Transcripts For FBC Mornings With Maria Bartiromo 20171228

[inaudible] cheryl what is back in the new year. No waiting until the last minute this year. Homeowners in high tax states are rushing to pay their property taxes before the new federal law goes into place january 1st. By the effort still may not pay off for them. Overnight developments we are going to talk about. Broader markets right now futures pointing to a higher open in the second to last eight trading for the u. S. Dow up by 37 in the free market. In europe after long Holiday Market from the european markets onto the downside slightly. In asia overnight by markets closed mostly higher. The kospi up over 1 . Denis katie on the market in the red. Roy is more filing a lawsuit, challenging the Alabama Senate election. His new claim of voter fraud that had. X marks the spot for tim cook this year. The apple cto with the jawdropping amount he made in 2017. Disneyland goes dark. A power outage forces the happiest place on earth to shut down dozens of riot. White tux hours to get to ride on there. Also lights out at the box office. Taking the top spot for the year again thanks to the last jedi and marvel movies read the full list for you coming on. All of that and a lot more ahead this morning. Joining the insight today, Fox News Contributor and reporter cat tends this year. Telecom reporter branded segment chief Research Officer for a squared research in which the analyst herzog. Good morning. How do you about our taxes this morning . Great. How much time do they have . Cheryl i am saying tamara by noon if you really want to get going and make some changes. Do it by tomorrow at noon. I know people have been lining up to get this paid off including family members of mine. This is certainly nine. If youre not doing it now is a good reason to file as early as you can because of an equifax breach. People can file taxes engage a return on your behalf. Cheryl at least this year will be the painful year. Its going to be 2019 when you see your accountant and the rubber hits the road. Weve got a lot more coming up this morning. New york congresswoman Claudia Tenney will be joining us. Martha stewart living Martha Stewart will be here. You dont want to miss both of those amazing guests coming up during the show. The president s first major legislative push in the new year is going to be infrastructure. The white house expected to unveil preparing the nations road come airports and bridges next month. Earlier this year the administration propose spending 200 billion on infrastructure over the next decade that they say will spur a 800 billion on the state and local level. I bet to a trillion if youre keeping track right now. This comes as the major new york city area year extension bridge is now closed for emergency repairs. Joining us now to weigh in. The near bridge has caused a traffic area but they Train Derailment outlasts. How much do you think democrats are going to get on board for infrastructure. Normally they like to spend money. That is something we have to see how that plays out. If you remember during the obama years, the earlier bombing areas with a lot of infrastructure elements to it and republicans looking to conservatives scrutinizing it with a lot of ways tonight in the money was not being spent properly. That is something the president if they want something thats massive to go through in the spending is pretty more remarkable. Would it have been effective if theyd taken this on first . If this is out of the election and people werent sure what he was going to do politically, is it more difficult to do this now and build up a lot of our enemies in washington. You with pink this is a less controversial the issue given that everybody likes the idea of bridges and roads being prepared and never know that if kabul feels like. This would have been a wise state. I know what he campaigned on with the sense of urgency when it came to obamacare, immigration. He did talk about infrastructure has been talking about that going back decades, towards the 80s. So it couldve been an easier move to make. At the same time you did make promises more version at the time or that he saw as more urgent. It is still hard to see. Democrats dont see themselves as having much of an end to to work with him that maybe he can flex his muscles and get something done. Cheryl Debbie Dingell has come out and said shes going to work with the president. I know you mentioned earlier how republicans in the past are concerned about spending when it comes to bills like this. Do you see those concerns now . Is anyone concerned on how we might pay for this . Use certain holdout thing that we dont see how this is going to work out. Theyve been elected to Congress Going back for several terms in some cases where there were a deficit hawks at the spending on the and they were flipflopping with a republican in power. There is a strong likelihood you will see enough republicans not just going to squeeze through quickly. This is something theyll have to work on an individual basis. Cheryl thats where the negotiating will come back and now will start next month. The president visited a group of responders in a fire station in florida yesterday talking a lot about his first year in office. He said the country is a big beautiful ship that his administration is turning around. Listen to what he said. We have more legislation passed comment urging a long time ago when we broke the record. The stock market hit a new high at 84 times since we won the election november 8th of last year. In your family said your great investors. Cheryl what is your take on how the president was traded by the press corps in 2017 . He likes to say that the overwhelming coverage has been negative. Anyone who watches the news knows thats true. When it comes to his achievements and legislatively, thats overshadowed by russia, the russia deal and i think he has been absent. Theres been some understandable frustrations by his repealing certain obama regulations done by executive order has cut through the massive tax bill. That has been obviously its first major legislative accomplishment. He has reason to say these are issues not covered. Im doing what i said i would be elected to do. When youre done and you still standing. Some people had doubts about that. We are going forward. Another three years and well see what he can do in that time. Cheryl if you look at our Retail Stocks are doing early this year, strong Consumer Spending, consumer sentiment. His roll back regulations for everyone regulation he killed 22. The Supreme Court justice nomination they had all these names. The American Consumer seems to be spending. Does a question i was going to ask. How is it that is it that we here is it doubly here and Business Networks are talking about a trillion dollar gains for the market. The 16 increase. Is there one thing is that only specific for Business Networks or is it just a story that gets lost in the shuffle . The russia controversy has consumed a lot of time when it comes to the National Media. There are polls that show the public overall that is the last issue that they care about. They came out sometime ago within the last month that theres about 30 was their main issue. Others cared about immigration. Democrats talk about health care. These are things that consume most of his day in the russia deal is that most entries to the National Media in new york and washington. Cheryl i think youre psychic because of that the polling front of me. I think it was very fascinating. This poll ranks the highest priorities for the American Public for 2018. Number one was health care overwhelmingly 40 for democrats, republicans right behind with taxes, immigration, and finally, the economy. Also i have to add nonthat a lot of americans say that the president has not done anything to unite the country. Only 9 say hes brought the country together. Ray. I think we should wonder what role the media played in now. We have a very divided media. Every flex because thats where a lot of the vshaped subway. When we have a polarized media you might see that affect. I would think that is to be expected in families. One of the reasons tribe is not happy with the coverage is because he creates controversies within the media report. We had that earlier where he mentioned how he signed more legislation than any president has just actually not the case. Reporters focus on the misstatement rather than the issues you i dont know if thats a controversy he created. I would actually if you go back to the controversy with the nfl in the things he was talking about the kneeling for the flag, and i was what he gave at a rally. It wasnt the main piece of his speech he was giving up the rally, that you had the media clamoring on for this thingy talked about for days and days. I dont know the controversy was then that he made good of windows it could be more careful when youre president. Maybe thats his new years resolution. Think before you tweet. There is an understanding. Thats for sure. Thanks for getting up early with us this morning. Coming up, golden apple. Tim cook is a huge pay booths. Apple ceo is being ordered to fly private. And are you rushing to pay your property taxes before the big tax changes next year . It may already be too late. Overnight developments in the impact on you that you need to hear about. That is coming up next. Millions of you are online right now, searching one topic. That will generate over 600 million results. 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Afghan Officials Say three bombs were used in the attack as well as on suicide, who blew himself up inside this. The affiliate claiming for the bombing. The group has carried out in recent months. In the capital city of kabul. The massive power for at least a dozen riot in a large part of the riots caused by a malfunction with one of the parks transformers knocking out the power for several hours and not let visitors angry and asking for their money back. Of course this is a trip to fan for ages. They will not be issuing any refunds. Razors for apple ceo tim cook in some other executives receiving the biggest spike. Total pay for fiscal 2015. Jumping 47 cents to 12 findings dollars because they exceed annual sales and profit goals. Apple disclosing tim cook by a private jet for others travel is because [inaudible] unfortunately, the irs is out with a lastminute notice that first i was trying get a jump on next years tax bill. The irs says not all prepavement for 22 property taxes this year may be taxdeductible because not all of them have been calculated yet. The new tax law for 2018 have come unlimited Tax Deduction at 10,000 so you should check with your accountant in these final few days of 2017. Cheryl. Cheryl lauren, this is Something Else to push down on the website last night, and a new that people were going and running. There were lines at the new york state. Governor cuomo said and he was encouraging to do it. You have to have an actual assessment of your property in 2017. Printer always conditions like that. When it comes to government bureaucracy. Right at the last minute. It doesnt have to be this hard. They just want to make it harder for people. But why go through the tax bill commended because they see commendable point was to get rid people making deductions are there for Small Businesses or individuals because they dont pay people what they actually are. Talking about all americans. Thats a general assessment. Would you make of this tax . Ive never been so happy to be a renter. Cheryl grave. Sihitha. Of the renters are reading this information is me out a little bit. I dont understand why they put out this information to lastminute when you have this rash for people to go over and try to pay all of this taxes that may or may not count. That is the issue. Are we talking on the brink, will discount. Cheryl i think there will be a lot of questions about it. From some of the experts i talked to, there are some working pieces of language in the tax bill from especially when it comes to the individual. Maybe i should get into accounting. They have no clue. Edgartown hasnt had a heart attack by now. I wonder tax repairs have been returning phone calls right now. Are tax reporters of the wall street journal are flooded. Cheryl as we are here, to do. Well be talking about it later on the show as well. Former Alabama Senate candidate where morris still not backing down. The details since he files a lawsuit just hours before his opponent. Its supposed to be officially named the winner. That still on track. Repeal gets robot rock. Habitats will continue to impact that sector coming up in 28 team. 2018. You cant predict the market. But through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Cheryl the future is now. Tech innovations are everywhere from christmas list and packages of june this morning as robo global cio william to baker. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Tech has been hot for 2017. Racing technology is heading in the new year . Marred the same. We live in an exciting time to be investors and consumers. Change right now is truly exponential. Investors and consumers have the ability to think about things linearly. We need to be thinking about things in a much more exponential fashion. It accelerating right now. We are Consuming Technology and they will continue to evolve. Well see how it plays out in the years ahead. Would he think the impact on jobs will be from all this automation . Are the concerns many people have that robots are taking everyones jobs. What do you make of those . Well, a lot of those comments are just fears. We have been automating for hundreds of years and along with the the automation in progress weve had, more prosperity, more creation. Think back in the early 1900s. 60 of our workforce was an ad. Not 2 producing more with less. Continue to fall. Job classifications that exist today. 1910 when they were getting mass Production Model t. Come he probably didnt have any foresight into understanding, that around a. I. In data scientists in web engineers and app developers, et cetera. Our economy will evolve and along with that new classifications of jobs are going to evolve as well. I think its a little bit unfounded to kind of fear that robots like we have been. 2018 may be the year we pulled the plug on giants whether its toys r us, youve got a. I. Now, which is happening in fast food chain and also no department stores. The instant check out without having the person there. But the job story, but also retail story. We see a lot of that happening. What we are going to see if they get into the next couple years as the automation of jobs, which a lot of retailers and Consumer Spending differently. According to paypal, the only way i ever read is seamless. Not a grocery in my entire house. Between amazon and having all of those being delivered to your homes or other peoples homes of course is a burst of automation. People do want to invest in these robo stocks. Talking about ags, the basic investor interested in those. They dont want how did they go about getting into it . Is the etf the way to go or should they start doing it immediately . Or think thats the best approach. To pick the obvious winners and losers is difficult. We invest across the entire value chain of robotics, a. I. Is not a nation, recognizing not only just the technologies of what makes the robot work for but continuing to a. I. , processing, but also while the applications, where is it being deployed to industrial manufacturing, the health care, but a very broadcast of sectors you can invest in. They will evolve it different rate. The important thing is to recognize where the new source is coming from. Most investors have interest in the sham companies. Although we dont really define them as sort of robotic a. I. Companies because they are just using these technologies to enable their business. So that is the big difference here. Trade to that is the bigger story. A Perfect Point whether its looking at the technology ibm is using the bitcoin is using, because the debate we had yesterday. Its all about how these companies can integrate all of this in the big stocks have been on fire. William studebaker, thank you. Thank you. Ill never understand how we have so many people doing this tie for fifth in one Automated Services are taking on food retail. The labor force in general is changing in this going towards technology. Facial recognition. I find time. Vanity fair under fire. Hillary clinton, the magazine response to the outrage just bad. Israel says thank you to president donald trump. How they will express the gratitude to the commanderinchief after he recognizes jerusalem as the capital. [vo] progress is an unstoppable force. The season of audi sales event is here. Audi will cover your first months lease payment on select models during the season of audi sales event. Cheryl good morning, im Cheryl Casone and im in for Maria Bartiromo. Its thursday december 28th, top stories 6 30 a. M. Eastern time. The question on everyones mind, will the the rally into 2018 . This morning positive gain, second to last trading day of 2017. Dow is up 25 . Over in europe, taking a look at markets, as you is see, ftse barely in the green, the other indexes in the red. Asia, mostly closed higher. The rest mixed bag. Well, still not conceding. Roy moore not taking his fight over his loss in the Alabama Senate race to court. He explained why he wont give up earlier this month. This particular race was watched not only by the people of this state and by the entire nation and many around the world, why . Because i believe the heart and soul of the country is at stake. Details of latenight, quote, fighting. Systematic voter fraud. Thats what hes saying. Vanity fair under fire from liberals after poking fun at Hillary Clinton, the magazines response over outrage over new years resolutionses for the former president ial candidate. Israel, hops on the trump train, steadfast support. Over dozen Makeup Products test positive for asbestos, recall from claires, we have that story. A slam dunk for nike, nba fans go wild over the leagues new jerseys, how the swoosh found inspiration. Disney dominates the box office again taking top spot to 2017 thanks to hit like the last jedi and beauty and the beast. Massive haul the the Company Brought in for the year. Roy moore filed the lawsuit to block alabama from officially recognizing doug jones it is a winner of the u. S. Senate race alleging voter fraud. Late last night, Moores Campaign fileed more than 14 hours, that would certify jones victory. This is what roy moore said after the election results. In this race we have not received the final count to include military and provisional ballots, this has been a very close race and we are waiting certification by the secretary of state. Cheryl roy march moore is not giving up. I think this is bad for the party. He needs to get on the horse and run away to the sunset. I watched the whole video. He talks about collapsed society and babbles about sodimy. You admit that you lost. Its a laughing stock, its a joke, you have to laugh so you dont cry, he needs to go away like a long time ago. Cheryl President Trump did endorse roy moore. It was not really great for democracy for these kinds of arguments about the voting process and the integrity of the voting. The study shows that theres not a lot of voter fraud that takes place but to race the notion all of the time its going to make a lot of people not believe in the Democratic Party. Its not great for the party either. The more you have a candidate sit and come out like that, it bifurcates the party even more and perpetuates the idea that theres no legs to stand on in the gop. Hes a grown man. [laughter] cheryl john meryl told ap that theres no indication of fraud and jones won 20,000 votes and they will certify jones. Of course, they will. You see a toddler in a restaurant screaming and crying, you say thats embarrassing, thats exactly whats happening here. For more he stays in headlines, the more itll remind people across the country that roy moore is connected. Absolutely, right. Cheryl i want to switch gears to another story, vanity fair is under fire from liberals, actually. They posted a video called six new years resolutions for Hillary Clinton. I want you guys the watch for this. A take up a new hobby, literally thing that would keep you from running again. Cheryl a spekswoman responds, attempted humor, we regret that it missed the mark. It was meant to be funny but liberals are mad at vanity fair. You should be able to make fun of anything. The only thing that offends me is that they are sorry. First of all, its not funny, they had a comedy writer go in there and write it, first of all, they are not actors or paid editors, they dont vibe funny. People are angry, coming off the heels or in the midst this me too. People really want to talk about womens rights and what are they doing telling Hillary Clinton who is a secretary of state, like her or hate her, im not necessarily of fan of her either and to tell her what to do, really, unfunny video. It can be difficult not to make fun of her, though. For me personally. Cheryl why do you say that . She makes it so easy when she comes out and says things and tries really hard to be cool. She wants to be the cool grandma. Shes not. Be a boring smart lady, go with that. The difference with you and the people in videos is you are funny. Cheryl you are funny. The most admired women of 2017. Still below by a lot of people in america. Cheryl thats where the outage comes from on the left because its still we are a year later since the election and crying happened in November November 20176. Most have never met her. The more that hillary stays in the spotlight, how bad is for the party, Democratic Party because they should have a year ago started to look for somebody new. Theres clearly sentiment of trying to shake away a lot of the establishment and start fresh in the political system as well. Cheryl the office actors, i dont know if you saw this, janet fisher got backlash after misinformed tweet on the republicans tax bill. She deleted for monday. This is what she wrote. I cant stop thinking about how School Teachers can no longer deduct the class of classroom supplies on taxes, something they shouldnt have to pay for with their own money in the first place, imagine if nurses had to go buy their own syringes. People jumped on her because it is in the bill. New piece of it today, she responded to all of this, quote, ive deleted the tweet and would like to issue an apology, please read and retweet to help me spread the word, thanks. You know, thats the thing with the celebrities, kat, theyre emotional, they have an opinion about something, but if you dont have the facts, you can damage your own brand by saying something that was misinformed. Research before you actually make sure its not a imaginary problem, that will get you. Read newspaper. Watch the news. I have to applaud her for issuing an apology and correcting herself. A lot more prominent people with more power that dont do that and dont pay that close attention to the facts. Cheryl social media can be really fun and can be a curse specially if youre wrong. Social media is very dangerous. There should be a onehour delay between every tweet where people can think about are you sure you really want to tweet this. Cheryl we have a lot more to talk about on the show. Warning for young women, claires has yanked Makeup Products after they tested positive for asbestos, the details coming up on that. The box office, big pictures and howdies any captured the year at the movies. Cheryl welcome back, futures pointing to a positive open, second to last trading day of 2017. Strap in because the bitcoin roller coaster is still going this morning, folks. The crypto currency plunging 10 overnight after south korea announced to regulate, bitcoin hit a thousand dollars on the news, falling below the 14,000dollar mark. Up 1400 for the year. Snapchat looking for life beyond the app. Parent company snap is looking for a future, stories everywhere, it would allow to post pictures through web and other apps. Shares down a quarter of a percent. Andrew cuomo pardoning 20 immigrants ahead of the new year. Lauren simonetti has the story. Lauren. Lauren Governor Cuomo has pardoned 61 people, the move is based on rehabilitation effort, the democratic governor of new york continuing to criticize President Trumps immigration hardline, while the federal government continues to target immigrants and threatens to put families apart, this takes more just and more compassionate new york. While the trumps name could be showing up in israel, the transportation israel wants to name wall after President Trump, the first sitting u. S. President to go to the jewish holy site and the u. S. Will recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. A cancer risk that could be lurking in your kids makeup. Claires is pulling 17 products nationwide after testing positive for asbestos. Substance thats been linked to cancer. Disturbing discovery after makeup sent for testing and all testing positive, claires now conducting its own investigation. For the second year in a row, disney is box office champ, blockbuster films, star wars last jedi and beauty and the beast. Beauty and the beast top grossing film, star wars last jedi still in theaters has made 423 mil so far. Pirates of the caribbean, 173 million, so there you have it. Disney is up nearly 4 in 2017. The only one of those that i saw was beauty and the beast, we watch it every day at my house. Cheryl of course, its called being a mom. Cheryl wait for the broadway show starts. Lauren you want to go . Lets go. Cheryl the power that is disney, they cut the deal with our Parent Company 21st century fox and bob iger is sticking around. They are already a behemoth, the biggest monster out there. Its not going to be a mouse anymore, its going to be a giant. Cheryl i do want to warn my friend with children, get ready for frozen musical. Broadway shows, theme parks, the star wars trilogy. Incredible. Espn, this was certainly a property that was losing money for a little bit. They had a massive cut and now they are revamping so they can eventually be more profitable. In terms of the media side, that is one of the most profitable parts of disney, so they are treal right to restructure that so it can continue this making disney the jugger that it is. It is compete with netflix and majority owner of hulu and push the country more to online streaming that. Thats the way to go. Thats pretty much how i watch tv. I dont like going to the movies, you cant talk, be on the phone, i would rather have a more social activity in my life than watch a movie. Some people cheryl you stream things . I stream things at home, i can pause them, i can have my cat, food other than popcorn, i can drink wine. [laughter] they are going to be one of the biggest movie produce nester the world, obviously, they have their own streaming platform. Pay 10 to 15 bucks and watch it at home and everything else. Cheryl let me watch the last jedi in my apartment, thats what anything at my own apartment. [laughter] cheryl we have a lot more coming up. We are talking sports in the next block, the nba putting on a fullcourt press to honor the hometowns, we have to look at the leagues new city uniforms, thats next. Is this a phone . Or a little internet machine . It makes you wonder shouldnt we get our phones and internet from the same company . Thats why Xfinity Mobile comes with your internet. You get up to 5 lines of talk and text at no extra cost. So all you pay for is data. See how much you can save. Choose by the gig or unlimited. Xfinity mobile. A new kind of network designed to save you money. Call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile. Com. Cheryl something happened last night in the nba that we hadnt seen in 21 years, jared max is here with that story, hey, jared. Jared hey, cheryl. It was turn back to clock in nba, First Time Since 1996. One player dished out 21 assists. The new Orleans Pelicans played sanity santa claus, 25 gift baskets, he only played 30, oldest player in nba history, hes not even 30 yet. Pelicans 86 and the nets its not a gatorade bath but a splash. 20 games in a row dating back to 2007 but it was turned back the clock, the night at the nba, while lebron james recorded a triple double against sacramento kings, 13 assists, lebron outscored by vince carter who is now 40. Have you seen these new nba jerseys revealed by nike . Check this out. City edition uniforms meant to pay tribute to city history and team culture, take a look at the jerseys. Lakers june form pays tribute to kobe bryant. The new Orleans Pelicans, mardi gras style. Lebron james, they sought his opinion on for this the design. Miami heat, theyll move, they honor the bay. I love 76ers won. Speaking of new uniforms, beginning january, if you want to buy a jersey for ball, their jerseys will be up for sale in the United States. Tonight on fs1 Washington State plays Michigan State in holiday ball. Yesterday while Michigan State mark antonio, mike caught on camera yesterday. How many times must a coach blow on the coffee before its cool enough to sip . The answer, my friend, is blowing in the cup, the answer is blowing in the cup. He just keeps going. Cheryl he realizes hes on camera. Jared he covers it up. Why would you do all that and cover it up . Jared have you ever had a camera and why am i sitting next if there were cameras on us all of the time, we probably looked like aid yachts, what am i doing . Cheryl he knew. I want to ask you about the olympics, olympics in tokyo, japan times reporting that they want to use facial recognition to manage athletes, the journalists, everybody thats coming in, 40,000 spectators, facial technology. Jared smart. Cheryl i think thats interesting. Jared think about the super bowl, the guy from mexico stole the jersey, takes place because there are so many faces who people arent used to seeing from a security standpoint, Something Like that can happen. Good move. I think thats scary. I dont want everything to know my exact face and where it goes and where it doesnt go. Talk about cameras being on you all of the time. Like what happens when theres some sort of glitch with the facial recognition and you suddenly get identified as someone that you are not. The technology is incredible, though. You cant really change your face. This is going to follow you around wherever you go. China is using facial Recognition Technology. Theres a billboard in one of the streets there that will show the faces of people that have been jaywalking people over time. [laughter] jared does anybody on the phone, i wont use fingerprint on the phone. A lot of People Choose to put fingerprint. Theres a lot of information thats still out there. Cheryl jared max still using the pass code. You dont use the pass code and use fingerprint . Cheryl yeah. [laughter] cheryl thank you, jared. You can catch all of jared sports reports every day fox News Headlines 24 7 and also on siriusxm 115. Still ahead 75 years of history and pride. Up next the Family Business that is carrying on the tradition of the iconic copper cup. Next in mornings with maria. What does the future of the internet hold . Accessibility for millions in developing countries, is it a reliable connection to the morning commute or Video Conferencing from 30,000 feet. Our technology is leading the way to make better reality. What does the future hold, maybe its connectivity for all. Ey t had to protect themselves. I have afib. Even for a nurse, its complicated. And it puts me at higher risk of stroke. That would be devastating. I had to learn all i could to help protect myself. Once i got the facts, my doctor and i chose xarelto®. Xarelto®. To help keep me protected. 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In europe, they had a mixed bag there, the ftse really the only index thats really been kind of doing anything today, up 10 points. Asia markets closing mostly higher, kospi over 1 , 1 and a quarter percent actually. Well, eradicating isis, the terror groups numbers dwindle to under 1,000 in the middle east since President Trump has taken office. Here in the u. S. Police are not taking any chances, details of protection in place for the time square knew years eve celebration. Digging out of a historic winter storm, officials with Emergency Alert, 5 feet of snow in pennsylvania. Crews have been out. All i could do is laugh. [laughter] its a little ridiculous. We will get it cleared. Cheryl incredible photos from the storm, temperatures plunge to go record lows across that entire region. And then better luck, that was fun, better luck next year, Powerball Jackpot climb to go wopping 84 million, we will update you on the total. And then this, a cheer nightmare, the worst haircut ever and landed in wisconsin barber in jail. All of that coming up with me this morning, we have all the headlines for you, Fox News Contributor kat kempt and ryan and retail analyst hitha. Good morning. Having a wonderful time. How did he end up in jail for a bad haircut . Yeah, but i mean i thought it was right down the center. [laughter] cheryl there might be more to the story. You have to stick around. Yeah. Cheryl we will tell you the details later, actually lauren will do it. New york congresswoman claudia is with us, Martha Stewart living, you dont want to miss both of those incredible ladies. Imagine being required by your employer to globe trot on a private plane for work and pleasure, apples board has been requiring ceo tim cook to fly private for a year. Company site security reasons as the ceo got 50 pay boost in the fiscal year. Joining us now inside chief Strategy Officer ahead of Technology Research daniel, daniel, good morning. Great to be here. Cheryl what do you make by the move of apple . You see it across Companies Ten times smaller. The company thats worth almost 900 million its one that makes sense. Its something that cook is probably a top 5, recognized person not just in technology but really probably in the country so i think this is the safety measure and formalized the policy that nearly every other company has. Its not quite the ge roe ceo that had a chase plane. Not even putting him in top 10 for most highest paid ceo. Its a nice paycheck but not even not huge. What do you think ofics iphone 10, what do you make of it . Yeah, we think about 3 to 5 Million Units got pulled for march into december, i think in december 4 to 5 Million Units and also asp, all checks in iphone 10, supply and demand just reached, it had been above expectation, some soft spots in china. Thats why you saw the stock not get hit too much on the reports, this was more apple especially in asia, more correcting some of the supply issues rather than what you would view as major demand issue, march and june are the make or break quarter for iphone 10s to hold success and we are hopeful that would be the Silver Bullet release. Doesnt it seem like another situation of raise, every time they pull earnings, they pull back on guidance, they Beat Estimates and raise their guidance again, isnt this what we are seeing, pulling back on how many Iphones Iphone 10s were actually sold, people think theres less out there and when we come to it and when they report the earnings, its actually not the case . Its a great point. Thats why i think with these reports while its sort of yell and fire in a crowd theater situation, you to take a step back, you to look at the totality here. They will beat the iphone 30 Million Units sold. Thats why you have to understand the underlying demand we believe its about 350 million users that have a window of opportunity to upgrade here. So i think thats really the focus here for apple and i think youre right, this is underpromise. Cheryl i want to talk about amazon and the power, you say that amazon accounted for 45 to 50 of all online Holiday Retail sales and that prime membership, youre calling it the golden jewel of the bezos empire . Yeah, last year they had 38 over holiday sale. We believe this year its about 45 to 50 . If you look at black friday, i think it was over 50 in terms of what they gained. Walmart showed positive success, definitely stepped up game, target, best buy, we believe high 80 million in terms of what amazon has, thats really an iron fortress what we are seeing. Typical prime member, if they are going to look to buy, which im sure many you do, theyll go through amazon, thats what we are seeing on average they spend about 20 more this year than last year in terms of prime membership and thats why expanding into grocery, whole foods, ultimately through pharmacy and health care next, thats where right now they are continuing to expand, what i call an empire here on the consumer side. Daniel, its interesting because im looking through press release that amazon put out, seems like a lot of fluff is in here, so, you know, we are sitting here talking about prime numbers, for example, they dont report how many members there are. Yes, we have 4 million, but this is just what amazon is reporting to us. So the last time i was looking at amazon earnings, really the driving force of those earnings was their amazon web services, so can you tell me a little bit about how, do you think that their web services is going to be able to sustain this gain that theyve had, 40 increase in revenue just from the web services, do you think its going to be able to compete with microsoft and google on that front . Yeah, those are great points, thats why in terms of prime membership, thats our own research, worth 88 million, somewhere around there, thats why the press release was more fluff just like you said. When you look at aws, you look at the secularship among cloud and enterprise. Its a twohorse race. This is really one where amazon aws and microsoft are just on a different level in terms of enterprises shifting to aws. Thats something where thats really what we believe on the enterprise side will be major growth driver and continue to see 30 to 40 growth. We are seeing a massive shift among enterprises to the cloud, hybrid cloud, private, public and thats where amazon right now along with microsoft second is really leading the charge here. So we are no sides of that that abating. Cheryl everything is online. You havent been to store in years. I really havent. Cheryl what your particular behavior what happens to walmarts . I dont have to go across the street to get paper towel and i dont want to because its cold outside, its usually not sighs outside. Other companies dont really have that. Theres post maids, its a little more complicated, not that i use post maids also. Its hard to not use constantly, theres nothing that thats convenient. As we had pointed out earlier, everything is going online and as youre seeing the consumers spend more, look at the holiday numbers. Paypal had a study that they were saying, 45 of people were spending for their holiday presents with that person next to them, just buy on their telephone. If you can purchase gift tons telephone with the person sitting next to you, you pretty much can buy stuff for the house, pay mortgage, do whatever just from the device over here. Cheryl usually, daniel, too, we are talking about how technology las changed, we are taking about facial recognition at the olympics, i wonder if you have top picks for 2018, Technology Stocks that we can maybe buy . Yeah, in terms of the other side on picks, netflix and even though disneyfox, we believe international expansion, content is king. That international, what they are doing on membership, we believe netflix has major runway ahead even though disney going to 2019 becomes a competitive issue. Across the board, you look at ai, you look at augment reality and cloud and some areas, even on the cybersecurity side like palo alto. You look at what the reckular growth trends, ecommerces, streaming, you look at ai, you look but you make your bets and thats where we will look at netflix as top pick going with amazon. Cheryl thanks for getting up with us this morning. Cheryl you have the Wireless Companies trying to get into the entertainment game, buying up, look at at t. Theres a whole bunch of money flooding into hollywood coming to shows, verizon, apple, netflix, huge amount of competition for eyeballs, which i was wondering, amazon with echo dot was one to have biggest sellers over the holiday season, they will get further into the home for people that i like i do love the fact that isnt aol and verizon starting their own studio . To your point we will have even more content coming from that. Cheryl used to be the internet company. We need a map. Youre not sure what comcast is selling Wireless Service over verizons network, the companies are coming together. Cheryl we have a lot coming up in the show, frigid temperatures slamming the northeast, what you know as wild weather shapes up for a very cold, kat will never leave her apartment new years eve and nightmare. The worst haircut ever landed the wisconsin barber that did this in jail whoooo. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. Downalternative pillows. And of course, price. Tripadvisor helps you book a. Hotel without breaking a sweat. Because we now instantly. Search over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Dont sweat your booking. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. Cheryl extreme Winter Weather pounding the northeast, Lauren Simonetti has the chilly details, lauren. Lauren it is cold outside and cold inside, recordbreaking snowfall is actually bearing parts of new york and pennsylvania, up state new york, issuing a state of emergency plus travel advisories. In lorraine, new york, rescuing a woman inside the house, bitter cold also moving to the northeast, right now 15degrees in new york city and boston is 7degrees. This cold expect today last through the new year but also expected to crowds in time square to be big despite the cold weather. Another move to become Global Player in Auto Industry. Buying stake in volvo trucks, owns volvo trucks, they are separate, over 8 equity stake makes julie one to have most volvo shareholders. Feeling lucky . 384 million after no one hit the jackpot in the drawing last night, the 337 milliondollar drawing tied for the 25th largest in u. S. History, chick your tickets, though, there were some smaller winners, here are the numbers, 3, 9, 16, 56, 60 with the powerball number of 3, the next drawing is on saturday. Your odds are winning, well, one in 292 million but theres always a chance. [laughter] lauren has bad haircut landed anyone behind bars . Yeah, not only did he shave a line in the middle of the licensees scalp but nip his ear, also started twisting his ear, arrested for mayhem, it was an accident. Cheryl may razer shaved an entire part of your head. Thats not an accident. Lauren the customer wanted a number two blade and he got number zero because he was moving too much. You cant be cutting hair. Cheryl now you know. Now you know. Was the haircut free . Cheryl did he get charged . I hope not. Maybe he will start a trend honestly right in the middle of the head, shave it. Shaved down the middle. Cheryl anyway, dont go to that barber again. We have a lot more coming up. Isis is actually on the run, the terror groups numbers dwindled under 1,000 in the middle east since President Trump took office. Here in the u. S. , police arent taking any chances, unprecedented security measures to celebrate new years celebration, new year, new financial goals, how you can avoid same money worries in 2018. They appear out of nowhere. My secret visitors. Appearing next to me in plain sight. Hallucinations and delusions. These are the unknown parts of living with parkinsons disease. What stories they tell. But for my ears only. What plots they unfold. But only in my mind. Over 50 of people with parkinsons will experience hallucinations or delusions during the course of their disease. And these can worsen over time, making things even more challenging. But there are advances that have led to Treatment Options that can help. If someone you love has parkinsons and is experiencing hallucinations or delusions, talk to your parkinsons specialist. Because theres more to parkinsons. My visitors should be the ones i want to see. Learn more at moretoparkinsons. Com cheryl monday marks the beginning of a new year but 2017 brought old worry for most americans. New study by the American Psychological association, another study shows that only a quarter of americans include Financial Planning in their new years resolutions, joining me now consumer expert and nonpolitical news. Good morning. Cheryl stressed out about money, huh . Basically people are feeling better about financial situations. I still think you should make Financial Resolutions and make them achievable and obtainable and put them in motion. Cheryl paying off Credit Card Debt . We have 16,000 in Credit Card Debt and Interest Rates are rising, if you have 16,000 which is what the average household has, you have Interest Rate and apr15 , you are paying 900 in interest and itll get more expensive in 2018. Cheryl Interest Rates are going up which is good for the banks. I would imagine more of that with all the spending we a over the holidays, people are racing up the storm. People are starting to spend so much more. They are sick of saving, saving since recession. How do you mitigate people wanting to spend versus racing up all of this debt and acquiring all of this debt . We see, we want, we spend, at resolution should be trying to save more, savings rate is under 3 right now. Financial planners will tell you you should save 10 to 15 . Nobody is doing that. One of the easiest ways to do that is having direct deposit and makes it easier. What about Student Loans in terms Student Loans too, that should be on your todo list. Tips on this site, there are apps like credit sesame app. People dont take advantage of resources that are available to them. That should be a resolution in the new years to take advantage of whats out there. Cheryl where is the best credit card rate, do i want all of the perks that come with the credit card, a lot of research. Researches for all of that stuff. You have bank rate. Com. You have low cards pom. You can see who has the best based on spending pattern. Cheryl only 8 people achieve resolution, thats according to data thats come in that shows, this is 92 failure rate basically. [laughter] im not even going to try. You have to make what they say, make them smart, make them specific, make them measurable, obtainable, realistic, timely, smart, and youre actually going to have a better chance of actually making those resolutions happen. This is why you go to the gym the second week in january, empty. First week its packed. You cant go at all. The gym is terrible. You have to go during off peak hours. Everybody has huge lofty goals, they are going to quit drinking, get out of debt overnight. I saw the great onion piece, everyone tries to get so much done during the week and no one gets anything done, everyone is sleeping in. Productivity goes out the window. You work hard this week or leave 4 30 in the afternoon. [laughter] how if its a behavioral thing, what can you do to try to keep yourself accountable to that . You have to change behaviors, a lot of spending is emotional purchases, look at all the selfgifting that went on. They were saying this year in particular was one of the biggest years for selfgifting. You go into the stores, Christmas Music is playing, you see something that you want and you buy it. Selfcontrol and making sure that youre putting money away little by little and making sure that you have that as you go through next year . 57 of americans dont have emergency fund. 75 of us every year have some sort of unexpected financial expense. This is a little crazy. Hat expense, a thousand dollars in hats. I have cat insurance. Cheryl they are expensive. Specially old ones. Cheryl very good to have you on the show. Now i am getting my resolutions going. Put them into play. Cheryl still ahead, we are here, Chrissy Tiegen tweets after night to nowhere. How well do you know the history of the moscow mule . The history of the drink and iconic cup. Im a Small Business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, and above all. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Good morning im Cheryl Casone. It is thursday december 28. Ice is on the run. The terror groups groups number is dwindling below a thousand how the Islamic State could remain a threat through 200018. In defense of a diplomacy Rex Tillerson he said americans should be encouraged. Looking at the broader markets. We are looking up today. Over in europe. The others are in the red. But mostly they closed mostly higher. The only average its about the journey. Especially if it involves an eight hour flight from lax to lax. Thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation. That was happened yesterday. tis the season for love. It marks peak dating season. And turning copper mugs into gold. He is carrying on his familys legacy. In top in the news this halfhour. I read a kidding isis. The terror group is losing ground. He treated the breakdown from an article in the washington examiner. They held approximately 17,000. Roughly 1900 square miles. Joining us now is the former intelligence operative operator. Im curious if you believe these statistics. I think on the ground we are seeing that our forces in our partners on the ground have been crushing isis. First of all we are playing a game of terrace rock racquetball. Its been a bryant. You see it now into afghanistan. Attacks in places like kabul. Set for a long time on that. Theyre gonna want to inspire more tax load wolf. They will try to reach the people through the internet. It gave the generals on the ground. They knew more about isis. And what he has really shown. Theyve also sort of taken the handcuffs off. Yet to be able to have people on the ground. That was one of the problems in the obama administration. Also not letting the troops go do their jobs and make the decisions on the ground. Were just talking about it. Theres a lot going on. They are unprecedented here in new york city. That cyber threat. The crazy person who is not so much affiliated with it. They were less sophisticated. The other group that you have to worry about our the people who actually are affiliated. Rand paul said he would filibuster a longterm extension of fisa. On the 2009. To monitor communications. You can monitor people that you know. Its sort of a starting point. In terms of security in places like new york city. You will see surveillance bubbles. There will be the obvious surveillance and then surveillance bubbles outside that group. There are the actual soldiers. They are a little nuts. And they find some stuff online. What can be done to stop those kinds of people. I think there is an effort online to try to start changing the message. They want a sense of belonging to something. Thats a problem with these peoples. They find the sense of belonging and then they have a reason to conduct an attack. With the ability to watch the communications overseas and recognize when the chatter is coming up. If you start with what you know and then work towards what you dont know. I want to ask you about the opt at from Rex Tillerson. We hope the International Isolation will pressure the regime. Then he goes on to say the dialogue remains open. They must go back to the negotiating table. The pressure would continue. The way of thinking is not working. The reason is that its backed up by china. Russia is a hundred using them. They are trying to do it through the election process. Im still surprised by it. It was so interesting to hear that come flat out. Everything we do Vladimir Putin will be undermining. Thats who he is by nature. Thats what hes doing. Do something completely different. That is russia, thats china. North korea. He said that basically we know we have no illusions about the regime we are dealing with. It is a recognition. His job at the state department as the open diplomacy. I know from my experience that there is always the way you talk to countries publicly in the way you talk to them privately. You do that through your actions and your words. We had been weve been so focused on terrorist organizations russia is rising. Theyre working with north korea and china. Russia is doing the same thing. Out on the high seeds. You can enforce sanctions that way. A lot of the online commenting systems that federal agencies use have been flooded with comments that appeared to be coming from u. S. Citizens. Thats what they did. They started using other ways of gaining power. And one of those ways is through the internet. Theyve gotten really strong on their cyber warfare. You are seen russia throughout the world. Its something we have to take seriously. In my opinion its a balancing balancing it with civil liberties. What is your issue on them. That is why the focus it when you look at that. Has to be on the enforcement of the way its done. When as it use. Its extremely effective and important. Its used to protect americans. Thank you so much. Its fascinating. Weve a lot more coming on. They landed safely. They are still searching for answers. The airline as apologizing. Its a time to give yourself the ultimate gift we thought it was shoes but it is love. The busiest time of year for dating. Will talk about it. When i received the diagnosis, i knew, whatever it takes, wherever i have to go. Im beating this. Breast Cancer Treatment is continuing to evolve. Ctca is definitely on the cusp of those changes. We really focus on taking the time with each individual patient so they can choose the treatment appropriate for them. I empower women with choices. Its not just picking a surgeon. Its picking the care team, and feeling secure where you are. Visit cancercenter. Com breast Appointments Available now. A former state Department Employee was subpoenaed over connections to the trump russia dossier. Lauren has that story for us. It is submitted answers has reported firsthand knowledge of the forces behind said trump russian dossier. He met with them. They write the dossier. He reportedly received information plus a copy of the documents that was intended for mccain. New york city has a murder rate that other big cities can only envy. They had 286 murders as of yesterday. Officials say the repeat offenders is behind the steady decline. Chrissy teigen and husband john legend formally arrived after their flight to dover. Eight hours later they ended up back in la. Thats because the crew believes in unauthorized passenger was on board. Believe it or not its actually pretty common. They are apologizing to passengers. Including the couple who have some fun with it. The person that boarded the plane was not supposed to be on that flight. I interrupted. Go ahead. This is my favorite story. We do have to make time for this. Maybe youre reminded that you are single so the peak dating sees season is now underway is from today through valentines day. 50million messages will take place. The busiest day of the entire year signed up for a dating service i am no idea why that day and that time but if tinder says and must be true. It is a different world. People are mediating completely different ways. A friend of mine the said he has deleted all of the dating apps because he found it was too hard to focus is too distracting. Turning copper into gold. One man is carried on the Family Tradition of the moscow mule. And there is a mornings with maria version. This is coming up next. A toast to Small Business. In 1941 a russian immigrant brought over 2,000 solid copper mugs to the states. The moscow mule was born. Over 75 years later they are carried on the Family Tradition. In spreading the word about this popular cocktail. Good morning. I wanted to ask you why do you think this has become so popular over the last few years. And he has to do with the whole craft cocktail. They had been coming back. And i noticed the big trend started happening around 2013. I think them seen them. You can actually make us one. We will make one here. Thank you for the mornings with maria mug. Most importantly you want to fill your mike dash mike mug with mike fill your mug with ice. It is going to heat the mug and into the ice. The rapid cooling process demonstrates that. It states that heat flows. You start with the vodka. We take the ginger beer. That cousin. The ginger beer is really hard to find we actually developed our own line of ginger syrup which makes it super easy then all you need is soda water. I want to hear about the partnership. When i decided to relaunch. It really started bothering me. And then about 4 ounces. The cranberry juice is for the champagne new years eve drink. Its very simple. Three simple ingredients. Thank you so much for bringing this in. Weve a lot more coming up. Electric vehicles. They did kind of use their charge what has kept Drivers Behind the wheel. Ng. And snoring . Does your bed do that . Its the lowest prices of the season on the queen c4 mattress with adjustable comfort on both sides. Now only 1199, save 400. Plus, 24 month financing available. Ends monday. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Cheryl casone for Maria Bartiromo thursday, december 28 top stories at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time, Building Blocks for 201 President Trump gearing up for a big infrastructure push, after touting new tax plan on vacation in florida yesterday. Tax bill is something way to kick in, little did we know how big compensation at t, so a many others, wells fargo, giving thousands of dollars to their employees really a big, big beautiful ship turning around, and a lot of good things are happening. Cheryl we are going to look at what is at the top of the agenda, for 2018. Plus weve got details on the rush to pay property taxes before the new rooms go into place next year big story breakingch overnight. Still not concedeing roy moore challenging seat in Alabama Senate election claim of voter fraud ahead. And look at your broad markets on thursday the dow s p, nasdaq premarket, all pointing to a higher open, in europe mixed bag the ftse, a little bit of a green number there, up 10 points contact 40, dax in jairp their down in asia overnight, markets closed mostly higher the nikkei did have a slight loss, as you can see, kospi up 1 and a quarter percent, losing some luster bitcoin plummeted 10 over regulatory currency will 2018 hold cryptocurrency ahead. A fast food joint with a new way to order a o burger to put a smile on your face we are going to talk to ceo of tall burger about recognition intelligent and privacy concerns a buzz for the new year starbucks ringing in 2018 in style. We are talking coffee with people that really want coffee right now because they have been here since 6 00 a. M. On set right now Fox News Contributor, national reporter, with me the wall street journal reporter ryan, chief researcher officer, real analyst good morning. Good morning. Coffee. So ready. Right, might be moscow mule. Ma is the order the coffee, coffee depending what you want to do after the show. Just want to be go backandforth. Office after this maybe coffee. We will give you a to go cup. Even better. All right, top story this hour, prepared for the massive tax overhaul the irs guidance for homeowners rushing to prepay 2018 property taxes, is not really good news for a lot of people in blue states this morning, blake burman police at the white house with the latest, on the warning, and thanks for putting that on the web site last night what were they thinking. Reporter architects said this was going to be simple there is a who have the confusion this morning surrounding the property tax prepayments after irs jumped in weighed in on this yesterday, this involves the rush that we have been seeing all across the country, especially, in high tax districts from homeowners trying to and many cases paying their 2018 next years property tax bill, now. They are doing this, of course, because of the salt deduction state and local income taxes property tax capped at total 10,000 dollars next year, so with this irs advisory that was posted to the web site yesterday, they said, this could apply under quote certain circumstances those being one, if you pay tax bill for 2018 this year but, also, this is the important part here they say quote, a prepayment of opened Real Property taxes that have not been assessed prior to 2018 are not deductible in 2017 the translation is if municipality hasnt put forward the property tax bill, for 2018. You could potentially be out of luck, if you made that prepayment. This is led to a lot of question marks all across the country, including just down the road here in the county where tax administrator told us yesterday before irs put out this advisory, that on tuesday alone, they have 2500 people making prepayments. This started off as a as a slow drip turned into a trickle then a stream, and now a river we did not anticipate the numbers that have showed particularly yesterday and tuesday, today, much less, but it is it is i am amazed. Cheryl important to point out just an advisory. And not a legal ruling you notice we said there could with a lot of this, because it does not appear to be settled tax attorneys accountants likely to have a field day with this for the golden tax rule apply if you are considering, making these prepayments for next year, probably breast the first pick up the phone call your accountant, where you live see what they have to say about that. Talking about that yammer, blake, soearlier, some crohns dont have they cant expect prepayment just depends on geography, then we are giving capital right here down the road from us you got, montgomery and maryland, and right next to it fairfax and virginia, Montgomery County i know i live there part of our 2018 tax bill has been put out. Fairfax you shared from sought there they do it year by year 2017 might it apply in Fairfax County appears does no montgomery neighbors just cfoing the highway one area, and advisory, not an official ruling, happy new year. Wednesday night before the new year blake burman live at the white house, thank you very much, for more on this, weve got a member of the House Financial Services committee with us former Small Business owner as well congresswoman claudia of new york congresswoman. Good morning. New york, one of the highest property tax states in the country, this is your district how are your constituents reacting to this news this morning . Actually, a lot of questions coming from my account supervisors tax collectors what to do look at facts. Doubling the standard deduction new tax bill has done, is going to eliminate most itemers, people who deck property taxes use to itemize before new tax bill 30 of district with new tax bill 5 mostly rally high earners part of the problem in new york, is that we have different dates, for assessing if you need state county local taxes due in january you could probably prepay so long as the warrant has been issued if you are trying to deck cool taxes typically not do payable in september due in july dekdz n decking now an estimate of what you are going to pay. Able to deduct. Your account i understand the percentages there that is one district if you look at especially in leernl, boston, new york city we had a report talk about what is happening just outside of d. C. The blue areas, we have had lines out the door, people trying to prepay, and a lot of them have prepaid, and now wake up to news this morning from irs advisory on web site lord knows what hour says may be that is not legal, i mean this is a a very frustrating thing to do to people that were trying to frankly save money, just seems like wrong choice by irs. I think it is an advisory, again that doesnt mean they are going to charge that against people but look at you it this way there is one really simple answer, people like andrew cuomo progressive democrats state disassembly now time to reduce taxes look at progrowth economy instead of trying to figure out a way to destroy new york from a state highest migration of people jobs in 2 nation toppled over a Million People left since cuomo elected because of high Regulatory Burden highest minimum wage hurt Small Business owners now we have paid family leave, great for employees, but hurts small employers, helps big guys against small people. Governor cuomo is the one that issued the emergency advisory to new york state residents and said if you can prepay do it pushing that that doesnt governor. Who is has a plan, to reduce state taxes, in new york and this is one example. Thank the lord i hope he does reduce state taxes i have been fighting for when a member of state assembly cyclists years he game up with gimmicks spent 8 billion dollars, what we call cronyism 8 billion hard earned taxpayer money if he wants to go out and defend protect those billionaires millionaires loath. D oppresses Bernie Sandersed a admits tax cuts if they want to protect high earners reduce taxes in new york keep them here, i rim a long time ago when governor patterson became governor saying letso lets stop greedy people in wall street prevent them put a law in place, that prevents them from getting bonuses, guess what a couple days later, the budget director said hey governor, guess what . We lose huge amounts of revenue to pay for programs we have in new york, so that is not going to work, so lets go ahead lower taxes higher earners let democrats do that protect them we protected mil class on federal side, and not only that, as the member of the congress on republican side i voted for the this tax bill high tax state because it helps my earners mid income earnees brought deduction to 10,000 zlars for Property Income a sales taxes added back popular deductions that you get. I am glad you did because the middle class, you know what is the middle class is very different from state to state, you ask anybody right now watching this program, from california, or massachusetts, new york, or new jersey, even wisconsin has issues when it comes to this we hope governors including our esteemed in cuomo are watching the show i want to ask about Something Else going to affect, of course, what you are going back to in washington, alabama roy moore we found out is challenging his Senate Election defeat he allegation rampant voter fraud. Think a case. Nonissue, no. Time to move on, i mean, really he wants to get his day is over lost reelection we lost a seat i think going to regain thats i think republicans fair better than people think the democrats system do not have a message, their what is happened this year, just some of the great things that are going on, on my committee the Financial Services committee one of the most productive committees in congress, so many things are happening that are going to be look at economy coming around enthusiasm people are excited about it. When you talk about whining complaining, blaming resisting not a plan people get behind when democrats come up with a a message, i think that we are going to have to step it up about it what more can president do . This has been a banner year, you know they may not like his personality and certainly issues on twitter a lot of people even on my side dont love, but thanks for admitting that. Look look at what is happening the agenda, look at what is going to be going on we are reducing regulations, the tax plan hasnt gone into effect and we are already at 3 growth even going more. The Tax Policy Foundation said going to have increase from 1. 7 to 1. 7 to 1. 8 increasing growth on top of what we are experiencing now over the next decade. Right. This is a phenomenal now i hope Bernie Sanders and senators on democrat side independent side in his case, join us, in making tax cuts permanent as soon as possible, i think this is a something they are going to be doing. We want to see that you know we do want to see you enjoy your vacation, from new yorking the. Coming up, the bitcoin roller coaster the cryptocurrency 14,100 and change look at size of the loss it 10 other than that, recreations woeing on this asset, plus, a new year means a new drink from starbucks we are ready and ready and ready to taste test the concoction a buzz going for coffee lovers starbucks on set coming up. Cheryl massive bombing attack killing dozens in afghanistan Lauren Simonetti has details on that good morning. So sad now we know isis affiliate in afghanistan carrying out aing horrific attack on Shiite Cultural Center in kabul killing at least 40 wounding dozens of others the building also houses a news agency, may have also been a target in this attack, Officials Say not one but three bombs exploded outside that building, and one suicide bomber sneaked into the center and blew himself up. So hey looks like bitcoin, blues, falling 5 right now after saying it plans crackdown banning opening of anonymous accounts allowing shutting down of bitcoin exchanges if necessary one of the biggest markets for bitcoin in the world just last week, a bit county exchange there suspended trading, filed for bankruptcy after it was hacked. Volatility continues. Just more haunted, playing on speakers researchers have found speakers could have roamabilit. J. Vowing them to be hijacked avoid this not connecting to a Public Network could be previouslant as many as 500 devices. In time for new years starbucks is busting out formal ware three new tuxedo drinks black and white mocha selection, a cafe mocha frappuccino hot chokt expressoff whipped cream chocolate sequins, hot the answer ive got black and white mocha right here. I have the little sprinkles here as sequins. There you go. Thought it would taste good delicious they do all holiday limits drinks available for a week or two first make january you cant get this. Sugar rush right now, starting to get hold on. We are talking about the new set now getting it, by the way i tried frappuccino went to starbucks by my house bought one. What is it like. A treat. Big old cup of sugar but great. I missed that one someone to also me tasted like pine needles in mouth they didnt like it. Sorry. Like earlier summer that was all about instagram talking about this, as if we dont know about the frappuccino. That was big one you missed the i didnt try. It you missed out. Less instagram that one may more instagram later, wait. Unicorns in expected hit we will talk about forever. Thanks for the coffee. Where were you at 6 20. A publicingiwalking up to th. 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To create a space age experience for about our consumers. I thought interesting that you had 30milliondollar investment in social gaming do you think this is a part of the reason why retailers chains i should say, food chains fastfood chains are failing like mcdonalds you are seeing, this older generation go to mcdonalds but newer generation is not responding as quickly was this a way to kind of get that Younger Generation interested in in engaged in lingering in the restaurants . Yeah. We about 4 years ago starting looking at new ways to transact younger demographic into setting i watched kids play mind craft would rather go to worst restaurant in los angeles to play mind craft on phones best place the idea i grew up with mcdonalds having a fall playground that was part of the experience, and mcdonalds, for my kids, growing up mobile devices idea was that they would have a digital playground that they could go to play with friends, so we developed, our social Gaming Platform around that spun that technology out into two different companies, Super League Gaming fun wall built around gaming in public places, making it a social experience, theatres, malls places like that that need new ways to attract young people into their locations. How much do you see augustmented reality do you think more than a fad. We have a really interesting project that we are developing uses facial recognition to create new category of Digital Games if you can imagine everybody happens cameras already installed in their locations so imagine game where you dont need a mobile device to play you show up camera can identify you by face, you are awarded a digital coin show up certain time more digital coins show up do something in the place even more digital coins, so we are thinking about a world where Machine Vision facial recognition allows to us create games, that are not dependent on mobile device. Not worried about privacy we had this conversation earlier in the show about you know with so Much Technology out there, facial Recognition Technology that there is there is privacy concerns security, on the one end a good thing. But you know maybe a little more than invasion than people are going to want. I think theres yeah there is a fair amount of concern about new technologies, you know i think where people dont fully appreciate yet what you know, the education process go through is that everybody is already on tape in physical when you walk into recessrant the technologies artificial intelligence, to automatically detect events certain things for people that opt into those systems is not really unique intrusion of of prooifz since video is already recording you stored somewhere, most cases, a lot of yeah. Missing point certainly, i know that you are also really trying again to automate restaurants you got a robot, you are doing a lot of things on edge i think so much for getting up early, i know pretty early in california. Thanks john. John miller usa you dont like the idea of facial recognition. Makes me nervous i understand i am on videotape not like database on cheeseburger orders i want to keep private. I dont think i eat cheese bursting that much to have a database as my face oh here is the tripledecker you wanted. We are going to stay on food talk with margaret sitting down with maria to share secrets. Elect vehicles losing the charge, coming up. Cheryl cason bartiromo, thursday, december 28 your top stories 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. Question on minds will the rally hold in 2018 this morning futures pointing to another higher opening dow up 41 premarket, over in europe, a mixed bag but still a little bit of green to show you here the ftse up more than 6 points. In asia overnight, markets closing mostly hi kospi up over 1 . Digging out of historic winter storm officials issue an Emergency Alert after five feet of snow buried erie pennsylvania. The latest on storm temperatures plunge to record loss across that entire region. And apparently comedy comes before the fall vanity fair under fire from liberals poking fun at Hillary Clinton. More in the works, unsuspecting pick up a hobby in the new year voluntary work committing comedy literally anything that will keep you from running again put james comey a laer later times move on. Magazine response to outrage over resolution suggestions for the former president ial candidate. Up snapchat reappearing reportedly giving up the o ghost, looking to bring stories to the web disneyland going dark the details of powerage forced happiest place to shut down out of commission for hours we are going to tell you about it. About what . Lil jon closing in on dream of new papa johns ceo the pizza chain might be ready to take a shot with the rapper. Krooucruising into new year contenders for best cars 2018 weve got them on the plaza, we are going to check them out for you next half hour, mornings with maria. Well, back here in warmer studios going to talk about marketing Martha Stewart, maria sat down to talk about u. S. Academy to her empire. I was reading as preparing for our interview 19 emmys live style tv Program Creator two pbs shows built a brand 100 million consumers, all, about to be 0 awarded win books cooking interning goodening home keeping crafting wow congratulations. We are busy. Very busy. Stay buzz. You are on qvc a knew program eyeopening, groundbreaking, because it is a new way for me to a retail, taking items beautiful things to a 300 million Customer Base that qvirtualityc has around the world create lifestyle programming, and then you can sell every item you are showing, on television. So it is a very nice alternate to amazon only shopping without visual, and then we have and then regular wonderful Retail Stores that we also sell in. So a third way i think, that attracts people by the droves and enables them to be San Bernardino shop at the same time. I love about qvc instant gratification you know what you sold. You tweeted out i am on right now i put on qvc i think you sold a Million Dollars in a Million Dollars, of skin care, i have a partnership with mario, a company that i have been going to almost 50 years. I love mario i have been going for favorables skin care using products for a very, very long time, so i came up with this great idea, of selling skin care by decade this is what you need in 40s, 50s beyond a hit will continue to be a big hit good product, and you know skin is looks like a argued t. Advertisement you are the achieve creative officer member of board of directors sequential brands. A licensing company, and we are we own a lot of different lifestyle brands, and other kinds of brands, so we have brands that sell to walmart to mass market we have brands that sell to upscale so we have very good brands, and martha is one of the biggest brands, and we we just continue to develop all kinds of products. That is most important thing keeping your brand and design our products the other. Yes, it is distinguishing feature of our kind of branding Company Versus say an iconic, we design inhouse our brands our packaging, ail kinds of things that we like to sell. So how have you changed he involved you have amnon eating lunch so many levels. We are trying to do a a big job with amazon, amazon is here to stay. I have known amazon for ever since they started kleiner perk ins, ied a mi k ins, iedmi brilliant, a brilliant, brilliant guy. Owns Washington Post. Yes. Owns Washington Post wants to he bought biggest house in about washington recently wants to be in every aspect of our lives. And doing it brilliantly. Your deal will include. Just selling, we already sell our meals through amazon working on doing pets and garden through amazon not only amazon another vertical way to sell beautiful products. I dont know black friday as important as once when youve got venues where you can buy anything any time it is only about the price the pricing the sales price that people are going after an excitement, it is really trying to get people to get out, shop not going to apply just things on sale going to buy other things, too that is what merchants need, we need people in stores again stores are suffering because of online sales, but i think it is 59 americans want to shop online, by phone or just sitting at desk at home. What does it looked like today, to you, in terms of the outlook out there the Consumer Shopping we debate a lot how strong the economy really is, things are getting better. Stock markets at new high, i mean, dont know thanks to who but i think business doing well i think that we are recapturing some of the manufacturing that we lost i think we are doing a rather good job in United States, of making great product again. An article Martha Stewart, oddcouple how this came about. On justice beeber, roasted dear justin had been on my show you we hit it off fun to hang with, as they say. And remember i am not a rapper i am not black, i am you know i am sort of like a teacher, and he loves to learn we get to talking a brilliant agent or brilliant dh1 decided they were going to approach us about doing a cooking show, they wanted a contest we decided we wanted to do a dinner party where we invite all kinds of people, and we have great guests this year from jamie foxx, to puff daddy to i am trying to get eminem i want beyonce snoovk highest paid singer. Album got number one. This week, so excited. So a cooking show all celebrity, cooking. Talking very neat snoop has a great sense of comedy, i am developing my comedic side we have a lot of fun, really fun. Are you attracting a younger audience is that what this is about . But not only are we attracting the young usual dh1, now experiencing a whole new shift in demographic because my fans are watching, and it is bringing in a new audience so we are it is i call it a culture melding and this is a exactly what it is. Fantastic, the show vh1 martha and Snoop Dinner Party Second Season part cooking. Second season 20 shoes we are happening. She is happening, great interview with Maria Bartiromo thanks to Martha Stewart. Coming up lighten up happiest place on earth the latest power comes back on at disney following yesterdays massive outage is mr. Will lil jon deliver hilarious tweets wants to be next ceo of papa johns pizza. Ware of whats happening right now . Were facing 20 billion security events every day. Ddos campaigns, ransomware, malware attacks. Actually, we just handled all the priority threats. You did that . We did that. Really. We analyzed millions of articles and reports. We can identify threats 50 faster. You can do that . We can do that. Then do that. Can we do that . We can do that. Power restored at disney after talk yesterday on floor of the New York Stock Exchange what happened yesterday. All right, well listen to this, the happiest place on earth not of annoying customers not able to get on some rides power outage seemed to start 11 00 a. M. Their wiem west coast time yesterday not rewarded until 5 pm folks paid 124 dollars for peak season tickets totally ticked off tweets from them everything is back up running pirates of the caribbean, two rides out people not happy about that, and another story here according to snapchat trying to find core users desperate to boost stagnant growth going to expand popular stories features to other parts of the web, moving all over the web just as twitter tweets across webb idea more people interested in service more people want to use it billed up that user to a level that may be wall street would like to see, the stories everywhere features as you know, so when you go on to snapchat you can build out yourself individuals have the stories but companies do too so a great way to promote, we will keep an eye on this see if it helps snapchat right now shares slightly lower premarket we are watching two properties back to you. Cheryl not quite ipo star of 2017 like it was supposed to be. No. Gerri willis, on floor of the New York Stock Exchange today. Snapchat, supposed to be the big ipo 2017. Instagram started doing stories a lot of people myself included use Snapchat Filter save it post on instagram. Man. All that. That is what i did. A snapchat fan it is o amazing when Instagram Stories came out just astonishing to watch everybody my grooit to Instagram Facebook owns instagram has a lock on the social media market. Globally too that is the thing instagram particular globally than snapchat, snapchat u. S. Based. Years to navigate, i dont know if thank you for saying that, the only one young millennial i just cant seem to get other than the the facial the filters, this is a only thing sort of understand. Why doesnt instagram use filters. It does but not as good. Not as they dont hide zits as well that is what i mean not as good. Wrinkles, all right, just learned something very good, there is extreme Winter Weather to tell you about this morning, really pounding the northeast going to be a chilly new year. Lauren simonetti has details. Bonechilling recordbreaking snowfall burying new york pennsylvania bitter cold gripping nation start in upstate new york. Where state of emergency and travel advisory issued, in the rain new York Firefighters can youing a woman trapped in home rescuing the woman in home o he shovels a plow to get her out cold to northeast, about 15 here in the city. Boston 7 degrees, cold is expected to last through when ball drops on 2018, a lawyer accused of helping mart skreli prosecutors say helps him steal millions of dollars chief executive of the a Pharmaceutical Company boosts priec price of a lifesaving drug vanity fair outrage among earn liberals posted a video poking fun at Hillary Clinton the new years resolution following failed president ial bid. Pick up a new hobby you in year voluntary work, committing comedy, literally anything that will keep you from running again. Couldnt hear that last one, clinton supporters went on twitter, to protest the video and to defend Hillary Clinton, some actually burning magazines an attempt at humor missing the mark no response from clinton team but they suggested maybe she should commit. Papa johns might have a new ceo but rapper little john says what about me a week after the ceo said would step down a twitter user suggested lil jon apply. I can start immediately a recruiter with papa john played along waiting on your recess may is it a deal breaker if we wont rename the company papa lil jon, tweeted off a great call excited for the future, and there is more, the restaurant retweeted with the handshake of emoji, 20172018 a will do a inc or maybe they have a new face for xher commercials. Which vehicles race to the finish line for car of the year check out on our plaza in a bit. Baby you can drive my car yes, i am gonna be a star, baby you can drive my car heating up a cold morning, here in new york city, 8 degrees right now. Stocking 2018 best car charts kia, stinger alfa romeo we have both on the plaza this morning joining me expert car coach we love hour lauren good morning. Good morning. I think for coming out in really chilly weather. From buffalo used to this. Okay this is kia gt right here gorgeous car. You think kia practical car good very reliable, they decided to be a gamechanger this is what i believe there are fee finalists for north american car accord camry kia. Look inside it look inside has heated seats, airconditioning seats Steering Wheel design, by a german designer incidented original audi bmw m, hired him the drive line everything is premium even the backseat has more room than an audi, or bmw 3 series. Mentioned backseat. Obviously designer, but when looked at vehicle this category you want a gt vehicle extremely fast on the racetrack everybody uses, to make a decision. Love it. This car looks great look at front end sexy car. Do you think. It is a beautiful car. We lot of this kia stinger my personal best car of the year the reason is i think that it just is a gamechanger for kia, now when you go to utility vehicles weve got finality honda odyssey, volvo xc 60. To get inside of the alfa romeo. It is when do italians make that suvs . This car to me just so sexy, like a suit you got to have it if you drive it, i have had this on track, oh, my gosh. I am waiting for in february. If i didnt mentioned 10 times during the show it is cold in new york city today, lets talk red interior sexy you italian car gamechanger for fiat chrysler, on car technology, everything connected right whether wireless, seats everything else. Lot of things you dont think about when you buy a car flat bottom Steering Wheel you can get in without hitting your legs having ability everything right in front of you this is a drivers car, this car is a blast i have to say. Heated seats. Right. The car really, really red interior turn on everything about alfa romeo a game changer this is a make it or break it for the brand. We talked today going to point out results of winners that you group talk of year fod expedition lincoln navigator, chevy colorado north American Auto show detroit 8 00 in the morning i call car of the year. I want to look at back of the car, because, not that i am suvgoer i like red car thing but if you look at the styling these are italians known for making great suvs dont make suvs until now first time we have seen this design. Look at back end very italian clean licensed everything about it i love logo, traditional alfa romeo logo, really has decided i was there with they launched this vehicle they said listen, we have to be a gamechanger if we arent we dont exist in the United States for them to come back, they knew what Market Segment was suvs, this meets that. Talk about electric cars vehicles as far as Auto Industry is concerned going to change, the game, consumers are not signing up for electricity vehicles because of lack of charging stations. Lot of things 2018 my loser these are winners the losers electric vehicles the reason consumers are not buying them look at 17. 7 million vehicles sold last year only 1. 7 evs hybrids combined not buying them weigh more wear tires out quicker bakeries quicker a service made to never discussed always smoke and mirrors this is a great solution but there is cobalt mercury cadmium lithium hazards materials factors we dont think about not as green as you think. Amazing how you know your cars, you know your vehicles you have done great work when it comes. Thank you. To all of this. Thank you for coming out very cold morning for new york we are coming right back mornings with maria final thoughts from the allstar panel sitting there nice and warm up in studio i am going to stay out here we will be right back. Stay with the show. Whoooo. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. Downalternative pillows. And of course, price. Tripadvisor helps you book a. Hotel without breaking a sweat. Because we now instantly. Search over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Dont sweat your booking. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. All right i want to give a big shoutout and thank you to kat and hetha didnt want to do thissingment outside with me on the plaza. Beautiful. Love you guys. Thank you so much. A great show ill see you back here tomorrow for another edition of mornings with maria right now Varney Company is up next Charles Payne take it away sir. Im in for stuart count them we have two full trading days to see if this rally can hold up. It has been some sort of phenomenon but imagine capping off with dow 25,000 were right there. Still within reach, in fact, futures are up just a bit. Waiting for that final push to break us out of o. C. Into new year and speaking of the new year vanity fair catching some griefover parody video say says that instead of taking more photo in woods former president ial candidate should take up more hobbies and saying yes on the eve of christmas the president pushes through his