Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Less than three hours left in the trading day. Stocks are near session highs. What happened to the fry selloff . We have the nasdaq up a full percentage point. Strength in technology, and in particular in technology, take a look at shares of apple seeing the best day since july 27th, higher by 1. 6 now. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Hillary clintons doctor says shes being treated for pneumonia. This after she had to be held up and helped into a van while leaving that 9 11 Memorial Service early over the weekend. Donald trump responding right here on cnbc. Listen. I hope she gets well and i hope she gets well soon. But, you know, it was quite sad to be honest with you and i hope she gets well soon. No satisfaction, believe me, whatsoever. Also today, in business, a big agricultural deal, potash teaming up with agrium to create the Worlds Largest fertilizer company. Hp, hewlettpackard getting big near printers, buying samsungs printer
Statement saying that they estimate that there was 60,000 people here, showing love, for nova nation. And speaking of the mayor he also had one very important statement to make today as well. I jim kenney, mayor of the city of philadelphia do hereby proclaim friday, april 8th, 2016, to be villanova wildcats ncaa mens Basketball Championship day, congratulations. The mayor, making it official, confirming what we already know, it is all about theville know of wildcats, on this friday here in early april. Listen, it has been a wild several weeks for the villanova wildcats. Their championship run started in brooklyn. Then they were on to louisville. Then they won it all in houston. Our leslie van arsdal was with them every step of the way, and she joins us right now live, leslie. Reporter you know, don can you imagine villanova right now monday night they win the National Championship, then on friday, were talking about a parade right down Market Street here. They are soaking up every sing
Lots of different id yeas how t take down isis. John kasich tells us what he would do as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right now. Hundreds of people today holding vigil, laying out flowers outside Pariss Bataclan concert hall, the site of friday ease attacks where more than 120 people died, many slaughtered execution style. Meanwhile, a wave of arrests this morning in neighboring b l belgium aiming to scoop up coconspirato coconspirators. Mr. Chairman, thanks for your time this morning. Thanks for having me. Characterize our ability to get our arms around this. I was just thinking about the fact that assault weapons were used here in paris. Assault weapons cannot even be purchased in france. How is it possible that assault weapons got to france and investigators missed it . Well, the European Union is a big entity. Of course, weapons can come in at the most vulnerable point and transfer across those borders. You know, in the bigger sense, maria, one of the counterterrorism ex
And the war of words as other cities say it was a huge overreaction. Dropping the mic. What . Oh, thats the robber. The local reporter who helped crack the case and catch a bank robber. Ah, this is live tv, folks. How he got much more than just the story. And Something Like that, good morning, america. The main event lighting up the strip in las vegas last night. 1400 people packing the Venetian Hotel and casino last night. Donald trump said it felt more like the academy award. Likes having the gold around. He took tough hits from jeb bush, the most lively performance yet from governor bush, the big question, did it change his place in the race. Did anything change . You saw ted cruz and marco rubio go at it, as well, and were going to talk about this with there he is right there. Well begin, though, with abcs cecilia vega. She is in las vegas for all the action. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, george, good morning to you. Im still outside the Venetian Hotel. All eyes inside that
London and sent this update. My photographer, bruce ryan, and i have made it to london, its 11 00 in the morning, and we are connecting now to a flight to pairris. We didnt know if we get here, but bruce and i, no problem, bruce and i, no problem, on the next leg of the journey well aware of the very sobering story were going to encounter in paris, and when we arrived here, we got updates of the rising death toll as well as the isis claiming responsibility for the attack. Next time we see you were in paris reporting from there. Thats all from now from london. Back to you. Nbc sews George Spencer is with us now, and, george, you have been monitoring the developments overnight including those recent statements from isis. Fill us in. Yeah, so frightening, rosemary, the islamics would remain, quote, at the top of the list of targets, and terrorists call it a capital of adultery and vice. Their words. We know that right now, french squaurts a security is meeting to discuss next steps after