We are standing by for the White House Press briefing, sean spicer returns to the podium for the First Time Since the firing of james comey. The president shocking many this morning by tweeting, considering stopping having press briefings and issuing paper statements instead. America waiting to find it out if the president was just making a bad joke. That pressure expected live right here. When it begins, we will take you to it. To your top money news. Today, once again, the continued decimation of retailers and their investors money. Today jcpenney and nordstroms. Not impacting your Broader Market investments. Three major indexes are little changed. The dow down a scant 31 points. A little more good news for your money on this friday. Shares of apple and mcdonalds hitting new records. Owner of darden doing well as we bulk up on pasta. Right now lets get back to what appears to be the sad new retail re reality for investors. Jcpenney wiping out hundreds of millions as sales disappoint.
But we begin with the war on conference. The research conference. Novartis stock is up about 12 this year. But what exactly is this new treatment . What does it mean for those with cancer . Meg terrell got an exclusive tour of the manufacturing plant. Meg, run us through. Mandy, thats right. It sounds a little like Science Fiction but its close to becoming a reality. All you need to know is its a form of immune owe therapy helping your own immune system fight cancer. It will help patients with leukemia that stop responding to other treatments. It takes a patients t cells out of their body manipulating them in the lab so they better attack cancer and reinfusing them. This requires a whole new way of manufacturing because each patient gets a personalized treatment. We visited the new plant in Morris Plains new jersey to see how it works. They have a system of tracking a patients cells all the way from the hospital where theyre being treated to the plant. Similar to air traffic control. T
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