Maria good friday morning everyone, thank you so much for joining us. I hope you have a good friday. I am maria bartiromo, friday ma. Your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. All that jobs, features indicating a rally ahead of the april jobs report this morning. Stocks are higher across the board, the dow industrial of 300 points about three quarters of 1 , the nasdaq up 109 and s p 500 higher by 18 and a quarter all of this ahead of the jobs report 8 30 a. M. Eastern all hands on deck to break down the market moving numbers up for the april jobs report coming up. Take a look at Interest Rates going into the number yields pulling back on the tenure sitting at 4. 57 . Apple, the big story, stocks reporting after the bell iphone sales falling last quarter as good revenue as competition coming after china is spiking but the stock is up regardless, wait till you hear why, treasury secretary janet yellen getting political while speaking in arizona, we will break down the treasury sec
A ride. Hop in. Whats the main reaction you get from people riding in the car with you . Raj the typical reaction is one of anxiety and angst. Here, and occasionally fear and occasionally even panic attacks but then they basically watch the vehicle is able to drive, exactly stopping when it should stop. Ts actually riding fairly comfortably with a degree of comfort. We learn more about the move to selfdriving cars and professor raj rajkumar at the lab where his experimental car is kept and worked on. Dr. Raj rajkumar, whats your job here at Carnegie Mellon . Raj im a professor of electric engineering and robotics at Carnegie Mellon. Host howd you get into that . Raj i did my post graduate studies and got my masters at Carnegie Mellon. Then i left c. M. U. Joined i. B. M. Research for three years or so and i came back to c. M. U. Because i liked c. M. U. And pittsburgh that much. Host what kind of things do you work on . Raj i work on what are called embedded systems, the technical term
Presley made a stop. He didnt stay in the church, but his widow and daughter are still prominent members. So the idea was that celebrities are useful. They become megaphones for advertising the church and its benefits. And as you look at the people who have been their spokespeople, like John Travolta and tom cruise, each of these guys at one time was a number one movie star in the world. And thats a very powerful lower to young people who have gone to hollywood and are solicited by the church to come to the Celebrity Center to see how to get an agent or how to get ahead in the business. If you look at who is in the church, they think maybe i could be a star as well. You can watch this and other programs online at the booktv. Org. Mehran kamrava talks about the outside influence of qatar in the world. He argues unlike other regional powerhouses, qatar is been able to achieve its global standingik through aljazeera, its supportr of Democracy Movement in thebeen middle east, and through t
He is the chief deputy in many ways. The title of the position was deputy. And then you had the ceo overseeing the whole operation and in many ways, if you think about it, decisionmaking from investments to cultural activities and overseeing the whole operation, those decisions were made by five people. Although the precise number may change by one or two, and some of the personalities might change, the fundamentals of the northeast remain concentrated in that includes legitimacy. An example, this is something that they may have had major problems with it that they dont have. So although they might have equal amounts or both or even more wealth, they dont have a agile decisionmaking and leadership as well it also has an incredibly wealthy to find vision. And this includes the activities in agendas that is lacking in other parts of the Arabian Peninsula and across the persian gulf. It is a vision that initially was compounded by survival strategies. And i will mention in a minute, it wa
Thats the most important thing to take out of this. It looks like passing showers from time to time, thats the about it. With the clouds cover and passing showers, temperatures will be on the cooler side with highs in the upper 60s and low 70s. 66 degrees in reading. 63 in philadelphia. 07 is the popular number up and down the beach from wildwood to sandy hook. Heres the satellite and radar composite. We have a couple of areas of low pressure the first one is toward the top of the screen west of buffalo. Theres another one developing across the virginias and the carolinas. Because these two areas of low pressure are competing for energy they will stay on the weaker sighted and pass up to the northeast and move into new england in the next 24 to 36 hours. Therefore, were expecting a few scattered showers as opposed to a good soaking like we would had the systems merged or come together. Theres good news there. Accuweather says expect clouds today, cooler temperatures, maybe a little bit