Its on spotify right now. We aim to please. It seems like we have done this morning. Lets get into the market picture. A very rosie market picture this morning. Futures were as much as 200 points higher moments ago just shy at the moment on the dow 192. 4 to be precise. The s p higher by 14 the nasdaq up 22 markets did pull back on friday albeit only slightly closing down. 2 and the s p a little bit more that for the nasdaq for a week performance was fairly divergent. The dow was up 3 . Dow up 1. 5 the tax reform bill well discuss that passed the market late friday night. Ten year treasury note has responded as well in a risk on fashion somewhat weve seen the yield move up a little bit, 2. 39 closing on friday at 2. 36 over the weekend ticked up a bit. Crossed 2. 4 but is just below that level. More on the markets, but first to our top corporate story, cvs is buying aetna for 69 billion. Our Bertha Coombs is joining us on the cnbc news line with all of the news. Good morning, bertha. R
On the phone with both leaders his desire to reform but obviously his goal was to have that discussion when they come in person and i think i mentioned yesterday the foreign minister of mexico is gonna come on the 25th or 26th to set the table and have at some of those meetings ahead of president meeting here. Now that hes officially in office. This is his first working day. I think hes been pretty busy and robust. I think you are going to see a lot more come out but there is a lot of things that had to get done and a lot of things that were working on as a staff to get him prepared. He will have a very robust week. Thank you guys appreciate it. [indiscernible] most of those people for the actions and the most important one. When you have the news come up. To them from india. [indiscernible] thank you for the question. I think that whether its india or other countries throughout the globe today as i mentioned the goal is to figure out countries and markets that we want to access that b
South thats coming up here tonight. We continue to see the strong winds from the northeast. We see gusts over 60 miles an hour at the shore. Earlier to the were now seeing more like 40 to 50 miles an hour. Not quite as strong of gusts as what we saw but were seeing pretty good gusts even out in the northern and western suburbs. The other issue that we have here thats a big issue is moderate coastal flooding. We had minor coastal flooding this morning. Well have moderate for this afternoons high tide and tomorrow mornings high tide from Rehoboth Beach to cape may. You can see these are happening pretty much during the rush hour periods and Atlantic City just about to get its highest tide yet. Ill be back with more to talk about where this storms going next. As we mentioned at the top of this new cast our dangerous noreaster is now deadly. Police believe a man was hit by a sign that was ripped down by a powerful gust of wind. That man is dead. Dangerous out there, lauren. Reporter we are
Sanders joins us for his perspective on pretty much all of the above. Jim acosta at the white house. A very busy day. Lets start with sean spicers First Official press briefing. You were there. Very different mood than saturdays. Very different mood. This was an attempt to reset relations between this white house and the news media after you heard the president of the United States and his press secretary really go after the media on saturday accusing reporters of falsely reporting on the crowd size at Donald Trumps inauguration last friday. And that episode was filled with sean spicer going to the podium on saturday and basically delivering some false metrics in terms of how they came to the conclusion that Donald Trumps inauguration was the most watched ever, which was not the case. But at this briefing today, sean spicer was not yelling at reporters. He was answering questions as the White House Press secretary should do. I asked him at one point why was there such a big focus on sa
Got a full night that begins with Cnns Jim Acosta at the white house. A very busy day. Lets start with sean spicers First Official press briefing. You were there. Very different mood than saturdays. Very different mood. This was an attempt to reset relations between this white house and the news media after you heard the president of the United States and his press secretary really go after the media on saturday accusing reporters of falsely reporting on the crowd size at Donald Trumps inauguration last friday. And that episode was filled with sean spicer going to the podium on saturday and basically delivering some false metrics in terms of how they came to the conclusion that Donald Trumps inauguration was the most watched ever, which was not the case. But at this briefing today, sean spicer was not yelling at reporters. He was answering questions as the White House Press secretary should do. I asked him at one point why was there such a big focus on saturday on this crowd size issue