Good morning, happy columbus day, and welcome to squawk alley. Im sara eisen here with dave faber. John fortt with us from San Francisco, as he mentioned, at the black enterprise tech conference carl has the day off also joining us, kara swisher. A lot to get to today, beginning with google revealing youtube, g mail, and other platforms were compromised by russian operatives in an effort to interfere with the 2016 president ial election. Doesnt seem the ads were bought by the same troll farm that bought ads on Facebook Facebook is confirming russianbought ads appeared on instagram. So far, certainly, the pressure on these companies to fight fake news and bad advertising is mounting, kara, what will be the impact and whats the reaction out there in Silicon Valley . Well, i think, you know, its interesting. As i said, they are doing the slow roll, they are finding them slowly, looking for them i appreciate how difficult it is to find these things among the billions of transactions that h
Both up this morning crude oil, it is still hanging in there right below that 50 mark, of course and theres brent crude as well. Lets get to the road map. It does start with that market coming off a record breaking rally. The question of course, will it continue and big changes at ge the new ceo making his mark on the company as a new investor joins the board. A nail in the could have infor tax reform a top gop senator warns that President Trump threatens world war iii. The markets looking to continue its record run with the dow and s p in the midst of a fourweek winning streak but Technology Closing on friday at the new record high. Bar beingiring a large selloffe trump dow rally ochb track to surpass the 23. 3 gain posted in the year following the election of George Herbert walker bush. One would imagine we will hear tweets or get tweets about that the minute it happens. It is a major accomplishment and were coming off another week where all three major averages closed up a percent a
A new deal for yorkshires economy will be debated in Parliament Today. Steph will be there to see what it will mean for the economy. In sport, heartbreak for wales. Their dreams of playing in the world cup end with defeat to the republic of ireland in cardiff. Ive been chatting to Michael Fassbender about his gripping new film, the snowman, his love of surfing, and his incredible impersonation of a red breasted robin. Birds. He tweets. To the birds either . They do actually. That is quite good, that, isnt it . Very good. And matt has the weather. Thankfully, no snowman in the forecast today, fairly mild across the country, some rain but overall it isa the country, some rain but overall it is a brighter day than yesterday. All of the details coming up in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Sweeping inequalities between different ethnic groups in areas such as education, housing and health are expected to be exposed in a government study later today. The findings will show t
Virginia governor tim can the cutting nomination for Vice President last night in philadelphia. Bc tweet of tim the kansasisingl delegation. Here is what our live coverage for this fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention Looks like good starting at 3 00 eastern with a preview of tonights events and a look around at what is happening leading up to the main event, Hillary Clinton excepting the democratic nomination for president , followed by the balloon drop. The theme for tonights speeches will be womens issues, including Workplace Fairness and pay. Coverage starting at three clock this afternoon. Thathill points out Hillary Clinton will be following last nights dream team lineup. The except into speech is a right of passage for anyone seeking the white house and theeli broadcaster tweeting night when the first u. S. Black president called america to vote for the first u. S. Female president. President s speech last night. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please welco
I have every confidence were going to be unified. Well, you know, maybe somebody should tell that to Bernie Sanders because hes not going anywhere. Hes going straight to california. Hes got some big crowds too, steve. He loves the power he has as the president on house of cards. There will be no false steps now. The higher up the mountain, the more treacherous the path. Kevin spacey is delivering an attack on the real life gop nominee. Wait till you hear what he had to say on donald trump. Well find out what donald trump had to say about kevin spacey, the fictional president. Mornings are better with friends. Welcome aboard, folks. An awfully long week. Im glad its friday. Me too. For me, it just flew by. Yesterday, two minutes ago, we now finally seem to have a break through when it comes to recovering that plane. There have been a number of false alarms and now it looks like they are on to something. We start with a fox news alert right now. Apparently actual debris from egyptair fli