0 obama care. so the bill now goes back to the gop-led house. at the same time, tea party senators ted cruz and mike lee will try to influence debate in the house. the two have had numerous conversations with house members. the house of representatives stood up, acted, united to defund obama care. thief listened to the american people. that was the right thing to do. i am hopeful that the house of representatives will continue to do the right thing. joining me now congressional reporter for a little bit coed o keefe. the washington post . oh, yeah. you know what, that s right. wait. let me have another sip of my coffee. okay. moving on. all right, ed. we have all been watching this play out. tell us what happens this weekend. is the government going to shut down? not just gutting the health care law but cutting taxes for millionaires or rolling back big banks, polluters or other pet projects they would like to see, that they would push the button, throw america into default fo
0 good morning, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt . let s get to what s happening out there. a developing news from a situation right now in egypt. it is critical. the muslim brotherhood protesters calling for a week of peaceful protests. an estimated 100 people were killed and over 1,000 arrested yesterday. but those numbers expected to rise. nbc news richard engel was on the front line in cairo s ramsey square. protesters are taking cover under this elevated highway. seem to be taking live fire from a police station just up the road. wounded were hoisted onto motorcycles and taken to clinics. some already looked dead. for more i m joined by p.j. crowley, a fellow at the george the united states s interests there? well, the united states looks at the egyptian military as the most effective institution, probably the only effective institution in egyptian society. it s going to have its influence on whatever emerges. and the united states is going to link itself for
0 house republicans pushed through legislation that would prevent the irs from implementing the foo affordable care act, the 40th time the house has voted on an appeal that would replace obama care. in minutes, we ll get reaction from washington, to congress s recess and health care vote. new information in the case of a massive outbreak of a stomach illness. fda conforms a link between a salad mix ridge nating in mexico and psych low spore ra outbreak. time warner cable has dropped cbs in about eight markets including new york, los angeles, and dallas. the cable network is owned by cbs, including showtime and tmc. they have also gone dark. it happened after both companies failed to reach a deadline last night. they re trying to extend their contract. cbs wants to raise the fees as much as $600 now to the weather. we re seeing a cool, dry start to this weekend here in the northeast. out in the rockies, some states could see violent weather. dylan dreyer is here with the forecas
futures. s&p futures off by just over 2 1/2 points. in asia joef night, the nikkei was up by 2%. that s been the really interesting story is watching not only what happens for the nikkei, but what happens in the aftermarket hours, as well. as you can see, though, a gain of 2% there in europe in the early trading. you ll see at least at this hour there are some green arrows. the dax is up by 0.4%. similar gains for the cac and the ftse is up by 0.6%. we will have more from our colleagues in london and tokyo in just a few minutes. we ve got market watchers all ready to tackle the day s tough investing questions, including david rosenberg joining us at 6:30 a.m. europe time. in the next hour, s&p s david blitzer and ed keon of. then coming up at 8:30 eastern time, mohamed el-erian will be joining us from pimco to talk about all of these things, as well. good morning. have we got those boards? yes, we do. the wti, west texas intermediate is lower. brent is lower by 30 cents
polled economist res looking for first quarter unemployment filings to tick higher. in the meantime, the fourth quarter gdp is expected to be revised 0.5%. you have chicago s pmi coming out and the kansas city fed survey. on the corporate front, blackberry is set to post quarterly results before the open. among the things to watch in this are subscriber numbers. blackberry will be holding a conference call at 8:00 p.m. eastern. as we talked about yesterday, i think there was a third of the float being shorted. back over to you. thank you happy friday/thursday, right? it s monday-thursday. sondz abdomen awful lot like monday-thursday. i think it s great friday. sunday was much better. yes, it was the beginning of a great thing. i got it. but it feels like thursday is my favorite day because of the anticipation of friday and friday is too close to sunday. but when you ve got thursday and friday and friday is basically off, then exactly. this is as good as it s g