union pacific, the largest u.s. rail posted first quarter profits and sales below analyst estimates the compy sited congestion at ports and weak coal demand and shares were lower by 2% as a result. and while union pacific and other rails come under pressure it is a different story for another transportation sector trucks. morgan brennan has more. >> trains versus trucks. on the the tale of two stories of transports. as oil is weak growth is transitioning to trucking's bread and butter. this is playing out in earnings. >> railings are strucking to put mid single-digit enk together and a big beneficiary of cheap diesel fult is posting phenomenal earnings growth. >> due to large demand and rising earning cost. union pacific reporting this morning. until now they had rock solid results but the first quarter missed analyst estimates with volume at 22%. saver kansas city southern had lower guidance. and as fuel costs fall. other companies have all beat on earnings posting big year over year growth. >> we've seen an averag

this is from a union pacific train, the horn got stuck. it blasted continuously since about 5:00 this morning. >> happy easter. >> union pacific crews were able to finally silence that horn about 9:00. they have not said what caused the horn the blare for so long. but are thankful to the person who made it stop. >>> contra costa chp officers are investigating an accident that left a woman dead in the road. she either jumped or fell out of her taxi. she was hit by at least one car on highway 4 and died at the scene. this happened at 3:45 this morning. >> the creator of a so-called revenge porn website has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars. kevin bollaert posted more than 10,000 nude photos of women on his site. the photos were linked to social media sites where the victims say they were harassed nonstop. the women had to pay up to $350 to get the guy to take the pictures down. today some of the victims celebrated the sentencing. >> it was amazing because i blamed myself the whole time. >> he has been charged with 31 felony counts of id

my question, tonight is in reference to union pacific railroad. do you think that the temporary closures of the ports in california this year will have a direct impact on the quarterly earnings report? >> yeah. i do. having listened to the -- how about that lulu lemon. did we tell you that one? they called i think it's -- i think union pacific is going to be a buy. not until we see the whites of the quarter's of the eyes. i'm afraid they won't make the numbers. then what are we going to do? buy buy buy. mike in iowa. >> caller: you and i share a birthday. same year, close on the date. i was able to retire recently. i hope you sure never will. because we surely need your help. >> pop had a big -- pop passed away in november of 2014 at 92. he was having a huge month in his business. you know what? that's a goal for me too. >> caller: anyway, the ltk they're going to be at a show this next week, an expuscission will that move the needle? >> it might. what's moving the needle is the realization of our allies that we're not going to be there to bail th

coal is not that goal but the important thing, i think you're in union pacific, you're fine. ed in florida, ed? >> caller: booyah, jim. >> hey. >> caller: it's beautiful here. a little rain today. but my question today is about lowe's. if it's for a good buy or not? >> i was going over this with jack, the research director. and you know what? part of my charitable trust. i said paint is good. i said some outdoors things are good. i like the fact that grouping was good from owens corning. tools are good. i think lowe's is a buy buy buy. that's whey the charitable trust owns it. if you have the right good, the current situation cannot derail you. domino's, snap-on and skechers are proof of it. stick with cramer! >> announcer: don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer #mad tweets. send jim an e-mail to "mad money" @cnbc.com. or give us a call. ♪ if you're looking for a car that drives you... ...and takes the wheel right from your very hands... ...this isn't that car. the first and only car with direct adaptive steering. ♪ the

if we were to see an extended slowdown we could see everyone affected from the northern and union pacifics to the railroads that pull loads directly from there, the jb swifts of the world, it's premature to make that kind of concern. >> rep t port strikes over the past year had little impact with a few hundred drivers out of the port's 16,000 picketing, the ports are still open for business. but experts say the situation sheds light on a much bigger issue. what happens if these drivers succeed in being recognized as company employees? >> if you disallow contractor status then you have much more expensive employees at your hands. you haveassets pay social security tax, medicare tax, withholding, a different situation from a legal label perspee as well as you have to buy the assets they currently buy and maintain. >> reporte strike aside, this debate making its way through californiaou system truck drivers filing misclassification suits since last fall's high profile cases already found in favor of drivers. for "nightly business report,. >>> still ahead, the brand new companies that are cash

. >> it's from a union pacific train. the horn was stuck. it blapsed continuously from 5:00 this morning all the way till 9:00 this morning. then crews were able to silence the horn. when they finally got it off a lot of people were relieved. >> didn't scare away the easter bunny bunny. kelly johnson from comcast sports net, what's making noise in your world? >> the wire's making noise in everyone's world. they entered today 50 games over .500. they've done just about everything right. tonight the road trip rolls into san antonio, warriors are looking to accomplish something they haven't done since valentine's day 1997. >>> as we told you earlier in the show sad news from the sports world today as we learned of the passing of legendary bay area broadcaster lon simmons at the age of 91. a part of the giants' original broadcast team "tell it good-bye" was a signature line for the franchise. he also called for the 49ers and a's before retiring in 2002. lon simmons was later inducted into the national baseball hall of fame in 2004. the team simm

going to give high speed rail authority to [inaudible] and i suggest you start blending with bart, union pacific, capital corridor and see how that goes. anyway, i'm going to leave it at that for now, thank you very much. >> okay, kim maxwell. >> i'm going to be joining the last two gentlemen, i will say i'm very much in favor of this project, but i have some difficulties, i gave each of you a document or -- so i'm going to be short. i'm going to appeal to you to not use sponsorships and the retail program to fill in the budget gaps. i think both are too early to make decisions on in june. let me talk about the retail first. this is proposed in i think december, there were some questions from you aobt why this board didn't have any control over the inline when it went out, there was a question of how many percentage of local should be done, i think someone suggested 70%, the person making the proposal was 30%, i believe you made this observation, the model used for the retail was transit centers and they retail people here are going to be primarily resident and is employees which would require a

matt: your top holdings are apple, mastercard, union pacific.oes union pacific whether the fall in oil prices and commodities in general? 2marc: they are a diversified railroad. they are facing a number of headwinds in terms of the strike and the ports in the west coast. they are still going to grow earnings. and pay a hefty dividend and return cash to shareholders. it speaks to the strength of the business model that even with these headwinds, they can continue to grow. matt: thank you for joining us. marc pinto. 45 minutes now until the opening bell. julie hyman is taking a look at some of the action this morning. julie: lumbar liquidators is back in the news. this is a retailer that sells lumber that has been troubled ever since a 60 minutes report in late february alleging there were higher than regulated levels of formaldehyde in some of its products. the stock is rebounding this morning. we have been talking about car news. tesla shares are rising after quit sweets -- credit sweets -- high probability given that 1400 vehicles were shipped

it was from a union pacific train. the horn was stuck and that sound blaired continuously for hours. >> 5:00 a.m. >> it started at 5:00 a.m. yes. until crews were able to silence it around 9:00. >> that's four hours. >> you were not even there and you're upset. >> happy easter. >> yes. tens of thousands of people braved the rain to hear the pope's message from the vatican today. he was shielded pe by w a can pi while worshippers carried umbrellas. he specifically mentioned the christians killed in kenya this week. >> the prince is in training. he's a soldier and his arrival in australia was really fit for a royal. he paid a visit to the national capital. he put a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. he melt with fans including one who held a sign that said redheads rule. the prince leads the british army in june. >> it's a new form of id theft that can cost you much more than money. >> unpaid medical treatments, hospital visits emergency care that i knew were not mine. >> medical identity theft affected more than

union pacific assessed damage to the nearby tracks. seen in this picture from another abc30 insider. so far pg and e says no call was ever made to check for gas lines in the area. >>> officials say two remain in critical tonight after that explosion. >>> after taking some criticism for previous proposals, california regulators offering a new plan for statewide water reductions. the control board releasing a plan to require some cities to conserve even more while reducing conservation for other cities. aiming for a 25% statewide reduction. the state plan is coming after east by a mud board also set new outdoor watering restrictions between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. watering will be off limits. contra cost -- costa county board also cutting use sage by 25%. >>> a lot of grey sky today. that's the case right now. it is pretty grey. here too. a thick layer of fog moving through the span. and that low cloudiness is going to push into the bay. eventually into the inland valleys tonight. san francisco, only a high of 60 degrees. we have been in

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it's the problem with union pacific. ron in south carolina.aller: big guys my stock is kkr. >> i like kkr and block stone. i've been behind them. i remain faithful to kkr. carl in new york. carl. >> caller: best of boo-yah to family. >> thank you very much. >> caller: you gave us a shopping list at the beginning of the year i wonder if i should take philips off the table? >> i like it. i can't sell it. i don't want to sell that stock. andrew in new york. andrew. >> caller: jim, what's going on? thanks for having me. union county boo-yah. >> man, you're like -- we following each other. what's happening? >> caller: adxf? >> this is a cancer vaccine play. i'm not been behind it but i bless it as a speculation. let's go to jeff in pennsylvania. jeff. >> caller: hi, jim. i want to know about ciop. they're off of 1440 high but up from 875 secondary public offering. al the unique gene therapy for breast cancer and melanoma. how high? >> that stock got hammered on the secondary. let me circle back on that. i'm surprised it doesn't bounce back. the bio

drugs and lighting fires near the grass of the land ethic are encamped on belong to caltrans and union pacificand robert call the plays a no man's land and they one of stories to intervene. last >>: wednesday we had a woman dragged back thereby to man it was called in by our neighbors and he waited half hour with no response from the police and so at this point in started getting frightening. >>darya: given day they said it could be as many as one of the people outside their their backyards and they brought this to our attention and you can contact us about your kron 4 story on our web site at kron 4 that come click on the my kron 4 stories have. >>mark: some martinez's parents are upset after what a board member said in the school board meeting was, have been misconstrued. . what's hapned snaing? hodid bece sentindey eating o aft theext,aftethe xt? so pdictle a sounsasfyi? what aut plingp a air,a stl, a bebag,nd aualltastg r fo. we a a camy eesehatstilbelies in t beay of kni, inhe eganswip of a . . spe. coue, at dsn'tean you n't nk uor sop u up enjoy ery ngle soi-tay bi. the laugng c. inve sn

we're also hearing that trains along the union pacific railroad are also closed on that line. they have stopped that train traffic. we will bring you updates as they come into news4. i'm jim handly. >>> as one police officer put it the thief has no heart. someone stole a little boy's wheelchair over the weekend. >> thanks to an enormous show of support, he got a new one today. chris gordon was there when it was delivered. he's live in langley park this evening. chris? >> reporter: it started out as a very disturbing story. tonight, it has a happy ending. but for police, they say this case is not closed. prince george's county police this afternoon delivered a replacement wheelchair to joshua romero. he's the 4-year-old langley park youngster who had his wheelchair stolen. this surveillance video shows the thief rolling it across the parking lot outside the family's apartment resulted in the donation. >> from the bottom of my heart, i'm very thankful. >> this is emanuel marshall. >> reporter: prince george's county police announced the wheelchair was donated bye mother of 11-ye

i notice union pacific just recently has been giving a big boom of how good they are on the tv. and i'm hoping that we can figure out a way to get that together because, you know, when people march, and it doesn't do any good to march and stand in front of the trains, we talk about incidents, that's how they get created. so i just -- it's important to me, as a public official, besides being on a board, to figure out how to help my city and the transportation industry at the same time. >> right. right. how can communities and railroads get along better, right? >> yeah. >> it's an age-old question. everybody should be good neighbors to each other. but look, i mean, i think it's important to remind communities that those kinds of resources will tend to make their lives better. easier, more efficient. help them take care of their families. it's really important to remind the folks coming in that the community is supposed to be their partner, not just you know, someplace they blow by at 70 miles an hour and wake up everybody in the middle of the night with a horn. so i don't know, i

for rail traffic where freight trains had to change and gin said passengers had to switch from union pacific or central pacific trains traveling east to west. you cannot do with the thing with upcoming to ogden during prohibition not the poet as reported tuesday opted was too rough for him. he managed the family business empire all accounts had a happy and active childhood and was the only son of three children. with his sister's four iran seven years older he was like an old child. he never heard his parents fighting he commented it gave him an extraordinary sense. what do these stories have to do with him as a presidential advisor or consultant or statesman? it is just how security was growing up materially, socially and psychologically he had no status in society forces of deprivation or contrary and temples that made him leave west point to join the army air corps. he is your. but this sense of security the travails of the military academy and his years in the hospital after his near fatal crash of his mustang at the age of 24. then barely a month after the crash to receive word his fath

union pacific down by 2%. power plays to switch over from coal. wti oil is below $50 per barrel.on and johnson reported results this morning and cut its full-year earnings forecast because of the strong u.s. dollar to the strong dollar eating into its overseas sales. as to the quarter that ended, sales topped estimates. for mystical sales rose 3% in a quarter. finally, i will cap it off with the big banks and how they began the earnings season p a jpmorgan said the first quarter profit increased 12% think to an increase in fixed income trading. there was increased volatility in january. topping the consensus by four cents. wells fargo dropping and reporting a smaller than expected drop in first-quarter profit. lower interest rates it into the profit. net interest margin falling below 3% for the first time since the 1990's. betty: thank you so much for running through all of that for a spirit i want to stay in the housing market and no industry has been able to avoid the effects of a stronger u.s. dollar. we heard first hand a property player about how the stronger dollar is playi

i notice union pacific just recently has been giving a big boom of how good they are on the tv.'m hoping that we can figure out a way to get that together, because you know when people march and it. doesn't do any good to march and stand in front of the trains. we talk about incidents. that's how they get created. so i just -- it's important to me as a public official besides being on a board to figure out how to help my city and the transportation industry at the same time. >> right. how can communities and railroads get along better. right? >> well, yeah. >> that's an able-old question, right? everybody should be good neighbors to each other. but, look. i mean i think it is -- i think it is important to remind communities that those kinds of resources will tend to make their lives better, easier, more efficient, help them take care of their families. it is really important to remind the folks coming in that the community is supposed to be their partner not just someplace they blow by at 70 miles an hour and wake up everybody in the middle of the night with a horn. and so i don

and they pass the union pacific railroad act and revise it in 1864 in order to give people both onto the field and west but also into the mines, both in california, of course, but also nevada which opens up in 1862 and in montana which opens up in 1864 with a gold strike. they want to get people out there producing because they need the money. that those people are going to produce. they need that production. they also need the taxes that they are going to impose on those people to pay for the war, because that is the piece of -- piece people tend to forget about the republicans during the civil war is they invent our first national taxation. we do not have taxation in america at the national level until 1861. the previous wars are paid for differently. if anybody cares, i can tell you how. they not only create what are called manufacturing taxes which you can consider sales taxes. they are not, but close enough. they also impose an income tax. and they create what is going to become the irs. because, for a number of reasons, but because they have to pay for the war. they're desperat

how many have something to do like look at union pacific. which was at critical level.ack sand and coal. and the west coast port situation. a lot of excuses. i think i will tell you, there are some excuses, but a lot of what they do is get their head beat in. >> i've seen a few mentions of higher than expected tax rates. the usual suspects. >> some of that stuff. let's put it this way. how does andrew livers deliver this is numbers? getting out of the commodity businesses, going higher up the food chain lower the cost dramatically. i like that. that's self-help. they are doing what's right versus dupont, which some people were questioning. >> yes. >> questioning dupont. >> in terms of guidance. >> yeah. dow's guidance was amazing. >> we moved to the lower end of a range. that's why we have a range. we have a range for a reason. >> dupont has been a good performer. dow is shining. they have billions to buy back. they've been getting out of the low. they are all value added. line items are there. it's electronics is good. tremendous number of things that are good for dell

look at union pacific. we are beginning the makings of what a good rally would be. you get the airlines going, the rails going, j.p. hunt better than expected numbers yesterday from the truckers. suddenly, you had the transit ports killing the market. >> yeah they could be leaders. >> they haven't set a new high since december. >> that's a lot of very smart people who tell me over and over again until the transit ports do that, this market is not trustworthy. i said once they do it the market is going to be too high. >> it is the best gainer followed by southwest and the rails are not far behind. >> because of the $2 billion buy back. >> it's bad as norfolk southern. a lot of these guys are like entail. we lowered expectations so much that when csx does what we thought it's a god sent. i think that's going to be part of the whole earning season. wow, the expectations were so low johnson and johnson were really worried about look at the johnson and johnson. they did not go down on what you could argue was a hideous number. it was a quote buried within. people are bei

watch union pacific, my bellwether. >> wow. upgrade earlier in the week. >> i just think -- i have a mixed emotion, if they're doing well buy target to 90. >> "mad" tonight? >> i'm fascinated by mac, the macerich macerich. >> fascinated that they don't do the right thing i'm have federal realty, don wood with simon property, this is shopping center not shopping mall but these have been great companies because you don't build shopping centers anymore and there's a shortage. don wood, take a look at the stock, a bankable stock. huge how big the reit is. amazing man. i want to hear more about what happened. bricks moore said the same thing. there is a shortage of construction in the country that if you could ever unleash, it would give us 3, 4 gdp. >> it's not clear we'd need any more shopping centers, hence, why they're not building them. >> you need new housing developments away from urban centers. >> zell argue everybody's moving back to the city. >> bush wick is red hot. i've been looking, ticker kicking the tires. >> good lon

i end up thinking all right, well, maybe they've got to sell the airlines union pacific, and buy somekesson and amerisourcebergen. she's even telling you the month's not going to be that good. but 2016. people are thinking about 2016 they're looking domestic they're trying to find what is working anyway. so this is an environment where maybe bowing's tough for a couple days. >> let's back up to that jobs number. 126 was below the estimated 245. revisions down. dudley's on the tape this morning saying that the weather is a significant factor. although the dollar he says also significant stress on the economy. what was your take on the jobs number? >> i think march was bad. we've been saying march was bad. the job creator in texas which is oil and they're laying off people left and right in the oil patch and they don't need that many people because they're doing the easiest wells. just very low technology. the rails you're not going to move as much oil. now rails don't hire a lot of people, but i'm just saying there's just not a lot of commerce associated with oil versus where there wer

must see number cuts before you go into union pacific as great as it is or norfolk southern, great companies the country up and there's not a lot of competition in the railroad business but numbers will come down. >> shares of fedex up over 3% speaking with fred smith, of course shortly on their deal to acquire tnt. the market giving it a positive reaction here. >> positive if people didn't think you know what those pesky europeans will find a way to hold up anything. i think your china angle was not initially discounted by the market today. very good call. >> we'll see. chinese regulators -- >> antitrust regulation in china is a real issue. it's within that has been taken up by the obama administration certainly. we've seen it not just in m&a but in other regulatory impediments they're putting up to being able to do business in china. >> you wouldn't find the u.s. for instance, president obama saying to european allies i think you should let this deal happen. that's not the way our government works, no. we do big trade deals to help other countries. >> yeah. >> carnival's close to the highe

another one we're looking at here is union pacific. a railroad company you can see here.e has an actual dividend yield you can see here up about 16%. it's got a 2% dividend yield and its up side potential based on goldman's call could be 23%. number four is cf industries. this stock has another 2% yield in terms of its overall dividend yield. up 12% year-to-date. it could go up by 22% if the analyst target prices aren't correct on this particular stock, and then you move on to the last two that we have here for this go-around. number sech, chesapeake energy. this one has a more than 2% dividend yield, 2.3% to be exact. this stock is down about 42% over the last year. analysts here think you could possibly have up side here of 55% based upon their target prices and, again with the 2.3% dividend yield. the last one for our list right now, at least on this go-around, number six. psx. phillips 66. this one here pretty much flat for the year. it's got a 2.5% dividend yield. not too shabby. you get paid to wait there. it's a possible 20% up side given what their analyst target

the union's contract with the pacific maritime association allows one work stoppage a month. o members can attend union meetings. the union says it will take the may stoppage tomorrow so workers can take part in the mayday march. >>> a bart has called off its plan track closure in oakland this weekend because of the possibility of a warrior's home playoff game. bart is making repairs between the coliseum stations. the warriors will host a game sunday if the memphis grizzlies beat the portland trail blazers tomorrow. that series goes to seven games, the second round won't begin until next tuesday. bart cap next plan closure will be the weekend of may 9, eventually when the repairs began buses shuttle riders between the stations. >>> it is so very early for 16:00 a.m., but unfortunately a huge problem for the morning commute. 880 around oakland san leandro is shut down northbound. >> it is. because of this injury crash. it's unclear what happened, but we do know for sure that traffic is being diverted off the freeway northbound 8802 clearest through get onto 38 and use 580 inste

the union's contract with the pacific maritime association allows one work stoppage a month. so members can attend union meetings. the union says it will schedule the may stoppage for friday so workers can take part in the may day march. >>> b.a.r.t. has called off the planned track closure because of the possibility of a warriors' home playoff game. they are making repairs between the fruit dale and coliseum station. the warriors will host a game on sunday if the memphis grizzlies beat >>> kate middleton's due date was reportedly last week g she does not go into labor the next few days, doctors are reportedly suggesting she be induced. her first child was born three days late. by the way, just learned the duck and duchess have offered a -- duke and duchess have offered a sweet surprise sending coffee and cookies to die-hard fans outside of the hospital. >>> coming up on 7:27. a sonoma county father has not heard from his son in nepal. what the 21-year-old was doing. >> reporter: we're live in palo alto, where police need help catching a man they say groped a young girl who wa

, and we have a legacy of having done that with other geostrategic challenges particularly the pacific union. >> thanks so much for that. stick around. "rapid response panel is next here on "the ed show." we're right back. >>> stocks end mixed. the dow falls 85 points. the s&p 500 is down three. the nasdaq adds 19.5 points. chipotle is out with earnings that beat estimate but revenue fell short. yahoo reported revenue profits that missed according totargets. and unemployment fell in 23 states last month. 12 states saw increases and levels were unchanged in the remaining 15. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. >>who... is this?! >>hi, i am heinz new mustard. hi na na na na >>she's just jealous because you have better taste. whatever. >>hey. keep your chin up. for years, heinz ketchup has been with the wrong mustard. well, not anymore. introducing heinz new better tasting yellow mustard. mmm! this allergy season, will you be a sound sleeper, or a mouth breather. a mouth breather! well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. allergy medicines open your nose over time, b

being brokered by the obama administration, japan and ten other countries in the asia-pacific region. trade unionsvironmentalists and many democrats oppose that potential deal. senator chuck schumer is quoted as saying he feels it hurts middle class families. the president said yesterday that exports support more than 11 million jobs and the united states -- not china -- should be writing the rules for the global economy. he has the backing here of top republicans. john boehner spoke to maria bartiromo about that dynamic. >> we're going to need democrats to pass trade promotion authority. now, again, i think we'll get there because it's hard for me to imagine that democrats here in the house or senate are going to walk away from their president. >> reporter: now, one analyst we spoke with earlier this morning said it's tough to actually project going forward how this trade agreement would impact the work force, but their best guess was this would lead to somewhere around $200 billion in income gains and $400 billion in exports with the majority of that going to the united states and japan. jenna?

pacific partnership. but what american workers, typically unionized workers understand is in an international leveling of wages, free trade tends to bring up the wages of our trading partners and bring down the wages of american workers. so we can never compete and win in a race to the bottom for the cost of doing business. >> well the transwork that's been released by the senate finance committee at this stage, richard, is more details than i've ever seen the release before in negotiating these trade agreements, which have always been done on fast track. nothing unusual in this one. in fact, if you really compare it to the other ones procedurally the only unusual thing is it's more open than the way this has been done in the past. >> right. look, there are labor and environmental provisions done in here. but the fundamental disagreement for people on the left is not really about the details. it's not about transparency. it's about whether you believe in free trade deals at all. and if you believe in the global economy, if you think that a more prosperous world will lead to more demand for american goods

union leaders, environmentalists and a loud major city of congressman are on the left slamming president obama for his support of the trans-pacific partnership. others insist that the president and his forehands on the right are lined behind the controversial trade pack are doing what the u.s. needs to do to be competitive in the face of china's growing influence. the first question is not about china or the politics, it's direct. what is controversial about a trade deal. >> the trans-pacific partnership removes the trade barriers and tariffs around countries in the pacific rim. taking up to a third of trade and 40% of global economic activity. china, a fast-growing economy is specifically being left out of those talks by design. in the global competition for influence, the obama administration views t perform p as a tool to maintain economic privacy in the world. u.s. leaders hoped that upstarts can be kept in check, with free trade agreements. we'll have more on the intensifying competition between the u.s. and china. the t perform p is the 12th country zone negotiated now by the united states, japan, australia, canada mexico a

pacific market pmg sahil raman, kuala lumpur. >> called an early vote he's ruled the country ever since the independence from the soviet union in 1991. robin, good to have you with us, why is the election being held so early. >> hi shiulie. he considers himself a bit of an international statesman a player in the world stage trying to raise his country's profile, trying to give it a bigger role, hosting peace negotiations building his exap capital out of the steppe as you can see behind me. in which his country faced difficult choices and indeed it does. the economy here has really been hit hard by falling oil prices. it is dependent on oil revenues largely, has a lot of other mineral reserves too. the russia ruble collapse has hilt hard, and what has been happening in ukraine another neighbor of russia's, the kasaks are easily things went wrong for ukrainians and basically he wants this election now to hold it now to reassure everybody that he's still in charge that he has a mandate to gofn take this country forward to introduce reforms political and economic. he's even talking about introducing something of a parliamentary gov

he's very strong on trade which will be -- will be against the pacific trade deal which will make him popular among labor unions everything -- he's proposing free college tuition at public universities around the country for everybody which will be popular with people who might volunteer for his campaign. and he's pretty sophisticated in the use of social media. as a matter of fact, i watched his announcement live on my phone on periscope, a new service that shows you stiff live. he's just the kind of guy who can do more than annoy hillary clinton clinton, and woe unto her if she ends up in a one-on-one debate with her. he's a tough customer. >> i can attest to that. >> i'm glad you're still alive. >> me, too. >> you're vote of confidence on social media means something. a lot of people know you as a star tv analyst and long-time print reporter. you are also an internet reporter. >> true. i try to keep up everything but sky writing. >> thank you. >>> coming up, more on the news of the day including a miracle in the most unlikely of places. news we could all use. making a fist something we do to show resolve. to