again, the berkshires are getting enhancement here. there's not much out there. maybe a little bit in the mountains of new hampshire. boston, northwards of portland, you may see a snow shower. we may get up to an inch of snow in wassau. now let's talk about the warmth. this time of of the year, you'd expect the coldest air to be monday none, northern rockies. it's 45 degrees in billings, montana, this morning. 43 in denver. it's a little chilly in minneapolis but that's not cold by their standards. our daytime shies should be in the upper 20s in minnesota. the picture from d.c. to boston. it's a mild weather pattern. their jet streams are split, typically in the wintertime, the northerly jet stream dips down into the u.s. kind of snakes its way through the country. the jet stream is locked to the north, pretty much all of january and it's kept the cold air up in canada and alaska. the mild pacific air continues to dominate the nation because our southerly jet stream is more active than normal. that's kind of why we had so many tornadoes last week, too. as long as

and i reiterate i like berkshire hathaw hathaway.an in connecticut, please. >> caller: what's up? >> not much. how about you? >> caller: still pretty well. boo-yah to you. >> boo-yah. >> caller: hey, what's your take on companies that sell luxury goods, now that the economy is rebounding and consumers have more disposable income? >> well, i think what matters, it's got to be ultra-ultra luxury. in other words, the more expensive and more ridiculous, the more like lily it's going to be purchased. if it has any u-tile -- i'm not kidding about this. if there is any utility to it, it isn't bought. this is a bling economy. it's a poor economy and bling. one or the other. there is no middle ground. okay. the rich are getting richer and you may not love their flashy ways, but they can make you a little bit of money with their purchasing. like with brunswick corp! bc. stay with cramer. ♪ >>> coming up, the clock is ticking. call cramer at 1-800-743-cnbc to find out how to fire away at cramer on the "lightning round." can you with stand your

about saying impressively and honorably -- that is what the berkshires said. >> harmless nuts. >> that really offended bill. it came up a year or two ago posted on the web site, 1963 i think it was the bridge will denunciations of the berkshires and quite detailed and substantive. not just these people are terrible but he quotes at great length and shows that this is an untenable argument and not some kind of -- transforms difference of opinion and different strategies and values and denunciations of people when that was not the case. bill always had a distaste for those aspects. politics on all sides. transformed different opinion into each side or the other. the one that people consciously are pursuing in order to do damage. there are those people. soviet spies and denounced actual rating agencies of the communist conspiracy which you thought was important and draw the line against those who were using that in the name of the conservatives. >> we published that editorial to kick the berkshires while they are down. >> oh yes. >> may be a logical following but to that subject i really

berkshire hathaway b stock. is it a buy, sell, or hold? i also understand that berkshire hathaway has large ownership in net jets? what do you think? >> well, net jets is not the driver here. these days it's insurance. pipelines in burlington northern. my friend wrote a terrific piece that i tweeted that if burlington northern would switch to nat gas train engines, it would mean a great deal. i think burlington northern is doing well. the company came out after the close and said that. i think the insurance business is good. and i reiterate i like berkshire hathaway. brendan in connecticut, please. >> caller: what's up? >> not much. how about you? >> caller: still pretty well. boo-yah to you. >> boo-yah. >> caller: hey, what's your take on companies that sell luxury goods, now that the economy is rebounding and consumers have more disposable income? >> well, i think what matters, it's got to be ultra-ultra luxury. in other words, the more expensive and more ridiculous, the more likely it's going to be purchased. if it has any utile -- i'm

so joining us right this minute from newbury, berkshire, england, we have zoe thompson. >> hi. >> thisideo is incredible. your talent is amazing. how do you do it? >> i sit down and practice a half an hour every day. >> what guitar do you use? >> a papuchi. >> i'm a van halen fan. can you give me a little van halen? >> i can do something. ♪ >> oh, man, she's awesome. >> that, of course, was "guns a and roses, "sweet child of mine." >> this might be crazy, but what do you want to be when you grow up? >>> take one. >> oh, oh! >>> most of the country is snowed in. it's cold, it's slushy, it's not that winter wonderland when we think of the winter at christmastime and all that, so it's time to start thinking of spring break, a holiday, warm sand, sunny beaches, that kind of thing. bikinis. speaking of bikinis, it's time to think of yacht week. when we think of spring break vacations, we think of ft. lauderdale, havasu, going to mexico, but yacht week is something i hadn't heard of. it's in the british islands, and in the spring it focuses on the british virgin islands. you can get six or 1

boston to springfield not expecting much at all and the berkshires the white and green mountains herend adirondacks of northern new york but that is where the ski areas are so they will enjoy that know. oklahoma city yesterday had snow and watching the snow from wisconsin through iowa and each st. louis expecting snow as you go throughout your morning commute. winter weather advisories through this area and most locations pick up a dusting to 2 inches and linger longer in milwaukee and wisconsin. a possibility of 3 to 6 inches and much of wisconsin and much anywhere lake michlt because we will get lake effect behind this by the time we get to friday. storm one goes by and storm two lingers tomorrow into the great lakes. a different view of the radar showing the snow through central missouri and near the quad city. the forecast for today, cold air plunging in through the middle of the country. rainy weather early today in new england and that will exit during this that's a look at the national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. snow showers will turn over t

become difficult to separate nature from berkshire because of these in our mental factors.hing that is interesting is music manifests itself in some way different ways. not all composers can blame their instruments very well. and not all instrumentalists compose, and there are for rangers that do not play or compose. you would not say that they are not musical. then you have all of these people who are musical experts, disk jockeys, film supervisors, and they have what we would call musical sensitivity, but it manifests itself in so many different ways, the hunt for a gene is complicated by that. if you are looking for a gene that might give you blond hair, that manifests itself in different ways, but more less is blond hair. musicality is 10 or 12 different things. and to become a great musician requires different personalities. you have to be willing to sit in a room off for hours on end practicing, that kind of willpower, and you have to have a belief in yourself, certainly, for the first few years of musical training, it does not sound very good. you have to believe it

the last time it was year of the dragon, back in the year 2000, berkshire hathaway's class a shares surged. >> i hope they do just as well in this year of the dragon. >> tom: finally one more item, a happy anniversary here, susie, yesterday marked the 3 3rd anniversary, the beginning of nightly business report t began here in south florida on local television, a 15 minute report so, on this evening here, susie, here is to another 33 more years. >> susie: at least, maybe 50. >> tom: that is nightly business report this monday, january 23rd. i'm tom hudson, susie v a great evening. >> susie: and thanks a lot, tom. i'm susie gharib. hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

berkshire hath away.l have the smartest guy in the world running the company. it was hampered last year and doing better lately. when the business picks up it will do well. >> mat, you like this one. >> i

. >> reporter: debbie bosanek is about to become berkshire hathaway's second-most famous employee. the reason? she is the new face of the "buffett rule," which holds a billionaire like warren buffett should not pay a lower tax rate than his secretary, debbie bosanek. to drive the point home, bosanek will be sitting in a place of honor with the first lady at tonight's state of the union speech. >> the president believes it is not fair, inherently not fair that those who are millionaires and billionaires pay at a lower rate than average americans who are struggling to get by. >> reporter: the issue took on new urgency as mitt romney released his tax returns. showing he earned more than $42 million over the last two years- - almost all of it from investments-- and paid more than $6 million in taxes, for an effective tax rate of 14%. romney did not mention his tax rate or the buffett rule today, but he vowed to lower taxes on the middle class, and attacked the president for using what he called "divisive" language. >> we don't demonize prosperity. we celebrate success. that the differe

companies within berkshire hathaway.in the year 2010, he made $11 billion growing his wealth. not taxed at all, period. no tax on it whatsoever. is he going to start suggest let's start taxing wealth? no, certainly not. there's an element of hypocrisy more. all you who strive for income, we'll pay more in taxes. us with the real wealth, we'll stay where we are. >> he grows his money and so he's got the capital gains vs. income tax which is what all of us have. >> precisely. by the way, mitch mcconnell's chief of staff shot back and said ok, how about you make that offer to the democrats and approach obama? you donate $1 to debt reduction and warren buffet will match it. we haven't heard from him since. >> we'll hear from him again at exactly 3 hours from 90 seconds right now as he kicks off things at 9:20 eastern on fox business. thank you, stuart. >> the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks going on trial sooner than you think. and our next guest has an inside perspective. how will it all go down? >> if you thought iran h

. >> this is burt shark over east baltimore county where --, berkshire were possibly 3:00 in the initial call was of a woman in her 30's that was stabbed multiple times. apparently was some kind of domestic dispute between a man and woman and they are calling impact a cutting at this location. the victim was transported from this location to the hospital. baltimore county police still remain on the scene conducting an investigation. >> in season batted tonight, the theft of a lawn tractor leads to the death of a man during the getaway -- in cecil county tonight. >> the thief attempted to steal a lawn tractor priebus asked -- smashed the gate and drove under to escape. barry simms is live in cecil county with the latest on that investigation. >> the thieves did not get very far with what they were trying to steal pretty investigators did not have to travel far because the crime happen right across the road from the state police barracks. the grand opening for this new lowe's home improvement store does not happen until thursday. no customers have arrived yet, but the store has already bec

>> bob: he is probably makes that money on, probably if i assume if a member of berkshire hathaway, heions. >> dana: no. >> bob: how do you know that? >> eric: we don't know that. good point. >> bob: okay. >> eric: we try to know that because i called four different times, 10:58, 11:53, 2:11, 4:02. i'm on your voice mail four times. i wanted to ask you is it stock options? is it stock? is it capital gains or regular income? if it's regular income, he is has to make at least $200,000. >> bob: why do you say no to me all of a sudden when you don't know? >> kimberly: he wanted to know. he tried to know. >> dana: that is not the reason she was sitting in the first lady's box. the reason she was invite in the box is because he is has become for lack of a better word, poster child for the movement that is not fair that he is on her income is paying a higher rate than what warren buffett pays on his investment income. i actually think this conversation in america has been very helpful. because it's helping people understand, get the investment income. the salary. taxed on that. if you decide,

we grew the company in profits and revenue and sold that to berkshire hathaway and today thriving and. my expience is more typical than the distorted view that rick offers. he's offers if i can. there are many things that conservatives should be concerned about the record. go to our website and look at the paper we wrote. but the experience at bain is not one of those experience're concerns. he's indicting free market and capitol and universally discredited. he continues to offer it when his own candidate said it is inaccurate. he has to look at the real record of mitt romney which there are things to be concerned about. >> chris: mr. tyler, one . arguments and we heard it from mr. chocola, they are fiction and inaccuracies in the movie you are running. one example. unimack that was a company in florida and they made washing machines. watch what you say in the film. >> if they left us alone as unimack it would be here right now. we would still have more than 500, employees by now. romney and bain upended the company and used the work force . now making a handsome profit. >> chris: mr.

what about warren buffett and berkshire hathaway. what does he do, kirsten is right. private capital, investors choose the risk, and socialize the risk, privatize the gains and give it back to-- >> and let me say, i am a romney

he doesn't want to touch those, because if you did that, it would affect his beloved berkshire hathawayn except to go to bathroom announces one more reason for me not to go there. we'll tell you what it is nex next. ♪ ♪ >> andrea: welcome back to "the five." a lot of americans go to starbucks across the country to get a buzz every day, but now they can go in a starbucks to get a buzz from alcohol. yes, starbucks announcing in a few states it is going to be serving beer and wine. so, this is a business decision. greg, what do you think of it? >> greg: long before there was occupy wall street, there was occupy starbucks. in the sense that whenever you went in there, people would sit there for hours and not pay for anything. they would put their stupid jacket on a chair or laptop and they wouldn't do anything. the people at starbucks are going how will i make any money? this is a response that starbucks has turned in the modern public library, where people who didn't do anything all day now do it there. they have to make money somehow. turn in a bar, why not? >> andrea: the states, souther

what about warren buffett and berkshire hathaway. what does he do, kirsten is right.se the risk, and socialize the risk, privatize the gains and give it back to-- >> and let me say, i am a romney guy, i don't like this conversation, i think that people are playing to a stereo type about

the liberal areas that the state western berkshires went for martha coakley just as strongly as they have for barack obama. it was the white working class areas and there is an island state. it swung towards scott brown and also the suburbs around the loop around boston. these are the areas that's one most heavily toward scott brown. these are the areas bill clinton at reinvigorated faith in the democratic party. in november 2010, clinton coalition of silly fell apart. democrats lost 66 house seats for picking up seats for republicans. we're showing for any party in the house election since 1948. or showing any party midterm elections 1938. we can see the types in c. this chart shows democratic classes by type in 2010. again, we see the clinton coalition pieces i'm talking about, where democrats have for the greatest losses. writer appalachia, 14 democrats must be a world like that and we see the rural south nine from areas where bill clinton had invigorated popularity for the democrat. look at the northern suburbs. 13 democrats lost in the northern suburbs and for more than seven su

i don't know if she's got even pwerbg sheu berkshire hathaway stocks on her deal.ap gains, she would be at the same tax rate. the thing of punishing people because they are investing in the economy, they should have to pay double, is that a good political way to go for the administration? >> we are rewarding these people all too much. they are making their money on the backs of the american people and not paying their fair share of taxes. >> the people who pay taxes that romney made create jobs. how are they making money on the backs of the american people by investing in the economy. >> they are not creating jobs, they are not investing in the economy. they are making money by moving money around. the choice right now for republicans is between a guy who owns freddie mac and fannie mae and a guy who was their lobbyist. >> it's not going to work. martha: thank you, guys. to be continued. great to see you both. bill: it has been a recurring question for republicans so far in the ballot for the white house. who can best beat president obama? some new polling numbers

me and if any of that makes any sense i do think if it isn't directly related to the unemployment berkshire program etc. maybe it is. but i do think that for this country to get jobs and have jobs in the future we are going to have, more of us are going to have to have that drive and do well and to provide for family and so on and so forth. >> senator come earlier than the nation we were -- >> high unemployment rate. >> high unemployment rate and we are in a position now where i think that in mind set has said even though there's a recovery ongoing statistically most people haven't felt it and i think that is starting to bring about a mind-set change in how you approach the work force in terms of what is expected. the fact that you can't take it for granted a certain level of education will get you something and i believe that you are talking about education. i believe by experience education is letting folks know that if they want to be successful, they are going to have to look at different routes to get there. they have to be much more focused in terms of career and skills. they can't ta

the liberal areas that the state western berkshires went for martha coakley just as strongly as theyfor barack obama. it was the white working class areas and there is an island state. it swung towards scott brown and also the suburbs around the loop around boston. these are the areas that's one most heavily toward scott brown. these are the areas bill clinton at reinvigorated faith in the democratic party. in november 2010, clinton coalition of silly fell apart. democrats lost 66 house seats for picking up seats for republicans. we're showing for any party in the house election since 1948. or showing any party midterm elections 1938. we can see the types in c. this chart shows democratic classes by type in 2010. again, we see the clinton coalition pieces i'm talking about, where democrats have for the greatest losses. writer appalachia, 14 democrats must be a world like that and we see the rural south nine from areas where bill clinton had invigorated popularity for the democrat. look at the northern suburbs. 13 democrats lost in the northern suburbs and for more than seven suburbs.

would he a nice gesture to nasser as he promised aramco to not interview it -- might interfere the berkshire demonstrates an understanding of cold war diplomacy writing. the psychological and clinical argument carries more weight than the economic one. the russians are building the dam and strictly economic enterprise. i saving the temple the u.s. could show they care about the spiritual side and realize the importance of saving the cultural patrimony of each of. i think my father rolled over on this one too. the temples were saved in the temple is now the metropolitan museum of new york was a gift from the government of egypt to the people of the united states to united states to thank them for their support. her commitment to history also letter to encourage my father to save lafayette square and start restoring pennsylvania avenue. these efforts helped launch the historic preservation movement at a time when neighborhoods across the country were being demolished from modern office buildings to urban renewal projects. and she didn't give up. in 1970 she was still twisting my uncle teddy's