On national tv. Whats next for the two candidates with the first vote in iowa looming. On the move, the massive winter storm of snow, ice and rain heads east, taking aim at tens of millions on the east coast. Bundle up. An arctic blast of dangerous cold air behind it al has the latest in his forecast bombshell. The new lawsuit claiming Jeffrey Epstein was sexually abusing young girls on his private island for decades. New outrage. The emergency call from that plane that dumped fuel on los angeles schools reveals the pilot may have lied about what he was doing so you dont need to hold to dump fuel or anything like that . Negative. Breaking overnight heres harry the prince steps out in public for the First Time Since the royal split as he reportedly gets set to join meghan in canada today, thursday, january 16th, 2020 announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this thursday morning an historic da
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt. Julia boorstin joins us for the hour at post 9 sara eisen is off. A lot to watch today the dow breaking through 24,000, now up, intraday record and strong day for the nasdaq, too getting news john mccain is on board regarding the Senate Tax Bill of course, it is the last trading day of the month joining us, dan morgan, senior Portfolio Manager. Before that, elon with more on mccain senator john mccain is a yes on the tax reform bill he had been one of the key undecided votes on the republican tax plan, but he said in a Statement Today that though this is not perfect legislation, he does believe that it will grow the economy and add more money to the pockets of middle class families this is key for republicans. They also got a boost when Lisa Murkowski of alaska said she would support the bill, as well, so the only two vocal holdouts appear to be senator ron johnson and senator susan collins, so it look
Good morning. It is a wednesday here in new york city. Youre watching Market Makers. Now, we willom hear from president obama. Before then, breaking news on housing markets. New home sales are officially out. Michael mckee has the new headlines front and center in the newsroom. We have a whole account housing. We have been disappointed but new home sales rose 18 in the last month as people went back and started buying. We also see a big decline in the number of houses available. , we have seen disappointing housing starts. That is starting to come home to roost. We have only a 4. 8 month supply down from 5. 5. 5004000 range. This is the biggest since before the economic crisis. All of a sudden, americans decided they did not just one existing homes. They won 18 increase in new home sales for the month of august. All right, michael. We are waiting for president obama to address the u. N. Is in d. C. We see the brazilian president speaking live and president obama will follow her in a fe
That the rate may have been manipulated lower, which at the surface says people are getting lower mortgages. But remember, it is a zerosum game here. A continuing story. The three banks need to respond to the antitrust complaint in writing and at a hearing. Lets get our morning brief. Overnight, u. K. Inflation accelerating faster than forecast on a higher airfares and shipping costs. That is a little bit in the weeds. No Economic Data to speak of in the u. S. Earnings. Number of home depot just reported. Earnings per share is a little bit lighter than what analysts were looking for. Nate net sales coming in a little bit light. Analysts were looking for 20 billion. In terms of fullyear forecast, it terms looks to be a little bit higher. Additional buybacks over the rest of the year. Early to say if there are any shares trading. We will you know if they move. Goods, dicks sporting and tj maxx will be reporting before the bell. Into it is coming up after the bell. What do you make of sal
Witch hunt. And from the news headquarters, im elizabeth prann. Leland and good to you. Im leland vittert. Elizabeth a mistrial in the high profile trial of actor bill cosby. The District Attorney says this isnt over and theyll retry the case again. The jury said they were deadlocked on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Our Rick Leventhal is live outside the courthouse and will be joining us, hi, rick. This was the longest jury deliberation outside of this courthouse, longer than the trial itself. Despite 53 hours of questions and debate, seven men and five women bussed in from pittsburgh to sit on this jury could not agree on guilty or innocence of bill cosby on any of the charges against him. Mr. Cosby did not celebrate in the courthouse when the mistrial was announced. This is not over for the comedian mo turns 80 next month. The Prosecutor Says hell move forward quickly as possible sometime in the next 120 days. She is entitled to a verdict in this case, and the citi