in houston. energy is a big story today as it has been every day recently. we will get to brian in a minute s time. first we begin with the growing fears of how vulnerable airlines are to hackers and whether a plane can be brought down by a cyber attack. in san francisco, live at the largest information security event in the world, what are we hearing? this is as you say a big cyber security conference. they are just about to open the doors for the beginning of the conference, but controversy and researcher chris roberts was on the way to the conference last week. he tweeted out information alleging that he can hack into airplane cockpit systems based on some of the infrastructure inside an airplane. he tweeted that out on wednesday when he arrived at his destination on wednesday. he was met by security at the airport and detained by the fbi for several hours of questioning and conversation. he also said that on saturday as he was on the way here to san francisco to come to
budged. dow futures down by 6 half a points below fair value. the s&p 500 closed another record high on friday. nasdaq down by 9.5. one economic data point of note, the national association of home builders will release its housing market index for may. that s due at 10:00 eastern time this morning. a little bit of news out of chicago, charlie evans, he says the feds should aim to boost inflation by keeping interest rates near zero until early next year. evans is a voting member of the fomc and argues inflation has been running too low for too long. we just had him on. yeah. yeah. exactly. that s not new, is it? they have got the dual mandate. right. we knew this was kind of where he was headed with things but people are looking at fed speak very closely right now to try to figure out. did you see the fed futures in september pushing that of 0, thinking it s less lick like dr likely. it could be negative in the first quarter. could be .5% for the first half. wha
month. the biggest trend and some of the mid-cap banks that you might be wanting to buy. hello, everybody. it s a big news day here on cnbc, but a big day in downtown for a group of high school students. steve liesman is live as he prepares to crown the top mind. now there just 16 remaining and four teams. i have four on each side of me from high schools from around the country. we are going to crown the next bernanke and yellin and the next economic professor. they will humble and astonish you when you come back and hear some of these amazingly smart kid at how much they know with economics. back to you. we are looking forward to that and it will be a great event. steve, sit tight. i know you have a lot of smart people there. apple shares are up 18% and more than 260% in the past five years. investor who made a ton of money betting on apple is carl icon. that stock is dramatically undervalued by his analysis. josh i guess uncle karl decided it was time to cent him anothe
of fear was on the dark side of earth, looking at eastern australia in the darkness and watching a shooting star come between me and the earth. everest i have the standard reaction of wishing upon a star and then i had the reaction that this was a huge, dumb rock from the universe going at 20 miles a second that missed us. if it hit us, it was a big enough one, that you could see it. if it would have hit us, we would have been dead. tonight on c-span s q&a. c-span s q&a. to mark the anniversary of the surrender of general lead to general grant, the parks service hosted an event. when we stopped by, the blacksmith was just starting a fire. no, no. that s good. my name is john baronich. i live in spring hill, new york. this is a replica of the traveling forges that the artillery and the cavalry would have them. our basic purpose is to repair items that would break, such break, such as handles and chains. also the farriers would use the forged to re-shoe the horses. i
the privacy act was done in 1986. i started working on e-mail in 1989. now we have e-mail is a standard form of communication, one of the most popular forms of communication. yet we still have a situation where a piece of paper in your desk drawer is held to a warrant standard. law-enforcement would need a warrant to access that information. but e-mail is stored in the cloud and not subject to a warrant standard. the issue is we are not making a comment. we are saying the internet needs to be open and free. anytime the government gets involved, there is this open ended pandora s box. we have had hearings in which they cannot answer basic questions about what their own rule will do. we are saying let that be an issue for congress. it is on the radar. but not be put in place by bureaucrats who have no consequence from the populace. monday night at 8:00 on c-span2. to mark the 150th anniversary of the surrender of lead to grant in 1865, the national park service invited hi