i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better liz: e-commerce king pin amazon now taking aim at brick-and-mortar domination, as we look at the markets which are very close to session highs at least just a second ago, i believe the dow had been very close to session highs. we've got amazon, i mean, this is really interesting. amazon is flat to slightly lower , even as sources tell the wall street journal, the e-commerce behemoth that dominates just about every sector it enters is planning to open multiple department store sized retail locations throughout the u.s. , with ohio and california as starting points. just as amazon takes aim at already struggling retail chains , not struggling today. department stores and their investors are now could you erring in the face of this new news, in fact macy's look at this pop 19% to the up side, nordstrom up about 4%, kohl's has seeing blowout gains of close to 7% right now after announcing beats on both

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i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better ♪ ♪. neil: you can read their assets but the taliban can kick cars there sitting on a trillion dollars of precious minerals and the likes of which gives them a global influence and leverage that we've not seen jackie deangelis following a part of the story and you're probably not hearing. >> good afternoon when you think of afghanistan your first thought may not be lithium but it's a country that's rich and the natural resource as well as others were talking about a trillion dollars here worth of minerals lithium is crucial because its use for semi conductors in clean energy specifically rechargeable batteries which could be fueling the future this is how the wealth mineral ceo describes it. >> people are talking about 40 times and increasing demand on lithium in the next 20, 25 years, 40 times how is this even possible. >> before the pandemic started the world lithium producer was australia 53

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better stuart: this is breaking right now it is a big deal, president biden has agreed with the pentagon's recommendation to stick with the august 30 first withdrawal deadline. ashley, give me whatever details you've got. ashley: that decision was made on monday based on concerns about security risks to american forces. it will take several days for all us forces to leave afghanistan. 6000 us troops at the kabul airport and president biden reportedly asked the pentagon for contingency plans to stay longer if, quote, necessary. that's from an anonymous source but that's interesting. the united states telling the taliban the us withdrawal by august 30 first is contingent on the cooperation of the taliban in facilitating the evacuations. how does that look to the rest of the world? >> the president said we are getting out august 30 first. i don't know whether he told g7 leaders that or not. we are getting ou

trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better stuart: i think this was a good question our producers came up with, how tall is the tallest person ever? i got the answer for you. 8 feet 11-inches. that is one tall dude. that is how tall robert wadlow stood. he was born, very small city near saint louis. he was born in 1918. i like to tell you by the age of five he was 5 feet, 4 inches tall. he lived to be just 22 years of age. 6-foot, 11-inches tall. there you have it. very nice rally still in progress. the breaking news of the morning, the fda approved pfizer's covid vaccine. prior to that new york city is mandating vaccine shots for all public school teachers and all school staff. that is new york city. the time is up for me. neil, it is yours. neil: thank you, stuart, very much for that. that by the way many of the factors living the corner of wall and broad. particularly helping cruise line stocks, leisure stocks, airline stocks, drug stocks, you name it. nasdaq, s&p at record territory. not all that far away. we

i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better ♪ neil: we are told a part of the run-up in the markets has to own the run-up in pfizer's stock after the fda gave formal approval for it to be used. this stamp of approval is important for people who have been very reluctant to have been vaccinated unless it did have that approval. so that the idea behind the rally, not only in the stock, but a lot of stocks in general, why you're seeing the leisure industry line up cruise players. would benefit from uninterrupted of opening. gerri willis on the significance of this development. gerri? reporter: that's right. the fda moments ago announced they have approved the biontech vaccine for people aged 16 and older. that is an important detail. we're making first full approval of covid-19 vaccine, they said this as they did it while millions of people already safely received covid vaccines. we recognized for some. the fda approval may instill additional

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i'm proud to be part of aag, i trust 'em, i think you can too. trust aag for the best reverse mortgage solutions. call now so you can... retire better stuart: we've been showing you this all morning, parts of that teacher in going on that left-wing rant. you know, she bashed anti-vaxxers, she bashed president trump and even parents. it's a one minute tape, but we're going to play it for you right now. roll it. [laughter] stuart: those cameras are everywhere catching everything. the teacher, by the way, has been fired. and brian is still with me. you're an educator. what's your reaction? brian: good on the school, good on the district for doing that. did you notice in that video, it was the students reminding the teacher what class they were in? this is a chemistry class. see, you need an adult in the room. the teacher has to be the adult in the room. a student asked her a question she didn't need to answer, and she took the bait and ranted on. parents watch this and say what we've got teachers doing and telling our kids that we're dumb, that our

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