in deal news, swiss drug giant roche made a hostile offer for illumina. keep an eye on boeing, a norwegian airline announced today it's buying 737s. >>> finally, fans of the pbs drama can now tour the actual english castle where the popular series is shot for a cool $10,000. people say it's great. >>> coming up, big baseball signings. a big hockey suspension. and the heat beat lebron's old team. plus, trying to save a ball from going out. a high school player makes a miracle shot. there was just one problem. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> we're seeing some of the heaviest rain in the draught-stricken area of texas. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the american league has signed another hitting star through free agency away from the national league. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at your sports headlines. >> good morning. we'll start with news out of detroit. the tigers open their wallets and sign the biggest fre

illumina's board saying it will review roche's unso liss tilled takeover offer. it says it intends to advice shareholders on the formal position on the offer within ten days. the company put a poison pill in yesterday. no big surprise there. >>> you can see the nasdaq is doing reasonably well. the s&p 500, at least it's holding above 1300. quite a tight range. utilities are down today. a very mixed picture. let's have a look at where we are on the breadth of the move. should be relatively evenly spaced. the nyse. there you go. almost 1 to 1. the nasdaq, bearing in mind that that market is doing slightly better. it's only a marginal move, again, 1 to 1. >>> ford missing estimates but posting its biggest profit in -- shares of ford right now are trading, there we have it, down by about -- phil lebeau standing by in dearborn, michigan. >> reporter: the reason ford shares are trading lower is because this was a disappointment for a lot of people on wall street and for investors. take a look at ternings for the fourth quarter. they missed by a nickel. the street expec

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. >> illumina dropping 1%. >> roche confirmed they are going hostile. 41-50 bid for a stock trading over $52 a share. they are playing a game of chicken here to see how much they can hold roche's feet to the fire to get this deal done at a higher price. >> smoke 'em if you got 'em. altria dropping 2%. >> volume under pressure. look at the 100-day moving average. you get a huge deal. >>> next up, a favorable ruling for rig. >>> welcome back. shares of transocean rising on a judge's ruling bp must compensate the company for the cost of the 2010 gulf oil spill. how do you play rig right now? dan dicker is a cnbc contributor. he's been long in the stock a while. great to have you on the show today. you bail now or what? >> i think do you bail now. i want a little love. i took so much abuse on transocean when it was down near $40. now that it rallied and got closer to $50, i want the love. >> i'll give you the love. >> i don't want it from you. i wanted it from the judge. >> you got it. >> truth is, it is time to bail on this. this was not an unexpected ruling from this judge in new orleans w

now remember roche is coming after the board, illumina has said we're not interesting. it gives them an opportunity to walk away, even officially if greece is in default. >> when you're doing strategic deal like this, why should you care? isn't it just cost of business something like that could happen? >> it is. if you're roche and you're in europe, you might have a significant impact from all sorts of dislocation occurring in the emu, i would assume, though many would argue that's already happened, right? >> this isn't a company that does diagnostics. we're not talking about something that's going to be used less because of greece. >> that's why i mention it. it's kind of strange. on the regulatory front i wanted to point out a couple of things. i'm talking about the ftc's commission to sue to block omnicare's potential acquisition. it doesn't look like they're going to get a deal. were phamerica were to agree anyway. at&t a prime example. and nyse and medco being bought by express scripts. they say don't draw too many co corollaries. that's it for me now. >> coming up