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Mark dayton announced he chose tina smith to fill senator al franken seat until the november election to complete the final two years of senator frankens term. We will likely hear remarks about senate designate tina smith on the floor of the senate today. Live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, thank you that our lifes p...

The dream act. When you only get 27 wasnt that of the latino vote in the last president ial election i dont think you want to go into this one by starting out with a declaration of war against the latino community. Now Mitch Mcconnell in the last day up in hershey, pennsylvania basically from what weve heard told the House Republicans were not going to do that in the senate. Were not going to go there because we dont think thats a smart move for the party. I think they have to deliver on issues ...

New york stock exchange. Sending it to you in the studio. The president saying it is about the middle class and theyre is a long way to go. At least today the markets are celebrating not news about the anniversary, but at least rallying nonetheless. Adam the other big story, Larry Summers pulling his name from consideration to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Im adam shapiro. Lori im lori rothman. The field for the new fed chief was down. The front runners to head the Federal Res...

To their Public Safety problems. This has to stop. Youre frustrated. Absolutely. Reporter police are still looking for the suspect. Anyone who may have seen someone fleeing the scene is asked to give Oakland Police a call. Now to our extremely dry january. The thirsty pay area may finally see some relieve of this is the system heading our way. Until now we have seen just trace amounts of rain and what is typically one of the westest months of the year. We have Live Team Coverage on this approach...

Dropped out cattle. All that and much more at this hour of market now. All right. Good morning, everybody. I am connell mcshane. Dagen had to leave early today. I will take you through the hour. Nicole petallides imposition at the New York Stock Exchange to start us off. Nicole good morning. Three days last week that showed some stellar gains. Today, obviously, there are some frustrations. Last week what we saw was a winning week on wall street. We keep an eye on washington now as the october 17...

Another fed official, st. Louis fed president James Bullard, said it made sense not to lawn of the paper this month because of low inflation readings. He spoke with our own peter barnes of course. David meanwhile want to talk about volatility, talk about apple. Apple stock is fluctuating bigtime as the iphone fans buy new handsets, 5ss, and cheaper 5cs. They went on sale today. Caterpillar saying the worldwide sales weakened the past three months because of slowing demand for commodities from co...

Just got again knocked off that horse, get back on again imus, imus, imus in the morning less money in your wallet . A record amount spent on food stamps and spending, three big numbers that tell the stewart. Good morning, stuart is going to be back tomorrow, today here is the big story. 200 billion dollars, how much spending power the fiscal cliff bill takes out of our pockets accord to go Goldman Sachs. The combination of payroll tax cuts exspiring and higher rates on the wealthy hitting the e...

Economy, fancy way of saying taper, later this year. He warns the economy still needs accommodative monetary policy. David meanwhile General Motors says it will be buying back just under half the gm preferred shares held by united autor Workers Health care trust. Gm is paying just over 3 billion for those shares. Liz walmart plans to hire 55,000 temporary workers at u. S. Stores during the holiday season. That is an increase of about 10 over last year. David microsoft unveiled a faster more powe...

A 2 increase, but nonetheless a good move for apple at the moment, investors seem to like it. Making the fashionable watches and clothing accessories. It designs and sells many believed to be innovative watches that are affordable. We see them move up 2. 35 off of the highs of the session, still a 2 gain. Quickly lets talk about commodities. The feds surprise decision having a definite impact. Gold jumping 57 yesterday hitting now a oneyear high as you can see golden spiking once again up anothe...

Actively now looking both internally and externally for a new ceo. You can see right now that the stock is up 6. 7 . We have had a lot of movers. Tracy thank you, nicole. We have that on this. Rob, you are saying that there is no right time. You just decided it was time to go. A major reorganization. Typically, you are in while it takes time to complete the process. Tracy that is kind of interesting. Second class citizens to facebook now. What is happening here . Well, he actually did a number o...