i think you re going to want one of these, too. you sit here and knock it. you said the same thing about the blackberry. then you come home, you come back here. i ve driven halfway home and had to come back. there s nothing in my world that i ever had to come back for until the blackberry. it s not fair. you re going to have an ipad, too. just to play brick breaker. in about 15 minutes, we ll alternative to an analyst and find out if there is still more room for this stuff to run. after hours trading session was not as kind to yahoo!. the company posted better than expected q1 earnsing. here is the deal, q1 search revenue fell 14%. yahoo! says larger advertisers are coming back on the display side. we re going to check in with a yoo-hoo analyst in a few minutes, as well. and interesting letter from john paulson looking to reassure investors days after his hedge fund was linked to civil charges. in a letter obtained by cnbc, paulson tells investors his firm s role
send its social secretary to today s hearing, invoking executive privilege. advocates of same-sex marriage have suffered another setback. this time in new york. protesters march around times square last night after state lawmakers resoundingly rejected a bill that would have allowed gay couples to get married. even more disappointing, another shot that changing the law isn t likely until at least 2011 when a new legislature will be installed. one of the nation s largest banks plans to pay back all its federal bailout money. bank of america executives say they will repay the entire $45 billion received. the bank has already made the government more than $2.5 billion. the rest of the t.a.r.p. money should be repaid in a few days. an unbelievable story out of italy. scientists say they have made a major advancement in the development of human robotics. they ve successfully connected an artificial hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensation. he can control the hand w
welcom welcome to world news, tonight from washington. in the headlines, war debate. the obama administration presents its war strategy to a skeptical congress. we will talk with defense secretary gates, the architect of the new plan. deep dismay. tiger woods admits he strayed off-course. take as shot at the media, and mreemds for prif si. off-limits. congress wants answers about the state dinner crashers. the white house sails it s a constitutional problem. and, the remarkable response we ve gotten to last night s story about a family torn apart by aids. good evening. it didn t take long for the battle lines to be drawn over president obama s new strategy for afghanistan. for some seven hours today, two cabinet secretaries and the top military commander answered questions from congress. are 30,000 troops enough? does even that many dig us deeper into war? can an afghan security force be trained as quickly as the president says? and why talk about withdrawing troops
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today s agenda. squawk box begins right now. good morning, everybody. i m becky quick along with joe kernen. carl is off today, but the dow is back above 10,000. that s why we re listening to prince this morning, closing at its highest level sings october 31st of last year. march 29th of 1999 to be exact. yesterday was the 26th time it s cleared that level. 25 of the 30 dow components trading higher on the session. but the dow is still 29% below the record high it hit in july 2007. still, joe, we ve made up better than 50% of the sliding down to the lows of the dow. now we re referring to that as discounting armageddon. we were comfortable at 14,000. and at 10,000 ten years ago dwb it seemed that there were fundamentals that justified 10,000. and, you know, does the dow at 10,000, traders, these traders, whoever they are, traders voice doubt about the bull s staying power. you re kidding, really? they ve been voicing doubt from 8,000. and people innul i like the peopl