With two giant surprises a little later here. But we begin with that unwelcome storm. The brutal cold snap across the midwest and sweeping south tonight. 200 million americans will feel this. Just look at the wall. This is the view through this drivers windshield in michigan tonight. Whiteout conditions across several states. There was a narrowing moment in minnesota. Youre about to see an officer who pulled over to help a driver when a tractor trailer comes barrelling in. Just incredible there. Luckily, no one was hurt. But a real reminder of the changers of winter driving. The deep freeze will sent temperatures 30 degrees below normal all the wail down to the gulf. We begin with abcs alex perez in the middle of the storm. Reporter the mild west, taking a beating tonight. Marquette, michigan, buried under more than two feet of snow. And still falling. Drivers venturing out to find covers and slick roads. Those powerful snowstorms heading east today. In wisconsin, some places seeing mo
President our country has ever had. He also said he wrote the book because he wanted to be part of the process of reassessing his fathers presidency. Asked about another bush presidency, he said absolutely, his brother jeb should run. Stocks on the major asian markets moving higher following wall street to new highs with their slightest of gains yesterday. Both the dow and s p 500 once again opened this morning at record levels. One analyst says he expects stocks to continue trending sideways to up for the rest of the year while concerns grow about potential Interest Rate hikes. The maker of hellmans mayonnaise known as best in foods is suing a California Company that uses the word mayo in its name. Unilever says the plantbased product just mayo is anything but since mayonnaise is defined by federal regulators as a spread that contains eggs. Market creek denies its trying to mislead consumers. All right. Now to a health headline. About the most popular diets. A new report analyzing doz
155 points s p up nasdaq gaining. Even though its largely because of the news that greece and the eurozone have reached some sort of agreement on the terms of a bailout to deal with the greek financial crisis. Heres the thing. You better have your biolist ready monday in case it sells off after realizing this greek deal is a total kick the can four months down the road copout. It doesnt solve anything and frankly really isnt even a done deal. So what will we be looking at next week . Whats the game plan . Were still in earnings season with a heavy emphasis on retailers. My favorite stocks. The ideal for cheaper gasoline and colder weather. What else . Inquisitive Companies Might tantalize us with ideas. Monday morning we hear from a company with a stock with a magnificent move. I think its not over. Im talking dish network run by this wily charlie ergen. I bet well hear about deals involving cable cam bows and well likely hear the upbeat tone. I feel sad about some of the combinations
Well meet again dont know where this is the cbs morning news for friday, december 19th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Officially they have stopped blaming north korea but sources tells the cbs news the fbi has tracked the hacker barackin to the government. The options are limited. Meanwhile anger over sonys decision to cancel the release of the movie at the heart of the issue is growing. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. There is widespread outrage over sonys decision to pull this christmas film from celebrities in hollywood to law firms here on capitol hill. The white house is considering its options which appear to be few, while Companies Across the globe are trying to figure out how they can avoid becoming the next hacking victim. Companies around the world are now on high alert after a crippling cyber attack against sony. Federal investigators are said to have traced the attack to n
Oil, its otherwise difficult to nail down any other real interpretation for todays positive action. Where the dow roared 184 points s p climbed 1. 09 and the nasdaq fell 1. 92 , breaking a manyday streak to the down side. Ive got another explanation. Bear with me. The one i gave you last night apple. Remember, i said if apple bottoms, we bottom. Because this weeks selloff really accelerated with the decline and fall of the best of the best. Apple came back to life right on schedule after three days of selling from that huge quarter and its monster 3. 80 rally, emboldened people to buy all things tech. And with the help of an amazing quarter from gilead all things biotech, too. I dont think were out of the selling woods, because were in a conundrum here. Most of the year, investors have favored the stocks of the Companies Just doing business in u. S. That makes sense since they dont sell overseas and werent hurt by the fall of the u. S. Dollar. But in april, the same stocks lost their t