lauren: turn your attention to the nasdaq at the close yesterday. just 11 points shy of exiting bear market territory. it is up 27.5 points, dow futures higher by 84 and s&p 500 higher for day five. the german dax is up 2/10 of 1%. with german s latest gdp coming in flat, the country avoids recession. in asia, honk song the biggest decliner. stocks in china edging lower, although showing exports rebounded amid trade tensions. beware, the numbers could be affected by the llumar new year. welcome to fbn: a.m.. i m lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everybody. i am cheryl casone. and, yes, breaking overnight, we finally got what we believe is going to be an aversion to another shutdown. lauren: we shall see. cheryl: yeah. overnight, president trump reportedly may extend now that deadline for imposing higher tariffs on china by 60 days if the two countries are close to reaching a trade deal. right now, tariffs on $200 billion of chinese imports are set to rise to 25% from
our theme this year is classic tv shows from our youth. tonight we re dressed as characters everyone under 40 years old will have to google. i am dressed as one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite tv shows, mr. cotter from welcome back cotter. this is not a wig. it is my hair with a blowout. it is more like colin kaepernick, right? you know, every episode, mr. cotter would tell his wife, julie, a ek jo. you wa a joke. did i ever tell you about my uncle socrates. he came from a neighborhood in chicago where it was the fashion to name all of the kids after famo famous people. they kbgrew up, they separated d hadn t seen each other for 20 years. now my uncle socrates opened a tailor store in chicago. one day this guy walks in with a pair of pants who looks just like the man my uncle hadn t seen in to years. my sunk wi my uncle says, hey, euripides. he says, yeah, you minding these? it was a simpler time. [ laughter ] [cheering and applause] jimmy: didn t anyone
ain t taking none. so listen here is the proof once and for all. sniffles magilacuty here, john mccain asked about a claim harry reid is making. he said publicly that you came to him in july and offered to pass a clean government funding resolution, no obamacare amendments. it was $70 billion below what the senate wanted they accepted and you ve reneged on that offer. clearly there was a conversation about doing this. several. several. and you offered a clean resolution. i and my members decided that the threat of obamacare and what was happening was so important it was time to take a stand and we took a stand. jon: did you did you (bleep) hear that? can we stop having the conversation about it? wham is he going to say? they had a deal but obamacare. [ laughter ] we decided to take a stand. do you think obamacare is a big enough threat to the country you need to shutdown the government over it. fine, own it. don t fart and point at the dog! [cheers and app
the 40s, and the day in the 50s. so right now in boston, clouds and 47 degrees. 44 in fitchburg, 41 in worcester. 44 in nashua. to 48 in plymouth. so wide spread 40s here we go. warm up at 9:00 to upper 40s. even a couple of pops of lower 50s across southeast massachusetts. in comes spot showers by noon time today. and temperatures even out to about 50 degrees. but the wide spread rain does not push in until after about one or 2:00 this afternoon. it does mean that we are setting ourselves up for a wet drive home in work with a steady light to moderate rain for evening commute. 46 to 54, for the high temperatures. closer look at what to expect for the morning commute coming up. speaking of commute. here is julie grauert with a look at the roads. reporter: i want to let you know orange line seeing minor southbound delays because of police activity at jackson square station. over to skyfox. pictures of this accident in andover on 93 southbound right at route 113. so it is and
speaking out about a girls right to education. she s here tonight at 11:00 p.m. on a school night. [ laughter ] because she is irresponsible. [ laughter ] malala and i m totally fan girling! [cheers and applause] i don t know. [cheers and applause] someone in the audience taught me what that is. they asked me if i was fan girl being something and i was like, i don t know what you are saying. they explained it to me. you fan girl hard or you don t. and you also have to put your hands like this. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] she s on the show tonight. now [cheers and applause] here is another reason i m excited. i m not leading off with the government shutdown. not doing it. tired of it. switching it up. swept for this one thing getting under my skin. there s a republican lack of what i like to call ownership over the current predicament. this is harry reid s shutdown. this is not the republican shutdown. this is harry connick, jr. and brac brac s shut barack obama s