lisa amin gulezian joins us near apple's headquarters with more. lisa? >> ama, most emojis involve round yellow faces that are smiling, laughing, crying. you know what i mean. apple will soon come out with a new diverse skin color pallet, but it is this yellow character right here that is drawing some negative attention. these are some of the newest emojis coming to an apple product near you this year. issues are popping up with the racially diverse eye cons especially the yellow one. it appears apple thinks asian yellow people have jaundice and many people think the same thing. >> white the latino and the black. >> they insist there is no mall intent and that emojis are originally yellow. >> they are misunderstanding what it is. it is a default neutral color and it always has been. >> sierra tweeted the yellly emojis -- the yellow is supposed to represent default. yeah okay, keep telling yourself that. several emoji users don't see anything wrong with the new icons. >> i don't think it really matters. when i click on an emoji it is just an emoji. >> i re

lisa amin gulezian joins us near apple's headquarters with more. lisa? >> ama, most emojis involve round yellow faces that are smiling, laughing, crying. you know what i mean. apple will soon come out with a new diverse skin color pallet, but it is this yellow character right here that is drawing some negative attention. these are some of the newest emojis coming to an apple product near you this year. issues are popping up with the racially diverse eye cons especially the yellow one. it appears apple thinks asian yellow people have jaundice and many people think the same thing. >> white the latino and the black. >> they insist there is no mall intent and that emojis are originally yellow. >> they are misunderstanding what it is. it is a default neutral color and it always has been. >> sierra tweeted the yellly emojis -- the yellow is supposed to represent default. yeah okay, keep telling yourself that. several emoji users don't see anything wrong with the new icons. >> i don't think it really matters. when i click on an emoji it is just an emoji. >> i re

lisa amin gulezian joins us near apple's headquarters with more. lisa? > ama, most emojis involve round yellow faces that are smiling, laughing, crying. you know what i mean. apple will soon come out with a new diverse skin color pallet, but it is this yellow character right here that is drawing some negative attention. these are some of the newest emojis coming to an apple product near you this year. issues are popping up with the racially diverse eye cons especially the yellow one. it appears apple thinks asian yellow people have jaundice and many people think the same thing. >> white the latino and the black. >> they insist there is no mall intent and that emojis are originally yellow. >> they are misunderstanding what it is. it is a default neutral color and it always has been. >> sierra tweeted the yellly emojis -- the yellow is supposed to represent default. yeah okay, keep telling yourself that. several emoji users don't see anything wrong with the new icons. >> i don't think it really matters. when i click on an emoji it is just an emoji. >> i rea

used near schools but the plan is to repaint hundreds of crosswalks on the busy streets. officials say it is a quick and inexpensive way to improve state. >> union supporters of those who shuttle around apple employees are protesting outside the cupertino headquarters this morning ahead of the vote to join the team materials union. matt keller is at apple campus. matt? >> teamsters were successful unionizing the drivers at facebook now they are trying to take a bite out of apple and other silicon valley companies. >> teamsters truck into cupertino to protest working conditions for 120 full and part time shuttle bus drivers who work at apple and yahoo and ebay contracted through compass traps. union officials say that the drivers get low wages and benefit packages and often woring split shifts with long waits in between. >> it is about sharing the wealth. their workers are making a lot of money and it is zoning that drivers also have a living wage, good health care and rights. >> the steam materials unionized 90 drivers at facebook in november. loop transportation which contracts with the social networking company made a through deal with the drivers recently. the teamsters say the contract

the former technology manager for the united states will join us live to how companies can defend themselves. >>> and apple trading neargh. is the growth sustainable. >>> rick santelli is over at the cne, it's consumer sentiment. >> it's a big number. 93.6. this is february -- february -- that does it -- 93.6. last time was 98.1. that's the final for january. the neat thing about that number, that was the best since january 2004. 93.6, as good as it is of course backs up a little bit into that. but it's still a hugely lofty level. let's go through the expectations, one-year inflation 2.8. and five-year, 3.7. all things considered this isn't a surprise. but as stocks continue to move up it is putting pressure on selling treasuries pushing rates up we're we're not trending above 2% again for the second time this week. back to you. >> thank you very much rick. before today this year we haven't hit any fresh record highs on the dow and s&p, that's clearly changed. stocks opening in the green. the dow hitting 18,000. the s&p within the last few moments hitting 2093. that is a record high. it's worth noting actually that for

near $740 billion. and since apple is such a big part of the nasdaq, it's helping the overall index and your 401(k). lots of ushares either directly or through etfs. but a pair of government reports out this morning, they were disappointing. one showed the number of people who applied for jobless benefits rising to 304,000 in the first week of february, and that was up from the prior week. and retail sales declining for a second straight month down eight-tenths of 1% in january. this as drivers spent less money on gasoline but did not go out and splurge on other items. gas prices today are up, however, up for the 17th day in a row. aaa putting the national average at $2.23, and oil prices are hovering around $50 a barrel. of what's surprising here is that they haven't moved much above 50 in recent days yet gas prices are not ticking lower, so they keep going up and oil's not really going up. jon: in fact the oil prices are low and holding steady, and the gas prices keep going up. explain that. >> reporter: not fair. it's very difficult to explain, but in the next couple of weeks, the refineries switch over to

has gone apple watch, apple pay, tippediphone pay, it's not that big a number before and finally, a subject near and dear to our reader's hearts greece has been hitting it for usht now looking at greek depositors have been taking a the lot of money out of the banks and putting stress on the banks. and it's also leading to a rise in burglaries. >> we have to talk about ports. if you're here we have this news out of oakland. what do you think about that? >> oakland is the fifth largest port on the coast. so it's sort of the medium player on there. and i actually used to be stationed right there at oakland covering it and i can see why they would close it down. they are the first forget very crowded. not a lot of room to work. the trick is whether the other big big ports will follow suit. i was talking to transportation experts looking at who could win and there is a lot of debate. a lot of people are being look at the canadian railroads because ship lines converted up to canada. association of american railroads reported in the last four weeks, a 17% pop in freight traffic for the canadian railroads. >> do you think this will have any effect on earnings some wil