Good monday morning, everyone. We had a big night on abc. The finale of American Idol, one that we have never seen before. We had amazing performances, and we had a surprise winner, i think. Actually, i really havent been following it. It seems like people were surprised. Tell me more. I did watch the final minutes. I like to watch the final, the final final of a final. Right. I watched those final minutes and people seemed really surprised, i dont know. She sounded amazing. I believe it was elon musk, dont quote me on this one, he says theres a 1 in 1 billion chance we are living in augmented reality. Oh, goodness. Do you think we are . Are we here . Is this real . Oh yes. You know what, we dont have time for that discussion right now because there are a lot of things i would do if we were living in some augmented reality. Lets get to the latest developments in this pandemic. The country is closing in on another staggering milestone with the death toll expected to hit 90,000 today. Th
While we here in america think we discover and invent and improve faster than any of them. Unquote. I think maybe when he said that, lincoln recognized he was on thin ice. He said they may think this is arrogance but they cannot deny that russia has called on us. In other parts of asia, they scarily know that such things as steam boats and railroads exist. In anciently inhabited countries, the dust of ages, a real down right old fogyism, there he is again, seems to settle upon and smotherter intellectual energies of man. While neither appreciating them, lincoln like many 19th century nationalists pandered to his audience while talking about the virtues of the United States. At the expense of degrading other people, it was lincolns decision to convince his fellow countrymen that they would be next on the great stage of history. And it was a successful strategy to flatter voters into thinking about the ascend into National Prom negligence. But lincoln did put his money where his mouth wa
They were down yesterday on the weakness on the dollar. You can see this morning theyre back up by 1. 5 . Wti sitting just below 39. U. S. Crude stockpiles grew last week by 2. 6 Million Barrels. Thats less than the 3. 3 Million Barrels analysts had expected. A couple big stories this morning. The economical dar. A lot going on. Were going to get an early read today on fridays job numbers. Economists expecting an increase of 200,000 private sector jobs for march. Following that data, chicago fed president Charles Evans is going to join us here on the set in a cnbc exclusive interview. Also, an update on the fight between apple and the fbi. It aint over yet. A california judge has officially vacated the order asking apple to assist the fbi in hacking into that iphone of the San Bernardino terrorist. Nbc now reporting an Israeli Company is the firm that provided the tool. The fbi now owns proprietary rights to the method used to get into that device. Also reports out that they signed a c
Spring training in arizona is over. We will talk about the bay bridge series, the start of baseball season is around the corner. We look forward to that. Brian is out at at t park this morning to talk about the new things that we will notice. Reporter the baseball season does not officially get underway until next week but there is a lot of anticipation. In terms of what fans will notice. Food, safety improvements, rules. As for tonight, the last games for the as and giants before the season starts back for players and fans who use chewing tobacco or smokeless tobacco, people use it inside the park, they will be breaking the law. An ordinance banned smokeless tobacco. Most of the members of the giants told mercury news they will comply with the law but they dont agree with it. Firsttime offenders can be fined up to 100 and 254 second violation. They plan to post signs leading the fans know about the role of gov. Brown signed into a law a similar bill going into effect next year. I am t
Yellen said that the central bank is in no rush to raise interest rates. And that powered a stock market rally around the globe continuing today. And resulted in the dow industrials gaining 83 points to 17716. The nasdaq added 22 and the s p 500 rose nearly 9. The president of the chicago fed agrees with the fed chair. In an interview today, Charles Evans said a rate hike in april would be surprising. I think chair yellen laid out all the right issues, you know, coming out of december going into the march fomc, risk factors increased a bit, financial volatility, things settled down a bit. I think global risk is higher. The median is for two hikes this year. If the data come in the way were expecting. If they come in stronger, everybody would adjust upwards. Evans added the potentially moving in june that decision would be made on the basis of further improvement in the labor market but emphasized he didnt want to get ahead of himself. And there was more evidence today the job market is