretty innocuous. the profit margins not withstanding. one of our next guests says this time the street is getting it wrong. could this dip be a buying opportunity for ge? with us now, typically we have a bull and bear in our stock brawl. i'm telling you, our whole staff scoured wall street and couldn't find a bear. why doesn't this stock move higher in an appreciable wa

to drive for u.p.s., just because it freed him to coach his sons' teams come afternoon and to spare his wife middle of the night disruption mark slept in a separate bedroom, had for years. >> my tad treated her better than anybody could treat their wife. my mom was the queen. >> they lived simply. they lived paycheck to paycheck. they never had a lot extra. >> son tyler. for them it was all about family? >> yes, always. >> they all stayed as close as any family could be, when jason got married, he moved into the house right next door. helped celebrate mark and karen's silver wedding anniversary as they all did. by 2012, they were grandparents many times over, had been married nearly 33 years. >> one thing i always looked up to and loved about their relationship was that they still dated. >> tyler's wife, tina. >> after that long, sometimes you can lose that, and i never saw them lose that. >> but change does come for everyone and by 2012 in their early 50s, mark and karen were making some changes. karen went back to school, nursing school. >> this was a plan that they had talked about?

u.p.s.ast at the end of a holiday shopping season and cold weather took a toll on service. the dow is up 26. the nasdaq down 24. s&p down 7. >>> google is working on smart contact lenses which could be revolutionary for diabetes. the high tech devices appear like normal contacts but are loaded with tiny transitters and an antenna. the lenses monitor glucose levels in the tears of diabetes. if they make it to market, this could mean diabetes would no longer have to draw blood every day to check their levels. >>> uber is offering free rides in the east bay from now through late monday night. uber says passengers can get two trips that would normally cost $30 each for free. the ride-sharing service hopes this will get more people to try uber. it's also teaming up with the warriors and the alameda fowk food bank. anyone who uses uber on monday and donates five kanded foods will be entered for tickets to an upcoming warrior game. >>> mup at 5:00, we're taking a closer look at what the drought dec

both fed eex and u.p.s. fedex up 50% while u.p.s. up about 35%.n stocks seen by many as a leading indicator for markets. one day does not a trend make. >>> stocks ended 2013 with a bang, but we're starting off 2014 solidly in the red. we're down 134 points on the dow, 40 to the down side on the nasdaq. and the s&p is down almost 18 points. bob pisani is joining me here at post 9. perhaps we're not surprised. >> this hasn't happened a down day since 2007 on the first trading day. i think a lot of problems are over in asia. put up some of these emerging market countries. asia's got people a little bit nervous today. chinese pmi was a disappointment. you see emerging market stocks all to the down side here. the export components of the pmi were weak. that's all tied to the global trade issue. as further proof that china's a bit of an issue. look at copper today. all of the metals are up today with the exception of copper. this is a six-month chart. you see copper has been trying to rally. you see it is down today. china's a big issue. the u.s. market

it's going to be a u.p.s. store but they haven't moved in yet. he went straight through all the way back. >> repairs are going on right now. the witnesses said the driver did not appear hurt. >>> a defiant burglary suspect in san jose who refused to give up is facing a long list of charges tonight. the standoff started at 8:30 this morning next to san jose city college. the suspect tried to grab an officer's taser gun. the suspect took off into this apartment. after nearly four hours, he came out and tried to escape on a bike. that's when a canine dog moved in and bit him. the suspect is in custody for assault on a peace officer,burg riff and possession of stolen property. >>> suspect clifford atkins is in jail. police say atkins broke into a medical marijuana dispensary. >>> continuing coverage now of our drought emergency. house speaker john baneler be in the central valley tomorrow discussing a possible fix. boehner, along with three other california republicans, are proposing an emergency bill that would allow farmers to pump irrigation water

on friday we learned that u.p.s.ss money because i've slew of failed christmas packages deliveries cuting in to its bottom line. all those shoppers holding out for steep discounts and last deals over the holiday season may have proved too do of thely to americas businesses in the end. we development know what yet is driving the caw his behavior. if america senses storm clouds on the horizon they pull back on spending. development get too alarmed yet just think about it as an economic storm cloud forming over the ocean far away from where we are. we are not sure if the clouds will make landfall. my nobody is to watch those clouds and warn you if they represent danger to you. could be nothing. that's what economist williams evans at the st. louis federal reserve teams to think. >> step back in do consumer sentiment serve to his reminds us that it's not a straight lineup. there are going to be fits and starts, we are going to have periods of stronger spending, stronger growth, followed by some periods of pulling back a

a wild turkey in minnesota stalking a u.p.s.an forcing him to run around to avoid getting his wrath. >> each year jib jab puts together their year in review. as we end our first show of 2014 let's look at the 2013 that was from the folks at jib jab. ♪ ♪ >> "fox & friends" starts right now. >>> hey, hey and welcome to 2014. it is wednesday, january 1. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck this morning. america ringing in a brand-new year. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! >> we'll show you the celebrations from around the country. >> and today obamacare officially making its debut. and despite more canceled plans than enrollments, the woman in charge has only one thing to say. >> i'm thrilled that we're going to have millions of people for the first time.

wei worked from jpmorgan from joorn 2012 until last awl august and now works ford u.p.s. jp morgan chase, pretty flat. >>> farm goers reportedly banned staffers from -- their own money. the financial times suggests that wells code of ethics says employees shouldn't invest in privately held businesses which compete with the bank which could cause a conflict of interest. we'll take a short break. still to come, off the back of an earnings beat, we'll bring you my fist interview with unilever ceo paul tollman. >>> unilever has rrtd better than expected results. i caught up with paul polman and the ceo of unilever. he told me he was pretty pleased. >> there are headwinds on the currency webs but the underlying sales growth is up 4.3%, which is very competitive for us. we also have another year of profitable growth, core operating margin up 40 basis points, so that is four years now of top and bottom line growth, profitable, consistent and competitive. these have been achieved despite the slowdown in emerging markets. emerging markets used to go at the composite of 6% to 7%. i

. >> in the summer of 1992 agent aguilera got a tip from u.p.s. that a box delivered to the compound had accidentally broken open revealing a stash of grenade hulls. that tip began a seven-month investigation to determine if the branch davidian were stockpiling illegal weapons. >> they had acquired hundreds of weapons, rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenades, grenade launches. almost two million rounds of ammunition. >> i was discovering a lot of ar-15s. they were converting these weapons from semiautomatic to automatic weapons. >> fully automatic rifle is, of course, illegal to possess. >> is it not against the law to buy firearms. it's not against the law to buy anything that they sell at a gun show. >> people don't even realize they have turned from a commune into an armed camp, and the weapons become very much a part of their life. they have engaged in now paramilitary training. >> i was outraged, and i was able to go out and get enough probable cause to make sure that, you know, i'm going to get my warrant for this guy. >> in january 1993 the atf

we'll hear from conco philips, eli lilly, 3m, exxon mobil, u.p.s., visa, colgate and hardly david sonafter the bell, we hear from visa, amazon and google. just on the earnings front, what do you guys think about it? have we been shy of what we wanted? >> oh, i think a little bit shy of what you expected, exactly. and i think that's the challenge in terms of the equity markets is corporate profits are still rising. they're still growing. they're broad based but maybe our optimism has gotten a little bit ahead of ourselves. >> so as we said earlier, the fed's path is now fairley clear. so what is rattling investors at the moment? >> i think the level of risk is a little bit higher than what people had perceived earlier. it does look like china has started to settle in, but still has some issues. the emerging markets, a lot of questions about those countries that have current account deficits again. and then the political risks like turkey, like argentina. so the risk market has picked up a little bit. investors have to adjust earning he expectation for the risk that evolved in the marke

talk about a turkey chasing a u.p.s. driver around a fed ix truck. finally, the worker manages to escape. maybe the turkey was mad because his christmas gifts weren't delivered on time. and no place like home for the holidays. check out what happened when jennifer hudson gave someone a house for christmas. yes, a dream house from a dream test test coming up, could obam put another industry out of business? find out why the vending machine you count on for your midday snack may be at risk. that's next. >>> >>> a new government regulation of obamacare, forcing vending machine companies to post calorie counts of each treat. that could cost the industry $25 million just for the first year and put some venders out of business. good evening, butch. what do you think about this regulation? >> simply insane. it makes no sense. why do we force small businesses like mine to post calorie count. i believe it's a very good thing to have the calorie counts. but why don't they make the manufacturers post it on the labels? coca cola, pepsi cola, they can afford it.

. >> suspicious packages on board two u.p.s.ed them to be quarantined. >> there is a question about them in the air and what will happen next. >> with a young, ambitious staff working 24/7, the start-up network launched october 7, 1996 in only 17 million households. competitor cnn was in 70 million homes. >> all you had to do was walk into the newsroom. everybody here was getting paid less, working more, doing more. almost like they were stockholders. were people really this motivated? was anybody watching in october of 196? >> no. it was like television in a vacuum. we couldn't watch it in manhattan because there was an argument with the cable company that had manhattan wired. >> doing an interview. >> i think we need to call mr. murdock. >> is that on my visa limit? >> do you ever reflect how far the place has come? >> when ronler ales would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought he was drinking kool-aid. >> i do believe that over time fox has become a really powerful news operation. >> cnn had a 16

. >> suspicious packages on board two u.p.s. planes have forced those planes to be guaranteed. >> we don't have details on what that package might look like. >> it was a tense environment. what will happen next? >> with a young ambitious staff working 24/7, the startup network launched october 7th, 1996 in only 17 million households. competitor cnn was in 70 million homes. >> all you had to do was walk in the newsroom. everybody was getting paid less, doing more, but they were all almost like stockholder. >> was anyone watching in october of 1996? >> no. it was like doing television in a vacuum. we couldn't even watch it here in manhattan because there was the argument with the cable company that had manhattan wired. >> do i have that on my visa limit? >> do you ever stop and reflect and think about how far this place has come? >> when roger would say i have a five year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid. >> i think fox has become apowe. >> cnn had a 16 year head start, but this 5 1/2 years, fox news

construction, manufacturing and a decline in the number of courier job that u.p.s. and fedex to ship online. >> that doesn't make sense in december. >> right. i don't believe it. these numbers will get revised. every year we have a month where we get an out liar on the downside. it gets revised away or reversed in subsequent months. this is one of those months. >> the famous zero jobs month. >> august 2010 or something? now we created 175 thousand thousand jobs. >> folks may not realize that the way the jobs survey and the unemployment rate, there two different surveys. the labor participation rate is a continuing trend. how troubled of you by this 36-year low in the labor participation rate? >> the decline is due in large part to baby boomers who necessary their late 50s and 60s. >> when you say a large part, can you put a percentage on that. >> participation rates since the recession rate hit five or six years ago. i am rounding so i don't know exactly. of that, 2 percentage points is due to this retirement. the baby boomers retiring. a percentage point and that's

. >> oh, the perils of the u.p.s. truck driver. a wild turkey started attacking the u.p.s. driver.ent. another person walking by came to the driver's rescue. chased the turkey away. why is a turkey in the middle of the street? where is this again? >> i like how he goes behind the rival truck to find comfort and escape. >> yeah. yeah. at least they are working together. fed ex and u.p.s. >> playing nice in the sand box. >> all together. >>> you know, i said that i couldn't find a way to say aww because of the seal thing. animal stories aren't my deal. i tell you, i sat and watched "march of the penguins" and was fascinated. have you seen that? >> yes. of course. >> it will be on again tomorrow night at 9:00 on cnn. thanks for starting your morning with us. >> we have more ahead on "new day saturday" beginning right now. >>> good morning. i'm alison kosik. >> i'm victor blackwell. it really was fascinating, by the way. 9:00 on the east coast. 6:00 out west. this is "new day saturday." a lot of people are digging out. the big story this morning for tens of millions of people who why j

and u.p.s. a good global barometer of what's happening in the world economy. >> i will contribute the yen, if i may, it's going to be one of the first things under night, it will give you a sense of whether this whole liquidity thing is working. yeah david? >> can i make one point? one thing that's interesting and i actually had a conversation with a couple traders today about this people were talking about where are the buyers on the dip, right? because this is a pretty significant, you know, nominal pullback. if you look at last year toward the tail end of last year, every dip was really bought. that was a lot of traders playing catch-up. it was obvious that, you know, you would see the trend of every pullback you'd start to see the traders come in and buy the dip and make money. it was a continued opportunity for them. this year the clock is reset. and i said it before on your program, you're going to have a very different type of investor appetite this year. you got to seek out the winners.

this is a u.p.s. man being faced around a fedex truck by a wild turkey. >> look at that! the turkey's chasing the fedex guy. >> oh, my god! [ laughing ] >> okay, so laugh it up, people, after a while, they had to feel bad for the guy and had to wonder what kind of people would point and laugh at a person going through such a traumatic experience. we found out at the end of the video. >> oh, there he goes! >> he's got the idea. turn tail on him. >> what'd he do? >> chased him. >> wait, what, a bunch of doctors?! you guys leave a person on the surgery table to go make fun of those guys. thanks, obamacare. >>> if you're not familiar with readit.com, it's the one with 56 billion page views in 2013. why are so many people flocking to readit. because there's gold. case in point. my boss brings her dog to work. recently we've been reenacting scenes to movies. a guy with a little bit of extra time on his hands remaking the greatest romantic moments in cinematic history with his boss' dog. apparently it started with the "titanic." the real winners were the "mrs. robinson" pose fro

. >> i tried this week to find a philly jersey because mark is too cheab to u.p.s.sey to me. he couldn't handle that. the only thing i could find, and i'm a man of my word, i will relentlessly -- >> stop filibustering, put the hat on. >> it's on there. >> oh. you look great in green, man. >> the tags may not be taken off. i'm not going to crease the bill because i'm definitely going to return this. >> of course you are. >> at least i bought it for this afternoon. can we move on to the super bowl? >> let's do that. maybe double down here? >> you can only go to super bowl if you buy a ticket to it. my eagles will be playing in the super bowl. let's move week by week here. we'll beat new orleans this week, then whoever we play we are going win. chen an nfc championship. it's going to happen. >> i'm not sure we are going bet every weekend. you tell me, double or nothing for the super bowl. >> i'm picking the cowboys to win it all. no, just kidding. i'm going to go with the broncos. my boy manning is going to take care of all this. he's going to get a second ring so he c

we've got a number of brand name companies, including u.p.s., exxonmobil, they're going to let us peekf their financial condition. they're going to have quarterly results out. the government releases its first snapshot of gross domestic product for the fourth quarter, so that could be a market mover. that's at 8:30. >>> quite the birthday gift for facebook. the social media giant turned 10 on wednesday. facebook is getting long in the tooth. it recorded record results, even better than what wall street had expected. the news came after the closing bell on wall street yesterday, and facebook's stock is soaring in premarket trading. it is up 12%. facebook says it now has 1.2 billion users. that's a big number. but the pace at which it's adding users isn't keeping up with past quarters. watch that. a lot of questions about how the age of their users, too, they want that really young, young user, and there's not as much good growth there. >>> all right, hottest money story this morning, no question. google selling its motorola mobility smartphone opportunito lenovo. it's been a money loser

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u.p.s. earning 1.25 per share. the tech name to watch today, facebook.at the street on rising mobile ad sales. that stock is up 18% now. a gain of almost 10 bucks. >> another 20 billion in market cap. above 150 billion. he has to be on the list. >> zuck >> jessie eisenburg should be the mark zuckerberg. he's the actor in your movie, the movie you wrote. what was the name of that? social network. >> i did not write social network. >> who wrote it. >> aaron sorkin. >> you didn't write -- >> he wrote the west wing, he also writes a show called the newsroom. >> that's not you? >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> when we come back, we'll talk about weekly jobless claims. a first read on fourth quarter gdp as well. these are important numbers, especially what's going on in the labor market lately. as we head to a break, take a look at the u.s. equity futures, they are still indicated higher after a rough day yesterday. a drop of better than 180 points for the dow. this morning, most dow future you up 58 points above fair value. ♪ [ male announcer ] a

we've been talking about some of the woes u.p.s. has been having.tal workers got quite the show when a wild turkey stalked a ups driver. it was fedex. my bad. that's fedex. the driver tried to get away from the bird -- it was a u.p.s. driver hiding behind a fedex truck. another driver came to the rescue and chased the turkey away. >> the turkey did not give up. obviously a problem with overnight delivery for that turkey. >> pay backs. >> exactly. >>> next up for us on "new day," blizzard warning, snow emergencies. what a way to start the new year. we'll have the latest on the storm that millions of people are now facing. >>> plus, he was declared legally dead a year ago but the fbi had a hunch, a banker wanted for fraud was still alive. guess what, their hunch was right. [ female announcer ] stress can make your mind spin all night. unisom sleeptabs help you fall asleep 33% faster and wake refreshed. unisom. a stressful day deserves a restful night. >>> seems like it's been snowing since winter got here. >> happening now, a monster storm bearing dow

no one really expected, again, that's u.p.s. call, like, how could u.p.s.ave its peak week the last week and that's because mall traffic is down. coach has been adept at telling you, listen, we're a china story. that ain't cutting it anymore. there's just a lot of u.s. stores, they're over-stored. they have the wrong price point. the shoe incentive that i thought was working so well a year ago obviously seems to have petered out. i just don't understand how a company could go from first to worst in a rather, you know, kind of an amazing time. >> it does bring to mind a couple other in this case downgrades of dollar tree, for instance, stern cutting it to a neutral, saying it worked beautifully for a while, but they are looking at some deterioration in trends. >> right. >> home meet iheats bills that think might hurt consumer spending in the spring. >> that's a great point you mentioned. natural gas stocks really exploded yesterday and they exploded because, almost, listen, we accept the fact that there's a change here that the $3 level is no longer the effe

. >> a wild turkey possibly upset with holiday delivery delays took his frustration out on a u.p.s.and anthony mason. charlie rose is off. happy new year. >>> snow is falling causing travel hang-ups across the city. >> the airlines have already canceled more than a thousand u.s. flight. this storm is likely to cause blizzard conditions tonight in parts of the northeast. meteorologist megan glaros of pwbbm is tracking the bad weather. how does it look? >> good morning. much more to come gayle, norah, anthony, we're talking about a major storm system. we've been tracking the probability of these lows coming together tapping into the atlantic moisture and then bringing a major snowstorm to the northeast. it does look like here we go. blizzard conditions as you mentioned, could occur anywhere along the coastline from long island all the way up to maine. add to that blowing and drifting snow for a good part of the northeast. and we'll have a headache for the evening commute tonight from washington to new york and boston and then tomorrow morning for boston as well. now, i think the syste

the u.p.s. needs to get with the program. the message there. ross back to you. >> thanks for that, jules. jack liu is warning congress will run out of steps, he helped the country avoid a possible default by late february unless they raise the debt ceiling. in december, liu estimated the u.s. could avoid the issue until early march. congress suggestion spended the debt ceiling until february 17th. after then lew would use various bookkeeping measures. he'll join joe, andrew and becky on "squawk box" at 6:45 a.m. eastern. don't forget you can head online for more from our coverage of this year's davos gathering, stay in touch with the week's events by following cnbc world on twitter and using #wef14. also on what the experts think could be the world's biggest risks. join the conversation and let us know what you think on twitter using #biggestrisks. >>> so just over two hours into the trading day in europe, just under two hours and advancers outpace decliners of the dow jones, nearly 6:4, we've rebounded off the lows we hit an hour or so ago. th

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drop their plan, u.p.s. dropped their health care for all the spouses and dependents of their employees in both cases saying now you've got somewhere to go, go go to the exchange rather than the plan you had as part of being a retiree or part of being a spouse of someone who worked here. scott looked at plans for -- on the exchange and for a plan that is worse than what he had under his employer, he will pay 280% more in premiums and his out of pocket expenses -- i guess that means deductibles -- will quadruple. four times the deductibles, 280% the premiums. he says essentially, -- let me read one other thing here. he talks about being a disabled veteran. since i'm also a disabled veteran and exempt from the a.c.a., i went to see what my cost would be for a policy for just my 9-year-old daughter. unfortunately, i can't enroll here unless unless i enroll so my costs go from $159 for a cadillac policy to $459 per month for, his description, a horrible a.c.a. policy this year. essentially i was forced to buy a

e-mail address, i guess you could also set up a mail drop or type of service like mailboxes, et cetera, u.p.st particular address that's not associated with your home address. to tell you the truth, there are databases out there that anybody can subscribe to where you could look up anyone's social security number, date of birth, current address and a lot of personal information. and it costs about 25 to 50 cents a look up. so the bad guys want to get your information, there's really not anything out there stopping them. >> all right. very sobering information for me. and i know for you, too, laurie. and you're miss tech savvy over there. hopefully, we all learned a little something and can better protect ursz as we go online. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> everyone thought he was dead, suicide, after being accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from investors. how police finally nab this had former banker and where he was hiding all of this time. ♪ [ male announcer ] even more impressive than the research this man has at his disposal is how he puts it to work for his clients. m

fedex and u.p.s. losing ground. both stocks were up big in 2013.gher citing increased sales in china. gold prices started on a positive note. let's finish off with a big down side mover at least in terms of its impact on the market apple. falling after wells fargo downgrades the stock to market perform from outperform rating citing margin pressures when apple introduces another new version of its iproducts. >>> let's talk about it. if analysts are downgrading apple should you still buy it or what do you do? ross gerber is our bull. he owns 8 million shares of the stock. joining us on the phone is andy hargreaves. you caught in on an iphone by chance? >> no. samsung galaxy. >> i tried. ross, why to you like apple at this point? >> there's not a lot not to like. they have the best products out there between the new china mobile deal which finally got announced. i was waiting for that. it's huge. china is really the best driver for growth in almost every business that's international and now finally apple is in there. it will help drive sales. we expe

. >> u.p.s. boeing. we get a few betllwethers out later. what will be interesting is the u.s.of european, stocks, bonds. if we start to see that discrepancy. >> this will make it a tough slog for the nasdaq tomorrow. we're looking at the q's off half a percent. >> they're going to have to react to the apple results. at the same time we got face book at the opposite end. >> wish we could keep you around all week. thank you for joining me this afternoon. >>> let's hand it over to "fast money," coming up in a few seconds. melissa lee, more apple? >> we have colin gillis in the house. he downgraded apple. made a great call. he'll be following the earnings conference call for us. >> not going to miss it. over to you guys. >> "fast money" starts right now. live from the nasdaq market site in new york city's times square. your traders are tim seymour, josh brown, karen finerman and guy adami. we want to get to our top story tonight. that's the world's biggest tech company, falling in the after-hour sessions. beating the top and the bottom lines. but apple said it sold just 51 million

faced with growing expenses, large employers like u.p.s. are devising strategy to say lower health care spending, like trimming family coverage while other penalize employees for not joining wellness programs. >> you'll get a discount on your premium if you participate in a smoking cessation program or pay a higher premium if you don't participate. >> those strategies could begin to address health costs in the long term. a key part of the reforms just as the economy recovers and more people get covered. new custom for millions of americans and a resurgent economy are factors that analysts expect will drive up health care spending this year. >> people during the recession put off some health care expenses, some of which they should have had, but couldn't, and others, which they may be have been eelective. >> that may suggest bright spots on the health care landscape. last summer, a fifth of those surveyed about their overall health situation said it was getting worse. 8% said it was getting better, while the vast majority said it was the sam

and part of that was u.p.s., fedex, and part was the weather. anything to do to try to combat that?nd reminding people, maybe actually personalizing some of those gift lists heading into next year, which you can do more and more with big data every day. let's face it, the u.s. consumer procrastinated and dragged their feet. the average guarantee -- >> they did it. there were a lot of people who were promised those things would get there by christmas eve. they bought them by the 18th, maybe even sooner and didn't show up on time. how do you fight that? >> absolutely. it's true, but something retailers could hopefully use to their advantage because ultimately you can buy online and pick up in stores for a lot of retailers, as well. that instant gratification and guarantee is there. >> why not just go to the store and buy it? >> absolutely. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> absolutely. >>> coming up, 2013 was a record year for auto sales. the final december numbers due this morning. we're going to ask how the industry could possibly top the performance in 2014. that's coming up next

noah writes fed ex and u.p.s. zero stars for missing christmas guarantee, # bring on the drones. an i. very nice. funny how he's become associated with drones so heavily just in the course of one appearance on "60 minutes". >> yeah. it's not completely clear that is really going to become a strategy in the future. it may certainly, but may not and many pointing to it as a very effective marketing tool that appearance, but maybe not much more than that. >> controlling the message. and in fact there were a series of them talking about reconciles of the kindle, they had a good week and the offers they were doing during cyber monday and the rest. they had a good time. >> meanwhile the market continues to, i think cramer used the word soggy tweeting early this morning as we sort of makeup for some of the big gains we had at the end of last year, but it will be interesting to see how the action sort of solidifies into the first couple of weeks because these first few days haven't been much to write home about. >> still up over half a percent. >> although if the s&p is down today, that

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as a matter of fact, the next day he went to a u.p.s.lant in vegas where they were using natural gas fuel. the stocks that people bought off this because they were worried think this was going to be a boom in natural gas gas stations were clean energy fuels which is the biggest natural gas stations, the stock went from $12 to $24 going into and after the state of the inaugural -- and then, you know, after the state of the union four months later stock was back to $12, you had a complete repeal of the game. west port innovations, again, that went from $27 to $48 into the speech, state of the union and five months later it was at $22. it meant absolutely nothing and this will mean nothing too, because you need congressional approval to get the subsidies. exxon is against the natural gas stations and they bought the largest natural gas company they fought this issue, let's just say if you invest on this history is against you. again, i hate to do it. wow, i'm looking at the 2012 inaugural, i'm at 345 but maybe it will help people not lose m

lot of time celebrating alternative family setups, but what about the poor guy who goes to work at u.p.sting your family. >> when raising your kids, we effect thousands of human bei s beings. do you agree or disagree with the blogger? >>> and on to more headlines this sunday after a texas judge ruled a pregnant woman must be taken off life support. her hospital said it's not sure what happens next. officials say they are weighing whether to appeal because the woman is pregnant and must remain on life support. doctors say her baby is severely deformed and couldn't be born alive at this point. >>> the head of the eae is slamming president obama for saying marijuana is no more harmful than alcohol. during a storm conference, she told a group she's frustrated by the administration's recent openness. len leonhart says this sends mixed messages to high schoolers. >>> and just a few days after the alleged arrest for justin bieber, he was spotted on the beach in panama. bieber's fans were spotted lugging a lot of beer. panama's legal drinking age is 18. don't mess up that perfect hair there. >>>