webster: i thank mr. lipinski for their work on this bill and i encourage my house colleagues to pass this commonsense legislation. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. the gentleman from illinois. mr. lipinski: i reserve. mr. lucas: just to note, i have one more speaker and i will have the right to close. i yield three minutes to the gentleman from ohio. mr. gonzalez: i rise in support of h.r. 539. and mr. . lipinski webster for the hard work they put into this legislation. entrepreneurship is hard, risky and the road less traveled and all-encompassing journey that tests strength and skill that those bold enough to practice has to offer. the bill we are considering today takes the break-through lessons of customer development first codified by steve plank. and forms the basis of the n.s.f. icorps program and turning break-through research into successful enterprise. since this program was created n 2011, 600 startups have been formed including in my home state

th t fbi saysmas collected at least $300,000 from his victims but not a nickel from the websters, who now warn others to be. wa pete williams, nbc news, . washington >>> joaquin "el chapo" guzman was convicted on ten counts including drug trafficking and conspiracy to murder. the jury's decision came after nearly a week of deliberations. now the drug kingpin could spens the r of his life in pris. dan scheneman has the latest. >> reporter: it is the verecct prors were looking for. joaquin guzman, the notorious dr lord known as el chapo, convicted on all ten counts of drug trafficking and conspiracy. >> ts conviction, we expect, will bring a sentence of life wiout theossibility of parole. it is a sentence from which there is no escape and no return. > reporter: inside the courtroom, the 61-year-old defendant patted his heart and looked at his wife after the verdict was read. outside, tight security surrounded the courthouse while the jury deliberated more than 30 hours over six days in a trial that lasted more than 2 1/2 months. prosecutors say guzman's sinaloa cartel smuggled hundredso

it's very frightening. >> reporter: the fbi says thomas eventually realized who william webster was. >> at some point he learned that he was involved with the fbi and cia. >> reporter: but that didn't stop him? >> no. he said that the fbi and cia would never find him. >> reporter: thomas was arrested when he flew to the u.s., unaware that he was a wanted man. his sentence, six years in prison. the fbi says phone scammers from jamaica aggressively target older americans, claiming they're watching, sending pictures of their target's houses, which many victims don't realize come from google earth. older people, often alone, tend to be trusting and embarrassed to admit collected at least d. $300,000 from his victims, but not a nickel from the websters, who now warn others to be wary. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >> quite a story. >>> in venezuela, huge crowds protested against president nicolas maduro during that country's youth day. maduro is battling opposition leader juan guaido who is recognized as interim president by 51 countries, including the u.s. >>> just ahead tonight,

"> the 19 year old and her mother, nancy webster, murdered back in 1974. investigators have not found any remains for dinkel's mother- nancy webster. webster's boyfriend, clifton mahaney, found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. (grant) still ahead-- an 18-year-old finally gets vaccinated-- despite his parents objections. why he says he ááfinally feels protected. (sports tease) just ahead in sports, details on another proposal for the raiders in 2019... t we'll explain comin up. (lawrence) weather tease ♪ [baby crib musical mobile] millions are still exposed to the dangers of secondhand smoke. and some of them can't do anything about it. but you can. protect your family. visit tobaccofreeca.com. starting tonight with the warriors-- just two games left before wrapping up the first half of the seaosn. champs hosting utah... and golden state has won 15 of its last 16. crazy scene earlier as klay thompson sprained his left ring finger, but he's back in the game. score... 95-93 warriors... in the 4th quarter full highlights later on. in the meantime-- more candi

. >> reporter: what the scammer, keniel thomas didn't realize is the d man he targes william webster, former director of the cia and the fbi. >> it seemed to me that something wasn't quite right. this was pretty obvious to me that there was something fishy about it. >> reporter: he an his wife linda notified the fbi. >> reporter: when he threatened violence, did it see a legitimate threat? >> he terrified me. hat what me the sniper's bullet would do to my head and the blood would go on to my white house. it's very frightening. >> reporter: the fbi says thomas eventuallyiz re who william webster was. >> at some point he arned that he was involved with the fbi and cia. >> reporter: but that didn't stop him? >> no. he said that the fbi and cia would never find him. >> reporter: thomas was arrested when he flew to the u.s., unaware that he was a wanted man. his sentence, six years in prison. the fbi says phone icscammers from jamaa aggressively target s, older americ claiming they're watching, sending pictures of theiet 's houses, which many victims don't alize come from google earth. old

the cia director william webster, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has more. >> reporter: calls from jamaica promise a $15 million lottery prize in terms of wiring $15,000 to cover taxes, when the 90-year-old man who answered the phone didn't send money, neither did his wife the caller threatened violence. >> i'm going to. [ bleep ] kill you. i'm going to [ bleep ] kill your husband. i'm not going to give you warning. >> reporter: what he didn't realize is the man he targeted is william webster the former director of the cia and fbi. >> it seemed to me something wasn't quite right. this was pretty obvious to me there was something fishy about it. >> reporter: he and his wife linda notified the fbi. >> when he threatened violence, did it seem like a legitimate threat? >> he terrified me. he told me what the sniper's bullet would do to my head the blood would go onto the house. it's very frightening. >> at some point he learned that he was involved with the fbi and cia. >> but that didn't stop him? >> no, he said the fbi and cia will never find him. >> reporter: thomas was a

, the former fbi and cia director one of the reasons he figured itut is because linda webster told him. he said he didbot worry that because he knew the fbi and cia would never catch him. unaware he was a wanted man, he flew to jfk airport in new york where he was greeted by the fbi, where he was placed under arrest, had his hearing, he confessed, had his sentencing hearing in court and heot almost six years in prison. they were there, and they urged the judge to be somewhat lenie thaware of the other people he scammed. fbi thinks he got some people and probably stole about $300,000. >> there's no way he startedop the of the list and happened to hit them first. >> no. he messed with the wrong guy. >> good stuff. >> pete, thank you. quite a story. c yo see more tonight on nbc "nightly news" with lester holt right afterhis broadcast. >> you wish they were all that stupid, huh? thanks, pete. >>> let's check in with doug a amelia tracking conditions from storm center >> still dealing with rain and we have the winter storm warning in areas to thh. no very hard of an impact up there towards

the websters did n pay the scammer conned other elderly couples o of $300,000. he has been sentenced to six years in prison. >>> the university of maryland is taking a page from purdue's play book inspired by purdue's r super fan tylrent who died last month of thcancer. e terps hosted families fighting childhood cancer at their basketball game against purdue last night the brigs family celebritied a milestone. he had a brain tumor when he s 18 months old. now he is 4 years old and in remission. >> been waiting for this moment for a long time. after his surgery about a year ago, we've had four or five s mri'swing a clean bill of health. >> the terps teamed up with alex's lemonadeaktand to this happen. they raise money for child cancer patients. >> very nice. >> looks like had a blast, too. >> and the terps won, so that's a big deal. >> icing, right? >> yes. >>> well, if you suffer from dry or cracked skin, you may dread this time of >> all this cold weather can cause your skin to become dehydred, especially with your hands. this can lead to some problems. doctors

nancy webster. but the cold case taskforce says they'll keep searching.en) toss to lawrence weather lawrence karnow: it was a mostly cloudy day with a few light showers. rain will become heavy at times tonight and tomorrow morning. you can see the rain on doppler now. flash flooding is a possibility through thursday. high winds will also cause damage. more rain will move in on thursday. cold showers will return on friday and it will be wet throught the weekend. nat of rain for 03(grant) as the bay area gets ready for more rain ... take a look at these pictures from portland ... runoff turning into a torrent that spread water over the roadway.. a flood watch is in effect for northwest oregon and southwest washington tonight. many local school districts are closed as roads flooded. i'm pretty amazed, never seen this before ... portland area residents, used to rain, but not this much.an inch of rain overnight mixed with melting snow.natdozens of roads were closed in columbia county, north of portland.forecasters say the rain won't let up till next week... th

that i would be selected to have won somethi h that iad not earned. >> while the websters didn't pay, the scammer conned other elderly couples out of $300,000. he has been sentenced to six years in prison. >>> tof university maryland is taking a page from purdue's play book inspired by purdue's super fan tyler trent who died last month from cancer. the terps hosted families fighting childhood cancer at their basketball game against purdue last night the brigs family celebrated a milestone, their son garrett h a brain tumor when he was 18 months old. he is 4 now. and he's i remission. >> waiting for this moment for a long time. after his surgery about a year ago, we've had four or five mris now showing a clean bill of health. >> the terps tead upith alex's lemonade stand to make this all happen. the national organization raises money for child cancer patients. >> garrett looking great there. >> grab some m&ms and make it night. >> having fun. >> m&ms >> you bet you and the terps won. a great night all around. >> are they having a good season? >> so far so good. purdue was ranked higher

ashley webster and how the markets are reacting. let's say very nicely, thank you. first to kevin. >> neil, what a day. perhaps the most optimistic language in describing the ongoing trade dispute between the u.s. and china. president trump today almost sounded just a bit, if you listen carefully, like the end of the ongoing trade dispute could be near. >> both parties want to make it a meaningful deal. we don't want to make a deal that doesn't work. i can speak for the vice premier and president xi and myself, both parties want this a real deal, a meaningful deal. not a deal that is done and doesn't mean anything. we want to make in a deal that will last for many, many years. a deal that will be good for both countries. we want to make it meaningful. >> you heard him say it a couple times. he wants this to be meaningful. the talks in washington have been key to deescalating the conflict between the two largest economies. you can see china's economy slow down. there's been collateral problems in the ag sector. the president's rosy echoed by the president and steve m

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we will start chilli and bright under northeastern parts of tuesday, but it turns webster, claudia, acrosssome snow with a high ground of scotland. temperatures in belfast in central and southern parts of wales, where in double figures. a bit milder. wednesday, we still have atlantic influence with south—westerly winds. across central and eastern parts, we should see plenty of sunshine, but there will be some shower read burst of rain. to purchase and double fingers across the south, we are looking at values above the seasonal norm. throughout the week, it looks like the atlantic will be bringing us more like the atlantic will be bringing us more weather systems. south west systems, outbreaks of rain, let's call next week with even milder spells across england and wales. areas of the pressure will bring wet and windy weather. we should see a little bit of snow across the northern hills. this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 11:00: heavy snow causes hundreds of schools to close across wales and southern england and more snow is on the way. millions of commuters face nightmar

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webster and company. charles l. webster happens to be related to mark twain. the whole idea is the company is founded originally so mark twain can find a publisher for his big book, "huckleberry finn." twain offers grant 70% of the profit. 70% of the profit. craig: that is the deal you had for this book, right? [laughter] john: exactly. actually, grant wrote everything. he wrote all of it. why is he so accurate? that is another myth. there is a myth is full of errors. it is not true. it is quite accurate. where grant messes up sometimes is he will say in such and such a battle, we had 20,342. well actually, 24,000. so we do make that as a notation, but it is not a big deal. what we found was most of our work was identifying people grant mentioned so modern readers could understand. craig: here we are at the lincoln forum talking about grant. we want to talk a little bit about grant and lincoln together. they don't meet until relatively late in the war. we will talk about that in a minute. i did want to ask you if you have any sense of when lincoln began to per

go back to ashley webster in the newsroom. ashley. >> melissa, it's a mixed bag.ter-hours trading. beat in earnings per share handily. they missed revenue in the third quarter. they beat estimates well above 20% year-over-year in the fourth quarter. so they beat on the top and bottom line. where the weaknesses come in, this cost per click rate. it is down 29%. in other words they're earning less money every time someone clicks on a search ad and that is a big part of their business model of course. the operating margin also down 21%. it was at 25% in the third quarter. so again the operating margin is squeezing in just a little bit. right now on the conference call we have ruth porat, the cfo of alphabet praising global search and google's role and talking about extra expenses, well above 20%. they say cost of revenue up on youtube content acquisition, data centers, hardware, adding more people to the country, close to 99,000 people. they added more than four thousand employees, many of those to the cloud division. there are more costs as they bring in the cloud b

ashley webster is live in the news room on this.o they got dollars, but will they get a deal with our military, it doesn't look like brazil is going to be helping. ashley: not at all not one bit, liz. the u.s. says all options are on the table. brazil says no, it's dismissing military in venezuela, calling them especially on the part of the u.s. premature saying it " just wouldn't make sense." interesting brazil's attitude is that the venezuela question needs to be resolved by venezuela and don't forget the venezuelan president, nicholas maduro completely shut the border with brazil but brazil says no that doesn't really signify an act of aggression. the frustrating thing is of course is that aid has been pour ing into both the brazil and colombian border but right now it's kept in warehouses as venezuela steps up its blockade in response the trump adminitration as you mentioned, liz, increasing pressure on the venezuelan president maduro wanting him to step down bringing in new sanctions against those four state governors, allied t

ashley webster live in the newsroom with more. >> connell, disturbing development.nezuelan soldiers with a border checkpoint with brazil with a dozen others injured. four seriously. the military opened fire on a group trying to get humanitarian aid into the country. the soldiers along with tanks, have been deployed after president maduro announced he was closing the border with brazil, warned against anyone trying to bring in supplies. venezuela opposition leader juan guido has been calling for new aid shipments. supplies are being assembled in brazil and colombia. the u.s. sent nearly 200 metric tons of humanitarian assistance over past two weeks to the colombian-venezuela border. those supplies include good for 2000 people for a month. as well as hygiene kits, wheelchairs, crutches and bandages. in response, maduro who denies any humanitarian crisis exists, is considering closing the border with colombia as well, effectivelying ceiling much of venezuela off. we've seen a battle bizarrely of two concerts. one called venezuela aid live, held besides a bridge linking

. >> that was the terrifying message a scammer fromai j left for william webster and his wife. he wanted them to pay $50,000. the money was suppose to cover taxes and fees for winning the mega millions lottery. webster led the fbi and cia in the '80s and '90s say he wasn't about to fall for it >> this was pretty obvious to me that there was something fishy about it, that i would have been selected to have won something nthat i hadot earned. >> while thes web didn't pay, the scammer conned other elderly cfples out $300,000. he's been sentenced to six yrs in prison. >>> the university of maryland ys taking a page from purdue's play book inspirpurdue's super fan tyler trent who died last month from cancer. the terps hosted familiesti fi childhood cancer against their basketball game against purdue. last night the brigs family celebrated a big milestone. their son garrett had a brain tumor when he was 18 months old. he is 4 years old now and is in remission. >> been waiting for this moment for a lon time. after his surgery about a year ago we've had four or five mris now swing a cl

shrill thing in nashik maybe she just came over here to the museum she wouldn't go look when you're webster fletcher if you genius he could speak you know for both of you only see would you that's that shit. america's been threatening for some time to withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty alleging as we've heard that russia is in violation of moscow denies this and invited the us to come and see for itself and it is don of looks at how the u.s. has been ramping up the pressure. the trumpet ministration is said to go down in history as the deal killer its approaches as time tested as it is straightforward you start with the big and blunt accuse ation for years russia has violated the terms of the intermediate range nuclear forces really without remorse any intelligence clear and coherent facts of the presumed violation no need to bother with those for all you know they can be totally utterly nonexistent because if you repeat an allegation enough times there's a good chance it will become a given russia has violated russia's violation russia shamelessly violates it the russians are a violation of t

term that was coined like mid nineteenth century germany the definition by mere according to miriam webster is politics based on practical material factors rather than theoretical or ethical objectives the person credited with bringing real politics to america by the way tax henry kissinger henry comes out of the gold war criminal who thought bombing cambodia in the stone age was diplomacy. and speaking out of the war criminals we all know marco rubio is ramping up to kind of throw his hat into the henry kissinger game with that horrible tweet that i'm still wondering if twitter will magically take down like it would anyone else's but i guess marco gets a pass because after all we have to remember marco is a creep in the chicken hawks but he's a politician so i guess that's ok. last week we covered the live aid concert happening on the colombian side of the border with sadness wailing hosted by british billionaire richard branson the point of the event was according to him to get so that's why the military to open the border to outside interests and well we've covered quite a few angles. on

a war it's not good not good at all despite the fact that prime minister brown made all kinds of webster of. their dogs but i think they are going in peru elections that are domestic abuse and photographs of the out a resort thing for such utter katic. the last evening i did not monitor any feeling going on the road toward what could get out of some indications and the prime minister i. must be having more intelligence than what i have. got a thought a crime and. i think. not go all out because. quickly escalate into something unfortunate which is unconventional weapons and the question word will not happen if garth hundred. takes place all american policy will go for the six in afghanistan and they will never let that happen so india has a few small that option that they were dark to. in other news iran says two pakistanis were behind last week's suicide bombing that killed twenty seven revolutionary guys. who had claimed responsibility for the attack a sony group says it wants rice and better living conditions for ethnic baluchis in is sending iran but iran which is majority shia has r

mark: the federal bureau of investigation when you're at the justice department bill webster who else was the director? . >> when i was independent counsel bill sessions was a federal judge. >> there was no controversy with respect to the first two do you ever recall the director of the fbi the deputy director the general counsel leaking? were you aware when you are with the justice department they were leaking? . >> know that would have been really out of character they were straight shooters they were honest and they embodied the goals and values of the fbi perko fidelity bravery integrity were so terribly and portend you have to believe in the honesty of law enforcement with an enormous amount of power so they set the tone and they set a great tone. mark: from the deputy director andrew mccabe has been in the news on "60 minutes" on his celebrity tour hawking his book which is a remarkable thing to me because he confessed to a cabal at the justice department trying to trigger the 25th amendment to the constitution of the united states they clearly never read it because it is compli

let's get to ashley webster at the new york stock exchange.orter: it was a day full of news but the markets struggled for most of of the session. the dow losing 72 points on the day and the nasdaq gaining 5 points. shares of weight watchers blimented after earnings that disappointed investors. along with lower sales and earnings, bad news for oprah winfrey whose 8% stake in the company means she lost more than $40 million. wynn resort will have to pay $20 million. it admitted it ignored sexual allegations again steve wynn. liz: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell attacking the progressives' green new deal. even nancy pelosi gave it a tepid, lukewarm welcome. the freshman lawmakers spearheading it. we'll tell you what ivanka said that cortez is misunderstanding. the price tag $9 trial or 10 years -- $9 trillion over 10 years. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you've got c

on saturday night, the red devils knocked off top-seeded webster 70-69 on the road to secure their conference championship, assuring their spot in the division iii tournament. with just a few weeks remaining in the regular season, the red devils needed to win out the remaining four games to enter the conference tournament and they did just that. mr. lahood: the never-give-up spirit embody idea by team is testament to the great work -- embodied by the team is testament to the great work of their coach. our community in central illinois is immensely proud of the historic accomplishments of this year's eureka men's basketball team and we will be cheering them on as they take on the number one seeded nebraska wesleyan this weekend. congratulations and go red devils. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, as we recognize black his

the webster street pedestrian signals is another highlight, and we're hoping to also do a new round this coming year because we have more funding coming in for programming. another fund that we manage is the air district money to reduce air emissions, and we had the gator pass, which is a transit pass that san francisco state implemented last year with all the students. going forward, we had new projects allocated funding for fast chargers for electric vehicles, bike racks, and a whole bunch of other electrification-type projects. in terms of delivery, we either deliver the projects or oversee the agencies in terms of their ability to deliver the projects. all of we're all working on vehicles, train control, maintenance facilities, and you'll see some highlights here from the -- hopefully, you've been able to ride all the new vehicles from b.a.r.t. and of course the municipally l.r.v. we had our new meet and greet facility, in the yslais creek area. s are westbound ru s -- we are preparing our south gate road and again coordinating on pedestrian path projects with the regional and state

i'll make a boys club has this offices in revenue scott i graduated from daniel webster elementary school and debate in in portrayal hill. we lived in the housing projects until we were able by the grace of god. bye just own passion for wanting to find another life and another relationship to we ended up. buying a home my mother when i was 11 years old. on central and hayes in the western addition all seven of us called in to that one. two bedroom and two bedroom and one some room home. and grew up here we had a home. the way in which we cherish and embraced at home it fit it was never figured it out but it was big enough with love and attention to keep it and sustain it. and the work hard. work overtime all of us. i can attribute at that point i danny glover who had a paper out a prolonged usf the universe's san francisco for five years. in that sense in an effort to stay in that home my parents both postal employees working overtime those who have parents who worked in the polls starved noted that was an arms race space for so many parents who came here with home in the ideas and all th

ashley webster is with me from the fox business network.last year. >> the president wanted to show what socialism can do. venezuela is so rich with resources. they were a shining star in central america. now we get a system that comes with cronies and corruption, take the goods and the money and leave the majority of the people dirt poor. as we've seen desperate situation right now. this is just what can go -- what can happen in socialism. it's a very stark reminder -- >> charles: time after time after time and venezuela is in our back yard, but i invite people to look at the study of post colonial africa. many of those countries chose socialism over capitalism because they wanted to separate from europe. they were looking to russia, which looked like they were successful in the 50s. but you know, it set those countries back 50 years. >> like at zimbabwe, the bread basket of africa. socialism comes in and becomes a barren wasteland. >> charles: always a dictator shop involved with that. >> yes. they take everything and leave the citizens to

we have david bernstein here and fox business network's ashley webster. let starts with you, denny. the democrats call for -- calling this a stunt. i thought, hey, this is what you want, you get publicity from it. all of the presidential candidates have rallied around this. why not vote on it? >> yeah. make up your mind, right? this is a fundamental transformation of america on steroids. this is a sweeping agenda for more government control and intervention in our everyday lives. why would they not want to go on the record? they would have to defend this to their constituents and the constituents need to know who supports this and what does not. this will affect all americans if this is something that the utopia that democrats want to go there. >> shepard: we're hearing it broad strokes, a lot to be filed in but starts the conversation. a vote would allow americans to see who is for what at this particular time. >> they should have a vote on it, frankly. as senator harris said, why propose those if you don't want to vote on it? we have become engaged in politics and mitch mcconnell

ashley webster on assignment on the floor of the new york stock exchange with the recap.ey, ashley. >> hi, connell and melissa. it was interesting, we had hearings today. so much news not all of it relevant to the market but certainly the lighthouser appearance in front of the house ways and means committee had a big impact. just after 10:00 he told the congressional members, hey, we're making progress on the u.s. china trade deal. we have a ways to go. he couldn't predict the outcome. that was enough to knock stuffing out of the markets. we dropped over 100 points at that very moment. we struggled all day to come back. basically treading water all day. more talk of a medicare for all bill. united health among hardest hit, down about 4%. as you can see, almost 5%. that has been a big drag on the dow, shaving at least 80 points off the index. if it wasn't for that we could have finished positive. other insurers taking a hit including humana, anthem and cigna. on the other side of the coin, good news for best buy, at least a good day on the market. shares gaining more than

ashley webster in the newsroom with more on this. >> to put it kindly, connell.hey are a accusing mark zuckerberg dodging their requests for face-to-face meeting, sending lackeys instead. that scathing committee report was released in the uk this week. it came after an 18 month social media investigation. it ended up accusing facebook of intestingly violating privacy and anti-competition laws. of course remember the cambridge analytica privacy scandal last year? in part the report concludes this. companies like facebook should not be allowed to behave like digital gangsters in the online world. considering themselves to be ahead of, beyond the law. that is pretty strong stuff. but today, as you said, connell, mr. zuckerberg relented agreed to a 30-minute meeting with uk culture secretary jeremy wright at the facebook california headquarters. 30 minutes. not a whole lot of time. certainly won't produce any breakthroughs how facebook can better police itself, hey it is a start, right? facebook says it tripled the size of the team working to protect users from bad c

ashley webster live from the newsroom. >> funny how that happens.n it comes to politics, new york city mayor bill de blasio, democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez are on the same page on the far left but not apparently when it comes to amazon. mayor blast last says the freshman lawmaker says she has no idea what it is talking about, that amazon pulling out of long island city deal would free up money to pay teachers. the mayor said $3 billion tax incentives was based on amazon creating 25,000 jobs, infrastructure and rutting tax revenue. the $3 billion didn't exist without amazon's investment, just a tax break. even though miss alexandria ocasio-cortez din understand the math, mayor de blasio is blaming amazon for ultimately walking away from the deal. take a listen. >> i have no problem with my fellow progressives critiquing a deal or wanting more from amazon. i wanted more from amazon too but the bottom line is this is example after abuse of court power. they couldn't handle the heat in the kitchen. they lot a lot of working people down in the bargain

of the get to ashley webster on the floor of the new york stock exchange today. >> connell, i thoughte would finish positive. it all drifted away going into the closing bell. you mentioned home depot. let me talk about home depot. you can see down just about 1%. it has been a laggard since the opening bell all the way this morning. home detail giant posting weaker-than-expected fourth quarter results. they missed an revenue and earnings. the outlook was a little underwhelming to add to it. home depot says it is seeing slowing growth in the housing metrics, that is their words. good news, bad news from automaker fiat chrysler. on the bad side the company says it will cut nearly 1400 jobs at an assembly plant in illinois where it builds the jeep cherokee s is uv. it is eliminating one of three shifts. on good side, it will invest four 1/2 billion dollars in five plants, creating 6500 jobs in michigan, a new assembly plant in detroit. good news for that city. etsy, arts and craft site is on a roll. shares up more than 16% darks after blowing out earnings in the latest report. the revenue

go to ashley webster with the numbers. >> melissa a beat on top and bottom line.e 3.6 billion. earnings per share, 18 cents. estimate was 14. that is good news there. shows growth for news corp is the digital real estate area reporting 311 million for the quarter. that is better than certainly a year ago. book publishing up over last year but news and information services slightly down. news corp, publisher of dow jones which publishes "the wall street journal," dow jones, "new york post," harpercollins, some overseas interests. they foxtel and fox sports australia. not bad. beating top and bottom line and a lot of individual operating divisions doing okay, except for news and information services. the battle here is to offset declining ad revenue and they're doing that through subscription services on the digital platform. that is the key for news corp. guys? melissa: ashley, thank you. >> sure. >> at this moment in american history there is two simple questions that i would like to share with you and can ask of you. the first is, what kind of country do we want

it's a potential safety issue that ashley webster has been looking into. he joins us from the newsroom with the latest. ashley: not a good thing. according to the "journal" the faa began this investigation a year ago. federal investigators want to know if employees with southwest airlines frequently miscalculate the weight of checked baggage on its flights. mistakes, by the way, that can cause pilots to compute the wrong weight of those planes at takeoff. the errors were described as systemic and significant, occasionally causing the reported takeoff weights to be 1,000 pounds lower than the plane's actual weight. that can cause a host of problems, including the need for higher take-off speed, reduced cruising speeds, decreased maneuverability and higher stress on the landing gear. safety experts agree that that's the greatest risk, coming from potentially incorrect pilot responses to an engine emergency. unlike other large u.s. airlines, southwest does not rely on computerized scanners to count bags as they are loaded into the belly of the aircraft. inste

ashley webster is live in the newsroom with the latest.e had the press conference earlier today where they gave a lot of details. >> they did. melissa: one of the most fascinating they were talking about how the cops were waiting outside, when customers left, drive away, pull them over for what they thought was a traffic stop, so they get information who they knew it was, let them drive on. i hadn't heard something like that before. >> no, it is interesting, isn't it, melissa? investigators say 77-year-old robert kraft crass videoed visiting or kids spa twice. that is the day of the afc championship game in kansas city, which he attended in the evening. documents claim kraft arrived in a bentley on the 20th. was filmed engaging in sex acts. seen giving a woman 100-dollar bill before he left. authorities say he was also seen soliciting prostitution on video surveillance on the day before. now the patriots owner has officially been charged with two misdemeanor counts of first-degree solicitation. authorities say they have been conducting a s

judge webster is sitting in the front row.ust because the government collects information doesn't mean the information is accurate. it can be made leading if you're overly transparent. i think we need to be cautious about that. not to comment on any particular case. there may be reasons for exceptions. as a general principle my view is the department of justice is best served when people are confident we're going to invest in american citizens. as i mentioned, when we charge somebody with a violation we need to be prepared to prove it by evidence beyond any reasonable doubt. the guidance i always gave my prosecutors and the agents i worked with were if we aren't prepared to prove our case in court, then we have no business making allegations against american citizens. i know there's tension there between the desire to be more transparent and the desire to ensure the government is not unduly tainting anybody, but my own view about it is we're better off following the rules and ensuring that our employees respect their obligatio

ashley webster following closely.products, they'll do it. >> this is for the professional gadget lover. i'm not -- i think that's the basic price. you want a.c., the tow package -- >> neil: wait a minute. that's not a phone. >> should be for $2,000. >> neil: incredible. obviously everybody said it was a big mistake when anned tried that. $1,000 phone and lived to regret it. could be a case all price points -- >> there's a stagnation in the smart phone world. all we get is a little up great to what we have already got. it's evolution. what samsung is trying to do is revolution. it's going to be expensive. i was reading on the social media sites, when will it come down for $2,000? they don't think it will below that for five years. i nearly made my iphone foldable by sitting on it. but it doesn't work. this is amazing. >> yeah. it's big. >> yeah. only the true geeks will love it and pay the money. >> it expresses confidence that americans are spending and they bet big money that it will always be the case. >> i don't kn