pass, texas where a record 12,600 migrants have crossed in a single 24-hour period. there s never been more. write it down in pencil. desperate times apparently call for desperate measures. wait till you hear what texas is doing now because it says washington is doing nothing now. we are now. you know, the numbers are staggering. they keep changing day by day. another record, another day. these are numbers heretofore thought impossible to get to. that you couldn t possibly get anywhere near them. but so be it. fox s bill melugin is at the southern border of what is behind the wave and what they re doing to address the wave. bill? neil, the situation at the southern border has gotten so bad that multiple sources tell me that federal bureau of prisons personnel have been sent down here to help border patrol with transportation of illegal immigrants. the bureau of prisons confirming this. they are providing transportation resources and they tell me the resources are limited. w
talking. the secretary price understands in washington, sometimes they can t let a cry it is go. pleasure to see you. amen. charles: happy to see you. hanpy new year. happy new year. charles: the dow jones industrial average moved closer to 37,000. the nasdaq did the exact opposite. it got shellacked. gary kaltbaum is here with us. the value names on the dow shot higher. the high flying tech names, the gadget names got crushed. what s going on? the growth names have been in trouble for a while. the last couple days for lack of a better word, they ve been obliterated as interest rates have moved higher that is giving the impetus for the stuff, the things that are comatose like financials and energy, auto stocks. ford breaking out of multiyear highs. that is the place the be.
i m hampton pearson with cnbc market wrap. stocks soar to multiyear highs. dow surges 244 points. s&p jumps 28. nasdaq rises 66. investors cheered the european central bank s agreement on a new bond buying program. on the economic front, applications for first time jobless claims dropped by a stronger than expected 12,000 last week. and private businesses added more than 200,000 jobs to payrolls in august, according to adp. that s it from cnbc. first in business worldwide. now back to hardball. one of the main reasons we ought to reelect president obama is that he is still committed to
you re exposed to sniper positions that are just around the corner on the other side of those buildings. final preparations are under way for a farewell, not to just a pop superstar but a daughter, a mother, a friend. whitney houston s funeral is tomorrow in the church where she sang as a child u the pastor says the service will be personal and dignified. it will also be a gathering of celebrities including houston s god mother, aretha franklin. on the today show, she talked about the difficulty of singing at that service tomorrow. it is not gonna be easy, i can tell you that. it is not gonna be easy, but cissy asked me to and i m just going to try to do my best. do you know what you are going to sing? not really sure right now. not really sure. the dow continues to flirt with the 13,000 mark, extending gains from yesterday s session. alison kosik is watching the action for us at the new york stock exchange. and the president boarding air force one in about an h