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Traders attention and that state of the union address. well be focusing on that as well. back to you. >> all right. becky quick in cnbcs world headquarters, thanks very much. again, were awaiting more details on what happened in this moscow airport. as soon as we get detail, we will give it to you. meantime, as the president gets ready to deliver the state of the union, were talking about the state of everything else. up next, were kicking off our series looking at the state of the presidency....

Can we move up ground hog day or do something? >> i talked to most people here who say theyre fine this weekend. theyre not shoveling, plowing and driving in it. theyre taking mass transit. maybe theyre skiers and love it. we may be talking again next week. >> mike seidel in another snowy location. i guess you should just sleep in that outfit since you go where the snow is. thank you. >> it has been done before. >> wet snow. very hard to shovel. >> hard on the back. dont forget your advil. >> le...

Necessarily. so theres still debate as to where that stock will open. it looked unchanged last i checked. we spoke with the chairman and ceo who talked about how the american consumer is doing. thats really important. bank of america has one out of every two americans, they do some form of banking with them. whether through the country wide purchase, where they own the mortgages, or whether through what they see in the credit cards and what people are spending. they talked about how the consumer...

About whats going on with the airlines because, obviously, fuel prices have been climbing. delta missed expectations earlier this week. today, southwest came in and beat expectations. and talked a little bit about how, yes, they are seeing those higher fuel prices, too. but we talked to the ceo gary kelly who said they are benefiting from all of those fees the other airlines are putting out because they are winning a lot more new customers. people tyked off about baggage fees, people ticked off ...

Seidel. >> the hr folks were just panicking as theyre watching this, thinking wait a minute, is this covered on workers comp? >> all right, mike seidel in hartford, having way too much fun. >> reporter: good point. >> thank you. well get our check on the markets now 20 minutes from the opening bell. lets get right to nbcs becky quick, good morning. >> good morning, savannah and chuck. i dont have fancy dismounts like mike, but so far the dow looks like its above fair value. the s&p is just bel...

>> joined by becky quick, where warren buffett is holding a retreat. thank you both for joining us. trish, you hear the numbers the americans are spending again, and i think things but be getting better, so are they? >> well, its in line with what economists had been anticipating. this is the third consecutive quarter of growth that we have seen. the problem is you are not seeing a ton wit comes to final demand. there are improvements within the consumer sector, and you need to have that, but we...

Recovery. you see that reflected in the up side you have seen in the market. becky, it has to be encouraging to you to see the excitement is continuing now. >> yeah, makes you think good times are around the corner. >> thank you. we appreciate it very much. now we want to go to breaking news on the sarah palin e-mail hacking trial. portions of the verdict where jurors were able to agree on over the breach of palins e-mail. there was a case where there was a mistrial on count one, and the jury ...

Him take that position, but he never said anything at the debate, which again mace harwood look very weak and gave rubio the upper hand. >> which hes not. he is a solid journalist. thats what -- the whole night was baffling that some of these question. >> i think unfortunately he gave them some ammunition. lets go to becky quick. she was talking to donald trump, and she was bringing up a statement where she said that trump in the past had criticized mark zuckerberg, the facebook mogul, on immigr...

Never heard of their student loan situations. glad we got to the bottom of that. they talked about the weird political views of some earn person i think named tom price who served on the board of hewlett-packard. why are we talking about that at a debate? it was fascinating to watch a television train wreck as bad as that was. >> are you not interested? how about quick ander her loans? >> becky quick was great. when you thought they couldnt ask a dumber question like the fantasy football draft k...

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