Welcome to squawk alley for a wednesday. John fort, kayla, and myself at post nine. Founder, editor, and ceo henry do we have a lot to talk about today . A half hour from yellen, but well start with yahoo. Shares rallying after hearing that the wrau hue board is considering selling off the Internet Business. Theyre meeting today to discuss the idea and also meeting with jeff smith, ceo of star lord. Marissa myer, yahoos board reportedly still has her back. According to kara swisher, not considering a change in leadership at this time. She says if marissa myer leaves, it will happen on her terms. What do you think . I thought star word is right. It will be tied up for years. Where would you do this . Maybe consider selling the core business. Yahoo either needs to say to all the activists swirling around, shut up, were not selling anything, back off, goodbye, or get something done quickly and get past it because its just so distracting. Whats hard about this for me, though, is how do you
18 minutes from now, right now were 52 in tampa. Head north to Citrus County and were in the 30s. Chilly temperatures to our north. Citrus county, all the way down to sarasota county. Were looking at high, thin clouds drifting through the area. No rain from these clouds, just, again, persistent, high, thin clouds throughout the day. Throughout your morning, temperatures in the 50s, kind of cool this afternoon, topping off near 70 degrees at 3 00 p. M. Which is where we should be for late january. Candace . All right, bryan, thank you very much. It is the day the bay area has been waiting for, gasparilla. X marks the spot and the place to be is tampa. Hundreds of thousands of pirates are preparing to invade tampa bay today for the historic gasparilla celebration. Mary mcguire joins us live in tampa where the pirates and parade goers are set to be hanging out all day long. Good morning, good morning and happy were just out here enjoying this gorgeous sunrise and the views of beautiful do
57 st. Petersburg, cooler up north. Citrus county, hernd county and lower Hernando County and lower 40s. Kind of a high, thin cloud cover which stretches out into the gulf of mexico. No rain today but well have high, thin clouds. Lets call it generally partly cloudy, a filtered sunshine. This morning, temperatures in the upper 40s this afternoon. Partly cloudy, perfect pirate conditions, light winds, good boating conditions and high near 70 degrees. All in all, looks like a pretty good gasparilla saturday. Thank you very much it is the day the bay area has been waiting for. Gasparilla x marks the spot and the place to be is in tampa hundreds of thousands of pirates are preparing to invade tampa bay today for the historic gasparilla celebration. Mary mcguire joins us now where pirates and parade goers are set to be happening out all day long. Good morning, mary happy gasparilla to you, candace. We are definitely in the calm before the storm right now but we want to show you this gorgeou
Ten minutes headed south. Those are normal drive times. We have news this morn. We know one person did die in a house explosion. Fire is. The explosion happened in beavers street. That district has canceled classes. The sky. Our sister station confirms the neighbors say the home inner was in the home. While its not clear, we know workers workers from colombia well keep you updated. Lynna. This case made headlines around the world in 2012. 137 shots fired at a car. The unarmed suspects both killed. Among the fired officers, michael breelow. The union called the firings politically motivated. Theres two people promoted out of this whole thing. Who are those, folks . Mike mcgrath, the police chief gets promoted. All the officers violated police rules. The union has already filed grievances to get their jobs back. The final outcome could take months. Theres a construction boom in downtown cleveland. Close to 300 apartments are in the works are another 4,000 to come. This morning. This, aly
Civil Disobedience Campaign on chinas national day. Hello, thanks for being with us. United states has carried out a third night of air strikes against i. S. Militant positions in syria. 12 small Scale Oil Refineries in three parts of Eastern Syria were attacked in a bid to damage the groups financial assets. Here we are, one, two, three areas there. The u. S. Department of defense estimates that those refineries have been making the militants Something Like 2 million a day. It also confirmed that war planes from saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates were involved in the attacks, and reports suggest 14 jihadists along with five civilians have been killed. Those u. S. Air strikes have gained further International Support at the u. N. General assembly in new york. And we will be bringing you all the latest in the course of the next 15 minutes here on bbc world news. As clive murray joins us on the turkeysyria border. Reporter yes, hello to you. And welcome to the turkeysyria border.