Cyber security and heightened security. Our phone lines are open. We are happy to your thoughts on this topic. The numbers are on the screen. You can also catch up with us on social media. A very good thursday morning to you. We begin today with a headline about a 40 planned assault on the United States capitol, this from the Washington Times this morning. An ohio man planted slotted into a tactic capital, saying he wanted to work with islamic state. The fbi and Homeland Security issued a memo notifying lot basement Law Enforcement agencies across the nation about the memo. That story coming during the week british Prime Minister David Cameron is expected at the white house, and in which he is suggesting banning some online messaging apps. Snack chat and whatsapp are in the crosshairs in britain, according snapped chat and whatsapp are in the crosshairs in britain, according to the article. British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about this yesterday when he was questioned during Pr
Contra cost California Transportation Authority last week. They have the new test track for the mercedes Autonomous Vehicle thats going to be located in their county x he said one of the things and he said one of the things in the future, benefits that he sees is that these vehicles could benefit to the county, that these vehicles could go out and detect potholes and immediately transmit the data back to the contra costa or any Transportation Authority so that thered be be a fleet of vehicles that would be communicating information in realtime so that they could maintain the Transportation System better. I just wonder ored from mr. Scribner and mr. Otoole whats your view of that and the cost, also, of transmitting all this data back to a county Transportation Authority. Well, i dont see anything wrong, if he wants to get that information, for him to design an app and upload it to apple and android, and then people can volunteer to download it. If theyre driving on a road thats unusuall
Or shortterm spending bill and that is why over here at the white house theyre sort of bystanders to all of this and the White House Press secretary josh earnest is waiting for republicans to get this done. Republicans made an aggressive case over the course of last year about why the American People should entrust United States congress to Republican Leadership and here we are, seven or eight weeks into their tenure and theyre on the precipice of fall down on the job. Particularly when thats notable when were talking about something as important as funding the department of Homeland Security. You know whos not a fan of a threeweek spending bill for the department of Homeland Security that would be the secretary of dhs, jeh johnson. He said a shortterm continuing resolution exacerbates the uncertainty for my workforce and puts us back in the same position on the brink of a shutdown just days from now. As hes saying in that letter they would have to come back and do this all over again
This as indonesian authorities focus on pin pointing the exact location of airasia flight 8501 officials confirming sonar imagery located wreckage believed to be if the aircraft submerged at the bottom of the java sea. Whats going to be of particular interest is what part of the airplane are there, the wings, the tail just to sort of try to understand whether the plane broke up in flight or remained intact. Other reports suggest the plane may be lying upsidedown according to the wall street journal. On tuesday Recovery Team brings in pieces of debris along with the remains of seven victims. A gruesome task recovering more bodies and identifying them. But some still hold on to hope one woman with six family members aboard tells cnn, theres nothing confirmed with what happened to the passengers and we are still hoping there is a miracle. At the Crisis Center in surabaya surabaya relatives gather for a Prayer Service inside the airport. Next the hunt for clues, answers as to what brought
in squawk booze news, george washington s dry whiskey will soon be on sale at the first president s mt. vernon estate. washington s estate reconstructed his distillery and will make more than 1100 bottles of unaged whiskey using his original recipe. the first bottles will be available beginning april 4th and they will sell for $95 each. that would be a cool thing to pick up at the gift shop there. never told a lie. i think that was a lie. and the dentures, right? i think so. our guest hosts have been david dart and jim keenan. thank you very much for coming in and i hope you ll join me soon. the first part of the show was what you all were saying off-camera. it s funny and it s insightful. thank you for having us. you outed us. squawk on the street begins right now. good morning and welcome to squawk on the street. i m melissa lee and carl quintanilla and jim cramer. david faber is off today. the shiller home price report is just released and t