Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and jocn have the week off. They will be back though joining us this morning as well, walter isaacson. Nice to have him this morning. And a lot to talk about. More red flags for facebook, twitter and other social flat forms. For example this time for former president barack obama in an interview with prince harry, obama warned against the irresponsible use of social media. Take a listen. The dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases the truth is that on the internet, everything is simplified and when you meet people facetoface, it turns out they are complicated. People are comply it ca llic apparently thats what we hear. Twitter and social media and facebook and Everything Else, the question is about regulatory in particular sort of come to mind, not to mention of course the meddling by the rush shacsin the election in 2016 and
Slight enough of that. What reported yesterday. The ftse in london higher by 12 good cac in paris or fractionally. The dax or fractionally. True three in asia you can see the shanghai composite was down almost 20 of the indicated japan is a fairly good open for business in south korea. The hang seng the kospi rather as a type of of the hang seng in hong kong earlier this morning. Trade to do not disturb. The security chain coming to Disney Resort hotels requiring staff to inspect your room daily. Fbn am starts right now. Adam good morning, everybody. One minute after 5 00 a. M. A lot of coffee. Lets just get going. December 27th amendment should peer win for lauren simonetti. Lea im Lea Gabrielle and four. Transferred only to be helped further by our tax code that will be here for companies and jobs for another year of success. He also appears to be setting the tone to work with democrats leading republicans and democrats will eventually come together to develop a new health care plan.
Now. Brent down more than 1 . Natural gas up slightly. Mr. Wonderful and mrs. Wonderful. Are we allowed to say that youre not together, but thats were you watching before yes, i thoughtthat was a great tease. Kayla is mrs. Wonderful. Shes terrific kevins the original. Maybe im lower case w. Weve got a lot of news to talk about this morning. Geely auto has bought an 8 stake in volvo also giving gely the rights. Gely also owns the truck maker volvo started to do much better. Are you guys volvo fans . Ely als. Volvo started to do much better. Are you guys volvo fans . So i always had a volvo growing up im a fan. Kevin, i can tell youre not volvo. Im getting to the place where i think all auto manufacturers are going to make rail cars in 20 years. Because autonomous driving whether its for individuals, trucking, the brand wont matter as much. You dont even know the name of the company that makes all the rail cars. Its a huge company but nobody cares. But you know so tell us i dont know, ac
Good evening. Im denise nakano. Tonight were tracking more dreary weather headed our way. A live look outside, the Kimmel Center in center city, heavy rain will be coming in overnight and could change those sunday morning plans. First alert meteorologist steve sosna is timing out that wet weather. Good evening, denise. If that seems familiar, hearing the words sunday soaker, this is our fifth weekend in a row weve mad some storm bringing rain or snow. Rain on the way for sunday morning. Its in the washington, d. C. Area and it continues to spread towards the north and east. Well look for this rain to fill in overnight. So while not all of us are wet right now, by midnight that rain batch is just to our south and west. You can see what happens to about 3 00 a. M. , rain in the yellows and oranges through philadelphia, the northern and western suburbs. Crystal tomorrow at 5 30 will be showing those heavy downpours in our northern and wear suburbs. Rain will continue for morning hours, th
More rain moving through the area. Lets get a check on the first alert forecast from meteorologist krystal klei who is keeping track of the rain and hopefully sunshine in the near future. Not quite yet. We will see sun returning to the forecast. We want to know when, take a peek at the bottom of your screen. Its not too long away. Look at the radar and satellite. The rain has filled back in a bit since an hour or two ago a areas. The lighter green, the deeper green thats mostly a light to steadier rain. The yellows and oranges are pockets of hea you can see another round, sort of a line from allentown to d. C. Theres a few pockets of heavier rain over burlington and ocean counties and Mercer County as well. These are periodic bursts of heavier rain. Theyre moving pretty quickly. Not one zone is getting pounded for an hour straight, which would lead to flooding concerns. Its maybe ponding on roadways the wind shieshield wipers on full. This has to pass before we can start to dry out, wh