but at this point it has decided to shut trading all together. that happened after it had conversations with other u.s. stock markets and with u.s. regulators, including the sec. and this is the first weather related shut down since hurricane fwlor i can t back in 1985. the cme group is running its urk of usual futures session from 6:00 p.m. to 9:15 a.m. eastern. you will be able to see the stock index futures throughout the morning. they are under pressure right now. cme will be shutting down trading after that time. so depending on the impact of the storm, it s possible the same scenario will be repeated this morning. three companies have canceled earnings reports. pfizer, nrg and entergy. the government still planning to release personal income and spending data at 8:30. the question is did they decide to shut down the electronic portion because the s sec and others said we don t know whether the system unto itself will work, or they did taest it back in march. and
to 11 feet. what does that mean? that means that the actual water level could come up ten feet above normal to begin with, and on top of that you have additional waves. that s why that is such a serious problem. now, let s move along and talk about what s going to happen next with this storm. first of all. atlantic city was really hit very hard, and we re expecting that the worst will be right on the immediate shore line where the waves pound the coastline. i know it s hard to see, but this is actually the boardwalk in atlantic city. it has been very greatlydevasta. the economic damage to the atlantic city area is going to be a big story that we ll be covering in days to come, but the radar is showing that the rain isn t going to be an issue in the same spots that the wind is an issue. let me show you what you mean. if we draw a line to basically where the storm is moving along, moving from east to west, backwards to the north of that line, it s not raining very hard. there w
i ll start it and we ll go again. but i m not i m not going to be overly self-consumed about this. and nor should the people of the state be all that concerned about whether i can do my job. i can get out of bed every morning. all right. okay. good morning, everyone. how about that? they keep on asking him that. what do you think about that? welcome to morning joe. what do you think about that? i think it s a little late to be asking him about his weight as if it s a big, huge issue that we don t know anything about. no, they have a former white house doctor commenting on his weight saying he s going to drop dead in office. ridiculous. you know what, though, his own doctor, he admitted yesterday in this press conference said that he was worried about chris christie s weight and said that his luck was going to run out soon. so what s breaking news about this? i don t know. why do you have to be such a scold? i m not a scold. i like him a lot. i thin
civilians have been killed, right? i don t disagree with that. okay. do you think this is going to imperil john brennan s nomination? the president believes that john brennan is uniquely qualified as a 25-year veteran of intelligence work. okay. good morning, everyone. it s the top of the hour. 6:00 on the east coast. it s thursday, february 7th. welcome to morning joe. with us on set, we have the chairman of deutsche incorporated, donny deutsch. and former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, steve rattner. and from washington, nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. andrea, good morning. good morning. hi, mika. want to get straight into the news. chris christie s back in the news. he kind of fired back at that white house doctor who made some really kind of inappropriate comments about his weight. yeah, did you hear about that? i thought. i thought it was great what he said. it s ex
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