Month. The reporter who broke that story with the latest. And shares of Home Builders Toll Brothers after a mixed Earnings Report and well hear about the companys cautious outlook but we start with the latest on tax reform and a report from politico says the big six are making significant strides on a plan moving past the framework pushed out in july, and one of the big six, Speaker Paul Ryan, is optimistic about getting things done. Heres what he said in a town hall last night. I believe its going to be far easier for us to do tax reform than it was say for Health Care Reform all right how close are we to getting a plan, and what exactly would be in it . Joining us are politicos nancy cook and our own ylan mui. Glad to have you both here for this discussion. Nancy, i was looking at your proposal today about the items that people are kind of rallying around here, but they include controversial ones like, you know, capping the Mortgage Interest Rate deduction and getting rid of the dedu
On cnbc. Im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me as well. Happy pancake day. Happy pancake day. Fat tuesday. I didnt know it was pancake day. Fat tuesday, that is an unflattering name. Getting rid of all the food. And you eat pancakes. We eat pancakes. They actually made a pancake at the end of street signs. I like them with chocolate chips. You guys just eat food . All food . Our slender floor manager said every tuesday is fat tuesday for me. Either way, we just eat. I want pancakes. We have to check in on the Global Markets. We did notch a 12th record close for the dow. Wilfred is not impressed unless we get a 500 point rally, but either way this is the longest string of gains i am impressed. I am impressed. You said, eh, less than a percent. 0. 04 we gained yesterday. Doesnt take much. I need to offset it is incredible. It is. The dow is up almost 5 for the month. The nasdaq and s p up 4 . That clearly is highlighting that this rally picked up again after decemb
In germany, things are relatively flat there. Lets look at crude oil. Looks like right now wti is down by 8 cents to 53. 96. Couple big stories were watching. A crucial cabinet vote last night in the senate. Wilbur ross was confirmed as commerce secretary after a vote of 2727. Ross is key to the administrations plan to overall trade deals like nafta. The white house will hold a swearing in ceremony for ross today. On the economic agenda. Second estimate on Fourth Quarter gdp at 8 30 a. M. Growth forecast to be revised up from 1. 9 to 2. 1 . 9 00 a. M. , the monthly caseshiller home price index and chicago pmi at 9 45. Consumer confidence numbers at 10 00 a. M. San francisco fed president John Williams and st. Louis fed president James Bullard will speak today. Rob kaplan will be speaking with us at 7 30 a. M. Eastern time. Apple will hold its annual Shareholder Meeting at its cupertino offices. Investors will be asked to vote on nine proposals, including one to rope in a third party on
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Clinton may have gotten help during the president ial debate, we are looking into the timer of all of this. We will have district the trick or treat forecast. We will be talking about when the next cold front will bring us or just whether. It is 4 00 and this is the now tampa bay im laura harris. And im paul lagrone, we story in pinellas county. A School Bus Driver arrested for having sex on the bus with a 16yearold female student. This is the driver, we having digging into his history today. We go to st. Petersburg close to where this allegedly happened. Reporter it is such a sickening crime according to the report the bus driver is accused of bringing the girl right here at this her on the bus as you mentioned. Deputies even said it happen before School Started thursday. And it was early in the morning and the accused driver dondre davis made the child walk to school. She is a software sophomore in high school. Davis is no longer an employee, he was hired in 2013 but was arrested to