Hello, im azadeh moshiri. We start this hour with the latest on the electronic Pager Explosions in lebanon. Multiple reports say that israels mossad Spy Agency placed explosives in thousands of hezbollah pagers, before they detonated across lebanon on tuesday. So far, Israel Hasnt commented. The united states and the us im have called for calm and the russian Foreign Ministry said the aim of the attack was to provoke a big war, and there was, in the Middle East. 11 people have died and almost 3000 people were wounded. Lebanon says hundreds are in a critical condition in hospital. Some were blinded. 0thers lost fingers all required amputations. Separately, israeli and us sources say israel detonated the pagers earlier than planned, fearing that hezbollah had become aware of the plan. In another Development Police Have visited the offices of a company in taiwan, as the pagers seemed to carry a taiwanese brand. The boss of the company, Gold Apollo, has denied any involvement in the attack
Good morning and welcome to march. Stocks try to finish the week with a climbing to record highs after, oh, a brief weakness yesterday into the close. The sequester deadline finally arrives with no compromise in sight. Plus, in Corporate News, groupon out. Its ceo and in an unusual cliff, wait until you hear the email that andrew mason sent to employees announcing his own firing. Ill ask ben white if politico got this email, too. Its friday, march 1st, 2013. Squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Our guest host this hour is zach carabell. Also ben white who is politico chief economic correspondent. Gentlemen, welcome to both of you. Thank you for getting up early. It is a grait great day to have you both with us. Were talking about the wall street situation and washington. We have stocks and the sequester, the s p coming off its fourth straight month of gains. If you take a l