Coming under pressure amid questions about the feds commitment to keeping borrowing costs low and the spigot open. Economic tests, key reads on jobs, inflation and housing and on the corporate front, really Important Quarterly results from dow component walmart. Its thursday, february 21st, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. Morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Stocks selling off late yesterday after the release of the fomc minutes. The s p and the nasdaq turned in their worst sess sessions of 2013 on the heaviest Trading Volume of the year. Not good news. The pain is not over yet. If you take a look right now, dow futures are down by about 61 points. S p futures off by about 7 1 2 points below fair value. Were going to talk much more about the fed with central bank watcher greg iff. Thats 7 00 eastern time. Walmart is likely to be a big driver of the market conversation today. Courtney reagan will be jo
Hours. In maine, the National Weather service says more than 5. 5 inches fell on portland. One of the ten all time wettest days in that citys history. Rain knocking out power and trees and flooding roads. Lets go to maryland west of baltimore. Knee deep flash flood water rushing through the streets. A local ymca flooded out. Three feet of water there. The car in this photo we will show you totalled. Heres the owner. I really didnt know that flash flood meant quick rain, everything. It looked like a freaking river. This is a prelude to Hurricane Joaquin. Where will it hit . Lets get to meteorologist pedram javaheri. Good morning. The latest update from the National Hurricane center in the last few minutes. The changes in the forecast that we touch on with the category three. The rainfall potential through the roof in the turks and caicos and bahamas at this hour. It is strengthening in the next several hours. Beyond that, the track shifted to the east. This is good news when we see hope
Syrias bloody war. Welcome to our viewers in the u. S. And around the world, im lynda kinkade, and this is cnn newsroom. Its 2 00 in the morning in the small town of roseburg, oregon, the scene of americas latest mass killing. Were learning more about the victims who were students and a teacher at Umpqua Community college. They ranged in age from 18 to 67 years old. They lived in or near roseburg. During a News Conference on friday, the Douglas County sheriff revealed their names. The victims are lucer Lucero Alcarez of rose frozen roseburg, 19 years old. Quinn glen cooper of roseburg, 18yearsold. Kim saltmarshdietz of roseburg, 59 years old. Lucas ibel of roseburg, 18yearsold. Jason dale johnson of winston, 33 years old. Lawrence levine of glide, 6 years old. Mr. Levine was the teacher. Serena dawn moore of her te o myrtle creek, 44 years old. Trevon taylor anpak of southern land, 20 years old. Rebekah ann carnes of her telecreek, 18yearsold. Each of the victims the sheriff listed hav
Suddenly he will change. Florida and ohio are the home states of the third and fourth candidates in the delicate count. Both are promising and will need home. You know whats the great thing about politic as soon as the reason we watch it because whats true today is not necessarily true tomorrow. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. I believe in the end of this process we will make the right choice. God will bless america gods hand are on this country and the great stadays are yet to come. Rubio is trailing in florida. Their primaries is tuesday. This is the first time i have ever gotten a report on a debate and got eerie candidate in. Thank you very much. Rich was just discussing on last nights debate stage the republican candidates really dialling it back. Did it help or hurt any of them for next weeks political primary. We have republican strategist and former aid for palin campaign. Who won and who lost . We are going to ask our experts. We have people with their opinions on twitter. Wh
Wait until you hear how virginia will determine balance of power in that bellwether state. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im Christine Romans. Im dave briggs. This just in, joe biden has finally stopped praising the president. I think he had to sleep at some point, so its just now came to a close. Thursday, december 21st, 4 00 a. M. In the east, 6 00 p. M. In seoul, its 11 00 a. M. In jerusal jerusalem. Well check in there shortly. First, the republicans taking a victory lap, passing their tax reform, tax cut bill, which now awaits the president s signature, but in touting the bill as a huge tax cut, the president himself made what could be a serious tactical error, admitting the measure was just as much about gutting obamacare. The individual mandate is being repealed. So in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform, we have essentially repealed obamacare. We didnt want to bring it up. I told people specifically, be quiet with the Fake News Media becaus