Melissa happy friday to you. I am melissa francis. Lori and i am lori rothman. We will tell you how to protect your investment. Melissa how worried is business . U. S. Chairman joins us in just a few minutes. Lori boeing 787 dream liner is safe. If boeing stock safe for your portfolio . Melissa if your new years resolution is to get in shape, this one will hurt. The gym membership, at that price, they better be working out for me. [ laughter ] all right, time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. Lauren a sibling that he is standing by. Stocks struggling today. Holding this titrating pattern for much of the session. The dow is up seven points. Energy is flat. Lets take a look at wells fargo. Profits hit a record high. That is good. They are not doing as many mortgages. They are the nations biggest lender. You can see it is down by one and a quarter percent. Cheryl how did last years drought play out . Jeff it was pretty wild in here today. Five of the past six years, this has been
Imus in the morning one month after sandy hook. Where are we now . The gun debate, the big issue as we start the new week. Good morning, everyone. Several developments, a breakin at a home where a newspaper had published the name and address of a gun owner. Gun sales soaring, protests at gun shows. A senator calls for a voluntary sales halt and maybe a power grab. Gun control Via Executive order. All right, power grab number two, nancy pelosi says the president should byPass Congress and invoke the constitutions 14th amendment. That would be a blank check for the the oval office. Power grab three, its smartphones, the galaxy and the lumia make big moves, and apple stock sinks to right around 500. Varney company about to begin. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods first day of work. And his new boss told him twongs cook what you love, and save your money. Joe doesnt know it yet, but hell wk his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and me
I can tell you from talking to police, there are still incidents going on in this city at this very moment. There was a lot of chaos that happened in different pockets im told across the city even before the curfew because, remember, there was a curfew, 8 00 in new york city even before that was in place there was violence happening amidst all the protests. This is an example. I can tell you that if you were a business that didnt have wood boarded up, you pretty much were going to get hit by looters at some point within the evening. I do want to talk about that, incidents where theyre being attacked by these looters, by these criminals. Its kind of disturbing. It shows essentially at 12 45 in the bronx. The Police Sargeant is now in serious condition in the hospital with a head injury but other injuries. He is stable. Thats not the only incident of a hit and run. One happened in the west village. Were still waiting to get that number. More than 200 people arrested. If you look over her
Got reprimanded and dinged and punished over and over and over again. His lieutenant wrote him up for failure to supervise saying he should have gone to the scene of an incident to supervise officers under his command. A few weeks later the same sergeant was written up again, this time for allegedly entering incorrect codes on some payroll documents. Then they sprung an impromptu drug test on him with no warning, telling him he was being drug tested that very day, had to take it within two hours. Then they revoked his access to the policeissued vehicle that hed been given to be his takehome car on the police force. When they revoked his takehome car, two other sergeants from the Police Department showed up at his house to take the car away from him and he says to stand over him with their hands on their pistols as they watched him clean the vehicle out with his hands. Then after that the county decided the sergeant should be transferred away from the district where he worked which is r
Punished over and over and over again. His lieutenant wrote him up for failure to supervise saying he should have gone to the scene of an incident to supervise officers under his command. A few weeks later the same sergeant was written up again, this time for allegedly entering incorrect codes on some payroll documents. Then they sprung an impromptu drug test on him with no warning, telling him he was being drug tested that very day, had to take it within two hours. Then they revoked his access to the policeissued vehicle that hed been given to be his takehome car on the police force. When they revoked his takehome car, two other sergeants from the Police Department showed up at his house to take the car away from him and he says to stand over him with their hands on their pistols as they watched him clean the vehicle out with his hands. Then after that the county decided the sergeant should be transferred away from the district where he worked which is right near to where he lived. Mo