Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla the dow is up 61 were going to start with apple again today after that big pivot to services kicking off yesterdays event at apple the arcade, of course, the streaming service, apple tv plus being priced at 4. 99 a month. Julia boorstin joins us with what this means for the likes of netflix, of hulu. The big question is whether apple tv plus costing 5 a month for nine shows at launch will get consumers to drop rival services or having a lower price point consumers will feel not they dont have to choice and will tack on another service the Company Believes most of its customers will see apple tv plus as incremental rather than a substitute for netflix, both in terms of pricing and the smaller amount of content that apple tv plus is offering but news of apple tv pluss lower than expected price hitting rival streamers. While apple shares have gained 3 the past two days, roku is down 8 , disney down 2 , netflix down 1 . Ap
Social media platform has the power to damage our democracy. In a stunning admission, he says russia used faceboo t weaponize information in an effort to divide society. We begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. [ siren ] a tsunami warning has been issued. An earthquake off alaskas coast triggers tsunami warnings. Officials are telling people to move inland and head for Higher Ground. Everybody, get out of your homes and make it to a safe place. Today is a day to celebrate. The continuing resolution to keep the government open is now the law of the land. The great dealmaking president sat on the sidelines. What the president did clearly worked. The Justice Department is trying to locate five months of messages between two fbi officials who worked on special counsel Robert Muellers investigative team. This is inexplicable. There is no excuse for it. A major winter storm from the midwest to the northeast. Snow and freezing rain triggered slidoffs and accidents.
Thing with these totalitarian leaders . Those are the countries in the region that can be helpful as we move forward. President trump floats a meeting with north koreas kim jongun. This isnt just a case of looking the other way on duterte or putin. This is an american president showing specific appreciation for their brutality. Its trying to bring the dictator to the table and get rid of the nukes. Nobody is safe. Whos safe. The guy has nuclear weapons. Mayday rallies in some cities around the world turned combative. Get out of the street. This is a historic flood. More heavy rain and flooding expected in the already waterlogged central u. S. Flash flooding is the biggest concern over the saturated ground. Its a disaster and we can save what we can. Tragedy struck the heart of university of texas. In austin multiple people stabbed. One person is in custody. Its hard to feel safe to be quite honest. A neighborhood dispute in dallas turned into a shooting that left a paramedic critically
3 Million People would be without power as the storm hits, so thats absolutely one of the big threats in addition to the cause of the power, the downed power lines, seeing f iing foot the power lines going down and look and sound like fourworks. Thats the fireworks the storm is bringing at this point, leaving people without power and with a threat. You know, the governor yesterday night mentioning that people really need to stay away from the standing water yeah. Governor calling it a monster of a storm trying to warn as many people. Lauren lyster live in the hurricane zone, lauren, thank you. One of the things lauren mentioned is the power going out. I mean, it moves much beyond this storm. Dealing with the affects of this weeks and weeks and moments to come, so a big long road ahead for a lot of folks. Also, as we mentioned at the top of the show, its not just the people in florida that are been cancelled across the country, so its a nationwide impact and will impact tomorrow, ft. La
It could total upward of 100,000 a day. Theres been a report that kims famous personal bodyguard Pascal Duvier filed for bankruptcy back in july with 1. 2 million and then pascal deleted all of the references to kim hiial media which had a lot of people wondering if he was fired. Ive been in touch with pascal. He told me it was his Security Company that filed for bankruptcy, not him personally. Also, we are told kim in no pointing out that he is always thieves with guns . The heist would have played out the same way. . the one thing that will be changing is kim and her use of social media. My source is telling me today at break from everything including work and posting her ai kim realizes thatthe way she he instagram could have been a factor in all of this and maybe she shouldnt have flaunted it that in the future. . Come on, every single detail of her life is part of kims dna. Howl cutting back on social media change her reported 150 million brand . In some ways it can elevate her br