News at noon. Good afternoon to you. Im claudine wong. Im andre senior. Thank you for joining us. Its a story so many people are talking about now. People are buying their tickets for what is expected to be the largest Mega Millions drawing in history. The jackpot is a whopping 1. 5 8,000,000,000 million. Ctvs allie rasmus spoke with people who are excited to play, even though they know the odds are against them. Theres the lucky number right there. When the Mega Millions jackpot hits ten figures like this, Richard Dickey says thats when he plays it. Generally, when it gets up to this big i think on this one here, i probably got about 200 invested. You spent 200 and maybe 1,000,000 seconds already. But i dont go crazy like this unless it gets to this amount. Yep. You heard right. Hes already spent 200 worth of Mega Millions tickets before buying several more. Just this morning. No ones won the Mega Millions jackpot and matched all six numbers since april 18th. The pot of money has swel
Eagerly awaiting that. Thats the song. That is the white house. Good morning. 10 00 eastern time. Lets get to the many, still seeing get green, down one hundred 78, nasdaq one hundred 30, the 10 year treasury yield is down back to 4. 08 , the nasdaq liked that. The price of oil 78 a barrel this morning and Bitcoin Holding onto it gains a, 67,180 as of now. Now this. Its going to be a rematch. Either going to be debates . Absolutely says donald trump. Anywhere anytime anyplace. President biden, peter doocy did ask karine jeanpierre. Now that the field is down to twos President Biden going to commit to a debate with donald trump . That something for the campaign to speak to. We know when the debates are going to be, where they are going to be. Is he going to go . You should speak to the campaign. In 2,020 want to got down to one on one President Biden said i can hardly wait to debate. How about that . You should reach out to the campaign. Stuart they are not too keen on debates and we al
Thats open the door releasing the grip of the high. So temperatures coming down 60, 70 and now everyones below average on these highs. All right. Over to sound now. Hell tell us what , well, you know, things are doing pretty well, steve, i would say, for this early hour of the morning. My goodness its 401. Its early and traffic is moving well. Lets go to the san jose area. That traffic looks pretty good. No major problems here. If youre on the san mateo bridge anytime soon, that commute looks very nice. And if youre driving on the bay bridge, it looks even 401. Lets get back to the headlines. Thank you, sal. Topping our news this morning, the owners of 7eleven stores in oakland say thieves are targeting them and the problem is getting worse. They say there have been at least six incidents around oakland since the beginning of this month. Amber League Reports the store owners believe the same group is committing these crimes. Loud and brazen. Surveillance video shows thieves breaking in
Numbers and, of course, the payroll report tomorrow, which leads us to our talk of the tape we ask how results from apple and amazon right after the close of trading might drive the tape from here. Here to discuss all that is stephanie link, and malcolm etheridge, both are cnbc contributors both are here at post nine as well welcome. Hi. Steph, obviously, look, apple and amazon together more than 10 of the s p they matter for the index how the market reacts to the numbers. In general, in the context of an earnings season that has been strong relative to expectations, the mark kind of shrugged on some level, where do you think that leaves us as we figure out if this has just been a little bit of an air pocket in august i think it is a little bit of an air pocket, digesting the doubledigit gains we have seen across almost every indices. And i think august can be volatile maybe trade around, maybe to september, mike. But i think the economy underlying is pretty good. The Economic Data has
Maria welcome back. Good thursday morning. I am maria bartiroma. Is thursday february 20 ninth, 7 a. M. On the button on the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the dueling border tripped happening today, President Biden and donald trump planning to visit the southern border, biden will travel to brownsville, texas while trump will deliver remarks there hundred miles away in eagle pass. U. S. Customs and Border Protection data shows eagle pass had over 2000 apprehensions while brownsville had just 46 over the last 5 days. On monday eagle pass had 500 apprehensions while brownsville had 0. Jackie heinrich pressed the white house about the president s border visit. Why . Brownsville. This administration has often criticized republicans when they go to the border and hold Similar Press conferences saying they are doing publicity stunts and photo up so how is this different . Turning this into a political stunt by listening to donald trump and saying they need to kill it. This is what th