enthusiastic for joining. we have byron york and tom dew price tomorrow. trend to volatility once claiming the market with the six-day winning streak with 250 points lower by wal-mart and inflation. our market panel standing by in the futures pointing to another lower open. >> stocks pulling back after wall street loss yesterday. european markets: the red. trade to asia stocks edging higher in japan and south korea as china markets remain closed for the lunar new year holiday. ashley: president trump planning to meet with survivors of the massacre to listening to her this afternoon. "fbn:am" starts right now.

train 25:01 a.m. in new york. wednesday, february 21st. good morning and cheryl casone. ashley: low-carb 1:00 p.m. could have ashley webster in for lauren simonetti. i had a shirt and jeans on when i came in this morning. it is like early spring, early summer. beautiful. crazy. cheryl: we had the open of the markets yesterday and of course we went down. and down. a nice little selloff yesterday afternoon. another day of volatile trading. the dow jones more than 260 points and snapped a six session winning streak for the dow and s&p 500. it is just the appetizer or main course of falling stocks. cofounder flynn's capital management is here. jason garcia met, cofounder of hail investing. good morning.

>> good morning. train to another rough day for the markets. the name of the game right now is inflation and what the federal reserve will do. we look at the market of clarity do you think? >> i think elegant clarity as he talked about on this program at the beginning of the year. inflation and interest rates would be the theme of 2018 as well as volatility disappointed. obviously we seem inflation with producer price index and wages and that bleeds into interest rate and and a 32 maybe three and a quarter 10 year treasury by the end of the year will have some serious implications on market. >> tenure to .88%. the other big story of course is what will happen with wal-mart. do you think i was a one-off for the company is basically was holiday sales committee on my story didn't go so well for them but another quarter could turn

things around for the dow component. >> with wal-mart you have a situation where the stock is less than half the risk on a risk-adjusted scale compared to amazon which is two times the market. you will have these periods when they are trying to compete. i think it becomes an even better buy at these valuations. you don't see these opportunities in the dividend has picked up from there. interest rates are expected to go up within impact on a lot of parts of the market. people adjusting to the fact that silver coin into. i don't think he needs to be had when, but people adjusting to the new fact of the rising interest rates that will keep coming. cheryl: of course again going back to the volatility we are seeing coming d-link to fears about the fed moves are overblown? not just the federal reserve. maybe another interest rate, but also what's going on with central banks around the world. >> exactly.

you hit the nail on the head. as he talked about interest rates are going up, how does that impact the market? the biggest problem is the reflation traber stocks and bonds have been highly correlated with the whole purpose of having bonds in the portfolio is to provide the defense and times when stocks decline. the biggest implication the risk to interest rates rising even more is the ecb. and what ecb and q3, three for going to do to interest rates in europe and around the globe can bleed into the united states for sure. train to the question about where we go when the markets go. we take them off the best week in five years last week despite the selloff yesterday. features done a little bit today, but it doesn't look like we are heading for another correction territory situation today. >> i almost would welcome another retest.

the typical correction after year like last year's more annoying than 15% to 16%. while it wouldn't surprise me if we did hit back on the ballot represents another one of those interest points people have been waiting for. yesterday i'll peel research correlated when rates were rising in the stock market going up at the same time. when rates are below 5% until they get up to that point, you can a positive correlation with the market in interest rates. i don't think we have to mention until they get to the forest. cheryl: we would get those minutes today. doug, jason. thank you for getting up early. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. ashley: president trump will be hosting parents, students and teachers for listening at the white house says the president must impose a regulation that would ban bump stocks in the wake of the part in mass

shooting. a bump stock was not used, but he devices used in the las vegas massacre last year. the president treating last night saying whether we are republican or democrat, we must now focus on strengthening background checks. cheryl: blake burman at the white house has more for us. >> there is a conversation taking place across the country about school safety and how to keep mass shootings out of our classrooms. so to back it over with a conversation about own stocks as it's been 142 days since 52 people at a concert were murdered in 800 injured when a gunman fired up 1100 shots by the use of a bump stock, which gives fans the ability to fire practices session. at a ceremony on tuesday awarded the medal of valor, president trump revealed he supports regulation that would nullify bump stocks. >> i sent a memorandum to propose regulations to ban all

devices that turn legal weapon into machine guns. i expect that these critical regulations will be finalized, just coming very soon. >> later today president trump assesses the need for students and parents on the idea school safety shootings then on thursday the president will meet with lawmakers and officials on the issue as well. the president remains open to shoring up the nation's background check system. talk to you in new york. cheryl: also today the white house to release its economic report to show where the economy is project they took out in light of the new tax law. >> meanwhile, the florida state house voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles. it fell by 36 pedro echevarria 71 vote with students heading to the state capital coal country to call for strict.

they used today are 15 weapon. republican leaders in the state house saying they will consider proposals including raising age restrictions for gun purposes. cheryl: another figure has fallen in the rush to invest occasion. alexander swan, son-in-law of one of russia's precious richest man is guilty about lying about ties to former trump campaign aide richard case. the former associate of the law firm skype admitting he did consulting in ukraine. the white house responded to that. >> this has to do with the generals indicted. nothing to do with this president. cheryl: vander swan faces up to six months in prison. ashley: democrats fuming at the white house announces low cost alternatives to obamacare health care plans. vice president mike pence set to announce that a new look to reduce private space flights and

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ashley: welcome back, everybody. let's get you caught up on what's happening now. the fbi studying the effectiveness of its type line after failed to act on a credible lead about the dangers

posed by nikolas cruz, the parkland florida gunman who killed 17 people last week. concern among some agents at the tip line adds another layer of bureaucracy between the public and investigators. the trump administration pushing a proposal to allow health insurers to sell low-cost plans with minimal coverage as an alternative to obamacare. consumers could buy short-term policies that last up to 12 months, have fewer benefits that come with premiums. democrats are criticizing for promoting what they call a jump policies. meanwhile, the trump administration wants to give a lift to american companies doing business in space. "the wall street journal" reporting vice president plans to announce new moves today promoting private space ventures. they include easy lunch rules and put in the comments department in charge of broader deregulation initiatives. that is what is happening now. cheryl: the private companies can pay for it.

well, speaking of the government, at&t denied access to government discussions over time warner. ashley: tracee carrasco joins us with more on that and the other headlines making news this morning. >> the judge overseeing the lawsuit to block at&t's purchase of time warner has made at&t's request for the records between the white house and the attorney general and between the attorney general in the antitrust division regarding the deal. at&t wanted call logs and other communication records to prove it had been especially singled out by the doj not because of antitrust concerns but because of the president's dislike of cnn. a lawyer for at&t and time warner said we respect the judge's decision and look forward to the upcoming trial. the trial is set for next month. cheryl: there is a dunkin' donuts scam going around?

>> yes. a story and a clickable coupon is being shared by the online that offers three boxes of donuts to celebrate its anniversary is not real. thanks it. with messages like dunkin' donuts is providing to celebrate 67th anniversary. the links send people to a three question survey about the change. further steps involve sharing results on facebook, other personal information and answering more questions. dunkin' donuts 68th anniversary. >> i would've fallen for a straightaway. no surprise investing in something else. >> this is an interesting thing when you have a lot of money you look for things like this. you need to watch when you have this. amazon ceo jeff bezos invested in the $42 million project and installation has finally begun on the 10,000 year clock. they treated this video can set

the clock of 500 feet tall, all mechanical, synchronized as solar noon. assemble for a long-term thinking. the clock is being built in texas. >> i still have the question why. cheryl: because you're bored and have a lot of money. cheryl: we will see later in the show. ashley: nerd versus nerd on the big bang theory. >> i just want to say i'm a big fan. you're my 15 favorite technological visionary. >> only 15? >> is still six thoughts about steve jobs. ashley: will tell you that the newest guest nerd will be on the show. guess what, enjoy it while it lasts. it feels like summer in the city right now, but it will not last forever. janice dean will have the forecast and let's take a look at the features for you.

we've lost about 254 points on the dow yesterday and we sat a little bit today about a quarter of a percent. we will be right back. ♪

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punching shelton in the nose, the bill gates will be in an episode of the big red theory next month to the cofounder will be joining the cast from the plane himself in the 11 season of cbs dirty sitcom. stephen hawking, elon musk and steve wozniak abominate appearances on the show over years. the first time gates has been seen in the show since his appearance in fraser all the way back in 2116 years ago. 17 years ago. cheryl: how time flies. it's hard to believe speaking of time that there was snow in the northeast over the weekend and now we make a record raking high temperatures today. ashley: janice dean is here with our forecast. i've thrown away my coats, my scarf, hats, gloves. i'm ready for spring. >> you'll need it tomorrow so bring it out of storage. a bit of a roller coaster ride.

we will see record-breaking temperatures along the east coast today. tamara temperatures will go down so enjoy it down so enjoy it while it lasts. 58 in new york, 70 today, but look at this cold front. backups all these warm temperatures. 37 in dallas, 27 in tulsa. this is a cold front causing major problems across portions of the mississippi river valley. we have rain, sleet and freezing rain and snow behind it. the ice is going to be the concern. ice warnings for many areas as the friend continues to linger. got this freezing layer of air and that's why we have the potential for freezing rain and sleet and all this rain by the way is not going to budge over the next couple days. flash flooding a big concern from eastern texas tourism atlantic and northeast the next couple days. behind us cold enough for snow.

brief warnings in effect for southern california. a real difference. winter in the west end summer in the east in some cases. heavy rain is going to be the concern of freezing rain in late and we will enjoy this irony -- that's wrong because we would get up to 70 today. 47 degrees tomorrow. today enjoy it, but you have to bring your winter gear out tomorrow. ashley: took it away so quickly. you didn't even show it. >> is telling ashley was running in central park and there was snow on the ground and 70 today. >> at least it's keeping us in business. ashley: good point. those are the of the most colorful maps i've ever seen. it was really a sight to behold here's >> a pleasure to see you. thank you, cheryl as always. cheryl: my cash is coming later. coming up, she has acted again.

house speaker nancy pelosi slamming the tax cut as unpatriotic, but this time the audience wasn't all on her side. >> make ends meet. [inaudible] were not talking about that. >> will debate the dems anti-tax-cut strategy with our political panel. snap is getting slammed for changes to snapchat. it's now just too complicated. fewer features for you. we lost again a triple digit loss yesterday. today, futures pointing to 54 in the premarket. we shall see. we will be right back. [fbi agent] you're a brave man, mr. stevens.

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>> i'm a mother of five. i can speak louder than anybody. cheryl: house democratic leader nancy pelosi interrupted during her town hall event as she claims the tax law will hurt middle-class working families. a live look at that, not here >> volatility slamming the stock market with a six-day winning streak with 254 points in futures pointing to another lower opening when we open up at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> europe stocks pulling back after the law says that the cac and dax. >> stocks edging higher in japan and south korea. markets remain closed in china with the lunar new year holiday. >> disney announcing last month it would pay $1000 bonus. disney world accused of holding the bonuses hostage. "fbn:am" continues right now.

ashley: good morning, everybody. 5:27 a.m. on february 21st. i'm your in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: great to have you here for the day after his recalling the great >> a day after another selloff. cheryl: more volatility. i'm cheryl casone and we've got a lot to cover. >> first let's talk about politics. 1000-dollar bonuses crumbs. but now nancy pelosi says the president tax plan is unpatriotic. >> you are cutting the taxes at the high end and therefore not being allowed to invest in the future. you are doing a great disservice to the country. >> it wasn't long before the house minority leader was heckled during the sponsored town hall in phoenix.

>> most people are not in poverty, but some are. most people have to struggle, make ends meet. we are not talking about that. i'm a mother of five. i can speak louder than anybody. cheryl: for more on this from a democratic strategist and republican strategist fort o'connell. good morning. >> for the republicans, looks like they are using nancy pelosi is a political thought all for the midterms. he set the right strategy? >> absolutely. the 28 to mid-terms, nancy pelosi will be the mvp if republicans hold onto the house. she's more politically tone than hillary clinton and that is saying a heckuva lot. when you tell voters an extra $200 a month is just crumbs, you're basically disconnected and not understanding how they live because that means paying

your rent, putting food on the table the democratic party has shown they understand that. >> even the super pac that supported obama and hillary clinton. they sent out a memo to those in the party say they are questioning the strategy of going after the tax cuts, the there helping the rich, bad for the poor. wrong thing for nancy pelosi and democrats to use as a selling point for them in terms. >> it doesn't make sense to go after nancy pelosi. historically speaking whenever the party taking back the party taking back the house is going after the leader of the party currently in control, does the word. in 1994, newt gingrich's negative eight in terms of popularity but it didn't help democrats in any way whatsoever to stop him from taking the house. that is point number one. going after these tax cuts, democrats have a really good field of candidates running

across the country. great knife that candidates of all backgrounds who have the policy they need to commute to their bases. out they donate that much of a difference one way or another. i do know far exactly a better candidate than about 10 republicans who feel it in the last decade. >> i've got it totally disagree with that. nobody over the last eight years a bigger lightning lightning rod for the republican party and its basically the gift that keeps on giving from crumbs in armageddon to confiscating guns. >> it doesn't matter for it. cheryl: it's early. one at a time. >> i'm still talking. my point is nancy pelosi is a good thing. if i were advising democrats. what i would say is your basis fired up. hate works for your voice. but now you need to find a way to pull in new undecided voters in the best way to do that is,

for some idea about what you're going to do for the voters and put it back into power. >> i want to bring up another point. when people go to vote in november come and they save more money in their paychecks come even 50 bucks, that covers the cell phone bill. democrats who sold themselves as those for the working people, working americans parking at the wrong tree trying to convince the tax cuts didn't help them are trained to see in a check. >> event at some point except the republicans have a hard time on the seat beside for years on end. the other night we saw a woman in kentucky in a district donald trump carried by 49 points in common than is running a strong campaign in pennsylvania for tailor-made republicans. it doesn't really strike me this time around the argument will hold. fifty dollars might be enough to cover his cell phone bill, but what about the future of our country, infrastructure, gun

control. >> she was in arizona today again we should not choose in tucson today, but in phoenix yesterday saying all this debt and federal spending isn't the value of the american people. back to my earlier point if people see extra cash in my checks they will vote that way. >> that's exactly right and we see that in the polls as well. the trump tax bill has an approval rating in the congressional generic ballot which is essentially going to decide which party controlled the house went from 13 last month down to six right now and the gop is even up one. basically, the policy plan is using along with touting. when people see money in their pockets, they are much happier. >> one other quick question here and that is the idea of gun control. they have now come around and said yes, you are going to mention this. we will address in particular assault rifles.

that is something the gop has ran very strong on. can democrats effectively go after republicans on gun control if they are going to do something about gun control? >> donald trump in a statement saying he will go after bumps docs but it's nowhere near gun control. we have to do what my status on and then them altogether. back home in my state in the district of maryland, we had a young man walking to school the other day with an armed handgun in the police discovered he had several weapons at home including grenades come as c-4 and an assault rifle he was planning to use on students along with the hit list. >> even if republicans do something that's not enough in your opinion. >> they need to do more than talk about gun control. we need to get rid of them once and for all. the second amendment was for an

organized militia. it wasn't designed for young people to go get weapons and go after friends in school. they will lose the election if they continue to go after this plan. >> this is not necessarily an issue. this is more of an urban versus -- [inaudible] >> i'm talking, my man. cheryl: we need coffee with to you. ford, last word. >> what the president is trying to do and gun control is the right thing and that is to minimize the shootings and put forth an honest effort. republicans are going to win. cheryl: it wakes me up every time you join us. appreciate that. thank you, guys. >> uncertainly awake. disney accused of withholding bonuses from employees. tracee carrasco joins us about

another headline making news. >> good morning. talking about the $1000 bonuses employees were given because of tax reform and a windfall they are. but now come the union employees at disney world in orlando, florida said the company is withholding bonuses because they haven't worked out a contract. disney offering a contract with a 50-cent raise over two years in a $200 signing bonus. however, 93% of the union workers voted against the new contract. until they work something out, they will not get the bonuses. the bonus will expire on august august 31st. tricky. a hotel chain giving discounts for putting away your phone. >> this is an interesting concept. wyndham hotel will give you 5% off if you spend time with your kids at the hotel. this is called the reconnected

program and they really want kids and parents to spend time together without the distraction of the cell phone. they have to stay at the wyndham grand hotel to get the 5% discount and get a lock box where put your cell phone and then there will be a timer on it. it won't open until the time is reached and that is when you can get your cell phone back. i don't know how many parents will give up their phones. ashley: sire was lucky not -- just kidding. cheryl: that would be really bad. >> i going to withdraw. tell us about the whole controversy over snap chat. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. >> people are upset about this. debris launched an overhaul. an online petition with a million people who signed it asking not check to go back to the old version. people are really upset about it saying it's no longer a social

network. no timeline, no new speed, no legs, no comments. the order in which you see what your friends are posting is designed by an algorithm. so it's not chronological order anymore. they say it's very confusing, so they wanted to go back to the old way. it's an augmented reality and shows videos. people are really happy with this. >> i don't know how we can carry on frankly. >> i couldn't get into snap chat before the change. >> the stocks fell. >> it did. people are upset. cheryl: we have a lot more coming up. the u.s. and north korea secretly planned a meeting in south korea. we'll find out. vice president pence was visiting there, but the north walked away. volatility is back. how oil and gold are doing right now. our next guest is all of the

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>> welcome back. let's get you caught up on what's happening now. vice president pence concludes to the delegates in south korea, but north korea backed out at the last minute. north korean officials called off the meeting because they were unhappy with the vice presidents tough message announcing the human rights record and warning about where sanctions. in syria, bombs continue to fall on rebel held areas. syrian forces backed by russian warplanes killing at least 200 over the past three days. activists and rescue agencies say the airstrikes targeted at the severing hospitals and one rescue center. former "star trek" actor william shatner sent on a campaign newsletter featuring a photo of herself. paid to take the photo at the event. the 860.or found out and treated her and said the photo

misleadingly suggest an endorsement on his part. chambers stayed. she apologized. that is what is happening now. ashley: donuts that captain kirk. our commodities tend in the return of market volatility? ceo granite shares. good morning to you, will. gold, traditionally safe haven with all this talk about inflation. the market goes nuts, volatility goes through the roof. i don't see it again and gold prices reflecting that. why is that? >> not yet. typical reaction the market has when you have volatility is the market tends to flee to safe haven assets, predominately the u.s. treasury first and then gold comes in as a secondary measure. typically you see higher performance in gold when inflation really starts to the some momentum here in the market. we are not quite there yet.

at the moment people are buying gold alongside treasuries in anticipation of higher inflation hearing also a weaker dollar. at the moment, gold sells off its treasuries the dollar is weaker. transfer your long-term bullish given on what we expect inflation to do. is that right? >> i believe gold should be part of a diversified portfolio and the conditions for gold and commodities are right. we have two back-to-back positive years for commodities across the board and these conditions we see now in a synchronized global demand increasing for commodities including gold and oil are conducive to where we are. >> with the prices are fair. 61.24 and sweet crude oil west texas. it seems to me oil was heading out pretty strongly. maybe in the mid-60s range and kind of came back down. is it all about the u.s. tracker is continuing to pump more oil into the market?

>> yeah, at least in the short term it's all about the short-term supply demand fundamentals. the market is well supplied at the moment, but what is keeping oil at this level for these sort of elevated levels is this big synchronized global economic demand for oil has local gdp increases. the market is well supported from a demand to end we've seen that in terms of the prices holding hearing recovering quite quickly from the shock after the volatility of the last couple weeks. cheryl: could you argue the influence of opec continues to fade as the output from united dates continues to gain ground? >> the influence is still very strong in the cut that they made are still working into a great degree we will see whether that can last. you have a few members there that want to try and buck the trend and start producing or pumping more oil.

but at least as long as the embargo stays in place and they can hold those where they are, the price should be well supported. ashley: with that in mind very quickly, were easy oil going here? higher turns 70 or dip down into the 50s again? >> at the markets are volatility continues the way it is, you might see a further selloff in oil. if there is stability from here you could see prices start to move up again. >> i just want to pay less at the gas pump. will ryan, thank you for joining us. cheryl: i was thinking the same exact thing. summer driving season. ashley: just around the corner i hope, i think. cheryl: lindsey don and her last downhill run at the winter olympics. garrett max above the winter olympic highlights. what european stocks are under pressure this morning. a lot going on at the pond.

>> always. cheryl: there's your features as we go to break. the free market 46. we will be right back. ♪

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cheryl: for the second night in a row, the u.s. men's hockey team played in an elimination at the olympics. ashley: yes they did. garrett max is here with all the highlights. >> we are all feeling a little blue. but the red, white and blue. no miracle on ice this year. one year after the team cut the olympic team alive, they went down against the czech republic, natural rescue team. issued out, scoring the only

goal in the extra round team u.s.a. was shut out in the shootout. eliminated from the pyeongchang olympics. russia knocked off norway six pedro echevarria one. you thought last night was a late night. the women's u.s. hockey team plays for the gold medal against defending olympic champion canada faces off at 11:10 p.m. eastern time. monumental performance by 33-year-old american skier lindsey bond. the oldest female medalists in alpine skiing at the winter games -- he won a bronze medal after von told nbc i wish i could keep going. i wish this wasn't my last olympics but it is. i don't think my body can take another four years of ski racing. she said she hopes she made her grandfather proud here is >> our family never gives up and i never gave up. i'm really proud of this and i know he is too.

>> lindsay von whiskey again tomorrow. north korean speedskater disqualified from the 500 meters crashed on the ice twice accused of tripping a japanese opponent a little bit of controversy last night. disqualification of 500 meters the u.k. dallas mavericks say there's no room for such conduct in the workplace. the team responding to a scathing story in "sports illustrated" about ceo truckee river sharif. mavericks have received information about behavior in the work place. that appears to have violated the organization's standard of conduct. mavericks went on to say he left the team nearly three years ago in the mavericks have only learned of the scope of these complaints in the last recent days. mark cuban, the owner of the dallas mavericks caused the accusation supported. an atmosphere described as animal house like behavior. the louisville men's basketball championship title will be forfeited because of the sex

scandal within the program. not only did rick pitino lose his job, but the school lost its appeal for the ncaa. the 2013 title never happen. among the sanctions they have to vacate 123 of them and millions of dollars of revenue received from the ncaa tournament experiences. three-way trade in major league they saw. stephen suzette ann taylor wagner. the tampa bay rays end up with anthony bennett and extol it. after the miami marlins said the players and goes to have to wear baseball caps from sun does with ties in part than before the exhibition opener. major the baseball says all 30 teams will do the same before they begin their exhibition openers this week. strict uniform those who don't know if the marlins players might wear the caps during their game against the cardinals friday. it certainly would be special. it was appropriate for the yankees and mets to wear those

n.y.p.d. and fdny. they will do it before the games. hopefully they get to do it on the field. cheryl: garrett max, thank you. pitches sports reports 24/7 sirius xm channel 115. ashley: stocks in europe actually ended higher. a live report from london. it can power your apps with public services without starting from scratch. it brings your business up to speed, doing more with systems you have in place. it can bring all your apps to life and run them within your data center. it is... the new ibm cloud private. the cloud that's designed for your data. ai ready. secure to the core.

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cheryl: european stocks lower. pieter dixon, global equity congressman joins us now. what's going on over there? >> it's been a weak start as you pointed out. despite the fact he saw a reasonable rally in asia overnight come ice till think europeans tax are taking their cue from the u.s. because we had a busy weekday yesterday in the europeans are adjusting to that. to be fair, after a selloff we do seem to be stabilizing little bit and i think it's a good upside in the datacom. ashley: peter, long time no speak. also reacting to become expect to use out of the euro zone. >> those are little bit

surprising. sunday masses on the provisional abstinence for both manufacturing services. and also a true across the board for france and germany. markets have it sold off as much as you might have expected. and this sentence in the price. those were a little bit of a surprise that i think going forward we probably would expect to viewers to go at a slightly slower pace as of late which might take the edge of stocks. >> peter, thank you for the perspective this morning. >> we believe we are going to start in his lower leg today. we lost 254 points on the dow yesterday. we'll start a little lower, but who knows what happens next at the volatility. cheryl: we will go to maria bartiromo without now. >> good morning to you. happy wednesday. it is wednesday, february 21st to top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast.

winning streaks in their first trading day of the week or the dow closing down better than 250 points yesterday. the big loser of the day was wal-mart as we told you yesterday the stock was tumbling more than 10%, marking the worst day for the retailer in 30 years. investors concerned of the companies slowing online sales growth. futures this morning look like this. indications are mixed opening for broader averages. continues to decline with another decline this morning by 30 points or the s&p 500 is weaker by 3.5. the nasdaq were closed as unchanged, up a fraction. major indices are lower. ft 100 in the cac down. in asia overnight come the great across the board. china remaining close for the lunar new year, but the best performer was in hong kong. hang seng up almost 2%. unpatriotic minority leader

nancy pelosi with it historic tax overhaul. this time she says it's a grave disservice to the country. >> is what you are doing is cutting taxes at the high-end and therefore not being allowed to invest in the future. you're doing a grave disservice to our country. more as the cloud slams pelosi over her own not worth the wait until you see what happens next great tragedy in alabama to report. a police officer killed, suspect dead following a standoff with police. the latest from the scene this morning. the dallas mavericks are investigating claims of misconduct after he "sports illustrated" investigation had over a dozen current and former employees labeled the environment is hostile. news coming as the basketball program is stripped of its national title following its own sex scandal. details of the court coming