Good morning. The days top stories, the battle of the bull as is s p comes off its first weekly loss of the year. On the global front, european markets are trading nervously amid election uncertainty in italy. And in hollywood, argo stormed to a best picture victory at the oscar hes. Its monday, february 25th, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. I thank everyone on the movie, worked on the movie, did anything on this movie gets thanked. I want to thank canada, our friends in iran living in terrible circumstances right now. I want to thank my wife who i dont normally associate with iran, but i want to thank you. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Were watching the u. S. Equity futures at this hour and right now it looks like there are some green arrows. You can see dow futures up by about 50 points in fair value. S p up by just about 7. Joe mentioned the oscars. He was very excited about this. If yo
Be sent to Vladimir Putin. Is a u. S. Russia proxy war already underway. Senator john mccain joins us live. Then senator Elizabeth Warren. She will not run for president this time, but that doesnt mean she isnt watching the race. Plus, whats her beef with biden and the best Political Team on television will be here with insights from the campaign trail. Hello im jake tapper in washington with some breaking news out of South Carolina where there ask a flood of catastrophic proportions underway. At least 140 people have already been rescued from streets overcome with rain. And emergency workers are trying to free more people trapped in videos. Roads and highways are closed across the street. Lets get to the cnn Weather Center for the latest on this lifethreatening storm. Were looking at some pretty incredible numbers out here. Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 24 inches of rain. Were talking 2 feet just in the last couple of days from this storm. Columbia picking up 18 inches of rain. And th
Senator john mccain joins us live. Then senator Elizabeth Warren will not run for president this time. It doesnt mean she isnt watching the race. Bernie puts up fights. What is her beef with biden . And the best Political Team on television will be here with insights from the campaign trail. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Im jake tapper with breaking news out of South Carolina theres a flood of catastrophic proportions under way. 140 people have already been rescued from streets overcome with rain and emergency workers are trying to free more people trapped in vehicles at this hour. Officials are asking people to stay indoors as roads and highways are closed across the state. At this moment, the storm is hitting columbia, South Carolina very hard. Lets get to the fire chief there Aubrey Jenkins who joins us by phone. This looks like a dangerous situation. What are you seeing in the streets . Caller well, right now were still seeing residue we actually have the residences that are
Yeah, so this is the school behind me. Its about 2,900 students enrolled in the school. Very big school for a residential area. A lot of local notables have gone to the school. Yesterday at 2 30 p. M. It just mayhem was unleashed. The shooter shooting a few people on the outside before going in and thats where it became tricky. That active shooter text went out to the students and the teachers but at the same time he went into the school pulled the fire alarm apparently which got people out of the classes. Were getting these stories from people about the conflict that they were going through. Do they go out or stay in . Theyre hearing the shootings. A lot of students with phones. Weve got images. The whole thing has sent this whole community into shock as theyre learning about this young man who was the shooter. The irony is this community knew a lot about this young man who was the shooter, a troubled young man. Theyre all struggling with this this morning. Well talk more about that i
Giving them a muchneeded moral boost. Key wins in new york city, new jersey, virginia. The virginia race closely watched as a National Referendum on the trump presidency. Lieutenant Governor Northam beat ed gillespie. Democrats looking to build on their momentum as the countdown begins to next years midterm election. Here is more from fairfax, virgin virginia. Reporter Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam and winning in a much earlier evening than expected. They were biting their nails and expecting a very late night, but in the end, thats not what happened. Theyre saying this is an indication of a Bigger Picture of an antitrump sentiment. Ralph northam spoke about that to the crowd here. Virginia told us to end the divisiveness that we will not condone, hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. Reporter still a lot of confidence that democrats across the country are feeling coming out of this virginia governors race. They are definitely looking at the