Squawk on the street begins right now. Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. The shows going well already. Im carl, with melissa lee, jim cramer and david faber. We have earnings season officially under way. Courtesy of alcoa, some pretty decent sentiment this morning. Well talk about that with cramer in a moment. Europe, numbers over there as well. Germany Industrial Production did miss. Green arrows across the board from london to paris to frankfurt. Our road map kicks off with earnings season. Europe is better than expected, but does this set the tone for the season with goldman predicting the s p will be in a Holding Pattern for the first quarter. Apple at the low end. The journal reporting a cheaper iphone may be in the works. Is apple simply going to where the growth is, and a sign that margins may face more pressure . Yet another setback for boeing and the 787. Canceling a domestic flight after a computer erroneously signaled a brake problem. Clearwire gets a
It is both a military mess and a political mess. Embattled iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki made his first Public Comments since the u. S. Air strike, saying he will not step down. He says he plans to file a legal complaint against the new president for a clear constitutional violation. Troop movement overnight in baghdad had people wondering, is a coup under way . Is he starting one or preventing one . This is video of fierce fighting on the ground in iraq yesterday. Helped by u. S. Bombing raids, the Kurdish Forces overtook isis. Well have a live report from erbil, the capital in a few minutes. Scott has our top stories. Kinder morgan consolidating assets in a 44 billion, bringing all of the companys publicly traded units under a Single Corporation, rather than the current Master Limited partnership structure. Buzzfeed is expected to announce a new cash injection today that could value the company at about 850 million. The New York Times reports the online media startup just close
The Ranking Member schakowsky and members of the subcommittee. Im honored to be here today. My focus is going to be on the radiological evidence of both concussions and sub concussions. And if i could add the next slide. What is known as my older traffic brain injury is common in the sports injury and when we are talking about a single my old tv ey i got 80 get better between 15 to 30 go on to have Persistent Systems as they have been described today. What is most concerning is what has been called chronic narrow degenerative disorders. And that is the second one where it is repetitive by a traumatic brain injury that we are concerned with and the evidence comes from postmortem studies if i could have the next slide. Here is a slide that shows protein in the brain and those are the areas that show up and this is in the case of a retired professional Football Player that had symptoms and was presumed to have chronic chromatic at the next. Here are four individuals. What is interesting h
They regret they have informed me that is not accurate. Governor rendell is someone who speaks his mind freely on nbc and obviously served as governor of the great state of pennsylvania. I want to start by asking them about their home states. Can mitt romney win . I would say yes the pennsylvania is in play. And i would say that it is probably the best bellwether of what happened over the last three weeks. The their campaign is particularly active in a pennsylvania. They have not been running Many Television ads because most campaigns thought it was going to be in the obama camp and felt that an expensive state like pennsylvania, one, four republicans, which has been four republicans it has been called fools gold for a long time. To move pennsylvania, from a doubledigit rates to a handful race or less, really, with national movement, not anything the campaigns were doing in the states, i would make the argument that one of the reasons we have not seen the race changed that much in a lo
Characterization of this as entirely budget driven . If it were entirely budget driven we would have accepted the levels of sequestration. As this hearing continues you can watch it online at cspan. Org and later in our program schedule. The house is gaveling for legislative work including a bill suspending the individual mandate penalty under the Affordable Care act. Live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] we use this moment to be reminded of your presence and to tap the resources needed by the members of this peoples house to do their work as well as it can be done. As the world observes the tensions mounting within ukraine and venezuela, may we all know well the crippling effects of ideological divides. When a shared sense of National Unity might bring greater hope and possible solution to serious political problems. Send, o god, your healing grace upon those torn nations and upon t