Gas prices have been going up despite oils drop. Weve got Joe Petrowski telling us what he calls a potential fear premium forming in the gasoline price. Here is a question ive been asking. Is outer space big enough for along musk and Richard Branson . Well tell you about the new satellite war brewing between these two billionaires coming up in a while here. Plus, the Commission Free trading app robin hunt has done 1 billion in transactions. How lock can it keep those trades free of fees . Well ask the founders when they join us live. Lets begin with walmart and home depot and the mixed fortunes they presented this morning. Courtney reagan joins us with that story. Its been a long and short day all at once. Walmart and home depot are dow components. Some small merchandise categories cross over. The reason for guidance updates widely. Home depot, inline enings, stronger than expected samestore sales and better spending among higher income consumers and professionals. Home improvement ret
Business. Okay. Take a deep breath. Count to ten. Because there may at last be a way out of at least part of the monumental standoff in washington. Right now were just half an hour away from a crucial meeting between House Republican leaders and the president at the white house. And everything could hinge on what happens there. Senate democrats just left the white house after their meeting, and Senate Republicans will head over tomorrow morning. Now over in the house, gop leaders announced this morning that theyll offer a bill authorizing a temporary increase in the debt ceiling if the president will agree to substantive negotiations on other fiscal matters. What we want to do is to offer the president today the ability to move a temporary increase in the debt ceiling in agreement to go to conference on the budget for his willingness to sit down and discuss with us a way forward to reopen the government. Yep. You heard it right. This quote unquote deal would not even open the governmen
Think the federal government should regulate ecigarettes and how far regulations should go. We have a special line for users, 2025853203 with republicans at democrats at independents at you can checkcatch up with us on twitter and facebook and at www. Cspan. Org. We have more on the restrictions that were implemented in los angeles over the weekend. Here is the story from the los angeles daily news. Ecigarettes or restricted to the same as tobacco when it was made illegal to puff on batterypoweredd devices starting on saturday, and when to put away their ecit garettes and public parks and beaches and Outdoor Dining areas, this comes one month after reports of potentially harmful chemicals in the ecigarette vapors, and they seek to limit these in the same places that the bok tobacco is barred. This was over the objections of the users who inhale nicotine through water vapor. That is the story from over the weekend. Last week, 11 lawmakers on capitol hill issued reports gateway to addict
[ theme ] stephanie oh, pardon me. Ive just doodling a picture of george w. Bush naked in the shower. Gak stephanie good morning Jacki Schechner. I love those pictures. Laura, hand me the fleshcolored crayon, would you . Stephanie at least youre not on a Carnival Cruise. I missed that story. [ laughter ] stephanie Carnival Cruise ship is on fire. Ship is currently on fire. And toilets were just up d running thisorning. Oh, that sounds so unpleasant. Stephanie Food Poisoning no toilets and the ships on fire. Other than that. Aint we got fun stephanie all right. Here she is in the current news center our news director, Jacki Schechner. The pope is stepping down. Pope benedict xvi announced this morning he will resign on february 28th. In a statement to the cardinals he cites advancing age and deteriorating health. While the move is not unprecedented, it is not common. The last pope to resign was pope gregory 12 in 1415. Pope benedict xvi has served less than eight years but is 85 years o
Kristen, we just heard from governor christie in the last hour. I want to show people, though, this is the area and exactly what it looked like after sandy and then yesterday to today. Are they any closer, though, to getting to the cause, the root of what started that fire . Reporter yes, thomas, that investigation is going on now. There are a number of agencies here looking at it. What the governor said is their focus up until this point has really been to get this fire stopped. You saw those winds yesterday and just how quickly this was moving, how quickly it was spreading and so their focus up to now has been on stopping it. It is now 95 contained. Theyre still worried about a couple of hot spots and still working on that as the investigation begins. Theyre beginning to do some damage assessment. Theyll soon have what the financial toll is but really what weve been talking about today is the emotional toll on people here. Im joined by angie lombardi. She was a Business Owner here. Y