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Here. the dow closed up 79 points, six day row of gains. that hasn t happened since may of last year and the s&p closed up half a percent and the nasdaq is up 1.1%. the united technologies fell 3.1% after the deal to merge with raytheon. president donald trump called in to cnbc and he mused that the merger can kill competition and he threatened tariffs on $300 billion of chinese imports if president xi does not meet with him at the g20 in osaka. gas prices are dropping. u.s. oil production on track for a record 13.4 million barrels a day at the end of the year. opec is scaling back the output as the cartel tried to prop prices back up. lower gas prices right now. the average gallon is $2.73. we ll be right back. the water. the exercise. the fiber. ....
championship. lebron james. the whole team. lebron james. doesn t everyone just think lebron james is the heat? good morning, everyone. nice to have you with us on this very, very early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started here. let s start with the developing news this morning out of egypt about the health of former president hosni mubarak. we re getting conflicting reports about his actual condition. a state news agency is reporting the 84-year-old is clinically dead. but his lawyer says that he is in a coma. the military says mubarak s condition is critical. but that he is, indeed, still alive. all this confusion coming at a very critical time for egypt. thousands gathering overnight in cairo s tahrir square to protest the military leaders who were supposed to oversee the transition to democracy. instead, they are grabbing more power. ivan watson is live in cairo. ivan, what is the latest on mubarak s condition? reporter: th ....