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Weather words here in the next few days is drip drip drip. That refers to the melting snow, the rain thats coming and possibly your chief meteorologist is a drip. You never know. Thats the story. Rain is not on the horizon yet. Melting is. Look at the potomac. Right before your eyes, the ice is melting. There will be a whole lot more of that around the area. Temperatures like this. 62 degrees at Reagan National now. 59 at washington dulles. 54 in frederick and nighttime temperatures will stay we...

All right, thanks everybody for joining us on markets now. Rich edson in a moment with the Employment Benefits. Stocks pulling back just a little bit. Lauren simonetti handling the details. Lauren the range on the dial about 70 points today, so that is pretty tight right now. At the lows of the session down 18 points. The market still positive but just barely. If you look at the centers, theyre pretty mixed at this point. Utilities leading the market higher, but discretionary stocks and Health C...

A desperate rush to the safety that americas Treasury Bonds offer. How about oil . Wild swings there been no reversal of the big tumble. There is a worldwide glut because america is producing a record amount. This turmoil began from the get go and the trigger seemed to be that second ebola case which was confirmed in dallas. There were traders this morning worried about paralysis in america. People afraid to travel. Charlie gasparino and the wall street journals mary kissel are both here. I did ...

Two people on board have stolen passports. Now reports that the copilot had invited two young women into the cockpit on a flight in 2011. Ill talk exclusively to one of those women in a moment. What does it all mean . Tonight ill ask the experts, including a man whos seen it all, dan rather. Was a catastrophic failure, hijacking or Something Else . The vanishing of flight 370. Joining me steve wallace, former director of the faas office of accident investigation. Attorneys michael verner, bill p...

Feinberg. Reporter Malaysian Airlines paid 5,000 to the families of each passenger and thats the beginning. Demanding payments of 150,000 to 175,000 each are and relatives can sue on top of that. The first legal action already thrown out, but it wont be the last. We have is to know what suits up before we respond. Raising the difficult question, what is a life worth . Jeffrey toobin is cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. Obviously General Motors and malaysia are two very different s...

Was a particular entry into the notam system. they simply unplugged it and plugged it back in, for lack of a better metaphor, and that didnt work. i want you to listen to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. hes been very critical of the airlines meltdowns over the summer and this winter. this was not an airline problem. this was on the faa. theres been so much criticism about the faas own systems, whether or not theyre outdated or underfunded. pete buttigieg has directed an internal review ...

Delta, northwest, united, continent no, alaska, virgin it was one after another, the airlines got bigger and worse. thank goodness the safety record is really good but if you look at what happens is the pandemic its hard to say that the airlines had all this time with airplanes on the ground and somehow they came out of this worse the customer services worse the reliability of longtime travel is worse and were looking at 40% price increases. for the last 50 years they say consolidation of the bi...

Are not looking good out there, this is more than 2300 flights canceled just today so far. let me go to my pal katie, his flight is canceled, he has to go from new york to washington, d.c., is the motivation by his own personal cancellation or the hundreds of people who have to fly the week before the memorial day, what is the endgame? katie: hes more interested in trying to solve the problem but i dont have much faith in a guy who couldnt fix potholes in indiana to take care of this airline pro...

The woods, the effect on the economy. it would be great if the economy just kept getting better and better and the fact that we had sequestration did not hurt people and hurt the economy and hurt jobs. but i dont think we should get the champagne out yet. >> arthel: of course, were rooting for the people. 165,000 jobs added, we wish there were 2,065,000 jobs added. lets get to the political fallout portion. whats your take? >> well, the pressure is off right now to do anything. so having solved ...

settlement. i hope it wasnt for much because i didnt do anything. but the fact of the matter is, im not aware of a settlement that came out of that accusation. >> i was aware that an agreement was reached. the word settlement versus the word agreement, you know, i am not sure what they called it. >> heres the one incident that i recall as the day went on. she was in my office one day and i made a gesture saying and i was standing close to her and i made a gesture, you have the same hei...