Guess whos here. Thats jim cantore. This is jim cantore, mr. Weather man himself. Hes got the whole thing, thank you. You did very well. Thank you very much. So did you. He told me it was going to be very hard to make snow balls in this weather, right . I did. Andrew too dry. Andrew, we cant wait to see you back here. Have a safe trip back. That does it for us. Squawk on the street starts right now. Appreciate it. Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee, with jim cramer and Carl Quintanilla and david faber. How are we poised to start the friday morning session. Right at the open, the s p 500 looking to add to fiveyear highs at this point. Looking at about six points. As for europe, gdp figures in the uk nearing a tripledip recession. Capping off a big week for the nikkei, up almost 3 for the week. Our road map this morning, dow taking aim at a new record high on track for the best january since 1997. The s p also poised for its longest winning streak since
This morning defended the way hisses change defended the outage. He added that he was, quote, proud of the fact that we had an orderly close. Guys, heres how its playing on the front page of paper it is people have not seen. Nasdaq in fresh market failure is the way the journal puts it across the top of the fold. Nasdaq paralyzed by technical breakdown is the ft. And then, jim, usa today, wall street yawns as nasdaq goes dark. I thought that was the most cogent of all. No one really cared. Bob said everything was good. They did a great job. Its fine. I want to let people know we speak with people around here. They all scoffed and laughed at that. Bob said what he did. I felt what i felt which was that the lack of communication was terrible. I had the unfortunate moment where i had to be on air and had to try to speculate. The way you cut back on speculation is to come out and say, guys, heres what we think is happening. We were all stuck trying to speculate because the communication wa
First case of ebola in new york sending futures lower. Is wall street finally giving up on amazon . It was a big mix. Head winds bring worries to that stock. The company poised to open down over 10 . Value in proctor or ford or ups . Those companies in the green this morning after reporting earnings, as well. Futures are moving lower to the down side after lows of the morning amid concerns about new york citys first ebola case. A doctor tested positive for the virus after treating ebola patients in west africa. Some of the gains from thursdays rally were pared back where the doctor was being tested, dr. Craig spencer at bellevue hospital. Had been at guinea. A lot has been written about where he was, that he went bowling, he rode the atrain. We knew we would be dealing with this in some city at some point. Right. I think one of the reasons why i feel if we werent in new york we would be saying, i dont know what new york is thinking. Didnt we just have four people who lived with the lat