States, and her time serving under president s george w. Bush and donald trump. This is 35 minutes. Where sadies, lets begin with your story. You came to the u. S. When and why . Mercedes i was born in miami, florida. My parents fled the castro regime. My father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. He was a political prisoner. Fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950s. Jail, and ite in was a trying moment for my family. States,e to the united and it was one of those things where they started with nothing. Father, being the entrepreneur and hard worker he he started working as a carpenter and electrician. He made ends meet for his family. It was those lessons with my father, who would constantly remind me of the importance of reagan and democracy in america, and how we have a responsibility to preserve these values. This is something i talked to my kids about as well. Steve your parents are still alive . E mercedes they are. They are pr
Dollars. Feeling chipper. They beat the Fourth Quarter preliminary sales experts. Steve bannon makes a public apology to the u. S. Presiden saying his support for the white house is unwavering. Meanwhile, donald trump plans to fire a few and says he is a very fatal genius expected, u. S. Mar did see another very strong day on friday with all of the majors, dow, s p and nasdaq making new record highs. Also notably russell 2000 did make new record highs as well. At europe the stoxx closed up higher i should tell you that this takes the stoxx 600 to the highest level since 2015 everything seems to be starting off right for 2018 lets take a look at individual european indices the only laggard seems to be the ftse 100 today we are expected to get the announced u. K. Covenant announced by Prime Minister theresa may. We look at how the holiday sales are going. Dax another strong day up 4 the picture apart from the u. K. Is looking quite well. Autos is the number one sector and has been so for
Here. Look for a wintry mix early this afternoon and then perhaps changing to rain but again the rain, the wintry mix everything will get a chance to stick on roads and sidewalks as ground temperatures right now are in the teens. We are under a Winter Weather advisory. Ill show you that coming up but again the timing on this ill say between about 1 00 and 7, 8 oclock tonight look for a wintry mix across the area and icing will be an issue. Guys ill have more on this in a minute. Back to you. Tuck thanks. School closings and delays. A lot might come as a surprise as we thaw out from the weekend deep freeze. Its the threat of a wintry mix this afternoon thats leading many systems to close early. Fairfax, loud couldnt loudon and what are havent. Fauquier king george page county schools. In virginia john adams elementary in alexandria is closed because theres no heat. All other alexandria city schools though will open on time. Stafford county schools and fredericksburg okay. Lets head over
More than three years. They will be focused on north korea sending a delegation tonight months olympic and south korea. At the same time, south korea will try to keep from undermining the u. S. s hardline against the north. Global news 24 hours a day. Powered by more than 2,700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Julia live from bloombergs World Headquarters in new york. I am julia chatterly. Scarlet i am scarlet fu. Joe and i am joe weisenthal. The s p extending its winning streak for a fifth straight day. Hojoe the question is, what you miss . Do they also point to inflated prices. Farmers are hoping to reap the benefits of their support for President Trump, who is said to address the American Farm Bureau Federations annual convention in nashville in about 30 minutes. Will bring you his remarks. Too much of a good thing could be hurting apple. Arebig shareholders concerns about children becoming addicted to the iphone and they want apple to do some
To work out too well for the farmers. Liz well, as the washington, d. C. Beltway swirls to talk about steve bannon, a book, and russia, President Trump put all of that aside and took his talk of his policies, his agenda to the heartland, to his base. Farmers in nashville, tennessee to those men and women he called today the forgotten crowd hurt by the dc swamp. Telling them quote you are not forgotten anymore and the tax cut agenda, you heard it right there. He said, oh, are you happy you voted for me . This is the first time in 25 years the sitting president has spoken to the America Farm Bureau federation and almost all of the other networks did not take his speech live. We got the live updates on the president s speech tonight. Plus, a lot of people to react to it. And to the deep state probe at the fbi, banks finally handing over fusion gps bank records to the house intelligence panel. Fusion is a firm behind the antitrump file. The new documents could possibly show things like whe