The south seeing fog developing before you head up to san martin. The High Temperatures today, after all this clears up, in the low 60s. Not bad at all. Well talk about what else is ahead in a few minutes. Mike says the roadways are clear. Continue this morning like yesterday. A flow of traffic around the bay. Maybe its better than monday. Monday gets a bad rap. We are looking over here toward the north bay. Some of the fog carry is talking about, chp not reporting any problems. The live cameras show the bay bridge toll plaza, clear, clear, clear. More cars are traveling through the area. Ill keep my eye on things. No metering lights. Richmond to san rafael. This is the glow. Low clouds hovering around. It may be a factor. We continue to follow a light drive. Back to you. All right, mike. Thanks. Happening today, a special tribute for the hayward chp officer killed by a suspected dui driver on Christmas Eve. Today in the bays pete suratos is live outside the hayward chp office this mor
Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and jocn have the week off. They will be back though joining us this morning as well, walter isaacson. Nice to have him this morning. And a lot to talk about. More red flags for facebook, twitter and other social flat forms. For example this time for former president barack obama in an interview with prince harry, obama warned against the irresponsible use of social media. Take a listen. The dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases the truth is that on the internet, everything is simplified and when you meet people facetoface, it turns out they are complicated. People are comply it ca llic apparently thats what we hear. Twitter and social media and facebook and Everything Else, the question is about regulatory in particular sort of come to mind, not to mention of course the meddling by the rush shacsin the election in 2016 and
Eve. She said she saw a car speeding down 880 near hayward before it crashed into the back of camilleris chp suv. His partner survived but officer camilleri died the the scene. And now we go to nbc bay areas pete suratos who joins us live from the chp headquarters. I know you were en route while the officers were en route for the bellsinging ceremony. Such a time to remember a heroic man. Reporter thats right. Good morning to you, marcus and vicky. A very emotional time as you can imagine for the chp officers as they were en route to sacramento. We showed you the live pictures where the bellringing ceremony is taking place in honor of officer camilleri. I want to show you guys new video, this took place roughly at about 8 30 a. M. Several chp officers leaving the hayward headquarters this morning. I counted about eight of them riding on motorcycles, about a dozen or so following them in cruisers. Union city police did come out this morning to help them out. They blocked off the road as
Now. Brent down more than 1 . Natural gas up slightly. Mr. Wonderful and mrs. Wonderful. Are we allowed to say that youre not together, but thats were you watching before yes, i thoughtthat was a great tease. Kayla is mrs. Wonderful. Shes terrific kevins the original. Maybe im lower case w. Weve got a lot of news to talk about this morning. Geely auto has bought an 8 stake in volvo also giving gely the rights. Gely also owns the truck maker volvo started to do much better. Are you guys volvo fans . Ely als. Volvo started to do much better. Are you guys volvo fans . So i always had a volvo growing up im a fan. Kevin, i can tell youre not volvo. Im getting to the place where i think all auto manufacturers are going to make rail cars in 20 years. Because autonomous driving whether its for individuals, trucking, the brand wont matter as much. You dont even know the name of the company that makes all the rail cars. Its a huge company but nobody cares. But you know so tell us i dont know, ac
You have confident consumers. You have consumers that are spending. Now they have got even more reason to be optimistic with tax reform and i think you say see a bump here. As you know a lot of our media brethren were telling people how this tax deal was so terrible and essentially only the Koch Brothers will benefit. Now that it is enacted people see you get tax cuts across the income ladder. I think that could be another driver for more optimism. David cabot, before we jump right into politics as james wanted us to, we tend to focus always on amazon and online stores. Incredible thing about this, this is still the stores that people walked into. Real Stores People walked into that led this growth. I dont think that will be a long term thing. I think amazon will continue to take over that space but david their growth is much greater than the growth of stores. Exactly. It is interesting to see how to go back to politics a year ago a lot of people were saying take everything out of mark