As well as your backyard. It is monday, so they will try to stump me with my mystery guest. We will see if they can do so. But first, headlines from carol massar. The big headline today was the continued drop in u. S. Stocks. The s p 500 losing more than one percent. The index now at a three week low that has erased the benchmark game for the entire year. Coke Industries Run by the Koch Brothers and Goldman Sachs are near buying flickr group for cvc from cvc capital partners. Deal may be announced as early as this week. And consumer borrowing in the United States rising more than forecast in the month of february. The 16. 5 billion dollar credit exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg Survey of economists. Back over to you. Mergers and acquisitions. Over 400 billion so far this year in the United States. Today, five deals each worth more than 1 billion an ounce today. One of them involves a group that agreed to acquire alabama gas from energen. About 1. 3 billion in cash. Joining me now
Major League Baseball postponed tonights game. A live look at the coliseum right now. They postponed it because the field was flooded. The as say the grounds crew forgot to put a tarp on. Gerard moncure joins us from the coliseum. Another strange incident with the franchise that wants to leave the stadium. You dont hear about these type of things often. The as were riding a wave of momentum, coming off an exciting victory over the mariners last night. But all that came to a screeching halt this evening without a pitch being thrown. After a 30minute field day and then postponement. The infield tarp, mistakenly was not laid on the field after oaklands victory thursday evening. With overnight rains coking an already damp coliseum grass, neither team was able to play ball. Our grounds crew worked tirelessly to get the field ready. Unfortunately, after we met with the managers and the umpires, it was deemed that the field was not going to be ready to be played on tonight. I think everybody
Stump me with my mystery guest. My producers. We will see if they can do so. But first, headlines from carol massar. Pimm, thank you so much. The big headline today was the continued drop in u. S. Stocks. The s p 500 losing more than one percent. The index now at a three week low that has erased the benchmark game for the entire year. Coke Industries Run by the Koch Brothers and Goldman Sachs are group deal with flint from cvc capital partners. The deal may be announced as early as this week. And consumer borrowing in the United States rising more than forecast in the month of february. The 16. 5 billion dollar credit exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg Survey of economists. Pimm, those are some of the top hedlines at this hour. Back over to you. Mergers and acquisitions. Over 400 billion so far this year in the United States. Today, five deals each worth more than 1 billion an ounce today. One of them involves a group that agreed to acquire alabama gas from energen. About 1. 3 billi
Good morning, im claudine wong. Rosemary, you told us that the weather would be cooler yesterday. I still cant complain. It was nice, outside, outdoors, breezier yesterday, giving you a live look outside the door this morning. More of the same or slightly cooler for some today with a mix of sun and clouds on out there this morning. Bringing in the on shore breeze and the cooler flow helping to mix out the marine layer. Not as widespread out there this morning though. This will continue to deepen with partly cloudy skies as temperatures will remain right above what we have had on saturday, but some may take an additional bit for afternoon. Outside your door right now in oakland, 52 in napa areas into the east bay, youre looking at the lower 50s. 51 for lafayette right now and the afternoon highs for today a cool breezy day for the coast once again. And the low 60s in San Francisco and upper 60s to the near 70 degrees right around the bay. The inland locations where they warmed up into t
Amy hollyfield is in San Francisco. Katie marzullo is in los altos. That is where the president is headed to the second event. Katie marzullo . The situation here is changed in the last few minutes. You can see two protesters, a much larger crowd moments ago but the group got word that president obamas motorcade would not be coming past this location at the parknride at 280 so they decided to head to the actual location of the fundraiser. The larger group that is here, and there are two groups protesting here originally, they wanted the president s attention on Net Neutrality opposed to the large entertainment provider getting Faster Internet Service and slowing it down for individuals. It was created by the people and it should be for the people. I dont think obama is keeping his promise when he said that he was for free and open internet by appointing tom wheeler as the commissioner he is turning his back on the people. We want to say thousand is what we want. The Smaller Group on th