Welcome to power lunch, im contessa brewer. Another strong day for stocks as all three indices look for a winding streak the dow is up about 143 points, a slight pullback from where we were a half hour ago both the s p and nasdaq are on pace in more than six years and both indices up 5 health care the best performing sector today johnson johnson, pfizer, eli lilly among the big gainers. A couple beatendown names moving higher, ge back above 15 a share despite being hit with a shareholder lawsuit and snap is now up 50 so far in february. Three hours left in what has been a huge week for stocks. Bertha coombs is at the New York Stock Exchange bertha it has been quite a big week. Its been two weeks since we had that downturn starts and after consuming a lot of rocky road ice cream, today it feels like vanilla. If you look at the major averages in terms of where they are from their highs back at the end of january, the nasdaq here within 3 of its all time high in january as weve seen a big
To hospitals and Health Systems. The alliance for Health Policy is hosting this discussion. Particularly since i know tom, i think well have a very lively discussion this morning. So i am actually looking forward to hearing something today and im sure we will hear something quite interesting. So thank you and turn it over to sarah. So, welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. Before we begin, i just want to make a quick note for the date for the next several breakfasts, well be doing them about once a month. The next will be march 29th and well talk about pandemic preparedness. Quite different from todays topic. Today were devilling delving into shifting dynamics in the Health Market. Consolidation and integration. Although there have been headlines about the topic, this is not a new issue in our Health Care System, so the panel of experts today is going to help us understand whats happening right now, what the implications are, and also,
Drowned video you can see how all the smoke from the fire is filling the sky the fire is burning in a very remote area of the Livermore Valley other images of this fire which grew extremely quickly overnight. James fortunately the temperatures in livermore was in the 60s and around the time the fire broke out the ones around to in the modify our along with those dry in a very the drop like conditions making this a real challenge if you took pictures or video of the fire would love to see whether to get more on the fire coverage would have michelle with a look at the fire forecast for today. Michelle apon fires in this area can be very drive the good news is it is timmy this morning temperatures and to the mid60s and humidity values are still at some of the to lower seventh maybe dusty at times later on today temperatures all actually be warming upper as you make a way out the door across the bay at the coast of right now into the lower 60s with a bottle of mildest the couple of degrees
An explosion at high school and bronx. There are reports of extension damage at jfk high high, that explosion happened about 8 00 oclock this evening, take a look behind me this is jfk high school in the bronx. We are told this is one of two entrances to the school. The explosion happened on the sixth floor, about eight pm. Some of the custodian workers believe that it was a gas explosion. Take a look at some of the pictures we shot on the ground of Emergency Responders here at the high school. What we understand to be the case is about apm contractors to be the case is about apm contractors were working at a sixth floor construction using a blowtorch, apparently apparently they hit a gas line thats when custodians who smelled an overwhelming smell of gas, 15 people were in the building at the time. Police tell us three were injured with nonlifethreatening injuries hospital. Emergency responders search the entire building and there still an emergency alarm going off at the school. You
Will step down as ceo. Coceo and representative director will take his place. Ghosn says he is taking on new responsibilities at mitsubishi motors. Placing the troubled car maker under the nissan umbrella, taking into account the general Shareholders Meeting in june. Ghosn recommended the move which takes effect april 1st. He will continue to serve as chairman of the board. He came from french car maker renault after a tieup between the two companies. Saikawa served in a number of management positions for nearly two decades. More business headlines for you later on in the show. For now it is back to keiko. Thank you for that, ai. Now the death of the half brother of north koreas leader remains shrouded in mystery. Cast doubt on the dead mans identity. And now the staterun news agency is weighing n Korean Central News Agency criticized how malaysia is handling the death. It said the postmortem clearly violates the sovereignty of north korea. It does not mention who the man was. The nort