the day is not over yet. we re gearing up for apple earnings after the bell. our question this hour, could steve jobs ultimate creation where he unveiled the iphone in 2007 end up being the downfall of apple this time around? a bull/bear battle on apple s iphone dependency. and the 2016 candidates are heating up the iowa campaign trail by pressing the flesh, gathering new endorsements and even doing a little old-fashioned mud slinging in the iowa caucus as it nearses. carl cameron on the ground with a live report from iowa, plus our political panel on who would win a trump versus bernie faceoff. can the bulls erase the bear paw prints from the dirt yesterday? we re less than an hour from the closing bell, so let s start the countdown. muck. liz: bring out the fine china, the bulls are back. at least for this second. okay, let s not get hysterical. the markets are jumping, and you can see lots of green on the screen. the reasons? well, number one, maybe they were simply
all the things that make us laugh and cry he s. a. fam. ily. guy! (muffled): good evening, i m tom tucker, and the reason i m wearing this mask is because we ve got a make-a-wish kid in the studio tonight, who, as you ll find out as the show goes on, is quite a cougher. in local news, mayor west signed a bill today. (coughs) see? that s-that s what i was talking about. (continues coughing) are we gonna get that, or are we gonna wait for commercial? no, no, you have to spray it. you can t just wipe look, you know what? let s just throw the whole camera out. okay, joyce, you talk now. i-i don t even want to open my mouth. you know, tom, i haven t seen you in a mask since you went under the stage name george p. wilbur. oh-ho-ho, joyce, you know we don t talk about that on the air. oh, my god! did she. did she just say that george p. wilbur was tom tucker s stage name? who the hell is george p. wilbur? that s the guy who played michael myers in halloween 4, the greatest
severe weather triggering tornadoes, damaging wind, hail and flooding. the weather channel s mike seidel has the details from north little rock, arkansas. reporter: an ef-1 tornado tore through university city, missouri, early this morning. there was the sound of this storm that woke everybody up. 100 homes damaged. trees down. and nearly 7,000 people left without power. in st. louis, the rain came fast and was heavy. flooding streets, and stranding cars. it is more than what the drainage system can handle at one time. you have the flash flooding and before you know it, you re in it. reporter: at least seven states and more than 50 million people are at risk for either tornadoes or wind damage. certainly not done yet. bill karins will tell us what is ahead in just a few minutes. first, declassified, we will soon get our first look into a senate report on post 9/11 cia interrogation methods. let s get to nbc s tracie potts live in washington. tracie, good morning. so
air at this hour that saudi arabia is now evacuating diplomats from yemen, almost 100 of them. in just a minute we will try to ungtangle the high stakes highly complicated situation on the ground in yemen and in the middle east. there is also another stunning twist thin morning. in the investigation of that germanwings plane crash in the french alps. did the co-pilot hide an illness from his employers, as prosecutors are alleging. our live reports from france and germany. they are ahead this morning. we ll also look at what needs to be done to keep this kind of crash from ever happening again. the worst nightmare for any plane travellers. presidential politics here at home, senator marco rubio this morning is set to officially enter the race for president. his team may not have confirmed that report to us, more importantly they didn t deny it. we ll take a closer look at how marco rubio and others have a shot at shaking up things. what about joe biden with hillary clinton get
0 also, police are hunting for the pusher who sold philip sea hour hoffman a fatal dose of heroin even as the left says drug dealing is a nonviolent crime. we ll continue that debate tonight. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. hi oil bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. getting the president on the record that s the subject of in this evening s talking points memo. it s interesting to watch the discussion after my talking with president obama on sunday. the usual suspects are complaining that i was rude, obnoxious. on the other side the hard right is moaning that i didn t slam the president to the floor or something. but the vast majority of americans were given a clear view of some very important issues. the interview was not a debate. it was a discussion. cbs this morning broadcast which has emerged as a very good source of information. in a surprising move. cnn almost totally ignored the story. perhaps they didn t have enou