Dysfunction, does that make you feel any better about the path forward . I think the u. S. Is on a pretty good path. We probably will have less political dysfunction this year. For a variety of reasons. Everyone was a loser from last year. It isms of job us itself, a fascinating place. You run into so many people from all over the world. It saves travel. Davos is a savings opportunity. Is an economical use of time. When you meet people privately, it is 15 minutes or half an hour. You can transact a lot of business. You can learn a lot. That point, people talk about the usefulness of private equity firms. That is a reed or a brahman or of what is happening in the economy. From yourhat you get portfolio contrast or compared to what you hear from people here . Were in indicator. We operate all over the world. We tend to outperform and do better. We see the same kinds of stuff directionally. The u. S. Is doing well. Were doing quite well in europe. A lot of people were scared to buy real e
Results which just came out a few moments ago. Comp sales down. There were expectations for a slight gain for comp sales. Julie hyman has more of the largest restaurant chain. The golf continues to struggle. You know a lot about the company having gone inside mcdonalds. They have been expanding their menu and tried to get their value opposition right and have been having a lot of trouble with that in recent months. In fourth quarter, comparable one 10 of ay percent. Analysts were looking for a gain of half a percent. Worse. U. S. , things were it is a larger drop that had been estimated. Europe was worse, asiapacific, middle east africa, all of these regions were worse. Now the company says it will try to return cash to shareholders and if it cant get its intercept it will help things out by giving shareholders a little cash. It will return 5 billion to shareholders through dividends and buybacks over the course of the year. That is the authorization that the company is giving. In the
This morning of the kron4 morning news. An Apartment Fire near San Francisco state least two people injured. The firefighter that extended six floors up. a man wanted dead in a San Francisco garbage chute over night. What police dont think he was the victim of foul play. and what a veteran sheriffs deputies saying after seeing the study sideshow on you too. The kron4 morning news starts now. new this morning. A fire in an apartment near San Francisco state sent to people to the hospital. It happened just after midnight on the sixth floor of the building on cambon drive. Firefighters say the fire is under control. They put the fire out just before 1 00. The two people were hurt in the fire were taken to hospital. We do not know there conditions this morning. also new this morning, San Francisco police are investigating the death of a man at a motel. His body was found in the motel desk tisch motels garbage chute. This was of valencia street in the mission between 19th and 20th streets.
Im on the edge of glory and miracle on ice, part two. The u. S. And russia poised for an epic rematch. The american team, the underdogs, now hours before they take the ice, team usa reveals just how eager they are for the highstakes faceoff. Good morning, america. And good morning, america. Happy valentines day, everyone. Lets take a look at the u. S. Men getting their medals yesterday. It was such a clean sweep in slopestyle. There they are, joss christensen, Gus Kenworthy and nick goepper. They are stoked. Remember why they won the meda medals. Slope style. Great guys, too. Its always makes it easier to root had theyre that good. The story affecting millions over here right now. Look at this map. Released by twitter showing where the tweets include the word snow. So many people oh, thats the u. S. , i see it now. Thats the northeast, everybody. I see. Thats it. So many people needing help during the storm. This photo going viral of a firefighter helping a woman out of harms way and k
Question. Why isnt adam schiff saying, yeah, lets go look at it . Instead just like yesterday when he said hell go look at it. Let me finish. He was almost about to sign the invitation for comey to come testify, but suddenly, there are stipulations. There was no reason to have stipulations. Same thing today. He was invited jack, youre rewriting jack, youre rewriting history. Stipulations, what are you saying let me answer the question. I know this not because ive talked to him, but because ive read the documents and read the public reporting which you can read as well and you probably already know, which is that he was willing to sign the letter. In fact, he said today, hes willing to have comey and rogers come in behind closeddoors testimony, but he also wants a guarantee that clapper, that yates, and others are going to testify openly and that hasnt been assured. Even today, he still hasnt gotten assurances from nunes thats going to occur. And jack, let me also ask you, if you were d