Only a matter of hours. Actually 200,000 revelers are expected to be here on the embarcadero to watch the fireworks. Crews are setting up barricades. Its the largest event in the area. Safety preps are in place for a while. Barriers along the embarcadero and police have extensive plans to keep everyone safe. Now, there arent any specific local threats but police are urging everyone to be alert. We do want the message to be that someone sees something we want them to say something. Dont assume that someone else will say something. Often times we dont know unless its brought to our attention. The coast guard has a 1,000 foot safety zone at the Ferry Building until 12 30 tonight. Boaters arent allowed there unless authorized by the captain of the port of San Francisco. Some would say we are not standing in the absolute best spot to watch the fireworks. A lot of people are saying that the best spot is between mission and folsom. Along the embarcadero, jackie ward, kpix 5. The city of oakla
Cant comprehend it. Sometimes youre dazzled by all the ways that this market gives you to make money. Big money. Today was one of those days. Dow climbing 78 points. S p gaining 0. 4 . Let me tell you how that money was made and then more importantly, plain the take aways from each win. Because i need you to understand that the gains in this market have been extraordinary. Why is that . Simple. Its because managements will not let up about their stocks being too cheap. They hate it and they keep doing something about it. Meanwhile, other companies are now coming in to buy the stocks of still other companies that they think the stock market isnt paying enough for and are worth a great deal more to an acquirer. And still other companies have so much growth that their stocks cant seem to do anything but go higher. House of pleasure. Lets start with everyones what everyone is buzzing about. The 85 hostile bid for time warner launched today by murdochs company. We all know that the companie
Ukraine. Western leaders are meeting and it is part of a new push to bring peace to the conflict. It comes as russian backed rebels gain ground in the east. And officials seriously consider arming ukraine for the first time. The president is reviewing all of his options. The secretary of state offering a strong hint that the u. S. Could send weapons of war to ukraine. In its year long fight against prorussian separatists. Among those is the possibility of providing defensive assistant. To ukraine. And those discussions are going on. Also in kiev, the leaders of france and germany they presented ukraine with a new peace plan, that they will also deliver to moscow. The last round of talks collapsed last month after just four hours of negotiating. The fight hike this recent attack has devastated the region. Each side blames the other for the rising death toll. The u. N. Says it now exceeds 5,000, and more than 12,000 have been wounded. Fighting has turned homes into rubble and emptied onc
On planes trains and truckers . Its cold, baby its cold and getting colder. Snow hitting east and midwest today. We have the forecast and we have sue standing by out from the elements at the new york stock exchange. Hi, lets take a look at the ten year note. Everybody is talking about that right now. It dipped below the 2 mark. Right now we are trading at 1. 937 in terms of the yield. Lowest we have seen obviously in the new year and actually in the ten year since october. We have Bertha Coombs at the nasdaq. Russell and nasdaq getting hammered today. Bob pisani is here with me at the new york stock exchange. We were down about 180 points or so. We have come back a tiny bit but the market is under a lot of pressure today. The three lows the low euro low bond yields and low oil all weighing on things. I want to show you major indexes right now. Tyler is right. Good time to hit on transports. They are getting hit. Russell 2000 small caps weak. Under performing the s p 500. I want to show
Theres no sign that anyone is willing to make the first move to end the stalemate. Here are the latest headlines. We have two reports, Randall Pinkston is in washington, but we begin with libby casey on capitol hill. Libby good afternoon, what is the latest from capitol hill . Were seeing a series of votes unfold this afternoon. The republicans are continuing their piecemeal approach. So were looking at legislation that would do things like fund fema and the National Weather service. Also a vote regarding the programs that help the needy, and tomorrow theyll come in to session and tackle funding for those furloughed workers to make sure they get back pay. Some these bills may get life in the senate, but its not going to solve the overall bigpicture problem. House Speaker John Boehner is still sticking to the republican talking points. Here he is this morning. This isnt some damn game the American People dont want their Government Shutdown and neither do i. All were asking for is to sit