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One storm is coming in from the north and another coming from the south and when these two collide together, the northeast can expect a huge punch. Of course, just in time for the weekend. Well, news developing on apple, billionaire investor David Einhorn is urging apple to do more with its over 150 Million Dollars of cash on hand. Nicole, is there any reaction in apple shares premarket . Apple is looking good this morning, remember, it was in the middle of january, here it is this morning looking up about 10, david. This one is likely to be a real winner when the opening bell rings. David nice, nice. By the way, a lot of that 150 billion dollars we dont know exactly how much is overseas. So, even if they wanted to put it to work, the Big Questions how they can do so without getting taxed for it so still a lot of questions, good news for apple. Thank you, well be checking with you in a moment. Back to the big story in the meantime, on the American Work ethic. The Chicago Police sergeant claims he was pressured to answer work related emails when he was off the clock and then he didnt get paid for the overtime. So, now he wants it get reimbursed. His fellow officers do as well. Joining us from chicago is carol roth wgn radio host, carol, what do you think about this . Im completely outraged about this. People need to understand if you have a job, sometimes you go above and beyond. Communication is part of the job these days and yes, it follows us home, but that is part of the deal. If you have a problem with this, sit down with your supervisor, say this is getting excessive, but you cant do it and then go back retroactively and demand to be paid. It just goes to show that we are becoming the entitled states of america and in my opinion thats a very bad thing. David carol, youre in chicago and this happened in chicago, this blackberry thing. Chicago is surrounded by farmers, ive got to think that that super bowl commercial that focused on farmers from the old paul harvey speech from years ago, said by the time tuesday rolls around theyve done 40 hours and ready to put in another 70 more. That kind of work ethic has got to resonate in chicago against this blackberry one right. Theres a bifurcation in chicago. Most of the farmers are not in the city, theyre down state and theyre working hard. When you come into the city you see the people, especially the government workers, theres a big bifurcation and look, illinois is in a very bad place right now. Were the worse in terms of pensions being underfunded and our credit is the worst in the country and the fact that this particular situation comes out of chicago unfortunately is not a surprise to me. Cheryl, i think that the country is becoming bifurcated, you know . Youve got the two sides, ones that are happy with the growth in the government and the other that wants to get back to the old style. Carol is in chicago and may know better than i, but this is bigger loss than one Police Officer, and its originally filed back in 2010, about 200 officers are expected to sign on. He hes already cleared one hurdle in the case. Carol, a better question for you, but i think that the union could be behind this, another way to make sure that the pay structure is, in their minds, for Police Officers where it needs to be. David quickly, carol, go ahead. I think that thats absolutely right. The unions are losing a little bit of influence here in illinois, but still very, very strong. We have plenty of government workers and it becomes a huge problem because we just cant afford this excessive pay. By the way, productivity is down 2 in the Fourth Quarter of last year in the United States. So, weve all got to work hard. Carol, thank you very much, stay right there. Well get back to you, Hollywood Alister bruce willis coming out against gun control and he says hollywood is not to blame for violence in america. That and the opening bell are coming next. With fidelitys new options platform, weve completely integrated every step of the process, making it easier to try filters and strategies. To get a list of equity option. Evaluate them with our p l calculator. And execute faster with our more intuitive trade ticket. Im greg stevens and i helped create fidelitys options platform. Its one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. Now get 200 free trades when you open an account. We are just about 30 seconds away from the opening bell. Futures are kind of mixed a little up, a little down and by the way, gold is down 12 bucks. 1,666 number that it seems to be hover at when it goes up and down and weighing on the futures are the new unemployment figures, seasonally adjusted 366,000 new initial jobless claims, as we hear the opening bell. That is actually a fall of 5,000 numbers, but two weeks ago, the numbers revised up, and these numbers might be revised up and 366,000 initial claims are still very high for an economy thats trying to get back on its feet and as we see stocks are trading a little bit lower, by the way, other news that we got in addition to the unemployment numbers, initial jobless claims were that productivity has gone down about 2 in the Fourth Quarter, despite the fact that more people are actually working that were expected, the actual number of products that they are producing is down 2 . So that might affect the numbers as well. As we see a market thats trading modestly lower. We talk about housing being a bright spot in in market and here is perhaps another side of that. Home depot is hiring 80,000 Seasonal Workers for spring. Thats 10,000 more than they had last year, so, nicole, where did home depot open today . Yeah, well, im taking a look at this dow component here and the truth is im not getting the right read on this particular board, maybe its the way they blew it up. Ill show it to you, is it open yet . You tell us. Why dont you tell me . This board doesnt seem there we go, an up tick and now lower. Right around the unchanged line now for home depot, as you noted they are going to be hiring 80,000 temporary workers, thats up 10,000 from a year ago and its the seasonal time, cashiers, loaders, the garden center, stock boys, you know it. Theyll need all of these things because thats the time and the season where they hire these temporary workers and lowes doing the same thing as well. David not affecting the stock that much. Lets move over to apple, we have the einhorn statement advising they should spend some 150 billion dollars in cash. How is that affecting the stock. Right, so, apple is looking higher this morning at around 460, so thats looking good there. Were watching that with a pop. This is the 435 stock and einhorn is long on apple and wants to do a lot more with the cash and hes very wellknown this morning that those are his feelings. Right, right, Everybody Knows it was a short seller, but does have long positions as well. Nicole back to you in a second. And boeing, while the rest of the fleet remains grounded the f. A. A. Is allowing a one time only ferry flight of one of the 787 dreamliners, back to its factory in washington state. And this is separate from the conducting a series of test flights to figure out what caused two separate problems with batteries including a fire. Out at 11 a. M. Today. Thats about an hour and a half from now. The n. T. S. B. Is holding a News Conference for an update on its investigation. Dont want to miss that and here, by the way, is a look at what boeing shares are doing right now. As you can see, theyre ticking up and that may change one way or the other depending on the press conference, about an hour and a half from now. Now, youre still paying more at the gas pump. The National Average price of regular gas is up almost a penny overnight to 3. 55. Just in the past week, the price of gas has spiked 13 cents and take a look at oil right now. As we saw a drop by the way in gold price, were also seeing, well, this is a one week, 13 cents up. Were actually seeing it tick upwards in the price of oil about 38 cents and again, everything can change in the next couple of hours. Well, we knew that implementing obamacare would be expensive and new numbers showing just how much its going to cost. Listen to this, its going to cost 127 million man hours a year to implement all of the obamacare rules and regulations and there are a lot more coming on that number. On top of that, backlash now from supermarket owners because the fda is pushing a rule in obamacare that would require them to provide Nutrition Information at delis and bakeries, now, owners say it would cost them at least a billion dollars a year to make the changes, carol roth is with us and Cheryl Casone as well. Carol, when he does it end . Are we ever going to see the cost of obamacare . I certainly hope we are. And the thing that concerns me the most about this the undue burden on the Small Businesses of this country and Small Businesses dont have the manpower or the dollars to comply with Something Like this and its absolutely outrageous to me. If you go to a supermarket, you certainly know that macaroni and cheese is more fattening than celery. Thats not what is making everybody fat is the lack of that nationaling, its the tactffac tactf tactffac tactffac tactffac fact that knowledge, theyre not exercising, we need to take responsibility in this country and dont need to be legislated. Its going to create less competition and barrier to innovation in business. David im wondering if the federal government is pushing too hard. President obama feels that with his reelection, he was allowed certain, certain liberties as far as how he could push, how far he could push, but the election was not an endorsement of a nanny state, was it . David, this is because no one read the bill which they have a problem doing. Lets pass a bill we did not read and the same with the Health Care Law there was a fight over it. The problem, she was talking about, you know, the small mom and pop businesses who need to watch the sector of grocery chains. Your safe way, even the costco because they had big Profit Margins attached to that, you know, prepared food that you buy and you walk in and i want some salmon and green beans and they throw it into tins for you and profitable line of business. And theyre going to get hit as well. Mou how do they he deal with it. Pass those costs onto the customers and absolutely. Its a huge challenge because you have to remember they also have to contend with now paying all of their workers the extra health care costs, too, so its going to be very difficult, especially when the consumers have lighter paychecks to be able to pass that on to consumers, Grocery Stores work on extremely thin margins. Sure do. And this is going to be a huge problem and theres really nowhere for this money to go. Theres no where for the cost to end at all, either. Lets move onto it a different subject. Bruce willis says hes against the new gun control laws and says theres no link between hollywood blockbusters and gun violence, now, willis gave his opinions on his presser for the new movie entitled a good day to diehard. This is number five in the diehard franchise. Not too unexpected weve heard him speak out against gun control before. Yippy ky yea for bruce willis, im all for solutions, but creating legislation that doesnt solve the problem and creates her problems. One of the things that bruce willis says, you cannot legislate insanity and thats true. This is a much deeper problem when it comes to the Mass Shootings and pulling one type of weapon off the streets is not a solution to the problem. And one of the things, first off im so sick of the hollywood actors coming out and telling me how i should vote and if i should have a gun or not. And what i should be doing in my personal life. Youre an actor, act, entertain me and go away with your opinions. And operate other side of this, i agree with carol, theres going to be a dialog and we know the dialog is coming, but he needs to look closely at hollywood itself. Video games and hollywood themselves. They need to step up and take more of a blame for this. And now hes coming out and saying, gun control. Theyre not going to change. Wait a second. , but carol, dont you think they really need to reevaluate how they quickly, carol. Entertain us, if you will. Cowboys and Indian Movies were around when my dad was a little boy and lots and lots of violent war movies and they certainly didnt have the problems and i think its deeper than that. Lets go back to the stock market and come back with the ladies in a second. Piper jaffray downgrading Dreamworks Animation after the film maker says it will delay release of one of the films, nicole, how are the shares reacting to this. Were seeing the shares to the down side here, to the upside now, okay. Up 1 for dreamworks, as we noted they dont want to be too ambitious, they dont want to release three films in 2013, so, theyre going to be pushing some back and theyre laying off some of the workers, they had weaker than expected performance on rise of the guardians, i saw and i love rise of the guardians and thats just me. This is what were seeing here and down grades from piper jaffray. I didnt even hear of rise of the guardians, shows how out of it i am. Thanks, nicole. Well, American Airlines and u. S. Airways are closer to a deal that would create the worlds biggest airline, so, nicole, whats u. S. Airways doing as a result of this . Well, for the most part were seeing the trance parsports and mergers and acquisitions happening. And its obviously a big move here. Quickly, charlie. One comment and a lot of reporting about the merger, well be talking about this. I think the pilots union has a bigger piece in this its not a done deal, guys. Cheryl knows airlines from the inside literally. Thank you very much. Now, its time for your seven early movers, weak outlook from Green Mountain coffee roasted, better than expected profits at Education Company devry. And over 7 , Internet Services company akamai slowly reporting revenue growth, good news on big time up about 18 and surprise Fourth Quarter profit from insurance giant allstate. Could we get a look at that, allstate is up about 2 1 4 . Better than expected profit in real estate brokage. Cbre trading up about 10 now and robot maker, cautious First Quarter guidance. And that affected the stock big time over 7 and better than expected profits in auto parts, retailer oreilly automotive, that stock jumping over 10 . Does george lucas know something that we dont . Why is george lucas filing paper work that would allow him to sell his shares in disney . 2 billion dollars worth of shares . 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All of the stocks are down, a although not rightly so, nasdaq is down percentagewise and s p is down, too. A regulatory filing revealing george lucas cashed out the stock that he received when selling lucas films and according to a spokesperson he does not currently have any plans to sell. Joining the company from los angeles is gil morales with the virtue of selfish investing. What does lucas know that other disney investors dont . I dont think he knows anything. George lucas is