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weakness in asia but again it looks like germany and france are turning things around at this point. okay. we ll talk about ebola this morning. the first case of a person contracting ebola on u.s. soil has been confirmed. a health care worker treating thomas eric duncan who died last week contracted the deadly disease. we are joined this morning from dallas by meg tirrell. meg? reporter: that s right. good morning. this health care worker was taking care of thomas eric duncan. on friday she started to feel ill, went to the hospital to be assessed on saturday and tested positive. yesterday the cdc confirmed it was ebola. now we know that as of yesterday her condition was stable. one of her contacts has been proactively placed into isolation. the cdc director tom frieden said it is unknown exactly how the health care worker was exposed. we don t know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient in dallas. but at some point there was a breach ....
we re talking about real revenue revenue. we have a controversial story on cnbc.com today. the headline reads is the 401(k) experiment a failure? first we didn t know it was an experiment but we will get to that a little bit later. the writer of that piece on cnbc.com says that the facts add up to an f for 401(k) retirement plans. we ve heard from many of you on twitter as you respond to that article, but the author kelly holland, will be with us to back up that story and we ll be talking about it a little bit later. yeah. ted cruz he jumps the line. he s now the first to officially declare he is running for president. so where will he get his money? is anyone on wall street behind him? we ll find out later on in the show. let s get you caught up on the markets today. kind of a quiet session even with comments by fed vice chair stanley fischer which we ll talk about in a moment. the dow is up 54 points. we re getting closer to an all-time high for the dow, too, ....
offshore and this is a system that will bring showers to the bay area overnight and let s get down to the winds gusting and fairfield and 35 in novato. that 93 in san carlos is not human error and it s the mechanical and it s an error. as you get the picture. it s gusty ail over the bay area. so over the next six hours this will be the pattern and we ll see the area of rain that is now to the north and northwest pushing into the north bay by about 9:00 10:00 tonight and the wet weather begins then and the showers will move through during the overnight hours and this is the first forecast, as we look down toward ocean beach and we ll see showers arriving late continued and lingering showers early tomorrow morning and check this out, partly cloudy and breezy and dry by tomorrow afternoon and our weekend gets off to a wet start it s going to be a sunnier dryer finish and more on that later. larry and ama? spencer, we ll check back with you in a few minutes and looking ....
quarter will be a downer? how can you get short? ron insanneh wrote an article about this and will give us the short side of the story. we hear a lot about geopolitical fears in the market, whatever that means. we have one big one for you today. russian troops increasing their numbers on the ukrainian border. if they move in, it is safe to say the markets will not like it, not one bit. first, to sue at the nyse. sue? right now, we have an update as we prepare to close out the first quarter. but outside of u.s. equities, emerging markets have been a big story, of course. there has been a real drop pretty much across the board. three big examples for you, china down 6% year to date. chile down 3.5%. turkey is down as well. in the last seven days, the etfs covering these markets have rebounded. brazil up 11% in a week. turkey up 8.5%. south africa and china up 8%. chile and india up 7%. we have the markets covered from pretty much a to z today. we have reports on oil ....
here at this hour, by the way. we also have both covered with a live report from iraq and our pros weigh in on just what the fed may do this week. also, a very special and exclusive interview after the bell, traveler ceo jay fishman in a rare one-on-one. he is widely viewed as one of the most respected and effective ceos in the corporate world. fishman will weigh in on the state of his business, the overall economy and much, much more. you don t want to miss it. all right, we can t wait. in the markets right now, take a look at the dow. it is down about nine points. the situation in iraq is certainly weighing heavily on the minds of investors today. the fed meeting, which is looming, which begins tomorrow, is as well. the nasdaq holding on to a gain of just under four points. and the s&p 500, we can call that flat on the day. joining our closing bell exchange right now is rob stein of astor investment management, joe tanias, kim forrest of fort pitt capital group. ....