Connell it was. Thanks for having me. Maria bartiromo, welcome back to new york. Have a great day. Good morning, thanks for joining us. Happy thursday. I am maria bartiromo. Thursday, february 1. Examine the east coast. Technology taking on wall street. Apple, amazon, also that after the bell tonight. Weve got the preview. Last night we heard from facebook and microsoft after the close. A rise in profit but investors showed that the concern after the company said users are reducing the time they spent on the social media site for the first time ever. Microsoft topped expectations on news that it took a onetime tax related charge of nearly 14 million. The stocks are bouncing. The market spending the day higher. The dow in january at 6 for the overall month. Futures this morning take a look. Dow industrials at 72 points in the futures that could have pulled the dow down 40 points. The dow and s p are higher with earnings as we speak beating expectations on revenue as well as earnings. Eu
A bit ofa a bit of a dull day for some others but at least it is not windy. That could all change when it comes to the weekend. More details later. Also coming up getting himself into hot water. The mp who admits spending an hour in the bath every morning so he can clean his body and clear his mind. Hello everyone, this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. The performance of hospitals has slumped across the uk, with targets for cancer, a e and planned operations being widely missed, thats according to bbc research. Nationally england, wales and Northern Ireland have not hit one of their three key targets for 18 months. 0nly scotland has hit one of the targets. The findings are revealed as the bbc launches its online nhs tracker, which will allow you to see how your local service is performing on these three key waiting time targets. Being seen within four hours at accident emergency, cancer care beginning within 62 days of diagnosis, and planned operations taking place within 18 weeks in
Case. Look carefully here at the top of this Surveillance Video. You can see a man leaving the scene of one of the five recent car fires. There is one in martinez on monday, then in walnut creek and lafayette yesterday and two more in brentwood early this morning. Nbc bay area cheryl hurd is in Pleasant Hill with an update from investigators. Cheryl. Reporter well, investigators know more than what theyre telling us tonight. They want to keep all information close to the vest. They really want to catch this person because the patterns in this case are getting dangerous. William cutting his vacation short, coming home to this. His car set on fire in his driveway inches from his home. That could have spread, and especially with people in there, youre talking lives and thats sad. You cant this guy has to be caught. Reporter investigators believe the person see here in the surveillance tape my play a role in knowing how a second car in brentwood caught fire. That fire a couple of miles fro
Entities attempts to. It has been debunked, members of congress briefed over and over again. That is where he is concerned, along with American People building there is a perpetuated false narrative out there. That is what i think is the nut of this. The former fbi official said today that president tweeted the threat to james comey, in president is simply out of control. I would like you to respond to that . Is he . That is frankly offensive. Thank you, two questions about the fbi director selection process. You said that the names are coming from the Justice Department right now. Is the president consulting with Democratic Congressional leaders as well or republican congressional leaders on this or getting names . That is a good question. He will take input from them. I dont know what specific conversations he has had. I would be glad to check on who he is spoken to or speaking to. I got confuse thad dave stole one. You said you are not disqualifying anyone on this, you know there ha
But had called it a loan. Saying he had planned to pay it back. His actions constitute willful or intention almisconduct and news warrants removal. Prosecutor with the d. A. Association board added their voice to the mix approving a plan for a no confidence vote. These do not represent the values we have at criminal prosecutor in contra costa. While peterson stays silent criticism is mounting south bay prosecutor patrick veneer is running for the position next year. I think Mark Peterson needs to go whatever that process looks like it needs to happen. Now that no confidence vote is expected to be held in ten days. Meanwhile, we are told the superior court judge could appoint a special are prosecutor to take up the grand jurys call for the d. A. s firing. Reporting live in martinez, jodi hernandez. Nbc bay area news. Thank you. A deadly crash in the east bay involving a sheriffs deputy and a High Profile Company our nbc bay area sky ranger was ones scene for hours as traffic backed up f