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Points. This money down futures are hired by 15. Nasdaq futures have three. Lea japans nikkei index up 1 as investors worry about all the tension and chinas shanghai composite and a lower pay half of 1 . Transfer the ceo of United Airlines tries again. His latest apology as united stocks continue to be under pressure. Lea and sports come to the new york mets destroyed the Philadelphia Phillies said quarterback tony romo almost scores a hoop stream. Lauren 5 01 a. M. Welcome to fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Lea good morning to you. This accuses russia of trying to cover this chemical weapons attack last week. White house Officials Say u. S. Intelligence confirm the assad regime uses air and gas on his own people. In an exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo, president tram shares his season area. We are not going into syria, but when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the opponent frustration. They said they got rid of them. They meant what i did should have been done by the Obama Administration a long time before i get it and you wouldve had a much better syria would be better off right now than it has been. Lea the president saying Vladimir Putin is backing a person that is quote, a truly evil person. Lauren President Trump also saying he still wants health heh care reform and he wants it the four attacks overall. Heres why. Obama carries a total mess. Receiving tremendous amounts of money on health care when we get this done number one and most importantly actually will have Great Health Care and all of that saving goes into the text if you dont do that, you cant put any savings into the tax cuts and tax reform. Lauren stay tuned. A full interview will be a morning to maria at 6 00 a. M. Eastern. Lea secretary of state ranks tillerson meaningless or a live frog in moscow at this power. He wants to understand why moscow had such sharp differences and find a way to bridge the differences. Washington find that communication would always remain open. The meeting comes days after the u. S. Launched a major missile strike again the assad regime. And todays meeting, lavrov says the strike was unlawful. Lauren warning of a Nuclear Attack on the United States in any sign of a preemptive strike. The country is prepared to respond to any aggression by the ited states. This comes as the uss carl vinson carrier moves to lotteries that the korean peninsula. Meanwhile, chinese president xi jinping telling president xi jinping telling president transit beijing is willing to work with washington unending Nuclear Program but it wants a peaceful solution. Lea ron estes narrowly defeating democrat James Thompson to fill the seat left vacant by cia director mike ang pao. The first Congressional Election since donald trump was the lack of a president after 3 of the vote counts and 46 , of course been watched nationwide for signs backlash against republicans with President Trump in the white house that republicans have held the seat since 1994. Lauren wwhiskey Global Market action overnight. The japanese nikkei down 1 . The hang seng in hong kong up about 1 . Cost is south korea a quarter of 1 and the shanghai composite in chinatown have the 1 . Lea markets open slightly higher. The foot in london by 26. Cac quarante in paris higher by 20. Lauren one plaster the dow fell 145 points. Dow futures higher by 12 points. S p up. S p f1, nasdaq up three. Lea oil higher by 26 cents at 53. 6 a barrel. Gold higher by 2. 30 at 12. 76 a troy ounce. Lauren will find out how busy shoppers were on friday when retail sales for march are expect it to follow 10th of 1 after rising. Let spending get a boost from tax refunds starting to come back . Journey to discuss that in the state of the overall economy coming rate mcbride, chief financial analyst at bank rate. Com. We signed the jobs report for march that the retail or slashed thousands of jobs. Do they expect retail sales to be solid . Are consumers going to hold up the industry . I dont and its going to blow anybody care about. You dont cut 30,000 jobs if you have a gangbuster salesman. The conser confidence is not translating and to more spending. Household budgets which averted them tighter getting tighter. The Consumer Credit numbers increase. Credit card debt, auto loans and student loan scam each of those over 1 trillion outstanding Interest Rates are going up. Household budgets are getting tighter. The other thing is people prioritize savings higher now than wasting any time since the recession. Not to say people are definitely moving the needle in that direction, but it does lead to greater hesitancy with things like discretionary spending. Lea last week was a disappointing jobs report with the number about half of what economists expected. Whats your outlook following the jobs report . The economies in decent shape. The job number one you the next six months from now, march was the outlier in terms of the job growth number. It came in disappointingly though but a reflection of the few things from the retail was a big job loser this month. We will not see the same pace of cutting jobs over the course of the next six months, 12 months. Also have the weather impact. That is one with metal that the job market, also going to hit the retail sales number. The big storm that hit the north east, it hit the week that job survey was being conducted here definitely a dual impact there. The other thing is employers have a difficult time following and qualified candidates and that is keeping a lid on hiring. Lauren tomorrow we are from jpmorgan, wells fargo, citigroup. In this environment, are you bullish on the banks right now . Tanks are in a better position because the Net Interest Margin which were so squeezed are finally starting to improve. We see things quickly passing along higher rates to borrowers. Theyre not doing so to depositors. Particularly large Banks Holding the line on savings accounts, certificates of deposit that are part 2 quarterpoint rate hikes to credit cards and other forms of bahrain. Lea to talk about Consumer Spending, Business Confidence is up that Consumer Spending has been followed. Why is that . Although we are finally starting to see Household Income growth go up a little faster pace, it is still nothing to write home about. Still under 3 . The sustainable pace weve seen on growth in retail sales in recent years is 4 . You cant have that departure for very long, particularly at a time when Household Budgets are tight and Consumer Credit numbers have inched up you can see an increase in the weaker Credit Profile consumers. Good to see you. Chief financial analyst that a great. Com. Lea new apology for the ceo of United Airlines in the wake of the fiasco that took race on sunday. Remember when a passenger is forcibly dragged off a flight. Facing backlash after the video went viral. Osterman has released the second statement yesterday saying i want you to know that we take full responsibility and we will work to make it right as committed to our customers and employees that we are going to fix what is broken so this never happens again. I promise you we will do better. Shares of united caught mental fell 1 yesterday wiping out 255 million. The stock continued to slide in extended trading. Lauren speaking of airlines. A sharply lower profit compared to a year ago. Analysts looking for a slightly lower revenue as well. Last year delta cut its forecast for slow closely watched revenue. The firstquarter report comes as delta was forced to cancel over 3000 flights. The Severe Weather in atlanta and the northeast. Shares of delta down 8 so far this year. Lea more job cuts at walmart. Hundreds of jobs will be cut International Technology businesses as well as the sams Club Warehouse chain. Earlier this year walmart cut more than one dozen corporate positions, most in the Human Resources department. Walmart announced its beginning to pick up Discount Program so customers what they produce prices and a million Items Available only online. To get the discounts, shoppers have to pick up the orders in Walmart Stores rather than having them delivered. Walmart shares up almost 8 in the past year. Transfer and that the story because because walmart is saving money in there for saving you money. In some cases save 50 bucks. Tesla shares hit new highs. The head of the car dealership chain is pretty skeptical. Autonation chief executive mike jackson. Listen to what he said. He called it inexplicable during the auto show in new york recently tesla passed gm and ford in market caps depending on the exact date or checking these things. Jackson went on to say tesla is either one of the great ponzi schemes of all time or will eventually pay off for investors feared he called tesla overvalued. Ecology and undervalued. Tesla shares can closer record 314 this week. This year they are up about 45 where gm and ford are both down about the fundamentals in perspective here, lester teslas revenue was 7 billion in General Motors is 167. Lea coming up in an exclusive interview, president Donald Trumps Health Care Reform still his top priority. To health care is going to happen at some point. If it doesnt happen fast enough, ill start the taxes. The tax reform and tax cuts are better if i can do health care first. Lea will ask ivan siegfried, gop strategist at the giuliani president ial campaign with the gop needs to do to get a Health Care Bill signed into law. A look a u. S. Stock market futures higher by 20. S p higher by two. Nasdaq higher by five and weve been seeing oil prices on the rise as well. Heres a look at oil now. Oil is higher by 29 cents at 53. 60 a barrel. You are watching fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Stay with us. Heres something we bet you didnt know. Nearly half of all cancers can be prevented. Mostly by making changes in your diet, controlling your weight and of course, by not smoking. Visit prevent 50 dot org and get a free 30 day planner filled with tips, recipes, and more. Lea 85 15 a. M. Here in new york gave President Trump doubling down on health care an exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo. He says hes committed to securing a replacement to obamacare by the end of the year. Hes even pushing back his plan for tax reforms that he can do that. See the interview at 6 00 a. M. Eastern right here on the fox business network. Secretaries date Rex Tillerson in moscow today as Tensions Mount between the u. S. And russia over the steering civil war. The white house accusing russia of covering up serious role in the deadly chemical attack last week. Tillerson told reporters today that syrian president assads regime experiment. United airlines are meant on the defensive following outrage over passenger being dragged up for one of its planes. Ceo oscar munoz has eschewed a second apology climbed eventually recor davidow forcibly removed from the plane after he refused to give up his seat for an airline employee. Lets take a look at u. S. Ock market futures are down futures higher by 22. S p higher by two. Nasdaq futures higher by five and thats whats happening now. Lauren an exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo double air this wonderful, President Trump explains why he wants to pass Health Care Reform before tackling tax cuts. With Business Managers they see as so much more impactful to moving the needle and economic growth. They are all right. Because im saving a tremendous amount, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars we are saving on health care. We are going to have a much better plan than obamacare, which is failing. Lauren joining us now, ivan siegfried, gop strategist and press assistant to the giuliani president ial campaign. Also the author of gop gps. Nice book cover. Let me ask him if you agree with that shooter for the president that they should tackle health care before taxes . In an ideal world we could. Pressing the white house to a second ra and to tell care. Last week Vice President pants, and other members of the White House Administration met with many House Republicans and House Republicans left those meetings saying they are no closer to any bill or anything that could pass the house at this point in time. Theres a lot of riskier and if we go out and do health care twice in bill twice, that is going to be a big problem. Health care should of been a layup for the republican summit werent able to get it done. We should do something that would be a quick victory like tax reform. We can simplify the tax code here we can ensure that many different groups pay lower tax rate such as millennial twoparter decayed economy been charged or the percent that they could be charged a 15 under President Trumps tax plan. Lea you were an oped in march talking about the Health Care Plan insane basically republicans need to understand health care is now great. Once people are given entitlement they consider it a right. What do you think went wrong with the plane before and the republicans effort to push it through and what our Lessons Learned right now . The ahca with the bill done overall, it was written behind closed doors by speaker ryan and he had no input from his caucus, no input from the white house. It didnt include with the president put forward which is removal of state land than with members of the Republican Senate has said about allowing individuals and Small Businesses to pool together to actually buy Health Insurance and freight across so they dont have to pay that much. It didnt go through the Committee Process when it went to the committee, the amount of their members to debate it, add on amendments and how to voted up and down and be a true process. It was controlled from start to finish by paul ryan and was not a good villa as a result. Lauren if they have to Health Care Repeal plants and they both felt that is a disaster. House Freedom Caucus talent for a partners House Republicans will unite in passing repeal and replace plan soon. I have a date with Jennifer Lawrence tomorrow night. [laughter] lea do you really . Issues watching, maybe. We can even agree on the framework of a deal. There were Many Republican governors who came out in opposition of the first version because it essentially pass the buck on cost of the state and fed your problem no longer the federal governments problem. We campaign for 7. 5 years saying we are going to repeal and replace. We did not actually formulate with the package would look like. They would have people saying we are for or against it and its much more easy as a Campaign Tactic to make it an amorphous phrase. We actually have to get back together and that has yet to happen. Thank you so much. Lea the new york mets destroyed facilities in dallas the bus qb. Tony roma almost scored the hoops drea meanwhile, sadnessn the music world. John bascom and the founder of the band was found dead in his home in massachusetts. Well have that story. You are watching fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Ive spent my life planting a sizesix, nonslip shoe into that door. 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Deep Center Section of the against the mets an early lead. He blasts the hall right down the line to left. His second of the game of seven to one. He chose another solo home run to deep left. His third of the game and forth of the year. He finishes with five runs and extrabase hits. 144. In cleveland come in and as raising their American League championship banners before their home on north lake alex. Francisco lander shows off his powerful solo homers to right. That puts the indian Lea Gabrielle0. Todd frazier rips a solo home run to the last. Look at that. Thats his first of the year and the sox tied the game out one. We had two extra innings. Michael brantley goes the other way. Francisco landor has played tom and scores. The indians when it to1 on a walkoff double. Switching over the nba former cowboys quarterback tony romo suited up as an honor a dallas maverick. Even made the starting lineup. From Eastern Illinois tony romo [cheers and applause] lea areas. Matts owner mark cuban wanted from what to play in to play in a game that the nba nixed the idea. Couldnt have hurt thirdquarter denver at 15, Mason Crumley gets the pass and throws down a dunk. 10991. The disappointing season and for both teams tonight. Lauren a familiar name in the music world has died. His full name is john moran kyles junior, but the world know had as jay kyles at the lead guitarist for the band. Yesterday ms. Massachusetts, pages 71. The band was founded in 1967 in release 11 studio albums before breaking up in 1985. Their biggest hit must have got lost and love stinks, centerfold from the album freezeframe was releed in 81 and was number one on the u. S. Billboard ho 100 for six weeks. Lea coming up in an exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo, President Donald Trump lashes out against serious leader. More from the race inter coming up. Youre watching fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Lauren breaking news this morning. An exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo, donald trump says Health Care Reform is his prayer each even over cutting taxes. He also lashes out at serious leader. We will have those highlights for you. Good morning. I am lauren simonetti. Lea and i am Lea Gabrielle and percentsign n. Lavrov was tough tax on u. S. And russian regulation. Lauren investors keep an eye on the dow falling six points yesterday coming back a bit this morning. Data features at 27. The highest weve seen all morning. Nasdaq futures up six. Lea investors they are worried about global tensions. A look at the shanghai composite in china lower by one half of 1 . Lauren ceo of United Airlines tries again. His latest apology as united stock price continues to be under pressure. Lea in sports, new york mets destroyed the lives of former adults football quarterback tony roma almost scores a dream. Youve got to stick around for sports. Lauren 5 31 a. M. In new york are welcome to fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Lea breaking news this morning accused as russia trying to cover up his searing weapons attack last week. U. S. Intelligence confirmed that the assad machine used sarin gas on his own people. 80 people including its own children. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, President Trump shares his views as area. We are not going into syria, but when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the Obama Administration, that they violated it. They said they got rid of them. What i did should have been done by the Obama Administration a long time before i did it and you wouldve had a much better syria would be better off now than it has been. Lea the president saying Vladimir Putin is backing a person that is truly an evil person. Lea President Trump saying he wants Health Care Reform before a tax overhaul. Here is why. Obama carries a total mess. We are saving tremendous amounts of money on health care when they get this done number one. Most importantly actually will have Great Health Care and all of this saving goes into the tax. If you dont do that, you can put any savings into the tax cuts and tax reform. Lauren stay tuned today for the full interview and mornings with maria. Lea secretary of state Rex Tillerson meeting with Sergey Lavrov in moscow. To say he wants to understand why moscow and washington have sharp differences and find a way to bridge those differences. He also says washington finds that communication would always remain open. The meeting comes days after the u. S. Launched a major missile strike against the assad regime backed by the kremlin and in todays meeting, lavrov says the strike was unlawful. Lauren north korea issuing a warning on the u. S. At any sign of a preemptive strike. The norths official news they present the country is prepared to respond to any aggression by the United States. All of this is the uss carl vinson Aircraft Carrier moves right at the korean peninsula. Meanwhile, the chinese president telling President Trump that beijing is willing to work with washington on ending the north Nuclear Program but he wants to work on a peaceful solution to that. Tranter republicans pulling out a victory in kansas narrowly defeating democrat James Thompson to fill the seat left vacant by cia director mike pompeo. This was the First Special Congressional Election since donald trump was elected president when 53 of the vote to thompsons 46 . Watch nationwide for sensitive back against republicans for President Trump down the white house. Republicans have held the seat since 1994. Lauren a mixed bag in a shed. The winner would be the hang seng in hong kong up about 1 . The cost being south korea tacking on a quarter 1 . Between japan and 1 . Shanghai composite down half of 1 . Lea in europe stocks have been edging slightly higher. Cac quarante higher by 23, dx and germany hired by 63. Uren a potential delay to the taxcut timeline at the market down this morning and decide. Dow futures gaining 25, s p up to. Lea oil and gold both on the rise. Higher by 29 cents and 53. 69 a barrel. Gold higher by 60 cents or 12. 70 for a troy ounce. We will find out how busy shoppers were on friday. Retail sales for march expected to fall one 10th of 1 after rising one 10th of a percent in january. The spending get a boost get a piece from independence. Joining us to discuss that in the state of the overall economy is greg mcbride, chief financial analyst at big great. Com. Nice to have you back. Thanks for having me. Tranter firstquarter earnings growing by 12 . Do you agree with that . Do expect that to happen . Stock markets discounted that already. That the expectation. It will be tough to come by. Consumer spending still very were strained by businesses gotten cleaner and a lot has fallen to the bottom line. Is it sustainable in future quarters . Are we going to see a robust pace of earnings growth. It would cause the stock market from here on out to depend on the outlook a lot of on the outlook a lot of companies provide in their quarterly earnings. Lea what are customers going to do with their tax refunds can take recent vacations are saving to pay down debt. People say they are going to save it. Often times they dont follow that through its action. Unless consumers the biggest reason youre not spending more every month, the as weve gotten for your cigarette was they felt their income towards increasing. Strain through a faster growing trend. Now the answer is changing. The biggest reason they dont been more in a month is because they need to save more. Theyve reprioritize saving in a way we havent seen prior to the recession. The question is are people going to follow through and a tax refund is the biggest windfall most households get all your nonbeard is the opportunity you have to make headway financially for their funding retirement account, padding Emergency Savings are paying dowgh Interest Rate debt. Lea the Consumer Confidence is high, the spending is still low. Can you dig into the data and explained . Pc Consumer Confidence of the charts in recent. The level of Financial Security but americans feel had a record high in march. As you said or meant that its not translating into Consumer Spending. Why are people spending . One thing is the uncertainty of the political environment in washington leads to hesitancy. Income growth has been nothing to write home about. Friday was picking up, theres still some 3 . Household budgets are really tight. Debt burdens are growing, Interest Rates rising. Lets talk about Interest Rates rise and potentially good news for savers if you have money in the bank. Thereve also been seeing yields come down. Can you explain that to me . They been coming down over the last week and a half. A lot of geopolitical concerns we are seeing. Anytime investors get nervous they gravitate towards a safe haven of the u. S. Treasuries. The same token on the short end of the curve the fed has been raising Interest Rates. Theyve done so three times and expect they will do so probably once more. I think will get at least one more provided the economy stays on the current track. We have a slow growth economy so it doesnt take much to stub our toe in that could keep the fed on the sidelines. Lea we will see. Greg mcbride, chief financial analyst at banc ray. Com. Nice to see you. Lauren good to see you, great. A new apology of United Airlines in the wake of the fiat dont that took place on sunday. Using the video by now when a passenger was forcibly dragged off a flight coming to airline facing worldwide backlash at the video web i wrote. Osterman is releasing a statement yesterday, another statement that says i want you to know we take full responsibility and we were to make it right. Ive comed to oucusts and employees that we are going to fix what is broken so this never happens again. I promise you will do better. But not enough to let stock prices . Shares fell yesterday, finished the day down 1 . That wiped out about 255 million of the companys market cap. The stock continued to cite an afterhours too. We will watch it today for you. Trade your earnings from Delta Airlines before the opening bell. The care expected to post a sharply lower profit compared to that a year ago. Analysts look for slightly lower revenue. Delta cut its its forecast for revenue manager for the second time in less than a month. Firstquarter report comes as delta was forced to cancel 3005 because of Severe Weather in atlanta which is deltas main hub in the northeast. Shares of delta are down nearly 8 so far this year. Lauren more job cuts at walmart. The retailer says hundreds of dollars for because its international to launch a business as well as dance Club Warehouse chain. Walmart has more than a dozen corporate positions. Most of them in the h. R. Department sends the beginning of last year 18,000 jobs cut. Walmart announcing the pickup Discount Program. Customers will get lower prices on over a million Items Available online only buy two get the discount you have to pick up your order at a walmart store. Walmart is saving money in the last leg of the deliberate and saving you money as a result. Walmart shares up 8 in the last year and doing everything they can to battle amazon. Trade to test the shares heights this week at the car dealership chain is skeptical. Automation chief executive mike jackson called teslas market value inexplicable during the audit showed new york recently tesla passed gm and ford in market cap. Jackson went on toay tesla is either one of the great ponzi schemes of all time or will eventually pay off for investors. He said tesla is overvalued and gm is undervalued. Tessa shares came close to a record 314 a share before dropping and up more than 44 so far this year. Gm and ford both down. Lauren tesla school. Cool ceo, cool cars. Tragedy love their suvs. Well see where it goes. Transferring exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo p. She said, donald trump as he took aim at syria. When you drive gas or bombs that have these massive arrows with dynamite and a drop them in the middle of a group of people and in all fairness you see no arms, no legs, no face, this is an animal. Lauren strong language. What is next for this year he later . We will ask Evan Siegfried, vigilante president ial campaign taking a look at the market. Features at 25 looking at the dow retail sales from the end of the week. You are watching fbn am at 8 42 a. M. In the east. Subsaharan e live longer. And markets continue to rise and fall. Predictable is one thing you need in retirement to help protect what youve earned and ensure it lasts. Introducing brighthouse financial. A new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities life insurance. Talk to your advisor about a brighter financial future. Do you remember what your sdad and i taught you. About hands only cpr . Yes. Uh, kind of. If you see a teen or adult suddenly collapse, the first thing you do is. . Call 911. 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Eastern here on fox business. Secretary of state bracks tillerson in moscow today as Tensions Mount between the u. S. And russia over the serious civil war. The white house accusing russia of covering up serious role in the deadly chemical attack this last week. Tillerson told reporters that syrian president assads regime is nearing an end. United airlines are meant on the defensive this morning following outrage over a passenger being dragged off one of its planes. Ceo oscar munoz has issued another apology calling the event truly horrific. Davidow dr. Was forcibly removed after he refused to give up his seat for an employee. And the markets modest rebound of 28. Nasdaq futures at seven. Thats a look at whats happening now. Lea secretary of state bracks tillerson meeting with Sergey Lavrov in moscow. No doubt the future is topping the agenda they are. And her exclusive interview with donald trump this morning, the president told her we avert aroma that russia is backing an animal. Frankly, putin is backing a person that is truly an evil person. It is very bad for russia. Its very bad for mankind. Its very bad for this world. Trying to join us now, strategists and assistant to the giuliani president ial campaign. Evan siegfried is also author of gps. Clearly the administration is seen as a sub five regime needs to go. Meeting with the russians, russ obviously has two air bases in syria. The ragi naval port and a Strategic Interests in the middle east. Do you think bracks tillerson understands that it takes talking about Strategic Interests to talk about moving assad out of power. Secretary tillerson understands that. And everything he said with what russia has done to back assad. That is not being an animal. Thats pure evil in my opinion. We are looking at a situation where its clear from ambassador fairly odd that theres no political solution that will require some use of force. American people have no appetite for that. There options the president can do with authorization for the use of military force to protect the people of syria the pressure on assad to step down. Lauren two questions, are we seeing a change in policy number one and number two in russias support for assad unconditional . Everything President Trump is easier to type that the Obama Administration at the end of last year. President obama is doing a victory lap about how great the situation was and he was in a warped reality. Now we are seeing that the president recognizes the situation. He also recognizes we are not a nation that really wants to go toward and that we can use limited strikes. The strike on thursday night took out 20 of the Syrian Air Force using 59 tomahawk cruise missiles. Lea but not the weapons. They took off in a more thorough right away. Do you think will end up doing more airstrikes in syria . Where are we going with this . That the layout and salad. It will require leadership and the president and members of congress to go out and say we know its not popular to be involv in any mitary altercation but you have to do it. We have a moral rponsibility. If you see your neighbors house on fire, you dont step back and say im not going to help. We have the ability to help those less fortunate. Lea you mention are some things we can do. Well see if theyre some of purchase carrot approaches rather than stick approaches. Gop strategist Evan Siegfried thank you for being with us. Lauren new york mets destroyed the Philadelphia Phillies. Qb tony romo almost scores a hoops stream. Warm weather in the northeast. On meteorologist adam klotz is coming out. Youre watching fbn am, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. Is bp uses flir cameras a new thermal imagining technology to inspect difficulttoreach pipelines, so we can detect leaks before humans can see them. Because safety is never being satisfied. 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Congratulations, new york. Indians raising their banner before their home with the white sox. Bottom of the first with a solo homer to right. Indians have one nothing. Todd frazier rips a solo home run to a solo homer into the latch left. Here it is, sox tied the game at one. Extra innings by july the 10th Michael Brantley goes the other way coming down the line and left. Francisco linder is waved home. Indians win to1 on a walkoff double. Quarterback tony roma suited up as an honorary dallas mavericks. He which sports an even made starting lineup. In his first season [inaudible] tony romo. Transferred amounts owner mark cuban wanted roma to playing the game of the nba needs to the idea. Denver is that 15. Jason plumley gets the pass and throw down a song. 10991. The disappointing season. And for both teams tonight. Lea already appeared before you head out the door, in the door, and the pitcher wants to forecast with fox meteorologist adam klotz. Od morning. Should be 70 degrees in new york. Yesterday we had 80 degrees. Heres what it looks like outside. This goes to work at an average seasonal high 59 degrees, already 59 degrees. Running down the coast and across the southeast things are looking warm. The couple were spots a shower activity today. Showers continue to work its way towards the east coast. Not that brand but eventually from boston to washington d. C. Getting Early Morning showers commended morning showers clearing up friday afternoon. Not something lingering on. Further to the west the big system with a attention to today and portions of west texas. Theres your timestamp eventually in the overnight hours running early tomorrow morning. This is an area we pay close attention to. Tell to. Tell us a chance of Severe Weather firing up from portions of new mexico into texas today. Thats a big part of the story we Pay Attention to. Temperatures in the 80s and 70s in new york city. Trinity should be a Beautiful Day here at least. 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A lot of news coming out today and we look at that as we look at the interview with the president of the United States as he sat down with the report aroma. Looking forward to that appeared excited to see what he has to pay for tax reform versus Health Care Policy as we talked about earlier in the show this morning. Very much looking forward to that. We are going to say good morning to you, Maria Bartiromo. Maria thank you so much. I am Maria Bartiromo and it is wednesday, april 12. Live from the nations capitol following interview with President Trump. 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. The president lays out his economic land. The commanderinchief bowing to get tax reform done but not before tackling another top issue. The repeal and replace them upon the care still on task