There is concern that greece may exit the euro. The Prime Minister says that early elections this month will determine the membership. The Opposition Party wants to renegotiate its debt. That could lead to an exit. Oil has resumed its slump. Prices are likely to go lower and crude is down 2 . This is the lowest point since 2009. West texas intermediate is trading at 51. Plans to oil boost exports to a record this month. Pope francis is trying to demonstrate Global Diversity of the church. He has named 15 new cardinals from 14 countries. Hedge fund founder Thomas Gilbert has been killed inside his apartment in manhattan. His 30 rural son was taken into custody after a standoff at his own apartment. Gilbert was 70 years old. We have some breaking news on germany. German inflation was just 0. 1 . The forecast was just above that. Again, the shows there is no inflation in the eurozone region , giving more room for draghi to start quantitative easing. We are going to have more on hans nicho
Most contagious. 75 other Health Care Workers who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan are being monitored for symptoms and clearly, the urgency is growing. Nbcs jay gray is live in dallas with the latest, and a lot of questions and a lot of shock, jay, that this woman got on a plane knowing that she had been exposed. Reporter hey, kris, scott, yeah, a lot of questions unanswered. Youre right, a lot of people frustrated, shocked she would get on the plane, including officials with the cdc. A lot unfolding in this story. Lets touch on whats happening right now. The second patient is in isolation here in dallas right now, but will travel at some point, we believe, today to Emory University hospital in atlanta for treatment. That, of course, is where the first two americans diagnosed with the virus in west africa traveled to and were successfully treated. There is a third patient whos been unnamed thats still being treated at emory and now this patient is on the way, as well, so thats impo
San francisco. Also, some instability with lightning as well. As we get a look overall rainfall totals. Beginning to pick up as well here in north bay. 2 in cloverdale. 1 in ckacalistoga. Radar now. Close in view. Mainly tracking areas of patchy drizzle. Marin, napa, sonoma counties. That will pick up. First part of the storm system. Head out, 3 00, 4 00 in the morning. Scattered showers. Napa. Oakland. San francisco down toward palo alto. Talk mr. Ore about chances of rainfall across san jose. How much this lasts and two systems on the way. Very encouraging. Wind causing havoc early this evening. Take a look. A large tree. Right here. Fell on a parked car. In san jose. This is one of the ebay campuses. Bad news for the car. Thankful l fufully no one was i. Our live coverage begins tomorrow morning at 4 30 on our morning show today in the bay. Fight against yebola reached the bay area. A twist, the dallas nurses are fighting back using a National Union as their voice. The nurses union
All in that all of that and more but first, carol massar. The snow is indeed slamming the northeast. New york city is expected to get 812 inches of snow with the heaviest coming down right now. Andral offices were closed flights were canceled. Ibm report reported a seventh straight sales decline. They cite plunge in demand for hardware. Missed the 28. 3 billion projected by analysts. Texas instruments pricks profit that may miss some estimates. Predicts profits that may miss some estimates. We learned that pimco chief executive officer has resigned. We are joined by julie hyman. Allianz owns pimco and he is stepping down. From his roles that it is unclear what precipitated this although we know have inco has had a tough year. We fixed income industry has generally had a tough time because equities have been the place to be. Treasuries have not. 1. 9, almost 2 trillion of fixed income asset. And enormous company. It looks like he is going to stay at allainz in some capacity. He will adv
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