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wye can key temperatures are looking similar in philadelphia. 68 degrees. millville 65. we have 67 degrees, mount pocono a little cooler as you can imagine at 60 degrees in dover, delaware 64, all and all about the in mid 60 s range there. we will have a complete forecast for you coming up in a couple of minutes. right now though we will begin with breaking news a violent night in the city of philadelphia police are investigating four homicides. eyewitness news reporter justin finch is live at police headquarters to tell us more about that, justin. reporter: nicole, good morning. police are working overnight on all four cases most recent happening at 3:30 near broad and hunting park avenue. lets get to you that video. that is a park where a 17 year old girl was found stabbed. she would later die. about that time 3:30 a.m. on the 5100 block of north front street in the olney section a man was found shot and killed and another on 5200 block of masher, a man was foun ....
what it means for you and the markets. a big day for earnings. some major movers ahead of the open will set the tone for this trading day. we ll dig in on a lot of the big reports. and one name with a big earnings move is twitter. shares up nearly 10% right now. take a look at the eye popping numbers. first up though the president set to unveil his proposed tax law changes today. among the highlights a cut in corporate taxes, a cut in the rates of foreign profits brought back to the united states. the lawmakers were briefed yesterday by treasury secretary mnuchin and director cohn. mnuchin spoke a moment ago about corporate tax rates. i will confirm that the business tax is going to be 15%. that is what the president said in the campaign. he said that s critical to drive growth and, you know, what i would say people talk about pass throughs. what we think is important is small business. and we are committed that small business, owner operators, will have the benef ....
this hour a day after digesting that tax plan. t all are up higher. in asia, a bit of a mixed picture. in europe, a look at european equities, still open in many parts of the world. a bit of a red picture. finally a quick take on crude prices. wti trading at 49.19. i don t know. i did see 49.20 or 30, i did see some stuff yesterday that if they don t if opec does not go along with the cuts, you could see it back to levels of around $40 if they don t continue with the cuts. both of these guys getting nervous. don t try that at home. the white house says president trump it s when johnny deposition is moving like this in alice in wonderland. it s a weird dance he does, but it means things are out of whack. as far as nafta, president trump has agreed not to terminate the nafta agreement and will try renegotiating it. the white house said they agreed to proceed with negotiations swiftly. there had been reports earlier that the trump administration intended to b ....
coming up for you in this edition of closing bell, amazon, alphabet, microsoft, intel, and starbucks reporting earnings today. breaking down intel s big quarter exclusively to the cfo, bob swan. there s a bunch of others out there. just went with the headlines. i hear ya. all the first five minutes of next hour. alphabet may dominate the digital age, but martin sorrell said amazon is the biggest threat to his industry, and he s joining us in a moment to explain why. first, let s begin with the reaction to the president s tax proposal. steve leisman at cnbc headquarters to look at the economic impact has. eamon, you first. bill, one of the questions here has been over the past 24 hours or so coming to the president s tax plan has been whether or not they ll make changes to 401ks and tax treatments. i asked sean spicer in the briefing, over after the briefing, i spoke to an official here who clarified they are not planning on making changes at all to 401ks in t ....
they want to check that out as well. we kick it off here with the google, hitting all time highs in the after session, costing $900 a share for the first time ever. let s go to san francisco, they just spoke with a top company executive moments ago, josh, what s the headline? obviously here, melissa, listen, some investors expressed concern headed into this print because of that youtube advertiser boycott. what that would mean in terms of impact. i did talk to a senior capextive at the company. they said listen, they take seriously to protect the ecosystem. we know google did implement few controls and policies from a revenue perspective, this executive saying the near term impact from that controversy would be in their words modest. you saw google advertising revenue $24 billion. long term this executive saying they continue to benefit from a secular shift from how people are consuming continent, in oth words, youtube is the place to be t.cfo also weighing in on the ....