Well catch up with the group and filipinoamerican history month, with a Live Performance in our studio today. Well, the lack of opportunities for asianamericans and Pacific Islanders in the world of standup comedy is nothing to laugh at. I happen to believe standup comics are important to the way society looks at events and ourselves. Maybe were starting to see some progress, and an upcoming comedy show in San Francisco on november 2 is an important showcase, and just as important, an event to have a good time and laugh about stuff. With me right now are the two cofounders of desi comedy festival. Samson koletkar was born in mumbai and raised jewish, comedy roots if ive ever heard one. And heres more, he earned a masters in computer software, fulfilling his parents dream, then came to San Francisco, is now chasing his own dream. He is also the founder of comedy oakland. Also here with us, and with just as good a story, is abhay nadkarni, a comedianwriterproducer from southcentral los a
Penn presbyterian. Great doctors, great staff. Reporter 57yearold councilman underwent surgery overnight but he bounced back quickly and askeing to home. He spoke about the terrifying encounter with a knife wielding suspect. The next thing i know hes there next to me with an urgent look on his face. Reporter councilman oh says he realized immediately something was very wrong. And then he punched me in the lower rib which i happen to know what that is so i said, did you just stab me . And he had. I looked down and he had a seive more than a knife it was a seive. He said, keys, car, wallet, cash, everything. He said i want everything. At one point in time he lunched at my, you know, face i had to put my hand up and i got cut across the forearm. Reporter in the middle of the attack council om revealed several men in white car pulled up asking do you need help . But thinking it was the suspect who was in trouble. They took out their smart phones and they were recording what was happening.
With senator barbara of maryland. And tributes and speeches from Vice President joe biden. Then at 8 00 p. M. , christmas at the white house. Join First Lady Michelle Obama as she receives the official White House Christmas tree. Tour the white house and see this years decorations. Make christmas crafting projects with children of military families visiting the white house, and, finally, the tree lightening ceremony on the national lawn. At 8 40 p. M. , hear from former House Speaker john boehner on the trump president si and his time in the congress. At 9 40 p. M. Attend the portrait unveiling of harry reid. Speakers include hillary clinton, Vice President joe biden, and charles schumer. On sunday, at 12 30 p. M. Eastern, well hear from retiring member of Congress Representative Charles Rangel of new york. At 2 10 00 p. M. From the shakespeare theater on capitol hill, we take you to romeo and juliet wrongful death . Mock trial. At 6 30 p. M. A look at the career of Vice President elec
Developments. Tax reform, has it been scrapped . What the white house is now telling fox business about reports the president s tax plan may be starting over from square one. Conservative speech under fire yet again on campus. Protesters shouting done an event where author and commentator Heather Mcdonald was due to speak about the war on cops but she says it is not the students to blame. She will tell us who, coming up. Melissa the dow ending higher but barely, led by shares of caterpillar. Ashley webster is watching big movers from the new york stock exchange. Ashley. Ashley almost ending where we began, melissa. We have news from whole foods. Word activist Investor Jana Partners taking a big stake, second biggest stakeholder in the company. Will shake it up. Improve technology and operations to better compete with its rivals. Shake up the board, maybe, maybe, see how much of a potential bidder would pay for whole foods. Up nearly nine, 10 today. Take a look at tesla. We always seem
Good morning. Very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Good morning to you. Nice to have you with us. Good to be here. Lets check gobel mlobal market. Futures or i should say u. S. Stocks ending higher yesterday. The s p closing about 1. 6 away from the record closing high. Futures indicating a lower open. Down 3 for the s p 500. Dow jones off by 14, and the nasdaq off by 3. This as we kick off the earnings season for q1. Treasuries have been in focus. Yesterday fed chair janet yellen dropping a hint that rates will be likely rising again shortly. The tenyear yield hanging out around 2. 3 to 2. 4 . Right now at 2. 34. Lets look at equities around the world. Asian Equities First up. The nikkei and hang seng both down a bit today. Hong kong almost down three quarters of a percent. Shanghai up about 0. 6 . European trade to move on to that, we had some data hit the wires. Eurozone industrial output down 0. 3 month on month. I