good evening everyone. my name is my husband and i are the owners of the bookstore, i want to know if you can hear me, we have a new sound system. does it work well? he has! oh great, wonderful. well, we are obviously thrilled and honored to be celebrating the publication of jfk and the reagan revolution. we have the two coauthors with us. a man who needs no introduction, mr. and his coauthor brian domitrovic, who is the associate professor and chair of the department of history of the sam houston state university and the two of them worked on the book together and they will be talking about it together. and we are so thrilled and so honored to have you both here, thank you for coming. i should mention also, larry lives across the street and he is a regular customer here. he has been four years. for over 20 years! that makes it so much more special and so personal. so please join me in welcoming larry and brian, thank you. thank you very much, i appreciate it. hur
some really concern concerning images, as you can see here, from the streets of tampa. many people crowded together, this weekend, with very few masks. and there are concerns super bowl parties could lead to a spike in cases. this, as the u.s. has surpassed 27 million known cases of coronavirus. and now, the new worries about the covid variants, first identified in the uk. a new study finds cases of this variant are increasing, rapidly, here, in the u.s., and significant community spread may, already, be happening. now, president joe biden calls the pandemic a, quote, national emergency. and criticized his predecessor s handling of it. take a listen. a disappointment was when we came into office is the circumstance relating to how the administration was handling covid was even more dire than we thought. the trump administration. we thought that it indicated there were a lot more vaccine available. and it didn t turn out to be the case. so, that s why we ve ramped up eve
spending and chicago pmi fed chair with alan blinder in a few moments. steve liesman will give us a curtain razor on that. hey, steve. good morning, carl. yeah, we re wondering whether powell continues a cautious tone, much more cautious tone than the market seems to embrace and in a way his cautious tone seems to give the market a green light because it means more stimulus or the fed being around for a long time here among powell s concerns he s expressed in the past that the employment and growth rebound could take longer than it anticipated, some businesses won t survive the downturn, a possible second wave of the virus and the stimulus will run out and think about more stimulus on the other side you can see the effects of the stimulus carl alluded to in the income and spending numbers this morning. quite astonishing. every one of the numbers you re about to see are historic, never been there before. 11% month to month rise in income we ll tell you why that happened in a
striking distance, stocks are on track for what would be we ll see, the first loss in four sessions, but really can t get much of anything out of the future moves right now plus, deal or no deal, t-mobile/sprint battle heads to court. 13 state attorneys general led by, of course, california and new york are seeking to block that merger. and it is an m&a monday, we have two big premium deals in biotech, sanofi and merck. i m going to get to that jim does too stock picking so important there in terms of figuring out where those premiums are going to end up stocks overall set to look for a modest open this morning, this after friday s jobs report rally. that resulted in the s&p erasing its losses for last week trade once again in focus here, heard jim talking about it on squawk box. the next round of u.s. tariffs against chinese goods set to go into effect, this sunday so we are now counting down. and new data shows chinese exports to the u.s. fell 23% in november i don t kno
turns in southern california moving into arizona, a lot of the next system splitting, 30s for a few, 40s for many, many low 50s on the temperatures, even 35 up in kelsey, 39 kenwood, 35 polk valley, lots of 40s to mid-40s with the fog zero visibility for some, not for all, for some, about a quarter mile visibility or less except san jose now down five or 10, we will keep an eye on that. 50s on the temperatures with the fog the sunny. the phone in the traffic. the fog may make it tough, tough for me to driving, i was driving slower and 30 drive slower it takes you longer to get to work, let s go to the bay bridge and you can see it will be foggy here, also it will be foggy on the 880 driving south, very foggy oakland and also on the san mateo bridge, the commute has been a little slow getting to the south bay on the 680, we talk about the south bay and the 680 commute when we come back in a few. let s go back to the desk. police in new zealand say they do not expect to fin