$107.50 a share for time warner. look where it is. quite a bit south. in fact, down on the day largely because the markets seem to be saying this ain t gone that go through. is that the case? market watcher john tamny, that would have been the question i would have put to both of these gentlemen that you might be confident of this deal, but i m telling you, john, early on it does not appear the markets are. what s happening? well, how very unfortunate if the deal doesn t come through, but i think the softness in the stock price reflects the view that washington will block what should, a combination that should go through. implicit in this desire to block at&t and time warner is this view that you can predict the future of the media landscape. well, let s look at the history of that. block buster and media movie gallery tried to merge long ago, it was said no way, they would be too powerful for the video rental space. netflix comes out of nowhere and wipes them both out. d
have received 50% more pay. and the widely anticipated movie 50 shades of grey hitting the silver screen. already breaking box office records in europe. could have a big valentine s day weekend. universal is part of the comcast family. in the meantime let s go to michelle with a check on the markets at this hour. yeah let s take a look at the u.s. futures following yesterday s 100 point gain on the dow and the nasdaq at a 15 year high. strength in europe feeding into the u.s. the numbers suggest the dow would open higher by 33 points: we want to bring your attention to the european markets. they re on track to end this volatile week on seven year highs. the german dax crossing the 11,000 mark after germany gdp numbers came in higher than expected. greece however weaker than expected. we ll talk more about that later. shares of conagra tanking citing a strong dollar and weak sales. they are also appointing former chief sean connolly as the new ceo ceo. kraft is switching up
sending up smoke. it destroyed two businesses near commercial street and berryessa road. marianne favro joining us live with why firefighters are expected to stay on the scene through the entire weekend. the fire started just before 7:00 this morning. ten hours later it is still smoldering. firefighters are still out here. they tell me that the big concern is that the roof collapsed. now they have to bring in back hoes and clean out this area. they re mooping up for hot spots. flames engulfed this complex on commercial court near berryessa road destroying the auto stops. one owner lost a classic car collection. the fire progressed. it eventually went to a third, fourth and fifth alarm. currently probably at a status of a third alarm. some crews have been released. we still have a third alarm on scene. we ll be here the rest of the day. reporter: about 110 firefighters responded to the five-alarm fire. city environmental health leaders are now assessing the possible heal
budged. dow futures down by 6 half a points below fair value. the s&p 500 closed another record high on friday. nasdaq down by 9.5. one economic data point of note, the national association of home builders will release its housing market index for may. that s due at 10:00 eastern time this morning. a little bit of news out of chicago, charlie evans, he says the feds should aim to boost inflation by keeping interest rates near zero until early next year. evans is a voting member of the fomc and argues inflation has been running too low for too long. we just had him on. yeah. yeah. exactly. that s not new, is it? they have got the dual mandate. right. we knew this was kind of where he was headed with things but people are looking at fed speak very closely right now to try to figure out. did you see the fed futures in september pushing that of 0, thinking it s less lick like dr likely. it could be negative in the first quarter. could be .5% for the first half. wha
number, picked her up and took her to his home in the woods, twice did that. the first time there was kissing and then the second time, he took off her clothes. he took off his own clothes. he touched her over her bra and underwear and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear. nbc news has not independently verified these accusations, corfman never filed a lifl suit. we should know the age of consent then is now 16-years-old, she was 14. three other women between the ages of 16 and 18 at the time told the post they, too, were pursued by moore. he never forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact. the post indicates the post did not seek them out. poor calls the report completely false and a desperate political attack. he says it is no surprise, with just over four weeks we maining, in a case in the u.s. senate with national implications that the democratic campaign would come up with these allegations. he responded i don t have night saying. a