Not there. I we are developing and promised the principal sponsors of this law that we are going to develop a plan to get to 100 not have the we do resources. Congress has not given us the resources. We are developing that. I would like to see us get to a higher percentage of what is deans scanned what is being scanned right now. I look at what comes into the country and the method we have for screening it all, and it is pretty sophisticated. So i take away from that a pretty good story. Ok, yes, sir. Last question. On ebola. We are now screening at five airports. Do we have the capability to deal with this, and do we have contingencies if things get worse . We very definitely in this country have the ability to deal with the ebola virus. Every time there has been an outbreak of ebola in the world, it has been defeated. Here in the United States, we have the best health care, doctors, infrastructure, hospitals. It is a treatable disease if it is caught in time and you receive the right
To welcome everyone to todays hearing on our nations trade agenda. I have to say that the trade agenda is looking up since the last time you testified. Things seem to be improving with our trade negotiation. For example, will significantly gaffes remain, the menstruation symmetry inching ever closer to the Transpacific Partnership agreement. This comes after a long period of decline. Of course, there is still a lot to be done aand tpa is at the top of my list. Things seem to be looking up. Compared to this time last year, this demonstration is much more engaged in making the case for a renewal of tpa. President obama strong call for strong tpa in the state of the union was welcome, though in my opinion, long overdue. The latest call action was a real concerted effort to get tpa to congress. Here in the finance committee, were doing every weekend to make a strong effort. Im currently working with a senator to see if theres a way to address some issues that he has raised. We are working
News conference here on cnbc. That starts at 2 00 p. M. With the announcement. 2 30 with the comments and questions theyll be taking from reporters. Ahead of the announcement here is how everything is shaping up this morning with futures. You saw what happened yesterday with the markets. Declines across the board for the major averages. You can see this morning things are barely budging one direction or the other. You can see positive arrows but these are gains of ten points above value for the dow futures. Less than 1 point for the s p and about 4. 5 points for the nasdaq. A lot of people are buzzing this morning about a wellknown Hedge Fund Manager on wall street weighing in on what the fed should do. Its on the front page of the Financial Times this morning. An anticipated Interest Rate hike later this year could, he says, take a bite out of the economic recovery in a letter to investors he is arguing now that the move could knock over the apple cart. He says this is history repeati
Mobiles messaging firm whatsapp. Its facebooks biggest deal to date as shares stay lower in frankfurt. Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Youre looking at a live shot that were bringing to you from kiev, the capital of ukraine. We have breaking news for you, dow jones reporting that the eu Foreign Ministers have canceled their meeting with the ukraine leader. That is according to one official. They had set up that meeting yesterday after we saw those very violent clashes, the death toll according to the Health Ministry now above 28. All right. Lets take a look at european markets. Were a little more than an hour into the trading day and we are seeing a lot of red across the board. The stoxx europe 600 steady, down by 0. 8 . It is a triple whammy for the markets. We had the fed memberships in support of more tapering. Some members talking about an earlier than expected tightening. Then we have the china flash pmi numbers at a s
Stadium hold . Connell 80 . Dagen im going to google it during the commercial break. Connell good one, dagen. We will look that up. Dagen the dow pulling back from the alltime high hit yesterday. Nicole petallides with a look at what is dragging on these markets. Nicole pretty exciting when you see another high, again, yesterday closing high for the dowwjones industrial after five straight weeks of gains. When you see your 401 k rate higher, you like that. A little bit of a pullback. Fed tapir talk once again. A lot of anticipation for Janet Yellens hearing on thursday. That will be interesting. The s p 500 down two tenths of 1 . That being said, lots of movers. Dean foods on the move, we are watching that one to the downside. They lowered their fullyear earnings forecast despite dividend and buyback as well, but you can see the stock is down dramatically down 6. 9 right now. Dagen thank you, nicole. Connell 82,000 is capacity at Metlife Stadium as a use that illustration to talk about