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Starts right now. Everything is all right. Breathe. Youll see, everything is all right. Lauren good morning. Halfway through the week. Happy wednesday. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl you may need to breathe as we look at the markets this morning. Lauren its that bad. Cheryl a little bit of pressure, folks. Good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren lets take a look at your money. The dow is down 99 points right now in the premarket. It was down triple digits yesterday. The nasdaq hitting an alltime high, the third in a row. Nasdaq down 34 this morning. Cheryl no comments from chinese authorities on stalled trade talks. We had a lot of pressure in asia, all of the major markets there in the red overnight. Lauren those comments from the president , you know, making europeuropean investors nervouss well. The German Market is down 12 this down 1 this morning. Cheryl lawmakers are getting ready for round two of this weeks impeachment inquiry later today after four witnesses testified yesterday with some contradicting the others. Lauren Griff Jenkins is here to break it all down for us as we gear up for another day of hearings on the hill. Good morning, griff. Reporter good morning, lauren and cheryl. Another day of hearings on tap after yesterdays extensive hearings that President Trump is calling a kangaroo court. Yesterday began with decorated a army officer, lieutenant vindman, who testified the july 25th call was inappropriate and improper along with Jennifer Williams who said the call was up usual. When it came to speaker pelosis charge of bribery behind the impeachment hearings, republican dug in. Youve never used the word bribery or bribe to explain President Trumps conduct, correct . No, sir. Colonel vindman, you havent either . That is correct. Reporter in the afternoon, more testimony from kurt volker and kenmor ken morrison which republicans zeroed in. Did the president of the United States ever say to you that he was not going to allow aid from the United States to go to the ukraine unless there were investigation intuse barisma, the bidens or th 2016 elections. No, he did not. Arent you the official channel . That is correct. Reporter chairman adam schiff blasted republicans defense of the president. Their objection is they got caught, a that someone blew the will hewhistle and they would e whistleblower identified and the president wants the whistleblower punished. Thats the objection, not that the president engaged in the conduct but that they got caught. Their defense is he released the aid, but yes, after he got caught. Reporter one of the most anticipated witnesses, Gordon Sondland will appear in the afternoon. Well hear from laura cooper and david hale. A long way to go. Lauren macys is reporting a data breach before the kickoff of the Holiday Season. Hackers may have assessed the personal information of a small number of customers when they were checking out online. The data could include names, addresses and credit card information. Macys notified customers who have been hacked. The news sending shares of macys down just about 11 yesterday. Macys reports its latest earnings tomorrow morning. Cheryl another setback for the Trump Administration after a Homeland Security rule affecting Asylum Seekers took a hit in federal court. The rule barredde barred migrans requesting asylum moving through another country before getting to the us. For example, migrants traveled through mexico from Central American countries and didnt apply for asylum. This will request those who requested asylum before the Trump Administration made the change. Lauren the National Transportation safety board says boeing should redesign the engine cover on the next generation jets. A passenger was killed last year when a fan blade broke on a Southwest Airlines plane. Engine debris hit the planes fuselage, shattering the window, forces thforcing the plane to mn emergency landing. Cheryl states attorneys generals are giving Purdue Pharma a break while the company deals with bankruptcy. The district of columbia and the other states have agreed to comply with an injunction that halts the suits, at least temporarily. Lauren were just under a month to go until great britains election. Boris johnson and Jeremy Corbin held a heated debate and brexit was of course a big point of contention. Mr. Corbin is trying to conceal the void at the heart of his brexit policy and refusing to answer the question of which side he [ indiscernible ] the public has a right. I made the position clear, we will have a referendum, we will have negotiations and we will abide by that result. Lauren it was heated. Other topics debated included the economy, the nhs and great britains status as a probusiness hub. In a poll after the debate, uk voters, 51 thought that Boris Johnson came out as the victor, but obviously very close. Cheryl a referendum, that idea is applauded by many there. The u. S. Senate here passed a humans rights bill unanimously, saying the chinese basically need to stop with the actions theyve been taking on the protesters. The action here as the brutal crackdown on pro democracy demonstrators a has continued. Lauren Jonathan Hunt is live at the university in hong kong where 50 protesters are standing off with police. Jonathan, whats the latest . Reporter lauren and cheryl. Good morning to you. Good evening from hong kong. This is the main entrance to the hong kong polytechnic university. If there is to be a final showdown today between the Hong Kong Riot Police who are outside on the streets here, and the few dozen, maybe up to 50 students who remain holed up inside, then this is the entrance through which the Police Forces will have to come. They tried it once before over the weekend. The barricades and the burned debris, signs of just how intense the battle was, that at that point forced Police Officers back. The students who remain here are determined not to go without a fight. They are fearful of just leaving because they fear they will be arrested and mistreated by the police. So they remain here. There is a hard core, some of them have weapons. We have seen one carrying a bow and arrow, one with a baseball bat, one with a piece of a javelin. So it does appear that if the police do come in here, they are prepared to fight, at least some of them. In the meantime, all of the students here obviously relieved at the action taken by the u. S. Senate, passing the human rights and democracy act unanimously. Listen here. The protests have continued because the people of hong kong see whats coming, they see the steady effort to erode the autonomy and their freedoms and the response by the hong kong authorities, under tremendous pressure from beijing is violence and repression. The administration and the president himself should voice support for protesters in hong kong which would send an Important Message to the Chinese Communist party not to get involved or in any way escalate the situation. Reporter now, behind me, lauren and cheryl, you cant see them right now but i can tell you that in the streets beyond the campus there are hundreds, if not thousands of riot police. The students fear that tonight might be the night on which they make the final push to flush out those students who remain holed up here. We have no confirmation of that. The president of the university has appealed to those remaining students to leave but he has said as far as he is aware, there is no police deadline. But if they do come in tonight, we will be here to bring it to you live. Lauren and cheryl. Cheryl jonathan, keep us posted, please. Lauren two Media Companies are coming together to form the largest newspaper chain. Cheryl because people still read newspapers. Tracee carrasco has that story. Tracee gate house closed the takeover of usa today publisher, gannet, bringing together about 260 daily papers. The combined company will keep the name gannet. There will be layoffs. The stock price of gate houses Parent Company has fallen about 40 since it announced the acquisition. The National Transportation safety board says a distracted driver was the main cause of the fatal 2018 crash involving one of ubers selfdriving cars. The board condemned the lack of state and federal regulation for testing the autonomous vehicles. The uber crash was the first involving an autonomous vehicle, test vehicle, and it forced other companies to tap the brakes on their autonomous vehicles. Well, an attempted armored truck robbery in willis, texas leaves one suspect dead and another on the run. Two people tried to rob a brinks armored truck. One of the guards fatally shot one of the suspects. The other suspect fled on foot. A new Study Reveals that workers are worried about Health Insurance options. Open enrollment is underway for 2020 and a new report fro aflacs 58 of employees report being stressed out about understanding what Insurance Benefits they need. Cost also a major concern. Majority said negotiating medical bills is stressful and majority of gen z and millennial workers said enrolling in Health Insurance is overwhelming. And thats whats happening now. Lauren totally agree. Totally agree. Tracee, thank you very much. Cheryl coming up, folks, want to take a look at futures really quick after the president s comments on trade talks from the white house, that shook the markets yesterday. The nasdaq had a new record. The dow is down 113 in the premarket, s p is down 11 and a quarter, nasdaq is down 41 and a quarter. Well, with little progress made towards a trade deal with china, what is President Trumps plan, what is that going to mean for all of you at home as we get ready to finish out the trading year. Plus, democratic president ial hopefuls are taking the stage tonight for another debate. Which candidate do you think will be attacked the most . Youre watching fbn a. M. Great riches will find you when Liberty Mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Wow. Thanks, zoltar. How can i ever repay you . Maybe you could free zoltar . Thanks, lady. Taxi only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. vo thewith every attempt, strto free itself,piders web. 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Business leaders and the American Chamber of commerce represented. The chinese say they would like to have simultaneous rollback of tariffs in order to get a trade deal with the United States. The u. S. Has not had a positive reaction to that, they say. U. S. Business leaders at the roundtable says the u. S. Has not seen enough trade benefit from a trade relationship with china so far. President trump said hes trying to fix the imbalance. So far, no phase one deal on paper. The administration hoped to have it finished last week end. President trump addressed this. Chinas going to have to make a deal that i like. If they dont, thats it. Im very happy with china right now, theyre paying us billions and billions, well be over 100 billion in the not too distant future. China never gave us that. If we dont make a deal with china, ill just raise the tariffs even higher. Reporter on december 15th, 15 tariffs on basically Everything Else china imports are scheduled to go into effect unless possibly there is a phase one deal on paper. Now, our chinese sources are saying through this whole process china tried to get the tariffs removed or at least repealed or brought back a little bit. Those same sources are saying the u. S. Offer to remove some of the tariffs to keep the majority in place and then have milestones as the deals are being reached for the chinese to follow to make sure that they follow through with the agreement. Back to you. Cheryl theres the sticking point. Edward lawrence, thank you. Our next guest says investors still expect a trade deal is going to get done. There might be conditions. Doug flynn, eart certified final planner is here. You think a trade deal is going to get done . Frankly, it seems like theyre repeating the same rhetoric. I think the more important deal is the usmca act deal that were trying to get through and hopefully thats a bigger trading partner than china is. And i think President Trump is looking at the fact that 70 of our economy is the consumer and the consumer isnt feeling the effects of the china trade issues. They are in the corporate world so thats an issue but hes banking on the consumer coming through as they continue l wall continually have. Cheryl youre talking about the december 15th tariffs. Were less than a month away. You think the president s going to blink . I dont think he is. Cheryl you think hes going to put the tariffs in place. I think hell use it as a negotiating tactic to move the thing down the path. It hasnt affected the consumer on th a daily basis. Theyre absorbing whatever increases there have been and the companies have absorbed a lot of it as well and thats the big part. Cheryl weve been hearing from retail names this week. I was going to ask about that. Walmart had a great quarter. A lot of the concern with them was it was going to be a china story and it wasnt. Well be hearing from target before the bell and well what hear from lowes. Target first to them, thats been a pretty good retail story this year. It has. The stock is up ridiculous yeartodate. Its one you dont want to chase. Year over year same store sales is what youre looking at there. You want to see a number as high into the three as possible. Thats kind of what were expecting. Theyre doing a lot better with the turnaround over there. So that looks pretty good. Cheryl lowes might be a different story. Home depot was not a good quarterly report. That hurt the dow. One side youve got home improvement, not so great. Fun stuff at walmart, pretty good. You look at the dow, it goes by price of the stock. So that has a bigger impact by home depot being in it. Lowes is in a little bit of a better position than home depot is. I dont like the whole sector overall in general but i do like lowes better than home depot because of the new management and the way things are positioned Going Forward there. Cheryl National Retail federation, i want to go back to the consumer issue that you brought up, they say 79 of americans are worried that tariffs are going to hurt their Holiday Shopping. Is that founded or unfounded . I dont know that youre going to instantly see a big raise in your youre not going to not have holiday sales that people are going to come out and buy. I dont know how much its going to have a material impact. I think thats what the president is banking on while he plays with china to get this through. I dont think most people care whether were buying stuff from china or somewhere else. Cheryl big piece in the journal this morning about the Technology Sector, so many stocks, looking at amazon, alphabet, strong performerrings for the year. Theyre saying tech stocks are way outperforming the general market. Even into next year what do you say. The Technology Sector is the highest performing sector, its up 40 yeartodate. Have you to be careful in chasing, some of the stocks are up two or more times. Have you to look longer term and say yeah, technology is where were going but its not going to take over the entire market. We saw that movie before in the late 90s into early 2000s. Cheryl nasdaq up 29 yeartodate. Well probably get double digits again next year but maybe not as much as we did this year. Cheryl making money. Doug, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Lauren worries of a potential consumer slowdown, no near term trade deal with china in sight, investors going to the sidelines today. The dow is down 109, s p down 11. Coming up, the streaming wars in full swing, but how is netflix doing with the recent addition of new competitors, apple tv, as well as disney plus. Keep it here on fbn a. M. 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The Commerce Department says paychecks in the Lone Star State are growing more quickly than they are in new york city. Salaries in small boom towns are higher than paychecks in san francisco, los angeles and even boston. Lauren all right. Well, texas is definitely wanting your business. Netflix says its weathering the streaming storm. A new report from credit swiss finds that despite the addition of apple tv and disney plus recently, netflix has seen, this is a quote, little to no impact. Analysts argue that might not continue to be the case. Cheryl for all things streaming, lets bring in fox News Headlines brett later ton. Larson. Hbo max is coming up with a plan. Theyre going to have friends and apparently thats what everybody wants. Its the show. Hbo max is set to come out next year. Its going to have 10,000 hours of content, so thats, again, everybodys coming to the table with a lot of stuff. Disney plus came out with i believe they had 550 tv shows, it will be 1,000 shows sometime next year. There is a lot of competition. But it seems to be, based on what netflix is saying and what were seeing from hbo max, is theres enough room for a few players at this table. I did the math on this in terms of if youre going to sign up for something to get friends. For 200 you can buy all 10 seasons on itunes, apple tv. Are you going to sign up for a service just for one show . If youre paying 15 a month, thats about 175 a year. Theres your 200 bucks to watch all the friends episodes you want. Lauren a bundle is appealing to a lot of people. It comes with other things. Lauren were talking about a security flaw, this time affecting googles android and those phone users. There are millions of them word wide. This is a really troubling story that we got. Its a camera vulnerability. Its a proof of concept so as of right now we dont have to worry so much as we need to keep our eyes out for updates to our android operating system, if you are using the android platform. What happens is, they found a workaround you know when you download an app and it says this app needs to access your contacts, grant permission, this app needs to access your camera, grant permission. They found a workaround where all they need to do is get access to your sd card to see old photos. You might see that, sure, sure, you can access that. They found a workaround where that would let them into the camera. Cheryl just be careful. One other security story before we let you go. Amazon ring, the doorbell Security Camera thing, worries about that . The problem is with the amazon ring or with the ring doorbell, it is an amazon product, is their work with local Police Officers. So the way it works in some police precincts, they can in the event of a crime, they can reach out to the neighborhood and get video, get video from the past 45 days. They dont have to get rid of the video once they have it and thats where the security concerns l come in. They can also share it with third parties. Theres new concerns about how long are the Police Holding onto this stuff, what else are they going to be able to do with it, what if theyre getting video of minors, people under 13 youre not supposed to keep video like that. This continues to be a bit of a problem. This is a situation where Technology Got ahead of us and were starting to sit back and say okay, this is good, if theres a crime in my neighborhood, we can help cops find the perso perpetrator but s think about other laws that we have in place in terms of privacy. Lauren senator markey is leading the way there. Yes, she is. Lauren you can catch brett on fox News Headlines 24 7 on sirius xm channel 115. Cheryl the debate stage is set, the candidates are ready. Which democratic candidate tonight needs the biggest win . Stay tuned, youre watching fbn a. M. Oh, how sweet it is to be loved by you. Heres to the straggly ones. The first ones. The hey, i look good with this ones. The black, brown, red, and grey ones. The itchy ones. The ones grown by dad. The ones grown for dad. The i nearly didnt do it this year ones. And the absolutely filthy ones. They all raise awareness. Raise funds. Start conversations and save lives. cos whatever you grow, will save a bro learn more at movember. Com lauren just under a year to go until the general election, the top 10 Democratic Candidates vying for their partys nomination, now gearing up for the fifth primary debate in atlanta tonight. Take a look here. The real clear politics average shows biden, sanders and warren on top. Lets discuss. Democratic strategist Howard Franklin and republican strategist kelly sadler are here. Howard, you first. Okay. We just showed you the rcp average. The early states, iowa, new hampshire, they have mayor Pete Buttigieg on top. You how is he now preparing to be attacked by the other nine candidates on stage tonight . Thats a great question. I think mayor petes done a pretty good job of presenting as the young adult in the room or on the stage these last four debates. I expect hell do the same. Hes certainly not faced the kind of scrutiny we expect him to see, that weve seen Vice President biden undergo or even senator elizabeth warren. So hes definitely been active, getting around the town and making sure hes talking to folks to make sure people know hes got local support. Lauren doze does senator hs offer the best line of attack, Pete Buttigieg does not poll well with African American voters and senator harris says he doesnt have the a ability to unite the diverse American People. Will that be the line of attack . It could be. Just this week he had a Major Campaign gaffe where he put out his douglas plan and named surrogates of his campaign who were not African American put kenyan stock photos in there. This is a jv mistake for a candidate who doesnt have the experience to be the commander in chief. I think amy clo klobuchar pointt out, if he were a woman, just the mayor, would he be in the same spot he is today. When it comes to you south carolina, hes got clear problems. Lauren another problem that the nation is facing rights now is the impeachment hearings. Where do they go . Week two, day two today. Howard, do you think democrats might finally get their smoking gun with the ambassador to the eu, Gordon Sondland testifying today. I dont know if it will be a smoking gun. Obviously, the matter of the impeachment hearings are complex. The American People are tuning in to them. It will continue to dominate news and headlines until we get to a resolution or get to the holidays, whichever comes first. [ laughte. Lauren its interes, President Trump is linking nancy pelosi holding up the usmca to her not having the votes on impeachment, saying look, its not going anywhere, its resonateing with the American People. Do you think thats one of the reasons nancy pelosi is not putting usmca to a vote . Well, so weve been doing focus groups around the country, talking about impeachment and one of the clear takeaways is that independents in particular are just fed up, they think that congress is wasting time and their taxpayer money on this partisan impeachment witch hunt and what they would really Like Congress to do is start focusing on the issues that affect them, like passes usmca, like lowering drug prescription costs, like focusing on the border crisis. They want the congress to start governing. I think nancy pelosi might start feeling pressure, especially when we go day after day of these testimonies that dont produce any smoking gun. She might feel pressure to get something done in congress and bring usmca to a vote and i would encourage her to do so. Lauren kelly, howard, we thank both of you for the time and the perspective. Thank you. Cheryl lets give you perspective on your markets this morning. Taking a look at fewe futures, n 117 dow is down 117, nasdaq is down 40 and three quarters after the record last night. This is worries about chough u. A trade talks. There are plenty of Older Workers that are ready to learn new schools. Our next guest is ready to bank on the nations more seasoned workers. Lauren nice way to put it. Cheryl yeah. Youre watching fbn a. M. Or the latest phones. No commission. No matter what you trade, at fidelity youll pay no commission for online u. S. Equity trades. At fidelity youll pay no commission this is the epson no more buying cartridges. Big ink tanks. Lots of ink. Print about. This many pages. The epson ecotank. Just fill and chill. As a principal i can tell you this. 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Theres 7 million job openings and employers are saying where are we going to find the next generation of workers. And weve got people who left the Education Systems without the skills that employers need. I call it paper without skills and skills without jobs. Its pretty difficult. Cheryl heres the people that youre helping, high school graduates, some recent college graduates, also veterans and then adult workers that are looking to transition. Of those four, where are you finding the most success right now. Theres a lot of people who are transitioning, as the globalization, technological change, this is really changing the way we work. So the Technical Skills that you learn today might not feesly take you not necessarily take you through to tomorrow. An apprenticeship, youre not just learning Technical Skills, youre learning skills you can take with you depending on how things change. Cheryl if somebody is looking to make a change or maybe get a jump start with a degree, like their english degree, cyber security, healthcare, data analytics, hospitality management, manufacturing. Hot by at thahospitality manages that. College is one way to enter the workforce. People end up with student debt. If you look at a an internship r you apprenticeship, you can earn and learn. If you want to enter the hospitality industry, its a People Service business. Probably better that you learn in the field rather than learn from a textbook. So getting experience in an handson environment is a fantastic way to enter the workforce. Hospitality, booming industry. Cherylthe. Cheryl the economyo were taking more vacations, were traveling more. Heres some of the companies that are investing in modern apprenticeships. Nike, amazon, cvs health, Lockheed Martin and jp morgan. Seems a lot of banks want to bring in a diverse Employee Culture and theyre looking kind of to folks like you to bring those people into them. Sure. I think people are saying well, how can we bring people into the workforce, people thought apprenticeships were just for building, construction, traditional trades. But a modern apprenticeship is now banking, finance, healthcare, hospitality. People should think how is an apprenticeship different, where is one available for me, ask locally and companies should say how can i get a return on investment on bringing entry level people into my company. Cheryl you work with candidates to find the right apprenticeship if they need it, correct . Absolutely. Absolutely. Cheryl nicholas, its a very interesting idea and part of our modern times, the new workforce. Thank you. Cheryl thank you for coming in. Over to you. Lauren jerry jones agrees, collicolin kaepernicks workout turned into a secret. He said, quote, that situation from the getgo probably had a lot more that wasnt about football involved in it and consequently we got the results of that dynamic. When asked if the event turned into a circus, he answered, i think so. No cowboys representatives would be attending kaepernicks workout. Cheryl when it comes to rock and roll, you never should say never. Nearly six years ago mottly crusade they would never tour again, even signed a contract that would prohibit them from doing so. Now the band says the contract is off the table. A whole new generation are demanding the band to come back together. Theyre mounting a 2020 comeback tour according to rolling stones. Poison and def leppard will join them on the tour. A netflix biopics about the band spurred interest about the hot hot 80s music. Lauren bands always do that, say theyre done and then theres a reunion. We have declines across the board. After the back, the investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein heating up. 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There are your current temperatures, a lot of 40s on the map here. 41 in boston, 45 in charleston and that coastal event is now out of the way. We are watching the potential for flash flooding over parts of the southwest. You know that this is tropical moisture, working its way into the pacific or in from the pacific, thats going to give us the potential for flash flooding for parts of arizona and new mexico, even Southern California is going to get some rain. Much needed rain but too much of a good thing can lead to flash flooding. Heres the future radar. Were going to see snow across the rockies and all of this is going to move across the mississippi and the ten sigh river l valley over the next couple days and into the northeast on friday but it will be too warm for snow for the most part. We will see snow, though, across portions of the southern and l central rockies. Back to you. Lauren janice, thank you. Cheryl well, the fbi is now investigating Jeffrey Epsteins death as possibly being linked to a criminal enterprise. This revelation comes as capitol hill lawmakers demand answers from the director of the federal bureau of prisons. Lauren we have the latest as two guards that were supposed to be watching him are formally charged. Jackie, good morning. Reporter lauren and cheryl, brandnew questions in the death of Jeffrey Epstein as the prisons director calls it a black eye for the entire bureau. Lindsey graham demanding to know how it happened. With a case this high profile, theres got to be either major malfunction of the system or criminal enterprise at foot to allow this to happen. So are you looking at both, is the fbi looking at both . The fbi is involved and they are looking at criminal enterprise, yes. Reporter a spokesperson for director sawyer walking back the statement, saying when the director referenced criminal enterprise she was mirroring the language senator Lindsey Graham used. The two guards responsible for watching epstein now Face Criminal Charges this morning. Michael thomas and tobin noel you acaused of not checking epstein and creating fake logs to make it look like they did. Heres the time line of events. At 10 00 p. M. All inmates are locked you up for the night. Half hour later video shows noel checking on epsteins cells. Guards are supposed to do half hour checks. At at 6 30 in the morning, epstein is found hanging in his cell, 15 feet away from the guards. Attorneys for thomas and noel say there are systematic problems in the prison including staffing shore stages. Theyve been speculation about the cause of epsteins death lauren, cheryl, back to you. Lauren jackie, thank you. Cheryl well, the taliban has now released two hostages. Lauren Tracee Carrasco here with the details. Tracee, good morning. Tracee american hostage kevin king and australian hostage timothy weeks were released by the taliban after more than three years in captivity. In exchange for the release, the Afghan Government released three high profile taliban members. Negotiations to end the 18 year afghan war could resume following the prisoner swap. Packaged salads the likely cause on an e. Coli outbreak in maryland. The health Department Says the seven people who contracted the bacteria all ate the same ready pack bistro bowl chicke chick cr salads purchased at sams club. Lori loughlin and her husband are fighting new charges related to the College Admissions scandal. The couple entered not guilty pleas yesterday on charges of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery. Prosecutors added the bribery charge for 11 parents who also pleaded not guilty in the case. Loughlin and her husband are accused of paying to get letter two daughters into the university of Southern California as fake athletic recruits. How about this, art imitating life. Thanks to tom hanks is starring at mr. Rogers in the new film, a Beautiful Day in the neighborhood. At the films new york screening, access hollywood told the star he is related to mr. Rogers. They showed him a family tree, showing him he is a sixth cousin. Cheryl im so excited for this movie. People are ready for something warm, feelgood and simple. Lauren he was my child. Cherylhood. Several generations. Lauren when is the move out . Cheryl i think this weekend. Tracee very soon. Cheryl keep watching tv nor fr now. We have more coming up. You may want think twice about your Holiday Gifting ideas this year. We have a list, were going to bring you the most dangerous toys that might be on your shopping list. Were going to tell you now because we have the list. vo the flock blindly falls into formation. Flying south for the winter. They never stray from their predetermined path. But this season, a more thrilling journey is calling. Defy the laws of human nature. At the season of audi sales event. Music time and time again, you know when im doing street magic. Ill walk up to someone and i can just see theyre against me right . They dont want to be amazed. They dont want this experience to happen. But then the magic happens. Can we be there . And all of that falls away. Oh, just think of the time i know that some will say come on man it matters a little babe. Stunned. I believe in magic. Its the experience of waking up and seeing things the way you saw them before they became ordinary. I needed to try amazement laughter i needed to fall thats the goal. Im looking for that experience of wonder. I need never get old cheryl not all toys are safe and sound this Holiday Season according to the world against toys causing harm group. Lauren they never are all safe and sound. All right, what items should parents not buy . Here is the deal, the group called watch, top 10 most hazardous toys for kids. The nerve ultra 1 dark gun, the projectiles might hit you in the eye, thats never good, happening for any type of shoot e toy, apparently something extra with this one, be careful if you get this, thats , also has colors attached to it, its important to make sure young kids dont think they can eat it, you always want to make sure that youre around to make sure that it smells so good but not really strawberries, make sure you dont do that. Lauren might little guy might, perhaps. Its all good, might not be good. Cheryl your next story is list ing bomb. This proves that you can buy anything these days, a decommissioned decommission silo, 40 feet under ground, 7pound door attached to it, the owners are filling calls of potential buyers. Might want to use as second home, the bunkers, you know how people are building their own bunkers, some want to turn to elaborate airbnb. Lauren that is cool. Am i weird . Lauren a little bit. People love it. Lauren historical factor in there. Card games, playing card games apparently theyre political knew real, i didnt know that they were offensive. Neither did i but you can get offensive by anything these days, mattel is releasing a nonpartisan version of classic uno, they wont have red, instead orange cards. Lauren green on the screen, its christmas colors, why would they have green . You can get offended by these days, you cant say the sky is blue anybody because somebody will be upset about that. Cheryl obviously too much Political Correctness and sad that its affecting toys and game, we have done the story with you, disney, disney plus, cartoons had to come out and warn parents, when does this go too far . Lauren now. Cheryl ridiculous. Theyre changing a classic card game because of red and blue, the colors, alcohol, they want like gender neutral colors of alcohol because people are getting offended by it, ridiculousness has gone overboard by far. Lauren thank you for joining us mike. Cheryl thats it for us, we send it over to maria bartiromo, maria, good morning. Maria good morning to you, happy wednesday, happy wednesday, everybody, thanks for joining us, im maria bartiromo, wednesday november 20th, top stories before 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Retail is in focus this morning, we are waiting on lowes reporting after this morning after home depot disappointed yesterday. Another read on the American Consumer when target reports, we will bring you all the numbers and look on how strong the Holiday Shopping season. U. S. 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