Okay. But our message is Crystal Clear this morning on new day. We wont let the fog impact our show. We start with our lead story. That is that President Trump continues to wage war on face masks turning them into a political statement. The president continues to mock joe biden for continuing to wear one in public. Now responding in an exclusive interview with cnn. Hes a fool. An absolute fool to talk that way. I mean, every leading doctor in the world is saying we should wear a mask in a crowd. Also breaking overnight, calls for justice in minneapolis. Hundreds of protesters clashing with police over the death of george floyd. Video shows him pleading over and over again that he couldnt breathe as a Police Officer pinned him to the ground with a knee to his neck for several minutes. Floyd died. The four officers involved have now been fired. This morning, we have new video of the interaction between floyd and police that began this deadly encounter. Well get to that in a moment. First
Good morning. Its tuesday, march 5th, 2013, and squawk box starts right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. I hope this song gets stuck in your head, too. Im becky quick along with joe kernen. Andrew ross sorkin is on assignment today. Our focus this morning is the markets. After yesterdays close at the second highest level of all time, you can see this morning the dow futures are indicated up about 39 points. I believe that is exactly how far away we are from yeah. 38 points from the alltime highs. So well see. If things were to open right now, youd bust through that level right about right now. Well see how things are headed up. The number to watch is 14,164. 53. That is the alltime high that was hit back on october 9th, 2007. The s p 500 nearing records. It is fewer than 50 points away from its record close at 1565. Yesterday, by the way, was the s ps first monday gain of the year. I didnt know that. Dedication to mondays. I wonder what the intraday hig
Culprit earnings in spain, the situation of the Banking Sector across europe, people worry that the Big Decisions havent been taken to stabilize the economy. What the italian election indicates is the anxiety about by people that the mix of policy isnt right. Personally, i think that the euro has been, in one sense, stabilized by the actions of the European Central bank over the past year or so, but as well as the liquidity problem, weve still got a solvency problem, and above all, weve got a growth problem. If we dont get the growth figures up, were in trouble. Thank you for joining us on squawk box on cnbc. Okay. Thank you. Guys, back to you. Michelle, thank you. That was a great interview. Thanks for letting us listen in on that. Folks, make sure you join us on monday with Warren Buffett starting at 6 00 a. M. Eastern time. That does it for us today. Right now its time for squawk on the street. Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee with carl quintanill
Delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. After all, whats the point of talking if you dont have something important to say . All right 37 we tallied our results of the debate earlier and you said mike murphy made the better argument. Final trade time. Joe . I think gold is going to 15. 25. Murph. Titan. Splv, like it. Follow me on twitter. Are we going to make new highs on the dow today . I dont know. No. Halftime is over. Power lunch and the second half of the trading day starts right now. We will get you one hour closer to finding out whether the dow will close at an alltime high here on power lunch. Dow hitting a fresh fiveyear high. It is of course close, close, 75 points distance from its alltime high. So how is the smart money riding this rally . Where are they putting money . Where are they putting it and where do they go from here . We have lots of other stories here. Four smart stocks for this rally. Less than 48 hours to go until the automatic spending cuts go i
Scattered light flurries trying to reach the ground in northern schenn owe douhenandoah valley. East of there, just cloudy. No travel problems weatherwise for the commute. Cloudy and cold in the upper 20s through 8 00, 9 00. A little above freezing. Maybe a few scattered flurries between 8 00 and noon. I dont anticipate that will be sticking on roadways. Well have that, though, just very light flurry activity, maybe increasing a little bit into the afternoon hours. Sunrises at 6 50. The sunset at 5 54. Any wintry mix for coating is not until tonight right now changing to rain. Details on that coming up in ten minutes. A look at traffic now this friday morning with danella. Good morning. Good morning. Well, well start with the rails. If youre taking metro, marc, vre, on time. No delays reported. Lets head over to the roadways. Still very quiet in our area. Taking a closer look if youre traveling along gw parkway north and southbound, you are clear. Crossing over the American Legion brid