Fight. The latest ahead. Carl icahn tells on neil cavuto his war with ebay is far from over. We meet a former marine whose new mission is to fight extreme poverty and that the same time terrorism. All that and more coming up on this hour of markets now. Connell a good story. The guy who is in the marines. Terrorism as you said, overseas in africa. Dagen did you let them figure out Business Plan . Connell pretty impressive guy. Change you for clarifying all this. One of those days when everything in your head will come out of your mouth liz Nicole Petallides starts us off at the Stock Exchange. Nicole a whole hour ford. The Dow Jones Industrials down 26 points, 50,967. Giving back a little bit of the recent gains we have seen before the week, a winning week on wall street 1. 5 . To kevin nasdaq up 49. 98 a. Posting a gain, everybody continues to follow everything we heard. And yesterday saying she is going to follow up, ben bernanke was on that committee. And will pull back slightly today. Right now we are taking a breather. Not many worries, caterpillar, microsoft, ibm, some of your best performers and commodities looking good. Gold is up 4. Dagen after narrowly passing in the house the senate could vote on a clean debt ceiling bill this afternoon. Connell rich edson live from washington with the latest. Phil peter they are trying to reach a deal on the debt ceiling, the senate is known for its procedure and one senator can force days of deliberation on any bill. Indications now are islamist supporters can muster 60 votes, senators will allow a fasttrack vote this afternoon. Ted cruz vows just that, he will acquire 60 votes though he will pass on delaying so senators can get out of washington ahead of the storm. Senate majority leader harry reid blasted that tactic. We have republican senators saying they are going to filibuster the debt ceiling. We cant default on our obligations. Too bad that a few Senate Republicans would threaten filibuster in this critical legislation. It is critical and it is crucial. Connell senate aides say likely 60 votes needed to get through the senate to the president s death, the bill would suspend the debt ceiling until march 15th of next year, well after the new Congress Takes control. Mostly democrat votes the house narrowly passed the bill last evening. Back to you. Dagen thank you for that, rich edson in washington. Connell Fox News Contributor jim green joins us. Good to see you. You must be i dont know, surprise or happy how this thing worked out with the democrats voting on it and being brought, clean debt ceiling bill, john boehner. This is what is good for the economy. I was listening to our colleague Stuart Varney little bit earlier. I love his accent but when he was saying this was a good political move i was a little bit this is good for Economic Growth and the gains that these folks have played had serious consequences. It has affected us in lowering by one percentage point real economic gdp growth. Connell lets not pretend politics 50 billion. Dagen then that means that 17. 2 trillion in debt is good for the economy which is ludicrous. These members of congress appropriated this money, said we are going to spend it and when it comes time to spend it we need to spend it. This threat and defaulting on our debt has cost us. When they did this two times before for those two weeks they were threatening we lost the equivalent of 120,000 jobs. We cant afford this. Connell we were going to raise the debt. The debt ceiling always goes up. At the end that always goes up and Everybody Knows that. Voted for it over and over and going back. Connell when president obama voted against it they play games with this, they both play games with the debt ceiling knowing it will go up. This time you can take it. To your earlier point about politics, the tea party thinks the Tea Party Caucus think that but he goes back in a few months when Something Big comes up and says i gave you this, now give me whatever he wants. This is not a political football. Not only has an affect our gdp, it has real consequences. It is more expensive for the average american to borrow money. Connell it is always going to go up. Dagen the debt ceiling and Credit Rating by the s p, it actually fell. Borrowing costs didnt get more expensive for anybody. All of the governing by crisis we have seen since 2010 since the Tea Party Got there a little bit of power, if you add up the sequestration, going over the fiscal cliff, the threat of the debt ceiling, at the to loss of 750,000 jobs. We cant afford it. Connell you think this is a turning point . Dagen i will give you that it looks bad, like those government shutdown, we could argue numbers all day but it looks bad for the republicans. John boehner, House Speaker didnt want to repeat it. The game plan seems to be coming up on the midterm elections we will focus on the failings of the president s healthcare law, obamacare, extend the employer mandate, once again for smaller employees in this country. We will put our chips on that and highlight that rather than getting into a fight over the debt ceiling which will get raised. They should move forward with it because our economy cant afford how they have been governing since 2010. We have taken the hits on unemployment, we have taken the hits on gdp growth, we have taken the hits on borrowing. Enough is enough. They have been saying with the debt ceiling threat take this job and shove it. Connell that has to be the strategy. Dagen you have a Record Number of people on food stamps and disability in the country and you cant just blame the gop for that. In terms of governing theres one person running the country and is president obama. He Needs Congress to come together and compromise. It is a good thing that happened yesterday. John boehner the republicans that joined the democrats. 199. Dagen it was squeaked by. Great to see you. Thank you for the debate. We do it with a smile. And catastrophic conditions. It may live up to the hype. Airmass of ice storm slamming into the southeast. Georgia power saying more than one hundred thousand people are without power. Also wreaking havoc on travel, 3,000 flights already cancelled today and we are just getting started. More the 2,000 at Jackson Airport in atlanta which is the Busiest Airport in the world. Lets bring in George Hamlin of hamlin transportation consulting. A lot of these cancellations are preemptive. People might be out of luck if they are traveling but that is a good thing. This keeps from congealing earlier. It allows it to rebuild in an orderly fashion after this epic storm hopefully passes through. Dagen what about i you i guess surprised by the weather these airlines have experienced . How would you grade them on how you can will be travel disruptions all winter long . This has been a tough winter. Without having all the facts, knowing what is going on inside the companies sometimes you give the appearance of being overly cautious. On the other hand remember the tarmac delays we had not many years ago, which is why we have some of the rules that are in place now. Dagen tell me about the Recovery Time. Is the Recovery Time now longer based on the way the air travel system is organized . Absolutely. Low factors are occupied, much higher than they have been historically. If you cancel the days flights a good a two or three days to take care of it after that. Dagen nothing the airlines can do beyond what theyre doing now. This is not a statement but a question in terms of preparation for this weather. Maybe next winter god forbid it is as bad if not worse one. If you could figure out how to make ice storms habitable, i suspect you would have a pretty good job. I dont believe theres a lot of that can be done with respect to an ice storm. Dagen not just in terms of air travel but complete preparations. Atlanta and that part of georgia really dropped the ball in the last major storm. What about now . Do you think these southern cities are better prepared than they were for the last one . That is my understanding. Be like taking this very seriously. I know somebody in atlanta whh walked we miles after his car got stuck, spent his night in his office. People are not going to repeat that. Dagen thank you so much, george hamilton, be well. Connell much more on this winter storm coming up in a minute. We will get the latest forecast in terms of where it is 5ed next. Dagen vowing to keep fighting to split up the bay. Will he win or lose . Stuart marines mission to turn areas struck by poverty in to self sustaining commodities. The best way to fight terrorism coming up on markets now. So ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts . Thats right, no hidd fees. Its just that im worried about, you know, hidden things. Ok, whys that . Well uhhh. Surprise um. Well, its true. At ally there are no hidden fees. Not one. Thats nice. No hidden fees, no worries. Ally bank. Your money needs an ally. Legs, for crossing. Feet. Splashing. Better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. If youre trying to ma, now may be time to ask about xeljanz. Xeljz tofacitinib is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. 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Look at both of these shares, their shares got their numbers, a rosier profit outlook, up 6 , 68. 27. Then there is dr. Pepper was, posing some declines in the sale in the most recent period. Dr pepper doing a buyback expecting to buy back 375 million to 400 million in stocks this year, helping to push dr. Pepper to the higher levels. You are seeing it up 3 , 50. 32 a share for dr pepper, at what is cocacola doing . Squeezing out a gain. Bernard carl icahn the billionaire investor who was on with neil cavuto says he is on the warpath when it comes to ebay. Dagen Elizabeth Macdonald has the bottom line. Not enough ammo to win this fight. Based on the fact that a going gone behind the scenes and lets look at what the billionaire corporate raider told neil cavuto yesterday. Here is carl icahn. What you set your sights on now . You know about the base separating paypal. Neil they say no. Where is it going . You tell me. A battle is a battle. We are not afraid to fight a war. That war is just starting. Liz wall street analysts say this is like apples separating itunes from its business. Basically pay pal growing at 20 year, represents certain periods, 40 of the days overall revenues. Here is the other issue, big proxy Adviser Group institutional shareholders service, the way it has been moving against these proposals doesnt bode well for carl icahn. There has only been 12 Corporate Breakup proposals according to facts set, sent to investors since 2005. Only half of those make it to a shareholder vote and the thing is Institutional Shareholders Services already said to carl icahn no way on your move to get apple to buy back more stock. Apple investors to vote against carl icahns proposal to buy back more stock and just recently backed down on his effort to get more stock. This is the proposal whether carl icahn continues this fight remains to be seen. As a big hurdle against him. Connell thanks a lot. 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Connell before Ryan Seacrest with all the problems of dressing, Charles Payne is you to make money. Has a message of earnings. Dagen what do you mean another . What are you looking at . Charles the earnings that are coming out always tell us a story and a lot of times we say so and so beat by a penny and up 10. What i am saying is an amazing story of a potential nice gdp run this year driven by construction. We had 48,000 construction jobs in the january report. Construction margins are up significantly and the only part of business they get guidance was construction of 10 then you go to owenscorning, the installation business returns to profitability, new construction, Pricing Power is so important, leverage, roofing business back again, new construction will be huge. These things make me believe construction will be huge this year. One other earnings reports this morning, old School People watch the market and always watch the corrugated box plays. These guys with corrugated boxes and container boards, the numbers were phenomenal, inventories down, guidance strong, Record Numbers, these things point to an economy with potential to do extraordinarily well and be the underpinning of higher stock market. Connell you see that as one of the simple messages, by these companies or do you take that message and apply to Small Companies with more Growth Potential . Charles windier said everything on the agriculture side would be down the first thing i did was find some places but the larger macro picture, for people who are really concerned particularly after the slow start and jobs numbers, corporate data lot more than government data. It gives us a greater insight to what is going on and i like what i am seeing so far. Connell thank you very much. Dagen this dude does look good on the American Idol stage. Ryan seacrest has a radio show, he has also bought off the kardashian and sunset as a television producer, now he is getting into the fashion business. Jack of all trades launching Ryan Seacrest distinction, a clothing line that uses a color matching system to help guys match pants, shirts and ties. To launch the line, put it in 150 of its 800 stores for the fall season. Prices on items will start at 45 and got to 4,500. Anyone who grew up in the 70s you