This is on the money. Now, becky quick we begin with microchip implants a Wisconsin Technology company is offering workers the chance to toss their employee i. D. Card and forget all the passwords, in exchange theyll insert a tiny microchip under the skin would you do it . Thats todays cover story chipping in. It wasnt the Traditional Office party. Last week in wisconsin, threesquare market, a provider of selfservice break room vending machine offered to microchip its employees. More than half of the 80 workers voluntarily agreed to get chipped. It hurt a little bit. But its not bad they each let the company insert a 00 microchip, the size of a grain of rice, right into their hand. Thats where it was inserted right there, i got mine done yesterday and i was scared to death. I thought it was going to hurt like crazy, and it was nothing the device allows door access for employees to enter the building, sign into their computer and pay for snacks. It replaces passwords, i. D. Badges and c
Goes. The european markets you ask, how did they fare . Lets take a quick look here. Theyre all in the red, though. Not too bad. As for the tenyear note yield and crude oil, the tenyear note inching up from yesterday and crude below 50 just hanging in there, wti down a little more than 1 . Lets get to our road map this morning. The ecb leaving Interest Rates unchanged and were live in vienna as opec leaders are set for a big meeting on production levels and teslas musk saying we could see an apple car by the end of the decade. Mario draghi holding a meeting now. He said he sees inflation likely to remain low or negative and sees the European Economic recovery proceeding at a moderate but steady pace. Nothing too surprising here, jim. Some are awaiting details on their ability to buy Corporate Bonds kicks in. Perhaps details will be shared there on what the plans are there, if any. Oil prices having moved up, the euro having moved lower seen as a positive but theyre still not really get
First day. Different story for valeant. The pharma giant taking it on the chin on a report by a short seller. Western digital buying sandisk. The tech stocks that could be next on the chopping block for the next to be acquired. And scott wapner just talked with carl icahn. Hes taking his activism to a whole new level and realm targeting Corporate Tax reform. But we begin with the red hot ipo of the day, shares of ferrari are revving higher on their first day of trading. A bit of a rally in stocks overall. Were sitting at 12,290 but just earlier today we cracked above that 17,300 mark for First Time Since the august flash crash. It seems like were tracking for the best percentage gains since october of 2011 for the dow and the s p, bob. S p is up 6 for the month. A little bit of a stealth rally. Really tina there, is no alternative, no other places to put your money right now. I want to start with the ferrari ipo. 48 to 52 was the price talk. It priced at the top at 52. It opened at 60.
Plus, after the purge. We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the constitution. Congresswoman liz cheney defiant after her ouster from Republican Party leadership and with a promise. I will do everything i can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office. This, as some who sought a removal try to justify it by rewriting history. You would think it was a normal tourist visit. Ill talk to two republican members of the house about this divide. Dan crenshaw of texas and Adam Kinzinger of illinois. Gas pains. Were out of gas. Gas lines for the First Time Since the 70s. A big ransom payment. How safe are we from the next sieb cyber attack . Joining me for insight and analysis, nbc news chief White House Correspondent kristen welker. Former democratic congresswoman donna edwards. New york times chief White House Correspondent peter baker and republican strategist, brendan buck. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in wash
The worst natural disasters from haiti to katrina and others. How does this compare right there on the ground in tacloban to what youve covered before . Reporter its, the death toll is smaller. We dont know the official death toll. Nobody really knows because there is no actual search for those who have died. Theres no accounting for those who have died at this point. In haiti, you had hundreds of thousands of people who died in portauprince alone. But in terms of actual devastation, this entire area is just gone. The houses that were here are largely gone. And people have nowhere to go. There isnt electricity. There isnt food. There isnt water. Its not as if theres neighbors that they can fall back on. So its always hard to compare one to another. Certainly, for the people here, its the worst thing thats ever happened to them and the worst thing that ever will happen to them. There are families, there are mothers having to sleep neared bodies of their dead children, having to smell th