. >> beth joined us from chicago. dr. peterson in minnesota. thanks to you both. that brings us to the end of this edition of inside story. in washington, i'm ray suarez. in washington, i'm ray suarez. ♪ children once sacrificed their childhoods, even their lives, working in american mills, mines and factories. the us rooted out child labor practices 75 years ago. but today, us agriculture remains a stronghold for child labor. >> i know most kids come out here to help their parents out, get the money to pay the bills. >> it's just another day on the fields of america. >> hi, can you tell me your name? >> gabriella. workers like gabriella are not uncommon. >> how old are you?

phil lebeau joins us from chicago with more on what drove those number sales so much higher. phil, a lot of auto makers ran black friday promotions this year. did they really help? >> huge help, tyler. it wasn't just on black friday, that's a big draw. it was through the whole weekend almost every auto maker today said we had huge numbers this weekend, that's why we saw strong sales. >> tell us a little bit about what to expect from the luxury car market. this is the time of year when people like to give the keys to the fancy car under the christmas tree. >> sure, they have funny names for sales or unique names, i should say, and they are pushing aggressive marketing plans, susie. we saw strong sales in november, expect that to continue through december. >> phil lebeau, have to leave it there and there you see the luxury seams, mercedes number one and bmw and lexus. thank you. >>> president obama trying to generate support for the revamped rollout of the trouble plagued healthcare.gov website saying the site is working well and warning critics that he will fight efforts to re

joining me now to dive into what could be next is the chief a bankent strategist at visiting us from chicagoyou in person. what do you make of today's jobs report and the reaction we are seeing not only in stocks but also bonds? qwest this is a fascinating day that market made up their mind and growth is good. they are not fearing the taper, what you are seeing in the bond market today. this has a lot of implications for sector selection, where rates can go, and i think it is the right call, as well. >> if tapering is happening, whether it is good or bad for the markets, normally, that would make yields go higher. >> the view is that tapering has actually had relatively little impact on the bond market. clearly, the fact that quantitative easing asset purchases have continued ease and -- even as treasury has declined is telling you supply and demand is not dominating. after decades in the bond market, you see supply and demand is a tertiary factor. what is important is nominal gdp. trailing for your average is what the market trades off of. bonds are growing higher because we are seeing grow

thejoining us from chicago, executive of braintree. will tomorrow really launched the big holiday shopping moments? >> tomorrow, the retailers have a big advantage over online. it is a little late to order online and get the package shipped to you. there are still some stores i can do it. thetomorrow really is revenge for in-store retailers. >> bill, the revenge for in- store retailers, what is your data telling you? what we certainly will see is a shift toward mobile devices as a big part of this. black friday, there was a big move toward he-commerce and commerce andes -- e- mobile devices. of optionstill a lot to get things shipped, not just on saturday, but all the way through sunday and monday even if >> steve come i wonder if you can describe what it's like my as we get closer and closer to christmas, what kinds of companies will be offering what kinds of offers. start seeing a lot more promotion of e-gift cards and gift cards for sure. now has a great deal right and other stores do as well. we will also see stores pushing their p

john yang has the story for us tonight from chicago. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it appears the big box store strategy of opening early on thursday may have come at the expense of black friday. we learned at brick and mortar stores on friday, traffic dr dropped 11% from last year. sales down 13%. those who did shop were focused on bargains. the average shopper spent about $407. that's about $16 less than the year before. increasingly, shoppers expect more and deeper discounts. since 2009 the number of discounts at big department stores and retail clothing chains have gone up 63%. the average discount has gone from 25% to 36%. as one analyst said, that 50% off is now the old 25% off. now retail chains say that's going to bite into their bottom lines, but analysts say they're probably going to have to keep offering those deep discounts right through christmas to keep the shoppers coming. because shoppers are increasingly sticking to their budgets as they worry about the economic recovery. brian? >> john yang on t

joining us from chicago, from the cme, todd horwitz.ome on the program and have said even with the said tapering, the market is may be lowanother double digits. you will still stay out of the market? >> good morning, we are seeing a legalized ponzi scheme being run by the fed. >> what do you mean by that? >> the way the fed is operating, this is a legalized ponzi scheme where they keep pushing down the money and hoping to devalue the currency so they can pay these debts back down the road. we've got over $300,000 per family in this quantitative easing program. if they had taken that money and put it back into the system, putting people back to work and creating jobs and rebuilding america, we would have -- we would be out of this mess and not be dependent on the fed. >> but that's what the fed thinks it's doing. >> but they have not created any liquidity for the average joe. -- 82% of stocks are controlled by five percent of the people. what we are seeing is a scheme that continues to roll out and we are not seeing the average joe benef

our phil lebeau joins us from chicago. phil, it is a bit of a tangle right now. where do we stand.d what and what's next. >> reporter: they are trying to figure it out in washington. the fcc which strictly is in charge of the technical aspect of communication from passengers to the ground on passengers, they are considering whether or not to lift the ban on cell calls. that would strictly be on a technical basis. the d.o.t. is also reviewing the policy. d.o.t. resultly who would make the ruling in terms of sure you can go ahead and make the call and yesterday the secretary of transportation made it very clear he's not in favor of that. meanwhile congress is considering a law to keep the ban in place. they are going to go around everybody. we don't think it should be allowed. public opinion is solidly against cell calls being allowed on planes. the airlines now allow expanded use of electronics in many cases from gate to gate. the fcc has approved a review of the electronics policy and this is the fcc yesterday. there's the head of the fcc looking at this from a technical standpoint

chicago and local government across the state. that concerned police veterans like lieutenant maloney. he joins us now from chicago. jim, first of all, your reaction to what the state of illinois did as far as their efforts to solve their debt crisis. >> as far as the pension underfunding. it's a result of mismanagement by the cities, by the states, the cities and states, they have used pension funds as negotiation tools over the years in lieu of wage increases. they've granted pension benefits. that's created this problem. we're here there today. i sit on former mayor dalye's commission to strength committee's pension from 2008 to 2010 we did a report. that report made some suggestions that that administration did not follow with any of those suggestions. one of those was to increase our contribution. and none of those suggestions were followed through with. >> is that something that you would support, in other words, increasing your contribution, having the fire, police raise that number? >> well, our association said ask the city to sit down and negotiation and talk about these issues. and we have not had any su

. >> i just want to bring in jim iurio who joins us from chicago. sorry i didn't put you in from the top there. >> thank you. >> what is the asset class for next year? >> i actually think the yields are going higher in the ten year. it might take a route, but the ten year is going to go up to around 3.5%. i think that things will be good domestically, things like banks, because they trade with a higher correlation to yield curves now than in the past since there are other ways to make money have been taken away. i like home builders as well. the xlb etf is a good way to be in that. >> jim, how can you -- i just need to double check this, kick the tires on what you're saying here. you're saying that yield on the ten-year can go to 3.5 % but you still like home builders. you don't think another 50 basis points on mortgage rates could have an adverse effect? >> i don't. i think we're at a time where handoff is being made, where mortgages were low to having real growth. those numbers were good. if the market actually the economy actually gains traction,

joining us from chicago, alan market analyst for trading advantage. hard at work on christmas eve.n on investors' minds, whether institutional or retail, can we repeat the same games that we saw in 2013 next year? >> that would be a very high bar to set. higher, ande market very optimistic. i think it has been a tragedy that people have not believed in this year. this was the year where the contrary is -- you had inability to foresee that everybody is so negative. you saw the market rally. i am looking for 6.5% in near term. we still have more upside. as apple goes, people's fortunes will follow. we had a breakout, a $60 move. that is about 6.5% higher. >> it is a big market cap company and it has been a stock that we have watched. come on, apple products are losing more and more market share. >> well yeah. they will get it figured out. it got overly beat down from a technical standpoint. turns its fortune, it is not participating. it is carrying the nasdaq in upside.ent leg to the it comes back to -- everybody has an opinion. they were wrong about the market this year, they though

reverend moss, thanks for joining us from chicago this morning. >> thank you so much. and sort of becoming politicized in the context of the anti-apartheid protests. >> well, i first want to just acknowledge what a powerful leader president mandela was. he's our noble, prophetic prince and moral voice not only for south africa but for the world. i became politicized through my parents, through operation push, learning about divestment. but the first time i protested without my parents was at 14 to protest against the investment in south africa through british petroleum and was thrown out of the british petroleum office in cleveland, ohio. it was a great moment for myself, for my own agency and studying the words of nelson mandela and learning from my parents about what south africa meant to us as a community and how there was solidarity between what we were doing in the u.s. and what was happening in south africa. >> and that -- >> and -- yes. go ahead. >> that sense of solidarity is institutional. you are not the senior pastor at trinity united church of christ, which

the opening bell is just moments away, but joining us from chicago in the meantime, todd horwitz, thejoe options.com. glad to have you with us. what do you think for today? i think a lot of traders are trying to close out the year without much trouble, right? >> that is right. the next few days -- >>[opening bell] to 30% of at 25% opening volume, the market will likely drift higher. , not much probably for the next couple of days. >> look out further 4s if you will. when things start to settle out at the end of the year, people come back to work, what do you think will be the big focus? tapering is behind us, what is the next big thing? >> tapering is kind of behind us, the next big mark will be the jobs number one week from friday, along with the fed meeting. we are still very data-driven by the federal reserve. supposedly it is all linked together. i would not be surprised. although to be fair, i have been on the sidelines and i think they could jump higher and at some point we are building a bit of a bubble and they will be focused on the unemployment number and the fed and i think

bill martin is with us from chicago. the single most important factor in getting consumers to buy this season? -- i don't know when to shop anymore. >> this weekend was a pivotal weekend for retailers. --day, saturday, sunday these were the top shopping days of the year. in chicago, we saw an abundant amount of foot traffic up and down the street and many consumers carrying rack edges. it felt like it was a good week. today is important -- this is what we call fathers day which is when the male shopper gets into the pattern to complete his holiday shopping. the day after christmas is always pretty strong. aboute are seeing now is two percent increase in sales over last year. we have projected 2.4%. we need strong sales this weekend to hit that number. we are fairly confident that the consumer really went out and tried to finish their holiday shopping season this weekend. >> even though you saw a lot of foot traffic, are they buying enough? it seems that every single store has a coupon or promotion. we don't even know whe

oining us from chicago is the chief market strategist at top step trader. the market does nothing about it. what does this mean? well, really, should it? it hasn't been approved. it probably will. talking about huge numbers. it is pushing the possible shutdown out past the midterm elections, which is fine. leaves i was as status quo. you have the potential debt and that is the linchpin for january. i don't think it does anything that should move the markets it has seemed to move the dollar quite a bit. holiday this shortened season what is the impact on trading volume and when might we accelerate or slow down closer to the holiday? seeing them are start to slow down now. there's a couple of things about holidays.the the short-term investors look at hat arbitrary date end of the year as the mark of the year then we start a new year. that is continued of the reason to see the tapering in december even though we won't. tipperingms of volume off it has started. investor don'tal really slow down until the end of the year. arbitrary e of an date but we have seen

before it does, here is scott shellady joining us from chicago.ht, scott, why is the market going to open higher when the fed may announce its printing less money this week? >> well, the short and quick answer is this, if you go back the last three or four days, stuart, we've taken 30 points off the s&p. a short cover rally going into the meeting. number two is this, two calms-- camps that says, the economy is doing better and the other says no way the reason that equity prices are this high because of accommodation. and the fed is stuck in the middle and let's see how they ha handle wednesday, but they'll say they'll taper and reserve the right to change them. stuart: they might say that that's entirely possible. you don't expect that? >> no, but that's what they should say. watch the numbers on a daily basis, but give it some forward guidance. stuart: look behind you, scott, going to start trading and hear them shouting in the background. the market has opened higher and the opening trend is up this monday morning. i want to stay with the rally

>> alex perez leading us off from chicago on this christmas eve. alex, thank you. >>> you heard alex report on christmas dinner likely in the dark tomorrow for so many across the country and of course the big chill on the way. i want to bring in chief meteorologist harvey leonard from the powerhouse abc station in boston, channel 5. always great to have you. this is tough news, power still out tonight for so many across new england. >> absolutely. 80,000 homes alone in maine and over half a million homes are still without power across parts of the midwest and the northeast. >> making matters worse, it gets very cold in the next 24 hours. >> it really does, very cold tonight and even the high temperatures that we're going to show you now for christmas day are certainly not that high. still below freezing in the northeast, 20s to around 30. atlanta will be in the 40s. cold in the upper midwest where it could be snowing across a good chunk of michigan. >> so many children waiting for santa tonight. who wakes up to a white christmas in addition to pres

she's joining us from chicago.to see you. >> good to see you, too. >> this is not a medal that the family had possession of, right, but one your dad gave to bill "bojangles" robinson. what was the circumstances that your dad gave his medal away to a friend? >> well, you would have to understand my father and know him to know what a big heart he had. and at the time that he gave the medal to bojangles, it was because bojangles gave him a place to stay and a job. >> and that's what's extraordinary and we're looking at some images right now, file tape of bojanglebojangles. a lot of people don't realize or understand that even after being overseas, winning these olympic medals, representing this nation, the country that your dad and many others african-american olympians came back to, it was still a nation of segregation, it was still very difficult to get a job. your dad was unable to get employment, as was the case for my dad after his olympic wins in '48. so your dad actually gave his medals in large part to bojangl

steve moore is an economist, also a fox news contributor, joining us from chicago.said to me this was not the worst recession we have ever had, but it is the worst recovery. are these fundamental numbers that we're seeing coming through here proof that the awful recovery is now over? we've waited five years, and now there's a light at the end of the tunnelsome. >> let's hope so. and by the way, i'm the one that's been saying this has been a half-baked recovery, and for a lot of americans, leland, it hasn't been much of a recovery at all. we haven't seen the job growth or the income growth, but, you know, over the last six months and especially over the last couple of months we've really seen a nice pick up. that's not to say that people aren't still facing a lot of hardship, and there's still a lot of unemployed in this country, but you said it very well. you're seeing a bump up in employment, which is a great sign. you mentioned the fact that the stock market has been on a tear and, of course, we just got some data that shows that businesses are starting to spend a

cbs news contributor and analyst melody hobson joins us from chicago. good morning.'ve sort of covered all the good news was there any bad news in the latest report? >> there was a lot of good news in that report 203,000 jobs you've mentioned. the september and october numbers were revised up. the unemployment rate hit a five-year low at 7%. and where the jobs were coming from, that was great news. construction professional services, manufacturing. those are higher-paying jobs. which is why we saw wages by the hour go up for the moth. and also the work week be a bit longer so if you look across the board, the news was very, very good. >> the markets, the dow rallied 200 points on this which is interesting, because in recent weeks, when there's been good news, the dow has tended to pull back. in part because it's afraid that that will mean the fed will start pulling stimulus out of the economy. why did the market go up yesterday, do you think? >> i think two things went on at once. it's been a pattern of good news being bad news. this was finally one where good news w

. >> let's go to jeff joining us from chicago, someone who has stopped working altogether. >> good morningthat is correct. the situation in chicago, i did construction and everything. go out and find work and run the truck and by eight and fuel, hours, i made five dollars. it is just not worth it. i could have stayed home and rate the neighbor's lawn for that?ollars. >> lie is how old -- host: why is that? how old are you? caller: i am 50 years old. i ran a business, garage doors and openers. it is just not practical anymore. the margins, it is just not even worth it to go out the door. might as well stay here. how are you surviving? caller: i am living in my mom and dad's basement. i am a low maintenance guy. i do not need a lot of things. i just help out friends and anybody that needs a hand. i actually took a cheaper job like telemarketing and stuff. anything i could do. anything. it is just, i do not know. i am sitting back and waiting to see what will happen. i will stay calm. host: thanks for the called here this is greg, currently unemployed, in florida. what is your story at the --

out on left field joining us from chicago former senior adviser to president obama, director of the universityontributor david axelrod. also in washington,s in news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of the daily rundown, chuck todd. thanks for all of you for being at the table this morning. let's get to news. the nation's biggest tech companies will sit down with president obama to discuss the nsa's practice of data collection. who's who of silicon valley, google, yahoo! and amoney others will be there. many of their companies collect user data as well. the meeting comes a day after a federal judge ruled against the nsa's bulk collecting of telephone meta data. calling the practice almost orwellian. he concluded keeping american's records of phone calls is a violation of right against unreasonable search and seizure outlined in the fourth amendment. the nsa can keep gathering data right now while the department of justice appeals but the "new york times" editorial page is calling it a powerful rebuke of mass surveillance. >> chuck todd, is there going to be pressu

he joins us now from chicago. n englander, global head of strategy at citi staying with us out of new york. mark, if we get 180,000 on the jobs numbers, is the market going to sell off? >> i doubt it. i think at this point, a number give on or take 25 grand is probably baked in. i think we need a major outliar for any kind of market sell-off. so if we get a huge beat with huge revisions in the past, i think the bond market might get into turmoil and we could make a run at 3% yield on a ten-year. that's where you could see a sell-off. as long as things stay somewhere near expectations give or take 25,000, i don't think the jobs report is going to be ta big of a deal. i think we're pricing in the taper in the march time frame. i don't think a number give or take 25 grand changes that much. >> those here in the march camp like yourself are concerned about the consumer story. we're concerned about weakness numbers. do you think there is a reach issue around the consumer that we start to get higher and interest rates ar

treasurer rutherford joins us live from chicago for fox business exclusive interview. r joining us. >> absolutely. thank you. >> illinois governor pat quinn says pension reform in your state, is quote, necessary for the economic good of the people but you disagree. why? >> no, i don't disagree it is important to have happen. i think the important thing is this piece of legislation i opposed. i said on your show a number of times we need substantive, fairo our state public pensions. the illinois constitution, and this is the fundamental issue that i have with the bill as presented, specifically points out that you can not diminish the pensions of the current enrollees under a contractual obligation. so for that reason i believe the bill that was passed is unconstitutional. tracy: but, sir, you have your hand in the investments of this state every day, right? >> sure. tracy: since 2010, everyone knew it was bad then. how come things weren't done? how come steps weren't taken back then to potentially prevent this from happening? >> well, it has been going on for years. it

he joins us from our studio in chicago, illinois and michael roy, in los angeles tonight. great to have you on the show. the press conference had the feel of let's get 2013 over and head to hawaii. the president's approval rating has been at an all time low. 56% of americans disproving of approving. do you think this press conference helped at all, michael? >> i can't say absolutely that it helped. reading the transcript, watching the president, like you said in your open, antonio, it seemed like he had half of his body already on the plane to hawaii. what dit do was round out a -- it did do was round out a bad year for the president but it didn't leave with a great amount of swagger. one of the telling take aways for me was a small item, when he talked about adding john podesta to the white house, the clear message is communication -- >> his dealing with the white house press corps which is an issue all along. there is an antagonistic discussion behind the scenes. they asked him about his roftion and he said to be nicer to the press corps. >> and i said i would lose weigh

beth is with us today from chicago. in rural iowa, listening to the news that day, and i was just getting increasingly depressed about what i was hearing. and i just posted a random comment on facebook. and i said, if going to newtown and making pie for those people to help ease their grief, if that would help, i would pack up my supplies and start drive right now. and within seconds, i had people responding, saying, i'll pitch in for gas and help you drive. and the next thing i know, i was on the road to newtown and it was an incredible outpouring of support from people, wanting to get involved. >> in fact, we think of the newtown moment and the conversations that happen around policy and gun control. but, in fact, this idea that there is something nurturing and healing about baking and eating pie together. >> and people were saying, their kids were craving pie, but these moms were, i'm too stressed, too busy to make any right now. and here we show up with an rv filled with pies and were handing it out and they were lik

joining us now from our chicago bureau is wayne bessen, founder of the lgbt rights group, and igor volskiink progress.org. so wayne, utah. did you ever think you would see the day when same-sex couples would get married in utah? >> yes, i did. but i thought i would be older than i am. this is amazing. and the symbolic value alone is going to go miles for us. the writing is on the wall. it's almost like one of those old new york subway train cars. that much of writing on the wall, that marriage equality is something we're going to see within our lifetimes. but quicker than we ever imagined. it's very exciting to watch this unfold. >> you know, igor, that's an important point. just last week, you know, new mexico became the 17th state where same-sex couples could marry. now a judge has made it possible in utah. i just want to say that again. utah. the idea that you've got that going on in a red state, does have a highly symbolic importance. at the same time -- we know there is a legal fight going on in that state. what's the status of that? >> now it's going to go to the supreme court, and

honest, the hedge fund guys know more than us, they're smarter than us, they have a team full of analysts with their mba's from chicagotern, kellogg. so they have more information and knowledge than us. why trade the stock and get 10% return on the stock when you can trade the option and get potentially 100, 200 or 500 percent returns. so i would watch this order flow all day long. i watched about 2000 trades going across the tape every single day. and then i personally allocate 6-10 trades of my own capital on these trades. i'm very active. i trade almost 1000 options in a day and i'm trading unusual option activity. > >and you were able to beat the hedge funds. > >i had a great year this year. i've been doing it since 2002 when i first started trading and this is what we did on the trading floor. we would watch order flow.we had a guy who used to come in apple and for 2 years he would sell put spreads at apple. so everytime this trader would sell put spreads---we don't know who the trader was---he would sell 10,000 put spreads, but we knew it was time to get long. it paid out for years and years, so i'm just watchin

other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces hilton's from chicago who instructed our view is from season four fold the streets and also looks very quickly. the station became terrible. they were killing us all pray to the unidentified armed men came to the city he carried all the souls of the worst thing in the cry was when the shop people to be consoled. the cuban people and made you eat. some of the kidnapped families have been transferred to area south of town. we are now being held in strategically important zones which the rebels have been using as a base of operations. these places are heavily fortified sources also say the total death toll in andhra me in fact increase because the syrian army has not yet liberated the entire town just last week the us and britain limited their eighty two only moderate levels due to the increasing info about qaeda linked to how this has led some analysts to predict that the opposition might unite with the army against a common enemy. only a few months ago from supporters of the opposition and even the oppositi

look at the snow that's coming from us from des moines to chicago, milwaukee, green bay an back towardnches of brand new snow is coming, richard. i think all the kids getting sleds will be pretty pumped for this one and smooth sailing for santa and his reindeer. >> over the weekend i was thinking i should come in shorts and a t-shirt today the way the weather was. >> now we're going back into winter in some parts of the country. >> mike bettes, appreciate it. >>> to politics now, where drug dealers are capitalizing on the word "obamacare." massachusetts police confiscating hundreds of bags of heroin. on those bags it was stamped with the nick and a quarter oba -- nickname obama care. >>> the first family spent time cheering on oregon state. the first lady's brother is their head coach. they lost 83-71. >>> meanwhile as new york city mayor michael bloomberg gets set to leave office, he made his inaugural appearance on snl. >> what's next for you, mayor bloomberg? >> i'll be enjoying a lifelong dream of enjoying a small soda on a nonsmoking beach. >>> and a way to raise campaign cash. we

a couple of low pressure systems are going to converge together and give us the chance of seeing snow. from chicago it looks like friday night into early saturday. across cleveland, that's all snow for sure. in the northeast, this is the part we have to watch and fine tune as we get closer because right now it looks like major cities along i-95 rain and snow mix, but if we move south this could be a mess for the weekend. >> you are right out there for us night after night. thank you so much for being in the cold for us. ginger zee reporting in. >>> we have a weather note from london tonight. famous for its fog, but a kind of continent of fog descended and just a few sky scrapers poked above to see the winter sun. >>> word that pope francis has become the "time magazine" person of the year. he was recognized for his immediate and dramatic impact on the catholic church including more inclusive words about homosexuality and abortion. an abc news pole says a remarkable 92% of american catholics have a favorable opinion of pope francis, up 16 points from his predecessor. >>> from overseas tonight, after

jeff flock joins us live lakefront from chicago. standing outside on new year's eve.u want to burn calories, stand out by the lake for degrees. take a look at the weather map. this text we dislike in terms of abnormally cold temperatures. the blues, the green, it is all abnormally cold. demand for natural gas. look at the meter on the websi website, high demand right now. that generally means a boost in prices. if you don't want to play the futures, which of course are volatile. the etf about 11% increase year to date. chesapeake energy up 62% year to date, southwestern energy also had a pretty good year. take a look at the numbers today. you can see the boost in natural gas futures prices, but today we are down about 2%, natural gas inventories, we will talk about that at the 1:00 hour. watching the 1:00 hour. a shuttered coal plant. when prices are low, they begin to go off-line, a lot of them have been shut down, epa regulations as well somewhere a shutter coal plant is out of business, show you that, it is cold everywhere. dagen: what is your new year's resolution

joining us now from the cme group in chicago, lincoln ellis with green square capital. so lincoln, do you buy at these levels now that we've cracked the 1200 mark, or do you think there's considerable down side from here? >> yeah, there really could be considerable down side from here. from the august highs really around the 1400 level right through here where we pierced the 1200 level, your support is around 1180 from a technical base. we've been neutral on gold for some time, and we think with real interest rates beginning to creep up, at least real interest rate expectations, that we would be avoiding this space right now. certainly a much higher level of volatility for investors in the gold market. >> all right. lincoln ellis, thank you so much. appreciate it. ty, up to you. >> all right, folks. >>> we are just getting started on this edition of "tyler's angels." we'll solve more crimes here this hour. take a look at this "power lunch" lineup, wells, thompson and morgan brennan. morgan, you get to go first. >> tyler, right after the break, a new and heavy weapon in

that story this morning from inside the chicago tribune. john is joining usext from san francisco. caller: good morning. i think that social issues will come up. the fact thatat the russians have an anti-propagation law is blown out of proportion. he is somehowhat making being gay illegal. be under atus will threat. example of a bigger how russia is always being portrayed as being backward. putin is a much played the part. thatat the riot issues they have dealt with here in the media. they were exalted as superstars. the greatest people in the world. if they had done the same thing in the united states, going into a cathedral and tearing it up or going into the subway and doing provocative things like kissing the police, there would have been arrested here and put in prison for five or 10 years. effortee it as another of the western media and western politicians to try to chip away and humiliate vladimir putin. i think he is actually doing some good things in russia. host: thank you for the call. valerie is joining us from jasper, indiana. good morning. billi

the latest coming to us from local media in the chicago area where authorities there were reportedly told to be on heightened alert because the suspect in this shooting, the fatal shooting that have 38-year-old officer may have fled to chicago. now, as you mentioned, this is a nationwide manhunt for this man, a senate shot from the surveillance video provided by the mississippi bureau of investigations. he's described as a black male, about 6'3", last seen wearing that cart heart hoodie, a ski mask and blue jeans. he is the suspect in the fatal shooting of one officer and critically wounded another officer. you mentioned the funeral held earlier for the former louisiana naurds mab. the update on the other officer, he has been stabilized and the reward for the suspect about $162,000 right now. >> brianna? >> nick, we know you'll be following that. a government crackdown leads to escalating violence in egypt. the reasons behind it ahead. [ male announcer ] this is george. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day

sterling smith joining us there from chicago. >>> dozens of people were killed and injured in a suicide blast on a trolley blast in russia. this is the country's third deadly attack in four days. jim maceda is live in moscow with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: hi, carl. a state of emergency has been called in volgograd. they have issued a statement that said this morning's bomb was carried out by a mail suicide bomber. people were going to work or the marketplace at the time the bomber struck. a whole city of 1 million is terrified. there are reports out of volgograd that residents are staying inside. they are too afraid to go about their daily lives. the strong suspicion is this was the work from islamic insurgents. police are already calling these latest attacks acts of terror. they are connecting them both to a public appeal that was made several months ago by doku, omarof, on the u.s. list of terrorists. he appealed to his own men to disrupt the winter olympics. vladimir has staked a lot of money and his reputation on. he has deployed 40,000 army, police and agents are going

. >> phil lebeau joins us now from chicago. >> reporter: simon, they've danced around this question hereford ceo alan mulally will truly stay until the end of next year. now today the ford board will be meeting and we're told one of the topics that is likely to come up at this meeting is some assurances from mulally regarding what are his future years? he said he plans to stay through the end of 2014 but has also not publicly said he is not in the running for the ceo job at microsoft. when you take a look at ford under the leadership of chairman bill ford, he's in sort of a tough spot here. he is the person who brought in alan mulally, he's very close with him. he said this is your time frame, however long you want to stay at ford, it's not a contract, it's a handshake agreement, you can stay that long. since 2006, the stock has more than doubled. yes at the same time for mark fields, who is the coo and essentially will take the ceo job will mulally steps down, is in a waiting game, as is the ford board trying to figure out what alan mulally plans to do. you see ford is beginning to tren

from detroit into chicago. notice everything is moving north and east. it's going to stay away from us now. we'll be tracking showers tomorrow and tracking winter precipitation over the weekend. >> the republican-controlled house has passed a 10-year ban on plastic fire arms that can evade metal detectors and x-ray machines. >> and the senate could vote on the bill monday, just hours before the law expires the very next day. >>> this was quite a day for the dc police department. one officer in the hospital tonight with a gunshot wound. and tonight, another is behind bars. >> earlier tonight, mulla leggy talked to kathy lanier about another officer facing child pornography charges. >> reporter: it was officers from this building in the seventh district who arrested washington, after he was accused of possessing and creating child pornography. >> we had an officer who was sworn to protect the public, and now we have an allegation that was sworn to protect the public, now he's just done this horrible act to hurt members in the community. >> the missing 15-year-old girl called police sunday to

connell: joining us from out in chicago with the trade today. sandra.rting to make a lot of the strategists goldman sachs and ubs and the likes making them look pretty good because they started to tell their clients to run for the exit several months ago in anticipation of this selloff and here we are today gold prices down $35 below $1200 per troy ounce. off the lows of the session but we are seeing a significant selloff with the seamless program by $10 billion starting in january. not much reason to hold onto the safe haven assets precious metals are considered. gold prices down 28%, that would be the single biggest annual drop for a gold dating to 1981, and by the way this would be firmly ending a 12 year bull run for gold. from 2008 through 2011 the fed seamless program drove gold prices up 70%, so as they unwind that, expectations gold prices will come down even more. by the way, guys, i percentage basis on the day and for the year silver down 36%, goldman sachs still saying gold will sell off 15% in the year. back to you. dagen: by the way, top ch

jeff flock joins us now i from chicago with the very latest. >> reporter: $100 billion with a b underfundedthe night, as you report, lori. and i'll tell you, the state legislature took two years to try and fix this. today put a fix in place, bipartisan fix, but it's being taken to court. you know, i reported on this a r a couple of hours ago, i said in the 1:00 show i would give you the folks who are making the most in terms of pension. you know, a lot of people are dogcatchers and pick up the trash, but take a look at who the big winners are. i don't mean to disparage anybody, these are largely doctors at the university of illinois medical center. but dr. gupta makes $439,000 a year in annual pension after retirement, and that's netted him about $3.5 million so far. most of those other folks are doctors. i want to show you another list, and this is something that taxpayers united of america put together. these are largely the second list educators. sort of interesting, though, you look at larry fleming, he stands to -- if, in fact, he lives out to age 85 -- will make $11.8 million in pensi

. >> kevin tibbles reporting from chicago for us. up to speed on any updates, we appreciate it. >>> "the new york times" benghazi investigation has reignited the debate over last year's consulate attack there. >>> and lone star senator ted cruz and this is 2013 antics. >>> and the red state/blue state divide. is it producing competing americas. those are the topics for our agenda panel. irin carmon, victoria soto, also an msnbc contributor, and corey dade is a contributing editor for theroot.com. corey, i want to start with you and "the new york times" because it's this report that they have disputing mainly republican claims that al qaeda was involved in last year's attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. instead the "times" said that local militants carried out this attack. however, we've got lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pushing back. take a listen. >> there was this clear attempt, and andrea send it veaid it ver there was an attempt to cover up cia activities

jeff flock from chicago to tell us what is going on there. jeff: maybe if you are general motors.look at these inventory numbers. i will tell why they're actually pretty good news in terms of what gm is doing. the chevy camaro, 157 days worth of inventory among camaro dealers. 148 days of inventory among the lacrossecommunity and days for the regal. what is gm bring about that? that might keep making cars and hoping somebody buys them. now they're shutting the plant making those vehicles an extra week try to let's demand catch up with supply. fairfax kansas plant making a lacrosse. for that is actually pretty good. : gm stock one of the momentum stocks for 2014. why? they said the government is out now, the pressure has gone away. a hedge fund is talking the stock up in a big way. overall economy is strong and gm is huge in china. they point out they may be reaching market saturation. gm has already risen 45% in the current year. the management gm now has in place is largely old management the end the price to earnings ratio is different than other competitors. still take a look a

joining us first of all from chicago is larry levin and scott shellady, he showed up here in new york studios. first of all, to you larry, 4.1% annualized growth in the summer months. what's the implication for the market this morning? >> well, so far the market likes it. you know, certainly, stuart, we've been talking about tapering and all of this stuff. we put it in the blender and pushed the button. as soon as we get higher interest rates, as long as we don't get those, markets should keep going up on great news like this. the best numbers since 2011. another two surprises this week, and the reaction and where we're at. >> we've got it. and scott shellady here in new york, and indications of 4.1 growth over the summer? >> i think that the fed's announcements the last couple of days are going to keep the rates lower longer combined with the fact that we've got decent growth, i think the market is going to do well in 2014 on the back of the fact that slowly, but surely start to see things pick up. the only thing we've got to worry about is inflation. stuart: everybody is worried if

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