sandra: fox news alert and back to the live pictures out of lukeville, arizona, as we top a brand-new hour here. you are seeing the tucson sector, at the center of the most recent migrant surge, seen hundreds of mostly male adult migrants as you see on the screen there, queued up against the border fence. agents are now we are told, john, 200-1 in the field and this as the daily record for encounters was broken last week. remember, john, we were on the air when it happened, over 12,000 migrants hit the border in a single day and all this is coming after record setting 2.4 million encounters in the fiscal year 23 and all time monthly high of over 260,000 in september. i mean, those are numbers, you are looking at it on your screen, this is happening right now, john. john: populations, you know, some of america s largest cities, new york and los angeles aside, you know, you take houston, dallas, philadelphia, boston, places like that, population of one of those big cities c
Good morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Hope you all had a good christmas. Im melissa lee. Were live from the new york stock exchange. Jim cramer has the day off. The latest s p schiller home price report has been released. The results being shown at the bottom of your screen. David blitzer will join us with a closer look at the numbers in just a few minutes. Lets get a check on how were setting up on this day after Christmas Trading session. The dow looking higher by about 15 points. S p looking at about two points at the open. European markets closed on this day after christmas. The uk and france among those celebrating foxing day. We start off with, what else, retail. Dips in spending in the midatlantic and northeast regions. Luxury sales also weak. Were coming off the worst Christmas Eve for the dow since 2006. As the president cuts short his hawaiian vacation to deal with the fiscal cliff, just five days to go until we go over. Threatening both coasts with workers snubbing
And the great show shark tank on cnbc tonight is all about the entrepreneurial spirit that made america great, but government regulations and high taxes may be killing these Small Businesses. Were going to talk to one of the sharks about the whole story. All those stories and much more coming up in the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Were live at 7 00 p. M. Eastern, 4 00 pacific. The Unemployment Benefits all the guarantee in the senate. Will this jobless bill pass the house . President obama gathered his own people for his own push in the white house. Here to report everything lets go to john harwood for all the details on the president and the outlook, good evening. Good evening, larry. It was a surprise vote in the senate breaking ins that filib. The president at that event at the white house acknowledged economic arguments that said extending the economic benefits too long keeps people out of the labor market. H
Good evening, everyone, im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. Insurance commissioners say his obama care champions are creating uncertainty. We need to explore what that means. Republican congressman brad wen cher and Strategy Associates and avik roy, author of how medicaid failed the core. , the Insurance Commissioners had problems with cancellation renewal. The back payment and payment mechanisms on the obama care website has yet to be ruled. Twoweek crunch period. Does that mean well . Kathleen sebelius is the former president of National Association of Insurance Commissioners. I keep youre not going to invite me to this program anymore because i keep asking the same question. Who is advising this president when it comes to how the Insurance Markets work . I dont get these guys. Join the crowd. I get that, too. No quarterback. Brad, let me go to you, congressman. Yesterday we had these revelations from mr. Chow, from the hhs. He says 30 to 40 of the website is not brok is not
Same to you, scott. We start this hour with breaking news for only the fifth time in history. The dow is up triple digits on the first day of trade willing for the new year. Lets see if it holds. Hello and happy 2013 to everybody. Happy 2013, if you are long the market today, im tyler mathisen. Hey, ty. Im becky quick. Republicans dont love the fiscal cliff. Democrats dont love this deal either but wall street does at least for today. Why dont we look at where things stand right now. You will see the dow industrials are up by 223 point. S p 500 up by about 24 and again these markets have been holding this throughout the day. Nasdaq up by 66 points. Gold up by 12. 70 to 1,688 an ounce. Yield is higher up, and lets go live to bob who is live on the new york stock exchange. Bob, happy new year. Happy new year. Er with near what traders called a 90 upside die. 90 of stocks on the upside and volume. Take a look at whats been going on here. I will show you a lot of sectors at highs here. In