It was trading as high as 9. The 7. Yeartodate this stock is down roughly 13 . Melissa. Melissa adam thank you so much. David . David lets dip into politics. Lags debates before the first votes are cast. Republicans set to take the stage and it could change the entire game. Blake burman is in des moines with the latest. High, blake. Reporter that is what some of them are hoping tonight. This is the first and only president ial debate here in iowa before the caucuses four nights from tonight. Were just three hours away from this debate. The first one kicks off at 7 00. There will be four people on that stage, carly fiorina, mike hub bee, Rick Santorum and jim gilmore who is back in the debates. They get started off at 7 00. Followed by seven candidates at 9 00 debate. Marco rubio and ted cruz will be front and center in that one. Theyre flanked by dr. Ben carson, jeb bush, Chris Christie and john kasich and rand paul makes his way into the 9 00 debate. Noticeably absent is one donald trump the frontrunner in the race. He said he will not be at the debate tonight. He is holding his own event here in the des moines area, funds raised from that will go to veterans groups. At this point still unknown which but at that is where the money will be going. One group is saying they want none of it. The founder of the iraq an afghanistan veterans of america, his name is paul rikkelhoff sent out this tweet. The im quoting, if offered our group will decline donations from trumps event. We need strong policies from candidates, not to be used for political stunts. Good pr on the other front for donald trump as it relates to one poll, from wall street journal and nbc news. Here in iowa trump is the clear frontrunner over ted cruz. Trump getting 32 of iowa support, cruz at 25. Marco rubio at 18. Will tonight change anything . Well see shortly. David blake, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Melissa . Melissa the stage is set. In des moines with senator ted cruz taking center tank. Donald trump is opting out of the event a decision critics say is opportunity for other candidates. Karl rove says it could be damaging to trumps campaign. Melissa all right. Im not sure that was karl rove, right . Didnt sound like him or look lime him. Here is erick erickson, fox news contributor. Eric this is opportunity for the other folks on the stage to be out there to get their message across without one person dominating the evening, right . I think so. I suspect all eyes will be on ted cruz now. Everybody can take their shots at him at center stage. Melissa right. What would be the way to play that in your opinion . Marco rubio threw cruz off his game over cruzs policy changes over time. Cruz didnt have good response to that he did have a good response on the vat tax charge. I suspect well see them. Condition dates point out donald trump is not there. Only iowa debate before the iowa caucuses. Iowa voters take the caucuses seriously. That could matter. How many people show up undecided at this point . There will be some decided but iowa secretary of state and registrars are not showing new significant voter registration. If donald trump is drawing in new voters, they may not show up that night. Theyre supposed to get one to three inches of snow and 40 mileanhour wind during caucus night. Maybe that keeps new voters home. Melissa folks out theres were links for third place, who do you see making themselves known tonight and getting their voice heard . I think jeb bush has opportunity to be on rebound. Keep my eye on marco rubio. There is a lot of buzz in reporters in the hall and around where im traveling a latebreaking marco rubio surge. A lot of evangelical taking another look at him. Probably a good night for him to shine. He has always done well on debate stage. Melissa ted cruz will certainly have a target on his back. How does he turn that around to be on the offensive . Ted cruz is probably the best debater on the stage. Without donald trump there it will be his time to sign tonight. I think ted will have to rebut a lot of other peoples arguments and make the case to angry iowa conservatives looking at donald trump, that ted cruz would be the better vehicle to take on Hillary Clinton. Melissa eric, thanks for coming on. Appreciate your time. Breaking news with amazon out with Fourth Quarter results. Jo ling kent with the numbers in the newsroom. Jo . Melissa, big miss on amazon. Earnings per share profit of a dollar missing treatment estimate of 1. 56. That is pretty big swing and a miss. Revenue coming in 35. 75 billion. That is slight miss of revenue. Expectations of 35. 93. What we saw was a lot of anticipation going into this. 9 up. Now we are seeing stock tank back down in afterhours trading. Currently down 10 1 2 . In earnings report, north american sales coming in at 21. 05. International segment at were looking exactly with happened for such a big miss from amazon after all the heavy volume anticipation in the markets going into the closing bell. Melissa a lot of volatility into the stock and big miss. Thank you very much, jo. David well keep you current on amazon through the hour. Ben carson taking the gloves off tonights debate. Hoping for more time to shine on the stage. About Donald Trumps boycott of event . Ive certainly been treated unfairly all the lies that have all been disproven but nevertheless, that goes with the territory. That prepares you for the white house because it will be even worse than that. David joining me ben carsons campaign chairman, Major General robert deace. A little more oxygen in the room tonight. What do you think will happen to the good doctor as a result of donald trump not being there . I think as always he will focus his message not on personality or politics but the american people. I have Great Expectations for dr. Carson tonight. As always he will not engage in schoolyard fights and point people toward moral high ground and where America Needs to go to continue honoring of americans of all stripes to climb the ladder of opportunity. David you know one base which has been very appreciative of dr. Carson, his personality, his message have been evangelicals yet you had jerry fallwell, jr. Coming out for donald trump. Did that surprise you . Well i think, he speaks for himself. I think the Liberty Community was somewhat surprised. David were you trying to get that endorsement yourself . No. Dr. Carson doesnt seek endorsement of people such as that. He seeks the endorsement of the american people. We see that around the country, particularly in iowa, crowds and enthusiasm. People have fans or reality fans but dr. Carson has true believers. We see that in iowa. Were looking for the ground game for two years that will bear fruit monday night. David antiestablishment message is something pretty much dr. Carson owned at the beginning. Some people tried to present themselves like that. You sigh people like john mccain and Chuck Grassley coming out for donald trump, seems as though dr. Carson can claim that mantle better for himself, can he not . That is certainly true, dr. Carson tonight is only nonpolitician on the stage. I would ask rhetorically of people of america do we want volume or values . Do we want divisiveness or a unifier who can go into the inner cities of america to heal rifts across racial lines or special interest lines of division at this time . Dr. Ben carson can be uniterinchief. David he be go ahead. David the last debates fbn debate you said to me in fact we would see a more combative ben carson. We didnt really see that. Is he going to try to do this time, this debate what dont think a lot of people saw him in the last debate, be more combative and more strident. He will be resolute and truth teller. He will not be uncivil as the others are. That is what makes impressdential above the rest. David by the way, general, sympathies and condolences to the family of braiden joplin, who was tragically killed in that car crash. I know he was a great guy. Our sympathies for the campaign and his family. Thank you, david. I attended the funeral in texas on monday. Candy carson was there also, over 500 people in attendance. And we call it the braiden he effect because we do not want bradens life to be in vain. He strongly believed what dr. Carson stands for and our prayers for his family. David thank you very much, general. Appreciate. Thank you very much. David Second Quarter results out for microsoft. Jo is back with the numbers from the newsroom. Go made. Reporter beat on earnings per share for microsoft. Revenue coming in at 23. 8 billion. That is a miss of the 25. 26 billion the street was looking for. You see bid ask there. The stock up 4 . Even though with this mixed earnings report. Personal computing revenue down 5 , but cloud, intelligence cloud revenue up 5 under satya nadella, as the ceo tries to clean house to make this company work better again. Operating income of 6 billion. Were also looking at phone revenue down 49 based off of constant currency, reflecting what they have been changing with nokia and getting rid of that business there. So what were seeing is intelligent cloud revenue up 5 . Were going through this now. But we dont have an outlook for the Current Quarter for the year. That will come on the earnings call. David but it is up after hours. By the way amazon is now 565 a share. That is way down, over 10 after hours. Thanks, jo. Melissa . Melissa major security concerns after new study shows hundreds of badges, phones and even guns all lost or stolen from the department of Homeland Security. Our Security Panel weighs in on that. David and jeb bush hoping his big brother, gw, will be his trump card on the campaign trail. He turns out to be the most popular republican in, that is alive. So it is not a bad thing to be the brother of a great president and a great brother. Melissa kids these days may know more about technology than their parents but there is somewhat important skill theyre not being taught anymore. Sad truth on that one coming up. So what else is new . Hows your mother . Umm. Shes doing good. She needs more care though. She wants to stay in her house. I dont know even where to start with that. First, lets take a look at your Financial Plan and see what we can do. Ok, so weve got. Well listen. Well talk. Well plan. Baird. Thcompetition, its protecting buscustomer trust. Not every day you read headlines about governments and businesses being hacked, emails compromised, and intellectual property being stolen. That is cybercrime, and it affects each and every one of us. Microsoft created the digital crimes unit to investigate and fight cyber crime. We use the microsoft cloud to visualize information, so we can track down the criminals. Using our advanced analytics tools, analysis that used to take days to run, we can now see in real time. And were building what we learn back into the cloud to make people and organizations safer. When it comes to the cloud, trust and security are paramount. Our passion is making life tougher for cyber criminals, and making it safer for you and your customers. Iand quit a lot,t but ended up nowhere. Now i use this. The nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology, helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. I want this time to be my last time. Thats why i choose nicoderm cq. Melissa amazon dropping over 11 after the hour. Jo ling kent with the numbers. Jo. Eps coming in at a dollar versus street estimate of 1. 56. Were looking at outlook which is indicator for so many tech companies. First quarter operating profit of 100 million to 700 million is what theyre forecasting. And that midpoint would be, 400 million. Thats way below what analysts are looking for at least at Thomson Reuters of 686. 7 million. So youre seeing the stock continue to drop about 12 afterhours, after a serious climb, 7, 8 , earlier today. We also had a slight miss on revenue, 35. 75 billion in net sales. Overall though, sales did pick up 22 . They did pass the 100 billion mark in sales according to jeff bezos, the ceo. So what we see here is the outlook and the miss having an effect on the stock and how people are trading it. Melissa jo, thank you for that. David . Sure. David the department of Homeland Security isnt keeping its own identification very safe. Over 1300 dhs bans have been stolen or lost according to complete colorado. Federal officers are losing official phones and firearms. This is is creating a serious security risk. Here to weigh in, chris harmer, institute of war, ric grenell, advisor to four u. S. Ambassadors to the United Nations and also a fox news contributor. Chris what is going on. There is little bit of apathy you expect out of federal employees but you hope that stops in federal Law Enforcement. I have a lot of friends in federal Law Enforcement. They say the same thing. Theyre good to go, equivalent of active duty military is not the case this is massive level of incompetence. Talking literally over 1000 i. D. S plus guns and cell phones. That is treasure trove of vulnerability if it falls in the wrong hands this is incredibly frustrating as security professional. I hope the government would hold them accountable but i dont think so. David i wonder if there is conspiracy going on beyond incompetence, do you expect anything else . I certainly hope not. This level and this breadth of a problem we all should be asking those questions. Congress has a role to play here. We have regulators need to crack down on this. If federal officials are not going to punish people who break the you law, make no mistake this, is breaking the law. This happened over and over again. You go back several years and we constantly hearing about federal officials who break the law in this way. Congress has got to Start Holding people accountable. If there is a bureaucrat in charge not Holding Someone accountable, then Congress Needs to move to replace that person so we actually have a system that is working. David rick, youre in des moines. Let me tie this into tonights debate here. Last couple of debates, National Security was really front and center. Amazing how quickly the public forgets. Not that weve forgotten terrorist attacks here and elsewhere but not quite as urgent right now as it seems to be. Do you think it will take a back seat to other issues tonight . I certainly hope not because National Security and Foreign Policy, when candidates talk about these issues, they actually are communicating to voters leadership skills. Whether a voter understands the intricacies of what a candidate is saying about a Foreign Policy, whether it is intelligencegathering techniques and how theyre differentiating themselves from other candidates, when a, when a republican candidate talks about National Security and Foreign Policy in a strong way, and in an easy way, easy way for the voters to understand it, then voters view that person as a leader. And that leadership translates into the voting booth. David right. Chris, very quickly, these missing i. D. , im wondering is there in any possibility they end up in the wrong hands . Is this something that the terrorists could use to get into places theyre not supposed to go . No absolutely. There is active, very active black market for military i. D. S. I can only assume there is active black market for federal Law Enforcement i. D. S. It is not as if criminals have to go far to find people to buy these and they end up in the wrong hands. This is first order of security to but certainly we hope that is all it is but not a good development. David ric grenell, chris harmer, thank you very much. Enjoy the show tonight. Melissa the arrest of a man and a woman in disneyland in paris in boy session of a guns and a koran. The commissioner who was in charge of flint. A mother suing the state. I will do everything for our children. Every child who drank or cooked with this water, is potentially exposed and thus at risk for consequences. I built my business with passion. But i keep it growing by making every dollar count. Thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. I earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy for my studio. And that unlimited 2 cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business. Thats huge for my bottom line. Whats in your wallet . Melissa wants to lend a hand to flint, instead democrats are proposing 400 million in federal aid to replace lead contaminated pipes in flint, michigan. Just a day after michigan Governor Rick Snyder says pipes will not be replaced any time soon because of the costly process. Melissa mace, a founder of what are you fighting for. She joins me now. Give you the backstory, originally the Governors Office said would be 5 a million. They didnt have money for it. Senate democrats are offering money but michigan has to match it dollar for dollar. This is where the governor is saying. We dont have the money to be able to do this. How do you feel about that . There is 575 million surplus in the budget this year. There is 600 million in a rainy day slush fund sitting there. There is almost 1. 2 billion. I dont know how they say we cant afford it. Every time we demanded to get off the flint river, all we were told too expensive to go back to clean water. This is the same thing they have been telling us for 20 months. Melissa it is amazing to me this whole thing started because of budget problems and because they wanted to save money. Now they will end up spending no matter than they were in the first place which isnt the most important issue. The most important issue in the area is the health of people in the area. I hear that 200 people are reported to have higher lead levels in the blood. Are your children a part of that . 200 kids with high blood levels, that means theyre currently drinking the water. Lead only stays in your blood first 30 days t breaks up an goes into your brain and bones and organs. If their lead levels are high, were not doing enough to tell people it isnt safe