Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with Andrew Ross Sorkin and Michelle Caruso cabrera. Joe is off today. Lots to cover on this friday morning. Everything from this civil gop debate in miami to apple and the fbi trading blows over its encryption battle. Check out the futures. Theyre in rally mode this morning. The ecb moves still in the market. Yesterday, the knee jerk reaction was a positive one. You saw markets up across the globe. By the enof the conversation, though, the ecb head mario draghi making comments that this might be the last that they needed to offer easing. You saw the markets go down before eventually finishing flat. This morning, doe up by 170 points, s p futures up by 20 and the nasdaq up by 52. In europe, you see big rallies there, too. The dax is up by 2. 8 . The ftse is up by 1. 5 . If you check out the currency markets, this is the story. The euro was down to 108 initially on this news all the way up to 112. You can
Ambushed and killed over the weekend. Please get this message out. If you hear someone make a threat against a police officer, if you see something on social media that is a threat, call 911 immediately. Might would much letter rather get too much information. Some officers turned their backs on him. They say the he is not giving support to police. Is pushing back its this vision,ake a pushed back by three weeks. The fcc needs more time after Time Warner Cable said it would submit 31,000 documents for fcc review. Starbucks scaling back its partnership. It will not use the order when square wallet is retired. It has been testing its own order ahead application. They will still process payments for starbucks. And now to the lead. The u. S. Is turning to north koreas allies. Its ownarted investigation following a request that claims north korea it used facilities in china to attack sony. Northis no proof that korea is behind the attack on sony, they said. President obama said the u. S. Or
Plus three years and counting that is how long american pastor abidini has been jailed in iran because of his christian faith. His wife is back on capitol hill pressing the Obama Administration and congress it make his freedom a nonnegotiable part of any nuclear deal with iran. My conversation about his condition coming up. Welcome to americas news ahead quarters from washington. Nice to be with you. Im leeland vittert. Thank you for spending your sunday with us. Two convicted murderers are still on the run and may have left the country. The prison they broke out of is only 25 miles from the canadian border. The brother of one of their victims says his familys world has been turned upside down all over again. The men are described as extremely dangerous as you might understand. Governor an draw cuomo says the inmates somehow got their hands on power tools, and that is what allowed them to make their jail break. Elizabeth pran joins us live. The plan seemed to work just fine for the fir
in tech trends, it s one of the internet s biggest moneymakers. how ordinary people are becoming millionaires. > hey there everyone. just past noon here in the east. 9:00 a.m. in the west. welcome to weekends with alex witt. tens of thousands of cubans are hoping to catch a glimpse of pope francis this afternoon. people started lining up early this morning to catch a glimpse of the pope as he arrived to celebrate mass. those who make the trip from the u.s. couldn t contain their excitement. it s just so exciting, and, look, i have goose bumps. it s crazy. worshippers filled the cathedral and watched from outside as the pope spoke from the altar. he spoke in english and warned of the dangers of exclusionary politics. the pope s schedule will take him across cuba to deliver a mass in holguin and on tuesday in santiago de cuba. nbc s claudia levanga is there. what did the pope say? reporter: it was clearly a pastoral message. what you will hear from a homily during a m
the kind of racism and hatred that mr. sterling expressed. we cannot and must not tolerate discrimination at any level. so if you want to measure the severity of sterling s transgression, we could look to the punishment. nba commissioner adam silver banned him for life and fined him $2.5 million. on monday, the league formally charged sterling with violating the terms of his constitution and bylaws, giving him until may 27th to respond. the board of governors will meet a week from tuesday in new york to vote to end sterling s ownership of the clippers. but maybe the best indication that donald sterling s comments were far beyond the bounds of socially acceptable behavior is the fact that michael jordan felt compelled to level such a clear and public condemnation. michael jordan, whose athletic accomplishments run questioned, but whose utter lack of engagement with social and political issues led us to ask, has anyone done less with more than michael jordan? when the infamousl