Market. I knew the warm weather wouldnt last forever. No, winter is finally here. Winter is coming as they say. Amazon, by the way, releasing actually some rare numbers this morning saying it was a record setting holiday for the ecommerce jiebt. We will look at whether there are any other retail winners this Holiday Season. And an ugly drop for one biotech firm, chimerix, the stock down 81 . That story is coming up on the closing bell. Never good when the change is larger than the price of the company there. Not good. Lets start with oil, though, snapping that winning streak as saudi arabias budget deficit surges. Jackie deangelis is live at the nymex with more on that. A more than 3 slide in the wti to finish at 36. 81. Brent finishing under wti, just showing how much its turned out of favor in terms of this market right now. You mentioned a key point, saudi arabia out with its 2015 budget numbers, this did not help the selling that we saw today. A near deficit of almost 100 billion s
dawn zimmer what she wrote to herself in details with troubles new jersey governor chris christie. in a letter to the state legislature this week, zimmer explains the reason she did not come forward last year when she says the lieutenant governor threatened to withhold sandy aid because she did not support a project allegations the governor has denied. in an attachment to that letter zimmer included the undated journal entries which she says are notes from a conversation with hoboken s attorney. quote, yes, this is illegal. i debated with joe mar ziti whether or not to go to the u.s. attorney. we decided that christie has friends throughout the u.s. attorney s office. not much chance of getting help from them and it could create a nightmare for us. a little scary to realize there s no war to turn. my best defense is to stand up to the bully, my beloved gov who wants to run for president. her beloved gov of course ran the u.s. attorney s office in newark the one who is now i
0 press. breaking news, iran and the u.s. and world pow earls agree on a date to halt nuclear program. the effort begins in just days. will it be successful? we are live with the details. good sunday afternoon. you are watching msnbc. also today, republicans break their silence on the scandals of chris christie. not one single link to chris christie has been found. this is a story that s still developing and we should reserve judgment. he was in campaign mode at the time during campaign mode you miss a lot of things. it s hard for democrats to turn this into an issue. the question is whether the facts are going to turn it into an issue. personnel is policy. and the people that you hire are exists there and how serious they are about scaling it back and closely following the terms of the agreement. that s a key piece of the deal. the administration says. a key part of enforcing it. thank you so much. reporter: thanks. meanwhile today, new details emerging about the
17th, 2010. awe live look at the nation s capital. thank you for waking up with us. i m gurvir dhindsa. i m will thomas in for steve. already powered through one cup of coffee the last hour. waiting for the commercial break to get another. the weather has forced many school systems to delay the start of classes today or just cancel them altogether. with you find up to the minute information at the top of your screen or on myfoxdc.com once you head to work. fairfax and loudoun counties and manassas city schools are delayed by two hours. in maryland, charles and st. mary s counties are closed. prince george s, montgomery and anne arundel county schools are are all on a two-hour delay. hardy, berkeley, jefferson and morgan county schools are on a two-hour delay. federal government is open. we may get a bit of a thaw later on but we have to get through the morning hours. i always love the two-hour delay because by the time you got to school, your class got condensed to
does this now make that much more likely? actually, i think the decision is not a bad decision. the first thing is that the mandate is not essential. that was principally a benefit for insurance companies. it s absolutely not essential. because we have done something like that. you mean compelling people to buy health insurance? you don t have to do that in order to make universal health care. in massachusetts, under mitt romney, under their mandate, there s 4% that aren t affected. this is an important point. the judge limited his decision to this particular clause, he did not declare the bill unconstitutional, just this piece of the bill and he specifically said in his decision that this doesn t apply to the entire bill. i know the administration had a lot of heartburn over this. this may be a good thing, because this very conservative judge said that the severability, the bill as a whole could go forward. there s no chance that this is going to the supre