With five other world powers and iran. The selfimposed deadline is today. It statement is expected once russias representative returns. He is sounding more optimistic about the process. One can never be sure with anything 100 but if nobody makes the stakes too high and tries to benefit or get some advantages at the last moment, i believe so far the prospects are rather good. Betty the ultimate deadline for a deal is june 30. The Prime Minister of greece is seeking support from his opponent so everybody can be on the same page on the bailout issue. He wants opposition lawmakers to biacks plan for ending austerity. We want a new agreement for development. A new agreement that must have been necessary restructuring of the debt because no country when it has a debt of 180 of its gdp can safely come out to the markets. This is the sour truth. Betty greece and its creditors are far apart. European Officials Say the proposed reforms do not merit more bailout money. Everybody complains about the weather. But nobody does anything about it. Dont tell that to ibm. Theyre teaming up with the Weather Channel to develop forecasting tools for companies. They want to help retailers prepare better for bad weather. We will be finding out more about their joint venture, joined by the ceo david kenny and bob picciano. A mysterious tweet from the founder of tesla. Musk says his company will unveil a new product line. It is not a car. People are guessing that it will be batteries for home use. March madness driving some fans to dig deep into their wallets. The average retail price for a ticket to the final four 1900. 25 more than the prior record set last year. Those are your top headlines this morning. Just hours to go until midnight deadline, negotiators in switzerland may be close twitter limit her deal to limit Irans Nuclear program in exchange for sanctions. Peter cook has much more on the talks. It looks like things are turning a little bit for the better. Are they going to cross the finish line today . Peter theyre going to cross some line today, but at the finish line. They are closing in on an agreement a declaration, if you will of the broad agreement to limit Irans NuclearProgram Going forward, the steps needed to do that. They will have the remaining three months to work on the fine print and solidify that deal and concrete terms by the july 1 deadline which has always been the final deadline. They still have some issues to work out but they are also include some of the Authority Issues on the sidelines and use the next three months to work out some of those sticky issues about the pace of sanctions relief and what is going to happen to the research and Development Program that iran has. Betty those are the sticking points. There is one sticky point in washington. How are members of Congress Going to react to any type of preliminary deal . Peter there are a lot of republicans ready to shred this agreement or matter what it says. You can expect some Harsh Criticism from republicans perhaps from israel as well. It is safe to say that the administration is hoping to have enough here to be able to convince skeptical members of congress that they have enough here to move forward toward the july 1 deadline and there is no reason for congress to blow up this agreement at this time. Betty thank you so much for the update. Last week the deadly plane crash could have legal implications for germanwings and lufthansa. The copilot had suicidal tendencies. Lufthansa has announced it will pay 54,000 to each of the families of the crash victims. That some will not affect future settlements. June, we were talking about this yesterday. What are the liabilities for lufthansa . Is there any way they will get out of paying anymore damages . June no. There is no way. The liability is limited. The victims families can get up to one of his 60,000 depending on damages 160,000 depending on damages. The only way they could stop them from going over that cap is it lufthansa if lufthansa can prove it is not at fault. Betty it seems like that would be harder and harder for lufthansa to prove. What are we talking about in terms of amount . June anything from 100,000 to millions of dollars. Germany is at the lowest because they go by the law in that country. Germany wants to discourage litigation. The highest is the united states. People could get millions of dollars here. Its a calculation that considers how many dependents there were, how much the person made. They dont consider emotional factors at all. Its so cold. Betty creeps you out a bit. That is going to be a ramification for lufthansa. June their insurer has said that they will pick up that cost , even if lufthansa is bound to be negligent or whatever, they will still pick up the cost of that. They have set aside 300 million, which is a lot for Something Like this. Betty today marks the final trading day of the quarter. The major averages are going to record their ninth consecutive quarterly gains. Sounds like it is historical here. Scarlet it looks like the s p 500 was going to end its quarterly streak of games. When you look at the year today performance, it did bounce back. These are hardly robust gains. The s p 500 and the dow reached their peak march 2. If you look at the bestperforming sectors, we talked about all the deals and health care yesterday. The propelled health care to the best performance. Retailers and auto shares also gained. Among the worst performers, utilities and bob proxies. Bond proxies. Financials also did not do so well. The Bank Stress Test caused a lot of concern. Betty no doubt the First Quarter has been huge for mn a. What about earnings gekko scarlet we heard from intel that revenue would be less than anticipated. Sandisk is the worst performer out of the s p 500 after warning that earnings would come in less than anticipated because of lower demand for its flash memory chips. Earnings are forecast to shrink for three straight quarters in 2015. If this comes to pass, that could signal a bear market at a time when valuations arent fiveyear highs. Betty scarlet fu. Much more ahead, including harnessing the power of weather. Bob picciano and david kenny joining me to discuss their alliance to bring advanced weather insight to businesses. Betty heres a look at our top story this morning. Big corporations in indiana telling the states leaders to fix the law so it can be used to discriminate against gays. Ceos have signed a letter to the governor and legislative leaders they will clarify the measures of that nobody can be denied services. The debate in arkansas. A new deal will create the worlds Biggest Online luxury goods retailer. They have agreed to buy the transaction valued at 700 and 5 million 775 million. Mcdonalds trying to get americans to start loving it once more. The worlds biggest restaurant chain has been experimenting with serving breakfast all day long at some san diego outlets. Breakfast foods account for 25 of mcdonalds business. Talk about starbucks have extended their practiced offerings. Breakfast offerings. Those are your top stories this morning. Coming up, Fareed Zakaria joining me on everything from iran to his new book on liberal Arts Education. Defending liberal arts. Connecting with filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, more of his new original series with aol. No more excuses you cant blame the weather anymore for sluggish profits. Ibm and the Weather Company are teaming up to help companies accurately track whether data weather data. For more on this alliance, we are joined by david kenny, the chairman and ceo of the Weather Company and bob picciano Senior Vice President of ibm analytics. How did this come together . David we have a common passion around helping businesses transform. You saw us make a landmark relationship with twitter last year. Bringing the voice of the customer into every business decision. Now, we have the opportunity to do the same thing about the atmosphere. Call it the voice of mother nature. Taking the weather excuses out of business. Betty companies for decades have been analyzing whether data. How is this going to be different . David we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in science to make sure we can get more observations from the internet of things. Processing and more quickly. Mobile has allowed us to give it back to people where they are. We have made enormous advances in both the predict ability, the insight and the analytics. It has come a long way. Betty it has come a long way. How come neither of you wanted to do this on your own . Bob it is a great combination of capability. Precision, more accuracy, more realtime information. When you look at most businesses , the way they think about their day, the same days everyday for them as it relates to whether. We get up and plan our morning around the weather. Businesses dont think about it at that level of granularity. They dont think about it on a global scale. The dont think about it in Small Businesses the way they do in large enterprises. Betty you and i have talked about this. The partnership you have with walmart. We had paul walsh on before to describe that is the way that works with them. Give me an example. How will this work with ibm . David the weather is one important piece of data it. Doing that as a one off is really timeconsuming. Hard for them and hard for us. Ibm because of their focus on in right of things, can bring lots of different data together including ours. You become part of thee fabric of the decision. The way businesses make more money is to bring this data together. We put weather in with Inventory Data economic data, competitive data so you are making the best possible business decision. Betty how are you sharing revenue . David we will develop bob we will develop sense of applications that will deliver new solutions to the marketplace. We will share revenues around the data and applications. Betty how much investment is going into this . Bob ibm is making a major announcement around its investment in the internet of things over the next four years to focus in on what david was referring to. As people build more data Rich Products so they can have more awareness about how they are serving consumers. Theyre helping people develop and design those products. Betty you have the weather twitter, who else . Companies like bob Companies Like pratt and whitney and whirlpool. Ensuring that their delivering differentiated service to the airlines as they deliver their product which powers the airlines throughout the country. Same with whirlpool. They want to have a better consumer appliance experience. Betty i have to ask you about this we had barry myers on earlier this month speaking about verizon. People are calling it the weather wars these days. Is this going to be something that differentiates the Weather Company from accuweather . People have made much about the recent advertising you put out. David this differentiates both of us, ibm and the Weather Company in terms of bringing data to decisions. We will help businesses make better decisions. Its because to a different scale. This is a global scale for the whole economy the private sector and the public sector. Its a completely it is a game changer in a fundamental way. Betty great to see you this money. This morning. David kenny and bob picciano. Coming up, one business that has many people fuming ecigarettes. Tenant take on can it take on the campaign from the cdc . Betty you are watching in the loop. Good morning. Im betty liu. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control taking on the Electronic Cigarette industry for the first time. This ad started running in prepublication yesterday three publications yesterday. He wound up using both products she wound up using both products until she ended up with a lung disease. It is part of a 68 million antismoking campaign being rolled out by the cdc and comes as the fda weighs new rules for regulating Electronic Cigarettes. Joining us is Miguel Martin president of Logic Technology the second largest ecigarette manufacturer in the nine states. United states. Miguel with the cdc and the fda there is a lot more we agree with. The cdc has talked about a lot of things. Access to these products to kids. We completely agree with that and believe these should only be confident sold and targeted to adults. Betty what are you doing about it . Miguel we are not going to come out and refute the cdc. We support the fda and the sciencebased approach. Betty the cdc and critics would say i get it, you agree that you should not be marketing these to children. What are these manufacturers doing to make sure it doesnt get in the hands of kids . You have flavored vaporizers, gummy bear, cotton candy bubblegum flavored. Why produce those if you want to keep them out of the hands of kids . Mcgill miguel we dont have any youthoriented flavors. A lot of these profits are accessed by kids to the internet. We have one of the most robust Internet Security systems. Here in new york city, you have to be 21 to access the website. The vast majority of our products are sold in brickandmortar stores. We would support a complete ban on sales on the internet so kids could not have access. Betty how do you verify that and make sure they are 18 or older or 21 or older . Mmiguel the excess credit record so if you go in, you have to be the person you say you are at the address you say you are. If you are a child that buried your parents credit card you would have to take a smart quiz. What type of card you have . Car did you have . The most important thing you can do is make sure that these are only sold in brickandmortar stores. Betty the other criticism from the cdc, these products have been marketed as an alternative to smoking. What some reports are finding is that 75 of those who vape are also smokers. There are some studies out there come if you are watching ecigarette adds you are more likely to smoke or take up cigarettes if you have already quit. Betty miguel if you think about the way these folks are seeing these products, we would support a ban on television. You are not having some of those concerns. We will learn a lot more about these products. Like traditional cigarettes, they are chemical compounds. As you ascertain what is going on with them, you can make changes to these products and give smokers an alternative. Betty do you feel do you agree with the studies that say that vaping encourages smoking . Miguel i think it is too early to know that. We are at the beginning of this process. Patches and gums and other alternatives for adult smokers have not been as viable. This is a product that is a lot more viable because it picks up on a lot of the score cues those core cues. Betty how prepared are you for the fda . Miguel we are spending millions on it. This is a process that a lot of companies have been through. We think this is a differentiation point. Ingredient disclosure, labeling isocertification, manufacturing adherence transportation it is substantive what you have to do. We support that. We think that is the right thing as this industry moves forward. Betty thank you so much. Great to see you this morning. Miguel martin, the president of Logic Technology, one of the largest ecigarette manufacturers in the u. S. Signs of progress today in the Iranian Nuclear talks. Officials say an agreement is near on some major steps. John kerry is back at work in switzerland with five other world powers and iran. The selfimposed deadline is today. The ultimate deadline for a deal is this summer, june 30. The primary stroke greece is seeking support from his opponent. He was opposition lawmakers that the Prime Minister the prime and asked her Prime Minister of greece is seeking support from his opponents. Prosecutors say the copilot planned for the germanwings tragedy had been treated for suicidal tendencies. Andreas lubitz intentionally crashed the airliner last week. He went through psychotherapy before getting his pilots license three years ago. Lawyers for the accused Boston Marathon bomber calling witnesses today. The prosecution is wrapped up its case. His attorneys are trying to prove he was elsewhere when the biomaterials were bought. He could be executed if convicted. Some musicians and say they feel shortchanged by internet streaming. Jayz is behind title. He and his wife will hold stakes in the company. When you see such incredible emotion, today is an amazing benchmark for something very significant. Were definitely creating a difference really to have a sense of control is what tidal offers. Betty usher talked about it with pimm fox paid into the full interview today at 5 30 eastern time. We have some breaking news right now. Scarlet fu at the breaking news desk. Scarlet a Bright House Networks is owned by this is a transaction worth 10. 4 billion. Charter will own 73 of a partnership while advancing new house will be owning the ballots. A 10. 4 billion transaction in which liberty broadbands equity will be 19 of new shares. The headline here, Charter Communications buying Bright House Networks for 10. 4 billion. Betty a huge deal. Much more ahead. Learn to code. That is what we all hear these days. Fareed zakaria says hold on math is not everything. She makes the case for liberal Arts Education he makes the case for a liberal Arts Education, next. Betty recently come wall street executives are not the only one having to Silicon Valley un