david: time to go off the desk and over to florida where this 11-foot python, look at that might be worth 1,000 bucks. hundreds of people are participating in a snake hunt in the florida everglades. the person who bags the largest python brings home a thousand dollars. take out the most pythons you get 1500 bucks. contest comes to an end febuary 10th. there is still time to join in. liz: okay. the number one thing to watch, we'll hear from last of big banks when morgan stanley reports ahead of the bell.

the company is expected to report eps of 27 cents and 7 billion in revenue. we've got general electric as well, global conglomerate ge. analysts look for the company to report 43 cents a share. james gorman, 3:15 p.m. eastern tomorrow right here on fox business melissa: i'm melissa francis and here's what's "money" tonight. i knew it!. that 787 is a flying deathtrap. boeing dreamliners are grounded around the world. they say the battery is to blame. why would anyone step foot on the plane again? we'll explain how boeing can recover. that sound is the internet's head exploding. manti te'o gets caught in a internet hoax that is to unbelievable. was he in it all along? that could tarnish his

draft. how to sort out fact from fiction. verizon employee showed up to work every day for his six-figure salary even he outsourced his job to china. i'm not kidding about this. we have details how he pulled it off right under the company's nose. even when they say it's not it is always about money melissa: first let's look at the day's market headlines with today's market moment. weekly jobless claims dropped to a five-year low. housing starts for december hit a four-year high. stocks rallied. s&p 500 closed at its highest level since december 26 of 2007. intel reported fourth quarter earnings just a short tile ago. revenue met expectations but they beat on the bottom line. however they forecast for first quarter revenue fell short of expectations and

its shares turned negative after-hours. good news on the u.s. economy led to an early slide for gold. swung back late in the session and hit a one-month high settles at 1690.80 an ounce. our top story is the frightening situation in algeria where a botched attempt to free hostages from bp's natural gas complex turned deadly. al algerian source tells reuters 30 hostages were killed. seven foreigners, two japanese, one britain, a french national. seven americans are missing. the white house is saying some are not accounted for. fox news learned two americans are on their way to london. bp is pulling nonessential personnel out of algeria. details here still very fluid. there is a lot of conflicting reports out there. here to help us sort it out, john bolton, former ambassador to the united nations. he is also a fox news contributor. i want to start out, can you

put this in perspective for us. how big of a deal is it to the u.s.? >> i think we should consider it very significant. even though it is in algeria a long way away. when you combine it with the hostilities in mali, the fact that al qaeda in the islamic maghreb carved out a space the size of texas in mall lay to use it as a sanctuary and link it with benghazi on september 11th when four diplomats have been killed and there has been no retaliation by the united states. this is confluence of events that shouldn't kate the war on terror is very much alive. has a lot of implication for us, our european allies and middle east and it is all very bad news. melissa: when you combine with what happened in benghazi does it tell you this war is escalating? >> well, i think it is. what is significant here in algeria they took a substantial number of

foreign hostages. as you rightly say, the details here are unclear but they clearly had a lot of hostages at the outset and they were prepared to attack economic targets. we have to get oil drilling operations in. this is huge part of algerian economy. if that is vulnerable and oil and gas facilities throughout the middle east are vulnerable this is something of potential of real significance. melissa: i covered energy for a long time. oil installations are generally tend to be in hot spots around the world. i feel like they're always a target. why in this case do you think that they targeted this facility versus maybe an embassy? >> there are always potential targets but they haven't been in the persian gulf region, in saudi and other places. even in libya during the course of the effort to overthrow qaddafi. i think algeria had looked like a place of relative calm. but let's be clear.

radical islamists have been a problem in algeria for a long time. they won an election 20 years ago. the military brutally suppressed it, killing 100,000 people. so i think striking now, in part to take advantage of the french attacks in mali but to show they have got this capability is a real signal to europeans and, in north africa and really around the region. melissa: there's another piece to the puzzle in algeria as well, right? because one of the problems they're allowing their airspace to be used by france and, in this attack on mali? is that part of the problem here and one of the reasons they're in algeria? >> well both algeria and mali, former french colonies. a lot of hostility to the french. i think what it shows the affiliated groups with al qaeda do operate with some degree of autonomy. i think this particular attack was probably planned

before the french began operations in mali but i think they were opportunistic enough to take advantage of it and link the two in timing. i think, you know, in particular we ought to be prepared for more bad news out of this. british prime minister david cameron had a big speech in the netherlands tomorrow on the u.k.'s role in europe. he has canceled that because they're worried about the circumstances there. so, i think this was a pretty grim operation. melissa: what do you think is the u.s.'s role in this particular situation going forward? it is not our fight. at the same time there are americans there. we put up a drone over the area to see what is going on but what do you think american forces should be doing from here or the president? >> we have to acknowledge the war on terror is not over. al qaeda has not been defeated. the situation in mali is one thing. the situation in algeria is another. i'm not saying we have to be involved in each and everyone but i think our responsibility from the point of view of american national interests is

connect the dots. this is part of a pattern. i think we need it work with our european allies. i think we have to get our heads around the fact in washington that the war on terror continues. al qaeda has not been defeted. it is wonderful usama bin laden is dead but the threat of international terrorism, the war they're conducting against us goes on. melissa: is alive and well. ambassador bolton, thanks so much for your perspective. >> thank you. melissa: time for today's fuel gauge report. strong u.s. economic data and the attack in algeria september oil futures higher. crude settled up 1.3% at $95.49 a barrel. that is oil's highest close since mid-december. natural gas futures lept to a six week high. they dropped more than expected last week with cold temperatures across the west and east coast is helping to fuel an increase in demand. a key north sea oil pipeline reopened. a leak shut down a pipeline and nine platforms earlier this week. the pipeline now is back up and running after undergoing

safety evaluations. it transports about 100,000 barrels of crude per day. turning now to our not so friendly skies. the boeing deem liner becoming a nightmare as the faa temporarily grounds all 787s operated by u.s. airlines. it is the first time since 1979 the faa has done this. get this. the u.s. has plenty of company. european union and some foreign airlines have now done the same thing. it is because of safety concerns tied to batteries boeing uses in the plane. kind of begs the question, can boeing get back lost. connell: after this? todd curtis, a former safety engineer and creater of airsafe.com. thanks for joining us. a lot of people are pointing to the lithium-ion batteries. there has been problems with them bursting in flames in cars as well. is that maybe a potentially flawed technology? >> it is different

technology from batteries they used before. it has some challenges, if it catches fire it produces its own oxygen so it is difficult to put it out but there are design changes put in place to prevent smoke overboard. there are other changes they made to make this not happen. apparently those changes were not enough. melissa: we saw last week, six instances on five days, or whatever the incredible stats were. a lot of people tried to slough it off, this is what happens when you roll out a new product. it seemed like too. now the faa is stepping in saying hang on, let's ground these things. are they overreacting, are they doing the right thing or is there a real problem here? >> i think there are things we don't know about yet. for example, after the event in boston last week immediately the ntsb had a fairly serious investigation involving the japanese. they had some inkling there was a problem with the battery system. what happened in japan later sealed the deal as far as a

much more serious approach to this. melissa: as a passenger this makes me very concerned about a 787. do you think they will get the confidence back for flyers if they straighten out all the problems? how would you go about doing that. >> i think the key is team work. when you have problems in an aircraft like this or an existing model, the certifying organization faa, ntsb and others including the japanese who will work together on a solution. if that solution is one actually effective, if they're very transparent with what they're doing and how they're doing it i think public confidence will return. melissa: that sound like a long process. how long do you think these planes will be on the ground? >> hard to say. until they understand exactly what happened and until they understand what role if any the battery played it could be much more subtle problem. it may be days. it may be weeks. melissa: there were a lot of delays when they were rolling out this aircraft. that was sort of a, a source of a lots of consternation for shareholders are for

example the industry. do you think they rushed based on those delays and do you think the delays had anything to do with what we're seeing now? >> i don't think it was rushed at all. aircraft development with many new technologies as this one is has uncertainties in it. along the way when there are uncertainties, there were problems, they made sure they were fixed before they moved on to certification. the delay was longer than usual but not one i would worry about. melissa: you're a safety engineer for boeing. how scared should we be? how big of a deal do you think this is? what is your assessment? when i said last week, this is really scary. people said no, no, no. now, i feel like they led me astray then. what do you say now? is this scary? is this a big deal? >> first i was with boeing. i was there during the 777 development. i didn't stay with the company during the 787 development but the process is similar. there are things that happen. sometimes it may seem a little bit scary to the outsiders who aren't in on the process but there's a very, very deliberate process here that takes

years, not just during this phase but as long as this aircraft is in operation. so. melissa: would you get on one of these aircraft today if they let you? i know they're not letting but if they let you would you do it? >> if the faa and authorities over in england and in japan all say, hey, we have a solution. if boeing gets on board and has a solution and implement that i would have no hesitation. melissa: you trust everyone involved even though they all cleared it before and. >> there was a risk recognized. two weeks ago we didn't know what that risk was. once they do something about that risk our perception how safe it is will increase. melissa: okay. i'm calling you in the future before i get on one of these to see if it is a good idea i still may knot get on but definitely putting you on speed dial. todd, thank you very much. next "money" on manti te'o claims he is a victim of a girlfriend hoax.

the fallout may only be beginning. today's all-star panel will weigh in. tiger woods, did you hear this story? he is reportedly trying to woo back his ex-wife, ellen nordegren, but the prenup she is demanding will make your head spin. what tiger may have to shell out if he can't keep his pants on. more "money" coming up. thank you what are you doing?

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♪ . melissa: all right. the scandal really rocking, it says the sports world here today but it is everywhere. manti te'o, notre dame star linebacker, is caught in the middle of an elaborate hoax involving a ex-girlfriend we now know never existed t was supposedly a tragic love story. the girlfriend whose name was lennay kekua, died from lukemia last year. that's what we thought. te'o soldiered through to lead his team to the national championship game. people were stunned by this.

a large amount of money was donated to notre dame because of his inspiring story. we now know none of it was true. it could cost the star big-time. he was said to be a shoo-in for a first round draft pick f this scarce teams away it cost him $4 million. fox sports host, j.t. "the brick.". legal analyst, mercedes colwin, and marketing guru bruce terkel, creative director of turkel brands. he joins us as well. jt, let me start with you. how shocking was all this? it is such a weird story. how blown away were you? >> we're all blown away by it and we're still trying to gather information, melissa. i was on the radio last night and earlier today and fans are really upset. it came at the worst time in sports because of lance armstrong. melissa: yeah. >> remember 30 days ago we didn't have a hall of fame class because of steroids.

fans are upset because of the cheating and the lying. for manti te'o i believe that he fell in love online. the show, catfish, documentary, i could understand how he could get sucked into this. but for three years, how could he go on in a relationship like that, never meet his alleged girlfriend and then, here's the key, when she dies, play the sympathy card? because right there he should have figured it out. notre dame should have backed him. someone at notre dame should have helped him figure this out and he could have came clean. this had effect way he played. he played awful in the national championship game. he better come clean or is a naive young man --. >> hear you. mercedes, i mean, you judge people's integrity all the time. it is one of those things where you look at people and say are they telling the truth? are they lying. how could he possibly have not been in on this in your expert legal, ethical opinion? >> especially now in the

world of knowledge, you can google, you can research people. do the due diligence. how could you not have known? father says i met her. we know that is not true. they never met. never came for visit. although the father came forward and said yes. i think this is programmatic and people are skeptical. how could you not have known? melissa: i did it on my computers all day. we'll play the sound bite. look at him to try to figure out what does know and what does he not. let's play that sound. >> why me? why them? why all in one day? this is six hours ago i just found out my grandma passed away. you take, you know, the love of my life. melissa: that is him talking about his girlfriend that didn't exist after she died. bruce, save this brand. save this brand. this is a kid, everybody is following him. he has this tremendous story. he is an incredible athlete. on one hand from a financial

perspective it doesn't take away from his prowess on the field. it doesn't take away from the type of player he is, but what does it mean financially for his brand going forward? how would you advise him? >> doesn't take away from what he does on the field, you're absolutely right. if he plays the game, he will get drafted. problem is the internet echo chamber doesn't forget. brand that sponsor him, where big money is, they will have to think twice. if it turns out he is naive, they can't trust him. if it turns out he set this up, and turns out is a hoax he was in on. forget, nobody will give him the time of the day. he will not run with the football and not run with a brand. melissa: jt, we were talking about this at beginning of the segment where he goes in the draft. there were calculations if he goes lower and goes in the second round and could cost him as much as $4 million based on where he goes. does it impact his standing in the draft? once again it is either by

his naivete or integrity but not about how he plays on the field? >> his stock is dropping because he played terribly in the national championship game. he was absolutely exposed. he had his worst game of the year. conspiracy theorists are saying was this weighing heavy on his mind? yeah he could lose money. if he turns out to be a great football player he will make it all back when it comes to contracts on the field. as bruce said when we talk about marketing the brand outside of football, player, gatorade. look all the contracts rg3 has and he only has played a year in the league. millions of dollars are at stake. if he was part of the hoax and knew about it and found out about it started to lie. he looks like a cheap soap appra actor breaking out the sympathy card. it looks awful. melissa: it does. let me give you a money meter own the side as you're doing this. how does it affect where he goes in the draft, what do you think? >> i say money.

he will drop 10 or 15 spots. it will cost him a couple million dollars. it is his reputation. everyone wants a great reputation. if you're a part of a cover-up i think there is much bigger cover-up here that could include notre dame and when notre dame knew about this on the timeline. melissa: and they let interviews go on after they knew about it for sure, without question. they're admitting that. they let people continue to believe this story and talk about it during the bcs. okay. guys, nobody move. stick around. we have so much more to talk to this power panel about, like the reports, i love this story, tiger woods could be remarrying his ex-wife ellen nordegren, have you heard about this? with a prenup that could break the bank for some countries. you have got to hear how this thing may be structured according to reports. do you ever have too much money? i guess tiger woods doesn't. ♪ what's next?

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melissa: back with another sports shocker. report today that golf's favorite philanderer, that is tiger woods of course, might get back together with his ex-wife, ellen nordegren. of course there is a catch and this is big one. she allegedly wants a prenup with no cheating clause worth astronomical $350 million. that is more than half of his fortune. what is left of it anyway. bring in our all-star panel back for more on this one. fox sports radio host j.t. "the brick". lawyer and fox news legal analyst, mercedes colwin, and marketing expert bruce terkel of terkel brands. mercedes, to you. have you heard of a fidelity clause this huge and how do you enforce that? when you go to collect the 50 million, do you need photographs? i think you would fight it tooth and nail. woe were just kissing. nothing really happened.

>> you better have the best pi in the entire world tracing your man if you have that type of clause. pictures. if you can get any sort of conversation. even put a through there and get them caught in the act. melissa: do you believe this story by the way? >> i find that really hard to believe. if she walked away with $110 million does she need to go back to tiger woods? not likely. melissa: she doesn't need to. who knows what he is saying. they have two kids together. maybe, i don't know. >> there are a lot of woman that say once you cheat you're done. seems that way, we don't have any confirmmation of it, recorded that maybe she was the one who smacked him around. melissa: yeah. there you go. bruce, to me, this could be a total branding rebirth. i mean, talk about, every time somebody falls we always say what could they possibly do to, you know, get the public's trust back, not to think they're a scumbag any longer? if he signs a prenup like this where he says i'm so committed to doing this, and

i want you back so badly that i will give away more than half of my, what is estimated to be a $600 million fortune, if i happen to cheat on you again, i don't know, i mean that is pretty compelling. bruce, what do you think? >> i think so. listen, first of all we want them back together. they're a cute couple. melissa: we do? >> they have kids together. we liked it when they were happy. we're so tired of all these scandals. we just had lance armstrong with the tour de france. we want to get over tiger and his tour de pants. i think money proves, he will do what he is supposed to do. this is a love story. and by the way he has to fix his golf game. melissa: right. >> this could re-establish his brand, absolutely. melissa: mr. brick, let me ask you, when we look at his endorsements, his endorsements compared to 2009, 2012 to 2009 they're half what they were in large part. his tour winnings really

dipped. they went from 12 million to two million. he is back to 7.4 million. but his golf game is nothing like what it was before. do you think, you know, could this put his game back together if he got his whole family? i mean the final piece of the puzzle back into place. he is back where he was. what do you think? >> well it could, because he obviously misses his kids. he rarely sees his kids because of divorce and his travel schedule all over the world. this would be a financial death wish if he signs anything. and has gotten some bad advice over the years. he has gotten really bad advice. melissa, you're really good following the money. follow the money here. it would be the perfect storm. gets his game back and wins the masters and puts his marriage back together on television he will get big endorsements deals coming back that he never thought he would have again. melissa: bruce, that is gold, right? hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, is it not. >> he will need the money when he cheats on her.

melissa: we're only two women. even with a $350 million gun to his head do you think he can keep his pants on? >> how many women do we know of, 15, 16, 18? please. if you're willing to commit to $350 million penalty maybe you will not cheat on me this time. melissa: only way, you will have to put your money where your mouth is, right? right? bruce, go ahead i give you the last word. >> i think that it is a beautiful idea. i'm sure that it was cooked up between them. i think it re-establishes his brand. it gives him the ability to prove he did it. we know he misses his kids. we're going to love this story. he will be golden if he does this. melissa: can you imagine the second wedding? oh, my goodness. you are a fantastic power panel. thank you so much. >> thank you. melissa: i can't believe i'm saying this for once i actually agree with mike bloomberg. i am still feeling sick from yesterday. can't be the case.

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as i look at this issue, of course they have it put out to bid. in chicago we looked at privatization and public/private partnerships as a good thing but these workers have no other, outcome than they're going it lose their jobs. so if i were them, and i would want the mayor and others to say look, we understand that you might have to go to private company. we would like to be able to do the same job we're doing today that we will do next year. it doesn't seem like the mayor is willing to agree to that. and so what are they supposed to do? in june they will lose their job. if i were them and i would support them if i was councilmember there i support the right to strike. all strikes are not created equal. we debated other strikes on your show, melissa. they have nothing else to do is to strike and that's only tool in their tool box. melissa: i hear you. when you strand 150,000 kids in new york city and parents have to get to work and can't because they are trying to figure out to get their kids to school you

lose a ton of sympathy. i look at their budget, we, we here in new york spend $7,000 a kid to get kids to school, in a city that is so densely populated, there are schools on every block you look at other cities. chicago you spend $5,000 a kid. that sounds like a lot. look at miami, $1,000 a kid. l.a., which is sprawling as they come, they spend 3200. $7,000 a year. my goodness where is that money going? >> you're right. i don't disagree. he details of privatization deal might be a good one but i'm interested in workers and middle class. why in your city have we provided billions of dollars to aig and others in taxpayer bailouts because of huge mistakes that were made and then working class families, working-class people in this situation because they make an average of $35,000 i think is average bus driver's salary in new york? give me a break. melissa: $14 an hour or $29 on up. you know. so i still, i wouldn't have

given aig the money. i don't want to give taxpayer dollars to anyone for anything. >> we did. melissa: yeah. >> now we're focusing on bus drivers making average of $35,000 a year. all they're asking to do is their job next year. melissa: but we're not focusing on bus drivers. we're focusing on taxpayers. we're focusing on taxpayers. >> right. melissa: when they bid out the contract for the pre-k kid they found out they were going to save $95 million over five years. i want those taxpayer dollars. spend it on books. >> private sector --. melissa: help the taxpayers. >> of course the private sector in this situation can probably provide some savings. the private sector in this situation will still hire these union bus drivers. what the union bus drivers are saying, i worked here 20 years. i've done a great job. can i have my job next year? we need more people, melissa, you ranted on your show people don't want to work. melissa: yeah. >> people don't want to get in the workforce. these people want to work. they want to drive a bus. they want to take kids to

school. they want to be paid a fair wage. think $35,000 a year is pretty fair to make it in new york city. they're asking to work. let's let them work. melissa: this is not a great disagree with me because that is okay we always have a good time anyway. >> right. melissa: if we're paying $7,000 a student, we're paying the most, the bus drivers are only making $14,000 up to $29, an hour, $35,000, where is the rest of that money going? >> we've touched on this before. i come from the private sector. i think when you have public/private partnerships like i think what is going on in new york is good thing but let's protect the workers. why can't these men and women still drive their bus, melissa? who is siphoning off that money? i'm giving my $7,000 in taxpayer money. it is going somewhere. and then it is coming out and bus driver is not getting his money? where is that money going in the middle the that's what i want to know. >> huge bureaucracy brock

you have in new york like we do in chicago need to be streamed lined. melissa: or union leaders. >> you said at beginning this is first time or, you can't believe you're agreeing with mayor bloomberg. you agreed with him before on the show where i did talking about barack obama. melissa: i did? >> barack obama coming to new york. mayor bloomberg said don't come. melissa: you're right. keep me honest. i love you. >> that is at least twice i know. melissa: you keep me honest. >> twice you have done that you do the same to me. melissa: anytime come to the city, give me a call. i owe awe drink. >> i'll be there. melissa: i love you. you're the best. >> you're the best, thanks. melissa: if you want to be a school teacher should like kids, i don't know, i think. this ohio teacher is suing her former school district over her rare phobia of children. she has a phobia of children. she is teacher! this is bizarre details. at the end of the day that it is all about money. ♪ ♪

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♪ . >> i think a lot of us would agree too much money is wasted every year on ridiculous lawsuits, right? but when i heard this one i just had to share. a former "high school" teacher is skewing for

discrimination claiming the school district ignored her rare phobia and forced her into early retirement. you want to know what her fear is? children. she is a teacher and she's afraid of children. could this case have any merit? is this a waste of taxpayer money? joining us had is attorney jennifer brandt. welcome to the show. have you heard of a fear of children before? is this a real phobia? >> i never heard of this before but it is a real phobia. it is not only fear of children but it is fear of young children. older children she is okay with but she is afraid of young children. melissa: does she have a shot at this lawsuit? >> as crazy as it may sound, she might have a shot. the judge did not dismiss her discrimination claims. he dismissed her other claims but this one still stands. she is suing under the ada act. under the americans with disabilities act employer can't discriminate against

their physical or mental impairment. whether the school district knew about it, transferring her out of her high school class putting her in another class with younger children this allowed her to fester she is claiming and caused her anxiety and high blood pressure and things like that. melissa: it stressed her out so much she got high blood pressure so she could have a stroke. >> right. melissa: we're not only ones talking about this story. the reason people are talking about it because she is getting traction. they're taking the case seriously. when i looked in more detail there were things pretty compelling about it. for example, she was teaching at a high school. she was teaching spanish and french since 1976. she had a record of doing that she said she has been treated for this phobia since 1991. so if that's true. >> that's right. melissa: and there is a doctor willing to come out and say she has this track record, that is long before she ever knew that she was going to be transferred. because you would think, as an intelligent person you're like, well she got transferred to a middle

school because they got rid of her job. all of sudden at high school, saying the kid can go ahead and taking these classes online instead of having a real teacher there. they don't need to teach a foreign language anymore, says a lot about our value for french and spanish and foreign language in school. they switched her to a middle school. does she need a doctor to come in and say this is real thing and she has been telling me about it for a long time? >> she absolutely does. the important thing under the ada, the school district had to know about this. now what i mean? they knowing took someone who had this impairment and put her in a situation which was not good for her. which allowed the impairment to take over and allowed her to have all these problems. a question of whether she made the phobia known to the school district even before the transfer. or whether it was something, once she was transferred, she is saying oh by the way i have this crazy phobia. by doing this you're harming me or discriminating against me. melissa: right. >> and different than other

teachers. melissa: that is detail. go ahead. that is one of those details i didn't know about. she would have had to have told them about it along the way. just one person or inform them in writing. what is that burden like? >> well they should have known. something about her medical history that this was, she can somehow prove and establish this was not something like you suggested, that she just came up with, because she didn't like the job or just wanted to get out of it or take an early retirement or something like that. i mean this is something that had to be sort of out there, something that, you know, that she had been treated for. melissa: yeah. >> knowingly being treated for and something she couldn't do her job otherwise she was qualified. melissa: we're running out of time. how much do you think she could win? >> i don't know. she is already collecting retirement and getting a good forges of her salary. i don't think this is big money case but certainly gets people talking and whether or not the ada is getting too far afield. or do we need to restrict it a bit. melissa: pull it back. >> better restriction.

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melissa: if you like to party with "spare change" we're joined with adam shapiro and susan. thank you to both of you. while employed by a rise in a software developer decided to outsource his entire job to china while he sat in his home office. a typical they looked at 9:00 a.m. watch cat videos. then have some lunch, of drowsy day then face book that a 430 he would e-mail the updates to management. he was caught when his computer was linked to a network in china. he should be credited.

that is creative. >> is there anything wrong with it? he committed to a job getting done and working out of his home. as long as the work was done is a legal? >> rise in his thinking why pay him? he had a six-figure salary if we could spee a kid in china. melissa: the kid probably reached out. by the way. [laughter] melissa: he was watching cat videos. [laughter] melissa: i never looked at cat videos at work. getting a foot in the door for the wall street internships can be tough. but he took a chance with

his cover letter that reads "the truest is i have no special skills the near-perfect gpa and i will work hard. i will fetch coffee but i will not say how i fit in. >> i am suspicious. it is clever. remember pat robertson said god will call me home. i said that in an interview. [laughter] it could work but why would he in turn at a bank? just because you are a hard worker you have to want to be there. melissa: he had good credentials but cleverly tried to get their attention. he knows his audience. >> at know if anybody will

be impressed. he shows i will be honest. i have worked hard but if you cannot sell yourself with the resonate, are not willing to i dunno if i will fire you. melissa: that is not courting clients. >> this is why you need to consider me. melissa: subway is notorious for giving you a bang for the box with the footlong sub it is actually 11 inches. false advertising? some say it shrinks once it is cooked. we are measuring it here. adam? do the honors