Two, somebody did get hurt. He has a fractured leg. That said, one guy not pulling any punches at all over what should happen to chase utley is his honor, mayor bill de blasio. He can appeal all he wants. Hes guilty as sin. This is a tackle. I didnt get to watch the game live. I didnt stay up that late. I woke up in the morning and went on mets. Com and theyre saying look at this controversy. I watched the tape. He was astounded. It wasnt close. It was a tackle. It was illegal. It was sickening. Russ ive got a feeling that the mayor of l. A. Has a different take on it than mayor de blasio. Thats it from here. Nothing left to do but play ball tonight. Back to you. Dari without a doubt. Thank you, russ. As you can imagine, baseball fans have plenty to say about that slide. Steve thats right. Mac king joins us to show us how fans think the league should deal with the controversy. As soon as the internet learned he did break his leg, social media exploded. We have a couple here mets fans w
It was not meant. That is the crazy part. Reporter 24yearold daughter was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Police say she was shot and killed as she left the nightclub in the Flatiron District at 4 00 this morning and she was not the tinneded target. She was not the intend target. My first borne, now i got bury her. Report she celebrate her birthday. The gunman was at the nightclub and had gotten kicked out a short time earlier. He told the bouncers he was going to the door get the gun and he did just that and returned and opened fire as two other women just happened to be leaving the club. I dont know what they did to him to make him go into a rage and hit get a gun. Reporter the shooting is a shock to people who live and work in this trendy neighborhood but Police Believe Surveillance Video will lead them to the killer. In the meantime, a college grad it a leaves behind a 3yearold son. How am i going to explain this to tim . Going to wake up and no mom. Reporter now sadly, one y
Minutes. 30 dropping as much as as much as 13 since the last earnings. We are about one hour away from the close of trade. I want to head to the markets we have the latest on this rally now driven by oil. Ramy it always has been driven by oil. We are still very much into the green, looking at what is happening with the doubt of by 1. 6 . Is the 13th out of 16 sessions it is seeing triple digit gains this year. The s p 500 is up and the nasdaq is up but we are clearly seen a turnaround after the selloff we did see on monday. Consumer confidence came in better than expected and, as we were talking about or earlier , oil is on the ball. Oil is up but off its session highs, off by 3. 4 . There trading at above annual 31 and . 39. Dive into my bloomberg terminal. Want to show you some interesting correlations happening as well as wti crude. You can follow the white line and the green line, which is wti crude. They are all following each other. They just cannot get away from each other, basi
Before the house committee. That was just two weeks ago things gotten worse in the past two weeks, does that make you nervous, scott . You know what . It is not making me nervous because i think i felt this way for two or three months now ever since retailers came in weak over christmas. Here is where we sit. We have a fed that will be trying to taper. Theyre tapering not because the economy can handle it. Were in a soft patch. They will taper because it is failed economic policy. If they stop the taper that send another bad signal and market could tumble pro there, that reads into the fact that the fed sees something worse than we actually think. So were in a very precarious spot right now. Melissa so what do you think she should do . Well, this is what i think is pogue to happen. I think we try to put qe out of there to inflate our way out of the problem to get some growth. We didnt buy any growth. Melissa right. 2 1 2 gdp, that definitely didnt happen and we definitely didnt get inf
Changes, insurers are facing competition. Well focus on a hospital thats not only offering care, but also Insurance Plans that cover it. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for monday, february the 24th. Good evening, everybody. Im Bill Griffeth in for tyler mathisen. Im susie gharib. What a way to kick off a new week on wall street. Stocks rallied with the s p 500 even setting a new record high. Investors were in a bullish mood thanks to optimism over the latest round of corporate deal making including netflix striking a deal with comcast. Well talk more about that subject in a few minutes. Now, here is a look at the closing numbers on wall street today. The dow rose 104 points, up almost 200 points but pulled back. The nasdaq added 29 and s p gained 11 points to 1847. Now that the average is on pace to end the month of february higher, the National Association for business economics is wondering whether stocks will climb if Economic Growth slows down. Steve liesman a