Moment captured on video. This 83yearold woman is suffering from dementia. She comes into the room and her family points out that teddy bear. She takes it and immediately likes it. Gives it a big old hug. Squeeze it. Squeeze him a bit harder. She immediately bursts into joy. You can see how ecstatic and happy shes become and thats become recorded in that teddy bear are the words of her late husband saying you are the best girl in the world for me. So sweet. Thats so sweet. I got goose bumps when i saw the reaction. Her face was like magic. Thats something her husband would write to her in letters as he was away serving. So, obviously, those words carries a lot of weight. Theres a lot of emotion. She had that recording and would listen to it every single day but six weeks ago the recording broke and she thought she would never be able to hear it again. And thats the thing with teddy bears they are sent. Ment sceentimental. Its not just good for her but good for her family. It gives them
It is fat tuesday. This is the day that you are supposed to indulge. Get it all out. Yes. Indulge before lent starts tomorrow, so a big party down south in louisiana and new orleans and up here as well. Weve got some events going on, all for a good cause. Kind of coinciding with that tuesday. We will check in with alex with more on that. First though, lets talk about the having. Is the perfect way to say it. Temperatures on the way keeping in mind that it renosparks average high this time going for the low to mid 60s over the next several days. Record highs to show you just close we are. The first couple days today and tomorrow are not all that close to record highs, but still very warm nonetheless. Thursday only 3 degrees away from that record, and friday 1 degrees away. 66 is the forecast high for friday. The record of all time on fridays date stands at 67 degrees. Only 1 degree away. We could be threatening that record area 61 in town for the high later today. 50s in carson city, an
Retailer tesco to announce it overstated profits by over 400 million. The g20 finance ministers are wrapping up meetings in australia saying they are close to adding an extra 2 trillion to the economy, but the group is warning that europes slowdown remains a major stumbling block. And it is playing out if we take at what is happening with the u. S. Equity futures. Right now the dow futures are down by 28 points below fair value. The s p futures are up by 7 points. Although, andrew, this is an improvement from earlier this morning. Yes, it is. Thank you for that. As joe was telling us, it is a merger monday. Its already shaping up to be a busy monday for deals. Just crossing the tape this morning, germanys merck buying sigmaaldrich. That company is valued at 17 billion. Thats a huge deal. We have both executives from both companies to join us first right here on cnbc and well have that interview at 6 40 a. M. Eastern time. Also, it is official, siemens is buying u. S. Oil field maker dr
Change. We have Team Coverage in the south bay with a look at how people are working with the restrictions. But we have a look at the weather with rob mayeda. You can see the system here starting to bring some showers to shore, mainly off of the east way. Well see snow levels quickly dropping as we go through tomorrow. These are two storm systems, the first one not going to bring a whole lot of rain for the bay area, maybe a quarter inch or less but look at the whole system, snow levels down to 30 feet, we have the alltime record low snowpack as measured in current times, showing you what were expecting as we begin to head into next week now. We could see one to two levels of snow. We could see rain totals going in for parts of the bay area. What it means you may want to water proof some of the eggs for the easter egg hunts. Daytime highs in the stretch of Stormy Weather will be at their coldest since midfebruary. So a winter blast, well show you the timing with the wave of snow. In th
Hello and welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to the program. It is 6 a. M. On monday in london this tuesday morning. Is in berlin with the details of apples new software. We have a breakdown of chinas manufacturing data from hong kong and as president obama kicks off his European Tour ryan more. Nextll tell us hour on countdown. Of the ukraine crisis on investing in russia with the cfo of royal dutch shell. Commodities and other exclusive compensation with the chief executive of rio tinto. Later this evening Goldman Sachs chief executive lloyd link find and Michael Bloomberg said down for an exclusive conversation. Do not miss that interview at 6 30 p. M. London time. To our topt back story. Apple wants to help you control your health and her home. They introduced new software for the iphone and the ipad edits annual developer on france and san francisco. To talkhols joins us tech. Where is apple leading and where are they playing catchup . Rex i think that is an accurate way to look