higher. >> why isn't the market paying attention a warning from walmart and indicative -- >> i don't think it is. goldman zachs calls the kma pothole paper gle pothole. i agree. that does it for us. have a great rest of the day. "power lunch" starts right now. lace 'em up. "halftime" is over. the second half of the trading day starts now. a big, busy and very interesting hour ahead, folks. portia declaring a fire alert on one model today. it's not a big selling model but important telling owners, do not drive this car. we've got details on that in 25 seconds. now, a lot of americans woke up this morning and asked, what the heck is, what's app? facebook is buying it for $16 billion, and an astounding price tag, frankly to me. see what it does and find out about whatsapp's owners.

who are they that just became overnight billion sglars this morning they are rich beyond most people's wildest dreams. and the movie "austin powers" may have said it best. it there's two things he said i hate, it's racists and the dutch. the dutch speedskating coach making dramatic statements about the good old usa right here on cnbc. listen. >> skating you have to believe in yourself, like american always do, americans always believe that they're right, always believe that they are the best. yeah? but -- that's not true. >> all right. he's a firekraeshg pfirecracke coach. wait until you hear what he had to say about american football. sue is on holiday. kayla at the new york stock exchange. welcome. down to new a minute. meantime, let's go to this developing story. portia taking an amazing step telling drivers not to drive the

gt-3. a serious fire risk there, phil ba lowe live in chicago. tell us about it. >> reporter: doesn't happen often. when a company says stop driving immediately, people take notice. the reason why -- look at these pictures. one of two fires involving a 2014 model 911 gt-3. the porsche company is investigating. it happened earlier in germany. porsche says the vehicles caught fire. porsche decided to inspect all 785 delivered vehicles worldwide. no traffic accident, no personal injury. internal studies to determine the cause of the engine damage have not been completed yet. as porsche mentioned, it has told 785 of the 2014 model year, 911 gt-3s. 408 sold here in the u.s.

porsche told the 408 own park it, don't drive it. by the way, the porsche 911 gt-3 starts at $139,000. look at volkswagen, parent of porsche, sales up more than 20% easily outpacing the market. a company doing very well over the last couple are years here in the united states. kayla? >> phil, an expensive car and expensive problem. thank you for bringing that to us. a check on the markets. despite weak philly data, netting with the negative early in trading. now the dow is up 111 points. s&p up bein 11. nasdaq fairly strong. and the small cap russell 2000 up by nine points. elsewhere in the market, movers. back to headquarters for dominic chu and a market flash? dom. >> check out public service enterprise group. a leading gainer in the s&p 500. a northern new jersey based utility company that's soaring after reporting better than expected fourth quarter profits.

yield above 4%. i can't remember the last time you saw this pap nice move for a utility company in today's market. back to you, kayla. >> dom, thanks. another big story today, real estate. forget the cold and snow still on the ground. for house, it's all about spring. a real battle shaping up in the secretarier over a fordability. that's got the bulls and bears big in. diana olick over to you. >> reporter: kayla, all based and what some call affordability shock in 2014. home prices shot up dramatically last year as did mortgage rates. as buyers come out of hiding into the spring market, finding it more expensive. how much? 21% according to be online sales and analytic company. looked at median priced home, 20% down, 30-year fix. 10% rise in prices and rates from 3.5% to 4.5%, the payment from $714 a month to $865 a

month. some markets are seeing a much steeper jump in monthly payments in the 50% range. of course, those counties are in california, michigan and nevada. we've seen home sales nationwide down for four straight months, and price gains are easing a bit up to 0.2 percent sequencetially. the bulls blame it on the weather. bears saying it's weaker affordability. that's why california is seeing such a huge drop in sales. down nearly 14% from a year ago according to the california realtors association. so on the bull side, zillow is reporting a rise in inventory. in 22 out of the nations largest housing markets, the inventory is much needed heading into spring, but remains to the seen again if it will be enough. we have so much more of this online realty check it out. >> diana olick reporting. earning season nearing an end today with walmart's report. it's the granddaddy of

retailers. look at shares. now down $1.34 at $73.51. the world's biggest retailer earned $1.60 a share, down 7 cents a share from a year ago. a profit forecast that was lower than wall street was hoping for. walmart didn't hit that triple threat, or the hat trick, and neither did 492 other companies in the s&p 500. seema mody is looking at the eight that beat on earnings, guidance and estimates. >> that's right. the triple threat, tyler. there are eight companies that have made that list, according to facts that three are repeats from last quarter. netflix, red hat and lam recertain. all three tech names outperforming the s&p 500 the past three months. new companies that made the list include f5 networks, offset competition, going forward, security the biggest growth

driver for f5. te connectivity and electric kpoen component maker. and two important earnings drivers. three non-tech name, qantas services beating by wide margin thanks to a pickup in engineering, and construction services business and beating expectations, raised forecast, even after it said it would stop selling. >> all righty. looks like we just lost seema's microphone. i thought it was my problem. i couldn't hear. >> i couldn't hear. >> dominic chu look tat the tec secretary perp looks at stocks you have to break it down. there's tech and then there's tech. >> all kinds of tech. right? it's not just one place. not just one kind of company.

23 y if you look at companies out there doing well now, check out some of these names here. when it comes to at least the overall technology sector, there are some pretty interesting moves. there are three specific subcomponents in terms of the overall picture for this company. in the tech sector. it's consumer -- communications equipment, rather. electrical equipment and instruments around net software and services. the three best performing subindustry groups within technology. te technology is a huge umbrella. these three have the overallperformance the better picture overall. the ones outperforming. look at some of these. s&p communications. wireless technology company, check out the big names. they are names we've heard about before. names like the ciscos of the world. harris communications. the juniper networks are big. others outparning as well.

think about the other equipment-type electrical componentmakers. up 2%. communications company, again, year to date. overall, check out what's happen wig the other subsector, if you will overall. electrical equipment up 5% year to date. companies you know about as well. think about companies that make electrical components or the products that go into them. big as well. corning on the glass side of things. think about other companies as well in terms of the internet software and services side of the business. those companies as well doing very well, because facebook. one of those companies we're talking about all day today, part of that internet service, and equipment side of things. again, there are a lot of industry groups and stay tuned, because coming up on "street signs" we're going to dig a little deeper into that internet software services side of things. >> it's not sufficient to say i'm buying tech. >> because there's so many. >> you're doing better by knowing the subsectors in the individual names. >> some outperform a lot more

than others. >> thank you very much, dom mik choo. kayla? staying in tech, the big deal of the day, week and year probably the decade. facebook buying whats app for $16 billion. bringing you in for a second for discussion, but reporting on the new billionaires. john's take on whether they left it because it was corporate, may viewed at sellouts. interesting debate. julia you this is really a popular product nasly, but overnight, people here in america are wondering what is whats app? >> well kay ra, right. whats app the leading app around the world and ceo mark zuckerberg says its appeal comes down to the scale. with whats app, facebook becomes the biggest single messaging service in the world. whats app handled text messages and the entire $100 billion text messages business. 450 million monthly active user and unusually high engagement.

70% of users use the service daily with a record breaking growth rate. doubled users in the past year and particularly popular overseas. the app allows users to send text messages, photos and individual joe to anyone else with an app without paying carrier textor fees. free the first year and charges 99 cents annually. no word how many users pay and does not include ads. zuckerberg says there are no plans to change that. zuckerberg said in a conference call pe expect it's company to hit 1 billion users in a few years and that people will be happy to pay for the service. kayla? >> julia, a popular product. i used it when i lived in london. not as much here. no doubt, it has a lot of loyal users in that base. josh lipton, in the hometown of mountainview. about 55 employees at this company, break it down evenly, 349 million dollars apiece, all of a sudden. who are they? >> yeah, well, these guys, kayla, are now silicon valley's

newest billionaires. the founders include jan koum, a 40% stake in the company joining facebook's board. those who know him say it was his experience growing up in calm mist r communist ukraine. mun cases that wasn't bugged. as a teenager after arriving here he lived on food stamps but wanted to stay in touch with family in ukraine. that was the motivation to build the service. overnight in the neighborhood of eric schmidt, $8 billion, and his partner employee 44 at yahoo! where he worked on advertising, shopping and travel according to wired. he actually posted on twitter that facebook turned him down for a job. he went on to co-found whatsapp. and a final winner we want to mention, sequoia capital, jim,

the investors in whatsapp. put about 8 million to work in whatsapp fwlak 2011. back to you. >> josh, brian actin turned down for a job at facebook. like michael jordan not making his high school basketball team. wouldn't you say? >> right, right. went on to big around better. >> it's interesting, though, because this company had a very unique ethos, john, especially with roots in yahoo!. branched out, left yahoo!. started this company. some scratching their head why they chose to sell their company at this stage. what's behind this? >> stayed at yahoo! a long time. it's interesting. this isn't the drop out and start your own company story. jan dropped out of college to work harder for david phyllo over at yahoo! and so the timing of this, interesting. they had been very anti-advertising and facebook is the emerging advertising player, personalization, lots of information about you. that's exactly what whatsapp itself was trying to avoid by

charring an annual fee. >> interesting when you see mark zuckerberg making all of these deals. in the olden days when he would buy the smaller start-ups, integrate them right way. instagram, a stand alone business. whatsapp possible stand alone business. do you view zuckerberg at the new rollout mogul a la -- >> in facebook's earnings announced three weeks ago, zuckerberg laid out a new vision for the company. instead of having it be all about the facebook product, he said they're moving to a world where it's more of a portfolio of apps. the core business and the facebook messenger, also instagram and not interested in rolling instagram in with everything else. they want to keep it as a separate stand-alone app. this acquisition fits into that strategy. they want to let the business operate separately and obviously advantages to working together, but the more they can allow it

to operate separately, the more benefit zuckerberg sees for the overall business. >> it will be interesting watch what he continues to do at the leader of facebook. for now, thanks for joining us in this decision, everybody. a look at competitors of whatsapp. alibaba, but blackberries bbm, one of the main competitors. ismoving? >> big. blackberries shares all oesh the place. check out what's happening. up 5% so far in the overall mart today. check on -- it's all about the acquisition of whatsapp. this deal appears to indicate value in blackberry's mobile messages system, the bbm, like you just said. stock up 5%. tyler, an interesting deal, when you look at a comparable comparison-type trade. one that may be one investors talk about. >> thank you, dominic chu. when we come back, more on that serious threat warning from the u.s. government to u.s. airlines. there is apparent lay credible threat of a shoe bomber

targeting passenger planes. nbc's pete williams will be with us after a short break. plus, the truce in ukraine has broken. there are reports of dozens of protesters being machine gunned by police today. dozens of deaths. more "power lunch" in two minutes.

about 24 hours ago a truce

declared in ukraine nap is over. unconfirmed reports that 70 protesters may have been gunned down by police in kiev today with 500 or more injured. the violence between supporters of russia and those who want to have closer ties to europe have spiraled out of control in the past several days, fanned that "new york times" vort correct, and 70 people were killed there today, that would make this by far the deadliest day of clashes so far. the russian stock market was down again today, in part because of the violence in ukraine, but it didn't fall as hard as it did yesterday. additionally, dow jones reports eu ministers approved sanctions on ukraine. a ban of visas and asset freezes. what horrible images these are. warning airlines over a new shoe bomber threat. justice correspondent pete

williams is on the beat. >> reporter: this is based on new intelligence renewed chatter about trying to attack passengers flights using explosives hidden in shoes. this warning applies to airlines that have flights directly from airports overseas to the united states. homeland security is directing them to run the shoes worn by passengers through x-ray machines and shoes in carry-on bag, too, and they're advising them to use explosive trace detective swabs on shoes, too. officials say there is no indication of a specific plot and that the threat information is not specific about any particular airline or country of origin or time frame. this is a general warn, authorities say, passed on out of an abundance of caution, and because it affects only flights from overseas to the u.s., there is no plan now, they say, to change security procedures here at home on the thousands of domestic flights. >> pete williams reporting. nbc news. thank you. >> reporter: you bet. >> kayla, to you.

"travel & leisure" reporter simon hobbs is with us. stock up 17% in just six months. quite an amazing ride for that company. simon, take it away. >> hey, klayla. mid-scale hotels, half a million hotel rooms and he really knows what's going on in the economy. steve, welcome to the show. >> thank you so much. >> a big discussion where we are in the economy and weather-related effects. what are you seeing at the moment? >> actually after the government shutdown which slowed us down and i think shook people's confidence, we saw december starting to come back. what's occurred now is, we are a lot of roadside hotels. we're a lot of other hotels as well. but what happens in a, where you have bad weather is, those hotels actually become refuge for a lot of the customers. we try to take care of them. actually, our hotels have been very full, the first couple months of the year, very strong. we're expecting a strong year. >> overall you expect what to

happen say in the second half of the year? >> we expect it to build and we're expecting the year to be significantly higher than last year. demand is supposed to build 2% and i think we're going to be sort of in that 4% to 6% rev par level, and looking for a strong year. >> today's a big day for technology with the facebook whatsapp deal. you would like feel think of you as a tech incubator. you've taken the booking system, the management system, and you kind of are separating it off and building it and investing in it. it's called skytouch, and many analysts prefer that you weren't spending so much money on it? >> they are. we talk to them a lot on our earnings call about it. the great thing about this opportunity, we have an existing business than very strong. we're attracting a lot of interest. and we think that this is going to be very profitable enterprise for us in the mid-term. we've got a lot of folks that we're signing up to do. we've announced we're going to do it, additional $5 million in revenue on a run rate this your and we're saying we're going to be profitable mid-term.

those valuations tend to go for companies that don't appear to steam rahn profit burks hoping a little of that rubs off on us. >> good to see you. ceo of choice hotels. back to you. >> simon. >> thank you. the proposed keystone pipeline would run through neb and hit a roadblock, this time from a judge in nebraska. former stock broker to the stars in trouble again. more "power lunch" back in two minutes. friday night, buddy. you are gonna need a wingman. and with my cash back, you are money. forget him. my airline miles will take your game worldwide.

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welcome back to "power lunch." i'm john harwood in washington. expecting president obama will not include in his budget which comes out in a few days a proposal advanced in the past to change the inflation adjustments for social security. it's something republicans sought. the president put in his budget last year as way to lure republicans into negotiations for a big deal nap didn't happen. we had a small deal and now there's calm in the budget waters, and the president's not repeating this offer. this is something that republicans expected to happen, and we'll see whether or not throughout the rest of the obama presidency we get any sort of resumption of grand bargain talks. now we go a market flash from dominic chu. >> thanks, john harwood. check out what's happening with directv. the nation's largest satellite tv company. stock up 3% reporting fwhaernt expected four quarter profits and sales as it made much more from each subscriber in the united states. it also authorized as 3ds.5

billion share buyback program. stock up nearly 10% in this year alone. a stock to watch, kayla, back to you. >> a lot of moves in that secretary perp thanks for bringing us that on dtv. meanwhile, more trouble for the man known at the stock broker to the stars. charged with fraudulently using a credit card to pay for air line tickets, restaurants, liquor, even a visit to the dentist. he rang up $10,000 in unauthorized and illegal charges. formerly charge with ripping off ben stiller, cameron deas and leonardo dicaprio. what a story that continues. and the leg of the keystone pipeline running through nebraska hit another speed bump. a state jump ruled against a law that approved the route of more than 200 miles. that legislation had previously been approved by the nebraska governor, but the judge said the law violates the state constitution.

kayla? >> all right. ty, near the high of the day for all three indices. bob pisani, what's moving? >> volume on the light side. the winners. all throughout the year, gold miners, up double digits. biotech, up double digits. big phrma stocks up. leading. airline and defense stocks up to the mid to high single digits by and large and also leading. we're seeing today a continuation of the leadership trends we've seen since the beginning of the year. how about retail earnings? walmart had disappointing guidance overall but not dramatically killing a lot of other stores. target'salities on the down side. yesterday i said, if you want to watch for people who might have disappointments outside of walmart, look for ross stores and t.j. maxx. you can see, that's not being affected now. after the close, kayla, we're going to get nordstrom.

this is going to about very interesting issue. nordstrom basically had implied in-line plan for december, but haven't said anything about january. i wouldn't be surprised to see january very disappointing or below planned for them, and i think that's going to be the first big high-end retailer commenting on this tonight. >> it has an interesting demographic. it caters to a little more of that upper middle class shopper, where we don't know exactly how they'll spend this quarter? >> right. the problem is, we don't know if -- look, if it's really weather, they'll be affected high-end shoppers as well. what we don't know is, how much the weather is the issue, and that's why i look today at cons, a retailer in the south. not as much of a weather issue but said 2014 would be weak because electronic sales being weak perp that's not a weather issue as all. trying to sort it out. >> that after the bell, bob. thanks. meanwhile, uptown to the nasdaq. seema mody following big movers there. >> facebook, the main story here making its biggest acquisition

ever. shares down about 2% now staging a comeback. skeptics on the street citing valuation, and down grading facebook from equal weight to overweight. you can see facebook shares underperforming in the social media space. twit herbs pandora, yelp and groupon up on the day. groupon after the bell, mobile base sales one metric analysts will have their eye on. watch out for that, and blackberry higher on news of the snapchat deal. this acquisition sets up blackberry messenger as close second for a potential acquisition. on the down side, look at apple. shares lower after barclays down graded the stock. analysts say we couldn't quite bring ourselves to use smart watches or tvs as reasons to raise numbers nor fully convinced that these products can move the needle. still speculation or concern on werther the wearable text base

will be a driver to earnings. back to you. >> seema, consumers at heart. they have preferences. that's interesting there. meanwhile, a check on the metals market that closed a few seconds ago. gold, silver, copcopper, platin all down. a lot of activity. palladium flat. send it over to rick santelli tracking action at the cme. rick? >> thanks, kayla. all you need do look at an train day chart of tens. up ap couple basis points, what an important couple of basis points. we'll get to that in a moment, but without a doubt, the biggest fundamental for 2014 for the treasury market is the stock market. look at this chart with the dow overlaid with ten-year note futures. look how tight especially on the way down when stocks were having a nasty january. on the way up, kind of fighting it a bit, trending in the right direction. that is very important. look at year to date chart of

teb tens, anything to the left of that bottom, 38%, retrace that. exactly trading on the right side. this point here at 275, 276, technically significant. on blowsing basis, mind you. the last chart showed how risk has come back. the eta representing high yield breaking out to levels we haven't seen since last spring. tyler, baaing to you. >> thank you very much, rick. where's the beef? meat prices on the rise. jane wells following the story in los angeles. jane? >> reporter: you know, tyler, when beef prices get expensive, other meats look more affordable. after the break, old school. with a jerky, not from a cow. bison. when we come back on "power lunch." are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule.

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welcome back to "power lunch." k34ek out shares of conagra. over the amount of sodium the company discloses on certain sunflower seed packaging. shares down towards the session lows. tyler a new lawsuit revived against conagra. back to you. >> dom, thank you. caught up on the olympics medals count. u.s. back in the lead now with

23 total medals. russia and the netherlands close behind. 22 each. well, actually the u.s. now has 24 medals. look at that. norway has 21 and canada 19. once the olympics are done and gone, what happens to all that new real estate build over in sochi? michelle caruso-cabrera? >> reporter: the dutch speed skating coach said the under armour mach uniforms are not the reason the americans failed to win even though they were expected to. breaking a record here, a single sport as a single winter games. 21 for his speed skating team. he says the american suits tron blame. he says it's the american system that doesn't care about speed skating, and that way too much athletic talent goes to the nfl

and not enough to the other sports in america. >> you have a lot of attention for a foolish sport, like american football, and you waste a lot of talent, athletic flent talent where it's meant to kill each other, hurt each other. >> reporter: when you talk about american football, you commit blasphemy. we love football. >> yeah, exactly. that's why di do it, because you're so narrow minded and want to compete against the world wasting a lot of good fletalent a sport that sucks. >> reporter: yes, he says football sucks. putting out a statement last week saying there was no evidence the suits were contributing to the team not medaling as much as expected. now the games are starting to wind down. what's going to happen with a lot of this fran structure? new apartments are for sale in sochi? we got a look inside one of

them. these apartments, 1,500 of them, up in the mountains, built for the media, and are going on sale as early as next month. the one you're looking at, two bedroom fully furnished, kitchenette with turkish appliance, living room, a samsung tv yours for roughly half a million. including gondolas that go up to a ski resort and a beach, so to speak, on top of the nearby mall. the developer, happens to be the state-owned bank. so there's financing available as well. there are multiple new neighborhoods up in the mountains, including this one. rosa khouter, and the hoping to capitalize on what they think will be a new ski resort high above the mountains in sochi. there's already a heli pad pap

place for the super rich to land their helicopters. some are skeptical this will turn into a resort town and some predicting a lot of the hotels might fail. we'll know floebl a couple yea s s from now. back to you. a dutch speed skating coach and ray lewis walk into a bar. that's the joke. and watch tonight starting at 5:00 here on cnbc. i believe it is the gold medal match tonight at 5:00 p.m. bring your stones. kayla? >> right, ty. a taste of curling, too. i know you'll be watching. we want to talk about the beef market. where is the beef? it may be in buffalo these days. jane wells investigates. >> reporter: due to drought, higher exports, rising incomes, increasing demand. over $5 a pound. suddenly bison doesn't look

expensive though it costs more than beef, even selling it as costco. and then the very high-end stuff. >> you always have filet mignon here. >> reporter: jeff miller and chris silver sell only grass-fed, all-natural bull, bison meat, popular for leanness, flavor and paleo diet craze. it doesn't require usda inspection. meaning if you want a meat inspector stamp of approval, producers have to pay extra for it. >> we have to pay basically $58 an hour for them to be on overtime while they're already there inspecting, also getting paid from us for, to do the same job. >> normal customer, somebody looking for a healthy product that has a unique flavor. and they are willing to pay a little bit more to get that healthy product. >> next on "street signs," the usda is about to conduct its first-ever bison survey which could bring the industry into

the fold. and you will not believe how these two guys ended up selling buffalo. worth tuning in for no an hour. kayla? >> an industry that ted turner went into in 1967, finally going mainstream. we'll be watching on "street signs." apple down graded from overweight at barclays, and downgraded from market perform from outperform at wells fargo and oil and gas drillers upgraded from equal weight to overweight and increasing price target to $20 to $18. ty, back to you. what do you get in atlanta for your real estate money? the answer is, a lot. the "power house" is next. ♪ where you think you're gonna go ♪ ♪ when your time's all gone? [ male announcer ] live a full life. the new lexus ct hybrid

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facebook afounding it will pay $16 billion in cash and stock for whatsapp. what's your take? 19% say a smart move. 46% say a bad idea and overvalued. 35% say it should focus more on its own innovation. there you have it. now let's see what's coming up on "street signs." over to sochi. kayla, thank you very much. at the top of the hour on "street signs" giving you new developments in the european union's reaction to the escalating violence in ukraine. outside of that, the latest, also hear from the winter olympics in sochi as well as a look ahead and if you need comic relief, i'm going to squeeze into a four-man bobsled with three u.s. bop slbsledders and a skeleton lesson. from sochi, and the american women's hockey game as i speak. it is nearly 11:00 here in russia. for now, back to beautiful snowy

inglewood fl inglewood cliffs, tyler? >> more snow than you do at sea level in sochi. "power house" folks, what your money buys you in atlanta. a realtor with berkshire hathaway perimeter. welcome good to see you. let's check the stats on atlanta's fulton county as of january, median sales price, $280,000. homes for sale, 2,700. 388 homes sold, average days on the market about three months or 88 days. let's go to our -- how would you character the market down there? >> definitely a buyer's market today. good activity, and it's been very challenging for those trying to buy homes, because they're competing. >> all right. let's go and look at the first listing, 5880 harrier lane. goes for, get this, $185,000,

and the taxes, well, let's just say the taxes are -- yearly, a heck of a lot less than i pay monthly. tell me about this house? >> yeah. taxes are a little less than up north, but, yes, a great starter home. a brick front home. beautiful interior. hardwood floors. you know, you get a lot for your money down near atlanta. this is in the southwest corridor of atlanta. this house, like you said. six bedrooms, four baths. you can't go wrong. in most other states, or cities, for that fact, you can't get this much home for that amount of money. >> how far from downtown? the commute? >> 15, 20 for instance in downtown. >> not bad. second listing. two bedroom, two bath condo in downtown atlanta. about 1,300 square feet listing for $319,000. >> yeah. a beautiful location. to be right in the center of town, to be able to get a condo at this price is phenomenal. you can see, it's a roommate

plan. everything in this condo is immaculate from the kitchen, stainless steel, the granite countertops, hardwood floor, a lot of upgrades. can you get a lot for your money in town in the condo market, and a lot of folks, whether downsizing or in some cases people's first homes, they're going into condos here in the city. >> looks nice. boy, that swimming pool looks nice to us northerners right about now. and to our "power house e"of the week, 1600 queensland court in alpharetta, georgia. a modest $779,000. $5,900 a year in taxes. look at that 6,500 square feet. >> a beautiful house. raise a lot of eyebrows in the south when you find out what you can get for your money. something like this up north, maybe a multimillion dollar house. in the $5 million or $6 million. this house is immaculate. look at the living room. >> wow. >> you get so much for your

money with this house, and it's very open. very, you know, friendly. i mean, just -- it's beautiful. >> that is beautiful. how far is that one from downtown? i just don't know the area all that well. >> probably talking, 15, 16 miles. >> 15 or 16 miles? >> yeah. nowhere from downtown. >> look at that office and library. i'm dying for that. would you tell me, i think i've mangled your name. you're a former nfl player. would you pronounce your first name? >> my fame is adasala. >> yes. >> who did you play for? >> carolina panthers a. good run this year. >> yeah a good run this year. not bad. i'm a little removed. i've been in the real estate market over a decade now. when you're talking about football, they're not looking for old folks like me. >> good. we'll have you back next time. thanks. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> kayla. ty, from my home town of atlanta to the cayman islands,

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time this is going to be fun. a new high for the day. first, talk about the netherlands speedskating coach, crowing to michelle ka caruso-cabrera about his team's 21 medal sweep blaming the u.s. poor performance not on the doggone uniforms but because we pay too much attention to football. yes, football. let's listen. >> you're so narrow minded and want to compete against the world while you waste a lot of good talent in a sport that sucks. >> a sport -- that sucks! the gauntlet thrown down. joe kernen pounded the coach on his return visit to "squawk box" this morning. >> i watch a 10,000 meter race yesterday. two people, not eastern racing each other, around and around and around, for 13 minutes. every once in a while they'd

cross over and go around. i think watching paint dry is more fun. i want my 13 minutes back, of my life! i want that time back that i spent! are you actually comparing -- are you actually comparing the spectator experience of speedskating with american football? [ bell ringing ] >> you have a sport and a lot of your talent is wasted in that sport, because you kill each other in the american football. it's so rough, and because you like it, and you got all the money into that sport, there's not a lot of money in the other sports, and just -- nobody in the world wants to compete, in that sport with you [ bell ringing ] >> anything else you find that you're good at, you let us know, all right? >> you are just envious, man, for our medals. that's what you do. just envious. no big deal. no big deal. [ beg rill ringing sflchlt

[. >> what do you think? football or guys running around in their spanx? >> i don't think they're exclusive. no empirical evidence football sucks but i'd like to see the dutch play american football and i'd like to see our pro football players try to speed skate. >> both a travesty. look, i'm a basketball fan. the greatest athletes in the world, and prefer to watch bablt basketball over football. it's not the suits. it's the mental attitude about the suits that created the problem, and by the way, made another point. we, the dutch, we're faster. on that point, he was right. forget about the anti-american nonsense. throw that out along with, i adegree with joe on all that. >> he's feeling pretty good about himself right now, as well he should. his team has been really well. his spoibt interesting. interesting to see percy harvin of the seahawks suit up and concentrate on that or darryl green, former redskin one of the fastest men in the game.

>> maybe joe kernen would watch that. >> i'd like to see joe kernen speed skate. put that together. >> i'd get out of the way. >> quentin tarantino recently sued gawker for leaking one of his screenplays. because gawker's screening company is based in the cayman islands, tarantino might not have a legal leg to stand on. will we see more heading to the tropics to avoid legal fights? bob? >> somebody stole quentin tarantino's property and gave it to gawker and they published it. he's saying, don't talk to us. you have no jurisdiction because we're in the cayman islands. i'd like to see them get around the jurisdictional issues and address a liability issue pap legitimate question. the guy's property -- >> something we fight for all the time in our business, guys. >> that's right. >> an interesting debate about journalism and when you can public something, and gawker is trying to argue, because tarantino said in a public interview that the script had

been widely circulated to a whole lot of people as a reporter, my ears perk up, put in a few phone calls and see if i can get my hands on it. >> he had given it to six people. >> six sources. >> somebody betrayed his confidence. it's not -- fair to say, somebody actually expropriated the property and misused it. he didn't want them to and that to gawker. my point, i don't think that gawker -- i believe in freedom of press. we all do. we don't -- they should be allowed to -- >> we got to make a right turn here from gawker to paid toilets. i know want to talk about the paid toilets. they're coming to new york city, folks. $8 a day. members-only toilets, a soundproof restroom complete with a private storage area and shower. deluxe port-a-potties, are they the wave the future in new york city? kayla? >> go to me first. obviously, i'm the expert on this. ty, the guy who founded this said he created it because he came to new york city and couldn't find a restroom. he wanted to fill that market.

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